“The answer…”

“You know…the answer?”

The Source Will stared at Gu Shen, its voice becoming even more hoarse.

Extinguishing Fire Sword activated!

Gu Shen unhesitatingly thrust the longsword all the way through. It was merely an unadorned strike, but the tip of the sword contained irresistible supreme rules.

Extinguish!

The longsword’s intent spread through the Source Will’s body, absorbing all the chaotic supernatural power.

The entire world began to shake and tremble!

The pitch-black world was covered in snow-white radiance. With a single strike, Gu Shen shattered the Source Will at the world's end, piercing this seemingly perfect "dream world," creating a hole!

Rumble!

The Initial crashed heavily against the firmament at the world’s edge.

Turing looked solemnly at the pitch-black void with a tear in it.

Gu Shen stood at a silver-white “world exit.”

He turned back and asked earnestly, “Mr. Turing, do you want to leave?”

This dream had already been seen through.

“……”

Turing was silent.

He stood at the bow of the starship and softly said, “Could I even leave?”

Gu Shen was taken aback.

The next moment, Turing reached out his palm, his hand crossing the pitch-black, reaching for the silver-white… but Turing's hand did not appear in the world shrouded in countless light.

He quickly took a step back, withdrawing his hand.

The pitch-black firmament before him was like a "black hole!"

Even if Gu Shen used the Extinguishing Fire Sword to tear a hole in the firmament…

…the firmament could still devour any living being that crossed this line!

“Gu Shen… you want to take the people of this world away?”

The Source Will, pierced by the Extinguishing Fire Sword, did not die. Feeling the spiritual return to nothingness in its chest, it looked up and mocked, “Are you crazy? Don't you know everything here is ‘fake’?”

Gu Shen frowned.

So… Turing couldn't leave?

“A world built on the foundation of dreams, no matter how real, is still fake.”

The Source Will said lightly, “The reason outsiders can leave is because they don't belong here in the first place. But the ‘natives’ of this world can never cross the firmament. For them, this line is the line of death. Gu Shen… don't even think about taking away a living person like Alan Turing, you can't even take away a blade of grass!”

“Shut up!”

Gu Shen coldly rebuked.

The sword tip spun!

The Source Will groaned in pain, and the entire world fell silent!

Gu Shen reached out his palm, which easily crossed the black and white boundary and grasped Turing's hand. This time, he tried to pull Turing into the silver-white world where he was… but a terrifying thing happened immediately. Gu Shen gently exerted force, pulling Turing halfway, but when his palm returned to the silver-white world, he found that his fingers were not clutching flesh and blood.

But air.

The two stared at each other in silence, separated by less than a meter.

This boundary… was indeed the boundary of death.

Any slight transgression would immediately turn to nothingness.

Turing slowly withdrew his hand. He stood at the torn gap in the firmament, countless fluorescent lights swirling in the air, like a door.

But alas…

…this door was not opened for him.

“Mr. Turing…”

Gu Shen said in a hoarse voice, “Let me think of a way.”

“No, it’s alright.”

Turing smiled and asked earnestly, “If I said I was prepared for not being able to leave… Little Gu, would you believe me?”

Gu Shen opened his mouth, but in the end, he stopped himself.

"Remember the question I asked you on the snowy plains of the Initial?"

Turing adjusted his glasses, his brow gradually relaxing, and the original heaviness slowly dissipated.

His expression was full of ease.

Of course, Gu Shen remembered.

If you live in a circle… do you choose to spend the rest of your life peacefully and safely, or do you choose to push the limits of this circle and see what the world outside the circle is like?

Everyone will have their own answer to this question.

But Turing's answer was the same as Gu Shen's.

They were the same kind of people.

Rather die standing than live kneeling.

"I would choose to leave, even if the ending is death, it's no big deal."

Turing looked directly into Gu Shen's eyes.

The next second, without any hesitation, he stepped directly into the silver-white world.

Gu Shen’s pupils constricted violently.

“???”

Turing, outside the pitch-black firmament, disappeared from the spot…

He instantly disappeared from the dream world, and did not appear in this corridor of mingled reality and illusion!

He just "disappeared."

This scene shocked Gu Shen greatly. On the other side, Afu, who was struggling with how to continue sailing the large ship, was also frightened by Turing's crazy action.

“Turing! Are you crazy? Crazy!”

