Chapter 1048 Reversal

Anyone who has ever been to the inner mausoleum of Qingzhong and stood at the foot of the giant statue...

...would feel like an ant.

No matter how hard one tries to look up, one can only see the magnificent chest of the giant statue, towering and disappearing into the clouds.

Insignificant as a grain of millet.

At this moment, the entire ice and snow world began to churn, tens of thousands of tons of flowing snow rolled beneath the giant statue, and these five largest giant statues seemed to be "gods" sitting in the avalanche torrents, silently gazing at the collapse of this world.

Or rather... reverse.

Five small wooden tokens unlocked the bloodline array patterns of the giant statue ruins.

A wisp of jet-black firelight seeped out from the distant sky.

Even if it was only a small wisp... it still gave people a shocking, uneasy, and fearful feeling.

That was a seed of fire.

That really was a seed of fire!

Gu Lushen raised his arms, making a sky-supporting motion, as if to embrace the entire snow dome... and he was indeed about to do it.

It was just a pity that he was still a little short.

The snow dome, opened by a wisp, closed again, and the rolling snow tide swept back against the current, and the "time" of this world began to flow backward.

The next moment.

The radiance shot out by the wooden tokens flowed back inch by inch.

The five tokens became quiet again, suspended in the air.

"Gu Shen, this is a good opportunity to watch the battle... you can feel what the battle of a titled transcendent is really like."

Bai Shu said this calmly.

Then he began to move forward.

There was no need to open a domain, this entire world of swirling snow was his [Reversal] domain.

And everything, before experiencing [Reversal], must have a [Stasis] stage.

Wherever Bai Shu passed, the flying snowflakes, the drifting grass leaves, the exploding stone chips... all solidified in the air, as if someone had pressed the pause button of time, and when he passed by, these solidified objects continued their original movement along their original trajectory.

The world became noisy and silent.

Bai Shu walked slowly to Gu Lushen.

He did not pause Gu Lushen's "time."

The heaven-defying ability of [Reversal] could not be activated at will, of course.

The more objects he influenced, the greater the power he consumed...

And the more powerful the living beings he influenced, the more difficult it became.

Bai Shu stood ten meters in front of Gu Lushen.

He carefully looked at this old acquaintance, was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "How long has it been since we last met?"

Cold sweat had already seeped out of Gu Lushen's forehead.

He looked at the familiar face in the pale mist as if he had seen a ghost.

How many years had it been since they last met?

Twenty years? Or... longer?

He, who had always had an excellent memory, was surprised to find that he could no longer remember anything about Bai Shu.

He had died too quietly.

Who would spend the effort to remember a dead man?

"Forget it... it doesn't matter." Bai Shu smiled, and he said with some disappointment, "But I remember... the last time we met, you weren't like this."

Gu Lushen lowered his head and looked at himself.

[Obscure Moon] was shrinking desperately because of intense fear, condensing into a layer of tight and solid armor.

Above the armor, there was also a dazzling purple radiance surging.

That was the divine power of the Dionysus Throne!

Years had passed in a flash, he had endured, he had worked hard, he had cultivated to great success... but now, why did he still feel fear when he saw Bai Shu?

In that era when everyone was young.

Because they were both from the Gu family, Gu Lushen never had the chance to fight Gu Changzhi, and unwilling to be a supporting character, he challenged Bai Shu, and so he and Bai Shu had a sensational fight... The final result was that he lost miserably and tragically.

And at that time, Bai Shu had not yet drawn all of the Bai family's bloodline power to launch the final attack on Gu Changzhi.

After that fight, Gu Lushen was depressed for a long time.

He realized.

Even without Gu Changzhi.

He still could not become the "protagonist" of the previous era, because there was still a Bai Shu in Changye City.

After the "Blazing Eye" in his chest opened, he changed his goal.

He set his sights on the next era.

He would slowly persevere... and outlive all the old friends he couldn't beat.

Before long.

