Light Fortress
Chapter 772 - 17: Knife Wounds_3

Chapter 772: Chapter 17: Knife Wounds_3

Gu Shen suddenly fell silent.

He understood what Moon City was like now...

Originally a fortress as solid as iron!

Now it had become an empty city!

Everyone had evacuated, led by the general "Rust Bone" and his corps, tasked with defending the fortress against any unexpected incidents that might arise from the Disaster Realm.

"However... we all trust in the Empress’s decision!"

Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "All the people of the Northern Continent are waiting for your teacher to bring good news back to this land. We hope that our exploration this time will uncover Mr. Shu’s clues!"

Gu Shen slowly nodded.

After the team left the gorge entrance, they changed their formation back to the familiar seven formation.

The darkness faded away.

Replacing it... was the glaring Wind Snow, vast swathes of snow dancing between the barren cliffs, and the whole world, breaking away from the dark, plunged into a sickly fierce milieu.

The Source Armor automatically adjusted its brightness to cope with this dazzling spectacle.

A fractured boulder cut across the straight path of the gorge, and after the internal fissures of the snow mountain, suddenly revealed four different entrances... What was terrifying was that, at these four entrances, Gu Shen sensed the presence of four different "Black Holes."

At this moment, he finally understood why the mission was named "Labyrinth."

From this point on, it was akin to a multiple-choice question.

What followed would be one fork in the road after another, it was hard to imagine how the first batch of Transcendents who arrived at the labyrinth made their choices... and with what beliefs they had trudged forward.

Just looking at the four-way intersection in front of him, a wave of despair surged in his heart.

"The route ahead will be very complicated."

Yuan Yuan spoke softly, "The Investigation Corps has undertaken hundreds of forays beyond the wall... and only then summarized this ’route’."

He took a deep breath.

This section of the road was the most difficult... the number of "Black Holes" significantly increased ahead, the patterns summarized previously might have also changed, and everyone held their breath as they cautiously moved forward.

The tension experienced throughout the ten-day journey beyond the wall, compared to this moment... was nothing.

No wonder, just after leaving the giant wall, the public chat channel was so lively.

Previous treks were just "warm-ups"!

Now came the main event... facing life and death!

One wrong step by a person could cause tremendous trouble for the entire team.

Gu Shen had never been so focused, the "Chi Huo" he could manipulate wasn’t much, but now three percent of the fire sparks had dissipated in the wind... a terrifying situation.

These fire sparks had been swallowed by "Black Holes" without notice.

On this journey, Gu Shen saw many strange and bizarre "regularity points," some of which even the Investigation Corps had not clearly figured out, only concluding a vague "keep away" range.

However... his "Chi Huo" was different.

Although these fire sparks had disappeared, he vaguely sensed the general pattern of those black holes.

Thus, while following the team, Gu Shen silently explored on his own.

This stretch of road was indeed very long.

Yuan Yuan led the two teams in making choices at intersections one after another, continuing the route of Labyrinth 38...

Hours later.

The pace of everyone had slowed down.

Gu Shen noticed.

Li Chen’s expression, beyond its tenseness, had turned somewhat pale.

The high-intensity running of the Source Eyes placed a great burden on spiritual power... he began to rapidly consume nutrient solution and spiritual supplements, and the condition of other members of the team weren’t much better.

The Transcendents of the Northern Continent indeed had good physical stamina, these people, being born and raised in frigid conditions with a fierce and valiant tradition, were only somewhat crude in their spiritual cultivation.

The Northern Continent had no great breathing technique like "Spring Breathing."

Even Li Chen, one of the top talents in the Investigation Corps, was somewhat lacking in spiritual cultivation compared to those in the Northern Continent.

Compared to the Eastern Continent, these people had stronger combat abilities, but their spiritual cultivation was much weaker.

Gu Shen looked toward the distant flying snow and quietly said in the command channel, "Everyone can try shifting twenty meters to the right. If I’m not wrong, the force of this regularity point... will continuously suppress the spirits of the Transcendents, and moving to the right should make things a bit better."

The members of the difficult journey all paused at his words.

They had found this stretch of the journey particularly challenging, feeling more and more tense as they progressed.

And indeed, Gu Shen was the only one who seemed "at ease."

"To the right."

Yuan Yuan personally tested it and then immediately issued the command.

The entire team, maintaining formation, quickly adjusted their positions.

"Phew..."

The next moment, a series of exhaling sounds of relief echoed through the team’s public channel...

Indeed, after adjusting, everyone’s mental pressure significantly reduced!

If this news were to reach the Investigation Corps, most people would likely scoff at it... They wouldn’t believe that a stubborn person like Yuan Yuan would trust a suggestion from a young man from the Eastern Continent about a regularity point.

Or rather, they were even less willing to believe that there existed such a miraculous Spiritual Transcendent who could decipher the pattern of the "terrifying Black Holes" within a short initial contact.