Chapter 1 Living Long is King!

Living long is indeed the truth... as long as you live long enough, all enemies will collapse without attacking.

Gu Shen thought of Ian, who had lived for one hundred and twenty years.

Spanning a century is quite a long time; even a god seat might not outlive Ian.

"So Mr. Turing is really still alive, and he's in the Five Continents?"

Gu Shen took a deep breath. He simply stopped hiding his thoughts and directly mentioned the name he cared about. This was the Empress's divine domain. If information here wasn't safe, then nowhere was.

"Perhaps."

Lin Lei said calmly, "Don't think he'll reveal his identity and meet you... Deep Sea has never believed in his death. After all, the person who carried out the arrest mission back then was Gu Changzhi. Once his identity is exposed, he will be crushed miserably, and in all likelihood, he will have to re-enact the northern escape drama of that year."

At this moment, Gu Shen remembered something Mr. Bai Shu had vaguely mentioned back then.

The layout of the Ice Sea had someone else behind it.

Looking at it now.

These two already knew the secret of Turing being alive six years ago. Only he had been kept in the dark all along.

"Regarding the matter of killing 'Qinglong'... I have deduced the cycle of fate many times."

The Empress said with regret, "As beings who both control a seed of fire, wanting to peek at each other, especially when it involves the great karma of life and death, is simply too difficult."

"Perhaps it's because you lack the key items in fortune-telling?"

Gu Shen said.

He took out the repaired Amulet of the Goddess of Fate from his arms, as well as the Bracelet of Calamity that didn't originally belong to him.

The three-piece set of fate.

The most important "main item" was in the Empress's hands.

The remaining two had been sent to his hands by the Empress through the method of divination and reincarnation using the main item, by chance.

"This is..."

This time it was the Empress's turn to be surprised.

A complete cross pendant?

"It seems that even someone as powerful as you has things that you cannot predict or fully control."

Gu Shen smiled and handed the cross pendant over. Wind and snow carried the pendant, slowly rising in the divine domain. The Empress reached out her palm and stroked the pendant.

"I searched many times in the deduction of reincarnation, but all ended in vain."

The Empress said with emotion, "How did you find this pendant?"

"A cultivator with a very weak transcendent realm accidentally picked up the missing part."

Gu Shen smiled and said, "In his subsequent life, he only regarded it as a 'mascot', occasionally using the power of fate emitted by this missing part to predict sunny and rainy weather, without using greater power. In an accident, I met him, and I was lucky enough to restore this pendant."

"No wonder I couldn't find it..."

The Empress murmured.

The missing part of the pendant had never been formally used from beginning to end, and no real power had been used, so it would not leave a "trace" in the deduction of reincarnation.

Naturally, there was no way to find it.

"But this is not luck."

Lin Lei said meaningfully, "After being exposed to the power of fate, you should understand... all encounters are destined."

She had once thought about collecting all the "three-piece set of fate" in her hands.

However, the results of the deduction showed that it was not good.

So the optimal solution she found was to separate the three-piece set of fate... Now the correctness of the optimal solution has emerged.

The broken pendant, which she couldn't find before, was restored because Gu Shen found the lost part.

If she had chosen to keep it herself, due to the limitations of guarding the pavilion, the Empress might never have been able to collect the missing part of the pendant.

Karma, karma.

It was because of the previous choice that there was now a "perfect piece."

Gu Shen suggested, "Why don't you use this complete power to perform another fate deduction?"

He handed over the bracelet and the pendant.

The Empress silently stared at these two extremely precious fate artifacts. After a long time, she slowly nodded, "...Okay."

Sitting in the Wind and Snow Pavilion, Lin Lei stretched out her wrist.

The Bracelet of Calamity automatically adorned it.

The pendant was also very obediently hung around the Empress's chest.

When these three fate-related sealed objects were placed on one person, a strangely powerful force surged throughout the pavilion... The wind and snow in the sky rolled back, the divine domain library roared, Gu Shen's expression suddenly became serious, and he was about to be blown away by this majestic energy.

"Gu Shen, just sit here and watch with me... the final outcome of this 'fate deduction'."

The next moment.

The Empress stretched out a hand and gently placed it on Gu Shen's shoulder from a distance.

The wind and snow dissipated, and the pressure was gone.

After the god seat made a move, all the pressure of the power of fate was taken over by one person.

Gu Shen raised his head. After the three fate sealed objects were combined, incredible changes occurred in the Empress's divine domain... At this moment, he realized the importance of completing the Amulet of the Goddess of Fate. If this pendant was in a broken state, the power of this entire set of sealed objects could not be activated at all.

Complete and flawless is one.

Damaged and lost is zero.

The gap between them is like a chasm!

"Boom!"

A huge roar came from the top of the library. All the guards stationed outside the Empress's manor, the Lin Family Guards, all looked up.

Above the pavilion.

The sky was covered with clouds, and wind and thunder swept across.

