Light Fortress-Chapter 1537 - 229: Extinguishing Candle vs. Extinguishing Candle
The bottom of the Ice Sea is eerily silent.
The stone wall inscribed with the Longevity Array Pattern is currently enveloped by intense shadows and brilliant light and fire, intertwining with each other, forming two semicircular arcs.
This is an extremely contradictory scene, with the states of life and death tugging and constantly interacting.
Even the Netherworld King would call this a Divine Miracle...
But the Netherworld King himself is currently within this orb of light and darkness.
Gu Shen’s consciousness has fully awakened.
He looks down at his tattered clothes, his bare chest exposed.
Countless calamities seep through his skin.
An ominous eruption.
Originally meant to infiltrate his lungs and heal his wounds, the fire of vitality is completely blocked outside.
While the Devil’s wielded "Truth Ruler" disperses into countless silver glows, swirling around the ominous calamity’s aura, aiding its malevolence!
Gu Shen knows that at this moment, the Pure Land World must be in deep turmoil...
The Devil chooses this moment to attack, intending to seize everything belonging to him when he’s at his weakest!
Gu Shen had also been waiting for the Devil to take the initiative to leave the Spirit Space of the ruler.
He holds his breath, sitting cross-legged before the stone wall, focusing all his spirit on the real world, one side fighting the ominous, the other sending out a strand of Blazing Fire, roaming the Ice Sea, searching for the ’life’ breath.
Not mistaken.
Before his feigned death, there was a "big fish" swimming past the stone wall; though the depths of the Ice Sea are silent, there are still Extraordinary Lives present.
"Hurry up..." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
"Faster!"
Gu Shen takes a deep breath, his spirit sweeping toward the endless reaches of the Ice Sea.
There’s actually risk in doing this.
The Ice Sea is vast; nobody knows if there are exceptionally powerful Extraordinary Creatures in the deepest, farthest reaches.
But Gu Shen can’t care much about that. Countless ominousness entangles him, desperately drawing his vitality. The timing chosen by the Devil is very cunning, as his field of fire of vitality is not fully formed yet... Facing this sudden attack in the transition phase is most critical!
Rumble!
A strand of Blazing Fire swiftly shuttles through the bottom of the Ice Sea, darting through reef crevices. In this dark seabed, this strand of flame resembles a blazing sun.
Soon, the small Blazing Fire is overshadowed by a vast shadow.
It’s a gigantic octopus dwelling at the Ice Sea’s bottom, having undergone Extraordinary Awakening, its tentacles extending nearly a hundred meters!
"Found it!"
The scene seen by the Blazing Fire instantly transmits into Gu Shen’s mind.
He lets out a long sigh of relief in his heart; the worst-case scenario he expected didn’t occur. This giant octopus is roughly at the third tier of human Transcendents!
"Whoosh!"
Eight tentacles contract and expand; this deep-sea octopus slowly bends down, perhaps attracted by the Blazing Fire’s spiritual power, or maybe by this unprecedented light in the deep sea.
At this moment.
The deep-sea octopus is drawn to the Blazing Fire.
Due to the "Extraordinary Awakening," it became exceptionally bold, boldly extending a tentacle, trying to grasp the Blazing Fire with its suckers.
In the long years of this sea area, this deep-sea octopus absorbed a large amount of Extraordinary Essence to grow, always at the "food chain’s" top, in its perception, believing there are no natural enemies in this world!
But the moment it touches the Blazing Fire.
The massive body of the deep-sea octopus instantly stiffens!
The Pure Land’s "Great Cold" instantly strikes it; the huge tentacle touching the Blazing Fire Flame is frozen in an instant, Gu Shen’s will following the bloodstream directly into its Spirit Sea, within less than a second, invading this deep-sea giant’s Spirit Sea before it evolves into high-level thinking!
The next moment, the tiny Blazing Fire Flame instantly spreads, forming a loop of fire rope, binding this hypnotized octopus, quickly drawing tight.
"Rumble..."
Low vibrations spread from the Ice Sea waters.
Seeing the octopus rapidly rushing toward him, Gu Shen doesn’t hesitate for a moment. He reaches out his hand, pressing it against the wall of the Longevity Array Pattern.
Sitting quietly in the Ice Sea for five years.
This Longevity stone wall, engraved with obscure ancient text, has been fully comprehended by him.
And after reading through the ancient text, Gu Shen realized that the content on this stone wall came from that unknown stele excavated by the Late Bell Church from the Tundra District’s underground!
Xiao previously went to great lengths to infiltrate the Storm Church, aiming to further decode the "Longevity Ancient Text."
He succeeded later, resulting in this Longevity stone wall, but all Xiao’s efforts have become a wedding dress.
"Longevity Technique! Activate!"
Gu Shen shouts inwardly; where his five fingers press, countless flames emerge in the deep sea, forming a complete Longevity Array Pattern. The dragged deep-sea octopus instantly becomes a sacrificial offering... The moment it touches the array pattern, its massive body is instantly dismembered, the seawater dyed red with blood, yet the Ceremony of Exchange of Fate has begun.
Longevity Technique, activate.
The "vitality" of this deep-sea octopus is extracted, directly injected into Gu Shen’s body.
At this moment, the balance between the ominousness and Gu Shen is broken.
