Light Fortress

She directly projected Judge’s spiritual vision onto the Four Seasons Wilderness!

The scene was truly eerie and terrifying.

Heads floated on the surface of the sea, neither dead nor alive. These Source Tower Transcendents had turned into such a ghastly form before even officially engaging the alliance forces.

"Dead Sea?"

Gu Shen instantly recognized the anomaly in the Ning Fan Sea Area! These individuals had been forcibly conscripted by spiritual means, which is why they floated on the sea surface!

When he released the Lion Awakening code, he had faced the Dead Sea head-on—

It was clear that at this moment, Ning Fan Sea Area was already shrouded by the "Dead Sea"!

Since this thing had been unleashed onto the real world, it meant that the entire Central Continent had fallen under the control of the Deep Sea.

At this moment, Gu Shen knew that Mu Wanqiu’s reasoning was correct.

The Divine War over Source Tower was likely already over, and the ultimate victor was neither Bai Xiu nor Qinglong, but the Deep Sea that captured authority!

"It really is the ’Dead Sea’ then..."

Upon hearing the familiar words, Mu Wanqiu gritted her teeth and said, "Now the fleet is in a very dire situation. Though the gap blasted open in the Source Tower Wall can repair itself, the fleet is locked up, and we can’t escape in a short time. Meanwhile, the Dead Sea is spreading quickly; it won’t take long before it covers the entire Ning Fan Sea Area, and everyone in the fleet will be completely engulfed."

The purpose of unleashing the Dead Sea is simple.

It is to link every Transcendent in the Spiritual Sea Domain.

The gifts fate bestows are secretly marked with prices... The moment the Five Continents accepted the convenience of the Deep Sea, they should have anticipated this day.

Once engulfed by the Dead Sea, spiritual power will sink to the deepest part of the Spiritual Sea Domain.

By then.

These Transcendents will become nourishment for the Deep Sea’s twelfth evolution.

"Gu Shen, can you make it in time?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Li immediately became anxious.

Due to the Traveler Tribe’s attack, the forces of the Three Continents Alliance were forced to disperse. Although the Source Tower battle was important, the Gu Castle Battlefield needed to be garrisoned. Little Iron Man chose to hold the Northern Continent Border and did not participate in the inland final battle!

But he knew that for this war, the East Continent had laid all its cards on the table!

If the Deep Sea successfully uses "Dead Sea" to forcibly link the participants, wouldn’t the total offensive of the Three Continents Alliance be immediately declared a failure?

"... It’s very difficult."

Gu Shen furrowed his brow, carefully choosing his words: "It’s too far from here to the Central Continent."

Now the Starship has just arrived at the Ice Sea territory, and even if he uses Space Origin, it’s impossible to reach the Source Tower Wall before the Dead Sea engulfs the North Continent Fleet!

Unless there’s a teleportation portal, but with seven gods guarding the Five Continents Inland, it’s always been stable, and there’s never been such a thing as a portal.

Putting aside the long distance, there’s also another serious problem.

It’s that Mu Wanqiu’s fleet is on the verge of being swallowed by the Dead Sea.

"It’s not a matter of whether we can make it in time..."

Mu Wanqiu shook her head, saying: "Even if we could make it in time, what then?"

"Gu Shen, the war we’re fighting now is the final battle. The final battle has only one purpose, and that’s to overthrow the Source Tower, to reestablish a new Spirit Network, and to take back the choice of how to live from the Deep Sea."

Mu Wanqiu lowered her voice, word by word: "Although we have not yet been forcibly linked, I have vaguely felt the power of the Dead Sea, and this is not something one person can oppose... The Deep Sea must have planned for this day for a long, long time."

Applying pressure externally with the Traveler Tribe.

Internally building the Source Tower Wall, accumulating contradictions.

Waiting, for today!

Once the Dead Sea is released... it is a spiritual flood; every Transcendent who enters the Source Tower Wall will be forcibly dragged into the linked world by the Deep Sea!

She did not wish for Gu Shen to step into the Dead Sea to save her.

She knew that Gu Shen had now become a true Netherworld King.

But so what?

She did not believe that the Dead Sea, which accumulated the spiritual power of tens of millions of Extraordinary Creatures, could be broken by a single Divine Throne... if it were really that easy to break through, Qinglong would certainly not have "disappeared" just like that.

