Chapter 1023: Chapter 1023
Chapter 1023: Chapter 176: Letter of the [New Era] (End of Volume) (Part 2)
“Whether it’s dead or alive, it doesn’t really matter, does it?”
Gu Shen gazed at the corpse and said, “What the North Continent needs is actually that ‘fire seed’… the divine power source that can support the ascent of Central City and surrounding cities.”
The traveler is dead, yet it still exudes waves of pressure.
All the lords and generals instinctively kept as far away from this deceased ‘god’ as possible.
“Yes. What the North Continent needs is merely pure energy… but if it hadn’t died, it would have taken a long time to extract the ‘fire seed.’ Now the Underground Research Institute can directly possess a complete ‘gospel box fragment.’
“Obviously, this is the best outcome.”
“It’s just that sometimes, I can’t help but wonder… Is this big guy, who doesn’t seem to have much mind, really the ‘traveler’?”
The legion commander sighed, “Because this victory came too easily.”
Gu Shen said, “I think so too…”
He couldn’t help but think of the Tomb Ghost again.
The probing in the off-road vehicle didn’t reveal anything.
But Gu Shen still kept a close watch, leaving a ‘Spirit Seed’ of Chi Huo within the Tomb Ghost, which had no negative effects, only storing a strand of his own spirit.
As long as the Spirit Sea of the Tomb Ghost showed any anomaly.
He would be the first to notice.
Moreover… he wasn’t the only one watching the Tomb Ghost.
The two Divine Thrones were truly perceptive “towering figures.”
The insight of the Divine Thrones could cover an entire continent.
This time, the release of the traveler was clearly a consensus reached by the two Divine Thrones together—
So, even if Gu Nanfeng and Zhu Xue didn’t detect anything unusual in the Tomb Ghost, it’s unlikely the two Divine Thrones would miss it.
However, the way the Divine Thrones handle things may not necessarily be with “thunderous actions.”
Gu Shen conservatively estimated that before he used Dream Casting on the Tomb Ghost, it had probably been scanned countless times by divine thoughts.
Upon returning to the North Continent, Gu Shen once again went to have an audience with the Empress. Read complete version only at novᴇlfire.net
This time, the audience was quite straightforward.
He recounted what he had seen and heard inside the pitch-black stone and confirmed that the Empress, throughout countless “cycles,” had never heard of any intelligence regarding this “pitch-black stone” from him…
This discovery was quite interesting.
It indicated that in countless previous bracelet simulations… he had never even obtained a single opportunity to “glimpse.”
Perhaps because of tearing letters, or perhaps due to other matters, large or small, intertwined and entangled with each other, impacting this particular fate.
In the countless collisions of causal threads, this significant “discovery” emerged.
“The traveler and the Netherworld King left a curse upon each other…”
When the Empress learned of this message, she too was shocked.
She quickly regained her composure.
This message, while seemingly shocking, actually had little impact… because both of these figures were undeniably “deceased.”
The Netherworld Fire is in Gu Shen’s hands.
The Traveler’s Spark is in the Empress’s furnace.
The true significance of this information was that it hinted at an unknown latter transaction between the Netherworld King and the traveler years ago.
What kind of transaction… could lead these two to play such a significant game…
“Bai Shu and I have already examined the ‘Tomb Ghost,’ and his Spirit Sea is very normal.”
“If all of this is a conspiracy, then up to this moment, I have not seen how this ‘conspiracy’ harms the Five Continents… and now that the big guy lies dead on the tundra, it’s tantamount to delivering the fire seed directly into my hands.”
The Empress frowned and said, “In the guidance of fate, I have glimpsed some of the future, yet layers of fog remain. I think the reason this time the traveler rushed to the tundra was because of the ‘Heavenly Sheath.’ The power emanating from that stone sword comes from the [Old World]… perhaps it was something crucial to the travelers six hundred years ago?”
Behind the fog lies an even greater fog.
Strong and confident individuals like the Empress certainly do not fear “calamity,” “ominous omens,” or the “curses” Gu Shen mentioned.
The Traveler’s Spark is right before her eyes.
She will definitely grasp it… at this moment, the traveler’s body has already been cast into the furnace reactor.
Soon, Central City will rise into the sky!
Leaving the Empress’s tower.
Gu Shen still had one last thing to do in the North Continent.
This task was called “farewell.”
On this journey to the North Continent, he met many friends… the teammates from the second squad who braved death outside Gu Castle, and the various captains who endured the mission to restart Duolu River.
The traveler is dead, the fire seed ignites, and the lords and generals will not tarry for long in Central City.
They are setting off one after another, leaving here, returning to the fortresses and frontiers of the North Continent, to light the blazing fire beacons on the giant wall.
For those Central City dignitaries who came seeking his attention, Gu Shen ignored them, not bothering to say even a single polite word.
He stayed in Central City to bid farewell to these friends one by one.
Meeting again in the North Continent, living and dying together, fighting companions through and through.
These fellows had long promised to gather once at Gu Shen’s small courtyard on Xuankong Mountain.
Perhaps because of the fusion with the ‘Netherworld Fire,’ or perhaps due to the Ruler’s devil’s seduction… Gu Shen felt as though his blood was turning cold, the matters of life and death separation seemed unable to stir his heartstrings.
This is not a good thing.