Light Fortress

There... were no traces left by Silver Fox here, nor the slightest hint of his presence.

Gu Shen’s heart sank slightly.

One very important reason he had chosen to use Red Shadow to meet with Deep Sea was precisely to investigate Silver Fox’s whereabouts.

Given his understanding of Original Combat Power—

Even if Silver Fox lost to this Black Snow Mountain Giant, he shouldn’t have been killed so quickly... Battles between origins, even if they decided superiority, rarely decided life and death. A clash between beings of this level was already not much different from a "Divine War."

Judging from the battle back then, the strength of the Silver Fox General and the Black Snow Mountain Giant should have been evenly matched, fifty–fifty!

"Silver Fox... where is he?"

Expressionless, Gu Shen looked toward the Black Snow Mountain Giant’s back, where there was a stone wall.

A shattered, withered shell of a body was nailed to the stone wall.

A traveller... at this moment, calling it "Deep Sea" was even more fitting.

It smiled. "I knew you would ask about him... but it seems you’ve forgotten there is another general in the North Continent."

Rust Bone, White Lizard, Silver Fox.

White Lizard had its Spirit seized by Deep Sea at Black Snow Mountain; in that battle of the Old World, it had completely fallen.

Silver Fox had now been confirmed as defeated... his life and death unknown.

There was still one more.

Rust Bone!

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. Those injuries on White Lizard back then should have been left by Rust Bone... The Rust Bone General should have defeated the White Lizard controlled by Deep Sea. Yet up to now, the Five Continents had failed to locate any Extraordinary Aura belonging to the "Rust Bone General." A dignified origin seemed to have evaporated overnight, vanishing without a trace.

Even a Divine Throne would find such a thing hard to accomplish!

Also... the combat strength Deep Sea could exert through White Lizard’s body back then was not enough to win a frontal clash against Rust Bone.

How did the Rust Bone General disappear?

"I want to have a proper talk with you."

Nailed to the stone wall, Deep Sea struggled to sit up straight. A faint smile rose on its pale cheeks, yet its voice became indescribably solemn and majestic: "About the future of the Five Continents... about the future of humanity..."

Gu Shen stood with his blade planted in the ground.

Silently, he stood amid the Wind Snow, tilting his head back to gaze at the giant towering before him like the sky itself.

With a snap.

Deep Sea, whose main torso was nailed in place, barely managed to raise its withered fingers and snap them.

The Wind Snow before Gu Shen suddenly surged. The spot beneath his feet abruptly bulged upward; he frowned and stepped back, discovering that it was a round cocoon about a meter tall. The cocoon shell was wrapped in layer upon layer of snow-white threads, like frost and snow. Yet after Deep Sea’s snap, this cocoon suddenly "came alive." Something churned inside; the threads were forced outward and burst apart!

"Riiip!"

Two sharp fleshy spines pierced through the cocoon shell, followed by a scarlet gleam that tore through the Wind Snow. In just over ten seconds, a Low-level Traveler hatched out of the large cocoon!

With a shrill, piercing screech, it lunged toward Gu Shen.

The first thing this Low-level Traveler did upon revival was eliminate the outsider—

Red Shadow flipped its wrist, striking with a single blade!

The large cocoon, together with flesh and blood, was cleaved cleanly in two...

But this was not the end; it was only the beginning. Gu Shen lowered his head with a complicated expression. All around the area where he stood, the entire stretch of pitch-black land began to heave and churn, like a rising tide.

Dense egg-sheath cocoons bulged up from beneath the snow, like coffins one after another!

The Wind Snow howled in mournful wails, as streaks of scarlet light from countless eyes pierced the pitch-black void!

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands?

A boundless sight, impossible to count.

(There will be one more Chapter tonight)