Tsukasa is really hungry.

Because he ate eleven bowls of noodles.

Shirasuke, who had rushed back to the tundra from Xiyin City, did not expect that he had just landed, and within ten minutes, he was back on the energy boat and left... and this time the destination was a small noodle shop in Nagano. According to Tsuka Oni It was said that this was a noodle restaurant that he often ate at during the construction period of Qing Tomb. He was always craving for this bite when Dadu Huazhi was working for Zhao Xilai.

Since then he has been busy in the tundra.

I haven’t had this bowl of noodles for a long, long time.

His luck was good.

After all these years, this noodle shop is still open.

"Is this what you meant by 'eating something'?"

Baixiu looked at Tsukauki, and then at the noodle bowls stacked like a hill on the table.

"Yeah...Actually, I'm still very hungry. Do you mind waiting for me a little longer?"

Tsukasa devoured his food and took the time to reply.

He went to eat hot pot again and bought some sesame cakes by the way. The business district of the Snow Forbidden City is a city that never sleeps. Zhonggui just walked along the road. Baixiu has always been very patient. Of course, he didn't mind eating like this with Zhonggui. Go down...

Just as far as he knew.

The Tsuka ghost is just a "mortal body", and this guy's appetite was not so big before.

"alright."

He continued eating like this until midnight, and Tsukauki patted his belly...

After a delicious meal.

His abdomen was still flat and showed no sign of bulge.

Although he ate a lot.

But...these foods seemed to disappear out of thin air after entering the stomach.

"Now let's go see the Sky Sheath."

Xing Yun burped with satisfaction, and then sighed happily.

Baixiu and Tsukauki looked at each other, and he saw a trace of reluctance in each other's eyes.

Gu Nanfeng ordered that Baixiu and Zhonggui should be alone tonight, so Gu's night watchmen did not dare to follow. They had been standing guard at the apron, waiting for the two to return.

Not long after.

Gu's source energy boat sent the two of them to the 【Snow Cage】.

Mr. Snow and Mr. Oni personally greeted the distinguished guests in front of the 【Snow Cage】. Tsuka Oni walked alone at the front, with Shirasuke silently following behind.

The Tundra Prison is exceptionally quiet tonight.

The "Sky Sheath", which has been emitting chaotic rhythms, is also surprisingly quiet.

…

…

Baixiu is not a fool.

He saw something unusual about Tsukauki. A guy who usually relied on infusions to stay alive, the first thing he did after leaving the base was to eat haise.

Or……

This was the last thing Tsukauki did when he left the base.

The two walked silently, one behind the other, the wind and snow howling.

The Tsuka ghost walking in front, his thin clothes were blown high by the wind, looked like a man rushing to the battlefield to die.

"Hello--"

Baixiu spoke, and he stopped Tsukauki: "You can walk slower."

"..."

Tsukauki stood still.

He looked at Baixiu, pointed at the huge black shadow towering in front of him, smiled and said with a slightly trembling voice: "No, we're already here."

Unknowingly, the two of them had reached the core area of ​​the Sky Sheath.

After experiencing a collapse, the stone sword was more closely guarded and protected by the Dongzhou Judgment Office.

"You're not feeling right, are you okay?"

Baixiu didn't rush forward. He frowned and came to Tsukauki's side, wanting to check the other person's mental state.

"I...have never felt better."

Tsukauki spoke in a low voice.

"Since the release of the Lion Awakening code, countless knowledge has spread in my mind. Sometimes I even thought that I was an omnipotent God. A huge number of ancient texts like a sea flooded into my mind, and these ancient texts became a throne. Hold me up high... This taste transcends all physical pleasure, it is the ultimate enjoyment that directly reaches the end of the spirit."

"But...I've never been this bad."

Tsukasa bowed slightly and pressed his forehead with one hand, his long hair flowing out from between his fingers, covering his eyes.

He smiled sadly and happily: "In these five years, in order to live, I must vent the 'information' in the spiritual sea, otherwise they will keep piling up and cannot be confirmed or confirmed. This information will become Tangled in my spiritual sea.”

"Then just now..."

"Yes... just now, this information has been piled up a lot. But the pile of information is no longer important."

Tsukauki raised his head and looked at Bai Xiu.

His voice trembled again: "Everything has a price. If you want to experience the bliss brought by the explosion of knowledge, you need to endure double or even several times the physical pain. If time permits, I can eat a lot of things, a lot more than You see more than you think."

Baixiu had already noticed it.

Tsuka Oni has a huge appetite and eats a lot.

"I know...this is another self in my heart that is awakening. My body no longer belongs to me."

Tsukasa smiled and said: "What's that guy's name? Traveler? I think he should have been a starving ghost in his previous life."

Baixiu said in a hoarse voice: "I will take you back."

Is it the reason why 【Deep Sea】 has released the shackles of Tsukauki’s spiritual sea?

The traveler's soul revived in his spiritual sea.