Seeing Turing take a step forward, Alfred couldn't help but roar to stop him!

But it couldn't stop Turing's pace. The moment the roar sounded, Turing had already disappeared into the gap!

"Mr. Turing... disappeared..."

Gu Shen's expression was a little pale.

The Source Will, kneeling on the ground and undergoing the sword-piercing ceremony, grinned and said painfully, "It's not disappeared, it's 'dead.' This guy has completely 'vanished.' If you choose to leave here, you will face this ending…"

This voice did not avoid Afu in the Initial.

The giant ship stopped moving forward.

Afu stared blankly at the door of light, symbolizing hope and miracles. It dared not continue forward. Turing’s "death" was the best example.

"No, I can't just leave like this..."

Afu said calmly, "Gu Shen, regardless of whether what you said is true or not, I must 'live' now. I want to preserve this starship for its master, and I want to follow the master's footsteps."

It no longer moved forward.

The flames spewing from the starship's tail changed direction, and the starship began to retreat in place.

“Look, that's the wise choice.”

The Source Will whispered, "It's useless even if you kill me. Bringing things that don't belong to the real world out, I can't do it, and no one can do it."

“……”

Gu Shen didn't waste any more words. He came to the Source Will and placed a hand on the top of its head.

Blazing fire surged down from the palm!

This kind of thing was not up to the Source Will to decide! Gu Shen didn't want to listen to or believe a single word that came out of this guy's mouth!

Whether or not he could take people away would only count if he tried it himself!

"Ahhhhh..."

Painful wails rang out in the silver-white world.

Just as Gu Shen said, once he and the Source Will in this dream world met, he would definitely use the blazing fire to melt the latter completely!

Towering flames enveloped the Source Will!

The "humanoid" pierced by the longsword endured the most extreme torment in the world, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Before I die... I really want to know, what is the answer you saw through? Did you really solve the riddle of the Extinguishing Candle?"

Gu Shen calmly stared at the withered figure before him.

"The master of the Extinguishing Candle is the Traveler himself."

He lowered his eyes and said slowly:

"The Traveler and the Underworld King made a bet, and this bet bound their souls together... If one party broke the oath, they would be stripped of their fire and fall into hell forever."

"This bet was a lose-lose bet, because in the end, both the Traveler and the Underworld King broke their oaths."

"It's just that the Traveler actually successfully extracted a wisp of his own spirit, and relied on the 'trance' technique to avoid the cruel punishment for breaking the oath."

The Traveler's spirit became Xing Yun.

The Traveler's escape from breaking the oath was only half successful. He successfully "lived," but he did not successfully escape the "disaster" in the Underworld King's bet.

Xing Yun's first half of life was turbulent and he suffered from disaster all the time!

"Actually, I'm very curious, why could the Traveler complete 'breaking the oath'..."

"This contract binds the soul and the body together. What means can perfectly separate the spirit and the body?"

Gu Shen said lightly, "Until I saw the stone tablet with my own eyes and completed the ancient text comprehension, I realized... the Extinguishing Candle can do this kind of thing."

The Extinguishing Candle nailed the Traveler God's real body firmly into the stone tablet!

And taking advantage of this opportunity, the Traveler also happened to extract his "spirit"!

"That's why when I proposed to the Black Snow Mountain Giant that I would set off to kill the 'Master of the Extinguishing Candle,' that big guy suddenly became extremely furious."

"Because it knew that the Master of the Extinguishing Candle was the Traveler God!"

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows, "It was because he trusted the Underworld King and made a bet that the Traveler God was so embarrassed... Now that I, the successor Underworld King, have come to visit again, and opened the can of worms, the Black Snow Mountain Giant was naturally extremely angry and immediately decided to start a war."

The Extinguishing Candle… completely countered Qing Long!

"So, the riddle of the Extinguishing Candle can be solved here."

Gu Shen said, "As for its whereabouts... I think it's not difficult to find either. As long as you find the memory in Zong Gui's spiritual sea about the Traveler's self-sealing, you can find the 'Extinguishing Candle'’s whereabouts."

"Heh..."

Regarding Gu Shen's statement, the Source Will neither nodded nor shook its head.

Because it was too far away and there was too little evidence, all of this could only be said to be "speculation."

It continued to ask with a smile, "Then have you ever thought about why you can comprehend the ancient texts on the stone tablet so easily?"

