Light Fortress-Chapter 1482 - 205: Blood Fire, Fall (Part 2)

"Yes."

Gu Shen’s response was indifferent: "I discovered it long ago."

During the battle in the Dadu District, he realized it.

His Blazing Fire might very well share the same origin as Xiao’s Blood Fire.

Two strands of flame, both incomplete.

So once they got close, they produced a tremor of mutual attraction!

However, Xiao’s "Blood Fire" was created by experimentation by the Ancient Literature Society; is his "Blazing Fire" the same?

What truly concerned Gu Shen was...

His own origins.

The longer he cultivated, the more he felt an invisible hand manipulating destiny, from the initial encounter on "001" to each step today, all meticulously designed outcomes of fate, which he could neither escape nor resist.

Be it Blazing Fire or Netherworld King’s Spark.

These were all gifts from destiny to him, impossible to refuse!

Now, he wants to pierce through that invisible wall of fate to see who is behind these hands... But in Xiao’s identity, it’s not enough of a revelation; when meeting Xiao face-to-face, Gu Shen realized Xiao only knew so much truth.

"That should be it, right?"

Gu Shen spoke calmly, as if asking, but more like a conclusion.

Xiao stared blankly for a second.

The next moment.

The molten lava under Tanyao flew up, and flames tens of meters high suddenly exploded, several columns of flames roared from below, and amid the abruptly dazzling world, the black robe of the Judge fluttered wildly, as the black-haired young man raised his hand to form a silver-white bow, simultaneously pinched his fingertips to grip the nonexistent bowstring in the void.

A large amount of spiritual power was infused.

The arrowhead formed by the mighty silver light was like a blazing candle flame roaring in the wind.

The fingertip loosened.

This silver light shot out, shattering the heart, and the weak humanoid being on the stone wall roared and struggled.

"Gu! Shen!"

Xiao moved forward through the sea of fire, enveloped by fierce wind.

His face streamed with scarlet tears of blood, tragically horrific.

A few steps later, this shattered body, long supposed to disperse from the world, was completely obliterated.

The failed test subject that escaped for twenty years was thus shattered.

Until the end of the world, no one knew his true name.

Only a vague code name existed.

Xiao’s life was a failed tragedy; he escaped from the Ancient Literature Society to seek a life of his own... Due to the power of "Blood Fire," he experienced hundreds, thousands of lives, donned hundreds, thousands of masks.

No life and no mask belonged to him.

He was even far away, once wielding terrifying power akin to a quasi-S-title.

Yet in the end, it was all illusory.

Just as he himself said.

Blood Fire... could freely control the flesh, yet ironically, his own flesh was incredibly weak, like fragile white paper that would tear at a touch.

Thus, when Gu Shen stood before him.

The battle was already over.

To conclude a life with [Truth. Extinguishing Candle] was the highest respect Gu Shen could offer Xiao; for this disgusting existence whose embers could revive from the ashes, he wished not to leave any chance.

"Where in this world is there eternal life..."

Gu Shen gazed at the blood-colored flames scattered across the sky, "Even if it exists, I’m not interested in it."

The throne is singular.

Xiao’s talk of "twins" was truly laughable.

This Blazing Fire Blood Fire throne can only have one master, and that is himself.

"Blazing Fire... go."

Gu Shen’s heart had long been restless, and now he no longer concealed the agitation within his Heart Sea, releasing all the Blazing Fire— 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

In an instant, the fire sea beneath Tanyao surged!

This was the best nourishment for "Blazing Fire!"

The heart, having been shot thrice in succession, completely burst, unleashing countless Blood Fires, and according to the principle of conservation of source essence, after Xiao’s death and disappearance, these Blood Fires would return to the void... Now Gu Shen must quickly absorb them, as much as possible!

"Great danger often accompanies great fortune; if I leave now, the Blood Fire will disappear... I must consume all of these!"

Gu Shen sat cross-legged, taking a deep breath, internally checking his current situation.

The Spirit Sea was nearly exhausted.

If the Devil wanted to kill him, now might be the best chance...

At this moment, he couldn’t even activate a thread of the silver light from the Truth Ruler.

But fortunately, he still had source essence reserves and the Pure Land Domain, so he still had a way to leave the volcano’s rift.

"...No response?"

