Chapter 962: Chapter 962
Chapter 962: Chapter 126: The Giant God’s Descent (Third Update)
The jade ring is refining the spiritual power remnants of the Netherworld King!
Unlike the spirit of the Storm God’s Throne, this thread of spiritual residue is much weaker… The refining speed of the ring is also much faster, in just a few dozen seconds, it devoured this small Nightmare seed completely!
Gu Shen looked at the “Netherworld King” at the end of the Nether River and chuckled softly, “It seems you were indeed about to die back then… The spirit you left behind is weak to such an extent.”
Yet with just this little spirit, you thought to corrode the Angel Envoy?
The obsession of the previous Netherworld King is indeed terrifying.
Just how much did he desire to build a “Pure Land”?
With the nightmare cleared, Mu Wanqiu’s complexion visibly improved.
She raised her head blankly, touching the bleeding spot on her forehead.
In those few dozen seconds, the shadow hovering over her heart seemed to have unknowingly dissipated…
No, more like something had wiped it away.
The impulse in her heart to worship and kneel had vanished entirely. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the n0velfire.net
Mu Wanqiu looked at Gu Shen in confusion, her voice hoarse, “Just now… what happened?”
Gu Shen, excellent in acting, equally puzzled, countered, “I was just about to ask you, it seems you had a dream just now… Did you see anything in the dream?”
Mu Wanqiu shook her head.
“I… I can’t remember anything.”
She rubbed her forehead with some effort, trying hard to recall, yet could remember nothing.
But not remembering is not necessarily a bad thing.
The slender bloody wound healed quickly, even the scab fell off, at this moment she seemed to have been reborn, feeling light and free, the “burden of nightmares” that had always been entangled with her silently dispersed.
She looked down at the Judge, the white-robed ghost and herself met eyes, both equally bewildered.
Gu Shen smiled, “Congratulations, you’ve unraveled your heart’s demon.”
Mu Wanqiu also smiled, but her heart was still full of confusion and bewilderment.
Could it be that because she reached the end of the dream, the heart’s demon was eradicated?
She could only think so.
Actually, unraveling the former Netherworld King’s “Nightmare seed” was not, in a true sense, a “good thing” for Gu Shen.
Removing that seed would mean Mu Wanqiu would no longer have unspeakable awe for the “Netherworld King’s spark”.
But Gu Shen did not mind in the slightest; he would rather have Mu Wanqiu be a free person than see her manipulated by the twisted will of the Netherworld King…
He looked calmly at the “Dark Throne” at the end of the Nether River.
Just as he previously said to the Netherworld King in the Holy Judge’s nightmare…
She is the Angel Envoy of the Netherworld King.
The current Netherworld King is himself!
Therefore… even if Mu Wanqiu is an Angel Envoy, she can only be his own Angel Envoy.
Facing Gu Shen’s “oath of authority”, the magnificent Black Shadow hidden at the end of the great river remained silent in response.
However, the dead silence at the end of the Nether River did not last long.
Just as the two were preparing to leave… a clear shattering sound came from far away at the skytop, that distant firmament, as if a fake green screen synthesized by AI technology, was torn to shreds.
The expressions of Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu changed sharply, both realizing the danger.
Gu Shen unfolded the Pure Land Domain, while Mu Wanqiu rode the Judge, exerting all her strength to wave the great flag, and the two turned into two bolts of lightning in an instant.
But the speed at which the Nether River transformed and changed was even faster.
After the Heavenly Curtain shattered.
A mighty gust of wind whipped up on the surface of the great river!
The first wave was born behind them, swelling rapidly in the wind, in seconds it reached the height of a hundred-meter-tall giant tower, from such close proximity looking back, it gave the illusion of “blocking out the sky and sun”.
The Judge punched out, directly smashing the hundred-meter giant wave, but unfortunately, one punch could change nothing, at this moment the Nether River had produced countless waves, like countless surging black dragons and giant whales, revealing only their backs.
The more heart-chilling sight was the scene at the end of the Nether River after the Heavenly Curtain shattered.
A gigantic foot stomped down, grinding the shadow and mist that shrouded the Throne into fine pieces…
Mu Wanqiu’s expression was pale.
She roughly understood why they could not pass beyond the end of the Nether River.
It was a gateway specifically blocked by the Netherworld King to seal the traveler.
It’s unimaginable, the rumored “Traveler God Seat” is so colossal!
In the historical records on the Ancient Stone Wall, the traveler who conversed with the Netherworld King seemed similar to humans… Mu Wanqiu’s thoughts were already in chaos, crimson light pillars shone down, and the majestic impact swept dozens of miles in an instant.
The Judge brandished the great flag with a desperate roar.
Millions of waves were crushed by that foot, then spread out into even larger waves!
This terrifying force seemed to tilt and overturn the entire Nether River!
The two were instantly submerged.
At this moment, Mu Wanqiu looked at Gu Shen, guilt appearing in her eyes.
She knew, insisting on heading to the end of the Nether River… was extremely irrational.
It’s just that the earlier “Nightmare seed” had already sprouted, and the Netherworld King’s obsession left her unable to control her mind at all, thinking even if buried eternally in the Nether River, she must explore it, and it would be worth it to die for it.
She was not someone who feared death.
