Chapter 35 Quiet Ice Sea Bottom

The bottom of the icy sea was utterly silent.

The stone wall, etched with the Changsheng (Longevity) Array, was now enveloped in a rich tapestry of darkness and brilliant light, each swirling around the other, forming hemispherical arcs.

It was an extremely contradictory scene, a tug-of-war between life and death, constantly interacting.

Even the King of the Underworld would have called this a miracle...

Except that the King of the Underworld himself was currently within this sphere of life and death.

Gu Shen's consciousness had fully awakened.

He looked down at his tattered clothes, his chest exposed.

Countless wisps of Disaster Qi seeped from his skin.

The ominous presence erupted.

The fire of life, originally meant to mend his injuries, was completely blocked.

And the Ruler of Truth, wielded by the Devil, had scattered into countless silver lights, twining around the ominous Disaster Qi, aiding and abetting the evil!

Gu Shen knew that the Pure Land world must be in deep water...

The Devil had chosen this moment to attack, to seize everything that belonged to him while he was at his weakest!

But Gu Shen was also waiting for the Devil to take the initiative, to leave the mental space of the Ruler.

He held his breath, sitting stiffly before the stone wall, concentrating all his spirit into the real world, fighting against the ominous presence while also dispersing a wisp of blazing fire, roaming through the icy sea, seeking the aura of "life."

If he remembered correctly.

Before he feigned death, there was a "big fish" swimming near the stone wall. Although the depths of the icy sea were silent, there were still extraordinary lives present.

"Faster..."

"Even faster!"

Gu Shen took a deep breath, his spirit sweeping towards the endless distance of the icy sea.

There was a risk in doing so.

The icy sea was vast, and no one knew if there were extraordinarily powerful supernatural beings in the extremely deep and distant reaches.

But Gu Shen couldn't afford to worry about that anymore. Countless ominous presences were缠绕 (chanrao - entwining) him, desperately draining his life force. The Devil had chosen a very tricky moment. His field of life-fire had not yet fully formed... to encounter such a surprise attack just as it was about to take shape was the most fatal!

Rumble rumble rumble!

A wisp of blazing fire swiftly traveled through the bottom of the icy sea, drilling through the cracks in the reefs. In this dim seabed, this wisp of flame was like a blazing sun.

Soon, the small flame was covered by a massive shadow.

It was a giant octopus that had been hibernating at the bottom of the icy sea, having undergone supernatural awakening, its tentacles spread out, reaching nearly a hundred meters!

"Found it!"

The scene seen by the blazing fire instantly transmitted back to Gu Shen's mind.

He breathed a sigh of relief. The worst-case scenario he had anticipated had not occurred. This giant octopus was only about the strength of a third-order human transcendent!

"Splash!"

The eight tentacles contracted and spread, and the deep-sea octopus slowly lowered its body, perhaps because the blazing fire carried spiritual power, or perhaps because it was a light that had never appeared in the deep sea.

At this moment.

The deep-sea octopus was attracted by the blazing fire.

Due to the "supernatural awakening," it had become unusually bold, even taking the initiative to extend a tentacle, wanting to use its suction cups to embrace the blazing fire.

In the long years in this sea area, this deep-sea octopus had absorbed a large amount of transcendent source quality to grow. It had always been at the top of the "food chain." In its cognition, there were no natural enemies in this world!

But at the moment of touching the blazing fire.

The deep-sea octopus's huge body instantly stiffened!

The Great Cold of the Pure Land instantly struck it. The huge tentacle that touched the flame of the blazing fire was frozen in an instant. Gu Shen's will followed the blood directly into its mental sea. In less than a second, it invaded the mental sea of this deep-sea giant, which had not yet evolved high-level thinking!

The next moment, the small blazing flame instantly spread, turning into a ring of fire, strangling the hypnotized octopus, quickly tightening.

"Rumble rumble rumble..."

The seawater of the icy sea sent out a deep tremor.

Looking at the octopus flying quickly towards him, Gu Shen did not hesitate at all. He stretched out his palm and pressed it against the wall of the Changsheng Array.

Sitting withered in the icy sea for five years.

He had fully understood this Changsheng stone wall, engraved with obscure ancient texts.

After reading all the content of the ancient texts, Gu Shen realized that the content on this stone wall was from the unknown stone tablet that the Twilight Church had mined from the ground in the Tundra Zone!

Xiao had previously gone to great lengths to infiltrate the Storm Church in order to further interpret the "Changsheng ancient texts."

Later, he succeeded, and thus there was this Changsheng stone wall, but now everything Xiao had done had become a wedding dress for another.

"Changsheng Art! Activate!"

Gu Shen roared in his heart. At the place where his five fingers pressed, countless flames appeared in the deep sea, engraving a complete Changsheng Array. This deep-sea octopus that was dragged over instantly became a sacrifice... after touching the array, its huge body was instantly separated, and the seawater was stained red with blood, but the exchange ritual of fate had already begun.

The Changsheng Art was activated.

The "life force" of this deep-sea octopus was drawn out and directly poured into Gu Shen's body.

At this moment, the balance between the ominous presence and Gu Shen was broken.

The influx of a large amount of life force greatly accelerated Gu Shen's "recovery process." His originally dark eyes now burst out with a brilliant light!

Those "black evil spirits" that bound Gu Shen were instantly broken free!

