Chapter 254 The Ice Sea Ruins

"This Ice Sea Ruins is quite different from what I imagined."

Above the icy sea, a black-clad figure walked slowly.

Gu Shen released a portion of his Pure Land domain. Wherever he passed, the seawater naturally froze into ice, and the Ice Sea was eerily silent.

"I clearly heard the sound of a source energy vessel earlier, but now they've all disappeared."

Gu Shen stopped before a giant mist barrier. He didn't step directly into it, but instead reached out a hand, stroking the cold mist from a distance.

Judging from the situation reported back from the Southern Continent...

This place was likely shrouded in a Disaster Zone.

If he wasn't mistaken, taking a few more steps would sever the mental link he and Chu Ling had painstakingly established.

"Are you worried about me?"

Chu Ling sensed Gu Shen's hesitation.

She said with a smile, "We've already reached the Ice Sea Ruins. Go in. Don't worry about the mental link being broken... I'll be waiting for you in Nagano."

"...Okay."

Gu Shen's heartstrings were touched again.

Regardless of life or death, someone was waiting for him in Nagano. What good fortune was that?

He took a light breath and laughed, "Wait for my good news."

After saying that, he no longer hesitated and stepped directly into the icy sea mist.

The mist was extremely cold, but it had no effect on Gu Shen.

A wisp of fire ignited between Gu Shen's eyebrows.

"Chi!"

In an instant, the mist around him burned and spread—

The invisible field of vision instantly became clear.

"So this is the Ice Sea Ruins that even the Storm Divine Seat dared not enter?"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and slowly entered.

Before setting off, he had read all the information that had been compiled about the ruins. The video released by the Storm Divine Seat showed that the Ice Sea Ruins had gradually emerged above sea level due to the receding tide.

It was just that he might already be shrouded in a "Disaster Zone" at this moment.

Wind and snow howled from all directions.

Even with the protection of the Flame of Life covering a radius of ten meters, Gu Shen still couldn't see the scene ahead.

He walked forward slowly, and the seawater under his feet changed from soft to hard, and eventually became a snowfield without him realizing it.

Dozens of seconds later.

Gu Shen looked back.

The mist had dissipated, and behind him was a vast and boundless snowfield, while in front of and behind him was a silver-white expanse.

"Interesting..."

Gu Shen smiled.

With his current mental strength, he couldn't even see how the Disaster Zone had evolved.

How had he suddenly gone from the "sea" to the "snowfield"?

But that didn't matter anymore.

What he needed to do now was to find the East Continent's Enforcers as quickly as possible...

According to the information, the Storm Church had set off the fastest, followed by the Tower of Origin, and then Guang Ming City, Central City, and Nagano.

This mission was likely a joint effort between Central City and Nagano.

Under the overall trend of unification.

The two continents were united, and were being targeted everywhere. He feared that the Tower of Origin would join forces with the other two to attack Nagano together!

"This snowfield is very large. I just don't know how far my spirit can spread, and whether I can find allies."

Gu Shen wasn't in a hurry to move.

Stepping into the icy sea mist should have triggered the array patterns to enter the Ice Sea Ruins, and then he was randomly teleported to a certain area. What he needed to do now was to confirm whether there were any "living people" around.

And...

How far his spirit could extend in these ruins.

The snowfield's cold wind was torn apart by a bright light.

With a wave of his hand, Gu Shen materialized a ball of fluffy flame...

After this breakthrough, the number of his Scarlet Flames had almost increased dozens of times compared to before! Gu Shen had never fought such a rich man's battle before. Although he had already comprehended the Greater Mastery Scarlet Flame Domain, he was still "economical and cautious". Eight wisps of Scarlet Flame separated from the main flame, each as slender as a small snake, and swept towards eight directions with a flick of his hand!

"Go!"

Gu Shen whispered, and then stopped moving. He patiently waited for the transmission of the Scarlet Flame's vision.

His current mental strength had reached an unbelievable level... He could penetrate ten thousand meters of the Ice Sea. In theory, no matter how big these Ruins were, they couldn't stop the Scarlet Flame from searching.

But after a moment, Gu Shen realized something was wrong.

In these Ice Sea Ruins, there seemed to be a very strange power. His Scarlet Flame extended nearly a thousand meters smoothly, but then it was strongly suppressed.

Gu Shen wanted to continue extending his "vision", but the speed at which the Scarlet Flame dissipated suddenly accelerated.

"One thousand two hundred meters..."

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows.

This was already the limit of his exploration.

"Swish swish swish!"

The eight wisps of Scarlet Flame eventually returned to Gu Shen's palm. This time, his exploration didn't discover any living people, but he did discover two interesting "things".

Gu Shen looked in the direction where the fastest retreating wisp of Scarlet Flame was, which was also the one that traveled the shortest distance.

This wisp of Scarlet Flame had only traveled two or three hundred meters before stopping.

