Chapter 415 The Utmost Good, the Utmost Benevolent Minister Su (Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Like a diamond-hard skull, gradually crushed by a pair of hands, allowing blood and marrow to flow, Su Zhou grimly kneaded the skull of the evil spirit in his hand into ashes. The Devouring Evil Demonfire ignited, completely incinerating the remaining corpse into charcoal.

Su Zhou had already stabilized Gu Zechuan's injuries. After all, he wasn't a professional healer, and could only barely restore his somewhat distorted limbs to normal and stop the bleeding.

After this, what needed to be done was to analyze the soul of the evil spirit and read its memories and thought patterns.

Earlier, when Su Zhou realized that the shelter had been breached, he rushed to the scene at top speed, while conveniently blasting all the evil spirits that appeared along the way.

Then, when he entered the main body of the underground shelter, Su Zhou discovered that an evil spirit whose strength was close to the peak of the Commander Realm was leading a team to attack the last stronghold of the shelter. The remaining two thousand-plus people inside were defending hand-in-hand, forming a formation and struggling to hold on.

In theory, a high-level Commander Realm evil spirit could easily destroy the combined force of these two thousand-plus people—if numbers were useful, there would be no point in technological development. Leaving aside transcendent Taoism, even with technology, ten thousand primitive people couldn't equal one bomber.

But Su Zhou could see that the evil spirit probably wanted to capture the remaining two thousand-plus people alive, so the two sides had been deadlocked until now—and when the evil spirit noticed Su Zhou's arrival and prepared to turn around to meet the challenge, it had already been punched in the very center of its chest by Su Zhou.

But to Su Zhou's surprise, the strength of this evil spirit was actually not weak.

Based on his previous experience fighting other Commander Realm evil spirits, he thought he could kill it with one punch, but this punch only injured it and was met with a furious counterattack.

Soon, in the ensuing brief battle, Su Zhou quickly discovered the various differences of this special evil spirit.

And the biggest difference lay in the complexity of its 'divine power' (神通, Shentong).

As everyone knows, in the process of a transcendent cultivator advancing to the Commander Realm, all of their cultivation achievements will be merged into a single divine power, and the power of this divine power naturally varies, and there is a general trend.

That is, the more complex it is, the more powerful it is.

This is not difficult to understand. Perhaps complex divine powers are not necessarily powerful, but powerful divine powers must be complex and all-encompassing, capable of covering combat, life, cultivation, and even entertainment.

Just like Su Zhou's Devouring Evil Demon Lord, it can be used to become stronger, it can also be used to fight, it can also use evil souls to strengthen its weapons or spells for near-death bursts, and it can also provide the 'Art of Distinguishing Good and Evil', which allows the holder to discover criminals around them, providing entertainment targets... the various effects are endless, very complete and powerful.

The reason why the previous three Commander Realm evil spirits were regarded by Su Zhou as 'mass-produced goods' and 'cannon fodder' was because their divine powers were extremely simple. Roughly speaking, they were nothing more than the three attributes of 'Profound Yin' (玄阴, Xuanyin), 'Nether Earth' (冥土, Mingtu), and 'Yin Soul' (阴魂, Yinhun). They could not even form a complete divine power alone, and could only be called innate spells. Only when combined together could they form a 'Small Red Lotus Hell' (小红莲地狱, Xiao Honglian Diyu) divine power.

And the 'Small Red Lotus Hell' itself is only a part of the 'Eight Cold Hells' (八寒地狱, Ba Han Diyu) a great divine power, and even the lowest-level derivative of the eighteen branches of the immortal-god level divine power 'Netherworld Hell Path' (冥罗地狱道, Mingluo Diyu Dao)... which shows its simplicity.

But, this Commander Realm evil spirit that attacked Gu's shelter, the complexity and power of its divine power, far surpassed other evil spirits.

Its divine power was composed of nine sub-level innate spells!

