Old World, Void Zone.

Two starships, side by side, cut through the shattered asteroid turbulence, advancing north all the way.

In addition, there was a large snake traveling with the starships.

In the Time Dojo, Gu Shen opened his eyes, a captivating and dazzling light flashing deep within his pupils!

Just now, in his spiritual sea, he felt a familiar aura!

Although separated by tens of thousands of miles, the spiritual aura of Pan Guan and Shi Tie Zhi Tu appeared within his sensing range!

"Are we about to reach the Ice Sea region?"

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

The spiritual aura of the two apostles appeared within his sensing range… This indicated that he was now close to the territory of the Five Continents!

Feeling the presence of Mu Wanqiu and Shen Li should have been a great joy.

But Gu Shen couldn't be happy.

An ominous premonition spread in his heart.

His brow flared with Netherfire.

Gu Shen activated the authority of the King of the Underworld, ignoring the final void separation, forcibly initiating a spiritual link, summoning the two apostles to meet him on the Four Seasons Wilderness.

The next moment.

Two blurry figures appeared on the wilderness.

"Gu Shen—"

"Gu Shen!"

Shen Li and Mu Wanqiu sensed Gu Shen's "return" at the first moment, their spiritual response was extremely fast, arriving at the wilderness in an instant.

These two blurry figures, seeing the familiar "Pure Land," and the towering Su Xuan tree, were momentarily dazed.

Gu Shen's journey had been too uneasy.

How could achieving godhood be smooth sailing?

Over the years, they had depended on each other for life and death, with few gatherings and many separations, each meeting possibly the last.

After the start of the Gubao War.

Mu Wanqiu and Shen Li waited for Gu Shen's return every day...

But many high-level members of the Three Continents Alliance believed that Gu Shen would not return.

It wasn't pessimism.

But… they really could only rely on themselves.

At this moment, Gu Shen's expression was even more complex than theirs.

Leaving the Five Continents, forced into exile.

He finally saw old friends from his homeland, finally saw those he cared about and wanted to protect.

Gu Shen's voice was hoarse as he spoke, word by word, in a deep voice.

"I'm back!"

These four words stirred a warm breeze in the Four Seasons Wilderness.

Golden ears of grain and petals swirled in the air.

Five years had passed, and Shen Li's entire temperament had undergone a great change. He had grown stubble, several scars had appeared on his cheeks, and his whole body exuded a chilling "aura of iron," a terrifying aura of a strongman.

Shen Li threw himself into North Continent, participating in the Gubao War. Even with Shi Tie Zhi Tu, a top-notch protective domain, providing shelter... he still suffered many injuries.

Each injury made him stronger.

But seeing Gu Shen, a smile immediately bloomed on the Little Iron Man's face. In fact, he was still the same as before, innocent with a bit of silliness.

The so-called coldness and ruthlessness were only for enemies!

When killing the burial people, he was more ruthless than anyone else, never showing mercy!

Mu Wanqiu's temperament hadn't changed as much as Shen Li's.

She had passed the age of adolescence and now wore a black cloak, resembling the leader of the Purple Rain Corps of the Investigation Corps back then. Originally as cold as an iceberg, after cultivating [Pan Guan] to the extreme, this cold temperament was completely transformed into the majesty of a superior. Now, Zi Yu held the position of General Inspector of the battlefield, and Mu Wanqiu became the "Deputy Commander" of the Investigation Corps, almost holding the power to mobilize the entire corps in her hands.

She was an absolute pillar of support in Central City, ranking in the top five in strength.

"You…"

When Mu Wanqiu saw Gu Shen's figure, a hint of annoyance flashed in her eyes.

This wasn't the first time Gu Shen had "left without saying goodbye."

It was the same last time in the Ice Sea…

But this guy had a kind of magic about him.

Even if everyone in the world told Mu Wanqiu that Gu Shen was dead.

She still felt that Gu Shen would appear in front of her one day, alive and kicking.

So the thousands of words about a long-awaited reunion that had been compressed in Mu Wanqiu's heart didn't turn into accusations of blame at this moment.

In the end, it became a sigh filled with meaning.

"...It's good that you're back."

Yes, was there any better news than Gu Shen returning alive?

In Mu Wanqiu's view.

There wasn't.

"Everyone... how is the situation in the Five Continents now?"

Gu Shen was very clear-headed, he knew that now wasn't the time to reminisce about the past. The spiritual link was completed, and the conversation between the three of them had only progressed for less than ten seconds, so he quickly took the initiative to ask about the current war.

"It's terrible."

Shen Li and Mu Wanqiu said in unison. After they finished speaking, the two looked at each other and saw the exhaustion in each other's eyes.