Purple Rain Corps Commander and Mu Wanqiu arrived outside the pavilion at this moment, both with solemn expressions.

"What a strong pressure..."

Even the powerful Corps Commander still felt the terrifying pressure emanating from the pavilion.

With Her Majesty the Empress's control, how could such a powerful force leak out in the divine domain?

Mu Wanqiu took a deep breath and murmured, "What are Gu Shen and Her Majesty... doing?"

The two titled experts still felt apprehensive, let alone the others in the manor. Those guards and forbidden troops no longer dared to look directly at the direction of the pavilion. Circles of invisible ripples spread and surged. The Corps Commander immediately released the Dragon Annihilation domain to resist the residual power overflowing from the pavilion, which stabilized the order in the manor.

……

……

The scene outside was so horrifying.

Not to mention the anomaly in the center of the divine domain at this moment.

Countless winds and snow surrounded the library, piecing together into towering "copper walls and iron walls." The Empress used the power of the divine domain to restrain more than 90% of the forbidden power of fate. Even so, some of the power of fate still spread uncontrollably.

The scene outside the manor was only a tenth of the "aftermath."

Gu Shen's soul seemed to have been "ascended" at this moment. This was the first time he, as the master of the Pure Land, felt the "existence" of his spirit in another person's domain.

But in fact, it was not that the Empress extracted Gu Shen's spirit and placed it in the Furnace Divine Domain.

Instead, the cycle of fate deduced by fate's taboo had already begun.

Gu Shen and the Empress both entered this peeping as "onlookers."

Due to not yet having fused with the seed of fire, Gu Shen did not grasp the origin. His soul seemed very fragile before this vast fortune-telling, like a piece of white paper that could be blown apart.

The Empress protected this unqualified "extra onlooker" with the power of the divine domain, forcibly keeping him in the spiritual world of the deduction cycle.

Gu Shen silently held his breath. He did not want to let down the "price" the Empress had paid for him, so he withstood this enormous mental pressure.

He didn't know if he could hold on to the end.

But at least he could watch one scene after another.

"Rumble rumble rumble..."

Accompanied by the sound of thunder, the picture of the fortune-telling gradually became clear. What Gu Shen saw when he looked up was initially a chaos, and then the clouds slowly dissipated.

The three fate sealed objects pieced together gave a very clear picture—

A towering giant tower came into view.

The Tower of Origin!

This was considered a part of the main body of the fortune-telling.

The person that the Empress truly wanted to divine was actually Qinglong.

Since this fortune-telling had already manifested, it meant that the fortune-telling was successful. The next picture was the hint that fate gave to the "onlookers."

Chaos dissipated, and thunder gradually rose.

Countless dark clouds gradually floated from the top of the Tower of Origin.

As everyone knows, because Qinglong can control the weather at will, the Upper City has no rain all year round.

But precisely in the picture displayed by this fortune-telling... large patches of dark clouds appeared, obviously indicating that a heavy rain was about to come.

Gu Shen saw the dark clouds covering and wrapping the top of the Tower of Origin.

In the muffled thunder.

Countless brilliant golden lights exploded in the dark clouds, and the top of the Tower of Origin seemed to be dyed golden.

After this golden color dissipated.

Heavy rain fell instantly.

In the furious thunder and pouring rain, a jet-black burning light ignited in the chaotic thunder and rain. A long line tearing through the iron sky ran through the entire deduction vision of the fortune-telling. The aura of this arrow made Gu Shen's heart lake tremble uncontrollably.

Because he was too familiar with this narrow trajectory of the arrow path that tore through the void.

"Extinguish the Candle." (Xizhu)

The Empress spoke softly, uttering these two words that were very unfamiliar to most transcendents.

She looked at Gu Shen.

"This doesn't look like my Extinguish the Candle..."

Gu Shen murmured, "The arrow path of the Extinguish the Candle that I copied with the Ruler of Truth will be silver."

Because the light of Truth is silver.

But this arrow was black.

"It is said that Qinglong suffered a defeat in his youth. Because the era was too long ago, and there was no Deep Sea to record the data at that time, the data of this battle have been forgotten..."

The Empress looked into Gu Shen's eyes and said, "Through some special means, I obtained information about that battle."

Before the Empress could speak.

Gu Shen said in a hoarse voice, "Qinglong lost to a very mysterious transcendent back then. That battle took place on a rainy night. That transcendent held Extinguish the Candle and shot him, seriously injuring him."

He had heard Honglong mention this long-sealed past.

It was precisely because of this defeat.

After Qinglong took charge of the Tower of Origin, the Upper City almost never rained. After fusing with the seed of the sky fire, he truly became the master of this sky. He didn't want to see rain, so there would be no rain in the Tower of Origin.

The picture of the fate deduction ended here.

The last scene.

In the endless dark clouds, the starting point of that jet-black arrow, with layers of thunder light intertwined, vaguely revealed a human figure.

"That transcendent's ability..."

"Is called the Thunder Realm Walker." (Lei Jie Xing Zhe)