Tundra, a biting cold wind.

Beneath the Sky Sheath stood a figure, or rather... two.

Bai Xiu stood before the enormous Stone Sword, alone, silently admiring the divine miracle before him, while the slumbering Grave Spirit curled up at his feet.

"Sorry to keep you waiting!"

A figure emerged quickly through the dense fog.

Gu Shen wore an apologetic smile. "I ran into some things on the way... held me up a little."

He wasn't lying to Gu Nanfeng. The previous encounter had indeed been quite coincidental.

He had originally arranged to meet Bai Xiu under the Sky Sheath.

But while passing by, he "heard" some sounds, so he simply stopped temporarily.

Although he had separated the Netherfire from his Sea of Consciousness.

His "Blazing Fire" could still encompass a range of thousands of miles, listening to the voices of all things. In this regard alone... Gu Shen was almost no different from a Divine Seat, and perhaps even stronger.

"It's fine, I can wait."

Bai Xiu's voice was soft. "What are you planning to do with this fellow?"

He turned his gaze to the slumbering figure at his feet.

Now that the Divine War of the Source Tower had ended... the Traveler's soul oath was considered fulfilled.

Gu Shen certainly wouldn't let this alien Divine Seat regain his freedom so easily.

After the Divine War, Bai Xiu and Meng Xizhou were both severely injured. If the Traveler were to recover first and go beyond the fortress to lead his tribe, it could very likely trigger a new war...

Those not of my race are sure to have different intentions.

The former Nether King and the Traveler were scheming against each other; neither of them was a fuel-efficient lamp.

Gu Shen was busy chasing down the remnants of the Deep Sea and had no time to deal with it carefully, so after dispelling the haze of the Source Tower, he directly brought out his Greater Accomplishment Divine Domain, sealing the Traveler's soul within his body, causing him to briefly fall into a "coma."

Today, Bai Xiu had brought the Traveler over.

"What do you think, just kill him?"

Gu Shen looked at the Grave Spirit and said with a smile.

There was no pity in his eyes.

Of course, when Gu Shen said kill him, he meant kill the Traveler, not kill Xing Yun...

"The Traveler's spirit should have already recovered these past few days."

Bai Xiu said meaningfully, "If he dared to make even the slightest move, I would have struck first, but he has been very honest."

"You want him to live?"

Gu Shen smiled.

"I want the Grave Spirit to live."

Bai Xiu shook his head and said, "I've talked to this guy... if you destroy his spirit, the Traveler's Fire Seed must be inherited by the Grave Spirit."

He knew what Gu Shen had been busy with these past few days.

The Traveler's Fire Seed had always been placed in the Central City's Furnace!

For so many years, the Traveler's Fire Seed had been used as fuel!

It wasn't that no one in the Northern Continent was willing to fuse with it, but this Fire Seed had been lost in the [Old World] for hundreds of years, and its characteristics were extremely strange. It was really hard to find a transcendent within the Five Continents who could adapt to it.

If the Traveler was killed, the Fire Seed would have to be inherited by the Grave Spirit.

And the Grave Spirit...

Bai Xiu understood Xing Yun. This guy was willing to be an ordinary person. Fusing with the Fire Seed and becoming a Divine Seat was definitely not the life Xing Yun wanted.

"I understand what you mean."

Gu Shen nodded. He stepped forward and gently kicked the Grave Spirit with his toe.

"Hey, wake up."

As soon as he spoke, the Grave Spirit's closed eyelids trembled slightly, as if he was still pretending to be asleep.

Gu Shen crouched down and said softly, "You can pretend to be asleep for a while, but you can't pretend to be asleep forever. Don't you want to know the whereabouts of those tribesmen outside the fortress?"

As soon as he said this.

The Grave Spirit slowly opened his eyes.

His pupils were pitch black, as vast and deep as the void.

This was a Greater Accomplishment Divine Seat who had fused with a Fire Seed, but had no choice but to compromise and pretend to be still asleep.