He outlived Bai Shu... This proud genius, after failing to challenge Gu Changzhi, actually chose to commit suicide with the hope of the entire clan's bloodline power, how foolish!

It was precisely because he had outlived Bai Shu that Gu Lushen had completely strengthened his strategy of enduring bitterly!

He was willing to hide behind the scenes, and just kept waiting and waiting!

Waiting for Gu Changzhi to retire from Changye, and waiting for Gu Qilin to grow old...

Finally, he waited until now!

But he found that all this was just a joke that God was playing on him?

Bai Shu was still alive!

"The way you look now is really like a dog."

Bai Shu looked at the purple radiance covering Gu Lushen and said sympathetically, "However, the difference between you and a dog is... you wag your tail and beg for mercy without realizing it."

Gu Lushen was furious.

He growled, "Bai Shu... things are different now!"

Gu Lushen could feel that the aura on Bai Shu's body was mixed with the gray meaning of silence and decadence... The Bai family's anger at this world-exceeding talent over the years could not be fake, and even if he had not really died, he had concealed the news of his survival.

How could such a person cultivate?

And he, his diligent cultivation for twenty years, had never been interrupted.

[Obscure Moon] forcibly spread out!

Gu Lushen charged towards Bai Shu, and the [Obscure Moon] domain enveloped the two of them. After being enveloped by the divine power of the Dionysus Throne, he delivered a punch filled with spirit, energy, and essence!

This punch... shattered the sky!

It shattered the heavy snow!

It caused a tremor in a ten-mile radius!

Even Gu Shen, who was watching the battle from afar, felt a sting in his eardrums, and thousands of strands of Qingzhong array pattern radiance gathered and wrapped around his body, resisting the lingering power of the fist's shock.

Gu Shen's expression was a little unsightly.

If he were alone, and fought against this new Gu family master... relying on the array patterns alone would definitely not be enough.

This punch was enough to penetrate the array patterns and seriously injure him!

A strand of extremely condensed Blazing Fire gathered in the center of his brow. This was a peak duel between top titled existences, and Gu Shen did not want to miss any detail... And in the next moment, holding his breath.

Gu Shen saw an unbelievable phenomenon.

Bai Shu stretched out his palm.

The action he made was very simple, it was... stretching out his palm.

Completely different from Gu Lushen's layering of domains and blessing of divine power.

Bai Shu's palm seemed to be flowing with a layer of invisible air.

The further application of [Reversal] was stasis, and a further step was disintegration.

In the Blazing Fire's vision, he captured one extremely slow moment after another.

The Obscure Moon and the divine power that tightly wrapped Gu Lushen's fist, at the moment it touched Bai Shu's fist, before it could erupt with killing power, was directly disintegrated... Bai Shu reversed a part of the power, turning the whole that Gu Lushen erupted with killing power into one broken part after another.

In the end, this punch was just an ordinary punch.

With a "thump."

It hit Bai Shu's palm, making a very slight muffled sound.

"I really haven't cultivated for a long time."

Bai Shu looked at Gu Lushen and asked playfully, "Gu Lushen... when did you become so foolish, thinking that these short twenty years would be enough to make up for the gap between you and me?"

Gu Lushen's pupils contracted.

The next moment.

A whip kick, unbelievably fast!

It directly shattered half of his body!

The divine powers of the Dionysus Throne wanted to piece this torso back together, but this flesh and blood was instantly crushed by the [Reversal] domain!

"Cough..."

Not even blood splattered out.

Everything was swept into the wind and snow by [Reversal]!

Only in the next instant.

This irresistible force was activated again... After two [Reversals], the broken flesh and blood were pieced back together again, Gu Lushen's lower body was pieced out, his expression was pale, and the emotions in his spiritual sea were no longer anger, but fear.

In a sense, just now, a "miracle" had been staged on him twice.

The Dionysus Throne's "miracle" was interrupted by [Reversal].

It was not because the Dionysus Throne was not powerful enough.

