Chapter 107 The Greatest Distance

The Lin Family of North Continent agreed to call off the engagement?

This news was nothing short of a thunderclap…

Jia Wei was stunned upon hearing this.

He knew that once these words were spoken, some things became irreversible and could not be forced.

The will of the two Divine Seats had once driven Light City and Central City to become allies, but now, under the new tide of fate, they were drifting further and further apart.

As a believer adhering to the will of Light, the only thing he could do was accept.

Jia Wei was silent for a long time.

He maintained his final dignity, gave a slow bow to Zhuxue and the others, and then left.

The news of the Arbiter's departure from Central City spread that very day.

The deep-water forum of North Continent erupted in cheers.

In the small courtyard on Sky-Suspended Mountain.

The team leaders, who were gathered together, exchanged glances upon seeing the news, and smiled knowingly.

This was truly good news.

Although the "Meng Xiao's Death" incident had nothing to do with them, if Jia Wei continued his investigation according to that list of names... then the transcendents who participated in the Restart mission would probably be visited by the Arbiter.

No one wanted to see those robed believers.

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After the gathering ended, the small courtyard on Sky-Suspended Mountain finally returned to peace and tranquility.

Gu Shen felt much relieved.

The Arbiter's departure meant that they had accepted North Continent's explanation of "Meng Xiao's case."

The investigation into the "Child of Blessing" case was now over.

The night breeze swirled, brushing against his cheeks. Gu Shen pushed open the door of the small courtyard on Sky-Suspended Mountain. He could finally remove the ancient runes from the courtyard and freely breathe in the "free air" of North Continent… During these past few days of seclusion, he had been constantly pondering the divination image reminded by the 'Calamity Bracelet', how to deal with it, his mind highly strained. Only now could he relax.

"Fortunately... I have the jade thumb ring."

Even now, recalling the image of Jia Wei activating the Bright Light Armor, Gu Shen still felt a lingering fear.

The Arbiter had arrived too quickly.

Fortunately, his reaction was even faster. At the crucial moment, he used the jade thumb ring to suppress the 'Calamity Bracelet's' agitation...

Otherwise.

He might have really been singled out by Jia Wei.

"Whirr..."

The wind rustled through the trees, and the grass leaves fluttered. Although unable to materialize in the real world, Chu Ling's voice, like the wind, lingered and echoed by Gu Shen's ear.

"The Arbiter has already left North Continent."

She said softly, "If Jia Wei had found the 'bracelet' back then, I would have tried to disrupt his 'mental link' and cut off his message to Light City. With your current strength... you should have a chance to escape. The probability isn't low."

Upon hearing this, Gu Shen was somewhat dazed.

He couldn't help but smile and say with emotion, "I suddenly remembered when I was in the Capital..."

At that time, he had just awakened not long ago, and his strength was weak.

When encountering battles with high-level transcendents, Chu Ling's advice was a single word.

Escape.

If you escape too slowly, you won't be able to escape.

But now, after breaking through three times, although his transcendent strength was still only at the seventh layer, he already had the qualifications to contend with a fourth-order transcendent...

However, it was still not enough!

Facing the "fourth-order powerhouse" Jia Wei, Gu Shen still felt a deep sense of powerlessness!

Once he acted, all he could do was escape!....Facing Jia Wei, or even Lu Zhe, a fourth-order transcender, Gu Shen could only flee.

In fact, even against normal fourth-order peaks like Fisher and Zhong Yuan, he had no chance of winning.

"Hoo... Cultivation... I still have to work hard at cultivation."

Sealing the Ruler of Truth meant he had to be more grounded.

The battle between transcendents crushed everything at the boundary level... Sealed objects were just external things. Having an S-grade forbidden object like the "Bright Light Armor" could certainly greatly enhance strength, but the higher-level sealed objects were more likely to be in the hands of the strongest!

"I need to improve my realm as soon as possible, reach the 'eighth layer', and then... the strength corresponding to a three-time transcendent, although it won't be as great as this time, it will at least improve somewhat..."

