Chapter 150 The Last Card

"Gu Shen...chased after him?"

Bai Xiu slowly walked out of the distant snow tide.

In his arms, he carried a passed-out girl.

Li Qingsui.

Under the plunder of the [Oborozuki] domain, she failed to hold onto the last Li Clan token. Gu Lushen did not kill her, but only used the domain power of [Oborozuki] to seize the token.

Li Qingsui's fingers clenched the token tightly, unwilling to let go, but… with her strength, how could she compete with [Oborozuki]? She only persisted for a second before the token was forcibly taken away, leaving deep bloody cuts on her fingertips and palm.

Immediately afterward, the powerful mental ripples directly shocked the little girl into unconsciousness.

"Yes... he chased after him."

Bai Xiaochi looked a little pale, one hand pressing against the unhealed wound on her chest.

At the point where the mental ripples surged in the distance, there were waves of aftershocks one after another.

"Little Qingsui is fine..."

Bai Xiaochi slowly suspended two fingers in front of Li Qingsui's forehead, sensing carefully with [Zhaoming], and breathed a sigh of relief: "She just suffered a bit of mental shock, she'll be fine after a few days of rest."

As the nominal acting head of the Li Clan, she always carried several high-ranking sealed items with her for defense. The power of the mental shock just now was already very strong, but it was perfectly offset by one of her earrings.

That was a mental protection device given to her by Uncle Gao, specially used to resist "mental attacks"!

At this moment, it came in handy.

Bai Xiu handed Li Qingsui over to the Clan Leader. He took a deep breath and looked in Gu Shen's direction, "Clan Leader, you take her away. I'll be right back."

"No..."

Seeing this, Bai Xiaochi quickly stretched out a hand, [Zhaoming] turned into a blood-colored long rope, and grabbed a corner of Bai Xiu's sleeve.

Bai Xiu turned to look at the Clan Leader and said seriously, "He alone... is no match for Gu Lushen."

To fight Gu Lushen, Gu Shen must rely on the array patterns of Qingzhong Cemetery!

Aside from the array patterns... although he is exceptionally talented, he is still just a third-stage transcendent. Facing a titled powerhouse head-on, he would be reduced to ashes in an instant. Where would there be even a glimmer of a chance of winning?

The assassination plan just now was also a joint effort of the three, plus the array control skills of Miss Chu, who could manipulate the array patterns like a god, to grasp a tiny, slim chance.

"Alone..."

Bai Xiaochi chuckled softly.

When she saw Gu Shen resolutely moving and flying away, Bai Xiaochi had vaguely guessed some "secrets."

She still maintained the "blocking" motion, and said softly: "Little Xiu, the third fire seed within the cemetery is awakening... the next wave of mental ripples may directly rush out of the inner mausoleum. We must leave quickly and inform the transcendents outside the cemetery of this news. That is the top priority."

Bai Xiu bit his lip, looking a little anxious.

"But... I can't just watch him die."

In his view.

Gu Shen going to Gu Lushen for a one-on-one fight, wanting to prevent him from opening the Colossus Ruins... is almost a death-seeking path of exchanging his own life for time.

"If you cultivate the [Thunder Realm Walker] to great completion and obtain a title, I will never stop you if you want to move out."

Bai Xiaochi said softly: "On the contrary, I will urge you to go and cut off Gu Lushen's head... but, as you are now, even if you go, what can you do?"

Bai Xiu was silent.

"Gu Shen is a disciple of Master Chino, he has mastered divination and can foresee good and bad luck."

After thinking for a moment, Bai Xiaochi slowly said: "Since he dares to go, he must have his own plans. Let's not waste time, let's get moving."

He did not say what he saw about the white shadow.

After all... "that person's" file has been sealed by the Bai family and destroyed by the Federation.

Everything is now just a vague rumor.

Over the years.

Gu Changzhi has been regarded by the Gu family as the greatest pioneer in history, the sun, the sacred light guiding mankind forward.

But "Bai Shu," who once stood shoulder to shoulder with Gu Changzhi, has long been buried under the dust.

He took all the blood of the Bai family and chose to "commit suicide."

