Light Fortress-Chapter 1539 - 231: Slaying the Devil

Gu Shen’s voice had just landed, and he directly threw out the jade ring—

Initiating the first strike!

This ring can absorb all spirits, like a Taotie, capable of devouring even the Divine Thought of a Flame Master!

The spirit of the Storm God’s Throne had once been devoured by the jade ring!

"Boom!"

At the intersection of light and darkness, a brilliant beam of light erupted, and at the moment the jade ring touched the Skytop clouds, as if igniting a child, it triggered a violent explosion. This seemingly ordinary tomb artifact began to wildly devour the spirit remnants of the Devil; countless dark breaths were swept inside, and under the massive pull, even the Dark Throne was dragged over!

The Devil roared angrily and lunged towards Gu Shen.

The Divine War in the Spiritual World erupted once more.

Gu Shen, fearless, took a step forward, advancing instead of retreating.

This was his Divine Domain.

Many years ago, on the day he first awakened, he had seen such a scene within the Ghost Cage.

Countless evil ghosts emerged from Hell, these evil ghosts, large and small, almost filled the Skytop, aiming to devour the human realm entirely...

Chu Ling said it was malevolent thought.

The current scene almost mirrored that of the Ghost Cage back then.

The Devil charged forward, and within the Dark Kingdom, countless dark evil spirits surged and rose; [Truth] can adapt to the human heart and manifest any thing, these evil spirits are the embodiment of malevolent thoughts.

Malevolent thoughts towered to the sky.

Like Hell.

After throwing out the ring, the Devil poured all his power to launch this final strike.

It aimed to shatter Gu Shen’s spirit!

Yet, behind Gu Shen, there was emptiness. He hadn’t summoned those souls within the Pure Land; this battle was a fight to the death, but not theirs.

"Bang!"

Gold light and black rays collided and simultaneously retreated backward.

Gu Shen’s spirit condensed into a miniature figure suddenly dimmed a bit; the Devil similarly, in soul body form, lurked to survive in the ruler of truth, if he couldn’t find a new host... his power would only gradually diminish.

Twenty years ago, he failed to successfully seize the bodily form of the Netherworld King.

Thus, it was destined...

The subsequent seizures became increasingly difficult!

After their collision, the vortex expanded from the jade ring, almost covering half of the Heavenly Curtain.

And atop the Skytop, the spot invaded by the Devil with truth clouds delivered even more trembling explosions; this was the precursor of a third spirit intervening in the Pure Land World.

Chu Ling!

With a bewildered expression, the Devil raised his head; in his expectations, this was a "prolonged" yet "short" Divine War; regardless of Gu Shen’s resistance, even resorting to the jade ring, couldn’t possibly be his opponent... but he was wrong. After a third party joined the fight, the significance of this Divine War altered.

The darkness at the Skytop was replaced by a piece of azure radiance.

Countless Array Patterns swirled in the air.

Like a giant chessboard, it completely shrouded the entire iron canopy.

The intertwining threads rolled like ocean waves, and at this moment, emitted not a gentle tide sound but a striking melody akin to a piano.

The intent to kill was palpable!

"Array Box? This is the Array Box!"

The Devil’s pupils contracted sharply; he recognized the azure radiance that enveloped the Skytop!

"Indeed... it is the Array Box."

Gu Shen said coldly: "I’ve long thought of a way to deal with you, if one jade ring isn’t enough, how about adding the ’Array Box’?"

To deal with spirit bodies without a physical form, these are the two strongest killing devices!

This strike would terrify the Devil out of the ruler of truth!

At this moment, it launched a total attack, bringing all the accumulations within the Truth Ruler to the Pure Land World... this toughest part is now completed.

"No... this is impossible..."

The Devil stared fixedly at Gu Shen, his voice hoarse: "What makes you dare to do this, what makes you sure I will come, and what makes you confident to complete the final link?!"

He couldn’t understand the appearance of the Array Box.

As Gu Shen said... he knew everything about Gu Shen, understood all secrets, and thus chose to strike when Gu Shen was about to Breakthrough in the Ice Sea.

"..."

Gu Shen quietly watched the Devil on the Dark Throne, speaking in a sorrowful tone: "I can only say, some things you will never know."

Secluded for one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four days, Gu Shen’s consciousness struggled countless times between chaos and darkness. Before the Breakthrough, most of his spirit was muddled and ignorant... he was unaware of what happened externally, even what occurred in his inner world, the process of seeking life from death was extremely painful, as he approached "death" during this process.

Only during this endless cold and darkness, a ray of radiance once flashed by.

At the time, Gu Shen didn’t understand what it was.

Until he opened his eyes.

During these one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four days, Chu Ling’s descent on Divine Temple Mountain never ceased; every so often, that woman draped in the Goddess’s dress would descend from the mountain, picking a few Black Flowers, embarking from Changye alone, traversing this long journey, ultimately reaching the Ice Sea.

Then dissipating at the Ice Sea.

Upon dissipating, a ray of golden light would sweep towards the sea’s distance.

Chu Ling did this continuously, never stopping.

In these five years, many things happened, even causing Changye’s survey team to halt their investigations... yet she never interrupted her journey, cherishing every ray of sunlight since descending upon this world, as well as treasuring the final glimpse of night before closing her eyes, thus deciding to bring everything to the Ice Sea, not for anything else, but just for a possibility.

