Light Fortress-Chapter 1529 - 224: Ice Sea Mission
"If, in your understanding, the meaning of ’challenge’ is fighting..."
Red Phosphorus didn’t retreat. She looked at the young girl a head shorter than herself with a playful smile in her eyes.
"Then perhaps it is."
The next moment.
A gust of wind suddenly swept through the hall, and the thin, small figure in a black cloak almost instantaneously moved in front of Red Phosphorus. She placed a palm on the latter’s abdomen, and without wearing any sealing item, her fingers and palm suddenly exerted force!
Boom!
A loud explosion echoed through the hall.
Red Phosphorus’ face turned deathly pale as she flew backward. She hadn’t expected Gu Xiaoman to choose to make a move so abruptly, nor at such speed!
Wasn’t she a Spiritual Transcendent?
Why choose close combat!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
As Red Phosphorus flew back, she launched a counterattack, using her spiritual power to control flying knives, wielding them to kill from afar, and thus the four knives that circled around her turned into four silver rays shooting violently!
Gu Xiaoman, with a calm expression, continued forward after extending her palm, stomping heavily on the ground twice to propel herself like a bullet. Encountering the four flying knives, she randomly swung her sleeve, swatting the thin silver rays aside like mosquitoes.
The next moment, she caught up with Red Phosphorus, who was still in the air, and delivered a heavy punch.
The entire hall fell silent instantly.
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
Amidst the dust, a figure in red sat slumped against the wall, her face as pale as paper, unable to say another word.
Red Phosphorus slowly turned her head, looking at the deep pit beside her head made by that punch, swallowing hard.
The last punch.
Gu Xiaoman didn’t punch Red Phosphorus in the head... but deviated slightly by twenty centimeters.
Otherwise, what would be floating in the air now wouldn’t be dust and debris, but red and white brain matter.
Gu Xiaoman retracted her fist and stood, looking expressionlessly at the group of young talents under Lord Yun Hu.
"Is there anyone else?"
The candidates fell into silence; most of them couldn’t see Gu Xiaoman’s punching speed. Being of the same tier, they couldn’t even see her moves... It was hard to believe this was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl.
Transcendent!
This could very well be a third-tier with the strength of a Transcendent, whose real power couldn’t be fathomed with current levels!
In the crowd, there was only one exception.
It was the nearly two-meter tall, silver-haired slender swordsman from Rhein City, Sidal. He saw the style of Gu Xiaoman’s moves, so his originally indifferent eyes instantly burned with fervor, a war fanatic who immediately wanted to step forward, but a powerful force descended from nowhere, suppressing him, preventing him from fulfilling his wish.
Sidal looked puzzled, gazing towards the highest point of the hall.
Yun Hu’s eyes were obscure, shaking his head at this most favored candidate.
Thus, the light in Sidal’s eyes gradually extinguished, he slowly released the fingers tightly gripping the hilt, choosing to remain silent.
"Red Phosphorus, you were too rude."
Yun Hu finally spoke, his tone leisurely and calm, as if reproaching, yet actually raising high and placing down lightly: "This injury could be considered the punishment you deserve... go back to your residence and rest well. If you can’t heal in the next few days, don’t participate in the upcoming ’Ice Sea mission’."
"...Yes, my lord."
Red Phosphorus looked exhausted, coughed, spitting out a lot of blood.
Although the last punch didn’t land on her.
But the initial palm, with hidden power surging and murderous intent fluctuating, was something she really couldn’t withstand... The body of a Spiritual Transcendent is inherently fragile as paper.
Across the Five Continents, you couldn’t find many spiritual types like Gu Xiaoman, a monster who can fight.
Struggling to stand, Red Phosphorus was enveloped in array patterns, and as she left, she cast a resentful glance at Gu Xiaoman.
Truly a freak.
The scene fell silent once again, Gu Xiaoman pondering Yun Hu’s words. Just now, she heard "Ice Sea mission"... Could this urgent summoning by the Source Tower be for this?
The moment she heard the words Ice Sea, her nerves tensed.
Sangzhou Cave has already sunk... what mission could there be in the Ice Sea?
"Alright, you all go rest now."
Yun Hu waved his hand, the array pattern’s radiance gradually descended, enveloping and transporting these candidates away, leaving only him and Gu Xiaoman in the hall.