This radiant name slowly decayed, dimmed, and withdrew from the stage of history and people's memories in such a dramatic way.

Bai Xiu silently clenched his fists.

After struggling inwardly, he finally chose to accept Bai Xiaochi's suggestion and set off together to resolve the disaster in the cemetery.

"Let's go."

Bai Xiu took a deep breath and slowly opened his mouth.

Bai Xiaochi nodded and looked in the direction they had come from in the snow forest: "Old Master Gu Qilin, his deputy, and the other two Clan Leaders of the Five Great Families should all be here..."

This was the information that Miss Chu had said when the mental link was stable.

This time, they needed to bring them all along.

The two began to retreat towards the outer mausoleum.

Before leaving, Bai Xiu turned back and looked at the deepest part of the snow tide, silently saying in his heart.

"Gu Shen... you must come out alive!"

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The wind blew the gauze hem of the red sacrificial robe.

It also blew the woman's black hair, which was like silk.

Chu Ling, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the mountain mausoleum stone gate, disconnected from the "mental link." Her world returned to a solitary single-player state, but this time, the buzzing sound was no longer the echo of a disconnected signal, but the trembling of her spirit being shaken.

She had made intimate, direct contact with the "spirit" of the fire seed in the deepest part of the inner mausoleum.

This was the root cause of the broken mental link!

"I sensed... a powerful mental force is about to burst out of the inner mausoleum..."

The keeper of the mausoleum, whose aura was weak, was almost frozen into an ice sculpture.

She no longer spoke, but conveyed her will through mental power fluctuations.

"Beneath the Colossus Ruins, there is another fire seed, a masterless fire seed." Chu Ling looked at the keeper and said slowly, "That powerful mental force is the power of the fire seed."

"...Colossus Ruins...fire seed?"

Master Chino's heart sounded obviously confused.

Her body was frozen in ice, and her thinking speed had become very slow. It took several seconds before she realized the true meaning of these words.

The mask rustled and dropped ice shards.

Chino actually chuckled softly and murmured, "I see..."

Over the years, her divination had always been unable to divine the Colossus Ruins. She had thought it was because Gu Changzhi was slumbering here... But later, the wondrous realm of the Seasons Wilderness enveloped the mausoleum, and she tried to find Gu Changzhi's "resting place" in this cemetery, but she could never come up with an answer.

From the beginning, she had been looking in the wrong direction.

The so-called masterless fire seed... should be the fire seed of the Underworld King!

"The Dionysus Throne shared the power of the Great Cold Calamity... so the Underworld King's fire seed has revived..." the keeper said weakly, "There are still many people in the cemetery, we must send them away."

Once the fire seed fully revived, the entire cemetery would be covered by terrifying transcendent power.

When a mental tsunami of full strength arrived,

all these transcendents with insufficient strength would die!

Chu Ling nodded.

"I'm trying to get in touch with Bai Xiu and the others..."

She once again ignited the array patterns in the cemetery, sending her spirit deep into the snow forest.

Chu Ling was uneasy.

Just now, because of the impact of the fire seed's power, she had missed the perfect opportunity to kill Gu Lushen.

Failing to kill this man has planted a great hidden danger!

This madman who created the split in the Gu family... has laid out the overall situation in the cemetery, wanting to seize the "Underworld King" fire seed with his own strength. If he succeeds, what will Nagano become?

The consequences are unimaginable.

What Chu Ling was most worried about was not Gu Lushen taking the fire seed, but Gu Lushen breaking free from the cage of array patterns and vowing to kill Gu Shen at all costs!

After the mental link was broken, she completely lost sight of the snow forest and could only use divination and calculation again to explore.

Her heart was full of anxiety.

Hoping to see Gu Shen's figure.

If he was alive, he must leave the unstable place of the inner mausoleum as soon as possible.

With the fire seed reviving, the inner mausoleum could collapse at any time.

If the transcendent's spirit could not resist this tsunami... then the end would be to sleep with these tombstones underground.

Chu Ling searched anxiously.

Soon, in the snow forest of the inner mausoleum, she saw several figures supporting each other... It was Old Master Gu Qilin, Gong Qing, Mu Yi, who were seriously injured, and Luo Yu Li Qingsui who had fainted!

