Light Fortress-Chapter 1553 - 245: Living King Yan (2nd Update)

The [Pure Land] dissipates, and the [Blazing Fire] unfolds!

Gu Shen’s insight into the "fire of life" was originally a healing domain for injuries, but now the blazing fire he releases is full of fierce killing intent!

He retrieved the fragmented memories of the Cloud Tiger.

Originally, he just wanted to see how many people were involved in the task of hunting Gu Xiaoman...

But after looking through it,

he felt it was absurd; all the transcendent on this entire cloud ship came to kill Gu Xiaoman...

He knew this was Qinglong’s setup.

Except he couldn’t accept it.

Boom!

Flames engulfing, some people howled, some screamed, some crawled before Gu Shen begging for mercy.

But Gu Shen didn’t spare them a glance.

The young figure who crawled in front of Gu Shen was instantly obliterated into ashes, swept away by the wind.

The cloud ship turned into a sea of fire, like a living hell.

Gu Shen knew this ship was full of the young talents from the Source Tower, all geniuses here to participate in the Divine Envoy trials, some of whom were particularly outstanding and could be seen as different at a glance in the crowd...

The Cloud Tiger’s Spirit Sea was not completely shattered, and combined with his high realm.

So even when Gu Shen’s blazing fire immersed in his Spirit Sea, it only captured some scattered memory fragments.

He first targeted Sidal.

In the inferno, that silver-haired swordsman was still barely resisting, Sidal drew his sword from its sheath, plunged the long sword into the ground, released his own Sword Intent Domain, waves of resistance against the scorching fire, he was among the very few transcendent geniuses who could withstand the heat... but this didn’t mean he was truly strong.

The "Blazing Fire" Gu Shen released now used only a fraction of his power, one or two thirds at most.

Why would he need to use all his strength to kill these third-order brats?

Even to beat the Cloud Tiger, it was just a few casual slaps.

Whether it was [Pure Land] or [Blazing Fire], from the moment the domain was released, everyone aboard this cloud ship was doomed to escape.

"Tap."

"Tap."

"Tap."

Amidst the chaotic sea of fire on the cloud ship, Gu Shen’s footsteps sounded exceptionally clear, Sidal’s expression pale, facing the man bathed in scarlet flames like a demon from hell.

He did not plead.

His ten fingers gripping the sword hilt trembled violently.

Finally, he roared in anger, pulling out the sword from the ground, fiercely stabbing towards Gu Shen.

"Sizzle—"

The long sword pierced into Gu Shen’s shoulder, Gu Shen did not dodge, his eyes coldly watching the silver-haired youth, exerting all his strength into the strike, the sword tip pressed into Gu Shen’s flesh, then the sword blade, finally the hilt...

The Blazing Fire Domain achieved Great Success.

At this moment, Gu Shen had already mastered the "Elementalization".

The location where Sidal’s sword tip stabbed, under the black shirt, was a blazing pile of intense flames!

The three-foot-long sword melted inch by inch, leaving at last only half a hilt.

Gu Shen extended his palm, pressing it towards the dark-faced Sidal’s face.

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

In the end, the two exchanged a glance.

"Boom!"

Sidal’s body suddenly exploded, his final decision was to detonate his own Spirit Sea, he personally saw the Titled Level Cloud Tiger being crushed by Gu Shen, and he knew this sword couldn’t harm Gu Shen in the slightest, but he still attempted the strike...

Failed to strike.

He chose to die standing.

Firelight flying, flesh bursting.

Sidal igniting his Spirit Sea in self-destruction shocked everyone.

But even more shocking was yet to come—

Sidal’s self-destruction’s firelight all washed over Gu Shen, the explosion of a third-order transcendent couldn’t possibly harm Gu Shen, but for a moment smoke and fog spread everywhere.

A deeply suppressed indifferent voice echoed out from within the firelight and smoke.

"Do you think dying means it’s over?"

Gu Shen’s five fingers grasped the air, the fire of life driving countless fragments of broken flesh, while Sidal ignited his Spirit Sea, Gu Shen’s blazing fire had already been sown—

At this moment, countless blazing fires carried Sidal’s spiritual fragments, all flying back!

A virtual Spiritual Body, forcefully pieced together by blazing fire, Sidal’s physical form had already shattered, but the extinguished consciousness reopened its eyes in the firelight, filled with trembling and fear.

This had already transcended the understanding of the ordinary.

This was simply a Divine Miracle!

Those transcendent being burned by the blazing fire, their eyes looked at Gu Shen as if seeing King Yan alive.

"To make you die at five, how dare you perish at three?"

This was indeed a Divine Miracle.

Gu Shen grasped into the flame, grabbing Sidal’s soul, instantly flooding with a wealth of clear images into the Spirit Sea—

He saw Sidal’s memories before his death.

The Red Shadow attacking the cloud ship.

The sudden ambush from the church.

And... the scene where Sidal and Dong Lai Yue hunted Gu Xiaoman, forcing her to use the Thundering Bracelet.

After seeing these, his eyes turned incomparably cold.

"Boom!"

Sidal’s soul was completely crushed!

Gu Shen originally planned to throw it into the Pure Land, but seeing the scene of Sidal hunting on the snowfield, he abandoned this idea.

This grip completely crushed Sidal’s soul!

Those Central Continent geniuses struggling desperately on the cloud ship, their last thought of resistance, was also crushed.

The most fearful among them was Dong Lai Yue.

