"Ah..."

A shrill scream echoed across the snow forest.

Gu Lushan's hand had been cleanly severed by the iron sword!

After cutting off the hand, Gu Shen didn't pause. His expression was icy as he gripped the iron sword, his sights set on Gu Lushan's other hand!

Thousands of strands of golden light from the Jinluyu armor (Golden Jade Garment) surged once more, desperately resisting the Halo Moon Domain, trying to expose Gu Lushan's other hand!

With the blessing of the Dionysus Throne, a severed hand... was nothing!

When Gu Shen killed Xu Yan, the man was left with only a head and still survived. Gu Lushan's strength was only greater than Xu Yan's. He had endured and plotted in Nagano for twenty years, and his willpower was even more formidable.

Cutting off a hand was not enough; he needed to be beheaded!

However, the domain was too powerful, making it very difficult to directly cut off his head. He needed to proceed step by step!

Gu Shen swung his sword a second time!

Gu Lushan was trapped by the array patterns, unable to break free. His other hand was also severed by Gu Shen's iron sword... like a heavily sentenced prisoner wearing shackles, both hands were reduced to bloody stumps!

He roared, trying to escape the cage.

Unfortunately, this human-shaped cage was formed by the array patterns controlled by Chu Ling, and it was exceptionally sturdy. Moreover, it was constantly changing its structure based on his movements... The combination of divination and the Source Code's calculation power created an astonishing predictive effect. Under Chu Ling's control, these thousands of array patterns were extraordinarily sensitive, as if they possessed intelligence, capable of predicting and calculating Gu Lushan's next move. No matter how desperately Gu Lushan struggled, the cage was constantly contorted into various shapes, but it just wouldn't break open!

"No..."

"No!!"

Gu Lushan's pupils were bloodshot. The Jinluyu armor was collapsing backward, and his physical body was undergoing a war. The Qingzhong Cemetery's array patterns and the Halo Moon Domain were fiercely clashing.

With each step the Halo Moon retreated, his body was exposed a little more.

And before him was Gu Shen, wielding a sharp sword!

Gu Shen swung his sword a third time!

This time, he severed Gu Lushan's forearm. Blood splattered everywhere, and the Dionysus Throne's divine power tried to reattach the severed limb, but the severed hand and arm were directly pinned under Gu Shen's feet, unable to move!

What kind of sword was this?

It was so sturdy!

Even without the Halo Moon, his body was covered in divine power!

Yet... it couldn't withstand a mere iron sword?!

Gu Lushan went completely insane.

He tried his best to crash into Bai Xiaochi, wanting to force Bai Xiaochi to attack him, using external force to destroy this layer of Jinluyu armor... Unfortunately, this assassination plan was plotted by all four of them.

Bai Xiaochi saw through Gu Lushan's intentions.

He merely watched this scene coldly, taking two steps back, and didn't pay any attention.

The next moment, Gu Lushan let out a desperate roar like a trapped beast. The Jinluyu armor tightened even further, and the retreating golden array patterns transformed into threads, wrapping around him layer upon layer, making the cage even more secure!

"I... hate!"

A strong sense of foreboding surged in Gu Lushan's heart.

Gu Shen's incomparably sharp iron sword, with each strike, shaved off flesh and blood. Severed hands and arms, these pains were nothing... As long as he could break free from this cage, there was still hope for a comeback, but the cage was getting tighter and tighter.

He vaguely felt a sense of... despair!

He was afraid that he would really die here today.

Dozens of seconds later.

Gu Lushan, who had been stripped of his limbs, had become a "human pig."

Because of the support of his powerful mental strength, he was still floating in the air... With the blessing of divine power, a "miracle" was unfolding, and his body retained great vitality.

It was just that soon, Gu Shen would cut off his head!

The miracle would also fail at that time!

Gu Lushan closed his eyes in pain.

Just as Gu Shen held his iron sword high –

A wisp of extremely thick mental ripple rippled through the wind and snow in the distance.

A very faint sound of air being torn apart rang out from the distant sky.

It was as if someone had gently torn a piece of paper.

Bai Xiaochi's expression suddenly changed drastically.

When they were discussing the plan earlier, he vaguely felt that he had overlooked something, but Gu Shen's assassination plan was quite complete, with everything in place, leaving only the final "desperate gamble"!

Now, he finally understood what he had overlooked: the wisp of mental ripple that would occasionally reverberate from the depths of the mountains!

The ripple spread out like a tsunami, experiencing dozens of rounds of diffusion and expansion.

The mental ripple at this moment was extremely powerful and domineering!

As that faint tearing sound rang out, in just a second or two, countless snow forests were directly uprooted from the horizon.

Bai Xiu turned his head and saw the overwhelming snow tide sweeping in behind him, his expression shocked.

Gu Shen was also stunned for a moment, then his eyes turned gloomy.

Bai Xiaochi shouted, "Do it! Now!"

Gu Shen's speed of action was faster than Bai Xiaochi's voice. The moment the tearing sound rang out, he instinctively sensed something was wrong and directly slashed down with his iron sword!

With a "clang!"

A burst of silver light exploded in the air.

Gu Lushan opened his tightly closed eyes. His spirit had originally been quite weak, his eyes gray and dim, but this time he opened his eyes, he burst out with an extremely strong desire to survive.

His eyes directly shot out a wisp of silver-white incandescent light!

Gu Lushan abandoned the Halo Moon Domain, which was used for self-defense, aimed it at the iron sword, and threw it out. From the moment he abandoned the defense of his physical body, his physical body collapsed inward under the powerful force, and the skin on his body was torn to pieces by the Qingzhong array patterns and golden light.

