Light Fortress Chapter 1986 - 44: You Owe Us! (Part 2)

But the creature’s size was simply too colossal, making it much harder to trap than to slay!

As for catching the big snake as easily as grabbing a loach, like Rust Bone did.

For them, it was nothing but a fantasy.

"How should we handle this?"

Rust Bone General looked at Gu Shen and spoke calmly.

If this were before, he wouldn’t have unleashed his origin at all; he would have simply sliced the little serpent with one sword, but after all, in the real world, this was Gu Shen’s "pet"...

"Wuuu wuuu wuuu."

The previously fierce aura of the golden spike flower was completely gone, now resembling a pitiful little worm.

But Gu Shen knew, this was just a disguise; as long as the mark left by the former Netherworld King wasn’t removed, its desire to kill humans would never be extinguished.

"Let me handle it."

He slowly stepped forward, the Bronze Giant pressed the head of the golden spike flower onto the ground, and it dared not resist, pretending to be "pitiful" as it looked at Gu Shen, its vertical pupils full of pleading.

Until Gu Shen summoned forth Chi Huo.

The expression in the golden spike flower’s eyes changed...

The thread of fire illuminated its vertical eyes.

It was bewildered, it was confused, it felt a strange sense of familiarity and submission welling up in its Heart Lake!

A flood of memories poured into the Spirit Sea.

The giant serpent trembled all over, and only after tens of seconds did it emerge from Gu Shen’s Spiritual World, its expression full of disbelief.

Gu Shen placed one hand on the top of the serpent’s head, using Chi Huo as a guide, he summoned its Spirit Sea forth. In this reset world line, Zhou Jiren and the group of three did not wait for Moon City Fortress to appear before entering the [Old World], so naturally, the golden spike flower couldn’t see their figures as a bystander... But that’s okay, this Spirit Sea revealed what had happened over the nearly twenty years the golden spike flower had been entrenched in the "maze."

Most importantly, what exactly was the scene at the end of this so-called maze.

Rumble!

The golden spike flower bowed its head, and its radiant spirit projection unfolded before the five of them—

The maze collapsed like a mountain, falling apart on both sides! A false oasis suddenly appeared before their eyes!

There, life flourished, untouched by the Source Material Storm’s devastation, just a glance would make one’s heart yearn endlessly!

Even Rust Bone was moved, almost urging the Bronze Giant to take a massive step into the oasis.

But the next second, he realized...

Entering this oasis wasn’t that easy!

The end of this maze held nothing but resembled a lair more than anything.

"This is indeed the scene we saw back then."

Zhou Jiren said, his expression complex, "At the end of Moon City Fortress, a door suddenly appeared... Behind the door was such an oasis. But just after we stepped in, we realized something was off; the oasis was actually a ’mirage’, no matter how far we walked, we couldn’t reach it, so we began searching for a second door, a third door."

"The space of the Old World is discontinuous, so the end of the maze and the image of the oasis...seemed only a few steps apart, but in reality, there was a vast chasm between them."

Gu Shen let out a sigh.

The "door" that his teacher and the others stepped through back then, was actually the same as the maze before them.

It was more of a deception than a trap.

He said earnestly, "But one crucial thing can be confirmed, and that is, this ’oasis’ indeed exists."

Regardless of whether it’s the oasis humanity seeks.

Being able to glimpse real images from the maze and the Moon City Fortress back then proves the existence of such a domain in the [Old World].

"In theory, yes."

Zhou Jiren paused for a second, realizing what Gu Shen intended to do.

Since entering Moon City Fortress and unable to return, he began worrying about one thing.

Not fearing death.

But fearing the exhaustion from finding that oasis, only to discover it was a mentally constructed world.

But this was the ’reset world’.

If in the reset world, one finds a mentally constructed world...then it equates to discovering a flaw in this reset world.

Conversely.

If the oasis is real, then the team achieves their most original goal!

Tian Tong and Zhong Wei also understood what Gu Shen intended to do.

"Little junior brother...how do you plan to find it?"

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He reached out and patted the golden spike flower’s head, whispering, "Stay put here."

"Wuuu wuuu wuuu."

It was a low whimper again, only this time the big snake made no disguise, having been tamed by Gu Shen’s Chi Huo, as Rust Bone released the Bronze Giant’s grip, it still laid obediently on the ground, wagging its slender tail.

The group left the maze and reboarded the airship.

"The Traveler Tribe is skilled in opening doors, and the next place is where their tribe has buried ’hope’, the True God of the Traveler God Seat was extinguished by Extinguishing Candle, yet they still cling to the fantasy of reviving the God Seat." Gu Shen spoke slowly, "If we want to advance deeper into the [Old World], we need to pry open the mouths of the travelers and extract the ancient text array patterns for ’opening doors’."

The next forward point Gu Shen aimed for was the hidden land where the Silver Fox General had met with trouble.

"Therefore...a rather brutal battle is likely to ensue."

Gu Shen spoke seriously, "Please be ready, if any of us dies in battle, the whole world will reset."

"You stay on the airship, I will go alone."

Rust Bone sat with a commanding presence, hands resting on his sword, speaking resolutely.

The tragedies that happened in the real world, he was powerless to undo.