Gu Shen... was indeed escaping.

After pulling Song Ci away from Red Lake, he used the fastest speed possible to travel.

Each exit of Light City was guarded by Cloud Ships.

Although these Holy Judges were quite powerful, they were far inferior compared to Gu Shen.

To ensure a smooth departure... Gu Shen even used [Truth]!

At first, Song Ci could keep up with Gu Shen’s pace.

But after leaving Light City, Gu Shen’s speed kept surging, even he was stunned; he’d never seen Gu Shen run this fast in his life!

"Damn it..."

Finally, Song Ci was pulled onto the iron sword condensed by [Truth], gasping for breath, he looked back at the bustling city disappearing into the night, still in a daze.

Song Ci felt bewildered, as if dreaming.

"Gu Shen, are we just leaving like this?"

Two minutes ago, he was still at Red Lake.

Two minutes later, he couldn’t even see the shadow of Light City!

"Being able to leave is what counts as leaving!"

After leaving the Divine Domain, Gu Shen didn’t look back, he dashed eastward, stepping on the [Truth] iron sword.

At this moment, he didn’t care about the consumption of his source essence.

Gu Shen prepared to cross the sea like this, regardless of the cost, moving forward at the fastest speed, sailing in a straight line back to the East Continent!

"This is the fastest I’ve ever run in my life."

Song Ci first exclaimed, then scratched his head, curiously asked: "What did you do over at Red Lake? Did you poke the butt of the Light God’s Seat?"

"...Damn!"

Gu Shen cursed irritably: "Do you believe I’ll throw you down from the sky?"

Song Ci laughed, squinting his eyes.

He inhaled a breath of relatively fresh night breeze, lazily said: "But running away like this is quite nice, that godforsaken place Light City, I feel uncomfortable staying there, the earlier I leave, the better..."

Saying this, Song Ci’s expression turned serious.

"It’s just that I don’t understand, Miss Meng even got you an opportunity to visit the [Forbidden Book Tower], why not stay one more day?"

"Stay one more day..."

Gu Shen glanced at Song Ci, chuckled and said: "I’m afraid I won’t live long enough, dying in Light City."

Dying in Light City?

With the power of the temple, no matter how many Cloud Ships come, it’s useless.

Even if Gu Shen was forced into a defensive position, he had ways to escape.

The battle power of a top Titled is not something ordinary Transcendents can compensate for with numbers.

Song Ci frowned and said: "That shouldn’t be the case... even Jia Wei is no match for you, in all of Light City, apart from the Light God’s Seat, who can kill you?"

Saying this, he fell silent.

Because the answer was already evident.

Song Ci said, stunned: "You’re worrying about the Light God’s Seat attacking you? How dare he do that?"

This time Gu Shen openly declared his identity, appeared in Light City, killed Jia Wei, which was reasonable and lawful.

If the Light God’s Seat spared no cost to keep Gu Shen.

Then it might directly lead to a Divine War—

"More terrifying than that."

Having sailed a great distance away.

Gu Shen finally dared to look back at Light City disappearing into the darkness.

He said in a hoarse voice: "I suspect... what I saw on the other shore of Red Lake was not the real Light God’s Seat."

...

...

When Gu Shen originally set off from Changye, it took him a few days to reach Southampton City, and several days more to head towards West Sea Crossing.

But now.

He took merely one night to traverse the entire inland of the West Continent, directly arriving at Ghent Port.

The [Truth] iron sword did not pause at all, continuing eastward, Gu Shen did not plan to stop on the journey even for a second before reaching Changye.

The conversation on the other shore of Red Lake was actually very "perfect," with no issues for the most part.

What the Light God’s Seat said at first...

Put a lot of pressure on Gu Shen.

But it ended there.

Gu Shen knew everyone in the temple was suspicious of his identity, if this summons, the Light God’s Seat showed exceptional "benevolence," it would instead make him suspicious...

Even if the Light God’s Seat still had doubts about his identity, it was understandable.

After all, Jia Wei was already dead.

And meeting the Light God’s Seat under the watch of thousands at Red Lake belonged to an absolutely safe circumstance.

The truly terrifying aspect of this conversation was—

Gu Shen wanted to extract the "letter" more than once, to give it to the brightness before him.

Upon stepping onto the lake, his spiritual power had already swept into the depths of the [Pure Land], prepared to retrieve the letter.

But when he tried to extract the letter...

That letter rejected his spiritual will.

The first time this situation occurred, Gu Shen didn’t concern himself.

The second time.

Was at the moment the Light God’s Seat reached out.

At that moment, the letter left by Mr. Gu Changzhi refused his spiritual will once again, it refused to leave the Pure Land, refused to be delivered onto the man lying by the lake.

Gu Shen’s back hair stood on end in an instant.

He didn’t know what this rejection of the letter signified...

But he knew, Mr. Gu Changzhi would definitely not harm him.

Back when Mr. Gu Changzhi said to deliver the message, he assured that he wouldn’t let me fall into "danger."

This also means that the act of "delivering the message" is absolutely safe.

Conversely, refusal of the letter’s delivery signifies... danger.

In that brief moment, Gu Shen considered many points that seemed "reasonable," but were actually quite "unreasonable."

If the power of the "Divine Concealing Cloak" was concealing my authority aura, causing the Light God’s Seat to be unable to clearly perceive my Power of Fire.

Then...

I shouldn’t have had no reaction to the "Light Fire."

