"Got him."

Gu Shen's calm voice echoed in the mental link channel.

To truly catch a big fish, one must cast a bait attractive enough.

Before him appeared the scene from Chu Ling's mental link.

After the plan was finalized, the thousands of strands of formation glyphs were entirely entrusted to Chu Ling... Under her control, the scene from just now unfolded.

A large amount of calculation combined with divination revealed a very subtle flaw.

In a duel between experts, even the slightest mistake would be seized.

Gu Lunshen would never let go of that gap that allowed escape from the formation's confinement and killing array!

Nor would he let go of the opportunity to attack Bai Xiu.

But what Gu Lunshen didn't know was... Bai Xiu's true power was far from what he was currently displaying.

In the Outer Mausoleum Disaster Zone, the full eruption of the Thunder Realm Walker had directly killed Mr. Jin, the Apostle of the Wine God!

Gu Shen knew this information.

So, in the mental communication, Gu Shen asked Bai Xiu a very serious question.

Could Bai Xiu withstand one second under Gu Lunshen's attack?

Bai Xiu's answer was, he could.

In fact, both understood each other's meaning.

Gu Shen's implied meaning was that Gu Lunshen's attack would be an all-out, fatal strike.

The full-force strike of a titled powerhouse, carrying the divine power of the Wine God... would be terrifying!

Bai Xiu certainly knew this.

However, if there were any mistakes, the consequences would be severe, so Gu Shen asked again, somewhat uncertain, and Bai Xiu's answer remained the same single word.

Could.

This was an answer given after understanding.

At this moment.

Gu Lunshen's palm pressed fiercely towards Bai Xiu's forehead. The domain of Longyue expanded in his palm, intending to drag the white-clothed youth before him into it... But before this terrifying power could erupt, the mist enveloping the Thunder Realm Walker's body exploded with crackling sounds!

A tall divine general revealed his majestic true form.

This was Bai Xiu's greatest secret... He had rarely displayed the true form of the Thunder Realm Walker, not only because his opponents were not qualified.

But also because of the special, forbidden nature of this ability!

After the divine general appeared, the surrounding extraordinary source matter began to collapse wildly, forming a huge vortex centered around him--

This was a special power capable of attracting "extraordinary source matter"!

In a sense... this power, like Blazing Fire, could handle collapsing "points of order decay"!

At this moment, Gu Shen understood why Bai Xiu was desperately hiding the Thunder Realm Walker's true power.

Bai Xiu faced the exact same predicament as himself.

Once the true nature of the Thunder Realm Walker's abilities was exposed... then the Federal Government would cast a great deal of attention, which would no longer be limited to a sensation in Nagano.

The power to handle extraordinary source matter... This was a major news story that would shock the five continents!

At that time, it would also attract the attention of the Divine Throne!

For an extraordinary individual whose strength was still in the growth stage, possessing such heaven-defying abilities was definitely not a good thing!

Therefore... Bai Xiu had been hiding his abilities all these years!

Even after hiding his abilities, he was still the number one in Nagano among his peers!

At this moment.

The Thunder Realm Walker, revealing his true form and desperately drawing on the surrounding wind and snow source matter, solemnly stretched out his hands and collided palms with Gu Lunshen!

"Rumble~~"

Blinding lightning exploded in large swaths!

Palm lightning, several times more powerful than before, exploded continuously, consuming not Bai Xiu's own source matter, but the boundless power overflowing between heaven and earth.

Gu Shen's Blazing Fire had measures to protect its host in an emergency.

Consuming source matter to resist injuries.

Bai Xiu's Thunder Realm Walker was the same!

Gu Lunshen's palm strike was extremely powerful, causing the Thunder Realm Walker's body to dim instantly, and lightning to splash everywhere, but overall, it was blocked with more surprise than danger!

This was the reason why Bai Xiu had previously answered "could" with such certainty!

He exposed his greatest trump card.

Exchanging it for a moment of absolute blank time!

"Action!"

The moment Gu Lunshen attacked.

Gu Shen's command echoed in the mental channel!

The control of the Qingzhong formation glyphs was entirely handed over to Chu Ling. More than two thousand strands of golden light surged like游鱼 (yóu yú, swimming fish). These formation glyphs seemed to come alive, each strand possessing its own thoughts.

It was also manipulation of formation glyphs.

Gu Shen had already done it extremely smoothly.

But Chu Ling's control caused a sense of awe. These golden small swords were no longer just swords, but instantly transformed into dozens of geometric sharp-edged forms, sometimes like swimming fish, sometimes like water droplets, sometimes like flowing shuttles... Vast calculation power supported them to travel in the air in the best possible form, and the speed of reaching the end point was also faster than Gu Shen's!

In Gu Shen's eyes, although these formation glyphs were all used by him.

But together, they were a whole, a complete "one."

What he controlled was "one."

But in Chu Ling's eyes, each of these formation glyphs was a separate individual, a "one," and what she controlled was thousands of "ones," where each strand of formation glyphs had its own function.

It wasn't that Gu Shen didn't want to do this, but that he couldn't.