Gu Shen quickly regained his composure.

A transcender, as a "genius" who surpasses the current realm, does not have a permanently fixed cross-level power... Taking Mu Wanqiu as an example, she achieved two transcendences in the seventh layer, invincible in the entire third order.

But that did not mean that if she advanced to the eighth layer, she could directly challenge the "fourth order."

Theoretically speaking, even if Mu Wanqiu reached the "eighth layer," there would still be a qualitative difference from the "fourth order," and this was also the "chasm" between two transcendences and three transcendences.

Even if Mu Wanqiu broke through again, she would still be crushed by the current Gu Shen.

If she wanted to be comparable to the "fourth order" and complete the miracle of "crossing a major realm," she would probably have to wait until the ninth layer of strength. With the powerful advantage of two transcendences, her spiritual sea could be comparable to that of a tenth-layer transcendent, not much weaker.

The difference between two and three seemed to be just a "one."

But this "one" was an impassable ocean!

And now Gu Shen had also completely reached the "limit" of a third-order transcendent.

He knew very well that no matter how hard he worked, he could not break through in terms of "transcendence." Even if Divine Seat Bai Shu gave him another "golden hoop," it would be useless.

His spiritual sea had already achieved the limit of expansion, reaching an intensity that did not belong to this level.

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In the following days, Gu Shen buried himself in hard cultivation in the small courtyard.

During this period, Fisher often came to visit. Deep Lake and Sky-Suspended Mountain were extremely close. After several contacts, Living Fish saw that Gu Shen's spiritual sea intensity was different from ordinary people. He did not guess in the direction of "three transcendences," after all, this idea was too frightening.

Fisher only thought that Gu Shen was an S-grade spiritual system with even more heaven-defying talent than Mu Wanqiu.

Regarding Gu Shen's cultivation, he gave a lot of guidance.

Transcendent cultivation was actually to enhance one's own combat power... And as the garrison of Deep Scale City Fortress, Fisher's practical combat ability could definitely rank in the top five among the fourth-order in North Continent.

He taught Gu Shen how to use the "domain embryo" and how to more quickly and efficiently comprehend the "real domain" and become a fourth-order.

These pointers were very useful.

Gu Shen listened carefully, thought carefully, and verified repeatedly...

But unfortunately, it was of limited use to himself now.

Because Fisher did not know that what Gu Shen now possessed was not a "domain embryo," but a complete and huge "spiritual world."....This could no longer be summarized by "domain."

It was just that Gu Shen's spiritual power was not strong enough, and the "projected" Pure Land domain could only barely cover a small area.

If he really reached the fourth order...

Then the "Pure Land" domain might become a great weapon to sweep across the fourth order!

However, the difficulty that trapped Gu Shen now was not how to "break through the realm," but how to cross the real "third order" in front of him.

Third-order transcendents needed to feel the "domain embryo."

But he had the complete "Wilderness of Four Seasons" from the beginning... It seemed that there was no stage to feel the "domain embryo" at all?

As for the spiritual breathing technique.

That was even another matter. The breathing technique was an auxiliary method to maintain mental stability and ensure combat endurance.

No matter how powerful the breathing technique was, it had nothing to do with the realm.

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Just as Gu Shen was trapped in the "third-order difficulty," the second regular visitor came to the small courtyard.

Mu Wanqiu.

No one would have thought that this usually cold-as-ice North Continent S-grade would one day run to Gu Shen's small courtyard and take the initiative to propose an invitation to spar.

Moreover, from that day on, for a week in a row, Mu Wanqiu would come every day to spar with Gu Shen.

Helpless, Gu Shen had to rearrange the ancient runes.

The reason was simple—

Mu Wanqiu hoped that Gu Shen would show 100% of his strength...

100% of his strength meant that in this fight, if he was not careful, he would leak the spiritual aura of three transcendences and reach the fourth order.

Gu Shen wanted to hide some of his strength, but Mu Wanqiu's combat power was strong enough, and he could not be careless. Once the fight started, he had to go all out.

