Fusang Shrine!

Fusang Shrine!

Just as Gu Shaoshang invited Wang Chao to head east to Fusang, three people—two men and a woman—stood not far from the foot of Laoshan, coldly watching the Laoshan Internal Martial Arts Hall.

"Yuanyi! That arrogant brat actually wants to overturn Fusang Shrine!" A man in a black suit, standing ramrod-straight and carrying the air of a soldier in every movement, said after hanging up the phone.

"Wu Yunlong! Liu Mubai! This man killed Liu Yuanfei. He must pay with his life!" The young woman before him, her features as exquisite as a painting, dressed in a spotless white ski jacket that outlined her slender figure, said coldly.

"Yan Yuanyi! We can completely wait until after his trip to Fusang before killing him!" The man standing at the back wore canvas camouflage fatigues and gripped a thick, long spear. The shaft and spearhead were forged as one, black and gleaming; its tip was sharp as a needle, and its twin edges were razor-sharp as well.

"We'll follow him across the sea to Fusang. Whether or not he attacks Fusang Shrine, he won't have a chance to leave Fusang alive!" Wu Yunlong, dressed in black, spoke. He was only of average height, yet he gave off an immense sense of bearing, his tone lofty and overbearing.

Liu Mubai, holding the great spear, had a rugged face but fair skin and no beard. He glanced at Yan Yuanyi and echoed, "Though we have absolute confidence in killing him, since he's seeking death himself, why not sit back and watch the situation unfold?"

Yan Yuanyi's face remained cold. Thinking of Liu Yuanfei from their days learning martial arts in the Big Circle Gang, killing intent surged in her heart!

Though Wu Yunlong and Liu Mubai had been invited by her to kill Gu Shaoshang, when facing an expert who had slain someone at the Embracing the Core level, they naturally would not pass up any chance to weaken him.

"To Fusang!" Yan Yuanyi fell silent for a while before speaking unwillingly.

Had Gu Shaoshang seen these three, he would certainly have recognized them as three major generals from the military!

Wu Yunlong, the number one expert of the imperial guard! Liu Mubai, instructor of the Sharp Sword Special Forces! And Yan Yuanyi, instructor and chief of staff of the Longwind Special Forces, one of the three strongest women in all of Dragon-Snake World!

All of them were Embracing the Core-level experts! To have three such masters join forces to besiege him—Gu Shaoshang had every reason to be proud!

Ignoring the attempts of Big Stone and the others to stop him, Wang Chao boarded a ship with Gu Shaoshang and crossed the sea to Fusang.

The two chatted merrily along the way, exchanging the essentials of their fist arts. One was broad-minded, while the other simply did not care. Both gained something from it. Not only did Wang Chao benefit enormously, but Gu Shaoshang's two newly created fist techniques improved as well!

Afterward, they exchanged blows several times. Though Wang Chao was sent flying the moment they made contact every time, Gu Shaoshang could not help but marvel inwardly. Wang Chao's talent for fist arts was truly Unrivaled Under Heaven—his progress was even faster than Gu Shaoshang's!

After entering the Transforming Force realm, however, Teng Qingshan's martial arts experience could no longer offer Gu Shaoshang much help, and his progress inevitably slowed.

Yet Gu Shaoshang did not care. He merely exchanged fist arts with Wang Chao every day, building up his reserves anew.

Gu Shaoshang had not suddenly gotten hot-headed and developed some childish fantasy of slaughtering invaders and destroying America!

There were several reasons he wanted to visit Fusang. First, the Big Circle Gang's assassination attempts against him had become more and more brazen, already drawing attention within the country. If he remained at home, he would likely suffer attacks from both sides! Gu Shaoshang had actually noticed the three experts following him long ago; they simply held back without acting, so he pretended not to know.

There was also the new method Gu Shaoshang had discovered for obtaining Source Power: changing a person's understanding of the world!

If one person overturned Yasukuni Shrine, and Wang Chao spread word of it, what an earthshaking upheaval it would cause in the minds of the people of this world!