Among Meng Xizhou, the Traveler, Bai Xiu, Gu Xiaoman.

The few who initiated the final Divine War, now all are "unheard from"!

What a terrifying situation is this?

In this situation, Gu Shen rashly enters...it could very likely bury the hard-won last hope of the human world!

This is war, a war that considers only the final victory!

This war is destined to have many sacrifices.

She does not mind nor care about becoming a sacrifice herself... She does not wish for herself to be the cause of the victory scale tipping towards the Deep Sea.

"My time is running out."

Mu Wanqiu gritted her teeth and spoke quickly: "Next, I will maintain spiritual synchronization to upload everything seen before the North Continent Fleet is engulfed by the Dead Sea to the Pure Land World... All spiritual links are locked, and the outside world can’t know what happens inside the Source Tower Wall; Gu Shen, this information may help you."

"Wait! Gu Shen can’t make it, then what about a Heavenly Sheath Strike?"

Shen Li’s forehead veins bulged.

He immediately thought of another solution; he could immediately call Central City, Duke Lin Chou, to carry out a Heavenly Sheath Strike.

Heavenly Sheath Strike... is a feasible solution proposed by Lin Lin.

If the Source Tower Wall is destroyed again, then the North Continent Fleet might escape.

"Do not carry out a Heavenly Sheath Strike..."

"I do not think this is a good solution."

Mu Wanqiu spoke with a hoarse voice.

At the beginning of the fleet’s entrapment, she actually strongly agreed with Lin Lin’s support plan.

Only a light-speed Heavenly Sheath Strike could resolve the fleet.

But...

After completing her link with Gu Shen, she realized a deadly piece of information that had been overlooked.

The Deep Sea’s Source Tower Wall is a prison.

But once the "Dead Sea" reaches its extremity, the entire prison will also trap the Dead Sea itself.

From this angle.

Mu Wanqiu saw a deeper level of Deep Sea’s "plan."

In this killing field, the Extraordinary Creatures "encircled" by this wall will provide nourishment for the twelfth evolution... But this so-called twelfth evolution is not the Deep Sea’s endpoint. It knows the North Continent Tundra still retains hundreds of Heavenly Sheath Weapons, yet all these years it has never initiated a secret operation to clear them away, and the alliance forces have laid out extremely tight guard and defense on the Tundra, but this guard force has always been futile.

Why?

Because it does not care.

This total offensive, the first round of strikes initiated by the Three Continents Alliance, is the high-ranking officials’ "merciful" probing action. Once contact within the High Wall is lost, they will immediately follow up with the second round of strikes, the third round of strikes, until the High Wall is completely shattered.

And this, perfectly plays into the Deep Sea’s plan.

Once the wall shatters, released will be the Dead Sea.

By then, the Deep Sea, completing twelve upgrades, will proceed to a new round of spiritual spread.

By then.

The Dead Sea will engulf the entire Five Continents.

Little Iron Man froze for a second.

Buzz!

At this moment in the Four Seasons Wilderness, Mu Wanqiu’s figure became blurry, no longer stable.

"Xiao Qiu!"

Shen Li instinctively called out.

But the image became even blurrier.

"..."

Gu Shen’s expression was grim; he knew this was a phenomenon of spiritual will being shrouded by powerful external force... The spiritual vision Mu Wanqiu transmitted turned grey and oppressive.

This indicated that the Dead Sea had already spread to the edge of the fleet’s formation.

No matter how fierce the firepower of grenades, they could not defeat the "Dead Sea," this vague and elusive spiritual force.

Mu Wanqiu’s figure flickered and vanished in the Four Seasons Wilderness.

Yet she maintained spiritual synchronization, insisting on uploading the first-person perspective of the fleet until her consciousness was completely engulfed.

Finally, only her muddled voice echoed in the Pure Land.

"Do not rashly initiate the second round of Heavenly Sheath Strike... The Deep Sea’s goal is to link all of humanity."

Shen Li stared blankly at the direction where Mu Wanqiu disappeared.

The spiritual vision gradually became shrouded in darkness.

The Judge was engulfed by the Dead Sea.

The North Continent Fleet vanished into the fog of despair.

...

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(There’s more tonight.)