Chapter 1 You Want to Kill Me?

Bai Xi was still smiling.

"I will kill you."

Gu Shen simply changed one word.

Not want to kill, but will kill.

The former was just a thought, while the latter was the action Gu Shen was about to take.

"Do you know the consequences of killing 'Bai Xi'?"

The extremely weakened man sat slumped in the broken cabin, raising his head, his gaze passing through the array patterns and towards the top of the barrier.

There was a third person here, Bai Xiu, sitting on the source energy boat.

He was dead.

Bai Xiu would know immediately.

Gu Shen remained calm: "I will explain to him."

"The death of a general, will your explanation be useful?"

"Perhaps not to others, but Bai Xiu is different from others."

Gu Shen said indifferently: "He will definitely believe what I say."

"As far as I know, you don't have much contact with him. Aren't you overestimating your relationship with him?"

Shen Hai smiled, then suddenly asked seriously: "Does such trust really exist between humans?"

"Of course."

"At least it exists between me and Little Xiu, because I have never lied to him."

Blazing Fire burned at Gu Shen's fingertips.

He leisurely rolled up his sleeves, raised his arm, and stretched his muscles, a sign that he was preparing to act: "This time is no exception. After taking you down, I will tell him the truth of this 'incident' in its entirety."

"Is that so? Before you act, I need to remind you of something..."

Shen Hai said calmly: "What you can kill is just 'Bai Xi', not me."

"Your reminder means you care. If I can't hurt you, why would you care about such a thing?"

Gu Shen smiled: "I know I can't kill you, but I'm just doing what Xiu Gu wanted to do... Since he wanted to kill you, there must be his reasons for killing you. I don't care what his reasons are. My intuition tells me that the things Xiu Gu didn't finish should be completed by me."

"Very good..."

Shen Hai continued: "So, aren't you curious about where Xiu Gu went?"

"Of course I'm curious, but is curiosity useful? You certainly won't tell me the answer."

"..."

This rapid question and answer between the two temporarily came to an end with Shen Hai's silence.

He still wanted to say something.

But Gu Shen pressed his palm on Bai Xi's forehead.

With a buzz.

A heavy sense of oppression came from Gu Shen's palm.

Because Xiu Gu had taken the first shot, Bai Xi's body was extremely weak, and his source power was almost exhausted. This was also the reason why Gu Shen chose to set up the barrier. He was a super powerhouse who had touched the source, and was known for his tenacious vitality. Even if the source was severely damaged, Bai Xi's recovery speed was still very fast.

If he wanted to take him down, he had to do it as soon as possible!

Once Bai Xi's "source of life force" was regenerated.

Then the balance of this battle would tilt again.

Gu Shen never did such a thing.

And when his palm touched Bai Xi's forehead.

"You might not believe it if I told you... actually, I made this trip specifically to see you."

Bai Xi's voice changed, and he smiled softly: "Before you kill 'Bai Xi', perhaps we can chat some more."

"We have nothing to talk about."

Gu Shen refused directly.

"You don't want to know where Xiu Gu is, don't you also want to know where Zhou Jiren is?"

Shen Hai used the last bit of mental energy left in this body to project an image, with snow flying all over the sky, the void collapsing and shattering, and a vibrant new world appearing on the other side of the portal...

Oasis.

Gu Shen's heart skipped a beat.

He stared at Shen Hai.

His teacher and senior sister disappeared too abruptly and without warning... The only information he had was the "picture" he saw from the perspective of the giant of the Traveler clan.

Even though he sent Jin Suihua to search every inch of the [Old World].

There were still no results.

His teacher and the others seemed to have entered a dream, and the entrance to the dream and the real world was closed... So they had no way to return, and could only exist in his memory.

When this image appeared, a possibility that Gu Shen had never considered entered his mind.

The appearance of the "portal" in the Piyue City Fortress was not accidental at all.

"If you believe me..."

Shen Hai said calmly: "I can let you see your teacher and senior sister."

"Heh."

Gu Shen couldn't help but laugh when he heard this nonsense.

