Light Fortress-Chapter 1504 - 214: The Great Calamity

"I’m dead..."

"No."

"I’m still alive."

Fragments of shattered thoughts rolling in the sea water, scattered spirit piecing together.

Gu Shen opened his eyes.

What he saw was not the real world, but the mental imagery within the Heart Sea.

Scenes flashed alternately.

The opening was crimson flames, followed by collapsing mountain caves, sweeping azure sea water...

Gu Shen was stunned.

These scenes weren’t unfamiliar to him; he had seen them before. Perhaps due to severe pain, his thinking speed uncontrollably became sluggish.

But soon he thought of the source of these images.

These scenes were all what the Calamity Bracelet had revealed to him as reminders!

That was before the Frozen Lake mission, when he used the bracelet to see these images.

At that time, the Calamity Bracelet captured countless overlapping images from the perspective of the "drowning victim," sending numerous warning images. But at that time, his focus on divination was on the Frozen Lake mission, and he didn’t care about these disordered warnings... In fact, this was the "insidious" aspect of the Calamity Bracelet as a divine artifact of fate.

It can indeed see the future, but it will deliberately hide the most dangerous images within the divination results.

The previous owner of the bracelet, Meng Xiao, died believing in his "divination."

And Gu Shen suffered the same loss.

"So the real calamity predicted by the Calamity Bracelet wasn’t from the Frozen Lake, but from Sangzhou Cave."

He suddenly understood, and his heart sank.

Memories before losing consciousness gradually surged in his mind.

...

...

Jia Wei’s sudden gun thrust truly caught Gu Shen off guard.

He never expected that in the core area of [Tanyao], there would be a Fourth-order Transcender waiting for him. Upon careful thought, Jia Wei’s appearance should be a coincidence because if he had known his location beforehand, he wouldn’t be lingering around the mountain ridge.

That Great Knight from Light City hates him to the core—

If his position were truly exposed, then upon knowing it, Jia Wei would immediately jump into the mountain to kill him!

Jia Wei must be in the top three of those who most want to kill him.

It’s just that this gun’s power was slightly lacking.

Gu Shen recalled the scene of his return to [Tanyao], feeling a wave of trepidation.

He eventually fell back to the mountain’s base, but a vast sense of foreboding came over him, as countless mountain ash and heat waves inflated and surged. He knew this was the long-dormant [Tanyao] ready to erupt at this moment!

At the last moment before consciousness faded, Gu Shen awkwardly crawled back into the array pattern field of the failing heart.

The rest had nothing to do with him.

"Is this... the bottom of the Ice Sea?"

With eyes open, Gu Shen began to observe his surroundings.

He could only see darkness. The mountain had crumbled, and what met his eyes now was a prison formed by countless sea water chains, cold infiltrating the stone walls through the sea water.

Sangzhou Cave had shattered.

"Chu Ling?"

Gu Shen tried calling out, but received no response.

This indicated that Chu Ling’s spiritual connection with him had completely broken; this place very likely has mental shielding restrictions similar to the Disaster Realm.

This was the true Deep Sea. After Sangzhou Cave broke apart, this land fragment, covered by the Longevity Technique Array Pattern, detached from the island’s main body, continuously falling, falling...

Gu Shen rubbed his forehead.

The situation was dire now.

He lost the sense of time, had no idea how long he had been unconscious, nor what the outside world was like now.

"Sangzhou Cave is destroyed... they should be searching for me everywhere now?"

Gu Shen took a deep breath, calming down.

Jia Wei’s kill was clean and quick, and he must have retreated decisively as well.

[Tanyao’s] mountain ash just happened to shield the Authority Power, so this matter of being ambushed is likely known to no one... This is the final clue that those outside searching for him can grasp.

After meditating, Gu Shen sorted out the current situation.

Whatever happens outside...

Actually has nothing to do with him anymore.

Because at this moment, his "position" is at the chaotic source of the Ice Sea bottom, such a vast sea area, even if the Divine Throne intervenes, finding him would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Counting on others to save him is simply impossible.

"The unlucky thing is, my source quality is just enough..."

Gu Shen squinted his eyes. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

After regaining consciousness, the first thing he did was check his wounds.

Two battles with Xiao, and Jia Wei’s ambush... inflicted considerable injuries on him. Even with the "fire of vitality," these injuries would take some time to heal.

But the spiritual power overdrawn by [Truth. Extinguishing Candle] had already recovered by thirty percent.

Having thirty percent spiritual power is quite reassuring; this spiritual power is enough for Gu Shen to open the Pure Land and extract the source quality nurtured by the Pure Land from the garden.

For a Transcendent.

Not eating, not drinking, is nothing.

The essence of Extraordinary Cultivation is achieving a leap in life level, during which such basic physiological needs diminish increasingly.

In the eyes of those High Order Extraordinary Lives, so-called eating and drinking are merely "appetites."

The importance of food cannot compared with "source quality"—

Eating, drinking, are all about replenishing nutrients, allowing the body’s muscles and bones, cells, to have vitality.