The influx of massive vitality greatly accelerates Gu Shen’s "recovery process," and his previously dim eyes now burst forth with brilliant radiance!
The "black miasma" shackling Gu Shen is instantly broken!
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The light and shadow of the Pure Land collide, with the Dark Kingdom almost suppressing ninety percent of aerial space, ready to descend to the ground at any moment.
The souls that continue to surge up are shattered time and again.
Their spirits have become fragile to the extreme.
Repeat a few more times, and they will be completely annihilated.
Yet, until this moment, not a single soul hesitated after resurrection... Their rebirth in the Pure Land signifies the complete washing away of their past life’s character.
Their relationship with this world is like lips and teeth.
When the lips are gone, the teeth feel the cold!
There can be no intact eggs under a collapsed nest?
For this reason, in this fierce struggle, countless ghost souls are like moths to a flame... except they are now the light, rushing towards everlasting darkness.
Li Qingci sat on the ground, quickly setting up array patterns, her face pale.
The extent of her spirit’s consumption was no less than those souls that die and revive repeatedly. During her years of seclusion and cultivation with the Prayer Technique in Divine Temple Mountain, she devoted all her energy to cultivation and the Barrier Array Patterns left by the Li Family. After arriving at the Pure Land, apart from building gardens, she did many other things.
Building array patterns was one of them.
On the wilderness of the Pure Land, there are hundreds of large and small array patterns; usually storing the essence spilled from the gardens, they also have some basic defensive capabilities!
At this moment, Li Qingci activated all the array patterns, but the previously accumulated essence had already been entirely sent to Gu Shen...
She could only forcibly draw the essence generated by the gardens for a temporary emergency.
The "Suspended Wood" provided the greatest support to this Array Pattern Master, as countless branches squeezed out essence to flow into the array patterns!
These array patterns lit up in the air, extinguished, then lit up again, then extinguished again.
They were destroyed by the "Truth" in just a few seconds.
Then Li Qingci began to draw the array patterns on the spot.
She knew that relying on Tie Wu’s strength, along with the sacrifice of these souls, wouldn’t stop the darkness from descending... but if she could draw the "Divine Shrine" barrier of the Li Family, maybe she could delay it a bit!
In such a decisive battle, a moment could decide life or death!
Nearby the wilderness where she sat cross-legged, countless tattered leaves were inserted, seeming haphazardly placed, but actually, they fell deliberately guided by the will of the Suspended Wood. These iron leaves crisscrossed, forming a faintly glowing array pattern through which Li Qingci’s spirit flowed.
The "Divine Shrine" came alive!
"Hoo..."
Li Qingci raised her head, gazing at the figure on the Dark Throne, her hands hanging over her abdomen, slowly forming a seal.
Boom!
Countless grass blades on the wilderness fluttered!
The "Divine Shrine" slowly ascended!
Tie Wu was attracted by this majestic commotion; he turned around to see Li Qingci enveloped in a dazzling white light, akin to a Divine being. The Suspended Wood, having developed a certain level of spiritual wisdom, discerned which resistance method was the most capable among the Pure Land’s current means of resistance and granted the greatest blessing.
This "Divine Shrine" expanded several dozen times, even a hundred times as it rose into the sky!
Even the Devil squinted his eyes.
He knew that what he was combating was not the Li Family’s barrier... but the last struggle of this nearly shattered world.
As long as the "Divine Shrine" is shattered.
Then everything would be over!
"Stubborn resistance."
The Devil, leisurely seated on the Dark Throne, spoke coldly, standing up and raising a hand to reach into the void, slowly drawing a longbow from it.
The "Truth. Extinguishing Candle" he retrieved, pitch-black as if soaked in an ink pool.
Yet the dangerous aura it emitted was enough to make even those fearless sacrificing souls tremble uncontrollably!
This was suppression on the level of life!
With the blessing of the "Achilles’ Heel," the bow-bearer could see the "weak points" of all things in this world.
Whether living or dead, they are all the same.
The current "Divine Shrine"... was no exception.
By holding the "Extinguishing Candle," one could see every flowing pattern of this grand array and the critical nodes for dismantling it.
The Devil narrowed one eye, gripping the bowstring in the void, aiming at the "Divine Shrine" barrier magnified nearly a hundred times.
In the next moment.
He let go.
"Boom!"
A black arrow shot out like lightning, faster than light, instantly shattering the "Divine Shrine," splintering the land of the Pure Land, and piercing through every soul blocking its path!
The once noisy world fell silent after this arrow.
The souls pierced by "Extinguishing Candle" didn’t even have time to scream, dissolving instantly and never reviving again.
The "Divine Shrine" continued to rise...
Yet that arrow shattered the core of the entire grand array.
The floating "Divine Shrine" disassembled on its own, falling apart in the air.
It’s a scene of despair.
What made it even more despairing was... the Devil, aiming at Li Qingci, drew a second arrow.
Just then.
A calm voice emerged from beneath the Suspended Wood.
"You let go, and I will let go too."
This voice came from where Gu Shen had earlier disappeared; at this moment, countless wind and snow converged, that black-haired figure re-condensed, and even more solid than any previous time...
This signified that Gu Shen’s spirit had broken through the ominous barriers of the real world, smoothly returning to the Pure Land!
Currently, he too held a large bow in his hands.
The bow was like a full moon.
The arrow aimed at the Skytop.
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