Profound Yin, Jambudvipa (阎浮, Yanfu), Nether Soul—constituting 'Hell'.

Five Turbidities, No Mind, Ignorance—forming 'Beast'.

Non-Birth, Desolation, Hunger—are 'Hungry Ghosts'.

Although they are all simple combinations, the three small divine powers formed by these nine combinations, after combining with each other, can barely reach the bottom line of a 'Great Divine Power', and can be regarded as a simplified version of the true great divine power 'Three Evil Paths of Tribulation' (历劫三恶道, Lijing San Edao).

The 'Profound Soul Divine Light' (玄魄神光, Xuanpo Shenguang) used by this evil spirit to attack mortals when it fled was the Hell-type divine power, which could weaken the strength of the soul—and when it fought with Su Zhou earlier, it also attempted to use the Beast-type divine power to weaken Su Zhou's mind and wisdom, and the Hungry Ghost-type divine power to weaken Su Zhou's spiritual power and physical strength.

The power of these Three Evil Paths was enough to weaken ordinary transcendents by a large realm. If used several times, layered on top of each other, it wouldn't be strange to be weakened into a mortal.

But unfortunately, before its divine power could take effect, Su Zhou beat it to pieces, breaking its head and fracturing its bones, almost tearing it apart with his bare hands.

——Su Zhou's Devouring Evil Demon Lord divine power, after a True Soul evolution and the Sin Karma Fire DLC enhancement, its power is completely one of the top-level divine powers.

It was precisely after experiencing this absolute power gap that this evil spirit, after roaring in fear, 'Monster!', did something that made Su Zhou furious—seeing that things could not be done, it actually used the evil methods in the Three Evil Paths divine power, devouring other souls, forcibly increasing its power, and attacking other civilians, intending to divert Su Zhou's attention and escape.

Then it was stopped by Gu Zechuan, and then completely blasted to death by the angry Su Zhou.

On the burning corpse of this evil spirit, Su Zhou frowned and picked up a dark evil soul.

[Derivative Soul of the Mindless Demon]

[A Void Soul with no Mind, no Soul, no Body, no Thought, nothing at all]

[Directly swallowed, increases soul quantity, increases sharpness of divine consciousness, increases tenacity of soul]

[As if staring at a mirror, the pupils reflect each other, layer upon layer, endlessly]

Although it was almost the same description, the attributes increased after swallowing were much more, even more than the previous three evil souls combined.

Putting it in his mouth, after swallowing, Su Zhou did feel that the taste was much richer. Although it was still a bit bland, it had begun to have the spicy taste of carbonated drinks.

"Although the strength is very different, the underlying thinking is still the same... how to say, this evil spirit, and the previous evil spirits, are like incomplete bodies copied from the same parent body, but this evil spirit is more complete, and can be called a 'fragment', while the previous evil spirit is at most a 'crumb'."

"The divine powers are also the same. Although the complexity varies, the basic composition is the same."

Su Zhou frowned and analyzed the essence of this evil spirit's evil soul—if the transcendent-level evil spirits are just ordinary posting robots, AIs that automatically repeat the chat records of group members in Q groups, then the Commander-level evil spirits are at least the level of game-playing AIs, and to some extent, defeating real people is not a problem.

And the Commander-level evil spirit he had just eaten was stronger than some of the weaker humans. If converted into AI, it would be enough to pass the Turing test.

"It's too strange, this abnormal form of existence... who exactly created it? This cannot be a naturally generated life form, and, why create it like this?"

Thinking hard, but unable to find an answer, Su Zhou became even more annoyed when he thought of the souls swallowed by this evil spirit, and looked at its remains with even more anger: "Damn it, if this underground shelter wasn't too narrow, and there weren't so many people to protect, I wouldn't be able to exert my full strength, this evil spirit wouldn't have survived for even a second!"

While Su Zhou was analyzing the essence of the evil spirit's soul, and its divine powers.