Countless destiny gold threads spread across the Ice Sea, these spiritual radiances dispersed slowly, like fish swimming.

This was the secret signal between Gu Shen and Chu Ling.

Thus, when Gu Shen opened his eyes, at the moment his spirit expanded, he saw a very subtle, very subtle ray of golden light.

In that moment, he realized what his missed "epiphany" was back then.

There was a girl, always waiting for him.

Again and again, she exhausted her life, just to wait for his reply.

This is something the Devil can never know—

This is the bond of two intertwined souls, a connection that even the deepest Ice Sea cannot sever.

...

...

"Rumble——"

Above the Heavenly Curtain, a gigantic snow-white palm slowly descended.

Gu Shen wielded the Pure Land, using the will of the Suxuan Wood World to empower Chu Ling’s spirit.

Thus, the palm became even larger than the entire Dark Kingdom! And as it fell, it gradually expanded, transforming into countless golden threads!

The many souls beneath the Pure Land Suxuan Wood were now gazing up at this Divine War.

They stared blankly at the countless golden lights falling.

Every strand of golden thread unraveling from that great hand was like a shooting star, tearing through the night and burning with countless lights.

The Devil roared, trying to mount a last stand; the thousands of evil spirits transformed by the Truth surged towards the heavens, only to be pierced by the flames burning from the destiny gold threads, these countless shooting stars swaying with blazing tails, majestic and crashing into the earth, but the flickering flames did not dissipate, instead, they connected from the Skytop to the ground, becoming the boundaries of a cage of myriad threads.

The Array Box had been deployed.

The enclosed sea network sealed off the Devil’s last escape route.

The vortex of the jade ring kept expanding.

The Devil’s dark face showed no expression; he merely sat back on his Throne, allowing the jade ring to devour his spirit, allowing the Array Box’s sea area to envelop the Dark Kingdom.

"It is over."

Gu Shen calmly said: "I warned you...you would regret not taking action when I was facing Silent Annihilation."

If the Devil hadn’t been so greedy.

Then he would have had a chance to seize victory.

Under ten thousand meters of the Ice Sea, when Gu Shen was at his weakest, his consciousness clouded and chaotic; if at that time the Devil had triggered catastrophe and forcefully seized control, Gu Shen would have had no choice but to fight desperately...

But at that time, Gu Shen’s spiritual power had not yet broken through, unable to link with Chu Ling.

The only reliance was that jade ring.

Yet, in this world, there is everything except ’if’, the Truth corrodes not just the holder’s heart.

The one to suffer the greatest erosion by the Truth was the Devil itself.

Of course, it wouldn’t want to inhabit Gu Shen’s body during that period, a body rotting and putrid under the Ice Sea, constantly on the brink of death... if he did take over this body, he might never escape the Ice Sea and die beneath the abyss.

So it chose to wait.

From that moment, it lost.

As the former "Netherworld King", someone’s "Firekeeper", it was once an unrivaled powerhouse of its era, sweeping away all adversaries on the path of Extraordinary Cultivation.

But when faced with Gu Shen’s deadlock, it hesitated, it retreated.

It believed even if it seized the body, it might not pass this threshold... better to leave it to Gu Shen, who it had witnessed growing over the years, it was willing to gamble on Gu Shen accomplishing a "rebirth through death", not wanting to place the final hope on itself. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

This was a pure plunderer.

And a person with such a mindset could never become a supreme powerhouse.

"I lost..."

In the final moment, the Devil was instead very calm, sitting upon its own Dark Throne, it understood many things in an instant.

It looked at Gu Shen, suddenly asking, "If I’m willing to tell you everything I know, do I still have a chance to continue living?"

Gu Shen gazed at the black shadow.

This was a very tempting "deal", it couldn’t even be called a "deal".

The Devil’s tone was not humble, yet it was almost a plea.

He was curious about what this being trapped in the Truth Ruler had experienced back in the day... but the fate of past holders of the Ruler was truly alarming.

So Gu Shen shook his head.

He said calmly: "If you really want to tell me... then send me a dream after your death."

Gu Shen extended two fingers, as he did once in the Ghost Cage slaying ghosts, slowly drawing them across towards the Devil.

"Buzz!"

The final destiny gold thread enveloped with the will of the Suxuan Wood World descended from the Array Box sea area suspended at the Skytop, like a great sword!

The Devil did not evade, thus Gu Shen made no further move.

In that final moment, the two calmly looked at each other, just like their confrontation in the world of Truth.

"Bang!"

Brilliant Chi Huo exploded above the Devil’s head, shattering both it and the Dark Throne below into pieces!

The vortex of the jade ring expanded wildly, continuously absorbing the complex dark aura... the Array Box sea area encompassed all of the Devil’s spirit, ensuring not a trace was missed.

After a long while, the tumult of the Pure Land World finally subsided.

The overcast shrouding the entire Divine Domain’s Skytop was wiped away, all dark auras were consumed by the jade ring, Gu Shen retracted it, pressing it back beneath the roots of the Suxuan Wood.

After completing all this, he slowly ascended into the sky, reaching the starting point where countless destiny gold threads wove together.

All the fluctuations from the Array Box sea area emanated from that slender silhouette.

At the Skytop, the sound of tides flowed, like heavenly music.

Her white dress swayed like ocean waves.

Five years apart.

Her appearance unchanged.