Chapter 1 An Arrow

"Boom!"

One arrow, and Adam fell.

The blood-colored flames that filled his eyes were instantly shattered. The silver light powerfully pierced through the volcanic ash. After a muffled sound, the whole world fell silent.

But the beast tide did not stop there.

Gu Shen's face did not show any joy. He held the [Truth · Extinguished Candle] and walked step by step towards the summit of Mount Tanyao.

He looked at the bloody flames.

[Achilles' Heel] revealed to him the true weakness of the bloody flames.

There were thousands of strands of this thing. To completely kill "Owl," it was not enough to simply kill one of its clones.

"Owl's" main body was under the mountain.

That thumping sound was its heart!

"Mr. Gu..."

Just then, a faint voice called out beside Gu Shen.

Gu Shen lowered his head.

He saw a shattered face. Adam, with his golden hair and blue eyes, lay in a pool of blood. After the bloody flames were shattered, his body was like a cracked porcelain, impossible to piece back together.

But Adam was still smiling, as if he couldn't feel the pain.

He reached out a hand, trying to grab Gu Shen's leg, but massive blood loss caused him to hallucinate. His fingers wavered a few times, eventually grasping at a handful of hot air.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

Adam's main consciousness actually knew what had just happened.

It was just that his spirit was too weak.

He couldn't put up an effective resistance after his body was taken over.

Now that the bloody flames were extinguished, he was free... but it was meaningless. Owl never intended to let "Adam" live. The meridians of this body were all shattered, and the blood was drained. It was a miracle that he could even utter these few words.

"..."

Gu Shen squatted down, looking at Adam's expression, feeling somewhat unbearable.

If it weren't for the bloody flames—

Then Adam would actually be a rather pure scholar. In Gu Shen's original plan, this guy was an important figure who would be taken to East Continent and well cared for.

The "Fire of Life" could not save someone who was destined to die.

But his "Nether Fire" could.

The golden-haired man's consciousness gradually blurred. He still wanted to say something, but all that came out of his throat was dry blood foam. His spirit was fading rapidly...

Winged steel, ancient texts, the origin of source material...

Those topics he had researched for decades, those truths he was just about to uncover...

At this moment, they became infinitely distant.

At the very end of his life, Adam squeezed out an ugly, regretful smile.

He closed his eyes.

Then a warm hand was placed on his forehead.

"If there is anything in this world that you still yearn for, if you still want to continue 'living'..."

A familiar voice slowly rang in his already dissipating spiritual sea.

"Then you can call out my name... I will grant you a new life."

That voice... was it Gu Shen?

Adam's shattered soul fell into a moment of daze.

In his heart, he very lightly called out—

The next moment, the dark and eternal scene before his eyes instantly welcomed light. Adam suddenly opened his eyes, and thousands of green shades fell down. He sat in the flowing wind swept by countless grass blades and frost. Before him was Gu Shen, sitting on the steel throne in black, that extremely familiar face, now a little strange!

Adam died.

But he also lived...

In the form of a soul, he welcomed a new life in "Pure Land"!

His memories were still there, so at this moment he remembered the various strange phenomena in the Sangzhou Cave earlier.

In fact, a long time ago, Adam had doubted the authenticity of the "Eye of Fate."

Every time he looked at Gu Shen, he would feel a splitting headache—after he realized that his spiritual sea had been invaded, he recalled this scene and believed that it was because the "Eye of Fate" was a fabricated fake.

A false object of fate divination naturally could not complete all "divinations."

Owl wanted to avoid some troublesome "divinations," so it could only use this method to remind itself not to "look directly" at someone or something.

The situation of being unable to look directly could only be related to the "Seed of Fire."

He never expected that Gu Shen's true identity would actually be related to the "Seed of Fire"!

"Pluto... Pluto of the Seven Gods..."

Adam took a deep breath, looking at the tall, iron-blue throne, reverence uncontrollably涌现ing in his expression, and his body prostrated.

He had come to Pure Land.

And became a member under the command of Pluto.

Looking at the "Divine Throne" he believed in, he would naturally feel like worshiping it.

"No need to be so polite."

The troubles in the real world had not been resolved, and Gu Shen did not have time to talk too much with Adam.

He said bluntly: "I believe you must have unfinished wishes. You can try to continue those wishes in the 'Pure Land'..."

"Tie Wu." (Iron Five)

Gu Shen directly called out his exclusive Pure Land apostle: "A new guest has arrived, a scholar, I'll leave him to you."

At the end of the wind and snow, Tie Wu, carrying an iron pickaxe, heard this and his face showed joy.

A scholar, is that the kind of technical talent who can guide those foolish亡灵s to plant密植合理ly?

He quickly strained his voice and trotted all the way: "Mr. Gu, I'm coming, I'm coming!"

……

……

Returning to reality, Adam's body had already been burned by "Blazing Fire."

