Chapter 1716: Chapter 381: Frost Iron Mountain (Extended Chapter)

For Gu Shen, being able to encounter a friend and rival like Bai Xiu is a matter of fortune.

Extraordinary Cultivation is like climbing a mountain, the road is long, and the steps are steep.

No matter how far one climbs, looking back, one can always see someone, not far behind. Such a presence, although it brings pressure, offers even more motivation.

"Well, that’s settled. I’ll accompany you to the North Continent."

Gu Shen actually also wanted to know what height Bai Xiu had reached now.

In his heart.

Little Xiuzi has always been the most respectable opponent!

Upon hearing Gu Shen agree, Mu Wanqiu’s expression relaxed, she retracted that fist, and also the hovering shadow of the Judge behind her.

"You said you want to go to Qing River, when?"

Mu Wanqiu raised an eyebrow.

"We can go now."

Gu Shen smiled and gestured at the red Source Armor on Mu Wanqiu, saying, "This is East Continent, not the Frontier Fortress. Would you consider changing your outfit?"

...

...

A moment later, the miniature Source Energy Boat moved slowly forward at Skytop.

Gu Shen, in the capacity of "Grand Judge", resolved all authorization issues for this Source Energy Boat.

Mu Wanqiu, having removed her Source Armor and changed into a tight-fitting combat suit, sat at the main driver’s seat.

The miniature boat was in "automatic driving" mode.

Some friendships require no excessive words; just a few are enough for communication.

Mu Wanqiu and Bai Xiu were such people.

The two were not very articulate.

During the six years when Gu Shen "died", they also grieved and commemorated.

But upon reuniting now, they found it hard to express too much joy.

Especially Mu Wanqiu, who came to this meeting aiming for a "fight", the news of the Titled Barriers and the Grand Judge had already spread across the Five Continents. She naturally knew, but upon meeting, she didn’t mention it, because those pleasantries were things she really couldn’t bring herself to say.

The interior of the Source Energy Boat was very silent, with only the sound of wind passing by, and the occasional intelligent broadcast from Deep Sea.

The conversation between them proceeded on and off, appearing quite perfunctory.

"So you’ve been cultivating under the Ice Sea for these six years?"

"Sort of, I was almost dead. If I hadn’t had a Breakthrough, I might have really died."

Mu Wanqiu slightly turned her head.

She looked at the thin man in the vice-driver’s seat, calm and aloof, with a slightly puzzled expression.

Sometimes, she really couldn’t quite understand this future Netherworld King in front of her.

Matters of life and death, obviously significant.

Yet in Gu Shen’s words, they seemed as trivial as a grain of rice.

"That matter is over, I successfully had a Breakthrough, and I also killed Jia Wei." Gu Shen smiled, turning his head to meet Mu Wanqiu’s gaze: "So there’s nothing more to say."

Mu Wanqiu fell silent.

A few seconds later, she spoke: "I saw the fight between you and Jia Wei..." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Gu Shen helplessly smiled and said: "You want to tell me I fought beautifully?"

He had heard this phrase so often that it almost made calluses grow in his ears.

"No."

Mu Wanqiu shook her head and said: "Since you chose to fight him, you must have had the confidence to win. I just didn’t expect, with your sensitive identity, you still dared to appear in Light City."

Across the world, only a few knew about Gu Shen’s identity as the Netherworld King.

When Mu Wanqiu saw the "Red Lake confrontation", her heart leaped to her throat!

Gu Shen, daring to go solo to Light City!

The Five Continents Transcendents all marveled and were shocked at Gu Shen’s success in killing Jia Wei...

But in Mu Wanqiu’s eyes, the real shock of the matter lay.

In Gu Shen’s identity as the "Netherworld King" not being exposed.

"I didn’t go to Light City just to kill Jia Wei."

Gu Shen lowered his gaze and said: "I also went to meet the Light God’s Seat."

"But if I remember correctly, you fled quite embarrassingly in the end."

Mu Wanqiu said: "What did Light say to you? Did he see through you?"

"If the Light God’s Seat I saw was the real one, if he managed to see through me that day, then... I’d already be dead."

Gu Shen’s words contained two hypothetical conditions.

Mu Wanqiu reacted quickly, "What do you mean? Light... is fake?"

"I suspect it’s fake."

Gu Shen said calmly: "Of course, it’s just a suspicion."

"If it’s you who’s suspicious, then that’s already enough."

Mu Wanqiu nodded, surprisingly with no skepticism, she said calmly: "If even the Netherworld King cannot recognize Light, who else can?"

Gu Shen was at a loss for words.

He hadn’t initially expected Mu Wanqiu to trust him so much.

But indeed, he is the Netherworld King, she is the crown bearer; there are few relationships in this world more worth trusting than this.

"Light God’s Seat has not shown face much these years, according to Her Majesty the Empress, when she secluded herself in the attic, the Light God’s Seat had already locked himself in Red Lake... But over these years, the mental meetings of the highest-seat seem never to miss the Light God’s Seat."

Mu Wanqiu said slowly: "Plus, Mr. Gu Changzhi’s slumber in those years directed everyone’s suspicions towards Changye."

Indeed.

In those years, no one would suspect the "Light God’s Seat’s" identity.

Speaking of this.

Mu Wanqiu ended the automatic navigation of Deep Sea, she personally took control of the posture of the miniature craft.

In addition.

She even released her own domain.

A giant white-clothed ghost floated above the Source Energy Boat, spreading its wings, casting a shadow of safety.

Clearly, she realized the direction that continuing this topic would lead, meant something significant.