Chapter 1 The Dissipation of [Pure Land], the Expansion of [Blazing Fire]!

The "Fire of Vitality" that Gu Shen comprehended was originally a healing domain to mend injuries, but at this moment, the blazing fire he released was full of chilling killing intent!

He read Yun Hu's fragmented memories.

Originally, he just wanted to see how many people had participated in the mission to hunt down Gu Xiaoman...

But after reading it all.

He found it absurd that all the transcendents on this entire cloudship had come to kill Gu Xiaoman...

He knew this was a game set up by Qinglong.

But he couldn't accept it.

Boom!

Flames engulfed bodies, some howled, some screamed, some threw themselves in front of Gu Shen begging for mercy.

But Gu Shen didn't even spare them a glance.

That young figure that threw itself before Gu Shen was instantly reduced to ashes, swept away by the wind.

The cloudship turned into a sea of fire, like a purgatory on earth.

Gu Shen knew that the people on this ship were all young talents from the Source Tower, all geniuses who had come to participate in the Divine Envoy Trials. Among them were several with particularly outstanding aptitudes, who could be distinguished from the crowd at a glance...

Yun Hu's spirit sea was broken and incomplete, and his realm was high.

Therefore, even though Gu Shen's blazing fire seeped into his spirit sea, it only captured some scattered fragments of memory.

He first locked onto Hiddell.

In the purgatory, the silver-haired swordsman was still struggling to resist. Hiddell drew his sword and plunged it into the ground, releasing his sword intent domain, layers of waves resisting the burning of the blazing fire. He was one of the few transcendent geniuses who could withstand the high temperature... But this didn't mean he was really strong.

The "blazing fire" that Gu Shen released at this moment was only using about one or two tenths of his strength.

Why would he need to use his full strength to kill these third-order little whelps?

Even when fighting Yun Hu, it was just a few casual slaps.

Whether it was [Pure Land] or [Blazing Fire], from the moment the domain was released, everyone on this cloudship was destined to be unable to escape.

"Da."

"Da."

"Da."

In the chaotic sea of fire of the cloudship, Gu Shen's footsteps were particularly clear. Hiddell looked pale, looking at the man bathed in scarlet flames, like a demon from hell.

He didn't beg for mercy.

The ten fingers clenching the sword hilt trembled violently.

Finally, he roared and pulled the sword out of the ground, stabbing fiercely at Gu Shen.

"Chi--"

The long sword pierced into Gu Shen's shoulder. Gu Shen didn't dodge, looking indifferently at the silver-haired youth. The latter exerted all his strength to strike, the sword tip piercing into Gu Shen's flesh, then the blade, and finally the hilt...

The Blazing Fire Domain was complete.

At this moment, Gu Shen had mastered "elementalization."

The shoulder where Hiddell's sword tip pierced was a blazing flame burning under the black shirt!

The three-foot long sword melted inch by inch, leaving only half a hilt in the end.

Gu Shen stretched out his palm and pressed it in front of Hiddell's dim face.

This process was very short, only a second or two, but the silver-haired youth breathed heavily, as if making an extremely difficult decision.

Finally, the two looked at each other.

"Boom!"

Hiddell's body suddenly exploded. The last decision he made was to detonate his spirit sea. He had personally seen the scene of Gu Shen crushing the titled Yun Hu, and knew that his sword couldn't hurt Gu Shen in the slightest, but in the end he still tried to strike...

The sword strike failed.

He chose to die standing.

Firelight fluttered, blood and flesh splattered.

The scene of Hiddell detonating his spirit sea shocked everyone.

But what was even more shocking was yet to come—

The light and fire of Hiddell's self-explosion washed over Gu Shen's body. The self-explosion of a third-order transcendent couldn't possibly harm Gu Shen, but for a moment smoke and dust scattered, and mist filled the air.

An extremely low, indifferent voice rang out from the firelight and smoke.

"You think it's over when you die?"

Gu Shen clenched his five fingers in the air, and the Fire of Vitality swept over with countless pieces of broken flesh and blood. From the moment Hiddell detonated his spirit sea, Gu Shen's blazing fire had already been planted—

At this moment, countless blazing fires swept over with Hiddell's spiritual fragments!

A virtual spiritual body was pieced together by the blazing fire. Hiddell's body was already broken, but his extinguished consciousness reopened his eyes in the firelight, his eyes full of shock and fear.

This had already transcended the understanding of ordinary people.

This was simply a miracle!

The transcendents who were scorched by the blazing fire looked at Gu Shen as if they were looking at a living閻王 (Yan Wang, King of Hell).

If I want you to die at the fifth watch, how dare you die at the third?

This was indeed a miracle.

Gu Shen grabbed into the firelight with his five fingers, grabbed Hiddell's soul, and instantly a large number of clear images flooded into his spirit sea—

He saw Hiddell's memories of his life.

The red shadow attacking the cloudship.

The Church firing cold arrows.

And…the scene of Hiddell and Toze Tsuki hunting down Gu Xiaoman, forcing her to use the Thunderclap Beads.

After watching these, his eyes became incomparably cold.

"Boom!"

Hiddell's soul was completely crushed!

Gu Shen originally planned to throw him into the Pure Land, but after seeing the scene of Hiddell hunting in the snowy field, he gave up the idea.

This squeeze completely shattered Hiddell's soul!

The last bit of resistance in the hearts of those central continent geniuses struggling on the cloudship was also crushed.

The most terrified of them was Toze Tsuki.

