Chapter 147 The Collapsing Sky

"Crack, crack..."

The jade thumb ring was refining the residual mental strength of the King of the Underworld!

Unlike the mental strength of the Storm God, this wisp of residual essence was much weaker… The thumb ring's refining speed was also much faster, and in just a few dozen seconds, it completely devoured this small seed of nightmare!

Gu Shen looked at the "King of the Underworld" at the end of the River Styx and chuckled softly, "It seems you were really dying back then… The mental strength you left behind is so weak."

But, with just this little bit of mental strength, you still thought about eroding an Apostle?

The obsession of the former King of the Underworld was indeed terrifying.

How badly did he want to build a "Pure Land"?

With the nightmare cleared, Mu Wanqiu's complexion visibly improved.

She blankly raised her head and touched her bleeding brow.

In these dozens of seconds, the gloom enveloping her heart seemed to have dissipated unknowingly…

No, it was more like it had been erased by something.

The urge to worship and kneel in her heart had vanished without a trace.

Mu Wanqiu looked at Gu Shen in confusion, her voice hoarse, "What… what just happened?"

"What?"

Gu Shen, acting very well, also asked in confusion, "I was just about to ask you. You seemed to have had a dream just now… Did you dream of anything?"

Mu Wanqiu shook her head.

"I… I can't remember anything."

She rubbed her brow with some effort, trying to recall, but she couldn't remember anything.

But not remembering wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

The slender cut quickly healed, even the scab fell off, and at this moment she seemed to have been reborn, feeling relaxed all over. The "nightmare burden" that had been plaguing her had also been silently lifted.

She lowered her head and looked at the Judge. The white-robed ghost stared back at her, both equally bewildered.

Gu Shen smiled and said, "Congratulations on resolving your inner demon."

Mu Wanqiu also smiled, but she felt more confused and puzzled.

Was it because she had reached the end of the dream that her inner demon was eliminated?

That was the only explanation she could think of.

Actually, resolving the former King of the Underworld's "nightmare seed" wasn't really a "good thing" for Gu Shen.

The removal of that seed meant that Mu Wanqiu wouldn't have any unwarranted reverence for the "Netherfire Seed."

But Gu Shen didn't care at all. He'd rather Mu Wanqiu be a free person than see her controlled by the King of the Underworld's twisted will…

He calmly looked at the "Dark Throne" at the end of the River Styx.

Just like he had said to the King of the Underworld in the Saint Arbiter's nightmare…

She was the King of the Underworld's Apostle.

And now, the King of the Underworld was him!

So… even if Mu Wanqiu was an Apostle, she could only be *his* Apostle.

Faced with Gu Shen's act of "declaring his authority," the magnificent dark shadow hidden at the end of the river still responded with silence.

However, the dead silence at the end of the River Styx didn't last long.

Just as the two were preparing to leave… a crisp shattering sound rang out from the distant sky. The distant firmament, which seemed like a fake green screen synthesized with AI technology, was torn apart.

The sky was falling!

"Not good!"

Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu's expressions changed drastically, and they both realized something was wrong.

Gu Shen unleashed his Pure Land Domain, while Mu Wanqiu controlled the Judge, waving the great banner with all her might. The two instantly transformed into two bolts of lightning.

However, the River Styx changed its face even faster.

After the sky was shattered.

A vast gale rose on the surface of the river!

The first wave was born behind them, swelling up in an instant. After a few seconds, it was as high as a hundred-meter skyscraper. Looking back from such close range, it was somewhat of an "overwhelming" illusion.

"Olah!"

The Judge punched out, shattering the hundred-meter wave directly, but unfortunately, one punch couldn't change anything. At this moment, the River Styx had given birth to countless waves, like countless surging black dragons and giant whales, only revealing their spines.

And even more chilling was the scene at the end of the River Styx after the sky was shattered.

"Boom!"

A giant foot stomped down, crushing the shadows and mist surrounding the throne into tiny pieces…

Mu Wanqiu's expression was pale.

"Traveler…"

She probably understood why the end of the River Styx was impassable.

It was a gateway that the King of the Underworld had specifically used to seal off the Traveler.

It was hard to imagine that the legendary "Traveler God" was so huge!

In the historical records of the ancient stone walls, the Traveler who conversed with the King of the Underworld looked about the same size as a human… Mu Wanqiu's thoughts were already in chaos. Scarlet beams of light enveloped and scattered, and the vast impact swept across dozens of miles in an instant.

The Judge held up the great banner, roaring hoarsely.

Millions of waves were extinguished by this foot, and then even larger waves spread out!

This terrifying force seemed to tilt and overturn the entire River Styx!

"Glug!"

The two were instantly submerged.

At this moment, Mu Wanqiu looked at Gu Shen, a look of guilt appearing in her eyes.

She knew that her insistence on going to the end of the River Styx… was an extremely irrational act.

It was just that the "nightmare seed" had already sprouted. The King of the Underworld's obsession made her unable to control her mind at all, thinking that even if she was buried in the River Styx forever, it would be worth it to find out, even if she died.

She wasn't afraid of death.

Being submerged in the River Styx water, she only had one thought in her mind.

She had implicated Gu Shen.

And the next moment—

"Open."

Gu Shen's calm voice made Mu Wanqiu's pupils shrink.

