Chapter 1710: Chapter 378: Humanoid Black Hole

After pinpointing the coordinates of Frost Iron Mountain in Qinghe District, Gu Shen didn’t rush to head south.

Repairing "Goddess of Destiny’s Sanctuary" requires a week.

Coincidentally, Mu Wanqiu has just sent news.

Also estimated to be around a week.

She will handle many trivial matters in the Northern Continent and head south to Changye.

His top Angel Envoy is coming to Changye for a personal visit; Gu Shen certainly cannot decline, nor can he avoid it.

As for Mu Wanqiu’s so-called "duel challenge."

He can only brace himself to face it.

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During this week, Gu Shen dragged Shen Li around, busy with work.

Having just assumed the position of Grand Judge, he needed to address various matters at headquarters.

After all, leaving Changye for six years.

With Shen Li, the "Judge," alongside, handling affairs became much easier for Gu Shen.

After all, the three institutions form a grand system.

Initially hearing this news, Little Iron Man hurriedly came over, eager to serve the Grand Judge Gu Shen.

If rules permitted, he even wanted to transfer under the Judgement Institute’s command.

A deep-rooted tree provides ample shade.

Mr. Shan treated him very well.

But how could he compare to Gu Shen?

The Grand Judge position has been vacant for seven or eight years; the previous interim Grand Judge Zhu Wang, who had just taken the throne, was ousted by Gu Shen shortly after.

The number of case files accumulated for this position is outrageous.

For years, the Judgement Institute managed to operate solely because the Grand Judge and Great Commander took on additional responsibilities... Mr. Gu is now retired. Mr. Shan, too, barely intervenes, only occasionally lending a hand.

The majority of case files in the Judgement Institute were handled by Zhou E and Jin Yun, who are top Fourth-order Transcendents close to earning a title, indeed capable of resolving most problems.

But after all, they’re not titled.

Solely the "Deep Sea" marked nearly ten high-risk tasks for the Grand Judge to address.

Some tasks have already been accepted and processed by other titled individuals in Changye.

Yet, the Judgement Institute must take charge of subsequent "reinspections."

For the first three days, Gu Shen, riding the "Truth" iron sword, flew across the Jiangbei District, initially accompanied by the hopeful Shen Li. After assisting Gu Shen in solving two "S-level case files," he realized something was amiss...

The Grand Judge’s case files typically involve extremely high-risk "out-of-control entities," "seal items," "Disaster Realm."

Changye cannot possibly allow "out-of-control entities."

Titled individuals who accepted and processed them all involve these cases that would immediately worsen if uncontrolled.

Thus, the accumulated few case files are mainly related to "seal items" and "Disaster Realm."

Primarily the latter.

Due to the "Battle God Domain’s" coverage, Changye is now the safest place in the East Continent, with no black dots appearing within its surrounding area. But looking at the Jiangbei District, needing the Grand Judge to handle "Disaster Realms," these often relate to black dots... Shen Li finally understands why these case files accumulated.

This is fundamentally beyond what the Grand Judge can resolve.

Even other titled powerhouses can only watch helplessly.

They lack the ability to contain "black dots;" figures like Mr. Shan and Mr. Gu, even stronger titled individuals, can only manage to contain Disaster Realm expansion.

As for elimination...

Only the Divine Throne and Angel Envoy can achieve that.

"Handling this Disaster Realm would complete over half the accumulated case files..."

Standing on the iron sword, Gu Shen gazed at the distant red mountains.

Nearby was the Redwood District.

He noticed Shen Li, seated on the iron sword, continuously nodding off.

Fourth-order Transcendents, understanding their domain, even focusing on aggressive capabilities, can mentally achieve "sleeplessness."

Shen Li was exhausted.

Being the Netherworld King "Angel Envoy," he received only a meager thread of authority... almost negligible.

Yet, this thread of authority genuinely existed.

By grasping this authority, he obtained the taboo power to "eliminate black dots."

To allow Shen Li to quickly adapt to the work expected of an Angel Envoy, Gu Shen purposely called him out to eliminate disorderly source matter from Disaster Realms continuously for three days.

This is an intensely spirit-consuming task.

Gu Shen saw Little Iron Man’s head bobbing like a pecking chicken, found it amusing, sighed, and silently sent a thread of Chi Huo towards him.

"Shen Li is a resilient good seed,"

Chu Ling gave Little Iron Man high praise.

"He truly endures,"

These days, even when Shen Li cleaned Disaster Realms, though exhausted like a dog, he never expressed fatigue.

Gu Shen slowly commented, "I’m considering whether to let him clear those black flowers on Divine Temple Mountain..."

"That’s not quite right, is it?"

Through the Spirit Sea, Chu Ling felt a bit sympathetic for Shen Li.

Those black flowers on Divine Temple Mountain are simply too many; over six hundred years, the Li Family, with countless Protectors’ efforts, have confined these black flowers.

Unlike other Disaster Realms.

If nothing unexpected occurs, Li’s Divine Temple poses no threat to the real world.

"Being an Angel Envoy, one must carry such a mission..."

Gu Shen remained silent for a moment, then said, "Eventually, I won’t always be in the East Continent; he’ll need to take on tasks independently."

Currently, the source matter growth rate across the Five Continents is increasing rapidly.

The number of black dots, Disaster Realms emerging is also growing more frequent...