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The light and shadows of the Pure Land collided together, and the dark kingdom almost suppressed 90% of the territory, ready to descend to the ground at any time.

Those souls that kept flying up were shattered again and again.

Their spirits had become extremely fragile.

After a few more repetitions, they would be completely annihilated.

But even at this moment, not a single soul hesitated after being resurrected... their rebirth in the Pure Land meant that their past personalities had been completely washed away.

Their relationship with this world was like lips and teeth.

If the lips were gone, the teeth would be cold!

When the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken?

For this reason, in this tragic struggle, countless ghosts rushed forward like moths to a flame... except that they were now the light, and the place they were rushing towards was eternal darkness.

Li Qingci sat on the ground, quickly arranging the array patterns, her face pale.

Her mental exhaustion was no less than that of those souls that kept dying and resurrecting. In the years she spent in seclusion at the Shrine Mountain, her mental energy was all used to practice the Prayer Art and the barrier array patterns left by the Li Clan. After coming to the Pure Land, she did a lot of things besides building flowerbeds.

Building array patterns was one of them.

There were hundreds of array patterns of various sizes on the wilderness of the Pure Land. These array patterns were usually used to store the source quality that overflowed from the flowerbeds, and also had some basic defensive capabilities!

At this moment, Li Qingci activated all the array patterns, but the previously accumulated source quality had been sent to Gu Shen...

She could only forcibly receive the source quality generated by the flowerbeds as a temporary emergency measure.

The Susu Xuan Tree gave this array pattern master the greatest support. Countless branches squeezed out source quality and poured it into the array patterns!

These array patterns lit up, went out, lit up again, and went out again in the air.

They were destroyed by the Truth in just a few seconds.

Then Li Qingci began to draw array patterns on the spot.

She knew that relying on Tie Wu's power and the death of these souls would not be able to stop the arrival of that darkness... but if she could draw the Shrine barrier of the Li Clan, perhaps she could delay it for a moment!

In this kind of decisive battle, a moment's effort could determine life and death!

Near the wilderness where she was sitting cross-legged, countless withered and fallen leaves were inserted. These leaves seemed irregular, but they were actually the direction deliberately dropped by the Susu Xuan Tree following her will. These iron leaves crisscrossed and painted a faintly glowing array pattern, with Li Qingci's spirit flowing between the array pattern lines.

The Shrine came alive!

"Hoo..."

Li Qingci raised her head. She stared at the figure on the dark throne. The fingers of her hands, which were hanging down in the position of her lower abdomen, slowly formed a hand seal.

Boom!

Countless grass and leaves flew in the wilderness!

The Shrine slowly moved upwards!

Tie Wu was attracted by this majestic movement. He turned his head and saw Li Qingci shrouded in a snow-white glow. The latter was like a god. The Susu Xuan Tree had given birth to a certain amount of intelligence. Among the few means of resistance currently available in the Pure Land, it distinguished which one was the most capable of resisting and gave the greatest blessing.

This Shrine expanded dozens of times, hundreds of times, as it ascended!

Even the Devil narrowed his eyes.

He knew that what he was fighting against at this moment was not the Li Clan's barrier... but the final struggle of this collapsing world.

As long as the Shrine was shattered.

Then everything would be over!

"A futile struggle."

The Devil, sitting leisurely on the dark throne, spoke coldly. He stood up, raised a hand, stretched it into the void, and slowly pulled out a longbow from the void.

The Truth. Extinguishing Candle that he took out was pitch-black, as if it had been soaked in an ink pool.

But the dangerous aura that it emitted made those fearless souls tremble uncontrollably!

This was a suppression on the level of life!

With the blessing of Achilles Heel, the bow holder could see the "weaknesses" of all things in the world.

Whether it was a living thing or a dead thing, it was all the same.

The Shrine at this moment... was no exception.

As long as he held the Extinguishing Candle, he could see every flowing pattern of the great array, as well as the most critical nodes for dismantling the great array.

The Devil squinted his single eye, virtually pinched the bowstring, and aimed at the Shrine barrier that had been magnified nearly a hundred times.

The next moment.

Release.

"Boom!"

A wisp of black arrow shot out like lightning, as if it were faster than light, instantly shattering the Shrine, shattering the land of the Pure Land, and piercing through all the souls that blocked the path of the arrow!

The entire noisy world fell silent after this arrow.

The souls pierced by the Extinguishing Candle didn't even have time to scream and instantly melted away, never to be resurrected again.

The Shrine was still rising...

But that arrow shattered the central core of the entire great array.

The floating Shrine disintegrated on its own and shattered in the air.

This was a despairing scene.

And what was even more despairing was... the Devil aimed at Li Qingci and pulled up a second arrow.

Just then.

A calm voice sounded from under the Susu Xuan Tree.

"If you let go, I will also let go."

This voice came from the position where Gu Shen had disappeared earlier. At this moment, countless wind and snow gathered, and that black-haired figure re-condensed, and was more solid than any previous time...

This meant that Gu Shen's spirit had broken through the ominous obstacles in the real world and successfully returned to the Pure Land!

At this moment, he was also holding a large bow in his hand.

The bow was like a full moon.

The arrow pointed to the top of the sky.

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(There is still one chapter! It will be released before 12 o'clock tonight!)