Light Fortress Chapter 2038 - 72: With the Sword in My Hand
Previously on Light Fortress...
"Storm! Fight me!"
"Storm! Fight me!"
"Fight me..."
Gu Shen shouted, and the rolling sound waves exploded in the void, endlessly.
He floated before the giant starship, standing with his sword.
The voice pierced through layers of shields, directly reaching inside the starship!
Everyone heard this loud cry.
In the corridor, the believers of the Storm Church looked pale; they saw the scene outside the starship through the porthole.
In the void of the [Old World], countless blazing light fires converged toward one point!
A ethereal figure stood outside the starship.
That figure was like a sun... except the endless light fires, when flickering, emitted a black luminescence.
Thus, this sun appeared somewhat bizarre.
This was a Black Sun!
Standing at the end of the corridor, Hai Tong Saint’s face was also pale, and his heart surged with intense unease!
He recognized it at a glance!
The one blocking the starship at this moment was none other than Gu Shen!
Gu Shen!
The one who should have died on Sangzhou Cave, Gu Shen!!
Now, he has ascended to the Divine Throne, wielding overwhelming Netherworld Fire, openly challenging Storm God’s Throne, wanting a Divine War!
Just four years...
Gu Shen has grown to such an extent?
Hai Tong Saint was somewhat dazed, but what truly made him uneasy was not this, but... he had been standing by the porthole, witnessing the entire process of Gu Shen’s arrival.
If he didn’t see it wrong...
Just now, the point where Gu Shen shattered the void to complete the transport was exactly the "Space Gate" he had chosen.
Gu Shen... walked out from the "Space Gate" he found.
And today is precisely the day Lord Spring Plow led many saints to hunt the Red Dragon.
Hai Tong Saint licked his dry lips, wanting to know what the space battlefield six hundred miles away across the void looked like now?
...
...
In the Storm Temple, upon the throne, layer upon layer of water curtains no longer flowed smoothly.
The loud shout crashed into the starship, continuously echoing in the great hall, the man sitting on the throne looked livid.
Gu Shen guessed correctly; due to the Red Dragon’s soul contract, Storm God’s Throne had already seen what happened six hundred miles away through the Red Dragon’s Heart Lake...
Storm God’s Throne never expected.
Today’s the day he cleaned house, yet suddenly this interlude occurred!
Facing Gu Shen’s challenge, he remained unmoved! Not even intending to stand up!
"Storm... ram it."
Storm God’s Throne issued his command to the system AI with a cold voice.
The Southern Continent Church’s productivity is limited.
Even given a hundred years, Holy City’s researchers could not develop a super AI comparable to [Deep Sea]; the system on Storm lacks much intelligence and offers no rational proposals, but Storm God’s Throne doesn’t care about these shortcomings because he only needs the system AI to achieve "hundred percent obedience."
"Boom!"
With Storm God’s Throne’s command, hundreds of massive air waves erupted from the starship’s bottom!
Storm began accelerating!
He didn’t care at all about the life and death of the innocent beings on this starship, directly driving the starship to launch a fierce charge!
"Avoiding battle?"
Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, letting out a cold laugh.
He knew Storm God’s Throne was inherently suspicious and extremely cautious, but he didn’t expect this guy to be so cowardly!
He broke the Space Gate, personally descended, challenging for battle!
This was a great humiliation!
Storm God’s Throne actually "ignored" it!
Seeing the starship crashing toward him like a giant whale, Gu Shen knew... Storm God’s Throne was determined not to engage him head-on.
A starship, to a Divine Throne, actually poses no "threat."
Years ago, Storm God’s Throne was trapped by the time ban of First, partly because of [Deep Sea]’s guidance, and another reason... he was trapped "outside" the world for "seven years," but in reality, he was only trapped for a dozen days.
The attack methods on the starship, like the Black Silver Bomb, lasers, actually cannot damage transcendent life at the Divine Throne level.
That’s why Alf didn’t attack Storm God’s Throne.
A starship is fundamentally just a "vehicle."
Given enough time, even a transcendent mastering the origin can, through attrition warfare, continually launch attacks, causing damage to a starship!
And now, Storm God’s Throne piloting a starship, launching an impact, has a simple purpose.
He wants to exhaust Gu Shen’s power.
Consume a bit, even if it’s just a bit!
This Divine War cannot actually be avoided—
From the moment Gu Shen came knocking, no matter how he retreated, Storm God’s Throne would inevitably face a battle!
Gu Shen understands this truth.
Storm God’s Throne surely knows it too!
"This battle today... whether you want it or not, you must fight!"
Facing the incoming starship like a giant whale, Gu Shen gripped the Netherworld Fire Longsword, directly striking the starship before him!
Booming!
A massive flame transformed into a waterfall!
With this sword, Gu Shen directly utilized his comprehension of the "Destruction Origin," though only a small part, yet it erupted with immense power at this moment!
Tss-tss——
The source energy shield surrounding Storm was torn open in an instant!
The Netherworld Fire Sword Qi was incredibly sharp, piercing through all the Source Energy Shields of the Storm Starship in an instant!
Back then, Turing delivered this starship to the Southern Continent, leaving only the main body.
These Source Energy Shields were slowly developed as supplements by the Holy City Research Institute, considered "fake" defense mechanisms.
