Light Fortress-Chapter 1565 - 255: Mechanical Lifeform (First Update)

Chapter 1565: Chapter 255: Mechanical Lifeform (First Update)

"Xiaoman, finally found you." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The snow fell silently, the wind filled the mountains.

Gu Shen reached out to embrace the trembling, slender figure, gently patting Xiaoman’s back.

"Xiaoman..."

He thought for a long time, there were so many things to say.

In the end, Gu Shen simply reached out and wiped away the girl’s tears, then smiled and said two words.

"Don’t cry."

Xiaoman took a deep breath.

Gu Shen turned around, shielding the young girl behind him.

He felt his tattered sleeve being lightly tugged, and a cautious voice spoke nervously: "Gu Shen... he’s very powerful."

The scene of the Red Shadow drawing its blade had greatly shocked Xiaoman.

She was very worried.

Gu Shen... was no match for this Red Shadow.

The tug on the sleeve was actually a signal to leave.

Previously, she had wanted to see the end of the Ice Sea Ruins, because her intuition told her that there was something worth risking her life to explore.

But after encountering Gu Shen, she changed her mind.

She now wanted to return alive with Gu Shen.

If moving forward would put Gu Shen at risk... she’d rather not go.

"Don’t worry."

"...No matter how strong, I’ll defeat him for you to see."

At this moment, Gu Shen’s voice in Xiaoman’s ears was as reliable as a mountain. She had an illusion, that even if the sky fell, Gu Shen could hold it up!

"Swoosh!"

The silence of the snowfield was broken.

The Red Shadow drew its blade again, with hundreds of pieces of bamboo armor clinking, he struck the ground and attacked at an incredibly fast speed.

Such an "unpretentious" blade technique.

The Five Continents forces in the Ice Sea Ruins were all rendered helpless.

Gu Xiaoman’s pupils constricted; her spiritual power was already outstanding among her peers, but this level of combat was still too advanced for her. She hadn’t even seen the Red Shadow’s movement, and in a blink, there was a figure with a raised blade overhead!

In the entire process of the long blade descending.

Gu Shen hadn’t moved an inch.

But he wasn’t unresponsive; all along, his Blazing Fire was locked on to the Red Shadow, who moved fast, but his spiritual capture speed was faster!

Earlier, he had taken a strike... it was actually a "test".

All the way south, weary and travel-worn.

When his spiritual power captured Xiaoman, the Red Shadow had already drawn his blade.

So Gu Shen saw the bizarre scene of Xiaoman avoiding the Red Shadow with a punch, which gave him the idea of withstanding the blade with his body.

The bamboo armor man’s speed and posture were impeccable.

Yet, the battle tactics were bizarrely "cautious," as if programmed... even against a Third-Order Transcendent attack, the bamboo armor man would dodge!

"He" didn’t formulate tactics based on the opponent’s strength or weakness.

But rather improvised!

Thus, this time... Gu Shen deliberately waited until the shadow’s long blade was about to touch his forehead to strike!

The Red Shadow brought down the blade!

Gu Shen moved instantly, two great domains of the Blazing Fire Pure Land emerged from the ground, spreading the moment the domain expanded, triggering the Red Shadow’s retreat mechanism, but the blade had already completed ninety percent, at this moment, retreating was already too late, a mass of azure frost and cold enveloped and wound around the blade tip, countless winds and snow climbed up the bamboo armor like little snakes!

"?!"

The bamboo armored Red Shadow dashed away rapidly, his bamboo armor quivering intensely, constantly shaking out shards of ice.

He tried to shake off Gu Shen’s [Pure Land] suppression through high-speed movement, but to poor effect.

Gu Shen reached out into the air, suddenly clenching his five fingers tightly.

A mass of blazing fire erupted from the snowstorm, transforming into Gu Shen’s hand, five flaming fingers pressed against the bamboo armor man’s cheek.

"Blazing Fire! Infiltrate!"

Gu Shen decisively launched a spiritual attack.

The five fiery fingers pressed hard—

"Boom!"

Amidst the explosive roar, Gu Shen felt the empty feedback after the Blazing Fire infiltration.

"No Spirit Sea?"

Gu Shen squinted his eyes, letting out a cold laugh, could it really be as he suspected.

This [Ice Sea Ruins] birthed Transcendent Life, was merely a mechanical construct!

At this moment, the bamboo armor man was forced into the same predicament as when besieged by the Source Energy Boat earlier.

"Warning, neutralizing threat ineffective."

"Some parts frozen, recommending counterattack."

The warning sound from the sea of consciousness made it abandon retreat and dodge.

In the explosion of flames, a perfectly intact crimson shadow dashed out!

The bamboo armor man launched another attack, this time his blade shattered the wind and snow, abruptly stepping forward.

Gu Shen did not retreat but advanced, moving in with a punch!

Both figures were incredibly fast, in Gu Xiaoman’s eyes, they were two glaring blazing lights colliding—

Blazing light burst forth, accompanied by an explosion that shook the snowfield.

The whole world fell silent!

...

...

"Sizzling..."

A large amount of fog rose above the snowfield, where two figures could vaguely be seen clinging fiercely together, nearly fused as one.

