Chapter 883 The Chosen One

"The Chosen One..."

Outside the domain of the Incalculable Scales, everyone looked at each other.

Gu Shen spread his arms, blazing fire swirling around him, Bright Day descending, his twin pupils shining, his windbreaker fluttering. Just looking at this scene, he truly resembled a chosen god, descending into the mortal world.

"The curse of the Heavenly Sheath... it's actually been eliminated."

Bai Xiu muttered to himself.

As powerful as he was, he couldn't understand how Gu Shen had accomplished such a thing.

"That kid... he really pulled it off."

Although Gong Zi said this, a smile appeared on her face.

On the other side, Li Qingsui, Gu Nanfeng, Luo Yu, and others all breathed a sigh of relief.

They had been waiting outside, constantly worried about Gu Shen's safety.

The future leader of Changye, if his source power was exhausted, reduced to a common mortal...

Such an outcome was unacceptable to the Three Affiliates and Five Great Families, no matter what.

"As expected of Brother Gu, I knew he would be fine."

Only one person on the field had a different expression than the others.

Mu Qingyang's eyes were firm.

In fact, at the beginning of this joint extermination mission, Mu Qingyang was not very convinced by Gu Shen.

But since that night of the camp raid, when Gu Shen killed four Fourth Order powerhouses in a row and saved the Mu Clan enforcers, his view of Gu Shen had completely changed...

Through these few days of getting along, he now admired Gu Shen to the extreme.

Fortunately, the Little Iron Man Chen Li was not in this joint enforcement mission, otherwise, if the two had met, they probably would have fought fiercely over who got to stand on either side of Gu Shen.

The Bright Day dissipated.

Old Man Gu strode forward, dispelling the domain of the Incalculable Scales.

At this moment, the sky above the camp could no longer be considered dim.

The night was nearing its end, and the dawn was approaching in the distance...

The old man stretched out his hands, held Gu Shen's arms, and then shook him like a sieve, seriously turning him around, lifting him up, and inspecting him.

Gu Shen was helpless and could only cooperate.

"Really nothing wrong?"

Gu Qilin checked him over and over, still not very reassured, and asked suspiciously.

"Really nothing wrong," Gu Shen said with a wry smile. "You checked yourself, aren't you still reassured?"

The mental power of a Title-level wouldn't be wrong, of course.

But if the target was Gu Shen... Gu Qilin wasn't sure. This kid had who knew what tricks hidden on him, maybe some method to deceive everyone's senses.

However, he was more willing to believe that Gu Shen had some incredible "good fortune" that could eliminate the Heavenly Sheath Curse.

"It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay."

Gu Qilin stared at Gu Shen for a long time, and finally a smile appeared on his old face.

However.

After confirming that Gu Shen was unharmed, he quickly regained his seriousness!

He was still in the middle of the extermination mission, and he was the highest commander of the entire Northern Extermination mission.

"Gu Shen."

Gu Qilin said in a low voice, "This time at Kuluo Snow Mountain, a total of thirty-one tundra criminals were exterminated. Their bodies have all been carried and sent to the northern part of the temporary base. You should know what to do next, right?"

Gu Shen said seriously, "Yes."

....The next thing to do, naturally, was to extract the "Heavenly Sheath Fragments" from these criminals' bodies!

And, while their source power had not yet returned to the void... to complete a wave of harvesting.

"I have no doubts about your 'extraction ability'," Old Man Gu lowered his voice again and asked, "But are you really ready with the 'storage containers' to hold the Heavenly Sheath Fragments?"

"Almost here."

Hearing this, Gu Shen simply looked up at the sky and smiled. "Calculating the time, it should be today."

……

……

This Kuluo Snow Mountain siege could be said to be abundantly fruitful!

A total of thirty-one high-risk tundra criminals were killed... Among them, there were seven Fourth Order transcendents, and the remaining twenty-four were also quite dangerous transcendents. Without exception, they were all stabbed by Heavenly Sheath Fragments.

However, it was worth noting that among these people, about twenty-two were killed by being "detonated."

These people were the gifts that Han Dang had sent.

Gu Shen stood in the base's "corpse disposal ground," silently looking at these thirty-one bloody, blurred "corpses"... A clear line divided the twenty-two and the nine.

On the left were the fugitives who had been "killed normally."

On the right, those who had died from Han Dang's detonation.

"These people's bodies seem to contain some kind of 'spiritual seed'."

Gu Shen crouched down, examining the twenty-two corpses one by one.

The task of handling the Heavenly Sheath Fragments was top secret. Except for Old Man Gu, no other transcendents were allowed to enter. Even high-level leaders like Gu Nanfeng and Bai Chen were not allowed to interfere.