Gu Shen stepped on the ridge of Mount Tanyao and came step by step to the crater.

He coldly stared straight at the scarlet crack at the top of the mountain.

Standing at the highest point.

At this moment, his figure was even more like the "Child of the Divine Scroll" in the prophecy of the false Eye of Fate.

[Truth · Extinguished Candle] and [Achilles' Heel] needed to consume mental power every moment... He had to completely hunt down Owl, but he had no time to delay. The few seconds it took to transform Adam's soul was the greatest extent of compassion he could give. At this moment, the entire volcano was rioting. After that arrow was shot, the heart drumming under the ground seemed to feel fear.

Something was coming out.

Gu Shen was expressionless. He stood on the top of the mountain and drew his bow again, not aiming deliberately at all.

A large amount of volcanic ash obscured his vision.

This was not important.

[Achilles' Heel] had already given this arrow the correct trajectory and answer.

"Swish—"

"Boom!"

A slender silver light condensed at his fingertips and shot out!

The next moment, a scarlet fire wave nearly a thousand meters high erupted from the bottom of Mount Tanyao, like something had been shot and exploded, blood splattering out!

"Not dead..."

Gu Shen re-drew his bow. His expression was still calm, and he looked without a trace of ripple, but these two shots had already consumed 80% of the mental power in his Mind Sea!

"Then continue."

He stood on the top of the mountain, aimed at the Mount Tanyao crack, and shot the third arrow—

In the vision of [Achilles' Heel], the "scarlet point" that guided the weakness of the bloody flames had become very weak after the previous shot.

The third shot erupted!

"Rumble!"

This time, there was no blood wave surging, but the echo splashing out from the crack seemed heavy and muffled.

After this strike, Gu Shen's mental power was almost bottoming out.

In the vision of [Achilles' Heel], the weakness of the bloody flames was no longer dazzling... This at least showed one thing, Owl's main body had been seriously injured by him.

"It shouldn't be dead yet, but I can't just go down like this."

Gu Shen decisively waved his hand to disperse the [Extinguished Candle].

The moment the silver bow disappeared, the auxiliary field of [Achilles' Heel] also disappeared.

The world in Gu Shen's eyes returned to normal, no longer that strange architectural world where the weaknesses of all things floated...

He quickly sat down cross-legged, facing the Mount Tanyao crater spewing out hot breath, and began to recover his mental power.

The situation now was very simple.

The three long-range shots of [Truth · Extinguished Candle] basically solved this battle.

Just like shooting Zhou Yu to death that year.

This was a super killer weapon that could ignore the realm to kill enemies. To resist and confront it, one could only take out a "Seed of Fire"-level artifact of the same level and specification.

Owl was unlucky.

It could only blame its bad luck.

But Gu Shen knew that although the three shots of Extinguished Candle had broken the bloody flames into pieces, this guy must still be alive... The tenaciousness of the bloody flames' vitality was almost unparalleled.

So Gu Shen was not going to give Owl any chance to counterattack this time.

He was now sitting on the top of Mount Tanyao, on the one hand to guard against the bloody flames escaping, and on the other hand... he needed to condense the mental power for the fourth shot of [Truth · Extinguished Candle].

Next, going deep into the ground, no matter what happens, there would be no accidents.

The fourth shot of Extinguished Candle burst out, will end all battles!

At this moment, Mount Tanyao was in its final silence... The earth was shaking, and countless beast spirits had broken through the city and were rushing towards this place.

Gu Shen knew.

This was Owl's last resistance.

Next, countless beast spirits would pour into the top of the mountain, and he needed to solve everything before that.

In order to survive, Owl might even tear down the "Sangzhou Cave."

He didn't have much time left.

……

……

"Lord Su Ye, the Origin Tower is currently in the final stage of evacuation."

East Cave, E2 district.

Du Hu, who was in charge of the Suzaku envoy district enforcers' actions, stood on the towering tower, overlooking the entire city in turmoil.

After the second beast tide, the Suzaku God Envoy did not return to the jurisdiction.

The results of the World Conference came out, and Mr. Tianshui urgently launched a recall—

The remaining three God Envoys all chose to leave Sangzhou Cave.

Now the Red Dragon God Envoy handed over the control of the enforcers under Suzaku, as well as the final guarding task, to Du Hu...

In this long night of torrential rain and beast tide,

This dark chess piece buried by Guang Ming City could finally recklessly conduct spiritual connections. The enforcers under his command had all been dispatched. The Origin Tower didn't care about the lives of ordinary people. At this moment, most of the districts in the East Cave were empty.

"Red Dragon's final order is to open the city gates."

Du Hu said calmly: "Perhaps this is the order from above... But in my opinion, this order is very strange, because opening the city of East Cave will cause a large number of transcendent people to涌现 into the S12 district, which is the last guarding area of East Continent. Central City and Nagano should be planning to rescue the native transcendents of Sangzhou Cave."

