Light Fortress-Chapter 1402 - 177: Strife for the Lord of Wine (Part 2)

Chapter 1402: Chapter 177: Strife for the Lord of Wine (Part 2)

The blade remains unsheathed.

But the scene is in a stalemate, ready to explode at any moment.

"Some truths are just too lazy to be verified..."

Bai Xiu slowly spoke, then paused.

"Is it really like that?"

He spoke with slight sarcasm, "Such words might fool children without spiritual wisdom. Is the truth too lazy to be verified by Central Continent? Then how did the Wine Spark end up empty?"

Once these words were spoken, Red Dragon found himself at a loss for words.

Back then, Wine God Di Jiu had wanted to personally "verify" the life and death of Battle God Throne Gu Changzhi, which led to a catastrophic disaster.

"If Sky was really that strong, then the Five Continents wouldn’t remain as Five Continents... At least during the twenty years Mr. Gu Changzhi was asleep, East Continent would become a vassal continent of ’Central Continent.’

Bai Xiu chuckled, "Yet allow me to say in hindsight, the Sky Divine Throne you’ve praised to the sky, almost securing the ’first seat among the Seven Gods,’ seems to fear Mr. Gu Changzhi deeply. Even probing such matters, he doesn’t dare to do it personally but sends the scapegoat Di Jiu instead."

"..."

Red Dragon’s face twitched slightly.

He couldn’t refute it, since it was indeed the truth.

"Among the Seven Gods, there will surely be a war." Bai Xiu said expressionlessly, "If you think my sending away of Gu Xiaoman will lead to war... then why not let it begin."

Red Dragon didn’t expect Bai Xiu’s attitude to be so forceful.

He sighed lightly and said, "Why come to this? Do you think Divine War is such a simple matter?"

Bai Xiu frowned slightly.

"Launching a war now, East Continent and North Continent will fall into despair."

Red Dragon said hoarsely, "How long has it been since Bai Shu ascended to Battle God, and how long since Empress took over the furnace? Whether you can win or not, once this war starts, there will be no winner in the end... The war among the Seven Gods will cause the Five Continents to shatter."

"A butterfly flaps its wings, causing a storm across the ocean."

"Sending away Gu Xiaoman... fate will stir a storm that destroys everything."

"Is this really what you want to see?"

Bai Xiu was stunned, in East Continent’s intelligence, Red Dragon wasn’t known as a "sympathetic" compassionate person, among the Four Divine Envoys how could there be such a person, how could Red Dragon say these words to him?

Red Dragon’s hands left the sword hilt.

Volcanic ash floated between them, the dense dark color filled the blankness of Skytop.

"Think carefully, why do you and I meet here for the second time?"

"Say it again..."

"I came here not to fight."

...

...

[Tanyao] core zone.

The ridge of this towering volcano is extremely rugged, quite uneven.

Hundreds of years ago, there was a volcanic eruption here, lava erupted, enduring frost and hardship, re-hardened, covering the earth with a new crust, that natural disaster caused Sangzhou Cave to detach from the land, becoming an island, and at an annual pace of five hundred meters detaching from Southern Continent Inland, gradually sinking towards Ice Sea.

Eventually, one day, this small island will completely leave the mainland.

Perhaps after many years... this will again become a piece of land.

"Damn it, where is everyone? Why haven’t they arrived?"

Suzaku standing on one leg on a large rock, striving to look afar.

The view was all dark, gaining nothing.

His spiritual power was seriously suppressed here, volcanic ash was dense to the extreme, even the flow of essential energy inside him was obstructed, he needed to open his domain to barely resist Tanyao’s ash characteristics.

He had already reached the agreed meeting point with Red Dragon.

Yet, only he had arrived!

Red Dragon wasn’t here at all—

The worst part was, possibly because of the ash being too much, too dense, even the authority of the Cloud Mirror bestowed by Lord Divine seemed to fail, trying to communicate with Red Dragon with the mirror, but surrounded by mist, each time about to coalesce into form, a stream of ash would blow forth, directly dispersing the mist mirror.

"Did I come to the wrong place?"

Suzaku frowned, "By Red Dragon’s modus operandi, he’s always punctual, should be here nearby waiting for me..."

Now, he was facing two choices.

One is to act directly, return to East Cave, now Jia Wei had ceased pursuing... he’s safe, so he doesn’t need to meet with Red Dragon, just leave from Tanyao’s core zone.

Though vaguely he felt something wasn’t right inside.

Suzaku looked towards the deeper part of Tanyao where the ash was thicker.

"Is Red Dragon not here because of ’unexpected circumstances’?"

This volcano harbors special power.

The ash can suppress the flow of essential energy... this is unheard of, Suzaku had long noticed the changes of Skytop haze, he guessed the upcoming ’Torch Trial’ task was related to this volcano.

Source Tower certainly wouldn’t miss such high-level crucial intelligence.

In this way.

The subsequent task related to Wine Spark can be guessed—

To delve into Tanyao, and conduct an investigation!

Suzaku’s eyes slightly brightened.

"So... Red Dragon ventured alone into ’Tanyao’ for investigation?"

His second choice is to step into Tanyao’s core zone!

Once this thought arose, Suzaku’s inner suspicion grew stronger, he didn’t believe Red Dragon would find the wrong route, not seeing this guy’s figure here... this was the only possibility left.

"Red Dragon seemed disinterested, as if not caring about ’Wine Spark,’ but in truth, he is the one who wants the spark most!"