Has it been decided who won?

Gu Xiaoman gritted her teeth, staring intently into the depths of the fog.

Crack!

A very faint arc of electricity burst within the fog, as Gu Shen emerged carrying a broken and thin body. He had punched through Red Shadow’s chest, shattering the layered bamboo armor protecting its heart.

"Hoo..."

Seeing this scene, Gu Xiaoman let out a long sigh of relief.

Her back was drenched in sweat.

"Is it over just like that?" the little one asked in disbelief, somewhat dazed.

"True masters always strike with deadly precision."

Gu Shen grinned.

He threw the bamboo armor man to the ground. Its chest had been pierced, creating a large hole, faintly revealing a flickering arc... yet no blood flowed out.

Although she had her suspicions, seeing the internal structure of the bamboo armor man with her own eyes, Gu Xiaoman couldn’t help but express her surprise, "I thought this guy was an Extraordinary Life born from the Ice Sea..."

"Extraordinary Life born from the Ice Sea?"

Gu Shen chuckled.

"That’s what ’they’ said," Gu Xiaoman replied with a wry smile as she briefly explained the events she encountered on her way.

Gu Shen listened quietly.

He hadn’t expected the little one to have faced so many dangers along the way...

"Flesh is weak, machines ascend. Though this guy is a ’mechanical construct’, the creator must possess high-level wisdom." Gu Shen himself wasn’t sure what secrets lay within the Ice Sea Ruins. Calmly, he crouched down, examining Red Shadow’s body, softly laughing, "Perhaps there truly is Extraordinary Life here, hiding just beyond the ’walls’."

"Beyond the walls?" Gu Xiaoman was puzzled.

"This snowfield is ’illusory’," Gu Shen said calmly. "Or rather, what you see is only a part of the real snowfield. In many vast areas, there are invisible walls of air. If touched, they will shred anything in their path..."

This bamboo armor man is evidence.

Within this snowfield exists an intelligent being skilled in mechanical constructs.

The invisible ’air walls’ within this snowfield are likely the work of this intelligent being.

"For instance, here."

Gu Shen’s spiritual power soared far and wide, locating an air wall. This snowy area seemed to reach the limits of the snowfield map, and these air walls were easy to find... He led Gu Xiaoman a few hundred meters, then suddenly halted.

Gu Shen casually kicked a large stone.

"Buzzing!"

The stone flew through the air, sliced into dozens – nearly a hundred pieces before softly scattering on the other side of the snow.

Gu Xiaoman was stunned.

Clenching her fists, she felt a wave of fear... Without Red Shadow, had she continued just a bit further, she would have encountered this air wall.

At that moment, would she too have been shredded like that boulder?

Gu Shen looked at Xiaoman and couldn’t help but smile, reaching out to grasp the little one’s shoulder.

"Swipe!"

The two returned to their previous spot.

"But you don’t need to worry; this air wall’s strength is limited," Gu Shen said leisurely. "In this world, there are no walls without cracks. If there are, just break through them... Though the ’shredding power’ of the wall is terrifying, as long as one’s physical strength is enough or the power of their domain is strong enough, they can force their way through."

"Is that so?"

Gu Xiaoman murmured, "I still feel there’s something very important at the end of the Ice Sea Ruins, worth taking a look at..."

She gestured towards the end of the snow mountains.

Gu Shen raised a brow, noticing that direction was indeed where numerous air walls stood in the way.

"This bamboo armor man already proves that a ’wise being’ truly exists here..."

Gu Shen pondered for a moment, then slowly spoke, "The real Ice Sea Ruins is not this plain."

Along the way, he saw many enticing things.

This snowfield was filled with Mithril ore and a large amount of orderly Extraordinary Essence.

Yet, the true hidden treasure was not here!

"The true Ice Sea Ruins, lies beyond the ’air walls’..."

Gu Shen gravely said, "The existence of Red Shadow seems more like a Patroller. The reason it doesn’t appear in the northern part of the snowfield is that there’s nothing important worth guarding there."

"Exactly." Gu Xiaoman’s eyes lit up as she murmured, "This guy’s activities are confined to the snowy mountain area because just beyond lies the true ’ruin entrance’."

"Indeed."

Gu Shen smiled appreciatively.

He crouched down and once more examined the bamboo armor man whose chest he had pierced. It was a mechanical life form, never truly ’alive’, thus it never really ’died’.

It was just rendered inoperative by the strength of his punch.

Disassemble the bamboo armor, and one would find.

The thin body was crafted from Black Silver.

No wonder its strength was so great and its speed so fast.

"This thing doesn’t have a ’Spirit Sea,’ so it’s not afraid of spiritual attacks from Spiritual Transcendents. However, it also can’t cultivate a so-called ’domain’." Gu Shen squinted his eyes, his gaze sweeping from top to bottom, finally resting on the stark white mask of the bamboo armor man.

The mask concealed the entire face of the bamboo armor man.

Gu Shen stared at the ancient text for a long while.

He raised a brow and asked softly with a meaningful smile, "Xiaoman, do you want to see what this guy’s face looks like under the mask?"