Chapter 277 Old Friend

The iron sword flew through the air, and Xie Zheng was a mess in the wind.

He never expected that his cheap teacher, whom he had believed dead for more than a decade, was never in that coffin.

He had cultivated half of his divination skills and knew the importance of fate.

Some things can be asked, some things cannot be asked... Obviously, Mr. Gu Shen knew his "teacher," otherwise he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to the tundra just to check a coffin.

So Xie Zheng forcibly suppressed his curiosity and didn't say a word.

Of course, Gu Shen saw all of this.

On the way back.

He suddenly said, "Aren't you curious about who that person is?"

"If Xie Zheng should know, Sir will naturally say so."

Xie Zheng honestly said, "If Sir doesn't say, then I shouldn't know."

There was a hint of appreciation in Gu Shen's eyes.

This kid has a bright future; half of his divination skills were not learned in vain.

"I only have a rough idea of who your teacher is in my mind, and I'm not entirely sure."

Gu Shen spoke carefully, comforting him slightly, "The day I confirm that person's identity will be the day I tell you the truth."

"No rush."

Xie Zheng smiled and said, "I've kowtowed for more than ten years, what's a few more days?"

Gu Shen also smiled.

But his expression was a little solemn.

Judging from the situation of opening the coffin in the tundra today.

Turing is likely to have mastered all of the "Ancient Forbidden Arts." Divination can predict the future, Prayer can manipulate the threads of fate, and the Longevity Art allows the caster to ignore the price that forbidden arts require. It's frightening to think of these three forbidden arts being mastered by one person at the same time.

Xie Zheng's "Forging Inheritance" and his meeting with himself were likely arranged by Turing.

If Xie Zheng's teacher is really Turing...

Then everything today is within Turing's expectations and control?

If Turing is still alive, and if he really chose me as the 【key】, why doesn't he come to see me in person?

Gu Shen couldn't guess these things.

He didn't want to guess either.

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Back at the dojo, Liu Quan had just finished his mental meditation.

Gu Shen gifted this young man a strand of Chi Huo (Crimson Fire).

Because of his early awakening, Liu Quan had already begun to learn to use his mental power and could even control the forbidden sealed item, "Black Folding Knife," but he was young after all and had no famous teacher to guide him. Under the erosion of the forbidden sealed item, his mind was somewhat disturbed.

After this meditation, he was back on track.

The little guy opened his eyes and saw the teacher's teacher sitting cross-legged in front of him.

He quickly spoke nervously.

"Gu..."

What should he call him? Could he call him Grandmaster?

"You can call me Sir, too."

Gu Shen smiled, tapped his fingers lightly, and handed out another strand of Chi Huo (Crimson Fire), checking the little guy's bones.

Liu Quan's physical condition was good.

His bones were straight, his meridians were clear, and most importantly, there was no sign of being "eroded by disaster."

Over the years, the Tribunal has been searching for "forbidden sealed items" scattered outside.

There is a reason why Nagano law explicitly prohibits the abuse of such items.

Most transcendents cannot suppress the power of taboo, which can easily lead to loss of control.

But true powerhouses have more or less touched "forbidden sealed items"—

After all, the basic law of the transcendent world is that if you want to get something, you must pay the price.

This is equivalent exchange.

The so-called "forbidden sealed items" are extremely unstable and involve a large amount of exchange.

Gu Shen's 【Ruler of Truth】is actually one of the most powerful forbidden sealed items.

Each use will attract a part of the disaster.

If he continuously draws his bow in the 【Extinguish the Candle】form, it goes without saying.

If he had another master with weaker mental strength, he probably would have killed himself before killing the enemy.

"Mr. Gu..."

The more miserable the background of a child, the more precocious and sensible he is. Seeing Gu Shen looking him over, Liu Quan quickly took out the black folding knife, presented it with both hands, and sincerely said, "I haven't used this knife once. I originally planned to use it at a critical moment, but I didn't expect the Nagano laws to have restrictions."

He kept the black folding knife, intending to use it as a trump card in the recruitment trials for entering the Tribunal.

If he had known that this folding knife would cause such a sensation and lead to so many uncontrollable consequences.

He would rather lose the competition.

If it weren't for Gu Shen, today's turmoil would not have been so easily quelled.