Even after Gu Shen gave it the instruction to "continue moving forward", the flame still refused to execute it, and stubbornly turned around.

At this moment, Gu Shen walked to the location where the Scarlet Flame had disobeyed his order.

He narrowed his eyes and carefully examined this open plain, surrounded by heavy snow, which didn't seem to have anything special about it.

The next moment.

He stretched out his palm and slowly extended a finger forward.

"Hiss!"

The tip of the protruding finger was instantly cut open, but what surged out of the fingertip was not blood, but golden Flame of Life.

Gu Shen silently retracted his hand. His broken finger was wrapped in the Flame of Life and healed in a matter of seconds, leaving not a single scar.

"The Scarlet Flame doesn't want to move forward, because this place looks like a plain, without any obstacles... But in reality, there's an invisible 'air wall'."

Gu Shen murmured, "And this wall is very sharp. If you don't protect yourself and touch it directly, your flesh and blood will instantly shatter."

He pondered for a moment and did another experiment.

He still extended a finger.

But what was different this time was... Gu Shen used the Iron Throne!

The iron-scaled skin that had covered his body for five full years began to tremble after a long absence. Seven or eight iron scales flew off and wrapped around his fingertip, adhering to it extremely tightly. Then, he touched the invisible "air wall" again!

Slaughter was triggered!

At this moment, however, a harsh sound of metal clashing was emitted—

"Kaka ka!"

As if pulled by invisible threads, Gu Shen's fingertip felt an extremely sharp cutting force!

The sharpness of this air wall exceeded Gu Shen's expectations—

However, these invisible blades didn't successfully cut the "iron scales"!

"Interesting, so there's another 'world' behind this wall..."

"This snowfield seems vast, but it should actually be surrounded and wrapped by such walls in a circle. If you want to continue moving forward, you'll have to face 'slaughter'..."

Gu Shen retracted his finger, took two steps back, and sighed softly, "So, what does the 'world' behind this wall look like? Is that the real Ice Sea Ruins?"

He didn't intend to smash the air wall and break through it directly at this moment.

Because in Gu Shen's opinion, this wall had always been there.

The "iron-scaled skin" on his body was already enough to withstand the slaughter, let alone a Tier 6 Source Armor.

As long as he wanted to pass through the wall and see the "world" on the other side, he could do it at any time.

"I heard that the East Continent sent out some young people this time..."

Gu Shen recalled the unfamiliar names on the list and couldn't help but feel a little worried.

These air walls were not simple. If the East Continent team was unlucky and ran directly into them...

He didn't know if the current technology could support the Source Energy Vessel's protective shield to withstand this level of fierce suppression after five years.

"I need to speed up."

Gu Shen swept toward the second "information point" captured by the Scarlet Flame. Soon, he arrived at the foot of a snow mountain.

He sent out the Scarlet Flame with the intention of finding "living people".

Unfortunately, he didn't find a single living person.

But he did find a "recently deceased" guy.

At the foot of the snow mountain stood a corpse frozen to death by the wind and snow. Gu Shen twirled the Flame of Life on his fingertip and swept away the snow dust that had fallen on the corpse...

"An Enforcer from the Tower of Origin."

Gu Shen recognized the deceased's divine robe at a glance. After all these years, the priests of the Tower of Origin still wore this style of clothing.

"It looks like he died from 'wind and snow freezing', but in reality, he died from 'mental hypnosis'..."

Gu Shen examined it carefully and couldn't help but laugh, "That psychic extraordinary being is quite ruthless."

In addition to that.

He also discovered the residual aura of more than one extraordinary being in the snow.

"One, two, three, four, five..."

"There should be a total of five dead people."

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows, intrigued. "There are also four lackeys who died miserably, their bones crushed to ashes... The person who did it was clean and neat, with sharp methods, and quite imaginative."

The traces on the scene alone made Gu Shen feel quite interested.

This was rare.

He originally didn't want to stay any longer, but for this reason, he made an exception and used Profiling to see what exactly happened in this "killing".

"Shua shua shua!"

As Gu Shen's mental strength enveloped the area.

A small barrier formed here, and several shadows stood up from the snow, returning from a fragmented state to a complete one.

This was a past event that happened not long ago. With Gu Shen's current strength, it wasn't difficult to see clearly.

In addition to these shadows of the dead.

There was also a thin, cloaked black figure who was also slowly condensed in the Profiling's vision, standing up.

The moment this little shadow appeared, Gu Shen was directly stunned.

Snow howled.

The world seemed to quiet down.

Five years, let alone just five years, even if ten or twenty years had passed...

Gu Shen could still recognize this black shadow at a glance.

Gu Shen's voice trembled:

"Gu..."

"Xiaoman?"

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(Because I spent a lot of time writing the outline today, the update time is a bit late, please forgive me. But the promised five updates will be five updates, and not a single chapter will be missing!)