Chu Ling seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

At the end of the team were Bai Xiaochi and Bai Xiu. These powerhouses who had been injured by Gu Lushen were now being found and rescued one by one!

They were all still alive...

Chu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and then her heartstrings tightened again.

The golden thread of divination swept to Bai Xiaochi's face.

Chu Ling's spirit transmitted out, she vaguely felt a sense of unease, and asked in a trembling voice: "Clan Leader Bai... why don't I see Gu Shen?"

Bai Xiaochi cast a complex look behind her.

This look spoke volumes.

Chu Ling fell silent.

She knew that Gu Shen had gone to the place where the Underworld King's fire seed was.

Taking a deep breath.

Chu Ling quickly regained her composure, and she said calmly: "Clan Leader Bai... saving people is the most important thing. This is a map of the outer mausoleum of Qingzhong. There are still eight hundred and ninety-seven scattered transcendents inside. According to my estimation, the next wave of mental tsunami will erupt in about twenty-three minutes."

The Underworld King's fire seed was awakening faster and faster.

The interval between the mental ripples was also getting shorter and shorter.

The time left for everyone in the cemetery was running out.

Bai Xiaochi immediately understood.

"In the disaster realm of this cemetery... the divine will of the Dionysus Throne is mixed in, so the rule of random teleportation into the mausoleum was born." He analyzed while frowning: "The Source Tower does not want the transcendents in the cemetery to gather, so the distribution density of these transcendents is very discrete, and it is very difficult to find them one by one... I am afraid we need more manpower."

This was a big problem.

To spread the news of the evacuation of the cemetery, they needed to notify the transcendents.

However, under the deliberate arrangement of the Dionysus Throne's will, the transcendents were scattered... where could they find a large number of transcendents willing to carry out the evacuation mission?

Just as Bai Xiaochi was lost in thought,

He suddenly heard dense vibrations coming from the air in the distance.

It was the sound of many people stepping on the snow together.

"Clan Leader!"

"Little Xiu!"

A clear female voice rang out from the other end of the snowfield.

Bai Xiaochi was slightly stunned.

Bai Lu waved her hand from afar. Behind her, a large team of nearly a hundred Bai Clan transcendents... appeared at the exit of the snow forest.

Because of "Bai Zesheng," these people were not interfered with by the will of the Dionysus Throne, and could successfully enter the cemetery and gather together.

Obviously, this was a good deed done by the Second Elder, Bai Zesheng, who stood with the Source Tower. He did not want the "direct descendants" of his family to be harmed by this conspiracy, so he chose to gather them together!

And at this moment, these people filled the biggest problem in the evacuation plan, the lack of manpower!

When they got closer,

Bai Lu saw the slightly injured appearance of the Clan Leader and Bai Xiu, and was slightly surprised. However, when she saw the seriously injured power holders of the Five Great Families, she was quite shocked...

The battle in the inner mausoleum was so tragic?!

"There's no time to talk."

When Bai Xiaochi saw his clansmen, he quickly ordered in a deep voice: "I have a complete array map of Qingzhong Cemetery here, you..."

Before he could finish speaking,

"We already have this array map..."

Bai Lu smiled and said, "Clan Leader, it was Gu Shen's idea. He asked us to go and find the scattered transcendents in advance."

Bai Xiaochi was stunned.

Seeing the golden thread beside the Clan Leader, Bai Lu knew that this was the golden thread of divination, and said respectfully: "Miss Chu, thank you for the map. With this map, we successfully searched the snowfield for ten miles around and found a total of seventy-nine transcendents."

Only then did Bai Xiaochi notice that in the transcendent team behind Bai Lu, there were not only his familiar Bai Clan members, but also some other young disciples belonging to the Three Bureaus and Five Great Families of Nagano.

These people were transcendents who had been moved away by the teleportation rules.

"Gu Shen... had already arranged it?"

Bai Xiaochi smiled helplessly. He found that Bai Xiu's expression was always calm, so it seemed that he had known it for a long time.

This feeling was a little subtle.