Xie Zheng's Shifu (Master) would have a lot of trouble.

In addition, the two instructors in Baiba City would also be implicated by him.

Gu Shen smiled and said, "It's okay. This is your thing, you should keep it... I'm just here to ask you a question."

"Where did you get this folding knife?"

"I..."

Liu Quan raised his head, pursed his lips, and said, "I picked it up."

Picked it up.

This was the second time Gu Shen had heard this word today.

Generally speaking, sealed items do not appear outside in a scattered form, especially forbidden sealed items. Because they contain a large amount of source matter, the higher the grade of the item, the more invisible transcendent power it emits.

Mortals cannot approach.

Just like the "Mist Street" in the capital back then.

The power emitted by forbidden sealed items will even erode transcendents, and "anomalies" will soon appear at the scattered locations.

Liu Quan's black folding knife contains a familiar aura of disaster to Gu Shen.

This is likely to be the same source of power as Underworld Fire's scattered power.

Such a sealed item was easily picked up by Liu Quan?

"Next, relax."

Gu Shen said softly, "I'm going to give you a breathing technique... In addition, I want to see your memory of picking up the 'folding knife'."

Liu Quan entered Xie Zheng's sect, and he was considered Xie Zheng's teacher.

This young man has good talent, so today he will just pass on the Awakening of Insects from the "Spring Breath" to him.

After Senior Sister Tiantong went to the 【Old World】.

In the entire Five Continents, only he can pass on the breathing technique imprinting dream of "Spring Breath."

If other transcendents want to comprehend it, they can only go to the Tribunal headquarters and apply to observe the dream relics left by Gu Changzhi.

Liu Quan held his breath.

Gu Shen placed two fingers on the young man's brow, and the Chi Huo (Crimson Fire) turned into ripples of a stone falling into a lake, spreading endlessly.

A wisp of flame dispersed.

Gu Shen brought Liu Quan into the "Spring" of the Four Seasons Wilderness. Liu Quan was still in a cross-legged posture, while Gu Shen was like a tourist. He slowly walked in the young man's not-so-large spiritual world, walked out of the wilderness, and walked into the memory corridor like a film reel. At the same time, a snow-white figure also emerged.

Chu Ling, in a spiritual state, condensed her consciousness and floated beside Gu Shen.

"Looking back, the young man sitting in the Awakening of Insects wilderness was me."

Gu Shen looked back at the Awakening of Insects dreamscape with heavy rain and smiled with emotion, "Time really flies. In a blink of an eye, I've become the young man's Grandmaster."

Chu Ling also smiled.

She thought for a while and said, "But everything is as it was, and I'm still by your side."

"After recovering from the Ice Sea, I suddenly understood many things."

Gu Shen said seriously, "The luckiest thing in this world is that time changes, but old friends remain. When I returned to East Continent and saw that you were still there, and they were all still there, I felt that the six years trapped under the Ice Sea were nothing."

Chu Ling blinked.

Was it her illusion that Gu Shen seemed to have become more sentimental after returning from the Ice Sea?

"Okay, no more sentimentality."

Gu Shen shook his head and said seriously, "I suspect that this 'Black Folding Knife' is related to Underworld Fire."

"Related to Underworld Fire..."

Chu Ling only saw that the folding knife contained disaster. Although she shared a vision with Gu Shen, after all, there was only one master of the Underworld King Fire Seed.

Some mental fluctuations can only be sensed by Gu Shen.

Chu Ling frowned and asked, "Do you mean that the 'Black Folding Knife' that Liu Quan got was left by the previous Underworld King?"

"The quality of the Black Folding Knife is too low to have passed through the hands of the Underworld King."

Gu Shen said concisely, "I suspect that the Underworld King set up a 'Disaster Realm' in the Qinghe District. The aura of disaster in the Disaster Realm leaked out and infected this folding knife... and then it spread outside."

This guess is very reasonable.

The power of disaster contained in this black folding knife is not much.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Liu Quan to be safe and sound.

But as long as it has passed through the hands of the Underworld King, even if it was just "touched"... the remaining power would be enough to poison the young man a thousand times over.

The most likely thing is that the previous location of this folding knife was contaminated with the Underworld King's disaster.

