Chapter 64 Truth

The flowing wind of Shiki Wilderness slipped through Gu Shen's arms, gentle and warm.

But by the time it reached Tie Wu's face, it had turned into a sudden, violent gale, making it impossible for him to open his eyes.

Tie Wu was not a tall man to begin with.

He looked up at Gu Shen... and he felt that this figure was gradually overlapping with the image of the adult who had given him the token back then. As soon as this thought appeared, Tie Wu bit the tip of his tongue hard.

Damn it.

How could he have such a disrespectful and blasphemous thought!

But after biting his tongue, Tie Wu realized... he felt no pain.

"This is... the 'Mental Domain'?"

Tie Wu's disconnected consciousness reconnected at this moment.

He cried out in horror.

Although his thoughts experienced a moment of blankness and stagnation after the freezing recovery, he wasn't an idiot...

"You've finally realized it."

Gu Shen sighed with a hint of irony.

In fact, the impact of Shiki Wilderness on him wasn't any less than on Tie Wu... As the master of this mental domain, Gu Shen was still a little unaccustomed to it.

He even felt a little overwhelmed.

When he sensed the abnormality of the iron element manipulation in the hospital corridor, Gu Shen thought that the one in Nagano had gifted him Tie Wu's ability... but now it seemed that Mr. Gu Changzhi's gift was far more than that.

A mental domain... was this something he could possess now?

According to the strength classification of the Deep Sea Zone, mental-type transcendents probably had to reach the ninth layer of the Deep Sea before they could gradually develop their own "Domain."

"You hid your strength?"

Tie Wu's expression was stunned, then darkened.

Gu Shen didn't explain.

He slowly walked up to Tie Wu, gazing at this not-so-tall dwarf. The more someone liked to look down on others, the more they wanted to hide their own "humility"... Tie Wu was a good example. In Shiki Wilderness, he could no longer float, so he could only look up at Gu Shen. It was an awkward posture, and his voice involuntarily lowered.

"Where is my body?"

"It's here." Gu Shen raised his hand, and his two fingers gently swiped.

A scene appeared in the sky above Shiki Wilderness.

This was a memory scene captured by Gu Shen's mental power, and now it was faithfully reproduced in Shiki Wilderness—in the memory scene, above the Old City District, the frighteningly powerful divine advent radiance dissipated.

Dionysus was defeated, and the divine light shattered.

And the small body that carried the divine power... was blown apart, and with the annihilation of the purple light, it was destroyed.

Tie Wu stared blankly at this scene.

His body... exploded?

He couldn't accept it.

Not that he couldn't accept his own death.

But that he couldn't accept that Dionysus had actually lost.

The only ones in this world who could defeat gods were gods... This young man's mind wasn't frozen during the divine advent, and his surname was also Gu. Thinking of this, Tie Wu's gaze towards Gu Shen suddenly became horrified.

What was the relationship between this guy and Gu Changzhi of Nagano?

"In a sense, I saved you."

Gu Shen ignored Tie Wu's gaze. He said calmly, "If Shiki Wilderness hadn't taken in your wisp of a soul, you would have died, completely annihilated..."

With the body shattered, how could the spirit exist alone?

When he arrived at Shiki Wilderness, Gu Shen immediately thought of Qingzhong in Nagano... It was rumored that Qingzhong gathered a large amount of transcendent source matter, and coincidentally, his own Blazing Fire also had the same characteristics.

Tie Wu should have died in the Golden Divine Realm when Dionysus left.

But because Blazing Fire absorbed transcendent source matter, his transcendent source matter was absorbed into this wilderness.

Thus, there was this meeting.

"I don't need you to save me, you can kill me." Tie Wu took a deep breath and sneered, "I should have died gloriously..."

"Gloriously die in the divine advent?" Gu Shen asked leisurely, "Even as an abandoned pawn?"

Tie Wu was stunned.

"I think the god you speak of wouldn't care about your life or death," Gu Shen said calmly. "If the mission failed, he might even prefer you to die like this... If you lived, you would be a burden instead."

He waved his hand again.

The memory in the Golden Divine Realm was shared.

It was the scene of Dionysus prostrating before Gu Changzhi... Countless rays of sunlight pinned Dionysus in the Golden Divine Realm. Could it be that the lofty god also had times when he was as humble as an ant?

Tie Wu's lips trembled.

His eyes gradually became dazed... because he recognized it, this was the Lord Divine Seat he had devoted everything to following.

He would never mistake it.

In the Golden Divine Realm.

Gu Changzhi's voice of questioning was louder than thunder!

["Do you still remember your grand aspirations before taming the Fire Seed? What do you look like now?"]

["You have obtained the power of 'God,' so you should fulfill the responsibilities of 'God.' Those apostles are so innocent. They are guided by God, thinking they are walking on the right path... but they don't know that their piety is being used by you."]

Faced with these lashes of questioning.

Tie Wu couldn't believe it. Lord Divine Seat actually just lowered his head... Was this a default?

After watching all the memories of Dionysus's confession in the Golden Divine Realm.

He raised his head blankly.

Something in his mind collapsed with a bang.

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It suddenly started to rain in the sky above Shiki Wilderness.

It often rained during the Awakening of Insects season.

The fine and cold raindrops fell on his body... making him feel unusually cold. So, even the soul could feel the cold.

Tie Wu's body seemed to be dissipating.

All people eventually die.

Transcendent source matter eventually condenses and dissipates.

This was an eternal law that even gods could not rewrite... but Tie Wu didn't care. For him, life was just a countdown, and there would always be a day when it reached zero. He would rather his spirit had been blown apart at the moment the Divine Realm collapsed.

If the memory that Gu Shen showed him was the so-called "truth."

Then he would rather not know the truth.

He should have died a long time ago... No one would know his name, no one would remember his appearance. In the dirty alley of a corner, there would be one more unattended skeleton.

He once thought he was lucky.

On the day he was dying, a figure taller than the sky stood before him, handed him that token, and rewrote his life.

That hand moved the countdown of his life.

That was not only the God of Zhongzhou, the God of the Source Tower... but also the God in his life.

Eliminating black spots, collecting energy, clearing out rebels, eradicating dissidents... Tie Wu firmly believed that everything he had done over the years was for the Federal Government, for Lord Dionysus, and also for the common destiny of the people of the Five Continents.

But now, someone suddenly told him.

What he believed in was false.

If God deceives you.

Then what... should you do?

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(ps: I originally planned to update another chapter during the day, but there were too many things to do today, and I didn't have time to start writing. Moreover, I have never been very satisfied with the fine-tuning of the plot connection point, so tonight's second chapter took a very long time to write. I apologize to the readers who are waiting now. After organizing the outline tomorrow, I will revise today's chapter.)