Light Fortress Chapter 2117 - 107: Heavenly Sheath Sword Drawing

"Really?"

"Really."

The traveller stared at Gu Shen, confirming once more... Gu Shen was no longer on the Divine Throne!

Yet he could still sense the powerful Chi Huo mark on Gu Shen’s forehead.

What was the situation here?

No longer a Divine Throne, yet the remaining spiritual power could still suppress him?

Out of caution, the traveller cautiously asked, "Where’s your fire seed?"

"Gave it away."

Gu Shen did not avoid the topic, casually saying, "Your eyes are pretty sharp, I reckon that’s why you chose the second option, right?"

"...Gave it away?"

The traveller had a strange expression; in all his years, it was the first time he’d heard of someone giving away something like a fire seed!

"Xiao Qiu told me about the Netherworld Fire."

Bai Xiu said: "She said once she finishes refining the fire seed, she would immediately come to challenge you... looks like she’s very confident this time."

At these words, the traveller’s expression became even stranger.

Gu Shen gave the Netherworld Fire to others and welcomed their challenge?

This guy... what was his current strength?

"It’ll take a long time to refine the fire seed." Gu Shen smiled warmly, saying: "Once today’s matters are settled, you can take her to the Time Dojo for seclusion... there, time is abundant. Oh, let her know that no matter when, no matter where, I welcome her challenge."

Gu Shen looked at the traveller and said: "This message is for you too."

The traveller gazed at Gu Shen with apprehension.

He felt something strange, realized that the current Gu Shen had already lost the fire seed... in today’s conversation, he had accepted Gu Shen’s second choice, intending to challenge Gu Shen when he was at his "weakest."

But alas.

Just when this thought arose in his mind, his Heart Lake sent a warning prophecy stopping him.

"What if I challenge now?"

The traveller gritted his teeth and asked.

"Then you’ll lose miserably."

Gu Shen’s response was without hesitation.

He smiled and said: "I suggest you go back to your Divine Body, cultivate for a few years, and then come challenge me."

Did losing the Netherworld Fire make Gu Shen weaker?

Actually, it did not.

Before refining the Netherworld Fire, he had already comprehended his own [creator] Divine Domain, and the countless spirits within the Pure Land didn’t rely on "Netherworld Fire" to live.

The reason the journey was so arduous.

Was because Gu Shen gave his best to "Chi Huo."

The souls within [Pure Land] still existed and didn’t grow weaker due to the departure of the Netherworld Fire.

From beginning to end.

Netherworld Fire to Gu Shen was always just a "passing guest."

The former Netherworld King took notice of Gu Shen and made every effort to place the "Netherworld Fire" into Gu Shen’s hands...

Yet now.

Gu Shen gave this flame to the person he deemed most suitable.

By releasing the Netherworld Fire, he gained even more.

He became more pure, more "simple."

And the great way, is often utmost simplicity.

Suddenly, Bai Xiu spoke up with a very abrupt sentence.

"Are you ready?"

Little Xiuzi turned to look at Gu Shen.

This question left the traveller somewhat bewildered.

Ready... ready for what?

"I suppose I’m ready." Gu Shen replied softly, "The moment I let go of the Netherworld Fire... should count as being ready."

He took a step forward, extended his palm, and pressed it against the Heavenly Sheath.

The sky-reaching stone sword began to tremble violently.

The traveller huddled beneath the great sword had his pupils suddenly shrink. He was familiar with this motion, a while ago Bai Xiu had drawn the Candle Extinguishing Bow in the same posture... Gu Shen’s current gesture was very similar to Bai Xiu’s, but with the "hidden object" in the Heavenly Sheath already retrieved, what was Gu Shen about to take out now? What was still here?

Wait.

What was still here?

This question echoed in the traveller’s mind, and suddenly he recalled the legend about the "Heavenly Sheath."

Passed down by word of mouth over six hundred years.

That deformed longhorn that fell on the Tundra was actually a sword.

The stone surface capable of erasing "Extraordinary Traits" was the sword sheath.

Within the stone sheath was a razor-sharp blade that could slay all Extraordinary Power—

No one ever took this as truth.

If such a sword truly existed, capable of erasing all Extraordinary Power, then how would Transcendents draw it?

This was always regarded as a fallacy.

But the moment Gu Shen pressed his palm on the Heavenly Sheath, the fallacy was broken, the legend confirmed.

"Rumble!"

The Sky Sheath Core Area suddenly began to tremble.

The dense fog of the Tundra Prison was swept away by a powerful force, cleared in an instant, and the scenery within a ten-mile radius became extremely clear. Every Night Watchman guarding the prison could see that beneath the sky-reaching stone sword stood a small boy’s silhouette, reaching his hand into the stone sheath, pulling at something.

"Has the Heavenly Sheath been shaken once more?"

At the top of the Snow Cage Tower, Mr. Ghost and Mr. Xue silently watched this scene.

"This ’shake’ caused by Gu Shen is much larger than Bai Xiu’s."

Mr. Ghost murmured, "I feel as if the whole prison is like a sheet of paper, ready to be overturned by Gu Shen at any time if he so desires!"

The Snow Cage was built around the Heavenly Sheath.

If there truly was such a sword within the Heavenly Sheath.

Then upon Gu Shen drawing the sword, the Sheath collapses... this prison would naturally cease to exist.

The two had guarded the prison for years, never leaving even a step.

Their longest companion had been the Heavenly Sheath.

Watching the towering stone sword continuously tremble, their Heart Lakes were more stirred than ever before.

They knew what such a Divine Miracle signified.

The rolling snow flew wildly.