The residents of the Gu Clan shelter, realizing that the battle had ended, and discovering that the newcomer might be reinforcements, gradually withdrew their defensive formations and began to treat the wounded and rescue survivors.

An old Qingqiu elder carefully walked forward and came to Su Zhou's back with restraint.

"...Gu Xifeng, an elder of the Qingqiu Gu Clan, humbly requests that Your Excellency reveal your name..."

Hearing the other party's words, Su Zhou, who was meditating and analyzing the details of the evil spirit's soul, reacted. He turned his head and said casually: "Don't be so restrained. I'm here to help at the request of your clan's armor warrior, Gu Zechuan."

"Gu Zechuan was seriously injured just now to block the fleeing evil spirit. Although I have stabilized his injuries with water and earth spells, it will still take some time to heal him—take him down to heal."

"Yes, yes!"

The Gu Clan elder named Gu Xifeng was slightly surprised when he saw Su Zhou's appearance—although he was old and didn't care about appearance as much as when he was young, Su Zhou's appearance did make him subconsciously exclaim. He was also limited by the majesty and lowered his head, not daring to continue looking directly.

After the elder called a few doctors to come and take the unconscious Gu Zechuan off the field, Su Zhou, watching this scene, turned his head and said to Gu Xifeng on the side: "You should be the leader of the Gu Clan shelter, right?"

"I dare not..." Hearing this sentence, Gu Xifeng first humbled himself, and then sighed: "The leading armor warrior leader has already died in battle against the evil spirit, and the Great Elder also fainted while supporting the formation and confronting the evil spirit... Among the people who are still conscious, I should be considered the leader."

"That's good." Su Zhou didn't care who was the real leader, as long as the other party was a high-level figure: "The situation is urgent now, so I won't exchange pleasantries. I have some questions to ask."

Some time later.

"...The history of Qingqiu Country is roughly like this."

At this moment, the Gu Clan shelter had roughly restored order. Under the coordination of the remaining armor warriors and transcendents, although they had lost many relatives and friends, the Qingqiu people, who were already accustomed to the cruel reality, were now reorganizing their homes and preparing for the upcoming migration.

Su Zhou also learned from Gu Xifeng's mouth the general situation of Qingqiu Star today.

The information from the elder's mouth was not much different from what Gu Zechuan said, except for some more detailed aspects, such as the Gu Clan's migration route over the years, and which family they originally belonged to in Qingqiu Country.

After confirming that this information was not false, Su Zhou also asked some questions that he cared more about, such as news about the Central Divine Court, the First Emperor, and the God of War.

And the result was equally puzzling to him.

"You're from the Central Divine Court?! Finally, finally, is the Divine Court willing to look at us again?!"

Just revealing that he came from Earth, Gu Xifeng became excited. The eyes of this old Qingqiu person almost shone with light. He almost knelt down to Su Zhou on the spot—if Su Zhou hadn't helped him, he would have knelt down with a thud.

When Gu Xifeng calmed down a little, he also said that the Qingqiu people did know about the Central Divine Court and the legends of the First Emperor... but, they still didn't know who the God of War was.

"How is this possible?!"

Such a strange thing immediately confused Su Zhou. He said incredulously: "You know immortals and gods, you know the First Emperor, and you can even see that I have dragon blood, but you don't know the God of War sealed by the First Emperor on Qingqiu Star?!"

Originally, Su Zhou thought that Gu Zechuan was too young and didn't study cultural classes much, so he would have such a strange view of history—but he didn't expect that in Qingqiu Star, this was common sense.

"No, how to say it, Your Excellency..."

Gu Xifeng didn't know how to explain. The old man was very confused: "You need to know, it has been more than 1,300 years since the last Qingqiu King was assassinated by evil rebels, and evil spirits have wreaked havoc in the world."