As the waters of the Nether River engulfed her, her heart held only one thought.
She had dragged Gu Shen down with her.
And in the next moment—
Gu Shen’s calm voice made Mu Wanqiu’s pupils contract.
That familiar domain projection unfolded once again, but unlike before…this time, the giant tree did not just project a small shadow but rapidly expanded within the surging Nether River!
Mu Wanqiu did not see the battle scene between Gu Shen and Meng Xiao.
She still didn’t know just how vast Gu Shen’s “Fourth-Order Domain” was…
In fact, this was something Gu Shen himself did not know.
After his breakthrough, he hadn’t had the chance to wield his full power; eliminating Meng Xiao, who fell to the valley bottom, hadn’t even required his full strength!
“Splash, splash, splash…”
The spiritual domain projected itself into the real world.
Countless golden leaves grew swiftly in the soaking waters of the Nether River, an unexpected sight to Gu Shen.
The water of the Nether River, symbolizing “death” and “silent annihilation,” could actually be completely absorbed by the World Tree and utilized as nourishment?
Truly, it is worthy of being the source tree of the world.
Light and dark, life and death, all are indispensable for nurturing a complete world.
For the World Tree, absorbing the “Nether River” was not only harmless but beneficial!
It became even more perfected!
The Traveler’s footstep swept through, the mighty impact even altering the terrain at the riverbed, Gu Shen saw countless rocks rumbling and dancing wildly like dragons and serpents…this step might even affect Black Snow Mountain, let alone himself who was in close proximity to the Traveler!
Fortunately, after expanding the Pure Land Domain, the World Tree instantly grew under Gu Shen’s control, shedding countless branches to envelop the two of them like a cage…the impact of the Traveler “gently” dispersed, indeed a terrifying blow!
The branches of the World Tree were cleaved with a massive gash and broke, but the two it cradled remained unharmed.
Mu Wanqiu’s heart leapt to her throat.
The Judge had already taken a defensive stance, but she knew…even if she gave her all, she could not resist the aftershock of that distant strike.
The Traveler from the “Old World” was truly too powerful, too powerful!
This was a force that “Titled” characters simply could not contend with.
She had never seen a “Divine Throne-level” figure in action; within the Five Continents, the highest seats had rules, and if a battle involving Divine Thrones occurred, it would be tantamount to a war between two continents…such a scene might happen once in a decade.
“Are Divine Thrones really this terrifying?”
Mu Wanqiu’s lips were dry as she looked at Gu Shen.
On the East Continent, not long ago, a divine war erupted…rumor had it that Gu Shen witnessed that divine war firsthand.
Gu Shen nodded slightly, thought for a moment, then seriously said, “The divine war I saw was even more terrifying than this.”
The power the Traveler descended with was indeed frightening.
But…why did he feel something was off?
When it came to battles on the “fire seed” level, victory was no longer judged by mere noise and movement; Divine Throne-level figures could split mountains and seas with a thought, but that was nothing remarkable.
The divine war in the cemetery was terrifying because Gu Changzhi, though just a remnant thought, had completely suppressed the Wine God’s Throne, confining the battlefield within a few miles, without harming even a blade of grass outside the cemetery.
Mind you, to create the movements of a “Traveler,” the Wine God’s Throne could do that too.
All it required was not to limit the “fire seed’s” unleash, any Divine Throne could achieve that!
And this was what puzzled Gu Shen; from the text on the ancient stone wall, it seemed the Traveler God Seat was purportedly a “calculating” being, so difficultly arriving in Disaster Realm—would his first action be wanton destruction?
Or perhaps…there was another scheme?
No time for more thoughts, Gu Shen wrapped himself in the Pure Land, swiftly fleeing towards Black Snow Mountain with Mu Wanqiu and the Judge.
The Nether River surged, so he no longer flew.
He might as well dive deeply!
No matter how tumultuous it was outside, it had nothing to do with him!
Alas, good times didn’t last, a dull crashing sound, even Gu Shen at the bottom of the Nether River could hear…something large seemed to be approaching from behind, Gu Shen sped up desperately, but it was no use, the crashing sound was slow, yet with each step, it drew nearer!
Gu Shen’s face suddenly changed, he felt a suffocating pressure in his heart.
What was destined to come would come, a giant foot stepped down, seemingly casually, but it was aimed right at his World Tree!
Gu Shen immediately retracted the Pure Land Domain.
He and Mu Wanqiu concealed their presence to the utmost, completely submerging at the bottom of the Nether River; in such circumstances, releasing the World Tree could resist the waves but would make too large of a target and too easily draw attention.
Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu held their breath, concealing all their extraordinary aura to the extreme.
Perhaps because the Nether River was so eerily silent.
After the giant stepped once, there was a brief pause, and ignored the earlier oddity…
Thus continuing to stroll ahead with languid steps.
Mu Wanqiu breathed a sigh of relief.
Her chest heaved, before she could speak, a violent turbulence suddenly descended!
A massive face, without any warning, plunged into the bottom of the Nether River, in an inverted pose, the Traveler pressed down with both hands, submerging its head into the Nether River…its visage mirrored the divine statue in the hall, as if sculpted with blades and chisels.
In just one second, it accurately found the location of Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu.
Then…the cold face blossomed with a familiar, “brilliant” smile.