The bottom of the icy sea was utterly still.
The stone wall engraved with Longevity array patterns was now wrapped in dense shadows and brilliant, dazzling Light Fire. The two intertwined, each forming a hemispherical arc.
It was an intensely contradictory sight, as life and death struggled and clashed without end.
Even the King of the Underworld would have called it a miracle upon seeing this...
Except the King of the Underworld himself was currently inside this sphere of life and death.
Gu Shen's consciousness had fully awakened.
He lowered his head and looked at his tattered clothes and exposed chest.
Countless strands of calamitous, baleful energy seeped from his skin.
The ominous force had erupted.
The Fire of Life that had been meant to enter his organs and mend his injured body was completely blocked outside.
Meanwhile, the Truth Ruler controlled by the devil scattered into countless silver gleams, winding around the ominous baleful energy and aiding the enemy!
Gu Shen knew that the Pure Land must be in dire straits right now...
The devil had chosen this moment to strike because he wanted to take everything that belonged to Gu Shen while he was at his weakest!
And Gu Shen had also been waiting for the moment the devil took the initiative to attack and left the ruler's mental space.
He held his breath and focused, sitting motionless before the stone wall. He concentrated all his mind on the Real World, resisting the ominous force on one side while sending out a wisp of Blazing Fire to drift through the icy sea in search of the aura of a "living creature."
If he remembered correctly.
Before he had faked his death, there had been "big fish" swimming near the stone wall. Though the depths of the icy sea