He thought that the outer mausoleum was already in chaos, but he didn't expect that Gu Shen had already handled the predicament of the cemetery properly.

This young man had been lying dormant and living in seclusion in Nagano for a year.

Practicing array patterns, improving his strength, and not asking about worldly affairs.

This year, Gu Shen was unmoved by the rumors and gossip from the outside world. It was really an amazing and extremely quiet state of mind.

Bai Xiaochi, looking at Gu Shen again now, the more he looked at him, the more he admired him.

This was really a submerged dragon whose potential was no less than his own Bai Xiu.

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With these transcendents, the next gathering was much easier.

One passes it on to ten, and ten passes it on to a hundred.

The action of ten people and the action of a hundred people were vastly different. Before the next wave of mental tsunami came, completing the gathering of transcendents in the cemetery was no longer an impossible task.

The real map of the outer mausoleum of the cemetery was passed on one by one through spirit.

Every transcendent understood what to do next.

A terrifying force was about to overflow from the inner mausoleum!

These transcendents who gathered with the Bai Clan team had companions, old friends, and fellow disciples who had been teleported away and were stranded in the cemetery. It was likely that they did not know what was happening in the cemetery at this moment.

They wanted to survive, and they also wanted the people they cared about to survive together!

Chu Ling made a detailed division of the search and gathering tasks. The entire snowfield was divided into dozens of areas, cut apart, and each person got their own task... to ensure that the search task was completed to the greatest extent.

After the tasks were assigned,

"Miss Chu, I have a question."

Bai Lu asked seriously, "This cemetery is completely closed. Even if all the transcendents are gathered, what's the use?"

"After completing the search task of the area... go to the 'gathering' point marked on the map. The power of the next wave of mental tsunami is not enough to reach here." Chu Ling said calmly: "I will try to decipher the golden gate and open the exit of the cemetery."

Decipher... the golden gate?

This news almost exploded in the crowd.

Everyone looked incredulously at this strand of fate's golden thread that was transmitting the sound.

What kind of calculation power was this?

Chu Ling, who was sitting in front of the mountain mausoleum stone gate, paused slightly after saying these words.

She saw the shock of the transcendents through the golden thread of fate... realizing that what she did, which was taken for granted in Gu Shen's eyes, was an incredible miracle in the eyes of these outsiders who did not understand her background.

So.

Chu Ling looked at the nearly extinct and withered keeper of the mausoleum, and said in a hoarse voice: "...together with Teacher Chino."

The crowd's surprise subsided a little.

Chu Ling's last words were an extremely powerful reassurance. Master Chino was like a "guardian" in the hearts of the transcendents in Nagano. These transcendents began to take action.

Bai Xiaochi looked at this thread of divination golden thread that symbolized fate, with a complex expression.

This Miss Chu... was really not simple!

Bai Xiaochi was quite emotional. He didn't know if he was thinking too much, but he always felt that this Miss Chu's airtight style of doing things was really familiar.

It was like... the [Deep Sea] who never made mistakes.

From the array pattern control to trap and kill Gu Lushen, to the multitasking of assigning gathering tasks.

This Miss Chu's planning ideas were perfect.

Even if the cemetery opened up the [Deep Sea] signal, and all the young elites in the command post joined the battle, I am afraid that they could not do better than her, right?

Could these things really be brought about by a divination technique?

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In the snowfield of the outer mausoleum, groups of transcendents began to cut through the snow to find their companions.

The inner mausoleum was still desolate.

The wind and snow howled, almost freezing the soul into ice.

Far away, two streams of light chased after each other.

Gu Lushen looked gloomy, and glanced back at the kid behind him... that young man who was not even twenty years old should burn incense and be grateful for being able to live until now.

After he broke free, he didn't kill him in the first place!

He even dared to chase after him without measuring his own strength!

Did he want to stop him from opening the Colossus Ruins?

Gu Shen maintained a high-speed flight with a blank expression. The face was being hit by the wind and snow. The harsh climate here was already beyond description. In a freezing zone of nearly minus one hundred degrees, he had to rely on these array patterns to continue moving forward.

At this moment, he sensed the murderous gaze that Gu Lushen cast over from the front.

