Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World Chapter 1669 - 847: Worthy of Death a Thousand Times Over (Part 2)

He paused for a moment, then continued to explain.

"The Life and Death Arena at Broken Soul Cliff, I must go.

Moreover, I want to openly and honestly slay Xiao Beixuan in front of everyone.

The Life and Death Arena under the supervision of the Great Wilderness Holy Academy, with its strict rules, can limit his use of certain sinister and forbidden means to the greatest extent, at the very least disabling one of his arms.

But Xiao Beixuan is inherently cunning and suspicious, he will never easily leave his lair to personally come to the Southern Border to intercept and kill me."

"So, you deliberately exposed your whereabouts and made a big fuss to..."

Situ Qingfeng seemed to have understood something.

"It’s to make him think that all my energy is in the Southern Border, focused on dealing with his interception and finding the Relic."

A gleam of wisdom flashed in Gu Sheng’s eyes.

"In this way, his attention to Great Wilderness City will naturally weaken. Only then can my real plans be quietly set in motion.

Simply put, I want him to think he’s figured out my movements, but in reality, my target has never only been the Southern Border, but more importantly, the battle half a month later on Broken Soul Cliff in Great Wilderness City! By diverting his and his allies’ attention, our operations in Great Wilderness City can proceed more smoothly."

After listening, Situ Qingfeng suddenly understood, looking at Gu Sheng with eyes full of admiration.

"I see! Gu’s deep foresight is impressive! It was my oversight."

Gu Sheng stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the desolate and chaotic scene of the frontier town outside. His tone turned cold again.

"Since he has sent people here, we might as well collect some interest on the Southern Border road. Now that the news is out, we only need to ’wait’."

Situ Qingfeng walked beside him, his brows furrowed, still with worry.

"Gu, I still think this move is too risky.

Xiao Beixuan is insidious and cunning, if he really goes all out to intercept and kill us, we may find it hard to cope.

Furthermore, will he truly abide by the rules and fight you fairly in the Life and Death Arena half a month later? I always feel he won’t be that honest."

Gu Sheng’s gaze was still out the window, as if he could penetrate the void and see his opponent far away in Great Wilderness City. "Fair?"

A faintly cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Xiao Beixuan will naturally not bind his own hands for a duel with me.

A man as clever as he is best at using any means outside the rules to create an absolutely favorable situation for himself."

He turned around, looking at Situ Qingfeng, his eyes deep as the starlit night.

"Precisely because he is a clever man, when I actively expose my whereabouts and make a grand spectacle inviting his interception, he will instead become suspicious, thinking it is yet another trap I set.

He will ostensibly send people to intercept, but his real focus must be on deploying in Great Wilderness City, attempting to, before the Life and Death Arena, use various off-the-record moves, like targeting my associates, disrupting my setups, or finding a counteractive Treasure against me, to weaken me and ensure foolproof victory in the arena."

"So you think the ones he sent to the Southern Border are not his main force?"

Situ Qingfeng began to understand a bit.

"Main force? Perhaps, but certainly not his core forces, more likely some probing pawns, or... local forces in Southern Border colluding with him."

Gu Sheng’s tone was determined.

"He sees three steps ahead; I naturally need to see a few more steps than that.

I have already preemptively addressed potential deployments he might have in Great Wilderness City.

He wants to use the Southern Border affair to distract me, I can also turn his own strategy back on him."

Situ Qingfeng pondered for a while, then proposed another possibility.

"Then... what if, I mean what if, Xiao Beixuan decides to play unpredictably, truly dispatching unimaginably powerful forces, or even coming personally? Wouldn’t we be..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Gu Sheng suddenly raised his eyebrows, revealing a meaningful smile.

"Unpredictable? That does not matter."

Almost as he finished speaking, Situ Qingfeng followed Gu Sheng’s former gaze out of the window, and his pupils constricted sharply.

Across the street, at an inconspicuous corner, an unkempt old man with hair like wild grass sat carelessly on a stone, leg crossed, seemingly picking his foot.

This old man was none other than Xia Wuyou, who not long ago in front of the Linyin Pavilion in Great Wilderness City, suppressed Situ Qingfeng with just his aura!

However, upon closer inspection, Xia Wuyou’s form seemed somewhat illusory, not entirely material, surrounded by an imperceptible weak glow, as if an Incarnation made purely of energy and spiritual power.

But even so, the faintly terrifying aura emitted by this Incarnation still made Situ Qingfeng’s heart race.

Just as Situ Qingfeng was shocked at why Xia Wuyou’s Incarnation would appear—

Boom!!!

From the southern sky, a thunderous roar reverberated! Not real thunder but a vast energy field formed by countless powerful True Qi fluctuations joining and converging together, creating a heavenly anomaly!

People looked up to see a colossal "cloud" rapidly covering the once clear southern sky! That "cloud" was not vapor but the synchronic True Qi radiance from thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of martial artists intertwining to form a massive, oppressive aura!

This combined aura was so strong that even across hundreds of miles, its tsunami-like pressure left all martial artists in the frontier town pale, with an uncontrollable fear in their hearts!

"This... This is..."

Situ Qingfeng gasped, his eyes filled with shock.

"How many people? Thousands? Or tens of thousands? How could Xiao Beixuan possibly mobilize so many troops in such a short time?!"

Gu Sheng’s eyes turned cold as he said in a deep voice.

"He doesn’t have the capability to mobilize so many Eastern Desolate Martial Artists in a short time. It seems we were right; the people he sent initially did not directly come to intercept us but went to inform their Southern Border allies—the Seventy-two Divine Sects!

It’s a scheme to borrow a knife to kill, and they want to crush us with sheer numbers!"

As the two spoke, the "cloud" formed by myriad martial artists was rapidly advancing above the small town! Covering the sky and sunlight, casting a massive shadow, like the end of the world!

"Gu Sheng! Come out and die!"

A bellow like a thunderbolt erupted from the front of the cloud, the sound waves rolling, shaking the small town’s buildings and causing the ground to tremble slightly.

The small town plunged into chaos instantly, with chickens flying, dogs jumping, and civilians fleeing back to their homes, locking doors and windows, while martial artists looked up in terror at the immense army hovering in the sky like celestial soldiers.

"There! At the second-floor window of the inn! He’s the Eastern Desolate Martial Artist Gu Sheng on the wanted notice!"

Amid the crowd, some sharp-eyed individuals immediately spotted Gu Sheng at the window and shouted loudly.

In the sky, the massing crowd began to come into clearer view.

Besides the martial artists of the Wuya Sect seen before, there were many more wearing various Southern Border style attires, all marked with striking Divine Sect emblems.

They hailed from different Divine Sects, yet were united at this moment.

At the forefront of this group, a young man dressed in luxurious garments, bearing a seven to eight-part resemblance to Xiao Beixuan, locked his gaze filled with killing intent on Gu Sheng.

His aura was not weak but certainly did not reach the unfathomable depth of Xiao Beixuan’s true self.

"A double."

Gu Sheng immediately saw through his nature.

The double pointed his longsword at Gu Sheng, his voice amplified by True Qi, echoing throughout the city.

"Gu Sheng! You killed my ’brother,’ deserving of death! Today I bring the allied army of the Seventy-two Divine Sects, determined to make you pay in blood and cut you into pieces to avenge my ’brother’!"