“The answer…”

“You know…the answer?”

The Original Will gazed at Gu Shen, its voice becoming increasingly hoarse.

Extinguishing Fire Sword, activate!

Gu Shen unhesitatingly plunged the longsword through to the end. It was merely a simple and unadorned thrust, yet the tip of the blade contained irresistible Dao rules.

Extinguish!

The will of the sword spread throughout the Original Will’s body, absorbing and assimilating all of the chaotic transcendent power.

The entire world began to shake and tremble!

The pitch-black world was covered in snow-white radiance. Gu Shen, with a single sword strike, shattered the Original Will at the end of the world, piercing through this seemingly perfect “dream world,” creating a hole!

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

The Initial crashed heavily against the sky at the end of the world.

Turing, with a solemn expression, looked at the pitch-black void in front of him, which had been torn open.

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

He looked 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 said softly, “Can I…leave?”

Gu Shen was taken aback.

The next moment, Turing reached out his palm, reaching past the pitch-black, towards the silver-white…but Turing’s hand did not appear in that world, which was enveloped in countless lights.

He hurriedly took a step back, withdrawing his palm.

The pitch-black sky in front of him was like a “black hole”!

Even though Gu Shen had torn a hole in the sky with the Extinguishing Fire Sword…

The sky could still devour any living being that crossed that line!

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

The Original Will, impaled by the Extinguishing Fire Sword, did not die. Feeling the spiritual nothingness in its chest, it laughed and looked up mockingly, “Are you crazy? Don’t you know that everything here is ‘fake’?”

Gu Shen frowned.

So…Turing couldn’t leave?

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

The Original Will said with a faint smile, “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 sky. For them, this line is the line of death. Gu Shen…don’t even think about taking away a big, living person like Alan Turing, you can’t even take away a blade of grass!”

“Shut up!”

Gu Shen coldly rebuked.

The sword tip rotated!

The Original Will groaned in pain, and the whole world fell silent!

Gu Shen reached out his palm, and this palm easily crossed the black and white boundary, grasping 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 exerted a little force, pulling Turing half a body length, but when his palm returned to the silver-white world, he found that what his five fingers were tightly clutching was not flesh.

But air.

The two of them stared at each other silently, separated by a boundary of less than a meter.

This boundary…was indeed a line of death.

As long as there was the slightest transgression, it would immediately turn into nothingness.

Turing slowly withdrew his hand. He stood at the crack in the sky, countless fluorescent lights swirling in the air, resembling a door.

But alas…

This door was not opened for him.

“Mr. Turing…”

Gu Shen’s voice was hoarse, “Let me think of a way.”

“No, there’s no need.”

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

Gu Shen opened his mouth, but ultimately stopped.

“Remember the question I asked you on the snowfields of the Initial?”

Turing adjusted his glasses, and his brows gradually relaxed, the original heaviness slowly dissipating.

His expression was full of ease.

Gu Shen certainly remembered.

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

Everyone would 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 on their knees.

“I would choose to leave, even if the end result 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 sky, disappeared in place…

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

He just “disappeared.”

This scene brought a great shock to Gu Shen. A’Fu, who was struggling with how to continue navigating the ship inside the Initial, was also frightened by Turing’s crazy actions.

“Turing! Are you crazy? Crazy!”

Seeing Turing 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 crack!

“Mr. Turing…disappeared…”

Gu Shen’s expression was a little pale.

Kneeling on the ground, accepting the sword-piercing ceremony, the Original Will smiled painfully, “Didn’t disappear, but ‘died’. This guy is completely ‘annihilated’. If you choose to leave here, you will usher in this ending…”

This voice did not avoid A’Fu in the Initial.

The giant ship no longer moved forward.

A’Fu stared blankly at the gate 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…”

A’Fu said calmly, “Gu Shen, 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 pursue 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 Original Will whispered, “It’s useless for you to kill me. Bringing things that don’t belong to the real world out is something I can’t do, and no one can do.”

“…”

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

Blazing Fire surged down from the palm!

The Original Will’s words didn't count! Gu Shen didn't want to hear or believe a single word from this guy's mouth!

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

“Ahhh…”

Painful wails echoed in the silver-white world.

Just as Gu Shen had said, once he and the Original Will in this dream world met, he would definitely use Blazing Fire to completely melt the latter!

The滔天 firelight enveloped the Original 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 puzzle of the Extinguished Candle?”

Gu Shen calmly stared at the withered figure in front of him.

“The owner of the Extinguished Candle is the Traveler himself.”