The power emitted from the core area of ​​the Sky Sheath can suppress the power of the extraordinary source material... and the traveler happens to be immune to the Sky Sheath. Coming to this area will obviously accelerate the "distortion" of the spirit sea of ​​the ghost.

Therefore, that dream meant a clue to him.

For Tsukauki, it means disaster.

"No...it's not necessary."

Tsukauki rejected Baixiu's kindness. He stretched out his finger and pointed at the towering figure in front of him, and said guiltily: "Some things must come. In fact, I have had that dream more than once... I have long ago I dreamed of coming here with you. But I don’t dare, I don’t dare to say it to the outside world..."

He could feel the evil effect this dream had on him.

This dream.

It may very well be the "end" that your soul can reach.

He still wanted to live, and living a few more years, even a few more days, would be a good thing.

"I've been hiding for years."

Tsukasa took a deep breath and smiled: "Did you know? There has always been another soul in my body. I met him many years ago. He would drag me into a black snow mountain, where I would stay there all year round. There was heavy snow, and there was a withered mountain wall there, and there were sharp arrows nailed into my body."

"?!"

Shirayuki's pupils contracted.

He was familiar with this scene.

The place that Zhonggui mentioned... wasn't the "disaster barrier" that he and Gu Shen escaped from!

etc.

At that time, Baixiu didn't pay much attention to the sharp arrow that pierced the traveler's body, but now as Tsukauki spoke, the broken and broken clues were suddenly connected.

There was a thud in his heart.

at this moment--

He vaguely guessed the truth behind 【Extinguishing the Candle】.

The divine bow briefly appeared once, and then disappeared. No matter how much the world searched for it, there was no news about it.

Because the answer to 【Extinguishing the Candle】 has never been within the Five Continents.

"Only Gu Shen knows about this matter... He told me that if you want to live, you should keep it a secret and don't tell anyone..."

Tsukauki's voice became hoarse and he felt more guilty.

"I'm sorry, this dream must be very important to you...but I really want to live..."

"so……"

"I've been waiting for you to come to me..."

In the end, he didn't even dare to look into Baixiu's eyes.

"You did the right thing."

A calm voice broke his dejection.

Tsukauki raised his head in disbelief and looked at the man in front of him.

"I would do the same thing if I were you...who doesn't want to live a few more years?"

Bai Xiu's expression was as gentle as ever: "Xing Yun, stay alive. This is not only Gu Shen's wish, but also what I want to say to you."

"Live...go on..."

Tsukaki's expression suddenly turned pale, he retched and knelt forward, his withered hands resting on the snow, trembling constantly.

He breathed hard, as if he wanted to spit something out.

Like...

To spit out a lump of soul.

Bai Xiu knew that there was nothing he could do, so he stood quietly and stayed with Xing Yun.

After a few minutes, the trembling arms gradually returned to calm.

But the solemn look in Baixiu's eyes did not dissipate.

…

…

"If you kill him now, I'll kill you too."

Seeing the Tsukauki return to normal, Shirasuke suddenly spoke.

The man who stretched out his hands to support the ground was silent for a moment after hearing this.

After a while.

"Zhonggui" raised his head and looked at Baixiu with cold eyes: "No one has ever dared to threaten me like this."

"Now there is."

Baixiu's face was expressionless: "No matter how powerful you were in your previous life, it has nothing to do with this life. Tsukauki's extraordinary realm has hit rock bottom. If you choose to completely erase his spirit, I will slap you and you will be wiped out."

"..."

The traveler's face twitched slightly.

He had to admit that Bai Xiu was telling the truth.

"He was destined to die, it was just a matter of how long."

The traveler frowned and said, "As my 'seed', his mission is to live for me."

The awakening of Tsukauki's knowledge is certainly not a gift from God.

But his fate is inevitable.

This knowledge all comes from his "predecessor", the Traveler God Seat who gambled on the outcome of the Pluto Contract.

In order to escape the punishment of the contract.

The traveler chooses to give up everything, separate the spirit and the body, let the spirit come to the five continents to practice again, and bear the curse of Hades on his behalf, while the physical body is in a state of silence, waiting for the "unity" one day in the future .

According to his plan.

After this spiritual seed grows in the five continents, it will be entangled by a large number of disasters.

It is simply impossible for an "ordinary person" who cannot achieve any achievements on the path of spiritual practice to escape so many disasters...

And dying in disaster is the fate of the Tsuka ghost.

After this, the disaster in Pluto's bet will also dissipate.

At that time, it was the time when he was "born". With this incomplete spirit, Traveler Throne could return to its peak as long as it found a physical body.

This way.

Although it took some time.

But not only did he find the coordinates of the five continents, he could also lead the traveler group to complete the most critical arrival!

"Now his mission has changed and he lives only for himself."

Baixiu said calmly: "If you kill him, then I will kill you."

"You can kill me, but what good will killing me do to you?"

