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"Was I... pierced by the Sky Sheath?"

Gu Shen's heartbeat suddenly seemed to skip a beat.

Even with Iron Scale Skin covering his entire body, he had still been hit.

Fortunately, because of Blazing Fire's characteristics, the amount of source essence stored within Gu Shen's body was extraordinarily immense, dozens of times greater than that of others at the same level... so during the initial stage after being pierced by these Sky Sheath Shards, he could still withstand the curse's power.

If that woman had not reminded him,

he probably would not have realized it until later.

These nine enforcers had all seen Gu Shen protect them... if Gu Shen had not blocked that "explosion" just now, they would have been the ones pierced by the Sky Sheath.

They were immensely grateful, but also deeply fearful and guilty.

As one of the highest leaders of this major purge, Gu Shen had suffered a Sky Sheath strike... to protect them?

"Little Mr. Gu..."

The woman wanted to step forward and examine his injuries.

Gu Shen quickly waved his hand, signaling for her to stop.

There was no use having ordinary transcendent beings inspect this kind of injury. It would be futile and waste time.

Gu Shen remained extremely calm. Since he had already been hit... there was no need to fear the curse anymore. He needed to extract the fragments from his body first!

He immediately took out the Black Silver Box.

After this period of encirclement and suppression, the once-empty box was now completely filled... This time, Gu Shen did not use Blazing Fire to wrap around his fingertips. He directly reached into his wounds and forcibly pinched out those fragments.

The injuries were not severe.

But the Stone Sword's curse had truly seeped into his blood.

There was a