His mental power had been cultivated solidly enough, but combining them into "one" was already extremely laborious.

If they were separated, it was likely that these formation glyphs would fly in all directions, out of control, and scatter in an instant.

In this world, probably only Chu Ling could do such a thing.

The calculation power of the Source Code was still residing in this body. The depth of her calculations alone surpassed everyone in Nagano City combined.

Every ray of formation glyphs pierced towards Gu Lunshen's weaknesses.

The previous confinement and killing, in the Deep Sea's cognition, was a kind of tactic. All "stalemate" was valuable combat data for the Source Code. She analyzed the characteristics of Longyue, the thickness of its coverage, and Gu Lunshen's combat habits.

This was very small data.

Even if it could be told to a certain extraordinary individual, and the other party digested it all, the impact on the battle situation would be minimal... because knowing and doing were two different things.

But she was different.

Her knowing was doing.

Thousands of strands of light pierced towards the small weaknesses that changed the odds of winning.

At this moment, Gu Lunshen suddenly felt a strange feeling... He subconsciously unfolded Longyue, but found that after the domain shrouded, there were several weaknesses that were pierced by a dense number of formation glyphs, and the entire domain actually trembled.

So he once again subconsciously wanted to use Wan Shan to dodge.

However, the formation glyphs that had been waiting in his dodging position pierced out. All of this happened too coincidentally, and it didn't seem like an operation Gu Shen could have done... It was as if he had crashed into these sharp killing intents!

Gu Lunshen had never experienced such a strange battle.

Intuition told him that he needed to defend.

In a split second, he made a choice.

Gu Lunshen retracted his palm that was striking towards Bai Xiu's forehead. He could feel that his strike was not far from killing Bai Xiu. The surrounding extraordinary source matter had become very weak... This thunder shadow ancient general was on the verge of collapse!

It was correct to follow his intuition and choose to defend.

Zero point one seconds later, nearly half of the Qingzhong formation glyphs had condensed into a long spear, stabbing towards the position of his heart after Wan Shan.

Gu Lunshen also condensed Longyue and smashed this spear into pieces with a heavy palm strike.

He didn't know that in this battle, he was relying on his combat experience, eyesight, and the mental power he sensed.

And the other party... was relying on vast "calculation power."

The spear being smashed was also a necessary process in the calculation.

The formation glyphs shattered and flew away. These golden formation glyphs used to attack Gu Lunshen had inadvertently... paved a small space of several zhang in size. (One zhang is approximately 3.3 meters)

It was like a new cage.

And every ray of formation glyphs was inadvertently adding a stroke to the construction of the "new cage."

However, the location of the cage's formation was not perfect. There seemed to be some offset. Gu Lunshen only needed to turn sideways to rush out of it. His expression was gloomy, and he directly expanded Longyue, shattering these golden lights before the cage could take shape... After doing all this, he continued to turn back and kill Bai Xiu, wanting to directly press him to death!

But at the moment of turning around, a long-awaited middle-aged figure appeared before him.

Bai Xiaochi.

And a large amount of "blood."

The power of Zhao Ming was activated. Bai Xiaochi pulled his hands apart, and a large area of the Bai Clan's glyphs spread in the void. Gu Lunshen, eager to kill, inevitably crashed into the void clan glyphs that were close at hand.

So...

With a "crack"!

The sound of the formation glyphs locking sounded overhead!

Gu Lunshen's pupils contracted. He had bizarrely returned to the position he was in a second ago... That was the position where the golden formation glyphs had previously formed a cage. The original imperfect offset had become seamless and exceptionally precise at this moment.

This... was a formation cage tailored for him at this moment!

Longyue was tightly bound to his body. At this moment, it was suppressed by the Qingzhong formation glyphs erupting with full force!

Gu Lunshen seemed to have put on a "golden jade suit."

And only the hand he had previously struck out with was now exposed. Strands of formation glyphs, like golden snakes, wrapped around it, tightly enveloping this piece of skin. After desperately tightening and retracting, the golden light almost piled up to a chi in thickness. (One chi is approximately 0.33 meters)

The last formation glyphs directly blocked the diffusion of Longyue!

With a "swoosh."

Gu Shen appeared before Gu Lunshen.

In order to kill Gu Lunshen, Bai Xiu had even chosen to expose the true form of the Thunder Realm Walker. At this moment, he couldn't bother to keep any cards up his sleeve!

Iron Throne was activated... The iron armor draped over his body instantly turned into countless iron filings, which instantly transformed into an iron sword!

Blazing Fire plus the Ruler of Truth plus the Iron Sword!

The greatest killing weapon, three-in-one!

Gu Shen mercilessly slashed down with his sword!

With a "zizz" sound--

That was the sound of hard skin being cut by an even harder iron weapon!

"Ah..."

Gu Lunshen's shrill and painful wail echoed in the snowy plains!

Even with the divine power of the Wine God covering it, one of his hands was still directly chopped off by Gu Shen!

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(Update forecast, next chapter before 12 noon tomorrow.)