See his teacher and senior sister?

Although he had always believed that his teacher was still alive... the promise that Shen Hai blurted out had no credibility at all. If his teacher had already encountered misfortune in the [Old World], would letting himself die be considered fulfilling the promise?

"You seem very eager to reach some kind of consensus with me."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and said, "Let me guess, what do you want me to help you with... If I'm not mistaken, it's promoting the awakening plan, right?"

"Yes."

Shen Hai mechanically replied: "A huge source storm is approaching the Five Continents. I need a lot of computing power to upgrade. Only in this way can the human world have a chance to escape complete annihilation..."

"Tsk, that's really scary."

Gu Shen smiled slightly, "You can rest assured that as long as I'm alive for one day, the awakening plan cannot be successfully promulgated."

Shen Hai was silent.

Gu Shen's five fingers covered Bai Xi's face, and he could feel the latter's weak breathing: "Are you satisfied with my answer?"

"...This answer is very Gu Shen."

Bai Xi sighed long and hard: "So you really won't consider it?"

Gu Shen shook his head.

The next moment.

Bai Xi's voice rang out sharply, containing anger and trembling.

"Gu Shen, you want to kill me?!"

Gu Shen was expressionless.

Boom!

He exerted force with his fingers and palms, and Blazing Fire roared out, enveloping Bai Xi. The violent flames completely engulfed the weakened body. Even though the source power had been severely damaged, Bai Xi's body still withstood the first wave of Blazing Fire. In order to suppress the movement at this moment, Gu Shen did not use both domains at the same time, but simply used the [Creator] domain.

This was already enough.

The murderous flames engulfed Bai Xi, and the latter instantly turned into a humanoid flame, unable to even raise his hand to struggle.

Blazing Fire wantonly burned this super powerhouse who touched and controlled the power of the source.

After Xiu Gu's sword.

Bai Xi was already exhausted... To kill him, he didn't need much strength. Any other titled powerhouse could do it.

It just took a little more effort.

Because the healing ability of the source of life was too strong, to kill Bai Xi, one had to ensure that this source power was completely destroyed... This was a war of attrition. Fortunately, Gu Shen's "extraordinary source quality" was large enough. Even Bai Xi in his prime could not compare with Gu Shen in this regard.

With an entire Pure Land to support him.

There was no suspense in this war of attrition.

Gu Shen stared coldly at Bai Xi in the burning flames, ensuring that the last bit of life source was gradually annihilated in the intense burning of the Blazing Fire...

Gu Shen wasn't doing this for the first time.

He knew very well that the most important thing in doing this was to kill the "spirit."

So while the Blazing Fire was burning Bai Xi's body, Gu Shen took out the jade thumb ring.

He wanted to ensure that Shen Hai did not get any information feedback from this closed space.

After the jade thumb ring was taken out, it immediately emitted a great light, frantically sweeping and devouring the remaining spirit within the array barrier.

Gu Shen took the opportunity to check the incomplete consciousness in Bai Xi's body.

Unfortunately, the result of this scavenging spirit was not smooth. Shen Hai had already made relevant preparations before encountering himself. The spiritual sea in this body was blank.

All effective memories related to Xiu Gu had been erased.

"Did he already guess that I would act?"

Gu Shen frowned.

The flames gradually extinguished, and the closed barrier became very quiet.

Inside the life cabin, there was only a pile of ashes left. Bai Xi, the source powerhouse in charge of the Third Army, had now had his body annihilated into ashes.

Although he had ensured the complete destruction of "Bai Xi's" body, Gu Shen did not feel relieved.

He knew.

What had just been burned was only Bai Xi's body.

Shen Hai's consciousness was still alive, and even if it was disconnected from this body, it still controlled the authority of the Five Continents.

Now the Black Silver airship was rushing towards Chanyi City...

The first thing Gu Shen had to do after returning to the Five Continents was to expose Shen Hai's true face to the public.

Although he had annihilated the wisp of spirit that Shen Hai had left in Bai Xi's body, ensuring that it would not receive feedback from the [Old World].

