Light Fortress
Chapter 432 - 91 A Snowscape (Long - ! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)

Chapter 432: Chapter 91 A Snowscape (Long Chapter! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)

What people see is often just the surface.

Therefore, what people believe... is often what they wish to believe.

Everyone wished to believe that when Bai Xiu and Gu Shen met, they would fight... So when Bai Xiu entered Qingzhong, the deep water area forum began discussing the situation in the cemetery a few hours later.

The news was impactful.

The impact was evident but not limited to the betting pools at the prisons filling up quickly and starting to close.

But perhaps no one could have expected that at this moment, Qingzhong Cemetery was quieter and more harmonious than any other day.

Mist swirled around.

When Gu Shen arrived at the mountain peak, a figure already stood below, patiently waiting at the original spot, as if they had guessed for certain that Gu Shen would come.

"I’ve come to express my thanks,"

Bai Xiu bowed once again, "Thank you for those two hints... they saved me a lot of trouble."

Without those two hints,

things wouldn’t have been unsolvable, but they really would have been very troublesome, very troublesome.

"Don’t mention it."

Since Master Qianye was willing to lend a hand to him,

Gu Shen gladly accepted the favor as a given.

He smiled and asked, "Is everything resolved?"

"Half-resolved."

Bai Xiu pointed outside the cemetery, his eyes and brows relaxed as he said, "That man will die tonight... he won’t be buried in Qingzhong."

That man, referring to Bai Buzheng, was someone who deserved to die.

The other half of the matter was not yet resolved.

The Death Soldier who had blocked a strike for Bai Xiu was someone who was meant to live... but now was dead and needed to be buried.

"If you are willing to come down the mountain, I’d like to ask another favor of you... to use Divination to choose a good location in the Outer Tomb."

Bai Xiu started speaking again, "I want to bury Yu Shu, tonight."

While he spoke.

Gu Shen had already begun descending the mountain.

Bai Xiu watched the swirling mountain mist, which gradually spread and eventually, from the cascading mist, a black-clothed figure about his own age slowly emerged.

The two of them actually had little in common, whether it was their faces, expressions, or temperaments... More precisely, Gu Shen and Bai Xiu were like the colors of the clothes they wore at that moment, or the two wisps of Spiritual Radiance that burst forth when they comprehended Spring Breathing.

One black, one white.

Their auras, utterly opposite.

And diverging from each other.

"To die blocking a blow for you... Does such a person not deserve to enter the Bai Family Ancestral Hall?"

After Gu Shen asked this question and saw Bai Xiu’s silence, he understood the answer.

Yu Shu didn’t bear the Bai surname.

He was someone with a different family name.

There was still a trace of icy killing intent in the center of Bai Xiu’s brow.

It wasn’t hard to see that although those two hints had spared him a lot of trouble... the whole process had indeed been very troublesome.

"There’s no need to go to the Bai Family Ancestral Hall,"

Bai Xiu said concisely, "In fact... it’s not exactly a good place."

...

...

Choosing a tombstone for Yu Shu was not difficult.

Actually, there was no need to use "Divination"... Gu Shen’s Chi Huo could see things invisible to the ordinary eye, like the flow of Extraordinary Essence, and within Qingzhong Cemetery, the density and scarcity of Extraordinary Essence were an embodiment of the Array Patterns.

A "good location" meant a place where the Essence was dense.

In fact, seeing this was not difficult.

Gu Shen knew that Bai Xiu’s return to Qingzhong after such a short time... must have been to see him again.

Picking a tombstone... was simply an excuse to invite him out to meet.

"Let’s choose this place."

Gu Shen arrived at a section of woodland in the Outer Tomb, where there were no other stones standing, a very peaceful area; the canopy filtered out even the rain, and the year-round operation of the grand Array kept extreme weather at bay from this part of the cemetery.

Standing among the trees felt both tranquil and spacious.

"Good."

Bai Xiu nodded, and without flaunting his power, summoned a wisp of Thunder Light, excavating soil to unearth a rough boulder. He brought his hands together and slowly carved the stone’s surface.

Gu Shen squinted.

The Thunder Realm Walker should wield the naturalist Thunder Power... A faint brilliant white light emerged in the air.

A wisp of unstable thunder arc, perfectly subdued by Bai Xiu.

The stone’s surface was completely carved, soon sculpted into a stele.

Bai Xiu used his fingers to etch a name and inscribed Yu Shu’s name onto the stone.

Afterward, the Thunder Light in his palm slowly faded away.

Holding the stele, he gently inserted it into the ground, then dusted off the dirt with his hands and carefully cleaned it.

"I have heard that the Array Patterns within Qingzhong have a mysterious connection with Mr. Gu Changzhi’s ’flame seed’... Even without a corpse, they can summon Essence," Bai Xiu, squatting before the stone, asked without looking back, "Is that true?"

The voice of Master Qianye echoed in Gu Shen’s mind.

"No,"

So Gu Shen shook his head.

"What if I bring back the body... with the Extraordinary Essence already dissipated, can it be summoned?" Bai Xiu sounded somewhat regretful but was not giving up yet.

Gu Shen inquired.

"That’s not a problem,"

The Tomb Guardian said, "The Essence in this world follows the law of summoning, dispersion and aggregation... Even for the deceased, their Essence can still be summoned, but if the distance is too far, the ethereal summoning will take a very long time."

Gu Shen nodded.

He also squatted in front of the stele and said softly, "It’s possible... but it will take a very long time to complete the summoning."