After Gu Shen descended, she immediately deployed her immature domain, using the "Ink Splash Technique" to conceal herself, vanishing without a trace... Although this couldn’t evade the burning of Blazing Fire, what if there was a sliver of hope?

But after Gu Shen crushed Sidal, he directly cast his gaze toward her hiding spot.

Just as Dong Lai Yue hesitated about whether to reveal herself voluntarily.

Gu Shen directly reached out into the void.

"Screech!"

A spurt of fresh blood sprayed from the air.

An ice spike, condensed from who knows where, pierced through Dong Lai Yue’s back, propelling her dozens of meters forward, right in front of Gu Shen.

"Wow!"

Dong Lai Yue’s face was pale as she spat out a large mouthful of blood.

"You are an East Continent person, yet you came to the Source Tower to participate in the Divine Envoy Trial?"

Gu Shen looked at that beautiful face and felt a deep sense of irony in his heart. He then asked word by word, "Don’t you know that the one who has been oppressing the East Continent most harshly in recent years is the Source Tower?"

"..."

Dong Lai Yue was speechless, she bit her teeth and chose to remain silent.

She came from Yinghai, right next to Da Du.

So she understood the weight of the name "Gu Shen" better than anyone else on this Cloud Ship.

When she was still young and immature, this name meant the flag of the entire younger generation of the East Continent, the pinnacle countless people pursued.

In the Jiangnan Region of the East Continent, apart from Da Du, other places couldn’t be considered prosperous.

Everyone aspired for a better life.

The Transcendents were no exception.

The Donglai Family always aimed to enter parliament... and later on, they did achieve it. The lady led the entire Jiangnan Region, the Donglai Family received support, but precisely because they entered parliament, they saw a bigger world.

Compared to Upper City.

Da Du wasn’t so prosperous.

The Donglai Family started cultivating young talents, no longer aiming to stay in the East Continent.

Changye and Central City merged, the East Continent and North Continent became allies... For the past five years, everyone knew, there was praise all around in the parliament, but not everyone accepted this move from the heart.

At least the Donglai Family didn’t believe "merging" was the right choice.

If one day a Divine War breaks out.

They believed the winner would be the Source Tower... So they started transferring assets, laying out plans for the future, on one hand, staying in the East Continent to take resources provided by the parliament, on the other hand, secretly planning the transfer matters. Of course, the family was large, making it impossible to move everything, but as long as the core members could leave, it would be considered a great success.

This was also the reason Dong Lai Yue went to the Source Tower to participate in the trial.

She was the most outstanding transcendent genius in the Donglai Family for nearly a hundred years. As long as she could win the candidate seat of the "Xuan Turtle Divine Envoy", the Donglai Family could use that power to smoothly transfer the core personnel of the family to the Central Continent, departing Yinghai from then on.

As for those who couldn’t be taken away.

They were never within the consideration range of the family, whether they survived or perished, the higher-ups didn’t care.

"Boom!"

Gu Shen forcibly read Dong Lai Yue’s Spirit Sea, then silently memorized those unfamiliar faces from the Yinghai Donglai Family.

Earlier, he had heard Chu Ling’s detailed account of the various progress in the merge over the past five years.

At first, Gu Shen was quite gratified.

The will of the Empress and Bai Shu had become unified, even without himself as a "core hub", the merge could still proceed smoothly, because this world could operate without any one person.

But after seeing Dong Lai Yue’s memories, he realized...

Existences like the "Donglai Family" probably weren’t isolated cases.

For the past twenty years, the East Continent had been under severe oppression.

Some people thought of rising to resist, but others had their spirits crushed.

The higher-ups, who had concepts of the "extraordinary world", didn’t believe the East Continent could resist the Outer Continent. They had seen the Source Tower’s strength, the Sky Divine Throne’s might... Thus, driven by this massive wave of "merging", they chose to evade, to transfer.

These people were the hidden maggots buried deep within the flesh and blood.

To address the external, you must first settle the internal.

To truly achieve "merging", these deeply hidden maggots must be purged.

The spiritual probing ended.

"I understand your choice and the Donglai Family’s choice," Gu Shen said softly, "but I also express regret..."

"...?" Dong Lai Yue’s expression was bewildered.

With her power, she couldn’t resist the spiritual invasion of Blazing Fire at all, and she was still in a dazed state until a few seconds after Gu Shen spoke, she realized what had just happened.

Her Spirit Sea had already been read!

Upon hearing the words "Donglai Family", Dong Lai Yue’s face turned extremely unsightly.

She knew Gu Shen’s status, and she knew the power he held in the East Continent.

With Gu Shen’s influence and strength, to obliterate the Donglai Family, it would take just a stomp of his foot.

It would only take one night, or maybe even less!

The entire Donglai Family would be erased from the extraordinary world, even Yinghai District would experience a major upheaval.

"No, no..."

Dong Lai Yue urgently pleaded, she still wanted to say something.

But Gu Shen just shook his head.

"Boom——"

The next moment, her body was engulfed in blazing flames, instantly burning into ashes!

After killing Sidal and Dong Lai Yue, Gu Shen no longer moved.

"As for you..."

Gu Shen turned to look at the wailing Transcendents on the Cloud Ship.

He revealed a clean smile.

"I can offer you a chance for ’redemption’."

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(PS: There are more than 300 comments on the last Chapter, you guys are quite fervent... I know there are usually many lurkers, but didn’t expect so many! Can you keep this up? I’m already considering whether to add more based on the number of comments!!)