Finally, after many transfers, it came into Liu Quan's hands.

"In one day, I encountered two 'forbidden sealed items' worth paying attention to at the same time."

Gu Shen held up two fingers.

"Xu Fang picked up the 【Protection of the Goddess of Fate】 in Qinghe."

"Liu Quan picked up a black folding knife containing disaster."

Chu Ling said in a deep voice, "These two things are likely to have a causal connection."

"That's right."

Gu Shen nodded, "If I ask about the specific details of this 'Black Folding Knife', Liu Quan will tell me everything he knows, but what he says may not be the 'truth'. Forbidden sealed items may distort the mind, so the scenes of him meeting the folding knife must be checked in person to ensure nothing goes wrong."

As he spoke, he walked in the young man's closed memory corridor.

To find the memory of the "Black Folding Knife," he would inevitably see Liu Quan's experiences over the years.

This is a young man who was born without anyone to rely on and has been lonely for more than ten years. He grew up eating hundreds of families' meals in a remote town in the Qinghe District until he was discovered by Old Yu and brought to the Tribunal's dojo.

Gu Shen watched the young man diligently practice in the dojo, cultivating day and night.

He suddenly understood why Liu Quan had to work so hard in the duel with Hu Yan Yu.

For small people.

Sometimes, there is only one chance for a bleak fate.

So you have to work hard.

"It's here."

Gu Shen stopped. He stood at the discontinuity in Liu Quan's memory, which was shrouded in a wisp of dark evil energy, wrapping the memory and making some modifications.

The spiritual image wrapped in black evil energy was very blurred.

Rainy night, walking, strolling.

Picked up the folding knife.

Put it away and return.

If Liu Quan were to describe it himself, the little guy would probably try his best to recall his experiences that day and then report all the details before and after he picked up the "folding knife."

But unfortunately, those were memories altered by the "forbidden sealed item."

The black evil energy sensed the gaze of the "outsider" and, following its sinister instinct, spread towards Gu Shen, actually forming a dark, cold pool at Gu Shen's feet in a matter of seconds.

After getting closer.

Gu Shen was even more certain that this was the same source as the "Underworld Fire Disaster."

However, compared to the genuine Underworld Fire on his body, it was far inferior—

"Get out!"

Gu Shen's expression was gloomy, and he stomped his foot coldly.

His controlled stomp directly shattered the dark, cold pool.

Countless black evil spirits splashed everywhere, and at the same time, they let out a sharp cry.

This "disaster" seemed to have awakened its consciousness and began to flee, but Gu Shen waved his hand with a gloomy expression, and the Chi Huo (Crimson Fire) tore all the black disaster apart like a prairie fire!

Tore it apart again!

The low-level disaster extended from Underworld Fire was annihilated...

Gu Shen slowly stepped into Liu Quan's true memory of that day, and he saw the real "picture" of that night.

It was indeed a rainy night.

The town where Liu Quan lived faced the Qinghe River and backed against the mountains. The young man went into the mountains late at night and met a staggering man.

The 【Black Folding Knife】was handed over by the man.

Liu Quan took it in confusion, and then a bolt of lightning fell. Liu Quan turned around blankly. This scene meant that his spirit had been washed away by the 【Folding Knife】...

This was the real experience.

The 【Folding Knife】was sent into Liu Quan's hands.

In the fragmented and dark memory fragments, Gu Shen did not see the man's face clearly, but he saw some important details.

The man's clothes had dozens or hundreds of tears.

He was covered in blood.

He looked like he wouldn't live long.

"Coordinates: Qinghe District, Lin Tie Mountain."

Chu Ling stood beside Gu Shen. She stared at the dark scene in Liu Quan's memory and directly locked the coordinates in the real world with just a few pictures.

"Lin Tie Mountain."

Gu Shen had an impression that the place where he was born was Wu Lao Mountain in Qinghe, where there was a large mountain range strictly protected by the 【Deep Sea】.

Lin Tie Mountain is in the mountains.

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After exiting Liu Quan's spiritual sea, Gu Shen fell into a state of contemplation.

He never expected.

This "mental examination" would yield such important information.

The disaster on the 【Black Folding Knife】has the same source as Underworld Fire.