The battle scenes were generally very intense, and the entire Sky-Suspended Mountain would shake violently. Even Fisher would be attracted by such a movement, but the latter repeatedly proposed to enter the courtyard to watch the battle, but was rejected by Mu Wanqiu.

S-grade had S-grade privileges.

Mu Wanqiu had a bad temper, and there was also an invincible fourth-order "close-fitting nanny", so even if Fisher, who was eager to watch the battle, wanted to watch, he could only give up.

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On this day.

Once again disturbed by the vibration of Sky-Suspended Mountain, ripples appeared on the calm lake.

Fisher, who had taken off his fish tank and was swimming with ten thousand fish in the deep lake, was lying on a reef, feeling the sunlight projected on the lake.

A loud noise.

The peaceful nap was broken.

Fisher had long been accustomed to this kind of movement. He slowly spit out a string of bubbles, turned over in the bottom of the lake, and continued to sleep... The S-grade battle must be very exciting, but unfortunately Mu Wanqiu did not allow himself to enter the courtyard to watch, so it was better not to go to Sky-Suspended Mountain and ask for trouble.

At this moment, in the small courtyard of Sky-Suspended Mountain.

Two figures were entangled in the storm.

Mu Wanqiu's battle knife turned into a series of phantoms, like a whip, whipping Gu Shen, but the latter looked calm, constantly retreating, and the sky full of steel swept like grass leaves, just right to block every slash.

A sky full of explosive sounds of "clang clang clang clang"!

This was the embodiment of Gu Shen's perfect spiritual control.

He saw through Mu Wanqiu's every attack and the "landing point" of every knife!....On the day that the Legion Commander showed her power.

Gu Shen vaguely captured some inspiration.

Those were some ideas about "spiritual control"... In the eyes of normal transcendents, the more powerful the ability, the more difficult it was to control. If it was spread out, the Legion Commander could easily burn the land within a few miles into scorched earth.

But hers, after being contained, did not accidentally burn even a blade of grass.

True "control" was not infinite destruction.

But being able to retract and release freely, lifting heavy weights as if they were light.

After figuring this out, Gu Shen also tried to do so. He tried to block all attacks in his duel with Mu Wanqiu as much as possible, and did not destroy anything in the small courtyard.

This was not easy.

Because Gu Shen did not use "Pure Land."

If he moved out the fourth-order domain and directly crushed Mu Wanqiu with the projection of the spiritual domain, then the battle would end in three seconds, thus losing its own meaning.

In the howling wind, the two S-grades continued to bombard each other.

In addition to this, there was actually a third person present in this battle.

This selfless audience and referee, while watching the fierce duel of the S-grade, gave evaluations in Gu Shen's spiritual sea.

"The real-time simulation system has given Mu Wanqiu's third-order offensive technology a score of 99 points."

In today's data-driven Deep Water Zone.

Battle replays and real-time evaluations are not difficult.

If the battle took place under the supervision of the Deep Sea, every transcendent could improve their level by watching the replay.

"80 points" was a very good score, and it could be called a genius in all continents.

"90 points" was an extremely excellent result.

The performance that could allow the Deep Sea to score "90 points" meant that the transcendent was close to perfection in the current realm. Once this kind of recording appeared in the Deep Water Zone, it would be shared and spread by the transcendents, who would learn from it.

Of course, this kind of scoring also had limitations, and it could only form an accurate judgment on "fourth-order transcendents" at most.

Even if watching the battle of the Title, the system would also score... but the score was not accurate, and the current had not evolved to this degree.

As for the level battle, it was useless to watch it, and this level of battle could not be quantified by data.

In addition to this, it also violated the iron rule left by Mr. Turing, the creator of .

The Supreme Seat cannot be spied on.

Now Mu Wanqiu had scored 99 points by the Deep Sea, which was almost impeccable and perfect.

And a week ago, Mu Wanqiu's first battle against Gu Shen only scored "91 points."

In this week, her progress was rapid.

