Chapter 1 The Final List

"Is today the day the final list comes out?"

These days have been particularly leisurely, a stark contrast to the hard life of Fort Guba.

Due to the Empress's granted privileges.

Gu Shen was the "highest authority" in the reboot mission. In the past few days, he had done very simple things. He only met with Fisher of [Live Fish] and chatted briefly about information about the "Undead."

Most of the time was spent in seclusion, cultivating his spirit.

"On the rooftop, those captains have already started selecting team members."

Chu Ling brought up the image of the rooftop and said, "Today should be 'Training Day.'"

"Hmm..."

Gu Shen suddenly remembered something and said, "The anomaly you detected a few days ago."

It was on that day, after A Liuer left his room.

Chu Ling detected tremors in the building, two extremely powerful forces clashing... and the sources of both forces had extremely high authority within the building, immediately suppressing the system's alarm.

Gu Shen originally thought it was a friendly exchange between the two captains.

However, after the [Source Code] extracted data from the system, it discovered that A Liuer and Meng Xiao had actually clashed!

No one else in the building knows about this news yet.

But it has aroused Gu Shen's attention!

"It's really unreasonable... No matter how high the title of Duke Zhenyue is, he shouldn't ignore the Empress's apostle..." Gu Shen replayed the scenes captured by [Deep Sea] many times. At this moment, he took it out again. In the midst of a cloud of mist, Meng Xiao and A Liuer confronted each other.

Those blazing light auras reached a balance with the Empress's divine power, shining together!

"It is indeed unreasonable."

Chu Ling said, "If the conflict was caused by the marriage contract, and Meng Xiao especially hated the Gu family of Changye, it would be reasonable... but the marriage contract can't be blamed on you. Even if he is unwilling to reconcile after the Empress's apostle personally came to persuade him, he shouldn't have such an attitude."

In the image.

A blaze of light surged.

Meng Xiao didn't retreat at all... It seemed that he intentionally wanted to fight A Liuer.

"He does have inexplicable hostility towards me..." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and said, "I'm afraid it's not as simple as the marriage contract..."

Is it the grudge formed from the last meeting?

No... that's not right.

Gu Shen's premonition told him that things were not that simple, but he couldn't figure it out... Before that, he had never even set foot on the North Continent, or had any contact with other transcendents from the North Continent.

Where did Meng Xiao's hostility come from?

"Taking a step back... is there a possibility..." Chu Ling suddenly said quietly, "Meng Xiao just wants to fight A Liuer."

Gu Shen was stunned.

"What do you mean?"

"Those golden lights on his body are very similar to the spiritual brilliance after you comprehended the Breathing of Spring, but in fact, they are a blessing given by the 'Light Throne'. This power is very terrifying." Chu Ling said seriously, "Look closely at his eyes... he has been paying attention to the position behind A Liuer, which is the place where the 'Divine Advent' will descend."

The picture was enlarged again and again.

In a cloud of mist.

Gu Shen saw clearly the man sitting upright in the brilliance. His eyes were full of golden color, with both majesty and ambition.

His eyes... seemed to be expecting something.

Expecting the Empress to descend?

"But... this level of conflict will not lead to 'Divine Advent' at all."

Chu Ling was in a dilemma, she threw the question to Gu Shen: "You are someone who has personally experienced 'Divine Advent', can you see what he is looking at?"

What is he looking at...

What is Meng Xiao looking at?

A flash of inspiration flashed in Gu Shen's mind, and he murmured, "He is... observing the 'Empress' for the Light Throne."

Every Throne needs to build a bridge to bestow divine power upon its apostles.

And apostles use divine power... They always need to go through a certain medium. Currently, transcendents cannot explore the affairs of the "Divine Realm," but Gu Shen knows that divine power, like transcendent source matter, is transmitted through the void.

The position that Meng Xiao was staring at.

Was the source of A Liuer's divine power descent.

Of course, he was not expecting the Empress to descend, but was observing the great being who was sending divine power to A Liuer... What kind of state was she in?

"Her Majesty the Empress has been locked in the pavilion for a year. In the past year, the situation in the North Continent has changed, and many crises have occurred. First it was Piyue City, then the Doru River. Although several generals are extremely strong, she has not shown her face once... Obviously, it has aroused the suspicion of the other Thrones in the Supreme Council." Gu Shen immediately thought of the previous situation in the East Continent.

"After what happened to Gu Changzhi, the Thrones of the Supreme Council are naturally more careful in observing each other, and no one wants to be deceived..."

He seemed to understand something, and tapped the table lightly: "So the conflict between Meng Xiao and A Liuer was deliberate. It was inevitable that he would release divine power to form a collision. Because the Light Throne has become suspicious of the Empress's state."

Duke Zhenyue.

The name Zhenyue is upheld by Light City, both as a hostage and as an eye.

"That's right, A Liuer is the Empress's eyes, and Meng Xiao is the eyes of Light City." Chu Ling said, "If the furnace was not still burning normally... I'm afraid the extent of his probing would be greater this time."

She paused.