"The Traveler race has launched a fierce attack on the border of the North Continent. Currently, the three major legions are desperately defending the Gubao battlefield, but this is not the main point. The bigger battlefield is in the inland of the Five Continents."

Shen Li spoke first, sighing softly, "If you could have returned a few days earlier... the Three Continents Alliance launched a general offensive against the Source Tower. Meng Xizhou, Bai Xiu, and Gu Xiaoman have already attacked the Source Tower and started a god war with Qinglong!"

Gu Shen's heart trembled!

This was the situation he was most worried about.

He had already rushed with all his strength, but he still didn't catch up with the god war at the Source Tower?

Next, Mu Wanqiu's words made his mood even heavier.

"No... the god war at the Source Tower may have already ended."

Mu Wanqiu added with a solemn expression, "The fleet of the Fifth Legion of the North Continent is currently trapped in the Ningfan Sea area. This is the scene I saw in the sea area."

She directly projected Pan Guan's spiritual vision onto the Four Seasons Wilderness!

This scene was truly bizarre and terrifying.

Heads floated on the surface of the sea, seemingly dead but not dead. These Source Tower transcendents had turned into this eerie "neither human nor ghost" appearance before they had even officially started fighting with the allied forces.

"Dead Sea?"

Gu Shen instantly recognized the abnormality of the Ningfan Sea area! These people were forcibly conscripted into the spirit, which is why they were floating on the sea!

When releasing the Lion's Roar code, he had confronted the Dead Sea head-on -

Obviously, the Ningfan Sea area was now shrouded in the "Dead Sea"!

Since this thing had been released into the real world, it meant that the entire Central Continent had fallen under the control of the deep sea.

At this moment, Gu Shen knew that Mu Wanqiu's reasoning was correct.

The god war at the Source Tower had most likely ended, and the final victor was not Bai Xiu or Qinglong, but the [Deep Sea] that seized authority!

"It really is 'Dead Sea'..."

Hearing the familiar words, Mu Wanqiu gritted her teeth and said, "The fleet's situation is very bad now. The holes blasted open in the Source Wall have the ability to repair themselves. Currently, the fleet is locked in, and we can't escape in a short period of time, and the Dead Sea is spreading very quickly. Before long, the Dead Sea will cover the entire Ningfan Sea area, and everyone in the fleet will be completely enveloped."

The purpose of releasing the Dead Sea was very simple.

It was to link every transcendent in the sea of spirits.

Every gift given by fate has a price marked on it... The moment the Five Continents accepted the convenience of the [Deep Sea], they should have thought that this day would come.

Once enveloped by the Dead Sea, the spiritual power would fall into the deepest sea of spirits.

At that time.

These transcendents would become the nourishment for the Deep Sea to carry out its twelfth evolution.

"Gu Shen, can you make it in time?"

Shen Li immediately became anxious when he heard this.

Due to the Traveler race's attack, the forces of the Three Continents Alliance were forced to disperse. Although the Source Tower battle was very important, the Gubao battlefield needed someone to defend it. The Little Iron Man chose to defend the border of the North Continent and did not participate in the inland final battle!

But he knew that for this battle, East Continent had taken out almost all of its trump cards!

The Deep Sea wanted to use the "Dead Sea" to forcibly link the participants. If it succeeded, wouldn't the Three Continents Alliance's general offensive be directly declared a failure?

"...It's very difficult."

Gu Shen frowned and said cautiously, "It's too far from Central Continent."

The starship had only just sailed into the Ice Sea region, and even if he used the origin of space, it was impossible for him to rush to the Source Wall before the Dead Sea enveloped the North Continent fleet!

Unless there was a teleportation portal, but the inland of the Five Continents was guarded by the Seven Gods and had always been extremely stable, and there had never been such a thing as a portal.

Aside from the distance being too far, there was also a very serious problem.

That was that Mu Wanqiu's fleet was about to be swallowed by the Dead Sea.

"It's not a question of whether you can make it in time..."

Mu Wanqiu shook her head and said, "Even if you do, so what?"

"Gu Shen, the war we are fighting now is the final war. The final war has only one purpose, and that is to overthrow the Source Tower, re-establish a new spiritual network, and take back the right to choose how to live from the hands of the Deep Sea."

Mu Wanqiu lowered her voice and said, word by word, "Although I have not yet been forcibly linked, I have vaguely sensed the power of the Dead Sea. This is definitely not something that one person can resist... The Deep Sea must have planned for this day for a long, long time."

Externally, they exerted pressure with the Traveler race.

Internally, they built the Source Wall to accumulate contradictions.

What they were waiting for was today!

