“Good, good, good...”

Rusty Bones pulled out his bronze sword, his gaze toward the Spring Ploughing Saint filled with fiery heat.

He had been waiting for this battle for a long time!

“You… what do you want?”

The Spring Ploughing Saint took a step back subconsciously, his expression extremely gloomy.

What was the Sea Pupil Saint doing?

That fellow had confidently told him that he had chosen a tranquil treasure land!

He never expected that he would encounter Gu Shen, who was smelting Netherfire, just after arriving with the Red Dragon through teleportation!

“What do I want?”

Rusty Bones said coldly, “I want to mess with you, of course!”

The bronze sword was drawn, and the power of the origin of destruction shattered an entire void. General Rusty Bones unfurled his domain, forcibly dragging the Spring Ploughing Saint into it. This tranquil void was instantly cut into a huge battlefield… Even if the Spring Ploughing Saint was unwilling, he could not refuse this battle.

Because thousands of strands of Netherfire converged and shrouded the top of the sky, hanging down like silk threads.

When Gu Shen descended here, he conveniently took back those Netherfire lines he had previously scattered.

If the Spring Ploughing Saint wanted to escape, he had to ask him first!

If he didn't agree…

Then the Spring Ploughing Saint had to fight this battle!

Gu Shen did not interfere in the battle between Rusty Bones and the Spring Ploughing Saint. In his opinion, this battle had no suspense.

One had comprehended the origin through his own strength, while the other relied on the authority bestowed by the Storm God Seat… The Spring Ploughing Saint’s strength was already not comparable to the three great generals of the Northern Continent, not to mention that Rusty Bones had been cultivating the "Fire Seed of the Hunt" in the Time Dojo for four full years!

…

…

Gu Shen slowly came to the water cage formed by Spring Ploughing.

He looked at the man in the water cage.

Four years since they last met.

Now wearing the Storm Church’s Saint Robe and a ferocious mask, the Red Dragon… was much more unfamiliar.

Their eyes met, and the Red Dragon’s throat choked, obviously having many words to say, but a muffled groan came from under the mask.

“Ugh…”

Sweat dripped from his forehead, and his expression looked extremely painful.

Due to the soul contract.

He could not do anything to betray the Storm God Seat. Seeing Gu Shen, he felt genuinely happy, but this emotion violated the terms of the Storm God Seat contract.

Gu Shen… was the enemy of the Storm God Seat!

Therefore, he was also the enemy of him, the Red Dragon!

“You… don’t come over!”

The Red Dragon’s voice was hoarse, his eyes turned scarlet, and his aura became violent.

The killing intent that had been suppressed in the scabbard had not been released.

Now, bursts of air surged from his robe, washing over the water cage, and also washing over Gu Shen's robe.

“…”

Gu Shen’s eyes were full of pity and sorrow.

The Red Dragon’s words were full of sternness and warning, but beneath this sternness, Gu Shen could hear… it was actually a plea for mercy.

The Red Dragon did not want Gu Shen to approach any further.

He had already sold his soul to the Storm God Seat. Once the contract was signed, he would no longer have any chance to repent.

Back in the Ice Sea, the reason he was willing to compromise was that he hoped that his fellow members of the Ancient Text Society would not risk their lives to rescue him.

The Storm Church never kept its promises.

The Storm God Seat, preparing to flee the Southern Continent, never intended to return the Red Dragon.

Therefore… the so-called "deal" was just a trap.

Lie Reno of the Central Continent would die above the Ice Sea. Whether it was the Eastern Continent or the Northern Continent… the ending of this deal would be the same.

Gu Shen stopped outside the water cage. He did not forcefully strike, break open the water cage, nor did he send in Scorching Fire to enter the Red Dragon’s brow and change the latter’s sea of consciousness.

Once a soul contract took effect, outsiders could not modify it!

Even if he had heaven-defying abilities, he could not casually invade the Red Dragon’s heart lake.

Otherwise…

The Storm God Seat only needed a thought to make the Red Dragon vanish and his soul perish!

So Gu Shen just stood quietly in front of the water cage.

He looked at the Red Dragon, trying to make his voice gentle and peaceful.

“You’ve worked hard these years.”

The Red Dragon was stunned.

Gu Shen raised a hand, and the countless Netherfire hanging from the sky turned into silk threads, wrapping around the tips of his five fingers. These Netherfire threads danced wildly in the void, clinging to the broken corpses. The five Storm Church Saints who had been cut in half by Gu Shen’s fire threads three minutes ago had their bodies reassembled by the Netherfire in a matter of seconds.

“Open your eyes.”

Gu Shen spat out two words expressionlessly.

These two words were a divine decree!

The Netherfire authority exploded in the void with a bang, and the five Saints slowly opened their eyes!

Not far away, the Spring Ploughing Saint, who was fighting Rusty Bones, saw this scene and his face turned as white as snow!

Resurrection of the dead!

The reason the Underworld King was attacked by Light City was because he possessed this forbidden authority that violated the iron laws of life and death!

The souls of the dead were restored and used for his own purposes!

This forbidden authority cost the Light Church a great price, mobilizing the entire city to attack the Underworld King alone. The Western Continent’s Temple of Light even emptied its entire Saint Arbiter legion. Although the news the world received was that "Light City" had won a great victory, the survival rate of this legion after attacking the Underworld King was less than one-tenth.