The reason was simple... Gu Shen had left a wisp of Blazing Fire in the Traveler's brow. As long as the latter's spiritual will fully awakened, Gu Shen would be aware of it.

With a single thought.

The Blazing Fire could instantly destroy the host's entire Sea of Consciousness!

"Are they... still alive?"

The Traveler's voice was hoarse.

He cared a lot about his tribesmen!

In order to escape the punishment for breaking his oath, he had to choose to be reincarnated in the Five Continents. He had worked so hard in order to lie dormant and awaken, so that one day, he could lead his tribesmen to occupy a suitable home.

Now he knew that his dream had been shattered.

First there was Gu Changzhi.

Then there was Gu Shen.

Even if he recovered his Greater Accomplishment peak strength, it would be impossible for him to occupy a place in the Five Continents...

Perhaps the void was the best home for the Traveler's tribe.

"The suicide squads are all dead."

Gu Shen said calmly, "They were killed for three days and three nights on the Northern Continent border. There were so many of those guys."

The Traveler's expression did not change, and his eyes were cold. He didn't care at all about the survival of the suicide squads...

In the Traveler's tribe, suicide squads had always been "disposable pawns."

From the moment they were born, their purpose was to die!

They're all dead? Then let them all be dead.

"The Black Snow Mountain giants are still alive, as are the high-level transcendents, and the rare creatures that have developed intelligence. I spared their lives." Gu Shen smiled, "Theoretically speaking, the vast majority of your tribe's creatures still retain their lives."

In the battle of the Calamity Barrier, Gu Shen only killed the remnants of the Deep Sea Main System.

As for the other creatures, he did not kill them. Instead, he sealed off the entire area with Blazing Fire, trapping them completely, to be dealt with later.

For existences like the Deep Sea Main System, Gu Shen certainly couldn't let them live.

Threats and scourges must be eliminated as soon as possible.

But the Traveler...

In Gu Shen's view, this entire tribe no longer posed a threat and could not make waves.

If he wanted to kill them, he could kill them at any time.

"Then I really have to thank you for your mercy..."

There was a hint of sarcasm in the Traveler's tone.

Gu Shen didn't care and continued to smile, "Is that so? Speaking of which, many people say I'm a great philanthropist, and I think so too."

A great philanthropist? Hearing this, the Traveler's face twitched slightly.

This Gu, he's so shameless!

"They are still alive, but only for now."

The smile on Gu Shen's face slowly faded. "In fact, their lives and deaths are all in your hands."

"Me?"

The Traveler laughed self-deprecatingly.

He looked at the Blazing Fire ropes binding him and murmured softly, "I myself am a prisoner, how can I decide their life or death..."

"Of course you can."

Gu Shen said softly, "I will not let go of any civilization that may pose a threat to the Five Continents, so I will not allow the Traveler to leave with hostility."

If this tribe still harbored hostility towards humans.

Then Gu Shen wouldn't mind crushing them all to death.

Seven years later, a super-giant Source Storm would descend... The future fate of the Five Continents was completely unknown.

If the Traveler was released, then these transcendent beings, who were extremely good at surviving in the void, were likely to survive this catastrophe.

When the aftermath of the disaster dissipated, they were likely to turn around and settle old scores with the wounded human civilization.

Gu Shen would never allow such a scene to happen.

"So... you want me to eliminate hatred." The Traveler raised his head and squinted at Gu Shen.

"We never had any hatred to begin with."

Gu Shen said expressionlessly, "A thousand years ago, we were on the same boat."

Except for the unrecognized low-level suicide squads. The high-level transcendents of the Traveler's tribe actually had many similarities with humans.

It was just that because they lived in the void, they had evolved the ability to change the appearance of their bodies at any time.

The underground research institute checked through gene sequencing and found that the gene sequences of humans and Travelers were highly overlapping, which actually proved the "escape" hypothesis a thousand years ago.

The Starship civilization was destroyed, giving birth to two different branches of civilization.

The Travelers, and humans.