This talent made Gu Shen couldn't help but sigh. Compared to his previous sparring partner... Mu Wanqiu's combat talent was really scary high.

Little Iron Man was also a "martial arts fanatic", and he was also extremely enthusiastic about finding himself to duel.

It's just that his level was far from Mu Wanqiu.

Chen Li had found himself to fight in Nagano City for I don't know how many games, and the best score was only more than 80 points, which was still a long way from 90... But even so, he was definitely worthy of being called the "leader" of the younger generation.

Chen Li was a genius, but Mu Wanqiu was a monster.

The distance between genius and monster was like the "one" between the second transcendence and the third transcendence.

As for Gu Shen...

Chu Ling had not used the evaluation system to score Gu Shen for a long time.

Because when he was dueling with Chen Li, Gu Shen's score had always been one hundred.

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In the turbulent wind.

Mu Wanqiu suddenly stopped, the phantom of the disappeared, and she just withdrew all the attacks, and lightly landed on the ground.

Gu Shen also landed with it, and the wind in the sky dissipated.

The unnamed iron pieces controlled like lotus flowers converged, hanging on his palm.

The ancient runes above the small courtyard fluttered in the wind.

"Why don't you fight?" Gu Shen asked with a smile.

"It's boring."

Mu Wanqiu shook her head and sheathed her battle knife.

She could see that after the three transcendences, Gu Shen's strength completely crushed herself. Now this duel... although she asked the other party to show her strength, Gu Shen only defended and did not attack, obviously not showing his true strength.

Gu Shen saw the other party's thoughts, and he was a little helpless, "I have been close to using all my strength."

This was not a lie.

Except for the "spiritual domain projection", Gu Shen really didn't hide any trump cards.

"Full strength..."

Mu Wanqiu narrowed her eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Where is your 'domain'?"

When the Traveler came, she personally witnessed the power of Gu Shen's Pure Land domain, and she had not seen Gu Shen use the domain once in these few battles!

"You can't handle the domain being smashed out." Gu Shen said frankly: "Besides... the movement is too big, and all the people outside will know."

"I really can't understand you..."

Mu Wanqiu sighed softly, puzzled: "Is three transcendences a shameful message?"

"I don't want to cause too many disturbances."

Gu Shen smiled and didn't explain too much. Instead, he asked, "Isn't your purpose of sparring with me to go further in the current realm? If you just want to experience the domain of a 'fourth-order transcendent', then there are so many fourth-order masters in the Investigation Corps, why do you have to find me alone to practice?"

Hearing this, Mu Wanqiu lowered her eyebrows slightly.

"Actually..."

She held the hilt of the knife, and a wisp of hair fell down.

"...I just want to know, how big is the gap between the current me and you?"

Mu Wanqiu's deliberately relaxed voice sounded a little bitter at the moment.

As an S-grade, since joining the group, she had never lost in the same realm.

As for those peers, no matter what geniuses or monsters, Mu Wanqiu had swept them all away with an overwhelming posture.

But this time, she met Gu Shen.

Three-order two transcendences, in the past, no one had broken such a record.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Mu Wanqiu wouldn't even believe... that there was really someone in this world who could complete three transcendences.

"Her mental state doesn't seem very stable."

When Chu Ling was watching the battle, she was knocking melon seeds in the Zero Zero One carriage, and her expression became serious.

As the real gravekeeper of Qingzhong Cemetery.

The ancient runes in the small courtyard captured everything that happened in the courtyard for her, and at this moment they were all focused on Mu Wanqiu's face.

Seeing Mu Wanqiu's slightly red eyes and the unwillingness in her eyes, Chu Ling sighed softly: "Although Mu Wanqiu's talent is much stronger than Chen Li, she still has to learn from Chen Li in terms of mentality."

"..."

She sent this picture back to the spiritual sea, and Gu Shen was silent when he saw this scene.

Was this... beaten to tears by himself?

"In the past few days, Mu Wanqiu's rating has been improving. She is trying to catch up with you, but the more she chases, the more she finds the gap between you."