The Traveler Goddess sneered, "My spiritual sea contains a lot of ancient knowledge that humans need... These things can allow you to quickly understand the 'inheritance' of starship civilization. In addition, I know the borderland of Beizhou, where you are... At war with my people. Killing me at this time will do no good at all."

"I'm a freewheeling person."

Bai Xiu fluttered and said: "I only do what I think is right, so what you said is meaningless to me. I still say the same thing, if you kill him, then I will kill you."

The face of the Traveler God is ugly.

Negotiations failed again.

He subconsciously used the word "again".

Because of his incomplete spirit, he always peered into the world through the eyes of the ghost. Before 【Deep Sea】 seized the initiative of his physical body, he communicated with Gu Shen more than once through the dream of Black Snow Mountain. At that time, his negotiations were Keep failing.

He had no choice but to abandon his body and cut off his spirit from the moment he fell from the altar.

If he wants to ascend to the throne of God again, he needs to endure the humiliation and bear the burden.

"You... don't have to do this."

After suppressing his anger, Traveler Goddess said solemnly: "We can discuss it carefully. I can give you whatever you want."

"A guy who has lost everything, even his soul, what else can he give me?"

Bai Xiu said with a joking smile: "Besides... I want to 【extinguish the candle】, will you give it to me?"

"..."

The Traveler Seat fell silent.

"If I guess correctly, 【Candle Extinguishing】 has always been in your hands. This is your last hope for a 'comeback'. Naturally, you will not hand it over to me."

As soon as Baixiu said this.

Traveler God's face suddenly changed.

"what are you saying?"

"Actually, I've always been curious as to why such a famous weapon like 【Extinguish the Candle】 disappeared for so long...until the ghost of the grave just woke me up. This magical bow is not an ownerless thing, it already has its own owner. , but why doesn’t its owner have any ‘reputation’ for so many years?”

Baixiu said calmly: "Because in these years, the owner of 【Extinguish the Candle】 has died."

"As an artifact of the highest quality forged by the Lord of Molten Iron, no matter who gets it, he will achieve great achievements, unless... the person who gets it is a 'dead man'."

"The traveler group has never known the coordinates of the Five Continents. It was not until the Duolu River mission that they had their first 'contact' with the Five Continents. After that mission, your 'champion' crossed the snowfield at all costs. No matter how you look at it, it is an extremely stupid operation to reach the Sky Sheath area, even if you get a piece of fire in vain. But what if you think about it from another angle?"

"Someone among the traveler group already knows the coordinates of the Five Continents."

"And that person... is their 'king'."

"The king is in the Five Continents, but no news has been sent back. So they searched frantically for the 'King' until the Duolu River opened the space portal. The winner seized the last chance and came to the Five Continents to send fire. They were sure that you would welcome you within the Five Continents. Come and be reborn, and the 'fire' sent out at that time will become the seat of true God upon which you are crowned."

Baixiu paused and said: "So, back to the original question, if you knew the coordinates of the Five Continents, why didn't you tell them at the beginning? Is it because you knew that your 'end was approaching' and there was no chance of winning in the Traveler's attack?" Or is it because... in fact, you don’t know the specific coordinates of the five continents, so you can only rely on the fate of the unknown?"

The Traveler God's pupils have shrunk to a thin line.

"I think it's the latter."

"Gu Shen once told me that 【Candle Extinguishing] comes with a special field called [Achilles' Heel】. Relying on this field, you can peel off your soul and body with your own hands, but the next question That is, the stripped spirit needs a carrier, and you need to find Wuzhou..."

"Six hundred years ago, a huge stone that could dispel extraordinary source matter fell from the sky and crashed into the tundra."

"Six hundred years later, people named it 'Heavenly Sheath'."

"The characteristics of the sky sheath are very similar to that of the extinguished candle. The sky sheath weapon currently developed by Gu uses the 'Storm Equation' to cause violent resonance of the sky sheath fragments within the specified range... It is precisely relying on this characteristic that you choose Put your spirit down and take a big gamble."

"You gave the fire to the most trustworthy 'Crown Holder' in the ethnic group. Relying on the power of the fire, the Crown Holder shot your soul through the bow of 【Candle Extinguishing】."

"In the end, there is no doubt... you won the bet, but the problem is that you don't have the fire or the candle in your hands. Even if you recover, you won't be able to rise quickly."

"So, there was the arrival of the champion."

Bai Xiu lowered his eyes and fell into memories: "If I remember correctly, the arrival of the champion caused the sky sheath to break, and the maintenance work of the tundra prison took more than half a year..."

"So 【Candle Extinguishing】 is hidden in the Stone Sword?"

He turned around and chuckled: "This is a very nice place. Although it is watched by countless pairs of eyes, no one will actually 'check' it. What you are betting on this time is that no one dares to touch the sky sheath." , no one dares to take that thing apart and see what’s inside.”

At this moment, the traveler's expression was as ugly as a blank sheet of paper.

Bai Xiu suppressed his smile and asked seriously: "Zuka Ghost, am I right?"