"Chaos and war have continued to this day. We have lost countless classics and legends. Those ancient histories and glories are of no benefit to survival. Not many people would deliberately memorize them. The reason why we can remember the First Emperor and the Central Divine Court is mainly because we expect that one day, the Emperor can return to Qingqiu, bringing the heavenly soldiers of the Divine Court, and return a bright and clear world to this world—"

Speaking of this, the old man almost knelt down to Su Zhou again: "Now, your arrival is the beginning of the end of this disaster... Your Excellency, please save us, save the Qingqiu people, save this fragmented Qingqiu Country!"

"Alas, I will definitely save you, don't worry about this..."

Sighing, Su Zhou couldn't understand Gu Xifeng's statement, but to be honest, could the existence of the God of War be erased just like that? Not to mention anything else, the ice fox ancestors on Qingqiu Si clearly knew that the calamities on the entire Qingqiu Star might have originated from the loosening of the God of War's seal.

"Wait, that said, it can indeed explain..." But soon, Su Zhou also reflected. He narrowed his eyes and thought: "If the mastermind behind the evil spirits, his fundamental purpose is indeed the God of War's seal, then his deliberate erasure of the existence of the God of War's seal can be completely explained."

Thinking of this, the young man couldn't help but raise his head and look at the fox people who were reorganizing their homes in the narrow shelter in front of him.

"It's even possible that the Qingqiu people themselves, in ancient times, took the initiative to erase information about the God of War's seal?"

But then the problem came again—who exactly erased it? And when did the erasure begin? After all, no one said that the Qingqiu people's forgetting of the God of War began when the old king was assassinated and the world was in chaos.

One question after another, Su Zhou was too lazy to continue thinking deeply. Anyway, as long as he continued to move forward and defeat the enemies blocking the way, the road ahead and the truth would naturally appear.

"One last question."

Saying this, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at Gu Xifeng, who was waiting respectfully beside him for his questions: "Do you have semi-solidified spiritual power materials here?"

"To put it another way—do you have 'Tiangang Disha' (天罡地煞, Heavenly Dipper Earthly Fiends) here?"

Tiangang Disha was the name used in the immortal-god era for semi-solidified spiritual power materials. Su Zhou knew very well that no matter what the truth was, the most important thing was to repair the Far Gaze, otherwise, he might have to wait for the Earth to realize that something was wrong before sending reinforcements... By then, it might be half a year, and most of the Qingqiu people would be dead.

"Tiangang Disha?" The old man repeated, Gu Xifeng said uncertainly: "The clan should have it... Please wait a moment, I'll go ask."

……

Waking up from a cruel and painful dream, Gu Zechuan suddenly opened his eyes, sweat running down his temples and dripping onto the pillow.

Immediately, a burning pain swept through the white-haired fox man's body, causing his forehead veins to throb. He could only grit his teeth, grab the bed sheets, and endure the excruciating pain that made him want to die.

"Huff... huff..."

What felt like a long time had passed, but in reality, only a few dozen seconds had passed. The pain slowly dissipated, and Gu Zechuan was able to sense his body again.

At this time, most of the bed sheets and pillows were soaked with his sweat and tears.

"...Am I not dead?"

Slowly supporting himself to sit up, Gu Zechuan raised his hand, and his emerald eyes reflected his intact right arm. He couldn't help but feel a little lost: "I remember, my whole body was almost shattered by that evil spirit... Who healed me?"

Recalling the scene of himself challenging the enemy with his sword, Gu Zechuan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "After all, he's a human immortal... Even if my swordsmanship and cultivation methods break through, it's impossible to stop him for a moment..."

Indeed, in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful gap in strength, passion, determination, and even on-the-spot breakthroughs are useless...

——After all, I'm still just a 'weakling'.

But having grown up on Qingqiu Star, which is constantly at war, Gu Zechuan has a good mentality. He quickly shook off that trace of decadence and placed 'unwillingness' in his heart as the motivation for future efforts. He began to observe the surrounding situation.