But because this wisp of divine power... compared to Bai Shu, who had arrived in person, was too weak.

And the second "miracle" was that Bai Shu used [Reversal] to personally reverse and piece together his shattered body.

After this reconstruction... Gu Lushen discovered a terrifying thing.

The surface of his body had lost the blessing of the Dionysus Throne's divine power.

Those fragmented divine powers were caught in the [Reversal] domain, constantly repeating endless cycles of reincarnation... and were completely stripped away from Gu Lushen's skin and flesh!

The [Reversal] just now was just to strip away his divine power?

Gu Lushen's face was pale.

"If you still retain your pride from back then, I'll give you a chance to fight me head-on."

Bai Shu carried his hands on his back and said calmly, "Throw away the dirty power of the Source Tower. During the duel, I won't use [Reversal]... You have a hundred lives. As long as you win against me once, you will be qualified to take off the seed of fire behind my back."

These words were clearly transmitted to Gu Shen's ears.

He was stunned and wanted to say something, but the words stopped at his lips.

Gu Shen chose to be a silent "spectator."

The snowy ground surrounded by the five giant statues was filled with gusts of cold wind.

The distraught Gu Lushen looked with great difficulty at the Dionysus Throne's divine power that was swept away by [Reversal]... In the inner mausoleum of the Snow Forest, he had told everyone that he was not a lackey of the Dionysus Throne, but just wanted to bring a bright future to Changye.

But he couldn't deceive himself.

Using the divine power of the Dionysus Throne was like a gambler having countless chips. Once he used it once, he would use it a second time, countless times.

Having seen the greatness of God, how can one accept one's own insignificance?

Too difficult.

Too difficult.

Gu Lushen roared, and he pounced towards Bai Shu, without borrowing a single bit of external force, neither sealed objects nor divine power, what he relied on was his own [Obscure Moon] that had been painstakingly cultivated for decades...

And Bai Shu no longer used [Reversal] either.

He unfolded his spirit and collided with Gu Lushen's domain.

This was a tradition that Changye had continued for hundreds of years.

Duel.

And after only one move!

"Tear--"

Accompanied by a fragile sound of flesh and blood exploding, Bai Shu shattered Gu Lushen's [Obscure Moon] armor with a single chop of his hand, and also tore open most of his body.

Bai Shu threw the shattered body out like throwing a sack, and it landed far away in front of the stone statue.

He said calmly, "First life."

The power of [Reversal] was activated at this moment, and Gu Lushen stood up unsteadily in the wind and snow.

He roared and pounced on Bai Shu for the second time.

Again, flesh and blood flew everywhere.

He pounced on Bai Shu for the third time... still the same.

Even without using [Reversal], the [Obscure Moon] cultivated to great success could not resist Bai Shu's attack, who had achieved great success in his bloodline.

Just a punch, a kick, or a finger was enough to completely shatter the [Obscure Moon]!

There was no suspense in the battle between the two people... The snow mist rolled, Gu Lushen's roar had exhausted all his strength, as if he wanted to vent all his power, all his pent-up feelings, all his anger, and all his unwillingness.

"Rumble rumble..."

The majestic snow tide swept over.

Finally, Gu Lushen sat dejectedly beneath the giant statue in the snow.

He turned his head and looked at the "seed of fire" that was only a line away from him.

Gu Lushen couldn't understand why the heavens had arranged his life like this?

For the first half of his life, he lived in the shadow of Gu Changzhi.

In the second half of his life, he met Bai Shu again, and all his efforts were in vain.

Bai Shu came to Gu Lushen.

He stood in the wind and snow and asked calmly, "A hundred lives, all used up. Do you want to continue?"

Gu Lushen, who was staring blankly at the black seed of fire, withdrew his gaze.

He shook his head and laughed, "What a... boring question."

Bai Shu stretched out a hand.

Gu Lushen closed his eyes.

A human head was just taken off like that.

And then thrown on the snow.

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(I will restore two chapters today, and there will be three chapters tomorrow)