Gu Shen was worried about the future fate of the Five Continents, which was also the reason why, despite feeling sorry for Shen Li, he insisted on letting Shen Li continue to be tempered.

In times of trouble, there is only responsibility.

Mr. Bai Shu single-handedly carried East Continent forward; as the inheritor of Netherworld Fire, he must do what is within his power.

It’s just that Gu Shen also saw through it.

After consecutive days of handling Disaster Realms, Shen Li had already reached his limit.

This time, he would not wake him up.

Gu Shen stopped [Truth] outside the Disaster Realm, using "Chi Huo" to protect Shen Li’s dream, ensuring the latter could rest well, then he walked slowly into the Disaster Realm.

The Disaster Realm in Redwood District was situated in a mountain forest, covering an area of only about a kilometer in radius.

The Judgement Institute had already set up a warning line with seal items and barriers.

As for the location of the "black spot," Green Silver had been used for restrictive protection.

The Titled Transcendent responsible for this case back then was Bai Chen, the deputy to the Grand Judge of the neighboring prison.

This was already the best restrictive means Changye could think of—

Gu Shen stepped into the barrier. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

He went directly to the location of the "black spot." In five years, under the layers of restrictions by Green Silver, this "black spot" had expanded dozens of times; it used to be the size of a fist, and now it was about to grow into a humanoid shape.

This scale could already be called a black hole.

The term black hole itself is a collection of "chaos"; growing into any form is not surprising. Gu Shen looked at the Green Silver that had been stretched and calmly extended his palm.

"Crack!"

He shattered the Green Silver from the outside.

This was an extremely dangerous move. Mature chaotic source material will spontaneously generate various rules. Once they are not restricted by strong logic material, they can erupt with terrifying lethality.

But unfortunately.

At this moment, the one standing in front of the black hole was the inheritor of Netherworld Fire.

"Boom——"

At the moment the Green Silver cracked, the humanoid black hole seemed to come alive; it actually opened its arms and lunged at Gu Shen.

In an instant, a bright blaze erupted from Gu Shen’s brow!

Wherever Chi Huo covered, all chaotic rules were consumed, transformed——

Chaos turned into order!

"Woo woo woo!"

The wind roared, and this humanoid black hole seemed to cry out in sharp, human-like agony as it was scorched by Chi Huo, immediately abandoning its attempt to embrace Gu Shen and turned to flee to the outer regions of the Disaster Realm.

Gu Shen frowned.

He had been to the Northern Continent Border, set foot in the Old World, and seen so many strangely shaped "black holes." This black hole, awakened with human consciousness, was the first he had encountered.

Since it’s a collection of chaos,

then any rule could be born from it.

Gu Shen quickly moved in front of the "humanoid black hole," and expressionlessly waved his hand, slapping the humanoid black hole in front of him!

Bam!

This slap, imbued with the unique order characteristic of "Chi Huo," caused half of the black hole’s body to explode; a raging fire engulfed the entire redwood forest, ensnaring both "people" within flames.

The humanoid black hole, with half its body knocked off, twisted and howled on the ground.

"..."

Gu Shen watched silently for a moment, this behavior was really quite similar to humans.

Like a baby among humans!

"This is unreasonable."

Chu Ling, too, saw the scene and said in a confused voice, "A black hole is a collection of chaos, birthing consciousness is tantamount to chaos becoming order... Is this humanoid black hole mimicking human behavior? It’s been sealed in Green Silver, how can it receive information transmitted from human society?"

"It really is unreasonable."

Gu Shen spoke coldly, "In theory, if there were enough monkeys, and they kept typing at keyboards, they could even compose the source code of [Deep Sea]... But if monkeys really did type the [source code], I’d rather believe there is a higher level of life controlling them."

"I agree with your view."

Chu Ling paused for a second and said, "In my understanding, a monkey typing out the [source code] isn’t just a matter of probability... If cognition can’t reach this level, then the probability of the [source code] being born will always be zero. Even quadrillions of monkeys would never type out the [source code], because the characters of the [source code] simply can’t be produced by a keyboard."

So black holes... are the same.

"Perhaps behind the chaos of the black hole, there is a profoundly vast order of ’laws.’

But neither humans, Transcendents, nor Divine Thrones have the ability to touch this order behind the chaos.

Because their levels are insufficient.

Gu Shen stepped forward.

He did not give this humanoid black hole a single chance to breathe, slapping down again, shattering the remaining half of its body.

The howling, rolling black hole disintegrated, devoured by Chi Huo.

Though it clearly had no life, it seemed to possess life, and before shattering and dispersing, it even cast a glance at Gu Shen.

If this were a living person,

then the meaning of that glance would probably be "venomous hatred," "deep hatred."

Gu Shen didn’t care.

He crouched down on the spot, silently absorbing the source material of this black hole.

The sea of flames surged, the turbulent Chi Huo roared and did not spare a single remnant.

Currently, his Chi Huo was evolving into a second domain.

Similar to his previous state when comprehending the [Flame of Vitality], Gu Shen intended to establish a second domain focused on combat and destruction; the general direction was already there, only lacking the transformation of source material!

He needed to absorb a large amount of chaotic source material.

After handling this compression case from the Grand Judge, he was even open to dealing with the top-level cases piled up in the other two branches as well.

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