In other words, the "Netherworld Fire" should still be able to sense the Light Fire; back then when Gu Shen and Miss Meng Xizhou exchanged gazes, the Netherfire Authority trembled, but now facing the Light God’s Seat... it’s very quiet.

The dialogue at the other shore of Red Lake is too calm.

Calm to the point that Gu Shen didn’t initially realize these oddities.

Thus there was the final conversation between the two.

Gu Shen decided to hide the secret of the "third letter" and chose not to deliver it.

Facing his departure, the Light God’s Seat didn’t stop him but rather threw the temptation of the "Forbidden Book Tower."

If there’s a second meeting, what will happen?

Gu Shen doesn’t know, and doesn’t want to know.

The "Forbidden Book Tower" is a great temptation, but he hopes even more to be able to leave Light City alive and pass this intelligence concerning the other shore of Red Lake back to the East Continent.

...

...

Red Lake returned to calm, and Miss Meng Xizhou took over Light City.

The temple underwent a cleansing tonight.

The Goddess did not disclose the scandal of the "Secret Dungeon" to the outside; it was considered a blessing... the third elder Batu was appointed in danger to take over the task of cataloging past archives and conducting investigations.

Now the temple is thoroughly investigating the ugly crimes of Grand Elder Gao Mo, and all who conspired with Gao Mo back then, Miss Meng Xizhou has vowed to expose them.

As for the Secret Dungeon.

There’s no longer any need for investigation.

The major criminals in the Secret Dungeon were slaughtered entirely by Gu Nanfeng; Yao Jin’s death... will naturally be attributed to Gao Mo’s case file.

In fact, the case file of Gao Mo’s hunting of the "Undead" had long become incomprehensible.

The so-called thorough investigation was merely a demonstration of attitude, while also proving identity—

Miss Meng Xizhou knows that the filth hidden in Light City cannot be swept clean overnight; want to bring all Transcendents involved in this matter for interrogation? Then the temple would soon be left with no usable personnel.

After all, Gao Mo was the temple’s Grand Elder, second only to one, above tens of thousands, determined to make way for the entire Light City.

Just, investigating this case, there are points that leave Miss Meng Xizhou feeling strange, unable to understand.

What Gao Mo and Yuan Yang did seems not simply just hunting "Undead"...

The blood of the "Undead" can be used to cleanse disaster omens.

Yet Gao Mo secretly exported a large number of Believers, cultivated many "Outer Continent believers," and planned to bring them all back to the West Continent.

This matter directly implicated the "Holy Book."

They need to use the "Holy Book" to convert a large amount of faith, in their plan, this faith is for giving the Lord of Light Divine continued life.

This, is the contradiction.

From the dialogue at the other shore of Red Lake, it seems the Lord God does not care about earthly happenings...

He thinks the matters of the world are dictated by fate, life and death are no exception.

If so.

Then why collect "force of faith"?

At this time, Miss Meng Xizhou really wanted to find Gao Mo for questioning... unfortunately, Gao Mo is already dead.

She watched with her own eyes as the Grand Elder died amidst the outbreak of "disaster," Spirit Sea collapsed and perished.

Apart from thoroughly investigating Gao Mo’s case, she also restructured the temple’s power dynamics; during this period, too many things happened in Light City, many temple elders are no longer... but this may not be a bad thing; the "shadows" cultivated by West Sea Crossing are numerous, which are Gao Mo’s only contributions to Light City; these people became formidable supports of the temple.

Besides, the distinguished individuals distributed across the West Continent by the Light Church can return.

As long as the temple’s heritage is intact.

The Elder Council can soon be filled.

No one expected, the last day of Light City’s celebration, would usher in a long night.

As the sun of birth rises, dawn illuminates the streets, the crowd slowly disperses after the revelry; the Transcendents who came due to the fire seed also left because of the fire seed... they witnessed the birth of the new "owner" of the Light Temple, although no official announcements have been made, everyone could see the choice of the Light God’s Seat.

This night, those Transcendents who came to Light City, all gained something.

If nothing else, they gained "excitement."

For many, this was a leisurely and relaxing night.

But for Gu Nanfeng, it was not so...

Beneath the "calm" of Light City, a torrent was silently surging.

Raiding the Secret Dungeon, rescuing the Goddess, killing Yao Jin, holding back the Saint Heir.

Gu Nanfeng single-handedly took care of everything in Gu’s West Crossing plan; he had no time for Red Lake, to ensure everything went smoothly for Miss Meng Xizhou, he tangled with Su Ye the whole night.

The night ends, the morning arrives.

When Gu Nanfeng pushed open the gate of the Gu Family envoy’s courtyard.

He paused for a second.

Gu Nanfeng saw a crowd of people squeezed into the courtyard.

Besides the Gu family members he brought for West Crossing, there were many Gu Family Night Watchmen who answered the call and arrived at Light City.

These people accepted the Gu family’s commands, which equals a form of "exposure"; from today onwards they could no longer return to their previous positions...

Next, as Gu’s envoy returns, they will also return together.

Everyone was squeezed in here, waiting for the Young Master’s return.

The small courtyard was packed, except for one place.

Beneath the banyan tree, there was no one, leaving an empty spot.

A stunningly beautiful woman with a transcendent aura, enveloped in light, sat beneath the banyan tree, smiling broadly.

Given her status, she shouldn’t have appeared here.

But she still came.