Then, he was slightly stunned.

"This is, my own home?"

He could see that in the narrow room, there were pages of cultivation tips and Taoist armor design drawings pasted on the wall. These were things that every Qingqiu person had to learn from childhood, and he was particularly fanatical about them when he was a child. Every time he gained something, he would definitely paste it on the wall. This was both a show-off and a reminder, allowing him to move forward firmly and continuously improve.

In addition, there was a simple wardrobe, a familiar small table, very few clothes in the wardrobe, and a Taoist armor improvement design drawing that he had only half-finished when he left home last time on the table... Every armor warrior is a professional refiner, after all, they can only maintain their own equipment when they are out and about.

This is indeed his home, without a doubt.

"Is, is it sister?!"

Immediately, Gu Zechuan called out excitedly, and when he said this, he realized that his voice was hoarse, and his voice was itchy. The flesh seemed to be regenerating.

But he still couldn't help but continue to shout: "Cough cough... Sister, are you there?"

An elder sister is like a mother.

For Gu Zechuan, who lost his parents at a young age and only had a sister who was eight years older than him, it was his sister who worked hard all the way to allow him to grow up and cultivate like a normal person, and then become an armor warrior.

Life in the underground shelter was very hard more than ten years ago. At that time, spiritual power was cut off, and there was no Taoist technique to simulate sunlight with spiritual power. The Gu Clan could only grow mushrooms and moss in the underground, and raise fish and meat rats for a living. At most, they also grew some wild vegetables that didn't need light in some places.

When he was a child, he didn't have much impression of his sister, he only remembered that his sister was always very powerful and was the youngest planter in the shelter.

When he grew up, Gu Zechuan could understand—for a little girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time, becoming a planter was such a hard thing. It was hard work that required diligent cultivation and continuous labor every day.

When he roughly understood things and could start cultivating, it was his sister who guided and protected him all the way... Although her talent was not good, in order to guide her younger brother to develop good cultivation habits, this woman had to spend a lot of extra time accompanying him to do his homework in addition to her daily work.

In the recent ten years, because of the revival of spiritual energy, the lives of the Qingqiu people in the shelter have gradually improved. At least, it is much better than the era when spiritual energy was cut off for thousands of years—after all, with Taoism and spiritual power, everything is much better. What's more, with the wisdom of the Qingqiu people, they have roughly explored many sophisticated machines over the years, even without spiritual energy. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to live underground for so many years.

But in the final analysis, Qingqiu Country is still a dangerous world occupied by evil spirits, full of darkness, and death follows like a shadow.

Gu Zechuan still remembered that a few years ago, when he had just become an armor warrior and was excited to think that he could protect his sister, the sister who knew this news just sat in a chair as usual.

The woman, whose face was already wrinkled, was knitting a sweater for her younger brother, and smiled faintly: "My Zechuan is very powerful."

She didn't ask for anything in return, just took care of Gu Zechuan like a mother.

The reason why Gu Zechuan has been trying his best to cultivate and fight has been for her.

"Click."

The door opened.

Gu Zechuan immediately turned his head to look at the door, his eyes flickering.

However, what appeared from behind the door was Tang Yuan, and a Qingqiu doctor.

"Eh?"

Tang Yuan was stunned for a moment. The young man with short black hair scratched his head: "You're awake. That's really fast. I thought you would be unconscious for at least two days."

Gu Zechuan was also stunned. He understood at this time: "Wait... did you save me? Like you saved Qing Shan brother..."

"Of course." Smiling and imitating Su Zhou's usual tone, Tang Yuan immediately became serious. He coughed lightly: "Your injuries were very serious at that time. If the minister hadn't stabilized your injuries as soon as possible and reorganized your right hand, which was basically rotten into minced meat, you would probably only be waiting for a cloned arm transplant now. It's useless for me to save you."