"What surfaces is often just the tip of the iceberg. We have only seen Meng Xiao now. I'm afraid that in other places, there are already more eyes staring at the Empress."

Gu Shen suddenly remembered what happened when he met the Empress on the second floor.

He brought Mr. Gu Changzhi's letter, and looked forward to the Empress reading it.

However, after the Empress took it, she didn't even open it, but directly incinerated it, and said this sentence:

["Thank you for delivering the letter, but this is the best destination for this letter..."]

At that time, he thought that the Empress burned the letter because the content of the letter was not important.

Gu Changzhi's letter was more meaningful than the words.

But now it seems.

The act of burning the letter has other unspeakable meanings...

If there are really many eyes staring at the second floor where the Empress is located.

Then among these eyes, I'm afraid there are both Meng Xiao's indirect probing through the apostle, and more direct, undisguised "stares."

Burning the letter.

If she doesn't look at it, then "others" naturally can't look at it!

This thought emerged, and Gu Shen vaguely felt a little creepy... He hoped that he was just overthinking, if there really was this kind of "peeping" eye, forcing the Empress to do this, then how terrifying would the person planning behind it be?

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On the rooftop of the building, several airships hovered.

Dense figures fell from the airships. These were the final list selected by the dukes and generals... A total of ninety-eight people. These nearly one hundred figures fell from the airships, the source armor spewing flames, and finally landed smoothly.

"Captain!"

After Yuan Yuan landed, he saw a blond figure not far away, smiling and waving at him.

Among the final list, there are also some "internal candidates."

They are the strong men requested from the military leaders by the "exemptionists" themselves. Although these people are very strong, they are not strong enough to become captains, so they still need to be reviewed by the Central City Conference to ensure their participation in this mission.

"Brother Zhongyuan, you only brought one Yuan Yuan for this reboot mission?"

Beside Zhongyuan, Lu Zhe clicked his tongue in amazement.

The scene today was a bit chaotic... Central City has also selected several other captains in the past few days. Everyone arrived here together. After the team division is over, the unified training before the mission will begin.

"The mission is dangerous, and others may be in danger if they participate rashly." Zhongyuan said lightly, "Aren't you the same, only bringing Xiao Qiu with you?"

Lu Zhe glanced at the woman next to him and smiled, "Don't, Brother Zhongyuan, you're wrong... This time, Xiao Qiu is taking me. I haven't been to the Doru River much. Xiao Qiu, why don't you handle the team division later?"

"..."

Yuan Yuan had just arrived when he heard this sentence, and immediately fell silent.

He looked strangely at Captain No. 1... Lu Zhe's personality was lazy to the point of being outrageous. Although he had the record of successfully executing the most missions outside the fortress in the Legion, this guy was really not a qualified captain.

According to the secret complaints of the members of Team One, performing missions with Captain Lu Zhe was a very boring thing.

Because most of the time, the dangers of the mission were silently resolved by him alone.

In short.

The mission was soloed by him.

"These people are all the same... there's nothing to choose from."

Mu Wanqiu looked at these people absentmindedly. She was obviously not interested in the team division. She just glanced at them and looked at the mental strength of these people. Although they were all geniuses, there were also different levels.

The transcendent strength of these people is mostly above her.

But she can see through their spiritual realm at a glance.

Placed in the Legion, the fortress, or their original environment, they can indeed be called geniuses, but they are limited in strength.

She didn't see anyone who had transcended the realm.

The number of transcendents... is too small.

"Xiao Qiu, I know you have a good eye and can always discover potential in the crowd." Lu Zhe said seriously, "Anyway, we two are definitely on the same team, how about this mission... you be the captain?"

Zhongyuan and Yuan Yuan looked at each other: "..."

Can this guy be any lazier?

According to their understanding of Mu Wanqiu, this S-level is an even more trouble-averse person.

The burden that Lu Zhe throws to her will most likely be thrown back intact.

But unexpectedly, Mu Wanqiu was silent for a second, and actually uttered a word.

"Okay."

"I knew I would be rejected..." Lu Zhe said subconsciously, then looked at Mu Wanqiu in astonishment: "What did you say?"

Mu Wanqiu said calmly: "I will be the captain, I will choose the people."

Lu Zhe was extremely surprised and subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the sky.

Did the sun rise from the west?

He suddenly thought of Mu Wanqiu's "nightmare" and vaguely understood the reason why she was willing to take over as captain.

Taking over as captain means having command.

Mu Wanqiu wanted to enter the nightmare land of the Doru River again, which had left a shadow on her.

"Look over there..."

Yuan Yuan suddenly spoke, he pointed to one side and frowned, "Are so many transcendents all 'internal candidates'? Did they internally decide on an entire team?"

In the distance of the rooftop.

Seven figures, tall, short, fat and thin, gathered together. They were wearing uniform-style cloaks, and on their shoulders, there was an exquisite silver pattern.

A silver moon was suppressed by a hand.

After these seven figures completed their gathering, they bowed to one direction in unison.

Duke Zhenyue.