Gu Shen was unmoved.

He knew very well that after the failed entrapment, he was now the one Gu Lushen wanted to kill.

The reason why he was able to live until now was of course not because Gu Lushen was benevolent.

It was because Gu Lushen had something more important in his hands. Once he opened the Colossus Ruins and really obtained the fire seed, then killing himself would only be a matter of winking.

Let the ants run for a while, and then crush them to death with one foot after going out!

This... was Gu Lushen's true thought.

And the reason why he chased after him was of course not to act like a hero, and even less because he thought he really had the strength to fight Gu Lushen one-on-one.

The wind and snow were vast.

Gu Shen tried his best to keep up with a shadow of Gu Lushen.

He tried to calm his mind. Even if he couldn't return to the best state of understanding the array patterns in front of the inner mausoleum stone gate, he at least had to return to the state of a "spectator." The familiar heartbeat sound slowly appeared in the noise of the wind and snow.

Gu Shen opened his mouth in a very light voice.

He said two words.

"Senior."

It was freezing cold here, and the snowfield was deserted. Apart from Gu Lushen in the front, there was not a single figure... and this senior was naturally not called out to Gu Lushen.

There was no response.

Gu Shen chuckled softly. He still spoke in a voice that only he could hear, and said slowly: "Actually, I'm not a muddle-headed person. If some strange things happen to me that cannot be explained... I will write them down and keep them in mind until those things get a reasonable answer."

In the wind and snow, there was silence.

Gu Shen said softly: "In the capital, I went to the No Man's Land with my teacher and senior sister to participate in a transaction. The object of the transaction was called 'Mr. Bai'."

He didn't need to get a response.

These words were just his own soliloquy.

"Chen Mo, who had cultivated to the eleventh level of the Deep Sea and had extremely strong strength and hard bones, chose to confess the case of the Owl simply after sleeping."

"The Owl, who possessed 'Blood Fire' and could control dozens or hundreds of avatars, suffered heavy damage overnight and almost turned to ashes."

What Gu Shen said,

were all things that he could not understand at the time.

He murmured: "Actually... these things shouldn't have been remembered by me, because they can't be considered true 'strange things'."

"The real strange thing is that when I immersed myself in the 'spectator' mentality a year ago, I had a whim. I wanted to put myself aside and see what kind of person 'Gu Shen' really was."

Gu Shen's soliloquy came from the wind and snow.

"I saw... a wisp of very small white color mixed in my shadow. If it weren't for the detailed spectator mentality, I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all."

"However, some things that you see, you just see them. That is a piece of white snow that can never be wiped away, and it is also a touch of snow white that shouldn't have appeared in my shadow."

Gu Shen said: "I didn't feel any danger. On the contrary... I felt a warmth. I don't know how many of the life and death crises I had experienced before were resolved because of your appearance. I only know that you have been protecting me and paying attention to me."

Until the end of the words.

He didn't get a reply.

Expected calmness.

In the distance, there were towering "Colossus," the highest of the five huge stone statues pierced through the real world and came to this dream, still towering and awe-inspiring.

Gu Lushen had landed.

Gu Shen also landed closely behind.

"Mr. Bai..."

Gu Shen chuckled softly in a low voice: "If I guessed wrong, then sprinkling blood on the fire seed can be considered a death without regret."

His murmur was heard by Gu Lushen.

Gu Lushen, who landed in the central position of the Colossus Ruins, said coldly: "Gu Shen... what nonsense are you talking about?"

The next moment.

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He raised his head and loudly recited the forbidden name that had been deeply buried in the past by the federal government, saying: "Mr. Bai Shu! I have always heard that you are truly invincible in Nagano. I would like to ask you to come out and fight this battle, is it possible?"

Bai Shu?!

Gu Lushen was startled by this name.

He looked at Gu Shen, who was speaking loudly, with suspicion.

Layers of sounds echoed between the Colossus.

The world was silent.

A very light voice rang out.

"Yes."

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(ps: Sorry for the long wait, in order to ensure the reading experience, this chapter has been merged into a large chapter! I believe everyone's wait was not in vain. Such a high-quality update, I ask... is there anyone else?!)