After Gu Shen descended, she immediately used her immature domain, using the "Ink Splash Technique" to hide herself, disappearing without a trace…Although doing so couldn't avoid the burning of the blazing fire, what if there was a glimmer of hope?

But after Gu Shen crushed Hiddell, he directly cast his gaze towards her hiding place.

Just as Toze Tsuki was hesitating whether to show herself.

Gu Shen directly grabbed towards the void.

"Sila!"

A puff of blood splashed out from the air.

An ice pick, condensed from who knows where, pierced through Toze Tsuki's back, pushing her out dozens of meters and sending her in front of Gu Shen.

"Wah!"

Toze Tsuki looked pale and spat out a large mouthful of blood.

"You are from the East Continent, but you ran to the Source Tower to participate in the Divine Envoy Trials?"

Gu Shen looked at this beautiful face and felt ironic from the bottom of his heart, so he asked word by word: "Don't you know that the Source Tower is the one that has oppressed the East Continent the most in recent years?"

"..."

Toze Tsuki was speechless, she bit her lip and chose to remain silent.

She came from Ying Hai, right next to Grand Capital.

So she knew the weight of the name "Gu Shen" better than anyone else on this cloudship.

When she was still young, this name meant the banner of the entire younger generation of the East Continent, the apex that countless people pursued.

In the Jiangnan region of East Continent, apart from Grand Capital, other places were not considered prosperous.

Everyone yearned for a better life.

Transcendents were no exception.

Toze Tsuki's family had always aimed to enter the Council…and later they did achieve it. The Mistress unified the entire Jiangnan region, and the Toze family received support, but it was precisely because they entered the Council that they saw a larger world.

Compared to the Upper City.

Grand Capital was not so prosperous anymore.

The Toze family began to cultivate young people, and no longer aimed to stay in the East Continent.

Nagano and Central City merged, and East Continent and North Continent became allies… Everyone knew this in the past five years, and the Council praised it, but not everyone agreed with this move from the bottom of their hearts.

At least the Toze family didn't think "merging" was the right choice.

If a Divine War broke out one day.

Then they believed that the winner would be the Source Tower…So they began to transfer assets, began to plan for the future. On the one hand, they stayed in the East Continent and took the resources provided by the Council, and on the other hand, they secretly planned the transfer matters. Of course, the family was large and could not complete all the moves, but as long as the core members could leave, it would be a great success.

This was also the reason why Toze Tsuki came to the Source Tower to participate in the trials.

She was the most outstanding transcendent genius of the family in nearly a hundred years. As long as she could win the candidate position for the "Black Tortoise Divine Envoy" in this competition, the Toze family could use this power to smoothly transfer the core members of the family to the Central Continent, and thus leave Ying Hai.

As for those who could not be taken away.

They were never within the scope of the family's consideration. Whether they survived or were destroyed, the high-level officials didn't care.

"Boom!"

Gu Shen forcibly read Toze Tsuki's spirit sea, and then silently remembered the unfamiliar faces of the Toze family in Ying Hai in his mind.

Earlier, he had listened to Chu Ling's detailed explanation of the various progress made in the merger over the past five years.

At first, Gu Shen was very gratified.

The Empress and Bai Shu's wills had reached a unified point, and even without himself, the "core hub," the merger could still proceed smoothly. After all, the world could operate without anyone.

But after reading Toze Tsuki's memory, he realized…

There were probably more than just one "Toze family" type of existence.

The East Continent had been under pressure for the past twenty years.

Some people wanted to rise up and resist, but some people had their courage worn away.

The more those high-level officials who had a concept of the "transcendent world" were, the more they didn't believe that the East Continent could resist the outer continents. They had seen the power of the Source Tower, the power of the Sky God Seats…So under the promotion of this mighty "merger" wave, they chose to escape, to transfer.

These people were dark maggots hidden deep in the flesh and blood.

To resist external aggression, one must first pacify the internal affairs.

To truly achieve "merging" in the true sense, one must eliminate these extremely deeply hidden maggots.

The spiritual search ended.

"I understand your and the Toze family's choice," Gu Shen said softly, "but I also express regret..."

"…?" Toze Tsuki looked blank.

With her strength, she couldn't resist the spiritual intrusion of the blazing fire at all. At this moment, she was still in a state of dizziness. It wasn't until Gu Shen spoke for several seconds that she realized what had just happened.

Her spirit sea had been completely read!

Hearing the three words "Toze family," Toze Tsuki's expression became extremely ugly.

She knew Gu Shen's position, and she also knew the power that Gu Shen possessed in the East Continent.

With Gu Shen's influence and strength, to destroy the Toze family, he only needed to stamp his foot.

In just one night, or perhaps even less!

The entire Toze family would be completely removed from the transcendent world, and even the Ying Hai region would usher in a major earthquake.

"No, no..."

Toze Tsuki hurriedly begged for mercy, she still wanted to say something.

But Gu Shen just shook his head.

"Boom--"

The next moment, her body was ignited by raging fire, and in an instant, it was burned to ashes!

After killing Hiddell and Toze Tsuki, Gu Shen stopped moving.

"As for you..."

Gu Shen looked back at the transcendents wailing on the cloudship.

He revealed a clean smile.

"I can give you a chance for 'salvation.'"

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(ps: There were more than 300 chapter comments in the last chapter, brothers, you are a bit fierce... I know that many people usually lurk, I didn't know there were so many! Can you keep up this momentum? I'm already considering whether to add more updates based on the number of chapter comments!)