Chapter 283 Giant

The colossus towered into the clouds, as if trying to break through the firmament.

The wind and snow intensified.

Heaven and earth were silent.

Amidst the noisy sounds of wind and snow, Mr. Bai's response was as small as a mosquito, fleeting in the gale.

Gu Lunshen rubbed his ears.

He thought he was hallucinating.

Was there a sound in the wind and snow just now?

And upon careful sensing.

There was nothing unusual in this space.

Although Gu Lunshen, who awakened [Oboro Moon], was a powerful assault-type transcendent, his mental strength, due to diligent cultivation and extraordinary talent, was still among the best even among the titled ones.

And he sensed very clearly that the "spirit" existing in this colossus ruin, besides himself, was only Gu Shen!

No third person.

So, the sound he heard...was an illusion?

Gu Lunshen no longer hesitated.

He raised a palm and suddenly pressed down.

[Oboro Moon] instantly unfolded, and silvery-white moonlight surged with the blizzard, enveloping Gu Shen!

Hundreds of meters away.

The agitated silver radiance transformed into a giant palm, slapping down.

Gu Shen stood quietly.

He raised his head, looked at the dark grayness that blotted out the sky, and the blazing fire between his eyebrows burned faintly.

The thousands of Qingzhong array patterns swirled around him, rustling in the wind, like weak candle flames about to be extinguished.

The black robe of the Tribunal was torn to shreds by the wind.

He calmly watched the Oboro Moon palm slap down, and suddenly, the snow beneath his feet surged, and a slender, pale shadow leaped out like a swimming fish.

A vast wind rose.

In Gu Shen's fragmented memories, there had always been that "vague" figure.

That figure was always surrounded by a layer of mist, giving people a very robust and majestic feeling, but if one could get closer, one would find that under the layers of mist, there was actually a very thin figure.

Mr. Bai.

After glimpsing that extra shadow of his from the spectator's perspective, Gu Shen began to search for information about this "Mr. Bai." The files sealed by the Federation were not difficult to find, because he had existed, and he had been extremely dazzling.

Bai Shu.

The "prodigy" that the entire Bai family had raised with all their strength.

Yes... Snow Forbidden City back then used this term to describe Bai Shu. He was an unparalleled talent who was expected to obtain the Fire Seed, but ultimately lost to Gu Changzhi.

If, in the era when Gu Changzhi achieved the Godhood, all the geniuses of East洲 were eclipsed.

Then Bai Shu should be the only exception.

The sun was in the sky.

Everyone else was a dim star.

And he alone was a bright moon, its beautiful light shining on the earth, but only when the "sun" was no longer there could it bloom with strange radiance.

"Boom—"

Bai Shu walked out of the wind and snow.

And at that moment, without even a slight movement, the silver radiance in the sky, and the unfolded [Oboro Moon] domain, instantly shattered, flew backward, and smashed into the location where Gu Lunshen was.

This scene made Gu Lunshen's heart sink.

Damn it...damn it!!

Even though he saw that pale figure with his own eyes, his mental strength still did not sense the existence of a third person... This guy was like a ghost, a complete dead man.

What was going on?

Gu Lunshen's expression became extremely ugly, and the blazing "eye" on his chest began to turn restlessly. An unprecedented fear spread in his heart.

Because the mist surrounding that guy was too thick.

He couldn't see the other party's real face at all.

Gu Lunshen shouted, "Bai Shu is already dead... Who are you?!"

The wind and snow howled, with faint thunder.

But there was no response.

……

……

Bai Shu stood in front of Gu Shen, and the vast mist spread out a little, enveloping the two of them together.

This time, Gu Shen really saw the face of this "Invincible of Nagano."

Time passed.

No matter how talented or amazing, one could not defeat time.

Under the majestic snow and mist, there was indeed a withered and aging figure.

The snow and mist shielded the outside world from spiritual perception.

This small square space gave people an unparalleled sense of security.

Bai Shu said softly, "Little guy, you are more敏锐 than I thought."

Gu Shen smiled.

"Senior... should have been invited by my teacher, right?"

He sincerely bowed and said, "Thank you, Senior, for your care this year."

"No need to thank me. I haven't taken care of you much this year..."

Bai Shu said meaningfully, "You have relied on yourself all the way."

Bai Shu had seen everything that this little guy had done since coming to Nagano. This was a achievement he had forged step by step, with one punch creating a hole, Gu Shen had reached his current height and obtained a identity and status worthy of the name "S-rank"... He had not come forward, nor had he helped.

"On the contrary... I should thank you."

Bai Shu spoke softly, and Gu Shen was stunned by these words.

Unexpected.

Gu Shen was a little dazed. He didn't understand why this "Invincible Bai," who had his hand in everything, would suddenly say this?

"Senior..." Gu Shen murmured, not knowing what to say.

Bai Shu smiled self-deprecatingly, "I saw something lost in you..."

A year ago.

Zhou Jiren came to him with this little guy's file.

At that time, he had already given up chasing "hope." Everyone thought that Bai Shu was dead, and he thought so too... His life's journey should have reached its end.

To die in an unknown tavern, buried in an unknown old land.

