Anyone who has ever visited the Qing Tomb Inner Mausoleum and stood beneath the giant statues
Would feel themselves as insignificant as ants.
No matter how hard they tried to look up, they could only see the majestic chest of the statues disappearing into the mist.
As insignificant as a single grain of dust.
And at this moment, the entire world of ice and snow began to surge, with tens of thousands of tons of flowing snow rolling beneath the statues. These five largest statues, resembling "gods" seated amidst an avalanche, silently watched the world collapse.
Five small wooden tokens had unlocked the array patterns of the bloodline in the Giant Statue Ruins.
From far in the sky, a strand of pitch-black firelight seeped out.
Even though it was just a small strand...it still instilled a feeling of shock, unease, and fear.
It really was a spark!
Gu Lushen raised his arms up high, as if to embrace the entire dome of snow...he was indeed about to do so.
Unfortunately, he was just a bit short.
As he spread apart a strand of the snow dome and closed it back up, the rolling tide of snow reversed, and the "time" of this world began to flow backward.
Ray of light emitted from the tokensina an inch by inch flow rewound itself.
The five tokens, now quiet again, floated in mid-air.
"Gu Shen, this is a good opportunity to observe...you can get a feel for what a battle of Titled Transcendents is like,"
Then he began to advance.
There was no need to expand his domain; the entire world shrouded in flying snow was his "Reverse Flow" domain.
And before everything undergoes "Reverse Flow," there must be a "Stasis" phase.
As Bai Shu passed, the fluttering snowflakes, drifting leaves, and exploding stone shards...all froze in mid-air, as if someone had hit the pause button on time, and as he passed by, these frozen items followed their trajectory and continued their initial motion.
This world became noisy yet tranquil.
Bai Shu thus walked slowly up to Gu Lushen.
He did not pause Gu Lushen’s "time."
Of course, the "Reverse Flow" ability of this defiantly celestial level wasn’t something to be activated casually.
The more objects he affected, the greater the power he consumed...
And the stronger the creatures affected, the more difficult it became.
Bai Shu stood ten meters in front of Gu Lushen.
He carefully observed his old acquaintance, fell silent for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "How long has it been since we last saw each other?"
Sweat had already begun to form on Gu Lushen’s forehead.
Ghost-like, he gazed at the familiar face in the ghastly white fog.
How many years had it been?
Twenty years? Or... longer?
He, who usually had an excellent memory, surprisingly found that he could no longer recall anything about Bai Shu.
He had died too quietly.
Who would spend the effort to remember a dead man?
"Forget it...it’s not important," Bai Shu said with a smile, somewhat disappointedly, "But I remember...the last time we met, you did not look ."
Gu Lushen looked down at himself.
The Moonlight, out of intense fear, desperately contracted and solidified into a layer of tight armor.
Above the armor surged a dazzling purple radiance.
That was the Divine Power of the Wine God!
For many years, he had endured, he had strived hard, he had cultivated to Great Success... but now, why did he still feel fear upon seeing Bai Shu?
In that era when everyone was young.
Because he was also born in the Gu family, Gu Lushen never got the chance to fight Gu Changzhi. Not willing to be relegated to a secondary role, he challenged Bai Shu, and thus they had a spectacular fight... The result was his complete and utterly miserable defeat.
At that time, Bai Shu had not yet absorbed the entire Bai Family’s bloodline power for his final assault on Gu Changzhi.
After that fight, Gu Lushen fell into a long period of decline.
Even without Gu Changzhi.
He still could not become the "protagonist" of the last era, because Changye City still had Bai Shu.
After the "Chi Yan" in his chest opened, he changed his goal.
He shifted his eyes to the next era.
He decided to endure slowly... waiting out all those old friends he could not compete with.
It did not take long.
He outlasted Bai Shu...this proud genius, upon failing to challenge Gu Changzhi, chose to commit suicide with all the hope of his clan’s bloodline, how foolish!
It was by outlasting Bai Shu that Gu Lushen truly firmed up his strategy of enduring hardships!
Content to remain behind the scenes, he just kept waiting and waiting!
He waited till Gu Changzhi retired from Changye, and also till Gu Qilin’s old age—
Finally, the day had come at last!
Only to find out that it was all just a joke played by the heavens?
Bai Shu was still alive!
"Your current appearance really resembles a dog,"
Bai Shu looked at the purple radiance enveloping Gu Lushen and said sympathetically, "But unlike a dog... you wag your tail without knowing you’re begging."
Gu Lushen became enraged.
He growled, "Bai Shu... Times have changed!"
Gu Lushen could feel that Bai Shu’s aura, mixed with dark intentions of Silent Annihilation, meant that the Bai Family’s anger at this transcendent genius over the years couldn’t possibly be fake; even if he hadn’t truly died, he must have hidden the news of his survival.
How could such a person continue their cultivation?
Whereas he, for the past twenty years, had been diligently cultivating without any interruption.
The Moonlight forcibly expanded!
Gu Lushen charged towards Bai Shu, the Moonlight domain enveloping them both. Wrapped in the Divine Power of the Wine God, he delivered a punch filled with concentrated energy!