"Lord Yun Hu, everything that happened today, I will report truthfully to the Red Dragon."
Gu Xiaoman patted the dust off her body, speaking earnestly.
Sitting high on the seat, Yun Hu couldn’t help but laugh, looking at this little girl, only finding each word from her mouth absurdly funny.
"Please, go ahead."
Yun Hu lazily uttered these few words.
As he watched Gu Xiaoman leave via the array patterns, his gaze turned deep.
The purpose of this meeting was for Yun Hu to see the results of Gu Xiaoman’s training... also to probe into how far this rapidly cultivating little fellow had grown.
So he casually sent a candidate to face her, winning or losing didn’t matter.
In fact, he really didn’t want to see the candidate defeat Gu Xiaoman.
This little girl was cherished by the Red Dragon—
Over recent years, the Source Tower has poured countless resources into her, aiding her growth!
The Sky Divine Throne has also repeatedly expressed its affection for Gu Xiaoman... Such a degree of divine favor, in Yun Hu’s understanding, is something nearly unprecedented.
If she were injured within the Source Tower, then it would be him facing the repercussions!
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Upon returning to her residence, Gu Xiaoman immediately saw a man in a red cloak standing by the window, back facing her.
Within the Source Tower, those who could freely enter her room, aside from the Sky Divine Throne and Mr. Tianshui, only the Red Dragon remained. To this phenomenon, Gu Xiaoman was used to it and didn’t even bother with a second glance; seeing the Red Dragon, she asked directly:
"What is the Ice Sea mission?"
The Red Dragon stood by the window, smiled and turned to face her: "Your first question upon seeing me is actually this, rather than asking why I didn’t step in earlier?"
"The matter just now is over, what else is there to ask?"
Gu Xiaoman said casually: "Yun Hu has been trying to find trouble with me for quite some time."
Not sure if it was just her imagination.
She always felt the Red Dragon’s back seemed a bit travel-worn, as if he had just rushed back from somewhere, and due to her excellent intuition as a Spiritual Transcendent, she also sensed a faintly familiar aura on Red Dragon...
Gu Xiaoman frowned, asking peculiar: "Did you just come back from outside, where have you been?"
"That’s not important..."
Red Dragon remained composed, quickly changing the topic, he took out a thin mirror shrouded in mist from his sleeve, saying: "What’s important is the ’Ice Sea mission’ you just mentioned."
Compared to matters concerning the Ice Sea, where Red Dragon returned from wasn’t important indeed.
Gu Xiaoman immediately focused her attention.
As the mist in the Cloud Mirror dispersed, she saw a vast sea with a majestic divine statue wearing a half-body robe standing upon it. For someone born in Sangzhou Cave, this statue was very familiar.
The image of the Storm God’s Throne.
Dense with clouds, a fleet was traveling against the tide.
"Is this around Yuanting Island?"
Gu Xiaoman raised her eyebrow, familiar with the map around the Ice Sea.
"Correct."
"Someone is setting off... and then?"
"Look more carefully."
Gu Xiaoman squinted her eyes, seeing the blue light gathering on the shoulder of the Storm God Statue: "Storm God’s Throne? Has he returned?"
Red Dragon, with a solemn expression, nodded slowly.
"The authority of [Cloud Mirror] can view everything beneath Skytop, yet it cannot capture the concrete images of beings at the same level of the Power of Fire... That point of light, although its appearance isn’t clear, could only be the Storm God’s Throne."
"Over six years, the Storm God’s Throne finally rushed back from the Ice Sea, though we still don’t know what he experienced there."
Red Dragon said calmly: "But the key isn’t the return of the Storm God’s Throne, it’s about the fleet he has dispatched. Mr. Yan long ago conducted a divination at great cost... There are immeasurable fortunes in the depths of the Ice Sea, with the Storm God’s Throne’s personality, if he’s sending someone so urgently, he must have discovered something."
"[Ice Sea Ruins]... might truly exist!"
"This is why you’ve been urgently summoned back to the Source Tower."
Red Dragon spoke word by word: "Since the Storm Church has set off first, the Source Tower cannot lag behind; summoning elites to head south to the sea... this is the ’Ice Sea mission’!"
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