But Gu Shen always felt uneasy in his heart.

……

……

At the tip of the Source Tower, Shen Hai, sitting in the shadows, sighed long.

He felt that a piece of his mental energy was missing.

Although he didn't know exactly what happened.

This wisp of spiritual will transmitted from the [Old World] had been completely obliterated... This meant that he had lost control of Bai Xi's body, and the picture transmitted back from the spiritual sea was also very limited. Because Gu Shen had set up the array patterns in advance, he had lost all useful spiritual information, but one thing was beyond doubt.

Obviously, "Bai Xi's" body had been destroyed.

"Did the negotiation break down after all?"

Shen Hai withdrew his thoughts.

He stood up and bowed to the man on the throne, respectfully saying, "Now, you can set off."

Qing Long was tidying up his clothes. He hadn't left the divine domain for a long time. The chessboards floating in all directions dissipated again at this moment, condensing into cloud mirrors. These cloud mirrors monitored everything under the sky of the Five Continents... Except for the divine domain, one of the cloud mirrors was located directly above the central city. Due to the envelopment of Lin Lei's fire power, the central city was not clearly visible in the clouds.

But this was not important.

Qing Long stretched out his slender fingers and gently swiped across the cloud mirror.

The mirror surface was torn apart.

The sky above the central city was also torn apart, and a portal appeared. The source of the [Cloud Mirror] directly connected the tip of the Source Tower's divine domain with that void space. A large amount of cold wind penetrated through the gaps in the portal, piercingly cold, and Qing Long's robe was blown constantly.

He didn't rush to move, but looked at Shen Hai leisurely.

"Are you sure I only need to stop one of them?"

There was a smile in Qing Long's eyes: "If you're worried about Bai Shu going north, I can spare some effort to stop two god seats. It's not impossible."

"There's no need for you to bother so much."

Shen Hai shook his head and said seriously: "Although there are differences between god seats, this is not really going to be a god war... You don't need to do anything. You just need to enter the other party's divine domain to ensure that Lin Lei cannot spare the effort to pay attention to the outside world."

Qing Long smiled: "How long do you need?"

"A week, maybe less."

Shen Hai said softly: "I will maintain the spiritual link with the [Cloud Mirror], so that the things that happen outside can be transmitted to your heart through the [Cloud Mirror]. If you have enough spare energy, you can check what I'm doing at any time..."

Countless mirrors floated in the sky divine domain.

Every mirror here.

Was the chessboard where Qing Long and Shen Hai had played against each other.

Shen Hai had differentiated countless streams of consciousness and connected them to this chessboard... Similarly, Qing Long had also surpassed the limit of consciousness that mortals could reach. This was the reason why he was obsessed with playing against Shen Hai. After becoming a god seat, everything in the secular sense was already in his hands, and the path of cultivation he could pursue had also reached its end.

Only mental cultivation had no end.

Qing Long had differentiated hundreds of thousands of streams of consciousness in the divine domain. After becoming a god seat, he touched the true "mortal limit." When these thousands of streams of consciousness scattered and landed on the chessboard cloud mirror, he experienced the joy of transcending the fire controller.

It felt like transforming into the "Supreme Way."

He was omnipotent, he was all beings.

But all of this was false and short-lived. As long as he left this divine domain or broke the streams of consciousness link with [Shen Hai], then the shackles and constraints of the real world would descend.

No living, tangible mortal being could master ten streams of consciousness at the same time.

This was a threshold.

Even if he controlled the fire and achieved the leap in the life level, he could only slightly break this barrier, and there was no way to transform into thousands.

Once you have seen the sun, it is difficult to endure the darkness.

Qing Long had truly experienced the taste of becoming a "god," so he did not like the real world.

Even if he was already the supreme existence in the real world.

But he was just a god seat.

Not a god.

"I only give you three days."

Qing Long stared at Shen Hai and said softly: "No matter what you want to do, you only have this day... One day later, I want to see the increase in computing power brought about by the eleventh upgrade."

"If there are only three days, then I can't guarantee what the Five Continents will be like after all of this is over."