Tang Yuan also noticed Gu Zechuan's somewhat dull expression. He smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, your injuries have stabilized. Otherwise, I wouldn't have moved you from the severely injured area back to your home. There were quite a few deaths and injuries this time. There were quite a few severely injured people. If the minister didn't carry a large amount of high-purity holy water with him all year round, I'm afraid many more people would have died."

"Speaking of which, where did the minister get so much holy water? I don't remember Europa and the saintly oath organizations in America being very familiar with the minister..."

Ignoring Tang Yuan's slightly talkative muttering, Gu Zechuan's head buzzed the moment he heard 'heavy casualties'—he immediately struggled to get out of bed, enduring the pain all over his body, and held onto the wall and said: "Wait, then, then what about my sister?"

"Eh, your injuries haven't healed yet... Your sister?"

Tang Yuan originally wanted to send Gu Zechuan back to bed, but he found that Gu Zechuan's emerald eyes were surrounded by bloodshot eyes and his expression was extremely serious, so he had to turn his head to look at the Gu Clan doctor beside him.

"Are you talking about Gu Lulin?"

The doctor was not very clear either. He thought for a while, and then shook his head: "Now the wounded are being treated collectively in the camp. Lord Su is over there..."

Gu Zechuan didn't listen carefully to the rest of the words. At this time, his heart was tight, and a strong feeling of unease came over him.

Without hesitation, he forcibly passed through Tang Yuan and the doctor, walked out of the door, and staggered towards the camp.

The doctor's cultivation was far inferior to Gu Zechuan's. Even if the other party was seriously injured, he couldn't stop him, and Tang Yuan also didn't plan to stop the other party, but followed behind the other party helplessly.

Treatment camp.

The Gu Clan shelter is essentially not much different from the ice fox caves on Qingqiu Si. They are all caves and chambers extending from underground cavities, and then rooms and roads are built in them, which are connected to each other.

The treatment camp is built in a relatively large underground cavity located in the center. Many wounded are being treated in isolated caves, and doctors are running back and forth in the narrow tunnels, in a hurry.

Wearing a hospital gown, Gu Zechuan staggered into the camp. He looked around blankly for a long time, and finally found a doctor he knew.

"Liangqiu... have you seen my sister? Is she okay?"

The doctor named Liangqiu was suddenly stopped by Gu Zechuan and couldn't help but be a little surprised. He was indeed familiar with Gu Zechuan, and was quite concerned after seeing the other party in a hospital gown: "Are you injured? It doesn't look serious... Well, Sister Lulin? I remember she's in the severely injured area in the north..."

"Thank you!"

Without waiting for the doctor Liangqiu to say more, Gu Zechuan set off again.

Soon, he came to the north area and found the doctor there.

"Gu Lulin..."

The seriously injured doctor was very tired at this time, but he still cheered up and flipped through the roster, answering Gu Zechuan's question. He followed the signal and searched for a while, then turned his head to look at Gu Zechuan's lower body and nodded slightly: "You're a man? Well, that's good. Your family line is not extinct."

Hearing these words, Gu Zechuan's heart suddenly turned cold, and the chill spread from his spine to the surroundings: "What do you mean by this?!"

The doctor didn't answer directly, he sighed: "This attack was too tragic. If Lord Su hadn't arrived, we would probably have been wiped out... Your family's situation is still good."

"Don't beat around the bush!" This answer obviously couldn't satisfy Gu Zechuan. He clenched his hands, gritted his teeth and asked directly: "Is my sister still alive?!"

The doctor shook his head: "She's dead."

……

By the time Su Zhou saw Gu Zechuan at the edge of the medical camp, the white-haired youth's expression was very normal.

"Captain Su..."

When he saw Su Zhou, he stood up from the stone stool, preparing to salute him. Su Zhou, who had basically been worshiped as an immortal god all the way, was too lazy to stop the other party: "Okay, okay, I don't like this, don't do this next time—did you find your sister?"

