Light Fortress

Chapter 1727 - 383: Battle Between the Netherworld King and the Crownbearer (Major - !)_4

Crash!

The white-robed demon, sealed by ice elements, had one of its arms directly twisted off—

The pupils of the [Judge] were filled with terror and pain!

It roared furiously and swung its fist once more.

Gu Shen’s face remained expressionless as he punched, that punch still wrapped in the [Silent Annihilation] frost of the Great Pure Land; he didn’t care at all about such a level of domain clash.

Mu Wanqiu’s S-level ability was the supreme suppression to other Transcendents.

But here, it found itself in a suppressed state!

"Judge, disperse!"

The red-armored woman at the far end of the mountaintop clapped her hands together, and just before the white-robed demon’s fist collided with Gu Shen, it suddenly dissipated, summoned back to its master. At the severed arm, a black hole swirled and converged, wildly absorbing the surrounding free essence, and within just a few seconds, it regrew!

The astral form of the domain granted an infinite healing ability; an injury like a severed arm was insignificant.

However, the pain they endured was transmitted in full to the true body.

Yet Mu Wanqiu’s expression remained serene, showing no sign of pain or sweat.

"Is it the trait of the second domain, you seem to be able to ignore the pain of the spiritual body."

Gu Shen calmly spoke: "If it really required willpower to endure, even I couldn’t manage as you do..."

"It is it, I am I."

Mu Wanqiu still maintained her clasped hands, gently saying: "As if close and yet apart, like one yet not one."

As soon as she finished speaking.

Gu Shen furrowed his brows.

The frost and snow of the Pure Land suddenly began to tremble!

The severed arm, frozen by wind and snow, began absorbing the essence within the Pure Land... From that arm as a center, the blurred outline of the white-robed demon started to reassemble, struggle, and then revive!

A second [Judge] resurrected within Gu Shen’s Pure Land!

"A Judge, as they say, oversees life and death... First, one must decide their own life and death before they can adjudicate the living things around them."

Mu Wanqiu slowly withdrew one hand.

She spoke calmly.

"This is the first domain of the [Judge]... I named it ’Add’."

In the spiritual form, the [Judge]’s healing ability was nearly infinite; as long as Mu Wanqiu’s spiritual power could support it, the [Judge] could infinitely expand.

The most frightening aspect was.

The resurrection of the [Judge] could utilize external essence...

This was a domain mutation that occurred after becoming the crown holder, where Mu Wanqiu gained special authority over chaotic essence, enabling her to utilize external essence to revive her domain!

"...?"

Gu Shen realized something was amiss, but it was too late.

The frozen arm suddenly extended its five fingers, seizing Gu Shen’s wrist forcefully. The white-robed demon, grown from the essence of the Pure Land, with a grotesque face, used this power to bind Gu Shen tightly to its chest!

Mu Wanqiu’s battle intent reached its peak after simmering for those few seconds!

She and the first Judge vanished from their spot simultaneously.

The next moment they appeared directly behind Gu Shen!

The human and the spiritual body both struck with relentless ferocity, aiming directly at Gu Shen’s shoulder, while the split-off second [Judge] clung firmly to the man, preventing his escape!

Bang!

Mu Wanqiu’s punch went straight through, tearing open the second Judge’s chest and abdomen—

But there was no scene of blood splattering!

The second spiritual body bent over painfully, its shell pierced by its master, beginning a second division...

As for the true target of the punch, Gu Shen, he managed to perform an unbelievable evasion despite being in a "restrained" state.

"Have you also comprehended the [Complete Flash] after achieving the Great Achievement Realm?"

Mu Wanqiu tilted her head to look at the position where she stood; in a mere instant, the two had exchanged positions.

"Indeed. Some insights after breaking through the Ice Sea."

Gu Shen brushed the dust from his shoulder, smiling: "Using the word ’complete’... this should be extremely difficult, did Little Xiuzi comprehend it before worshiping the general?"

Gu Shen hadn’t expected Mu Wanqiu’s first domain to be so stunning.

