Light Fortress
Chapter 473 - 104 Unlucky_2

Chapter 473: Chapter 104 Unlucky_2

"What?"

Even Chu Ling was greatly startled.

"I saw him push open the coffin and then leave."

Gu Shen still felt lingering fear, "Before he left, he even glanced at me."

"...This is beyond my understanding," Chu Ling was shaken, her tone growing grave, "Your mental state was very unstable just now. If it had continued a little longer, there could have been a risk of going out-of-control."

Was this seeing something that shouldn’t be seen?

Upon reflection, Gu Shen felt that it was not wise to stay in the tomb for long.

He rode his sword away, arriving at the foot of the snow mountain, and dug up the coffin he had unearthed.

Looking again at the burial objects in the coffin... Gu Shen affirmed an important fact.

Although these items had slept with the "tomb owner," they did not carry any ominous aura.

After reviewing them several times, even reaching out to weigh them in his hand, he felt no discomfort.

These were just soulless old relics.

It was for this reason that he dared to initiate the side script, to trace back through time.

He even dared to put on the iron clothes and keep the ring on his finger.

If he had locked eyes with the "tomb owner" first, Gu Shen probably wouldn’t have touched anything in the tomb.

It wasn’t long before the Gu family’s forces stationed in the Tundra arrived in the valley. They immediately blocked the snow mountain... The no-man’s land of the Tundra was chaotic, with many small and large Extraordinary Forces attached to the five major families mixing together, often erupting in conflict.

But the "Gu family" was undoubtedly the overlord of the entire Jiangbei!

With the Gu family sealing off the valley, no one else would dare enter.

Soon after, the propellers of a heavy-duty helicopter broke the distant wind and snow, its formidable domain tearing apart the storm over the valley. Gu Qilin came personally from Changye; he brought Luo Yu, Fatty Luo, and a team of well-qualified doctors.

"According to incomplete statistics... 326 people dead..."

"One person injured..."

The person in charge of the Gu family Tundra outpost gave a brief report.

Fatty Luo’s expression was complex.

All 326 people dead?

Was all this done by Gu Shen alone?

The report mentioned that there were several Transcendents from the Deep Water Zone Sixth Layer among the dead... The group attack ability of Spiritual Extraordinary was indeed strong, but to this extent, it was almost inconceivable.

The most important was... there was also a corpse of a "Deep Water Zone Seventh Layer" Transcendent.

The gap between the sixth and seventh layers was vast.

Gu Shen had crossed a major class, defeating an ability user with a "domain"... Was this the strength of an "S-Class"?

Luo Yu looked cautiously at Mr. Gu beside him, trying to gauge his reaction.

Mr. Gu stood with his hands behind his back before the base of the Late Bell Church, looking at the blood flowing from the gate with a calm demeanor.

"Luo Yu, find out how these people came over... Extraordinary individuals from the Southern Continent Church were able to sneak into Jiangbei, someone must have been negligent. I give you the authority to hold them accountable. In three days, submit the case report to me," Mr. Gu directed calmly.

"...Yes!"

Luo Yu’s expression was solemn.

The Late Bell Church?

An obscure small sect!

Such a group had been stationed in the Tundra for half a year... developing followers, excavating tombs, and smuggling the treasures of East Continent unnoticed, and had it not been for Gu Shen uprooting them, who knows how much longer it would have been before the five major families realized!

Mr. Gu arrived at the clearing in front of the snow valley.

Gu Shen sat cross-legged on the snow with his eyes closed, falling into a deep sleep.

The Gu family had brought along a "sealing item" for treating injuries, a clean bottle that emitted a snowy white radiance, engulfing him within.

Mr. Gu asked softly, "Is his injury serious?"

The "doctor" in charge of the treatment replied honestly, "It’s just a flesh wound... there’s no need to worry, rest for some days will suffice. However... his spiritual power seems to have been shaken."

"Spiritual power has been shaken?" Gu Qilin narrowed his eyes.

"It doesn’t look like damage from a battle... rather, it seems like... an issue with himself..."