This should have been done by Guang Ming City!

"North Continent... East Continent..."

Su Ye stood under the city wall of West Cave. It was silent around him. The rainy night here was a bright light, as bright as day.

A blazing sphere nearly a hundred meters in size was suspended above the W9 district.

That sphere was like a sun.

In the final dark night, this sun condensed out against the rain of the Ice Sea—

The reason why it was silent all around was because all living beings had been killed.

The "sun" was absorbing the scarlet blood energy.

Su Ye slowly walked towards the next district. He had already sent out the evacuation signal to his subordinates. Guang Ming City lost the Holy Book, could not find the murderer, and could only retreat. The faith conversion task of Sangzhou Cave could be declared a failure.

The only thing he could do.

Was to lock the city gates and shut up those damned "walkers."

Instead of letting them escape to East Continent and North Continent,

It was better... to sacrifice them to his "sun"!

Although it could not convert believers in large quantities like the "Holy Book," the power of faith of these transcendents could also be considered a destination.

Du Hu held his breath. He heard a noisy sound, and soon the environment there became silent again.

He probably guessed what Su Ye was doing at the moment.

"Holy Son, if you need anything, I can close the East Cave districts... There are still some transcendents here."

Du Hu said respectfully: "Perhaps it will be beneficial to your 'sun'."

Su Ye smiled hoarsely: "How many people do you have in your hands now?"

"Fourteen."

Du Hu frowned and slowly said: "The Red Dragon God Envoy didn't give me many people. I need to be responsible for the final finishing task, checking the remaining materials, and ensuring that everything brought by the Origin Tower can be taken away... Next is to record 'beast tide'-related video data with mental power. The districts and personnel losses don't matter. The [Deep Sea] link is invalid. This kind of thing can only be done manually."

The other side suddenly asked: "And then, when will you leave?"

"The departure time has not been notified yet." Du Hu was stunned and said: "The Red Dragon God Envoy said that he would return to pick us up."

"Idiot!"

Hearing this, Su Ye coldly scolded: "Don't care about this damn task anymore, you have been exposed... Hurry up and rush to West Cave, go back with Guang Ming City. It will be too late when Red Dragon returns."

What Du Hu said just now sounded reasonable.

But it was not so.

The Origin Tower sent fourteen people, the highest position was only the deputy of the God Envoy, to complete this last most important finishing task?

Central Continent worships personal heroism, so this important closing task will at least have a God Envoy!

With Mr. Tianshui's style of doing things... There is only one possibility to leave these fourteen people in Sangzhou Cave.

The Origin Tower realized the existence of "dark chess."

If the Red Dragon God Envoy were to return, there would only be one thing to do.

That is, taking advantage of the beast tide riots in Sangzhou Cave, these fourteen people who are guarding to the last... will be killed together, as for whether there are any wrongly killed among them, it does not matter.

"Gulu."

Du Hu swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

When he heard Su Ye scolding him as an idiot, he realized that something was wrong. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong—

Because of the "Suzaku God Envoy's" disappearance, he felt it was a matter of course to take over these few districts!

As for the exposure of his dark chess identity, he had never thought about it!

His direct superior has "disappeared"!

How could he be exposed?

The connection was hung up, and Du Hu was preparing to flee towards West Cave, but in the dark clouds in the distance, there was a faint red lightning flash, accompanied by a low roar, a red cloak that fluttered like a ghost, stood on the top of the adjacent tower not far away.

"Lord Red Dragon?"

Cold sweat broke out on Du Hu's forehead. He still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

What if... What if Holy Son Su Ye was overthinking it?

"How is the task completed?"

Red Dragon nodded, gently hummed, his attitude gentle.

Seeing this attitude, Du Hu's tense mood suddenly improved a lot. He said in a hoarse voice: "The 'beast tide images' of these few districts have been recorded... This is the data."

A metal box was handed out by him.

"Hmm..."

Red Dragon still had a gentle expression: "It's almost time to go back, call back the brothers outside."

It seems that everything is okay?

Du Hu's heart was in his throat. After he did as he was told, watching Red Dragon take the metal box and put it into his pocket, and even comforting himself, his tense mood gradually calmed down.

"Thank you for your hard work, Du Hu..."

However, Red Dragon didn't finish this sentence.

The second half of the sentence was: "Say hello to Su Ye for me."

Du Hu's pupils suddenly shrank, horrified and shocked, but he had no time to dodge or retreat.

A ray of blood-colored blade light slashed past.

A head jumped high.

Red Dragon stood on the spire, and as the blood splattered, his knife had returned to its sheath.

The big red cloak moved with the wind.

This first God Envoy of the Origin Tower, standing in the wind and rain, looked at those fellow enforcers who were constantly returning to his location from all directions.

His figure looked a little lonely and desolate.