Life Offering

Scarlet bloodlight filled the room, spilling out layer upon layer under the stimulation of the ancient-text array.

The three people at the center of the array seemed to have become a single whole through an invisible Mental Link.

At this moment, they should have been immersed in "comprehending the ancient texts"...

But Gu Shen opened his eyes.

Hooper stared blankly at the sight, unable to understand why Gu Shen had awakened.

At this moment, Gu Shen should have been comprehending them.

No matter how quickly one comprehended them, it still took time.

Unless... there had been no comprehension at all.

"Actually."

"Ever since we first met, I thought something was strange."

Standing at the center of the array markings, Gu Shen slowly lifted his hand from "Ian's" palm.

The old man and Chu Ling were still in the dormant stage of their Mental Link. Comprehending ancient texts was not inherently a grave matter; the link was essentially a transmission and exchange of knowledge, so the mental auras they emitted were still gentle.

"You should only be thirty, in the prime of your life... Why do you give off such an air of decay?"

Gu Shen looked at Hooper and said calmly, "Although the air of decay around you vanished completely after I delivered the 'letter' and we met again, a Mental Affinity transcendent's intuition does not go wrong. If you had always maintained that Misty Dusk aura, perhaps I would not have grown suspicious. But because it vanished in a flash, I paid special attention to it."

Hooper fell silent for several seconds. "Little Mr. Gu, I don't understand what you're talking about."

"There's no need to address me like that now."

Gu Shen spoke blandly, tearing apart the disguise. "Think carefully about the 'things' that happened after we met.