At this moment, the five Storm Church Saints awakened by Gu Shen opened their eyes, and their pupils were no longer their previous colors…

After being soaked in Netherfire.

Their pupils were pitch black, like ink, while the "whites of their eyes" seemed to be covered with a faint layer of gray mist.

After resurrection, the strength of the dead would decrease by a large rank compared to before.

However, Gu Shen did not really want to use these five Saints.

He was dealing with the Storm God Seat… Title-level combat power could not intervene in the god war.

Gu Shen looked at the five figures lined up in front of him, casually reached out a palm, and pressed it against the head of one of the Saints. He awakened these five dead people just to read their memories… He knew that the Red Dragon and others had arrived here through the "Turbulence Zone" portal.

Now he was plundering their seas of consciousness in order to find the location of the Storm God Seat’s starship!

In addition, he also wanted to know… what the Red Dragon had experienced these years.

“Ah ah ah…”

Gu Shen’s Scorching Fire crashed extremely violently into this Saint’s sea of consciousness. He did not have the slightest intention of "pitying" him, reading this Saint’s memory very roughly. The latter screamed in pain, and after a few seconds, Gu Shen’s Scorching Fire roamed through this Saint’s sea of consciousness, and then a violent explosion sounded.

With a bang!

This Saint could not withstand the pressure of the Scorching Fire, and the head that had just been pieced together by the Netherfire exploded.

Gu Shen did not even bother to look at it.

He continued to reach out and read the memory of the second Saint.

These five people… although they were Title-level, they had no value in staying.

Bang bang bang bang! Explosions rang out in the void one after another!

After five explosions, blood mist filled the air. Gu Shen waved his sleeves and devoured the remaining transcendent origin with Netherfire. The seas of consciousness of the five Saints had already been read.

He first looked at the Red Dragon.

From the memories of those five Saints, Gu Shen learned that today was the day when Spring Ploughing, together with his Saints, would besiege and kill the Red Dragon!

These five Saints were nothing in front of the Red Dragon.

There was only one real threat.

That was Spring Ploughing—

Gu Shen understood the "character" of the Storm God Seat. If he was right, the arrangement behind this siege… was actually a layout personally instructed by the Storm God Seat.

Although he agreed to the Spring Ploughing Saint taking his subordinates to set up the siege.

But in fact, the real prey was not the Red Dragon.

If he had arrived later, this void would have been filled with blood…

Gu Shen put his hands behind his back and said faintly.

“Since you meticulously arranged today’s killing game, then you must have separated a strand of your mind and entrusted it to the Red Dragon’s sea of consciousness…”

These words seemed to be addressed to the Red Dragon.

But in fact.

Gu Shen was speaking to the Storm God Seat.

“…”

There was no response.

Gu Shen gave a cold "heh" laugh, and he continued to speak: "If I remember correctly, you always wanted to kill me back then. Today is a great opportunity to kill me. I am here, why don’t you show yourself?”

The void was still silent.

The Red Dragon, who was imprisoned in the water cage, looked confused.

Gu Shen knew that the Storm God Seat saw everything here.

He no longer continued to shout, but gently tapped his fingers.

Scorching Fire swept out, pierced through the water cage constructed by the Tide authority, and turned into a bundle of flame ropes, directly binding the Red Dragon.

Gu Shen said softly: "Wait for me for a moment, I'll be right back."

After saying this, Gu Shen withdrew his gaze, and he slowly came to the "teleportation portal" hidden in the void.

In the memories of those five Saints, there was another extremely important piece of information.

Today’s battle was teleported through the Turbulence Zone portal.

This portal was two-way!

“Since you don’t want to come and see me, then I will come and find you.”

Gu Shen stood in front of the portal, without any movement from him. The vast Scorching Fire surged out from between his eyebrows, turning into a burly fire spirit, stretching out its hands, directly tearing and smashing the void. This portal was directly dismantled by Gu Shen by violent means, and he stepped out, directly arriving six hundred miles away!

In the vast void, a huge starship was lurking like a whale!

The defensive array patterns had already been activated dozens of seconds ago!

The Storm God Seat saw what happened in the distant void through the Red Dragon’s sea of consciousness… He did not choose to meet Gu Shen in battle, but instead actively arranged defenses on the Storm, and at this moment the entire starship was in an activated state, and the source energy core, which usually burned at the lowest power, was now raised to the highest power.

More than a dozen defensive shields were densely supported!

The Storm God Seat also summoned his authority, origin, and the power of the fire seed…

He used the starship as a dojo, spreading out his divine domain!

The battle in Nagano… created a shadow in his heart.

Having suffered a great loss once, how could the Storm God Seat rashly leave the divine domain again? In his opinion, Gu Shen could appear in front of the Red Dragon without warning, so it was very likely that he had buried a killing array in that void. Once he stepped into it, he would repeat the same mistake and once again stage a divine domain away game like Nagano.

This time, he would rather do nothing than make a mistake!

“Rumble rumble rumble—”

Gu Shen’s tiny figure descended in front of the huge starship, and there was a huge gap in size between the two, but the pressure he exuded surpassed the starship, like a huge sun!

He stretched out his five fingers, and the vast flames in the void condensed into a sword, converging and crashing into his palm.

Gu Shen shouted loudly: "Storm! Fight me!"

(End of this chapter)