After a few seconds, the stone in Gu Shen’s heart had not completely settled.

He felt something strange.

He had expended all his spiritual power to shoot the owl.

At this moment, his Heart Sea was at its most vulnerable, but the devil in the Ruler Space had no intention to strike, which felt ominous after so many uses of [Truth].

"No matter what the devil is scheming, I must seize the opportunity to devour the ’Blood Fire’ now; the chance won’t come again!"

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He focused all his spiritual power.

This was a tremendous fortune, a great creation!

To break through to the fourth tier required a massive conversion of "Vital Fire"... a tedious path with no shortcuts, yet the "Blood Fire" before him could greatly speed up this tedious process!

Suddenly, he had a substantial "special flame reserve"!

The quantity of Blazing Fire soared abruptly!

With the Spirit Sea scale of a third-time transcendent, fully devouring the owl’s Blood Fire could save at least three to five years of "conversion time"!

Some opportunities, once missed, will never come back!

And just as Gu Shen sat down, preparing to immerse himself in the [Spectator] state, a sudden giant sound startled him awake.

Boom!

This giant sound came from deeper beneath Tanyao!

In an instant, the ground shook and the mountains swayed; Gu Shen, at the crack’s bottom, hurriedly summoned the [Pure Land] Domain, yet even with the wind and snow upon him, his Heart Sea still trembled violently.

"What happened?"

Gu Shen’s expression was filled with horror.

The link with Chu Ling was severed, meaning he couldn’t get external communication.

That giant sound just now wasn’t made by any person or creature.

The Beast Tide was still continuing... the ground was still trembling.

The giant sound seemed to come from beneath the island base!

Gu Shen pressed both hands on the ground, starting to consume the source matter stored in the Pure Land massively, thrusting a strand of Blazing Fire Flame through the crust, continuously sending it downwards, ultimately reaching the very bottom of the Sangzhou Cave’s island.

He saw the boundless, dark Ice Sea.

And saw the source of the giant sound—

Numerous tides stretched out on the seabed, rolling in waves under the Deep Sea, the giant sound was the noise of a huge wave hitting the island’s bottom, shattering giant rocks, causing the already unstable island body to begin horizontal movement.

"Is this... the [Tides] of the Storm Church?!"

Gu Shen understood instantly.

The Jiadi Saint set up [Tides], not only for monitoring!

The real [Tides] gathered in the sea areas around the Sangzhou Cave, forming this undercurrent.

Once [Tanyao] erupts, the Holy City would completely push this island into the Ice Sea.

"So the commotion just now... was the Sangzhou Cave moving?"

Gu Shen felt his scalp tingle, he never expected that the dominion of [Tides] could really shake this island, on the one hand, because the power bestowed by the Storm God’s Throne was indeed immense, on the other, possibly due to the Ice Sea’s recirculating currents.

Plus, the volcanic resurgence, the island’s internal environment had already been damaged by the awakening experiment...

All these conditions combined.

Caused the Storm Church’s gentle push to successfully change the balance.

"Rumble..."

The underground undercurrents sounded like continuous thunder, under the embrace of the Ice Sea, once the movement of the Sangzhou Cave started, it wouldn’t stop.

There was mountain fire inside.

There was the Ice Sea outside.

Gu Shen’s spirit immersed into the crust, he suddenly had a subtle feeling, he saw the heavy seawater, heard the dull tide sound, at this moment he felt as if he had become the Sangzhou Cave.

However, this feeling was not comfortable.

After the [Tides] gave a push, everything here started sailing towards the Ice Sea.

Countless tides converged, in the depths of the currents where no one could see, transformed into thousands of hands, pushing one after another, the Sangzhou Cave would not return.

The Storm Church hoped "it" would shatter, burying it in the Ice Sea.

And all of this was heading just as the Storm Church planned—

From the bottom, the Sangzhou Cave had already begun to disintegrate gradually.

This seemed to be an irreversible and unstoppable process.

At this moment, no one cared about all of this anymore.

All living beings were busy escaping for their lives.

Those who couldn’t escape were destined to be buried in the Ice Sea.

And those who did escape would have another kind of feeling.

Perhaps, at that time, the escapees would look from the distant shore and think that the mountain fire erupting from Tanyao was merely a beautiful firework show.