Light Fortress

The traveller’s expression was grim.

He frowned and murmured, "How did Gu Changzhi... do it?"

Among those present, the weakest among them, Gu Xiaoman, spoke at this moment.

She softly uttered two words.

"Infinite."

Qinglong’s defensive stance in the land of invincibility is named Infinite.

And Mr. Gu Changzhi’s invincible martial arts are also named Infinite.

Although both share the same name...

The force they embody differs significantly!

In "Dissolving Dream," Gu Xiaoman ignited the envelope, and in a sense, during those few minutes of divine war, she and Mr. Gu Changzhi’s residual spirit were in a state of spiritual resonance, a "united" status. It was precisely because of this, she saw the origin mobilization when Mr. Gu Changzhi punched... The reason the battle fire and war fire could break through the Da Han origin.

It was because Mr. Gu Changzhi’s "Infinite" was related to time!

He could instantly appear before Qinglong.

His fist could instantly reach Qinglong’s cheek!

His Infinite is stronger than Qinglong’s Infinite—

Because he controls the unsolvable Time Origin, this origin power is even more potent than Bai Shu’s "Reverse Flow"!

Rather than saying the battle fire and war fire responded proactively.

It’s better to say that Gu Changzhi used Time Origin to breakthrough Da Han Origin, thus smoothly borrowing the sealed brilliance of these two embers!

This divine miracle is irreplicable.

Gu Xiaoman spoke of the "Infinite Essence" she witnessed, and the traveler’s eyes dimmed significantly.

"Infinite... There exists such vast and unfathomable power in this world..."

Although the divine war has ended.

He recalled the moment Gu Changzhi threw his punch, still feeling a pang of unease.

Years ago, the Netherworld King had warned him that Gu Changzhi was terrifying; he only smiled faintly and didn’t take it to heart...

If he had seen Gu Changzhi in action sooner, how dare he plot those crooked schemes against the Five Continents?

"Taking a step back, if these two Great Cold Ice could be easily surpassed, then the Deep Sea would have invaded long ago."

Meng Xizhou smiled faintly and said, "Don’t forget, the Dead Sea has been unleashed. Now it has become the sole sovereign of this domain."

The Deep Sea merged Qinglong into the Dead Sea without hesitation.

Yet, it hesitated to strike at the Land of Light...

Obviously, it treated the entire Central Continent as a feast.

The Divine Throne, retaining some vestiges of strength, remains a throne. Facing Meng Xizhou after erecting the Light Barrier, the Deep Sea didn’t choose to attack strongly... It cared more about its "twelfth upgrade," only soaking the Holy Light with the Dead Sea, saving the toughest bone for last.

The traveller squinted, staring at Meng Xizhou’s face.

He noticed that the woman’s expression seemed weak but not overly panicked.

"Are you not afraid of dying?"

"Of course I’m afraid."

"So... do you have a backup plan?"

"No more."

Meng Xizhou shrugged frankly and said, "Invoking the envelope’s divine thought in the name of the Gu Family, while sending out the power of the fire, severely wounding Qinglong... This was my greatest backup plan upon reaching the Source Tower. I knew that after this move, even if Qinglong survived, he’d be gravely injured... What followed was meant to be handed over to Bai Xiu."

After this move, the difficulty of killing Qinglong was greatly reduced...

If not for the unexpected arrival of the Dead Sea.

Then Little Xiuzi, holding the Extinguishing Candle, would have completed the final harvest!

"You..."

The traveller was momentarily speechless; he couldn’t speak, but intuition told him this wasn’t so simple.

"So..."

He fixed his gaze on Meng Xizhou’s eyes again, asking word for word, "What are you waiting for?"

"You’re... quite perceptive."

Meng Xizhou shook her head with a smile.

She suddenly asked a question unrelated to the current situation, "Do you believe in destiny?"

This question left the traveller momentarily at a loss for an answer.

Originally, he didn’t believe in destiny.

If he truly believed in destiny, why would he risk everything to lead his tribe from the void’s far end across the divide, just to find a haven that doesn’t belong to the "traveller?"

But after signing a contract with the Netherworld King, he began to believe.

Destiny is like countless gears intermingling, starting and never halting.

"I once saw an extraordinary scene in the Forbidden Book Tower."