But this wisp of Halo Moon Domain finally shot out as he wished!

Silver light splattered everywhere!

The iron sword was hit and slightly tilted to one side!

Gu Shen gripped the sword with great force, desperately adjusting, and slashed down again, but he was ultimately delayed for a moment.

In that moment of hesitation... Gu Lushan grabbed the last straw between life and death, desperately smashing himself towards the snow tide. He didn't care whether his crippled body and damaged spirit could still survive in the aftermath, and directly slammed towards the roaring mental tsunami!

"...Boom!!!"

The tsunami of snow sweeping through the forest engulfed Gu Lushan.

The Jinluyu armor, composed of thousands of array patterns, was the ethereal power controlled by Chu Ling remotely from the mausoleum. While it was extremely light and agile, it lacked stability and solidity.

After encountering a violent impact, this layer of "cage" uncontrollably burst open... First, a golden thread snapped, followed by dozens or hundreds of golden threads exploding together.

"Not good..."

Gu Shen and the other two felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

As long as this flawless cage had a gap, then this certain-kill situation would be declared a failure!

The snow tide engulfed the three of them in an instant.

Everything above and below was vast and boundless.

In the extreme whiteness, a ray of dazzling purple suddenly appeared, mixed with scarlet blood... The tightly bound Jinluyu armor burst apart, turning into thousands of streams of light, sweeping back in front of Gu Shen.

These array pattern glows returned to Gu Shen's control, which meant that his already unstable mental link with Chu Ling was completely severed by the mental impact of the snow tide at this moment.

Gu Shen saw an extremely miserable figure.

That figure had lost its arms and legs, leaving only a torso and a head, which were blown by the fierce wind and snow, with a head of frost-white hair scattered and drooping like a scarecrow.

However... the divine power of the Dionysus Throne covered the severed limbs.

Scarlet colors were constantly涌来from the distant wind and snow.

Severed limbs were regrowing... This was a miracle.

At this moment, the miracle was unfolding on Gu Lushan's body.

That fragmented body regrew its hands and feet, and the aura that had fallen to the bottom rebounded... Halo Moon formed, propping up a vast territory, spreading and expanding with this silvery-white snow sea.

Gu Lushan wiped the blood from the corner of his lips.

He didn't say anything.

Because the fierce battle just now had exhausted all of his strength, Gu Lushan at this moment had truly reached the point of "running out of oil and the lamp going out"... He almost died under Gu Shen's sword, and only the divine power of the Dionysus Throne saved his life.

The snow tide churned, and suddenly there was a faint sound of a small object flying through the air in the distance.

A wooden token flew against the snow tide into Gu Lushan's palm.

That was the last Li Clan token. Gu Shen vaguely saw that the originally clean and flawless surface seemed to have some fresh blood on it.

Without external help, the little girl Li Qingsui had limited speed.

She hadn't had time to escape the snow forest before being enveloped by the Halo Moon Domain, and in this domain, it was extremely easy for Gu Lushan to retrieve the token.

"It seems... the goddess of fate is still on my side."

Gu Lushan recovered a breath.

He smiled softly.

In the distant snow tide, the figures of Bai Xiu and Bai Xiaochi faintly emerged.

He no longer hesitated and turned to flee towards the depths of the snow forest!

He didn't attack... because it wasn't necessary.

Entangling with Gu Shen, Bai Xiaochi, and Bai Xiu would only waste his time.

Gu Lushan had finally gathered the five family head tokens he had dreamed of. The next thing he had to do was to rush to the "Colossus Ruins" corresponding to the inner mausoleum disaster realm, activate the great array that suppressed the third seed of fire... and then seize the power of the unowned seed of fire!

When the five tokens gathered together.

He even faintly heard the roaring sound of the "Blazing Eye" in his chest.

That was the desire and longing that had been absent for twenty years.

Finally...

He had finally reached this step.

It no longer mattered how much forbearance he had endured or how much infamy he had borne. Before long, the world would call him "Lord Gu." One general's success meant ten thousand bones withered. The previous dark past would only be buried by the vast snow here!

As for killing these people.

After he completed all of this, killing anyone in this mausoleum would be just a snap of his fingers.

Gu Lushan's figure soared into the sky, turning into a streak of purple light.

"...Gu Shen! Little Xiu!"

Someone was calling Gu Shen and Bai Xiu's names. It was Bai Xiaochi. The Bai Clan head was searching for the two of them against the snow tide.

He was just a little short of killing Gu Lushan under his sword!

Taking advantage of the mental impact, Gu Lushan had escaped... Bai Xiaochi was most worried that this guy would go crazy and start a massacre. After seeing that Gu Shen was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterward, Bai Xiu also waded out of the vast snow tide.

It seemed that everyone was safe.

"Gu Lushan has given up the pursuit?"

Bai Xiaochi frowned.

Before he could think too much, a golden glow suddenly soared into the sky.

Gu Shen chased out with his iron sword.

In the snow tide.

Bai Xiaochi looked at the young figure in black and felt as if he was hallucinating... He seemed to see a patch of white shadow clinging to the golden glow.

For some reason, he thought of the Wind Eye image he had seen a year ago.

That was Gu Shen's first night in Snowrest City.

He also saw a white shadow like today.

A white shadow that was very familiar and could evoke the Zhao Ming sense.

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(ps: I'm a little late, so I won't leave an update preview for the afternoon. I basically can't squeeze it out. See you tonight)