So at this moment, this corpse disposal ground was very quiet.

The enforcement team was very conscientious, cleaning up the Kuluo Snow Mountain battlefield exceptionally cleanly... In order to ensure that Gu Shen's "extraction mission" could proceed smoothly, they even collected the severed limbs and pieced them together as much as possible to create a blurred human form.

Of course, due to the violent "explosion."

Some people's some parts had completely evaporated.

Therefore, they could only piece together a rough outline, which did not prevent Gu Shen from identifying and deducing some of the rules that might be hidden within.

"Han Dang performed 'spiritual hypnosis' on these people."

These corpses no longer had any useful information.

But Gu Shen was not without gain. At least he could confirm that these suicide bombers had all had close contact with Han Dang... This was very interesting. The Kuluo Snow Mountain siege that the enforcers were waiting for was actually a carefully planned "suicide bombing collision"?

"Han Dang must have an extremely hidden 'nest' in the tundra's interior."

Gu Shen also thought of Gao Shu, who had failed to hunt down the murderer last night.

If all of this was directed by Han Dang, then the appearance of the Taotie was likely not "accidental." This guy's mental power had deceived everyone. Perhaps Han Dang had also helped.

"Zhu Wang was waiting for Gao Shu at the end of Kuluo Snow Mountain, just to ensure the smooth progress of the 'suicide bombing plan'..."

Gu Shen followed his train of thought.

Han Dang wanted to negotiate with the Changye government, demanding that Gu Qilin display the pardon order.

And this time, he sent out a "suicide bombing gift," putting great offensive pressure on Changye... If he didn't have a way to resolve it, then the offensive pressure on Changye would be greatly reduced.

…But.

Han Dang wasn't stupid.

He should be clear that from beginning to end, there was no possibility of negotiation between the two sides.

And after this suicide bombing, there was even less possibility... Gu Qilin, or rather, the Three Affiliates and Five Great Families who controlled Jiangbei, would never allow such a madman to survive in this world.

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and muttered, "So what is the purpose of doing this?"

If Han Dang was sane enough, he would know that he was "unpardonable."

Then the purpose of the suicide bombing was very simple.

He just wanted to release smoke, causing turmoil within Changye. After the enforcement team was injured, the speed of the attack would slow down.

"What does he want...?"

Gu Shen stood up, looking at the blood-soaked corpse disposal snowfield, and fell into thought.

At this moment.

The mental sea was extremely quiet.

Chu Ling did not interrupt Gu Shen's thinking.

He just stood there quietly for a quarter of an hour.

"Time."

Gu Shen looked at these dead people and suddenly uttered these two words.

At this moment, all the chaotic information became clear... If Han Dang had become a madman, then what he wanted to do might not be so complicated.

Han Dang just wanted "time."

The biggest impact of a chaotic situation was "time"!

Han Dang needed time. He wanted to live, not by relying on a "pardon order." From the beginning of the negotiations, he had no hope for that... All of this was a smokescreen. What he had to do was use all his means to delay the enforcers' advance.

So he was currently hiding in the tundra's interior, in some difficult-to-detect place?

The longer the time, the more difficult it was to sense?

Gu Shen vaguely felt that if the purpose was to "delay time," then Han Dang's actions were probably not just at Kuluo Snow Mountain alone... He didn't have time to think about it carefully when a faint rumbling sound came from above the dome.

In the mental sea, a familiar voice also sounded.

"I'm here, get ready to receive the goods."

……

……

Outside the corpse disposal ground.

Gu Qilin, Gu Nanfeng, Bai Chen, Luo Yu, and others stood in the wind and snow.

"Heavenly Sheath Fragments... can really be extracted?"

Luo Yu asked carefully, "Old Man, Mr. Gu, will he be alright?"

"Don't worry," Gu Nanfeng said. "I understand Gu Shen, he won't do anything he's not sure about."

Although he said that, Gu Nanfeng was still a little worried.

"But even if he can extract the 'Heavenly Sheath,' what will he use to store them?"

"Black Silver."

Gu Qilin said lightly, "Gu Shen has been using Black Silver for storage recently."

"Black Silver?"

The usually silent Bai Chen was also drawn out by this, and he frowned. "As far as I know, Black Silver is the most precious mithril material on the market. The airtightness is indeed very good, but the quantity is extremely scarce... There are only a few people in Dongzhou who collect Black Silver. The Grand Judge is one of them. But this kind of thing is really too precious, even Mr. Shan doesn't have much of it."

Bai Chen didn't know.

The Black Silver in Gu Shen's hand at this moment came from Mr. Shan.