Meng Xizhou said lightly, "The world was dim, everything lifeless... But a beam of light tore through the endless shadows and descended."

The traveller’s question rang in her Heart Lake.

["What are you waiting for?"]

Over the years, many have asked Meng Xizhou this.

The Three Continent Alliance was eager to launch a full attack against Central Continent; everyone awaited the arrival of the Light God’s Seat.

From the moment she completed the Light Fire, someone proposed an all-out attack plan—

But she suppressed all those suggestions.

So, this question arose.

Everyone knows Meng Xizhou is waiting.

Yet no one knows what exactly Meng Xizhou is waiting for.

"I’m waiting for that beam of light."

Meng Xizhou took a light breath; her own gaze was a bit confused.

She saw the scene of Gu Shen riding the Big Snake back to the Five Continents in the Forbidden Book Tower...

This was one of the countless reflections of destiny, the most hopeful and radiant scene.

So she suppressed everyone’s suggestions for a general attack; she wasn’t waiting for Bai Xiu to find the Extinguishing Candle, nor for Gu Xiaoman to get the envelope.

It was for Gu Shen’s return.

And now, the scene of the Dead Sea enveloping the Central Continent matches perfectly with the prophecy in the Forbidden Book Tower, and Meng Xizhou realized that the despairing scene shrouded by shadow wasn’t born due to Qinglong...

"I believe in destiny."

Meng Xizhou said softly, "So I believe that beam of light will come."

Just as she finished speaking.

The Light Barrier suddenly felt a tremor.

Meng Xizhou instinctively looked up.

Under the Dead Sea’s shroud, the entire Central Continent was pulled into a vast Spiritual Sea Domain... As the high command, now relying on the power of the fire, she could barely sense some movements in the Dead Sea Region.

Meng Xizhou knew that every second, a vast number of Transcendents were connecting.

The Deep Sea’s computational power was surging horrifyingly fast.

And at that moment...

The Dead Sea suddenly began to tremble violently, as if a sword pierced into the Dead Sea.

"What is that?"

The traveller also sensed the tremor.

He looked incredulously at the darkness outside the Light Barrier.

Bai Xiu quickly drew the bow again.

The vision seen through [Achilles’ Heel] had changed... the countless weaknesses at the end of the floating Dead Sea began to rapidly dissolve at a speed he couldn’t comprehend, as an extremely dazzling black light crashed into this massive sea region.

It was... the arrival of the Netherworld Fire!

...

...

"Boom!"

What plunged into the Dead Sea was indeed a sword.

A giant sword composed of Netherworld Fire effortlessly pierced the towering Source Wall, like tearing paper, poking a hole in the Central Continent... However, the Dead Sea did not spill outward with the hole as countless Netherworld Fires boiled and burned within the sea, erecting a new towering wall inside the Source Wall.

These Netherworld Fires quickly extended, transforming into a taller, more majestic giant wall imprisoning the Dead Sea Region tightly!

Under the shadow of Skytop, a pitch-black throne gathered.

This throne originally belonged to Qinglong... But now the Deep Sea sat on it.

It sat alone atop the passage to heaven, gazing down at countless living beings.

The twelfth upgrade proceeded more smoothly than anticipated; the expansion of the Dead Sea Domain was initially completed, and the Three Continent Fleet intending to attack the Upper City was successfully swallowed. Next, it needed to do... was digest.

Just as the Deep Sea was preparing to refine these spiritual computational powers.

The Dead Sea was suddenly torn open into a small gap—

This sword came too suddenly.

The entire Dead Sea trembled, causing the throne atop the Skytop in the Upper City to quiver.

The Deep Sea, ready to enjoy the Taotie feast, with an expressionless face, slowly turned to look at the shattered Source Wall.

The end of the Netherworld Fire Sword.

Was dazzling divine flames piercing the sky, creating an extremely grand and magnificent brilliant scene.

A golden fiery figure, like glazed Big Snake, bared its claws and descended from the sky.

While a boy stood at the forehead of the Big Snake, cloaked in a pitch-black, lightless cloak, a dark flame igniting at his brow.

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(Everyone, recently my insomnia has been too severe, so I adjusted my nocturnal routine yesterday to avoid everyone continuing the nocturnal binge-reading.)