How many kinds of power truly understand and integrate everything?
Battling with top warriors, what decides the outcome is not the amount of ability.
But the limit of performance one can reach.
Gu Shen unleashed a sword strike.
Each Array Pattern was like a wave, and more than two thousand waves accumulated to finally form a tsunami!
Two bright lights clashed against each other.
Xu Yan released a massive tide of fire and Ice Sea, bursting forth with glorious and dazzling light, but under the suppressive force of the Array Patterns in Qingzhong Cemetery, it retreated bit by bit, breaking apart... Finally, a blade of Sword Qi pierced his body, splitting him into two!
This Sword Qi moved mightily.
After piercing through Xu Yan’s body, it continued forward, vertically splitting a distant snow mountain too.
Gu Shen watched this scene calmly.
At this moment, he felt "piercing pain" in his mind, which was the price of stretching the Truth Ruler to its limit.
It was because of the final sharpening of the Truth Ruler and Chi Huo that he was able to embed each strand of Array Pattern meaning into it, culminating in this sword strike... However, this wild power was not easy to control; thousands of strands of power were extremely chaotic, maintaining them required burning a lot of spiritual power and Extraordinary Essence.
Luckily, Gu Shen was abundantly profound.
But even so, after delivering the sword strike, he felt "overdrawn."
Gu Shen called forth again with a wave of his hand.
From the collapsing, broken snow mountains in the distance, roaring sounds emerged, along with thousands of fine arcs of light and golden Array Patterns, eventually reconverging above his head.
Gu Shen looked toward Xu Yan, not far away, with some sadness.
The Divine Power of the "Token" was still burning.
So... Xu Yan had not yet died.
Only, he had been bisected, with the Divine Power of the Wine God continuously binding his body together... This scene looked rather dismal.
Blood stained the snow red.
Gu Shen slowly approached Xu Yan, crouched down, and picked up the token emblazoned with a grape logo, sparkling with glow; clearly, in the final moments, Xu Yan had attempted to summon the Wine God...
But the descent of the god had failed.
Xu Yan’s throat had also been slit, allowing him only a rough breathy sound.
He stretched out a hand, attempting to forcefully grab Gu Shen’s arm.
Gu Shen said softly, "Don’t touch me with your dirty hands."
Xu Yan was taken aback.
A strand of golden Array Pattern sliced past, and his arm was directly severed!
"Clang" went the sound.
As if something was missing... he turned his head to look at the twisted arm on the ground; because of the Token’s Divine Power, the Blessing Power of the Wine God was still binding his body together, so the cut of the arm and the shoulder emitted hundreds of purple glows to reconnect.
Xu Yan’s spirit voice, hoarsely echoed.
He reluctantly called out Gu Shen’s name, mumbling, "How could I... lose to you..."
From Xu Yan’s split brow, a faint flame drifted out, which looked similar to Chi Huo, even bearing a somewhat similar aura.
Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.
So the willingness to be beaten by himself on the long street... was it all just to copy his "Chi Huo"?
Only, this copy was clearly a failure.
Gu Shen said calmly, "Being a counterfeit, you should have the awareness of a counterfeit, in your next life, don’t say such foolish things again."
He extended his palm, intending to grasp and examine the "replica Chi Huo" that was emanating from Xu Yan’s forehead.
Xu Yan silently smiled.
he launched his final fierce strike.
The split body suddenly sat up, its entire shell turning a hue of iron blue, choosing to use the strongest and toughest offensive ability stolen by the "Fire Stealer."
The divided body reached out with both arms, preparing to tightly embrace Gu Shen.
Yet, Gu Shen’s expression did not show even the slightest ripple...
The ability he had used the most was the "Iron Eater."
The "Iron Throne" was activated at that moment!
Much of Xu Yan’s body exploded, turning into countless free iron elements... He used "Iron Eater" to complete the first iron transformation, and Gu Shen helped him with the second.
The "iron filings" fluttered and danced in the air.
Not a single drop of blood remained.
Xu Yan... only a head was left.
He blankly looked at Gu Shen, and deep within his pupils, a trace of fear began to emerge.
If he wasn’t mistaken,
did Gu Shen use a "second ability"?
He looked in horror at the young man before him, his voice becoming shrill.
"How could you possess a second ability?!"
Gu Shen just coldly looked at him.
With a gaze that viewed him as a "failed counterfeit."
"No... don’t kill me..."
Xu Yan’s voice began to tremble.
he truly felt the crisis... The Divine Power of the token was still continuing, he still had a chance to live, even if he was so injured, even if only a head was left, as long as he was given enough time, the token could still mend his body back together.
Thus, Xu Yan began to plead for mercy.
He cried bitterly, hoping Gu Shen would spare his life.
Gu Shen merely picked up the ugly head, then flicked a wisp of Chi Huo into Xu Yan’s mind...
Before killing Xu Yan,
he had one more thing to do.
This guy’s memories... were very important!
Numerous spirit images flashed, drawn out by the force of Chi Huo.
Gu Shen, who intended to glimpse information about the "Wine God Throne," did not hold much hope, and unsurprisingly, those memories related to the Divine Throne were sealed off.
But he unexpectedly saw Xu Yan’s massacre on this snowfield.
He saw those bodies hanging upside down within the rocks.
Those "victims" who had died because of him.
In Xu Yan’s mind, there was a... long list.
It was a death list commissioned by the Source Tower Divine Throne.