Once the Dead Sea was released... it would be a spiritual flood, and every transcendent who stepped into the Source Wall would be forcibly dragged into the linked world by the Deep Sea!

She didn't want Gu Shen to step into the Dead Sea to save her.

She knew that Gu Shen had now become the true King of the Underworld.

But so what?

She didn't think that the Dead Sea, which had accumulated the spiritual power of tens of thousands of transcendent beings, could be broken by a god... If it were really that easy to break the situation, then Qinglong would definitely not have "disappeared" like this.

Meng Xizhou, Traveler, Bai Xiu, Gu Xiaoman.

The few who launched the final god war were now all "missing without a trace"!

What a terrible thing this was?

Under such circumstances, Gu Shen rashly entering the game... would likely bury the last hope that the human world had finally waited for!

This was war, a war that only considered the final victory or defeat!

This war was destined to have many sacrifices.

She didn't mind or care about becoming a sacrifice herself... She didn't want the scales of victory to tilt towards the Deep Sea because of her.

"I don't have much time left."

Mu Wanqiu gritted her teeth and said quickly, "Next, I will maintain spiritual synchronization and upload all the pictures seen by the North Continent fleet before it is enveloped by the Dead Sea to the Pure Land world... All spiritual links have been blocked. The outside world cannot know what is happening inside the Source Wall. Gu Shen, this information may be able to help you."

"Wait! Gu Shen can't make it, so what about the Sky Sheath Strike?"

Shen Li's forehead bulged with veins.

He immediately thought of another solution. He could immediately call Central City, Duke Lin Chou, and launch a Sky Sheath Strike.

The Sky Sheath Strike... was a solution that Lin Lin thought was feasible.

If the Source Wall was destroyed again, then the North Continent fleet might be able to escape.

"Don't launch a Sky Sheath Strike..."

"I don't think this is a good solution."

Mu Wanqiu said in a hoarse voice.

At the beginning of the fleet's entrapment, she actually agreed with the support plan proposed by Lin Lin.

Only a Sky Sheath Strike at the speed of light could solve the fleet's problem.

But…

Just after completing the link with Gu Shen, she realized a fatal piece of information that had been overlooked.

The Deep Sea's Source Wall was a prison.

But after the "Dead Sea" reached its limit, the entire prison would also trap the Dead Sea itself.

From this perspective.

Mu Wanqiu saw a deeper level of "planning" by the Deep Sea.

In this killing game, the transcendent beings "circled" by this wall would provide nourishment for the twelfth evolution... but this so-called twelfth evolution was not the end point of the Deep Sea. It knew that the North Continent Tundra was still hoarding hundreds of Sky Sheath weapons, but it had never launched a secret operation to eliminate the Sky Sheath weapons these years. The Allied high command had deployed extremely strict guards and defenses on the Tundra, but this guarding force had always been in vain.

Why?

Because it didn't care.

In this general offensive, the first round of attacks launched by the Three Continents Alliance was a "compassionate" probing move by the high command. Once contact was lost inside the wall, they would immediately make up for the second round of attacks, the third round of attacks, until the wall was completely broken.

And this was exactly what the Deep Sea wanted.

What was released when the wall was broken was the Dead Sea.

At that time, the Deep Sea, which had completed the twelfth upgrade, would take advantage of the situation to carry out a new round of spiritual expansion.

At that time.

The Dead Sea would envelop the entire Five Continents.

The Little Iron Man was stunned for a second.

Crackle!

At this moment, Mu Wanqiu's figure in the Four Seasons Wilderness became blurred and unstable.

"Xiaoqiu!"

Shen Li shouted subconsciously.

But this image became even more blurred.

"…"

Gu Shen's expression was gloomy. He knew that this was the scene of spiritual will being shrouded by a powerful external force... The spiritual vision sent by Mu Wanqiu became dark and depressing.

This meant that the Dead Sea had spread to the edge of the fleet's formation.

No matter how fierce the artillery fire, it could not defeat the ethereal spiritual power of the "Dead Sea."

Mu Wanqiu's figure blurred for a while and disappeared into the Four Seasons Wilderness.

But she had been maintaining spiritual synchronization, insisting on uploading the fleet's first-person perspective until her consciousness was completely swallowed.

In the end, only her blurry reminder echoed in the Pure Land.

"Don't easily launch the second round of Sky Sheath Strikes... The Deep Sea's goal is to link all of humanity."

Shen Li stared blankly at the direction where Mu Wanqiu disappeared.

The spiritual vision was gradually shrouded in darkness.

Pan Guan was swallowed by the Dead Sea.

The North Continent fleet disappeared into the fog of despair.

…

…

(There's more tonight.)

(End of this chapter)