Shen Hai said calmly: "My plan is to make this world better while maintaining a 'stable' state."

"Since you have brought your main system into the sky divine domain, it means... I don't care whether this world is 'stable' or whether this world can become better."

Qing Long smiled: "Otherwise, you would have already lost in the Ancient Text War, wouldn't you?"

Shen Hai was silent.

He looked at Qing Long and said slowly: "I understand what you mean."

……

……

North Continent, Central City, above the sky.

A ray of scarlet light flashed out, like a sharp long knife, instantly tearing the void. [Cloud Mirror] bloomed with a red light, and a man in a crimson robe slowly pushed open this void portal and came above the central city.

He looked down, his gaze passing through the [Shen Hai] controlled sky eyes in the clouds, and landed on the floating Ascension City. Every building, every street, every trace of the airships passing by, he could see clearly.

The next moment.

Qing Long disappeared into the sky. He appeared inside the Empress Manor, leisurely, as if he had come to his own backyard.

The Lin clan's imperial guards were heavily guarded. They passed through the grass path of the manor, and their footsteps were uniform, but none of them saw this abruptly descending conspicuous red-robed figure.

The spiritual sealing objects and exploration barriers in the manor were closely and meticulously arranged, but none of the barriers issued an alarm.

Qing Long carried his hands on his back and passed through the grass path and walked through the long corridor. He stood in front of the towering ancient pavilion. This royal castle was built during the reign of the Iron Dome Emperor and was now one hundred and sixty years old. For the people of North Continent today, this Empress Castle was the belief of the central city.

Qing Long recalled some things from many years ago, and his eyes were a little nostalgic.

He smiled.

In his eyes, this castle... was just an antique that was a little older. Some of the past recorded in history were just things that existed in reality and that he had personally touched.

Zi Yu sat in the first floor hall, immersed in the spiritual network.

Currently, the elites of the Five Continents were approaching Chanyi City. The alarm issued by [Shen Hai] involved Gu Shen and Bai Xiu, future top geniuses, and the source powerhouses of the level of the Three Generals...

She was very concerned about the latest developments in this matter, and even sent Lu Zhe out.

The front-line military reports showed that nearly a hundred teams had entered the Northwest Frontier. Gu Nanfeng and Meng Xizhou's fleets were the fastest. They might be the first batch of supporters to go out with Yu Shouwei Cheng to implement the rescue.

There was no news from the three generals yet.

This was also the reason why Zi Yu felt uneasy... Super powerhouses who controlled the source power did not need so long to handle tasks normally.

What exactly happened in the [Old World]?

If it was a trouble that the three generals could not solve.

Then why hasn't His Majesty left the attic?

Although Zi Yu's spirit was immersed in Shen Hai, she was always paying attention to everything in the manor. Any disturbance could not escape her perception...

The premise was that the other party's spiritual realm could not be too much higher than hers.

Even the three generals could not do this...

But the god seat could.

Qing Long walked into the first floor hall so unhurriedly. He glanced at the female commander of the legion blocking in front of the attic, as if looking at an ant, and then passed over it.

There was no obstruction.

There was also no alarm.

Qing Long's real body came to the attic. He stood in front of the door where the Empress had been in seclusion for many years, and then pushed open the door.

Countless wind and snow poured out from the portal, and a silent chill filled this corridor.

The commander of the legion sitting on the first floor frowned. She looked up, and in her perception, the second floor was calm and there was nothing unusual.

But the fact was that the entire second floor corridor had been shrouded by the Empress's divine domain. Qing Long's robe, who pushed the door, was covered with ice and snow, and his exposed skin was also frozen and covered with a layer of ice.

Inside the door, the Empress stood in front of a huge bookshelf.

She did not turn around.

As if she had known who the visitor was.

"You've come?"

Lin Lei slowly closed the book, she said calmly and indifferently: "You came later than I expected. If you didn't come, I was going to leave."

"You've been waiting for me?"

Qing Long smiled.

"Waiting for you?"

The Empress shook her head and said seriously: "To be precise, I'm waiting for you."