There was nothing wrong with that.

But now, his thoughts had changed.

"That thing is called hope."

Bai Shu put his hands behind his back, looked at the five giant colossi reaching the sky in the distance, and said slowly, "Zhou Jiren and I have been old friends for many years. Over the years, we have been chasing an impractical 'delusion'."

Gu Shen was a little confused, so he listened quietly.

"We want to revive the spirit of a corrupted one."

Gu Shen was slightly stunned.

Revive a corrupted one?

That's impossible!

That was his first reaction.

The spirit of a corrupted one was completely紊乱. It was completely different from spiritual exile. It was not as simple as "retrieving" it. The corrupted one could move freely, and even unleash extremely strong combat power... Because he still retained his "spiritual sea," but had lost logic and thinking, leaving only the most basic habits.

The whole person became a puppet of "transcendent power."

Gu Shen finally understood why Bai Shu said that what he was pursuing was an impractical "delusion."

This was indeed a delusion.

Corruption was irreversible, and like the dead could not be resurrected, it was an inviolable iron law in the transcendent laws.

There was a flash of sadness in Bai Shu's eyes.

He hid it extremely well.

"That person's name is Li Rou, the East洲 Director of the Ancient Text Society, and also an important assistant at the Alan Turing [Deep Sea] Laboratory... You have met her before."

Gu Shen was stunned again.

Li Rou?

A very unfamiliar name... He had met her before...

Wait a minute... Could it be?

"Perhaps another name will be more familiar to you." Bai Shu said calmly, uttering the words, "A-009."

Gu Shen stood silently in the wind and snow.

Recalling the scene of meeting A-009.

Meeting A-009 was the beginning of his entry into the transcendent world.

He clenched the Ruler of Truth, took a long breath, and said with a complex expression and a smile, "This is... too much of a coincidence?"

"There are no coincidences in this world."

Bai Shu said softly, "You met her, just as you met me, it was already destined."

A violent tremor came from the distant sky.

The five towering "colossi" began to tremble.

The five Family Head Tokens containing the power of bloodlines were suspended in the high sky.

After [Oboro Moon] was scattered, Gu Lunshen did not dare to try to test Gu Shen's reality again.

He gritted his teeth and directly opened the "Colossus Relic"!

At this moment, a ray of blazing light surged from the five tokens, a total of five rays, reaching straight into the snowy sky!

"Senior..."

Seeing this scene, Gu Shen quickly reminded him.

Bai Shu stretched out a hand, pressed on Gu Shen's shoulder, and signaled him not to worry.

He quietly looked at the five small tokens, which stirred up heaven-shattering blazing light, with a calm expression.

Bai Shu slowly told a distant story.

"Many years ago, a group of travelers trekked here... At this time, Nagano was not yet called Nagano."

"These travelers touched the colossus, feeling the extraordinary power within the colossus."

"Most people gained nothing, but some people realized."

"Five particularly lucky guys received the protection and divine blessing of the five largest stone statues, awakening extraordinary powers..."

Bai Shu looked at Gu Shen and said, "Later, there were the five great families of Nagano."

This was the "transcendent awakening" many years ago.

Then, there were the Gu, Bai, Gong, Mu, and Li families... The five small wooden tokens suspended in the air actually dominated the fate of millions of people in Nagano for hundreds of years.

The array patterns of the distant Colossus Relic opened amid rumbling sounds.

A surge of agitated black firelight slowly bloomed in the gaps of heaven and earth, cracking open.

A Fire Seed was indeed hidden there.

Suppressed by five colossi!

"In the years that followed, the power of the stone statues became more and more dispersed."

Bai Shu looked blankly at the distant rift, and said slowly, "The most primitive bloodline began to become thinner and thinner... which also gave birth to the so-called 'direct descendants' and 'collateral descendants'. Offspring with pure bloodlines can receive grand cultivation and family love. And the five families that have spread their branches and leaves and now control the entire Nagano, are doing their best to cultivate in the past few hundred years, just wanting to return to the past and master the most 'pure' power of the bloodline. Isn't this ridiculous?"

Gu Shen was silent.

"The power of one colossus, dispersed, can create a huge family that has lasted for hundreds of years, but if it is gathered together, can it create a 'god' comparable to a Fire Seed?"

Bai Shu looked at Gu Shen, shook his head and smiled, "Actually, it can't. Because I have obtained all the bloodline power of the Bai Clan Colossus... But I am still far from Gu Changzhi."

"Just..."

Bai Shu paused and spoke again.

He looked at Gu Lunshen in the distance, who was raising his hands, as if to shoulder the sky, and said faintly, "After obtaining all the bloodline power of the stone statue, I am no longer on the same level as the other titled ones in this world."

So what if you opened the Colossus array patterns?

Bai Shu casually raised a hand.

"Rumble rumble rumble—"

The sound of an avalanche collapsed and reversed in this world.

Gu Lunshen raised his head and looked at the top of the sky.

The wisp of black array pattern rift that he had tried his best to open was actually slowly closing again, bit by bit.

His expression was stunned and shocked, and his voice was hoarse.

"What the hell is this..."

"Reversal?"