Chapter 309 The Reason for the Disaster

After locking onto the coordinates of Rintie Mountain in Qinghe District, Gu Shen wasn't in a rush to head south.

Repairing the Aegis of the Goddess of Fate would take a week.

As luck would have it, Mu Wanqiu also sent news.

Her arrival was also estimated to be in about a week.

She would handle the various trivial matters in North Continent and then head south to Nagano.

His number one apostle was coming to Nagano for a personal visit, so of course, Gu Shen couldn't refuse, and there was no way for him to refuse.

As for Mu Wanqiu's so-called "challenge."

He could only bite the bullet and accept it.

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During this week, Gu Shen dragged Chen Li around, busily dealing with various matters.

He had just taken office as the Grand Judge, and he needed to handle some affairs at the Tribunal Headquarters.

After all, he had been away from Nagano for six years.

With Chen Li, the "Judge," by his side, it was much easier for Gu Shen to handle matters.

After all, the three divisions were part of the same large system.

When Little Iron Man first heard this news, he ran over proactively, eager to assist Grand Judge Gu Shen.

If the rules allowed, he would even want to transfer to the Tribunal.

It was good to be under a big tree.

Mr. Shan was very good to him.

But how could that compare to Gu Shen?

The position of Grand Judge had been vacant for seven or eight years. The previous Acting Grand Judge, Zhu Wang, had only just taken the position before being taken down by Gu Shen.

The number of cases piled up in this position was appalling.

The fact that the Tribunal had been able to continue operating for so many years was all thanks to the Grand Arbiter and the Grand Commander dividing their attention to take on the workload… Old Master Gu had now retired, and Mr. Shan was too busy to ask, only occasionally helping out.

Most of the cases within the Tribunal were handled by Zhou E and Jin Yun. These two fourth-order top-tier experts, just one step away from being titled, could indeed solve most of the problems.

But after all, they were not titled.

There were nearly ten high-risk tasks specifically marked by Deep Sea that required the Grand Judge to handle.

Some of these tasks had already been taken and handled by other titled experts in Nagano.

But the Tribunal needed to be responsible for the subsequent "review."

For the first three days, Gu Shen flew around the Jiangbei region on the Iron Sword of Truth. Chen Li, who had initially been full of joy and anticipation, realized something was wrong after accompanying Gu Shen to solve two "S-level cases"...

The Grand Judge's cases generally involved extremely high-risk "out-of-control individuals," "sealed objects," and "disaster zones."

Nagano would never allow "out-of-control individuals" to exist.

The titled experts who took and handled them were also dealing with these kinds of serious cases that would spread immediately if not controlled.

So the few accumulated cases were related to "sealed objects" and "disaster zones."

Mainly the latter.

Due to the shroud of the Dou Zhan Divine Domain, Nagano was now the safest place in the entire East Continent. There were no black spots appearing within its boundaries. But the situation was different in the Jiangbei region. The "disaster zones" that needed to be handled by the Grand Judge were often related to black spots… Chen Li finally understood why these cases had been piling up.

This was simply not something a Grand Judge could solve.

Even other titled experts could only stare blankly.

They did not have the ability to contain "black spots." Even stronger titled experts like Mr. Shan and Old Master Gu could only control the expansion of the disaster zones.

As for eliminating them…

Only Gods and Apostles could do that.

"Clearing this disaster zone will complete most of the accumulated cases…"

Gu Shen stood on the Iron Sword, looking at the red mountains in the distance.

Not far away was Hongshan District.

He noticed that Chen Li, who was sitting on the Iron Sword, was constantly dozing off.

A fourth-order transcendent, having comprehended a domain, could maintain a "sleepless" state even with a combat-focused ability.

Chen Li was exhausted.

As an Apostle of the Underworld, he had only been allocated a pitiful wisp of authority… almost negligible.

But this wisp of authority was real.

By grasping this wisp of authority, he grasped the forbidden power to "eliminate black spots."

In order to get Chen Li started with the work an apostle should do as soon as possible, Gu Shen deliberately called him out and spent three consecutive days clearing the disordered source matter of disaster zones.

This was an extremely mentally exhausting task.

Gu Shen couldn't help but smile when he saw Little Iron Man's head bobbing like a chick pecking rice. He sighed inwardly and silently sent a wisp of Scorching Sunfire over.

"Chen Li is a hardworking and resilient good seedling."

Chu Ling gave Little Iron Man a very high evaluation.

"He can indeed endure hardship."

These past few days, Chen Li had been clearing disaster zones. Even though he was as tired as a dog, he didn't complain once.

Gu Shen slowly said, "I'm considering whether or not to let him clean up those black flowers on Shenci Mountain…"

"Wouldn't that be a bit much?"

Across the spiritual sea, Chu Ling felt some sympathy for Chen Li.

There were simply too many of those black flowers on Shenci Mountain. The Li Clan had used six hundred years and the efforts of countless protectors to raise these black flowers.

Unlike other disaster zones.

If there were no accidents, the Li Clan Shrine would not threaten the real world.

"Becoming an apostle means bearing such a mission…"

Gu Shen was silent for a moment, then said, "There will always be times when I'm not in East Continent. He will have to be able to stand alone."

Now, the rate of source matter growth in the five continents was getting faster and faster.