He lowered his eyes and said slowly:

“The Traveler and the Underworld King made a bet. This bet bound the souls of the two together…If one party broke the oath, they would be stripped of their Fire Seed and fall into purgatory forever.”

“This bet was a lose-lose bet, because both the Traveler and the Underworld King broke the oath later on.”

“It’s just that the Traveler successfully extracted a wisp of his own spirit and escaped the cruel punishment of breaking the oath by relying on the ‘Trance’ technique.”

The Traveler’s spirit became Xing Yun.

The Traveler’s Throne only succeeded halfway in escaping the breach of contract. He successfully “lived” but did not successfully escape the “disaster” in the Underworld King's contract.

Xing Yun’s early life was full of hardships and he was always plagued by disasters!

“Actually, I’m very curious, why can the Traveler complete the ‘breach of contract’…”

“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…that the Extinguished Candle can do this.”

The Extinguished Candle nailed the Traveler’s Throne’s own body to the stone tablet!

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

“That’s why when I suggested to the Black Snow Mountain Giant that I would set out to kill the ‘Master of the Extinguished Candle,’ that big guy suddenly became extremely furious.”

“Because it knows that the Master of the Extinguished Candle is the Traveler’s Throne!”

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows, “It was because he trusted the Underworld King and made a bet when he was young that the Traveler’s Throne would be so embarrassed…Now that I, the successor Underworld King, am visiting again, and poking at his sore spots, the Black Snow Mountain Giant will naturally be extremely angry and immediately decide to go to war.”

The Extinguished Candle…is the natural enemy of Qing Long!

“So, the mystery of the Extinguished Candle can be solved here.”

Gu Shen said, “As for its whereabouts…I think it’s not difficult to find either. Just find the memory in the spirit sea of the Tomb Ghost about the Traveler’s own self-seal, and you can find the whereabouts of the ‘Extinguished Candle.’

“Heh…”

Regarding Gu Shen’s statement, the Original Will did not nod or shake its head.

Because it was too far away and there was too little evidence, everything could only be said to be “guesses.”

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 is fake, and is created by the Original Will based on the “memories” of outsiders.

Since all the data in this world comes from the perception of outsiders, then the “portal” ancient texts 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 don’t know what the ancient texts on the stone tablet are!

Gu Shen completed the comprehension…must be because an “outsider” completed the comprehension before Gu Shen arrived, and left a rubbing in this dream world.

“So, why bother to kill me in such a hurry? There are still many ‘secrets’ in this dream that you have not explored.”

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

“The physical feelings in the dream will be reset, but the memory will not.”

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

After a few seconds.

Gu Shen asked, “Besides the five of us, there is another outsider, who is it?”

“…”

The Original Will didn’t intend to answer.

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

Unexpectedly, Gu Shen directly said, “Farewell, I will send you on your way.”

The Original 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 intertwining of disordered source matter, this “Original Will” with its own intelligence was born. It reigned supreme in this dream, and allowing such a being to grow would definitely cause huge disasters.

Blazing Fire dispersed the Original Will in an instant!

Regarding the mysteries of this dream world…Gu Shen had no interest in exploring everything. The only thing he had to do now was to order Blazing Fire to devour this Original Will completely, and then complete the refining!

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

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

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

With just one thought.

He could see any corner, any coordinate.

This…

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

Now this privilege has been transferred to Gu Shen’s palm.

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

……

……

At this moment, in the fortress of Pi Yue City, which was in a state of war, a crack was suddenly torn open in the sky above.

Everyone looked up at the “change” at this moment.

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

Xiu Gu and the young Red Emperor's duel had not yet been decided.

The two of them each unfolded their domains and came to the northern part of the Pi Yue City fortress, having already flattened the snow valley within a radius of a thousand meters… But just as Xiu Gu was preparing to unleash a killing move, the surging fog submerged the Red Emperor, and the Destruction Sword Qi he slashed out fell empty.

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 poured out, but…

This fog came too suddenly!

“Transcenders” who did not belong to the original trajectory of this world were all “swallowed” by the fog at this moment, and then “vanished”!

In an instant, the sky above the entire Snow Valley became extremely gloomy.

A faint, giant palm could be seen slowly descending.

“This is?”

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

Gu Shen!

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

“Mr. Xiu Gu…”

Gu Shen directly took action to correct the disordered “world line” of the Pi Yue City fortress!

The Red Emperor's unit from the last century disappeared out of thin air!

The next moment.

The “big hand” that Gu Shen extended gently supported the source energy boat in the palm!

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

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

“Teacher, senior brother, senior sister…”

“I’m here to take you home.”

(End of Chapter)