Light Fortress Chapter 1937 - 18: Sea of Blood

Gu Shen’s Chi Huo successfully invaded.

The hypnosis seed he planted years ago had already taken root and sprouted, silently occupying Zhou’s entire Spirit Sea. With just a thought, he could immerse into the opponent’s mind.

Over these years.

He only occasionally took advantage of the privileges of the "hypnosis seed" to view Zhou’s memories, and did not forcibly awaken her.

If he wished, Gu Shen could manipulate this follower to launch an unexpected backstab against the Spring Plow Saint...

But it’s meaningless!

Zhou’s power is only at the fourth tier, even if she had ascended to a titled level, such a backstab would have no value.

For super strong entities of the Spring Plow Saint’s level, their spiritual consciousness is extremely powerful.

Any slight disturbance triggers a danger forewarning.

The moment the "backstab" erupts, the Spring Plow Saint is bound to react... Even in the worst-case scenario where the backstab succeeds, an origin strong person wouldn’t die from it, at most just wounded, and likely only lightly. Instead of wasting this heaven-sent "chess piece," Gu Shen prefers to let Zhou remain in the Storm Church.

At this moment, Zhou’s vision synchronized with Gu Shen’s Spirit Sea.

He quickly understood everything that happened here and the context of the conversation.

"My luck seems to be pretty good."

Gu Shen squinted his eyes.

He originally intended to awaken Chi Huo, then impose hypnosis guidance to make Zhou leave the "guard post at Yuanting Island," head to the transaction location at the Ice Sea, silently observe, and after completing the surveillance task, return to Yuanting Island and erase this memory.

Now the situation is better, as the Spring Plow Saint has decided to take Zhou along to the "transaction site."

He doesn’t need to take any risks, just quietly act as a spectator.

So Gu Shen deeply buried Chi Huo, without manipulating Zhou’s body.

The gentle breeze on Yuanting Island blew as usual.

Only a few blades of grass were taken away.

The Spring Plow Saint summoned a tide-converging flying boat, gesturing for Zhou to step on to accompany him. He didn’t even notice the anomaly in his follower.

Not to mention the Spring Plow Saint.

Even Zhou doesn’t know there exists a lethal "hypnosis seed" in her mind.

The two swiftly headed towards the Ice Sea.

...

...

Above the Ice Sea, the cage surged with the waves.

A man covered in blood sat slumped with his head bowed, trapped in the cage, his breath incredibly weak.

"Red Dragon!"

Through the sight provided by the hypnosis seed, Gu Shen recognized the man in the cage from afar.

Red Dragon had suffered many injuries... The fierce battle with the origin strong person dealt him great damage.

Gu Shen gazed at Red Dragon’s blood-colored wounds that were split open all over his body and silently gritted his teeth.

Apart from the Spring Plow Saint, there was also a true Divine Throne stationed at the Ice Sea! To rescue Red Dragon, there was simply no chance at all!

If one were to attempt a jailbreak, the jailbreakers were destined to be sent to die!

At this moment, he could only calmly watch through the hypnosis seed.

The sound of wind breaking from the distant end of the Ice Sea caught the man’s attention in the cage.

Red Dragon slowly lifted his eyes, casting an expressionless glance at the sea-riding Spring Plow and Zhou, then lowered his head again.

"Is this the legendary First Divine Envoy?"

Zhou’s voice was very soft.

She curiously observed the man trapped in the cage before her.

The name of Red Dragon was known throughout the Five Continents.

Among the younger generation, aside from Gu Shen, the most prominent geniuses were Bai Xiu and Red Dragon.

Peers from the Southern Continent had always both respected and feared the Source Tower... No one expected that the so-called "First Divine Envoy" would turn out to be an undercover agent sent by the Ancient Literature Society.

This fact is truly an absurd joke.

For Upper City, Red Dragon was their greatest shame in years.

This is also the reason Upper City is willing to pay any price to "redeem" him. Red Dragon can die, but he must die in Central Continent, so Upper City can let the world know that the Source Tower will not tolerate betrayal.

"Exactly so."

Spring Plow smiled and said, "Though now a prisoner, still a fierce tiger. Back then, it took quite a bit of effort for me to subdue him."

This was still due to the origin blessing from the Storm God’s Throne.

Without the origin... it would have been nearly impossible for him to subdue Red Dragon, and even with his years of accumulated strength, defeating Red Dragon was uncertain.

"Even now, with Red Dragon trapped in the cage, he’s still a troublesome character."

The Spring Plow Saint said calmly, "To negotiate, to redeem, Upper City must at least send an all-powerful top-tier titled to possibly ’retrieve’ Red Dragon. If the Source Tower sends someone weaker, even if the Holy City is willing to hand him over, the Source Tower wouldn’t have the capability to handle the ongoing suppression."

"That’s true."

Zhou nodded.

For some reason, she suddenly felt a bit tense.

About the transaction between Lord Spring Plow and Central Continent, the high-ranking officials of the Holy City actually knew one or two things.

The capture of the Red Dragon Envoy, Spring Plow Saint collected a large "ransom fee" from Central Continent.

Now she was very curious.

This mission, which involves escorting a top expert like Red Dragon back to Central Continent, which strong person will Upper City send?

Before long, the sound of breaking wind was heard again from the far end of the sea.

The Skytop was shrouded in dark clouds.

As the sound of breaking wind approached, the spreading area of clouds expanded correspondingly.

In an instant, the entire sea was covered in darkness.

"Interesting, it really is an origin..."

The Spring Plow Saint narrowed his eyes, waved his sleeve, and the tide origin carried along the waves, advancing and spreading continuously, as the Black Shadow walking slowly over the distant sea undulated with the Water Building’s giant waves. Eventually, the two origins collided... There was no explosion, nor did they erupt into a grand scene of earth-shattering magnitude. The dark clouds lowered close to the sea, and the Water Building’s height reached directly to the Skytop.