And the place where the 【Black Folding Knife】flowed out was his homeland!

Is it a coincidence?

Gu Shen didn't think so.

Liu Quan was still comprehending the "Awakening of Insects" dreamscape. The young man would not wake up for at least several more hours. Gu Shen stood up and saw Xie Zheng, who was wielding the "Sky-Shaking Hammer" in the distance.

His mood was a little complicated.

In the past, when he encountered some things that were inconvenient to explain, he habitually skipped over them with a sentence.

"This is the result of divination."

And now, it was his turn to be deeply involved in the vortex.

If all of this was not a coincidence, then it was fate's arrangement... Or rather, someone was holding the thread of fate, circling him in this vortex in advance.

If the timing was earlier, he would not have come into contact with these "coincidences" at all.

Liu Quan was still diligently cultivating.

Xie Zheng was forging iron alone in the remote and uninhabited tundra.

And now, the Qinghe District was shrouded in a layer of mist. Obviously... this mist had already been set up, waiting for him to uncover it now.

Gu Shen came outside the dojo and took a deep breath.

"Sir, does your mood seem very bad?"

A voice transmission came first.

In the dojo, Liu Quan was still comprehending the Awakening of Insects.

Xie Zheng tempered and repaired some sealed items in the set silent barrier, and quickly came to Gu Shen's side.

"It's okay."

Gu Shen waved his hand.

He suddenly remembered something and took out the pendant that was broken in half and asked, "Can you repair something like this?"

Xu Fang generously gave out the small half of the broken cross pendant.

At this moment, the 【Protection of the Goddess of Fate】was considered complete.

But...

This sealed item does not have the ability to self-repair, and it will not be as good as new after finding the corresponding part and putting it together.

Gu Shen originally planned to go to North Continent.

These two fate sealed items are actually considered to be the Empress's "gifts." Perhaps the Empress has a way to "repair" them.

Now that he has found the part to complete it, it is also a kind of repayment.

If the Empress sees the complete pendant and wants to take it away, then it is also a good thing.

Gu Shen now does not rely on these two fate sealed items very much.

"This thing... hiss..."

Xie Zheng took a breath of cold air when he saw the pendant that was broken into two halves, "This sealed item is not ordinary!"

He practiced divination and could sense the power of fate.

These two sealed items seem ordinary.

But they contain a surging power of fate—

Surging to the point of making Xie Zheng's scalp tingle.

He raised his head and looked at Gu Shen with a complicated expression.

As expected of the thickest thigh in Nagano.

Sealed items related to fate, let alone seeing them with his own eyes, Xie Zheng had never even heard of them before!

The "forging inheritance" that Xie Zheng carried clearly mentioned that the power of fate is an ethereal power that cannot be touched or controlled.

Anyone who dabbles in it will pay the price.

To melt it into a sealed item is simply an incredible miracle.

"If you can't repair it, it's okay."

Gu Shen turned his hand and was about to put away the 【Protection of the Goddess of Fate】.

"Don't worry, Sir... let me take a closer look."

Xie Zheng quickly opened his mouth. He carefully took the two broken pendants.

It can be seen that the pendant has been broken apart for a long time... there are obvious signs of "weathering" on the fracture, but now when they are pieced together, you can't feel the gap at all.

It's not that you can't feel it with your eyes.

But it is truly "as good as new" in the true sense.

The fractures of the two pendants are not flat, which means that over the years, no bit of slag has fallen off the fractures of the two pendants.

How hard would that have to be?

"How is it?" Gu Shen waited for a moment and asked.

"Maybe... it can really be repaired."

Xie Zheng carefully looked at it for a long time. He opened his mouth in disbelief, "If I were to forge such an item, it would not be possible in one hundred years, no, one million years... If there were gaps in them, I would not be able to complete the repair."

But, these two broken pendants pieced together are the complete "one."

The existence of this pendant is itself a miracle.

The appearance of such a situation is instead reasonable.

Gu Shen asked, "If it is repaired... how long will it take?"

"Fast. About a week."

Xie Zheng said in a deep voice, "At most a week, the part of the 'power of fate' that I can use can just be used as a 'binder'... after a week, this pendant can be restored."

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(There is another chapter tonight! Don't wait if you don't stay up late!)