If the Five Continents could not resist the Source Storm, and human civilization had to escape... then in order to cope with the void environment of the [Old World], transcendents were likely to change their gene sequences.

In other words, humans who lost their homes might one day evolve into "Travelers."

There was also a special example in the research of the underground research institute, [Live Fish] Fisher. Due to the awakening of transcendence, Fisher evolved gills. Before becoming a famous general in the Northern Continent, he had always been unrecognized and was considered an "anomaly" by many people. This was actually a manifestation of human "Travelerization."

The Traveler smiled, "So, are you going to let me go back?"

Gu Shen also smiled, "How is that possible? You're thinking too beautifully... On the contrary, I'm going to keep you in the Five Continents."

The Traveler said coldly, "Then what are you pretending to be righteous about, talking about eliminating hatred."

"Seven years later, a super-giant Source Storm will strike."

Gu Shen said lightly, "You have to stay in the Five Continents to resist the storm... Your tribe must also stay here."

"You want to use me as a shield?"

A flash of anger appeared in the Traveler's eyes.

As soon as Gu Shen opened his mouth, he knew what Gu Shen was thinking.

"The best way to eliminate hatred is to fight together."

Gu Shen said expressionlessly, "You stay in the Northern Continent Great Wall, we fight a battle together, and after the battle, there will naturally be no hatred."

"Wage war against the super-giant Source Storm?"

The Traveler seemed to have heard an extremely ridiculous, extremely absurd joke.

"After the fight, there is indeed no hatred. Both the Traveler and the human civilizations will be eliminated!"

The Traveler lowered his voice and roared, "Fool, do you know how terrible that thing is? Do you think the current Five Continents can compare with the once prosperous Starship civilization a thousand years ago?"

Gu Shen was silent for a few seconds.

"Of course not."

He said frankly, "Whether it is the level of technology, or the equipment strength of the transcendent legions, the Five Continents are far behind the Starship civilization."

After a pause.

Gu Shen smiled slightly, "But this time, human civilization is not prepared to retreat, so you have no choice. We choose to fight, and the Travelers must fight together."

"Crazy..."

The Traveler looked at Gu Shen like he was looking at a madman.

"I'll give you two choices."

"One is to maintain your dignity, give up compromise, and then be destroyed by me spiritually, and let the entire Traveler tribe be buried with you."

Gu Shen stretched out two fingers and gently pressed them against the Traveler's brow, "I will persuade the Grave Spirit to fuse with this Fire Seed... Although it will be hard for him to bear this weight, he has been working hard all his life. For the sake of the super-giant storm, it doesn't matter if he works hard one more time."

Speaking of which, he stopped talking.

"Wait, wait..." The Traveler panicked a little, "What's the second choice?"

Gu Shen said gently, "Let's make another soul oath, the content of the oath is very simple. I will give you a certain amount of freedom, but the premise is that you have to lead your tribe to resist the final Source Storm with human civilization. After making the oath, I will extract your spirit and bring you back to your original Divine Seat body. In the days to come, you can enter the Time Dojo with me to cultivate. If you can beat me during this period, then this soul oath can be voided."

Beat Gu Shen... the oath can be voided?

Hearing this, the Traveler's eyes lit up.

Gu Shen had displayed his strength when he tore apart the Dead Sea in the Source Tower.

He knew that Gu Shen was very strong!

But this time, he felt something different... The "Netherfire" power on Gu Shen's body seemed to have withered, and this guy was no longer even a Divine Seat!

Taking a deep breath.

The Traveler raised his head and stared at Gu Shen, "Are you sure? As long as I beat you, the soul oath can be voided?"

If this condition could be added...

Perhaps, this wasn't a bad choice.

Once the super-giant Source Storm descended, the Five Continents civilization would be swept away. The Traveler civilization was actually not much better. The void environment would become even worse than it was a thousand years ago.

Seeing Gu Shen nod with a smile.

The Traveler no longer hesitated, "...I choose the second one!"