Gu Shen was stunned.

Just now, he realized something very serious.

Everything in this dream world was fake. It was all fabricated by the Source Will based on the memories of outsiders.

Since all the data in this world came from the cognition of outsiders, then the "portal" ancient text on this stone tablet should not have been comprehended by Gu Shen.

It was very simple.

Zhou Jiren, Luo Er, Zhong Wei, and Xiu Gu... had never seen this stone tablet!

Even if they had seen it.

They didn't know what the ancient text on the stone tablet was!

Gu Shen had completed the comprehension... It must be because an "outsider" had completed the comprehension before Gu Shen arrived and left an imprint in this dream world.

"So, why rush to kill me? There are still many 'secrets' in this dream that you have not yet explored."

The Source Will sincerely said, "The most valuable thing in this dream world is not restarting again and again, but being able to continuously cultivate and learn in an almost stagnant time and space. If you are interested in 'ancient texts,' you can continuously decipher the ancient texts and spend less than one-tenth of the time to master ancient texts that have the same effect as in the real world."

"The physical sensations in the dream will be reset, but the memory will not."

Gu Shen looked at the Source Will begging for mercy, and for the first time, he hesitated.

After a few seconds.

Gu Shen asked, "Besides the five of us, there is another outsider. Who is that person?"

“……”

The Source Will didn't mean to answer.

Obviously, it wanted to rely on this trump card to negotiate for a moment to see if there was a chance for negotiation.

Unexpectedly, Gu Shen directly said, "Farewell, I'll send you on your way."

The Source Will raised its head, its expression horrified: "???"

Gu Shen had no intention of showing mercy at all!

This was the deepest part of the [Old World]. Due to the entanglement of disordered source matter, this "Source Will" with its own intelligence was born. It stirred up wind and rain in this dream. Allowing such an existence to continue to grow would definitely cause a huge disaster.

The blazing fire instantly dispersed the Source Will!

Regarding the mystery of this dream world... Gu Shen had no interest in exploring everything. The only thing he had to do now was to order the blazing fire to devour all of this Source Will and then complete the refinement!

He wanted to take his teacher, senior brother, and senior sister home!

Under the burning of the raging flames, Gu Shen fell into an unprecedented and subtle state.

He seemed to be able to see the existence of the entire vast universe…

With just a thought.

He could see any corner, any coordinate.

This…

Was the privilege that the Source Will enjoyed in this dream world!

Now this privilege had been transferred to Gu Shen's palm.

He only spent less than a second to find "Xiu Gu" and his senior sister, who were fighting in the Five Continents!

……

……

At this moment, at the Piyue City fortress, which was in a state of war, a gap was suddenly torn open in the sky above.

Everyone looked up at the "change" at this moment.

The fog surged like a sea tide, submerging all the old Red Emperor troops who were constantly rushing out of the historical mist!

The battle between Xiu Gu and the young Red Emperor had not yet been decided.

The two unfolded their domains and came to the north of the Piyue City fortress, leveling the snow valley with a radius of a thousand meters... But just as Xiu Gu was about to sacrifice his ultimate move, the surging fog submerged the Red Emperor, and the sword energy of destruction that he slashed out fell into the air.

On the other side.

Bai Shu had already seriously injured the Golden Ape.

He didn't have time to end the war either. The fog surged out, but…

…this fog came too suddenly!

The "supernatural beings" who did not belong to the original trajectory of this world were all "submerged" by the fog at this moment, and then "disappeared"!

In an instant, the top of the entire Snow Valley became extremely cloudy.

A huge palm could be vaguely seen slowly descending.

"This is?"

When Xiu Gu saw this palm, a figure immediately appeared in his mind.

Gu Shen!

Although this palm was vast, it did not bring him a sense of danger!

"Mr. Xiu Gu..."

Gu Shen directly took action to correct the "world line" that had been disrupted in the Piyue City fortress!

The Red Emperor's troops from the last century directly disappeared into thin air!

The next moment.

Gu Shen's probing "big hand" gently held the source energy boat in the palm of his hand!

The turbulence of the airship was forcibly smoothed out at this moment.

Gu Shen's gentle voice entered Xiu Gu's heart, as well as the ears of Luo Er, Zhong Wei, and Zhou Jiren!

"Teacher, Senior Brother, Senior Sister..."

"I'm here to take you home."

(End of this chapter)