Light Fortress Chapter 1938 - 18: Sea of Blood_2

That figure simply passed through the tidal waves and arrived before the Ice Sea cage.

The two were less than a thousand meters apart.

For Origin Strong People, a thousand meters was not far.

A single breath was enough to cross it.

"Lie Renuo, you’re actually still alive."

The Spring Plow Saint smiled and said, "Is there no one left to send from the Upper City? For such an important deal, they actually sent an old man who’s half in the grave."

Lie Renuo was a powerhouse of the previous era, about the same age as Gu Qilin.

Now, the era had turned, new strong figures had replaced the old across the Five Continents, and the era that belonged to him had long since passed...

Assuming he hadn’t comprehended origin.

"For a deal like this, I alone am enough."

Faced with the Spring Plow Saint’s provocation, Lie Renuo didn’t show much reaction.

He only replied faintly with this sentence, without the slightest hint of anger.

Although the Holy City’s intelligence system was terrible, the battle that had taken place days ago in the Rhein City waters was something the Spring Plow Saint already knew of...

The Storm God’s Throne listened to the four seas.

Everything that happened on the seas of the Five Continents basically could not escape the Divine Throne’s perception.

So... the fact that Lie Renuo had advanced to an Origin Strong Person was not much of a secret.

"I heard that after you advanced to origin, you were severely injured by Bai Xiu..."

The Spring Plow Saint laughed and said, "I don’t know whether I should congratulate you or comfort you. Either way, you should be resting properly these days. How can you still come out to carry out a mission?"

His gaze fell on Lie Renuo’s arm.

It was said that Lie Renuo had an arm chopped off, but from the looks of it now, this arm seemed intact.

The Spring Plow Saint’s eyes narrowed.

A Divine Miracle technique that could rapidly restore injuries?

The Source Tower indeed had deep foundations; in this respect, the Southern Continent was no match.

"..."

Lie Renuo was silent for a few seconds, then said, "I didn’t come here to chat with you. All those ’resources’ the Holy City demanded, I’ve brought them. Ten medium-sized airships are hovering above the Yuanting Island waters. As for the Strong Logic Material, it’s in the holds."

"Ten medium-sized airships?"

The Spring Plow Saint smiled, extended a finger, and wagged it. "If I remember correctly, the terms of the deal were twenty."

"These count as a deposit. The remaining ten, the Source Tower will send to the Southern Continent after we receive Red Dragon."

Lie Renuo frowned. "I haven’t even seen the person yet. I can’t exactly bring everything here, can I? For this deal, I came alone into the Ice Sea... that’s more than enough to show sincerity."

Even if they were trading with the Holy City, the Central Continent could not possibly obey every word; they had to keep a backup plan.

Pay half first, then pay the other half.

"Sounds pretty good."

The Spring Plow Saint nodded in agreement. He extended his palm and lightly slapped the cage.

Crash!

Green waves surged!

The massive Tidal Cage that held Red Dragon drifted with the waves, sweeping toward the direction where Lie Renuo stood.

"The Church will accept this deposit."

The Spring Plow Saint said softly, "On behalf of Lord Divine, I thank the Central Continent for its generosity. As for the remaining half..."

The cage swayed with the waves until it reached Lie Renuo.

Lie Renuo extended his palm and blasted open a gap in the Tide Green Wave Prison Pillar. He was preparing to carefully inspect the ’prisoner’ in the cage.

The Spring Plow Saint’s laughter drifted into his ears.

"As for the remaining half... the Church doesn’t want it anymore."

"???"

Lie Renuo froze, and at that moment the man in the cage lifted his head.

Their gazes met.

In that instant.

Lie Renuo confirmed that the prisoner in the cage was precisely the Red Dragon he was supposed to escort back to the continent!

And in that very instant.

He saw the unyielding, ferocious killing intent in Red Dragon’s eyes!

"Screech!"

Two blades, one long and one short, were suddenly drawn by Red Dragon from beneath the seawater. As the blades swept up from the surface, they carried the booming roar of storm and thunder. The Skytop clouds instantly darkened, a crimson Thunder Dragon coiled and twisted atop the sky, suddenly awakening, and let out a deafening roar.

Lie Renuo’s pupils shrank sharply.

He extended his palm, and a vast Origin Power surged out toward Red Dragon—

Boom!