The Black Silver that the Grand Judge had painstakingly collected had already been completely transferred a year ago.

…. "Calculating the time, the Black Silver container should be filled." Old Man Gu murmured, "Gu Shen guaranteed that he could find a replacement. I'm curious... what replacement can replace Black Silver?"

"A replacement for Black Silver..."

Everyone fell into deep thought.

Luo Yu suddenly thought of something, and his expression became strange. "Old Man, is it possible that it's not a replacement?"

Gu Qilin was slightly stunned.

Immediately, he looked up at the sky. A rumble of tremors and激鸣 came from the clouds in the distance. A source-powered boat sped from the northern cold snow and gradually reduced its speed, eventually landing smoothly above the base.

The appearance of this source-powered boat attracted the attention of many Changye enforcers.

This siege was a joint effort between the north and the south... Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any interaction between the two sides until they met.

The source-powered boat landed.

The hatch opened.

A young man wearing the rank of Major General of Beizhou, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, stood in the cold wind. His appearance confused many people, and the young Major General's gaze skipped over everyone, without even looking at Gu Qilin, the highest commander of the joint siege mission.

"Lin Lin, stationed at Gubu Fortress, Beizhou."

He used mental transmission to simply report his identity to Old Man Gu and his group.

This was the most basic respect.

On the other side, the array patterns of the corpse disposal ground opened, and Gu Shen walked out. He quickly stepped forward, shook hands with Lin Lin, then gave him a simple hug, patted each other on the back, and exchanged greetings.

"How's everything at Gubu Fortress these days?"

"Everything is going well. It's been a year, and you've gotten stronger again."

Unknowingly, time flew by.

Gu Shen and Lin Lin hadn't seen each other for a year.

The last time they contacted each other was in the "letter" in Central City. Lin Lin had exposed Gu Shen's "key" identity and gave him his "Zero Seven Three" signature.

"I was wondering when you would contact me recently."

Lin Lin smiled. "If you didn't look for me again, I was going to invite you to visit Gubu."

Gu Shen also smiled.

Yes... this was the replacement solution he had thought of.

If Black Silver could contain the Heavenly Sheath.

Then Mythril could definitely do it too!

However, the biggest problem was that Mythril was even more precious than Black Silver... Where could he get it?

He immediately thought of Lin Lin, this guy who had a Goddess sister, so he could pick up and collect Mythril as stones on the second floor of the attic.

Gu Shen linked Lin Lin with the spirit of the "key."

The affairs of Gubu Fortress were busy, and Lin Lin needed some time to prepare, then they agreed to meet today... This man was very punctual, and at the break of dawn, he brought the materials that Gu Shen needed.

Storage boxes made of Mythril.

"There are a total of ten storage boxes inside."

Lin Lin carried an alloy box. He handed it to Gu Shen and asked seriously, "Is this enough? If it's not enough, I'll go to the attic and get more."

Gu Shen took the heavy box and opened it for inspection.

Each Mythril box here was twice as big as the Black Silver box he had.

… He quickly nodded, "Enough, enough, it's enough."

He didn't avoid anyone with this scene.

So, the transcendents outside the base saw the scene of the two of them "trading"... including Old Man Gu, Luo Yu, Gu Nanfeng, and Bai Chen.

Things in the world are always so coincidental.

Whatever you talk about, happens—

Bai Chen couldn't quite believe his eyes. He asked in a hoarse voice, "Old Man, am I seeing things... The box that Gu Shen opened, is it full of Mythril?"

The only thing more precious than Black Silver was naturally Mythril.

But could this thing be mass-produced?

"You... you shouldn't be mistaken."

Gu Nanfeng's voice was complicated.

So much Mythril...

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as "priceless."

What shocked everyone was not just these Mythril, but also the young man carrying this box of Mythril.

Lin Lin!

"Who on earth is this guy...?"

Luo Yu rubbed his face hard, muttering, "Gubu Fortress doesn't seem to be a large fortress, wait, his surname is Lin, could he be some relative of the Empress..."

Over by the source-powered boat.

Gu Shen closed the box and said seriously, "Thank you for making the trip yourself... This Mythril really helped a lot, what's your price?"

At this moment, Old Man Gu's expression was quite subtle.

He remembered the boast he had made to Gu Shen earlier. He said that Gu Shen could just let go and do it, and he would pay for all the "expenses" incurred.

Lin Lin glanced at Gu Qilin's side.

He smiled and shook his head.

"Mythril is a priceless treasure."

After a brief pause.

"Our relationship is also priceless."

Lin Lin said sincerely, word by word, "So, you don't need to pay anything, don't be polite, and don't refuse."

"As long as these things can really help you, that's enough."