"I'm dead..."
"No."
"I'm still alive."
Fragmented thoughts churned in the seawater, scattered consciousness piecing itself back together.
Gu Shen opened his eyes.
What he saw was not the Real World, but a mental illusion within the Mental Sea.
Scenes flashed and shifted one after another.
The opening scene was crimson flames, followed by a collapsing mountain grotto and surging azure seawater...
Gu Shen froze.
These scenes were not unfamiliar to him. He had seen them before. Perhaps because of the intense pain, his thoughts had become uncontrollably sluggish.
But he quickly remembered where these images had come from.
These were all visions and warnings the Calamity Bracelet had shown him!
They were the scenes he had seen when he used the bracelet before the Frozen Lake Mission.
At the time, the Calamity Bracelet had captured countless overlapping images, sending innumerable warning visions from the perspective of a "drowned man." But his divination had been focused on the Frozen Lake Mission, so he had paid no attention to those disordered warnings... In truth, that was precisely what made the Calamity Bracelet, this divine artifact of fate, so "insidious."
It truly could see the future, but it deliberately concealed the most dangerous images within its divinations.
Its previous owner, Meng Xiao, had died because of a divination he believed to be correct.
And Gu Shen had suffered the same loss.
"So the true calamity foretold by the Calamity Bracelet... didn't come from Frozen Lake, but from Sang Continent Grotto."
Only now did he realize it, and his heart immediately sank.
Memories from before he lost consciousness gradually flooded back.
Jia Wei's thrust had truly caught Gu Shen off guard.
He had never expected a fourth-tier transcendent to be waiting for him in the Core Area of Tan Yao. Thinking