But this time, his Origin Power failed to achieve ’crushing’ dominance.

Red Dragon’s long and short blades sliced apart the mass of dark clouds surging from beneath Lie Renuo’s robes, just like the Thunder Dragon in the Skytop shattering the gloom that bound its body.

The long blade cleaved through Lie Renuo’s origin.

The short blade stabbed into the latter’s palm.

Blood sprayed out, accompanied by Lie Renuo’s pained roar of fury.

The Ice Sea instantly erupted into towering, raging waves!

At that moment, Zhou, who was standing beside the Spring Plow Saint, felt a chill throughout her body, as though she had fallen into an ice cellar. She suddenly understood the earlier remark from the Saint, that Red Dragon was a ferocious tiger in a cage. Now this freed prisoner truly resembled a tiger descending the mountain, his long and short blades whirling wildly, hacking Lie Renuo into constant retreat. In just a few seconds, a stench of blood filled half the Ice Sea, blood splashing like ink, thunder roiling with the tsunami—this scene was utterly shocking.

What shocked Zhou the most was...

According to the Spring Plow Saint’s words just now.

Lie Renuo had already mastered a wisp of origin, yet a strong man who had mastered origin was actually being hacked into this state by Red Dragon?

How was that possible!

...

...

"Xiao Gu, I’ve already set up the ambush here in the inner sea."

In Gu Shen’s Spirit Sea, Song Ci’s voice came.

At this moment, Song Ci was waiting on Lie Renuo’s return route, preparing to intercept. Upon learning that the opponent this time was a super powerhouse who had grasped origin, Crow felt no fear at all. Instead, he rubbed his fists, eager to try. At the peak years of the Undead, and with the token of the Light Apostle to empower him, he wasn’t worried about dying at Lie Renuo’s hands.

Not long ago, Bai Xiu had already had a bout to pave the way.

He was determined to succeed in this interception.

"The ambush in the inner sea... likely won’t be needed."

Gu Shen’s voice, transmitted via Spiritual Link at that moment, was a bit hoarse.

Song Ci frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled.

On the other end, Lu Nanzhi, who was also connected to the Spiritual Link, was equally puzzled.

Only when Gu Shen passed the vision from the ’hypnosis seed’ into the Heart Lakes of the two did their confusion dissipate.

A torrential downpour drenched the Ice Sea.

Blood mist billowed and steamed.

The long and short blades Red Dragon had pulled from the Ice Sea shattered Lie Renuo’s origin.

To resist origin.

You must possess origin...

If the viewer’s sight was sharp enough to notice the ’tide’ water patterns clinging to Red Dragon’s blades, they would understand the cause of this seemingly unreasonable scene.

"The power on Red Dragon’s blades is Tide Origin Power..."

Song Ci’s expression turned grim. "So he’s given up on ’saving himself’ and decided to join the Storm Church?"

"No..."

Lu Nanzhi murmured, "He didn’t give up on ’saving himself’; he chose to sacrifice himself to preserve the Ancient Literature Society."

The Ancient Literature Society’s transaction had been postponed.

Obviously... that was an outcome Red Dragon had fought for.

Today’s deal would collapse, Lie Renuo would be slain by Red Dragon in the Ice Sea, and the goods from the Upper City would be entirely swallowed...

When that happened, the whole world would learn what the Storm Church had done!

But it no longer mattered; the Storm God’s Throne was about to bring the core backbone of the Church aboard the Starship and withdraw from the Five Continents.

The transaction that had been agreed upon with the Ancient Literature Society actually didn’t exist at all.

It was Red Dragon who told the Ancient Literature Society that the deal would take place in a week.

This was a completely false piece of information.

Today, the entire Five Continents would know that, after betraying the Source Tower, he, Red Dragon, had joined the Storm Church...

For a traitor like this, the Storm God’s Throne would naturally be extremely wary. To grant him something as precious as Authority Origin, there had to be conditions of absolutely complete trust.

"Red Dragon... very likely signed a fully binding soul contract with the Storm God’s Throne."

Watching the world-upending Ice Sea, sorrow surged in Gu Shen’s heart.

He said softly, "Song Ci, there’s no need to prepare for the inner sea interception."

"Lie Renuo won’t be able to return."

"Gu Shen, I’m already in position."