He knew from the elder that Gu Zechuan had a sister and that they had a good relationship, so he asked casually.

Gu Zechuan lowered his eyes, and he said calmly: "She's dead."

——This is nothing strange. Everyone will die, just like the several shelters that he originally planned to go to for help. Thousands of people were all killed. The evil spirits killed them all. Even if they were still alive, they would only be sent to the Soul Suppression Tower.

In the final analysis, in this troubled world, human life is just a number... Who can guarantee that the important people to them are not one of those dead numbers?

At this time, Gu Zechuan's heart was empty, and any thoughts and feelings, even grief, anger, and pain, he didn't want to continue this topic. He also felt that Su Zhou wouldn't care too much about this, at most he would say 'condolences' after knowing it—after all, human joys and sorrows are not connected.

However, Gu Zechuan, who thought this was how it would develop, found that Su Zhou's expression became serious.

"Is that so." He said: "That's good. Gu Zechuan, come over and help me with a favor."

"Good, okay."

Su Zhou's tone contained an irresistible force. Gu Zechuan didn't know why the other party would suddenly say this, and he didn't know why the other party would come to him.

But because of that majesty, he subconsciously agreed.

Then, the fox-eared youth saw Su Zhou take out a twenty-sided crystal.

"Too many people have died in your shelter. I don't know them. Now the souls collected in the server are very chaotic—come over and help me register them one by one, and see if your sister is in it."

Su Zhou's tone sounded quite troublesome. He handed the server to the other party—but Gu Zechuan was struck by lightning when he heard this.

"Wh, what?!"

The Qingqiu man trembled and took the Soul Abyss server from Su Zhou's hand. He was obviously at a loss: "You mean, inside, the dead souls..."

He didn't know what to say, and was almost incoherent.

Su Zhou looked at Gu Zechuan. He looked at the fox-eared youth, then stared at the other party's ears that were constantly shaking because of excitement, and couldn't help but shake his head: "I really want to touch them... Cough, what's wrong, could it be that your Qingqiu people have even forgotten the legends of the underworld, and think that death is the end?"

"No..." At this time, Gu Zechuan had obtained a rough explanation from the Soul Abyss server through spiritual power contact. He muttered to himself in a loss: "I just... is it really possible? How is this possible, this, this is the underworld... unbelievable..."

"You can choose to believe it, or you can choose not to believe it."

Su Zhou didn't care about Gu Zechuan's thoughts at this time, and casually explained: "Anyway, I'm helping these souls, not to make you believe it, but to fulfill my duty as a human being, so that the souls of my compatriots will not dissipate without any value."

"And."

Saying this, Su Zhou still clicked his tongue unhappily. He gritted his teeth and said: "I still didn't save everyone."

What he was talking about was obviously the few souls consumed by the previous Commander-level evil spirit: "The battle happened too early. Before I arrived, some of the souls of the Qingqiu mortals who died the earliest had already returned to heaven and earth. Even I can't save them."

"The current me has no way to find the true spirit... Sure enough, I'm too weak."

According to what Yala and Ji Zhu said in the past, in the multiverse, the true spirit is immortal, but the soul will dissipate.

To give an example—if the true spirit is a fundamental particle, then the soul is everything that is derived from it.

As everyone knows, gold is the ash left over from a supernova explosion. It is born from a stellar explosion. Its original body is a mass of stellar gas, which has undergone unimaginable high-pressure fusion before it becomes gold.

The relationship between souls and souls is similar to the relationship between gold and stellar gas—they have the same origin, that is, the basic particles (true spirit) that make up stellar gas and gold, but other than that, there is no similarity between them.

Unless... transcend reincarnation and view all of this from the perspective of a supreme being. Just like Ji Zhu, he can regard the countless reincarnations derived from a true spirit as different stages of a life (transcender).

Naturally, Gu Zechuan couldn't possibly understand Su Zhou's state of mind. He just held the Soul Abyss server in his hand, his eyes dull, feeling its weight like a mountain.

