Light Fortress
Chapter 442 - 94: The Dream of 【Source Code】 (Request for Votes!)

Chapter 442: Chapter 94: The Dream of 【Source Code】 (Request for Votes!)

The final days.

The registration for the rookie battle in Snow Forbidden City was explosively popular!

The reason was simple... that monster from the Bai Family, who had suppressed Changye, had only rested for a day after returning to the ancestral hall before he left Changye again.

During this process, he met only one person.

Gu Shen.

Although no one knew what exactly the two discussed or did in the Qingzhong Cemetery...

It seemed that Bai Xiu would still not participate in this year’s grand competition.

This result was a surprise for many.

Bai Xiu was likely waiting for Gu Shen!

The two S-grade talents feeling mutual admiration, agreeing to a showdown next year?

Lately, there were more and more discussion threads about the rookie battle on the deep water area forum... Everyone felt that the "tranquility" between Gu and Bai must be following such a plot... After all, Gu Shen’s time in Extraordinary Cultivation was too short, and for Bai Xiu, finding a rival worthy of his challenge was too difficult.

Regardless, for the other geniuses of Changye, this was a favorable outcome!

Those who were originally prepared to wait another year were now rubbing their hands in eagerness, raring to go, they finally had their most likely "championship" competition!

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"I heard that Bai Xiu has left Changye again."

Gong Zi sat in the small courtyard of Spring Rain Temple, reflecting on his experiences over the past few days, feeling as if it were all a dream, he remarked with a tsk, "I thought... this year was utterly hopeless."

Gu Shen lay on the Taishi Chair, resting with his eyes closed, and asked faintly, "Since you’re so afraid of facing him... "

"Last year, when Bai Xiu didn’t participate in the rookie battle... why didn’t you go?"

Gong Zi shook his head.

"Those who aim for ’Flame Dream,’ how can they be content being second to someone else?"

He sighed softly and said, "It’s probably not just me, many people have this thought... Give me another year, and perhaps I could have contended with Bai Xiu."

The rookie battle has an age requirement of no more than 20 years old.

Every year, the talents from the great families and top schools make significant progress... If judged by their own strength, they would definitely choose the most assured competition to take a shot at the rookie battle.

"However, I really didn’t expect... that Bai Xiu, after meeting you, didn’t make a move."

Gong Zi stroked his chin, puzzled, "This really shouldn’t be... Did nothing happen between you two?"

In his original imagination.

Gu Shen and Bai Xiu, although both were uniquely talented, had vastly different personalities and belonged to opposing forces, one Heavenly Thunder and one Earth Fire, once they interacted... it might be unstoppable!

To coexist peacefully?

"Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire... why does that sound so strange..."

Gu Shen furrowed his brow.

He stood up, recalling the scenes at Qingzhong, and asked with a helpless smile, "Why does everyone think... that Bai Xiu and I will inevitably fight?"

Gong Zi was slightly taken aback.

Why Gu Shen and Bai Xiu would definitely fight... indeed, it was an interesting question.

Even though their meeting this time didn’t spark any conflict, the people on the deep water area forum still believed that a battle between Gu Shen and Bai Xiu was inevitable, if not this time, then a year from now.

Thinking about it carefully, this was actually quite absurd.

The two had never even met before!

Yet bizarrely... everyone believed so.

"Perhaps it’s because everyone thinks... that being S-grade is very important, I need to defeat someone to prove myself worthy of being S-grade."

Gu Shen explained this puzzle to Gong Zi, casually saying, "It’s the same for Bai Xiu... if someone with the same rating appears, he only maintains his position by defeating that person."

"Here’s the problem—"

"Bai Xiu and I have few things in common, but there’s one thing we really don’t care about... empty praise."

Gu Shen laughed, "If nothing unexpected happens, I won’t participate in the battle next year either... "

Having said that, he turned and left.

Shen Li, who was drinking tea in the courtyard, grumbled displeasedly, "Looks like he’s off to tinker with those nonsensical diagrams again."

These days, the challengers coming to Gu Family’s Villa District seeking battles had diminished.

However, gathering at the Spring Rain Temple had become a habit for everyone.

Not just for the idle Young Master Gong.

Shen Li would also come to sit for a while every day, under the pretense of "dealing" with challengers, brewing a pot of freshly picked tea leaves, then spending a leisurely morning in the courtyard... He was a martial fanatic, of course, he didn’t truly enjoy drinking tea, but the reason he used to come every day to Spring Rain Temple was "to have a fight," and now that there were "no fights," running here had become a habit.

While brewing tea, Shen Li would observe Gu Shen very carefully.

A martial fanatic could be knocked down but not defeated.

He was already beginning to "brew" a third showdown... and this time, he decided to slowly build up his strength, know the enemy and know himself, to achieve a hundred victories in a hundred battles.

Shen Li had wanted to see how this oddity, Gu Shen, practiced Cultivation.

But each time he came to the courtyard.

Gu Shen was either lying on his back sleeping... or flipping through a mess of sloppy diagrams in the courtyard, he tried to carefully sneak a peek, but Gu Shen did not hide it at all, instead generously giving some of the diagrams to him, saying if he could understand them, he was welcome to discuss them together.

Shen Li knew at a glance this was probably Gu Shen’s trick... the ancient script depicted on the diagrams was extremely hypnotic, just looking at it more would make one want to sleep!

He couldn’t understand a thing!

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