Especially after gaining the identity of the crown holder, this first domain underwent a mutation.

It seemed like he wasn’t the first "victim."

After the initial duel with the Red Shadow, Gu Shen’s insights into body techniques rose to a new level.

Now, he was no longer a "Spiritual Transcendent" in the ordinary sense.

The division into three lines was merely to differentiate novices.

True top-tier powerhouses had no weaknesses; any aspect brought to the table would be flawless.

"..."

Mu Wanqiu took a deep breath, feeling immense pressure.

She launched another strike.

This time, she was not alone.

Three gigantic ghostly shadows flew through the domain, the third Judge ghost shadow grew by drawing on her essence. Even when body techniques reached their peak, there were always flaws.

The next moment, she crashed into Gu Shen’s close combat range.

Simultaneously crashing in were three spiritual bodies—

This time Gu Shen didn’t dodge; he delivered a knee strike to Mu Wanqiu’s advancing figure. The red-armored woman timely raised her hands and crossed them in front of her abdomen, withstanding the hit, but due to the sheer force, she was knocked off her feet, sent flying backward. Gu Shen didn’t seize the opportunity to pursue, not because he didn’t want to.

But because he couldn’t.

The attack from the three massive spiritual bodies surged in like a tide.

The siege from the increased number of [Judges] was not a mere mob assault—

Even Gu Shen needed to address them one by one.

And his method of handling it was quite simple.

"Swish!"

The Pure Land descended, covering a mere ten-meter radius, the smaller the domain range, the stronger the power the domain master could exert.

Shrinking the Pure Land to such a narrow space was just to await the Judges’ approach!

The sound of wind and snow ripping through the air occurred, as Gu Shen directly sliced through the three colossal spiritual bodies—

He didn’t care about the increase in these Judges.

As Mu Wanqiu launched her domain once more.

The essence within his Pure Land was being sucked away, and the number of spiritual bodies increased again, but the fate of these Judges remained the same, being crushed amidst the sound of [Silent Annihilation] frost and snow cutting.

When power reached a sufficient height.

Quantity could not claim victory.

This was a war of attrition between the two domains, [Pure Land] and [Judge], where [Pure Land] infinitely provided essence for [Judge] to parasitically grow, but Mu Wanqiu, as the master of the [Judge] domain, had to bear the mental burden brought by constant proliferation and division.

Gu Shen stood quietly in the center of the swirling frost and snow.

He did not actively attack Mu Wanqiu, just silently watching her...

After being knocked to the ground by a knee strike, Mu Wanqiu supported herself against a large rock, her expression turning very pale.

One split into two, two into four, four into eight.

The Judge spiritual bodies, under the rampant feeding of [Pure Land], continued to proliferate, then were torn repeatedly, and Gu Shen even purposefully accelerated this process.

But... she couldn’t hold on anymore.

Even the mighty "God of Molten Iron and Craftsmen" was merely in a Heart Flow State, dividing attention into a dozen uses!

In just a few seconds, the Judge domain had spawned dozens of spiritual bodies, and the pace was still picking up.

"Uh..."

Mu Wanqiu’s lips turned pale; her Spirit Sea was instantly drained of a large portion of spiritual power by the terrifying reproduction speed, and she quickly halted the first domain.

Thus, on the mountaintop, at the crisp sound of ripping wind and snow.

The ever-falling and re-standing [Judges] were all torn apart.

Leaving only one spiritual body, that was the initial domain of the first Judge, weakly drifting back in front of its master, reforming its shape.

Mu Wanqiu’s Heart Sea ached sharply.

For a moment, she recalled the psychological shadow left by the Duolu River Disaster Realm years ago.

It was a nightmare she didn’t want to remember... on the endless Nether River, rowing a small boat with great difficulty, like a fallen leaf.

And at the end of the upstream Nether River, the previous Netherworld King sat like a towering mountain.

Now facing Gu Shen directly, she felt the same way.

She was the fallen leaf; he was the towering mountain.