"Tang Yuan will come back to help you later. Go find him after a while—oh, he's already here."

Saying this, Su Zhou seemed to sense something. He turned his head and saw Tang Yuan, who was taking pictures of various scenes in the Gu Clan shelter to collect materials for the report, not far away.

The young man waved to his secretary from afar: "Come here, Tang Yuan, you have a new mission!"

"Coming, coming."

Hearing Su Zhou's voice, Tang Yuan looked around, and after seeing Su Zhou, he ran over immediately. He complained: "Minister, I just collected so many souls and have to be responsible for writing the investigation report. Can't you let me rest for a while?"

"Let's not talk about the fact that it's an emergency now. In the Righteous Country, where are there so many souls for you to practice with? The souls that the Tang family has handled in decades are not as many as you have today. You're still complaining about such a great opportunity. Be careful I deduct your bonus!"

Su Zhou obviously didn't think this was exploitation, but a cultivation opportunity. He patted Tang Yuan on the shoulder, and then walked towards the exit of the shelter: "I'll go back to the Far Gaze first. If there's an emergency, send a signal directly, and I'll definitely arrive within a minute."

"Okay, Minister."

At this moment, Gu Zechuan finally broke away from the shock brought about by Su Zhou's words earlier.

"This, this is..."

He raised his head and looked at Su Zhou's back in a daze.

Only at this time did he finally understand why there was a saying of 'separation between immortals and mortals' in the world of the past.

——Life and death, distance, time—and many more things, they are not the same in the eyes of different beings.

In the eyes of 'immortals and gods', this world is not the same thing as 'mortals'... Whether it is unforgettable death, or a distance that ordinary people need a long time to travel, in their eyes, it is so... so...

"Immortals and gods..." He couldn't help but mutter to himself, and at this time, Tang Yuan also came forward.

"How is it? The minister is indeed a good person, right."

He stood beside Gu Zechuan with a smile, watching Su Zhou's back together.

Then, he sighed slightly: "It's just a pity that in our hometown, there are always people who slander him on the Internet—these people just don't know how kind and benevolent, how simple and amiable the minister is, he can simply be called the supreme good, the utmost benevolent!"

"Even if I joined the core fan group and worked with the group leader and others to spread rumors and explain that the minister is not a glutton who eats everything, never kills innocent people indiscriminately, never opens small accounts to argue with people, and no one believes it—it would be even better if I wasn't used as a tool person."

Saying this, Tang Yuan looked indignant.

"Fan group?"

Tang Yuan said so much, but Gu Zechuan turned his head and repeated the word he didn't understand in confusion.

"Oh, you can understand it as an organization that supports the minister." Tang Yuan didn't care. As the saying goes, hasty acquaintances lead to deep conversations. What's more, Gu Zechuan can be regarded as having proven his reliability with his life. He couldn't help but recall the familiar ids one by one, and then nodded slightly: "There are many kind and amiable people inside."

At this time, Gu Zechuan raised his head, he looked at the direction where Su Zhou left again, and then his eyes gradually turned firm.

——I want to... follow in his footsteps.

Su Zhou naturally didn't know that Tang Yuan was a member of his core fan group like Shao Qiming and others, and he didn't even know that the other party was a tap water for himself.

Soon, he returned to the location of the Far Gaze spacecraft, and then explained to Lin Chengde and Liu Wuxin what he had seen and heard on this trip as quickly as possible.

"You killed four Commander Realms?!"

Liu Wuxin, who originally wanted to show off that he had killed the attacking Commander Realm evil spirit, was shocked: "How long has it been? Are you killing one every ten minutes on average?!"

"To be precise, it's fifteen seconds. You can't include the time it takes to travel."

Su Zhou didn't want to continue this topic, after all, killing cannon fodder is not a glorious record to show off.

He turned his head and looked at Lin Chengde