That familiar domain projection unfolded once again, but unlike before… this time, the giant tree didn't just project a small wisp of shadow, but rapidly expanded in the churning River Styx!

Mu Wanqiu hadn't seen the battle between Gu Shen and Meng Xiao.

She still didn't know how big Gu Shen's "Fourth-Order Domain" really was…

In fact, this was a question that Gu Shen himself wasn't sure about.

After breaking through, he hadn't had the opportunity to unleash his full power. Killing Meng Xiao, who had fallen to the bottom, didn't require him to use his full strength at all!

"Whir, whir, whir…"

The mental domain was projected into the real world.

Countless golden leaves grew rapidly in the immersion of the River Styx water, a scene that was beyond Gu Shen's expectations.

The River Styx water, which symbolized "death" and "silence," could actually be absorbed by the Susuhan Tree and used as nourishment?

It was indeed the source tree of the world.

Light and darkness, life and death, were all necessary things for nurturing a complete world.

For the Susuhan Tree, absorbing the "River Styx" was not only harmless, but also beneficial!

It became more complete!

The Traveler stomped down, and the rolling waves swept past. This vast impact even changed the terrain at the bottom of the River Styx. Gu Shen saw countless gravel undulating on the seabed, dancing like dragons and snakes… This foot would probably affect even the Black Snow Mountain, let alone himself, who was so close to the Traveler!

Fortunately, after opening the Pure Land Domain, the Susuhan Tree grew instantly. Under Gu Shen's mental manipulation, it shook off countless branches, tightly embracing the two in its arms like a cage… The Traveler's impact "slowly" dissipated. This was indeed an extremely terrifying blow!

A huge gap was cut out of the Susuhan Tree's branches, and it broke off, but the two people it held in its arms were unharmed.

Mu Wanqiu's heart jumped to her throat.

The Judge had already taken a defensive stance, but she knew… even if she tried her best, she couldn't resist the aftermath of this distant blow.

The Traveler from the [Old World] was too powerful, too powerful!

This was simply not a power that a "Sealed" could contend with.

She had never seen a "God-Seat" level figure出手. Within the Five Continents, the Highest Seats had order to maintain, and once a God-Seat battle broke out, it was equivalent to war breaking out between two continents… This kind of scene might not even happen once in ten years.

"Are God-Seats… really this terrifying?"

Mu Wanqiu's lips were dry as she looked at Gu Shen.

In the East Continent, a battle of the Gods had recently erupted… and it was said that Gu Shen was a bystander who had witnessed that battle firsthand.

"…Yeah."

Gu Shen nodded lightly, thought for a moment, and said seriously, "The battle of the Gods I saw was even more terrifying than this."

The power of the Traveler's descent was indeed frightening.

But… why did he feel that something was wrong?

When it came to battles involving the "Seed" level, the strength was no longer judged by "noise." For God-Seat level figures, splitting mountains and breaking seas was just a matter of thought, but that wasn't much.

The reason why the battle of the Gods in the cemetery was so terrifying was because Gu Changzhi was just a wisp of remnant thought, yet he completely suppressed the Wine God Seat, restricting the battlefield to a mere few miles, without harming even a single blade of grass or tree outside the cemetery.

One had to know that if he wanted to create the "Traveler's" commotion, the Wine God Seat could also do it.

As long as the "Seed's" power wasn't restricted, any God-Seat could do it!

And this was exactly what Gu Shen was puzzled about. Judging from the text on the ancient stone walls, the Traveler God was clearly a "calculating" person. After finally descending into the Disaster Realm, was the first thing he did wanton destruction?

Or was there something else he was planning?

Without time to think, Gu Shen wrapped himself in the Pure Land and fled towards Black Snow Mountain with Mu Wanqiu and the Judge as quickly as possible.

When the River Styx churned, he no longer flew.

He simply sank!

No matter how chaotic it was outside, it had nothing to do with him!

Unfortunately, good times didn't last long. The muffled sound of something hitting the ground could be heard even by Gu Shen, who was hiding at the bottom of the River Styx… It seemed like something big was walking over behind him. Gu Shen desperately tried to speed up, but it was useless. The sound of hitting the ground wasn't fast, but each step was getting closer and closer!

"Splash—"

Gu Shen's expression changed drastically, and he felt a tightness in his heart.

What was coming was coming after all. A giant foot stomped down, seemingly an unintentional step, but this step was aimed at his Susuhan Tree!

"Withdraw!"

Gu Shen directly withdrew the Pure Land Domain.

Both he and Mu Wanqiu suppressed their auras to the extreme, completely submerging into the bottom of the River Styx. Under these circumstances, releasing the Susuhan Tree could resist the waves, but it was too big of a target and too easy to attract attention.

"Boom—"

Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu held their breath, suppressing all transcendent auras to the extreme.

Perhaps it was because the River Styx was too dark and silent.

After the giant took a step, it was silent for a short moment and didn't notice the strangeness just now…

It just continued to move its long strides forward.

"Thump… thump… thump…"

Mu Wanqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Her chest heaved up and down, and before she could open her mouth, a violent agitation suddenly descended!

A huge face crashed into the bottom of the River Styx without warning. It was upside down. The Traveler pressed down with both hands, bowing its head into the River Styx water… Its face was exactly the same as the statue in the hall, as if it had been carved with knives and axes.

In just one second, it accurately found the location of Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu.

And then… a familiar "brilliant" smile bloomed on that cold face.