The doctor thought for a moment, then cautiously said, "It somewhat resembles the precursor to losing control."

"...I understand."

After a moment of silence, the elder said with profound meaning, "Don’t speak of what should not be said."

He waved his hand to dismiss the bystanders and sat alone in the valley amid the snowy mountains, waiting for Gu Shen to awaken.

The radiance from the Pure Bottle quickly healed the pierced "flesh."

Together with the Spring Breathing...

At dawn, Gu Shen opened his eyes, and he saw an unexpected face. At the same time, he felt the air around him solidified by a strong spiritual power.

He was sitting in the snow, but also within Mr. Gu’s domain.

Gu Shen was somewhat surprised.

Was Mr. Gu... waiting all this time for him to wake up?

And the domain was expanded, which meant there was something important he had to say to Gu Shen!

"There is something unclean in that tomb..."

Gu Qilin spoke calmly, as if mentioning an insignificant trifle, "You might have been tainted with ’unluckiness’."

"Unluckiness?"

Gu Shen was slightly startled.

"You arrived at Changye in the company of a Tomb Ghost... You must be familiar with this," Gu Qilin spoke slowly. "His ’unluckiness’ is innate, while most people acquire their ’unluckiness’ later in life. You can stand up and look behind you."

Gu Shen was somewhat bewildered.

As Mr. Gu had instructed, he slowly stood up and turned to look... As the dawn light shone, he cast a shadow on the snow, but when he turned, the shadow didn’t mimic the "turning" action. Instead, it just lay there on the snow, calmly staring back at him.

This gaze... felt strangely familiar!

In a flash, Gu Shen felt "chilled to the bone" and "terrified"!

"You see that strand of shadow, that is what is referred to as ’unluckiness’," Gu Qilin said calmly. "This is my ’domain’... the Infinite Scale, it can reveal the intangible forces of the Spiritual World. Once you leave the domain, you will not notice anything amiss... but in fact, this ’unluckiness’ will always follow you, unless you die and utterly perish, both physically and spiritually... Otherwise, this strand of unluckiness will not dissipate."

Gu Shen could feel that the moment he stared at the "shadow," an uncontrollable fear emerged from the depths of his heart.

"Run the Breathing Method."

Gu Qilin said indifferently, "Haven’t you understood the complete ’Spring Breathing’?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Shen took a deep breath.

Spring Breathing unfolded, and his spiritual power flowed like a mountain spring.

The fear was instantly dispersed.

The creepiness and horror... reduced by a great deal.

"There’s no need to be tense, all things in the world have scales for mutual measurement," Gu Qilin said. "With the emergence of ’Extraordinary Power,’ the world’s scale has become unbalanced, and the laws of the material world can’t explain the Transcendent phenomena... Similarly, the chaos in the Spiritual World has led to what is called ’unluckiness’. In ancient texts, those who completely ’lost control’ were referred to as the ’unlucky’."

Why was Mr. Gu so composed...

Gu Shen let out a slight sigh of relief and murmured, "Unluckiness... is it a sign of impending loss of control over the spirit?"

"That’s one way to understand it."

As if seeing through Gu Shen’s confusion, Mr. Gu explained, "My ’Infinite Scale’ can measure fate. Because of involvement with karma, no one can maintain a perfect balance of the scales of fate... Just like walking, one always needs to step forward, be it with the left foot or the right, and at that moment, the balance is disturbed."

"So in my view, unless one is dead, everyone possesses ’unluckiness’."

He slowly raised his arms.

Strand by strand, black mist rose from Mr. Gu’s back.

The shadow behind him suddenly began to twist...

Gu Shen looked on in astonishment as "ghosts" surged out, resembling a hellish mural behind Gu Qilin, ready to engulf him at any moment.

"During the war sixty years ago, every time I killed a person, I could clearly see the shadow in the Infinite Scale descend by one notch, adding a bit of unluckiness, and in the end... these bits of unluckiness piled up into a Hell," Gu Qilin said somberly. "But am I not still living well?"

"As long as you are strong enough, no unluckiness can kill you!"