First Meeting, Reunion

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Gu Shen pressed that wisp of fine Underworld Fire into his wound.

The Underworld Fire and the Sky Sheath were forbidden powers of the same level... Theoretically, the Underworld Fire and the power of the Sky Sheath counteracted one another. Their interaction should produce some effect.

This was also the only method Gu Shen could think of that might remove the curse.

He was the future King of the Underworld!

Logically speaking... what curse in this world could bring down the King of the Underworld?

Excruciating pain surged through him, but Gu Shen's expression did not change.

Yet his mind suffered a violent impact at that moment.

A strange "hallucination" appeared in his Mental Sea. The instant the Underworld Fire came into contact with the Sky Sheath Curse, the world before his eyes suddenly went dark. His gathered mental strength uncontrollably burrowed toward the depths of his heart lake.

Gu Shen let out a muffled groan.

He only felt as though he were using the Deep Sea for the first time, dragged into a vast vortex. He could not even hear Chu Ling calling out from within his Mental Sea.

When he "opened his eyes" again, he had arrived in a world shrouded in dense mist.

The contact between the Underworld Fire and the Sky Sheath Shards... had triggered a strange supernatural reaction, causing him to fall into this dream of unknown origin.

This seemed to be a pitch-black snow mountain?

The Underworld Fire burned, illuminating only a narrow area roughly three meters ahead.

Gu Shen looked around in bewilderment and instinctively walked toward the other side of the mist.

Far beyond the mist, at the distant end of the snowy curtain, he seemed to see a withered, gaunt figure.

Snow Cage. Tonight was a