Chu Ling said slowly: "The recognition that 'I am not the best in the world' is bound to happen sooner or later. In fact, the blow you are giving her now is a good thing for her."

The more she fought.

The more Mu Wanqiu realized the gap between her and Gu Shen.

That gap was very small, in the Deep Sea's rating system, it was the gap between 99 points and 100 points.

But this 1 point... was very big.

Mu Wanqiu was infinitely close to perfection, so she could get 99 points.

The reason why Gu Shen got 100 points was because the Deep Sea evaluation system, the full score was only 100 points.

A genius who had never been defeated was suddenly completely defeated.

This feeling must be very painful.

Gu Shen looked at the woman in front of him who was unwilling to hold the knife. For a moment, Mu Wanqiu's figure overlapped with his Senior Sister Lu Nanjin in his mind, but the two were only slightly similar in image, but in reality they were completely different.

Senior Sister Lu's talent was not as good as Mu Wanqiu's.

But her Dao heart was more firm than Mu Wanqiu's, much more firm!

"The road of cultivation is not a matter of one day."

Gu Shen said softly: "The strength of the North Continent transcenders is the strongest continent I have ever seen... Every transcender here has a tenacious will and an unyielding spirit."

The transcenders who were born in North Continent joined the corps at a young age, or guarded the fortresses, or went out to make a living.

Licking blood on the tip of a knife.

Wandering in life and death.

The transcenders who grew up in such an environment were naturally the strongest transcendenders... But Mu Wanqiu was the best protected "flower" in this cruel Shura field. She was too strong, and the team leader beside her was also too strong. Those "thorns" that trapped ordinary transcendenders could not trap her at all.

Of course, with her S-grade talent, she would definitely become a Title in the future.

But it was not enough to become a true "strongest person."

After Gu Shen thought for a while, he sent a mental voice to Zero Zero One.

"Respected gravekeeper of Qingzhong... Can I trouble you to help me strengthen the 'ancient runes' in the small courtyard?"

Chu Ling smiled when she heard this.

She looked up and said warmly: "You are lucky, Fisher didn't come today, there are no strong people within five miles, so... let you do it, don't worry about spiritual leakage."

Gu Shen also smiled.

He looked at Mu Wanqiu.

As Chu Ling said, this was what he saw in her. If there were some mistakes in the process of cultivation, he would definitely take action to help and correct them.

Gu Shen said softly: "If you want to catch up with me, then the next move..."

"Don't blink."

Mu Wanqiu was slightly startled.

In the courtyard, the wind that had been extinguished rose again—

The dim light in her eyes was ignited by the wind at this moment, and the fighting spirit and fighting spirit flowing in the blood of North Continent were aroused at this moment. Mu Wanqiu kicked out the battle knife, pulled the knife out of its sheath in the air, and she rushed towards Gu Shen again, as fast as a lightning bolt.

The huge ghost shadow of the held up the big banner against the wind, roaring and chopping out.

At this moment.

The Deep Sea gave this North Continent S-grade's combat performance 100 points.

It's just that, the next moment.

All the wind was smoothed out.

Mu Wanqiu looked blankly at Gu Shen's finger pointing at the center of her brow.

A huge towering ancient tree enveloped her.

Thousands of green shades exuded exuberant vitality.

She didn't know when, she had come to such a majestic world, as if it was thousands of feet high, the top of the sky was like a cover, the giant tree was like a pillar, and the person in charge of this world - the young man who usually had a restrained and unremarkable aura, at this moment seemed to have become the controller of the entire world.

As if... he had become a god!

"Okay."

With just a light point, Gu Shen withdrew his finger.

Pure Land, Susa Tree, and the flying fallen leaves all disappeared.

Mu Wanqiu's eyes flickered, and she returned to the courtyard again.

The previous scene was like an illusion, dissipating cleanly, as if it had never appeared.

Gu Shen asked with a smile, "Did you... see it clearly?"

(Translator's Note: Please remember to collect after reading)