How much immense Source Power could he gain from that? Gu Shaoshang was filled with anticipation!

Of course, there was an even more important reason. As a passerby in Dragon-Snake World, Gu Shaoshang simply did not care about the consequences!

He only wanted to fulfill a childhood dream of his—overturning Yasukuni Shrine!

If I want to do it, then I'll do it! It was that simple!

Not far from Fusang's imperial palace stood a gigantic shrine covering nearly one hundred thousand square meters!

In a country with territory as small as Fusang's, it counted as an exceptionally solemn and magnificent structure!

Standing atop a distant building, Gu Shaoshang and Wang Chao quietly watched Fusang Shrine, shaped like a cleaver. Crowds flowed through it like a weaving stream, and it was bustling beyond compare. Neither of them had expected that the imagined solemnity and tight security simply did not exist!

"I really didn't expect Fusang Shrine to have so many people!" Gu Shaoshang could not help feeling a little emotional. Fusang Shrine was actually a tourist attraction.

"Fusang Shrine is a symbol of Japanese imperialism and falls directly under military control! Though it looks noisy and bustling on the surface, there won't be few Self-Defense Forces hidden in the shadows! Even with our skills, once the military surrounds us, there will be only death!" Wang Chao spoke calmly, as casually as if he were discussing where to eat lunch.

"Not us. Me alone. You only need to bear witness and help spread the word!" Gu Shaoshang raised a brow and handed Wang Chao the newly bought camera.

"...Alright!" Wang Chao nodded. He did not hypocritically insist on going along, nor did he ask why Gu Shaoshang was doing this.

"Make me look handsome!" Gu Shaoshang waved his hand, descended the building, and walked through the crowd toward Yasukuni Shrine.

Standing behind him, Wang Chao watched Gu Shaoshang reach the entrance, flash forward, slip past the guards, and squeeze inside. He had sneaked in without buying a ticket!

"Heh!" Wang Chao laughed and followed after him.

Gu Shaoshang was astonishingly fast. With a single burst of movement, he shot into Fusang Shrine.

Not far ahead stood a ten-meter-tall stone shrine marker bearing the words "Fusang Shrine," where many worshippers had once again stopped.

The crowd surged endlessly. Many young Fusang people dressed in Second World War-era Fusang military uniforms held their bayonets high along with the "bandage flags" every Chinese person recognized, shouting fervently in Fusang language.

Passing down the path lined with cherry trees on both sides, Gu Shaoshang walked beneath the over-twenty-meter-tall bronze-cast "First Torii."

There, he saw an enormous bronze statue standing in the middle of the road.

"Omura Masujiro was a great military strategist and military reformer of our Great Fusang Empire, and one of the founders of Fusang Shrine! His status is supremely exalted!"

A middle-aged tour guide in gold-rimmed glasses loudly gave the introduction in Chinese, surrounded by a group of Chinese tourists.

"Fusang Shrine! Starting today, it will be rebuilt!"

Gu Shaoshang cast a cold glance over the surrounding tourists and sneered inwardly.

A Fusang Shrine reviled by tens of thousands in China was, in Fusang, one of the nation's great holy sites!

"The enemy's hero is our foe! Right and wrong have nothing to do with it—our stances differ!" Gu Shaoshang suddenly stamped his foot.

Boom!

Amid a tremendous blast comparable to an artillery shell exploding, his body skimmed forward along the ground, and the neatly paved earth split open in a deep trench!

"Ah!"

"What is he doing?!"

"Oh my God!"

As the Chinese tourists, who had fled to the sides at the deafening roar, cried out in disbelief, Gu Shaoshang tore through the air with a massive shockwave of compressed air and arrived beside the famous Fusang bronze statue!

The tourists who could not dodge in time were blown to the ground one after another, rolling about like tumbling gourds!

Boom!

Gu Shaoshang launched himself from the ground, carrying overwhelming force as he planted one foot on the bronze statue's head!

He crushed it beneath his foot!

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