The number of black spots and disaster zones appearing was also increasing…

Gu Shen was worried about the future fate of the five continents. This was why, even though he felt sorry for Chen Li, he still insisted on letting Chen Li continue to hone his skills.

In the face of danger, only responsibility mattered.

Mr. Bai Shu was carrying East Continent forward with his own strength. He, the successor of the Netherfire, should do something within his power.

However, Gu Shen could also see that.

After several days of disaster zone handling, Chen Li had reached his limit.

This time, he wouldn't wake him up.

Gu Shen stopped the Truth outside the disaster zone, used Scorching Sunfire to protect Chen Li's dream, ensuring that the latter could rest well, and then slowly walked into the disaster zone.

The disaster zone in Hongshan District was located in a mountain forest, covering an area of about a thousand meters.

The Tribunal had already set up a cordon and established sealed objects and barriers.

As for the location of the "black spot," it was being restricted and protected using Qingyin.

The titled transcendent who was responsible for this case back then was Bai Chen, the deputy of the Grand Arbiter of the neighboring Prison Division.

This was the best restriction method that Nagano could think of—

Gu Shen stepped into the barrier.

He went directly to the location of the "black spot." After five years of Qingyin's layers of restriction, this "black spot" had expanded dozens of times. It was only the size of a fist back then, but now it was about to form a human shape.

This scale could already be called a black hole.

The word "black hole" itself was a collection of "disorder," so it was not strange for it to grow into any shape. Gu Shen looked at the cracked Qingyin and calmly reached out his palm.

"Crack!"

He shattered the Qingyin from the outside.

This was an extremely dangerous move. Mature disordered source matter would spontaneously generate various rules. Once there were no strong logical materials to restrict it, they would explode with terrifying lethality.

But unfortunately.

Standing in front of the black hole at this moment was the successor of the Netherfire.

"Rumble—"

The moment the Qingyin shattered, the humanoid black hole seemed to come alive. It actually opened its arms and pounced towards Gu Shen.

In an instant, a grand and dazzling fire ignited in Gu Shen's brow!

Wherever the Scorching Sunfire covered, all the disordered rules were devoured and transformed—

Disorder, transformed into order!

"Wuwuwu!"

The wind howled. This humanoid black hole, as if it had come to life, let out a human-like, sharp cry of pain under the scorching of the Scorching Sunfire. It immediately abandoned the act of embracing Gu Shen and fled towards the distance of the disaster zone.

Gu Shen frowned.

He had been to the border of North Continent, set foot in the Old World, and seen so many strangely shaped "black holes." This was the first time he had seen a black hole that had awakened human consciousness.

Since it was a collection of disorder.

Then it was possible for any kind of rule to be born.

Gu Shen instantly appeared in front of the "humanoid black hole," waved his hand expressionlessly, and slapped the humanoid black hole in front of him!

Bang!

This slap was accompanied by the unique orderly nature of the Scorching Sunfire, blasting half of the black hole's body apart. The entire redwood forest ignited with滔heavenly flames, engulfing the two "people" within the sea of fire.

The humanoid black hole, with half of its body blown away, rolled, twisted, and wailed on the ground.

"……"

Gu Shen watched in silence. This behavior was really like a human.

Like a baby among humans!

"This is not reasonable."

Chu Ling also saw this scene. She said with a puzzled voice, "A black hole is a collection of disorder. Wouldn't the birth of consciousness be equivalent to disorder turning into order… Is this humanoid black hole imitating human behavior? It has been sealed in Qingyin. How could it receive information transmitted from human society?"

"This is indeed very unreasonable."

Gu Shen coldly opened his mouth: "Theoretically speaking, if there are enough monkeys, they can even write the source code of Deep Sea by constantly typing on the keyboard… But if the monkeys really typed out the source code, I would rather believe that there is a higher level of life controlling them."

"I agree with your statement."

Chu Ling was silent for a second and said: "In my cognition, monkeys typing out the source code is not a probability problem… If cognition cannot reach this level, then the probability of the source code being born is always zero. Even billions of monkeys will never be able to type out the source code, because the characters of the source code cannot be created by the keyboard at all."

So black holes… are the same.

"Perhaps behind the disorder of black holes, there is an extremely large orderly 'law' hidden."

It's just that humans, transcendents, and even Gods, have no way to touch the order behind this disorder.

Because their level is not high enough.

Gu Shen took a step forward.

He didn't give this humanoid black hole the slightest chance to breathe, and slapped it again, shattering the remaining half of its body.

The wailing and rolling black hole collapsed and disintegrated, devoured by the Scorching Sunfire.

It clearly had no life, but it was as if it had life, and even cast a glance at Gu Shen before it shattered and collapsed.

If this were a living person.

Then the meaning of this gaze would probably be "resentment" and "hatred."

Gu Shen didn't care.

He squatted on the spot, silently drawing on the source matter of this black hole.

The sea of fire churned, and the Scorching Sunfire raged and roared, not letting go of a single trace of what remained.

Now his Scorching Sunfire was deriving a second domain.

Similar to the situation when he comprehended the Fire of Life, Gu Shen wanted to create a second domain focused on killing. He roughly had a direction, but he was just lacking the source matter to transform it!

He needed to absorb a large amount of disordered source matter.

After dealing with the backlog of cases for the Grand Judge this time, he wouldn't even mind dealing with the top-level cases piled up by the other two divisions.

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