Such defense mechanisms could never withstand the full attack of the Divine Throne!
This seemingly fierce and imposing starship was as fragile as white paper in front of Gu Shen’s Sword Qi...
This collision that seemed grand was like an egg hitting a rock.
The starship was the egg, Gu Shen was the rock!
"...still not stopping?"
Gu Shen squinted his eyes, and in an instant saw his Sword Qi piercing the Source Energy Shield, about to slice through the head of the starship, where there was a simulated ecosystem resembling a city life zone, with thousands of Storm Church believers living there...
With this sword.
The starship would be chopped in half.
As for these innocent dwellers in the living zone, at least half of them would be shaken to death!
Not only did the Storm God’s Throne not stop.
It accelerated instead!
This was a complete madman... Previously, he chose to leave the Southern Continent with the church elites, actually to maintain his final utopia.
But if he himself was about to die, then what use was this "utopia"?
The lives of these citizens, to the Storm God’s Throne, were more despicable than ants, if they died, then they died!
Gu Shen frowned as he watched the starship crashing towards him.
He hesitated at this moment.
The Netherworld Fire Sword Qi began to retract, and the momentum from Gu Shen that would directly destroy the starship also gradually subsided in the Storm God’s Throne’s speeding clash.
He quietly watched the gigantic shadow accelerating towards him, with the world in front of him covered in gloom.
Finally, Gu Shen sighed softly.
"If it were Mr. Gu Changzhi, perhaps he would stop."
He didn’t withdraw the Netherworld Fire Longsword, but retained a scorching sword tip over a foot long, suspended in front of his chest, Gu Shen collected the dark blazing aura like a vast sun, just floating quietly in the void, this small segment of the Netherworld Fire sword tip pierced through the Black Silver Alloy at the starship’s front, continuing to stab forward, Gu Shen never moved, the starship crashed for thousands of meters, therefore it was cut by the Netherworld Fire sword tip for thousands of meters—
This sword, compressed to the extreme, sliced open the bottom of the starship, cutting out a thin black line.
Even though Gu Shen retracted ninety percent of the killing intent.
It was, after all, a sword of the Divine Throne.
This sword pierced the starship... Hundreds of Transcendents got tainted by Netherworld Fire, these people didn’t even have time to scream as they were instantly consumed by the Netherworld Fire.
This sword, Gu Shen ultimately delivered.
He knew there were tens of thousands of Southern Continent residents within the starship, and all these people were innocent lives.
But if he retreated.
These people would forever become the "chips" that the Storm God’s Throne used to coerce him.
This battle was not only a confrontation between Gu Shen and the Storm God’s Throne, behind him were more people than those on this starship, he had to win this battle, he had to deliver this sword.
For tens of millions of people.
He needed to stand in front of the Storm God’s Throne.
...
...
The ground of the Storm Temple was also sliced open by the tip of the Netherworld Fire sword, plowed with a long crack.
Finally, Gu Shen stood in front of the Storm God’s Throne.
That throne, once as tall as Skytop, now seemed to him like just an ordinary seat.
Sitting on the throne, merely sitting a bit higher, nothing else.
This sword was delivered.
The starship was pierced.
Gu Shen exposed part of his trump cards before the Storm God’s Throne, to cut through the Source Energy Shield of the starship, he used "Destruction Origin," to preserve as many innocent lives on the starship as possible, he used "Pure Land Divine Domain" to suppress his sword intent.
To the Storm God’s Throne...
This was a very cost-effective deal.
Just by sacrificing the useless shield of the starship’s outer side, and some lives as despicable as grass, he managed to see two important methods of his opponent.
"I thought someone would come."
"But I didn’t think... that person would be you."
The voice of the man sitting on the throne was somewhat poignant at this moment, water enveloped the entire hall, the sound of running water reverberating around the ears, this sound was very crisp, pleasing to the heart.
Within the temple, no outside world’s noise could be sensed.
In fact... the starship outside had already been sliced in half by Gu Shen’s sword.
But this Divine Domain was not affected in the slightest.
The edge where the Netherworld Fire Sword Qi stopped was precisely the boundary covered by the Storm God’s Throne’s Divine Domain, and at this moment, Gu Shen stood just before the boundary, if he stepped forward again, he would enter the Divine Domain of the Storm God’s Throne.
"Some things are unavoidable."
Gu Shen calmly looked at the man on the throne, and said, "It’s going to rain, the fire needs a new owner, and... you need to die."
"I need to die?"
The Storm God’s Throne relaxed the hand supporting the elbow and chuckled lightly.
This chuckle held much mockery.
Water flows vast, shrouding the temple, at this moment the entire temple floated up, separated from the starship... The "Tide" Origin condensed the water elements to the extreme, forming this Divine Domain.
Within this Divine Domain, he is the sole revered master above heaven and earth!
The Storm God’s Throne stood up from the throne.
His voice, like a great bell, resonated in Gu Shen’s ear.
"Just with the sword in your hand?"
Gu Shen stared at the Storm Divine Domain in front of him for a long time, finally shook his head.
He took a step.
Gu Shen tore through the water curtain with one hand, stepping lightly into the main Divine Domain of the Storm God’s Throne.
"Indeed."
He smiled, raised the sword edge slightly, and said calmly, "Just with the sword in my hand."
