Light Fortress

Chapter 1165 - Capítulo 1165: 67: First Meeting, Reunion_2

Capítulo 1165: Chapter 67: First Meeting, Reunion_2

“It’s really… the Traveler!”

Guided by destiny, he arrived at this Black Snow Mountain.

Once again, the Netherworld King and the Traveler met.

But the “Traveler” before his eyes was completely different from what he had seen in the previous dreamscape—

In the dream, the Traveler had full wings, a perfect form, exuding the powerful presence of a divine-level life.

Yet the emaciated shell before him had long withered. The massive wings were folded, all feathers shed, a spear piercing through the chest, pinning it to the stone wall, with several broken arrows stuck in its body… Gu Shen felt a strange familiarity with those arrows.

“Dead?”

Gu Shen examined the Traveler, suddenly feeling an unease, fear rising uncontrollably.

The Traveler died on Black Snow Mountain?

Who did it? Was it the previous Netherworld King?

No… this spear and these arrows didn’t seem like the Netherworld King’s methods…

Just as Gu Shen stood there observing for several seconds, the Traveler pinned to the stone wall, its long-dead emaciated shell, suddenly trembled slightly. The movement was very subtle.

But Gu Shen was sure he wasn’t mistaken.

The Traveler… moved.

And it wasn’t the wind blowing.

In the next moment, the emaciated shell slowly turned its palm, supporting its body with the palm, shifting slightly… due to the spear through the heart, the entire stone wall shifted, making a cracking, splintering sound.

This protruding stone wall was not fragile; on the contrary, it was very solid, as if fused with the entire Black Snow Mountain.

If the Traveler couldn’t break free from the spear, he couldn’t break free from the mountain.

He was pinned in his own “domain.”

After some struggle, the Traveler seemed to find a comfortable position and sat down calmly.

…

…

The Tomb Ghost felt like he was acting in a theater play.

He was an actor encased in layers of shells… A powerful force within his soul guided him on what to do, everything seemed like destiny’s arrangement.

He didn’t know why he came to this Black Snow Dream.

Nor did he know…

Why he once again saw Gu Shen here.

Nonetheless, seeing Gu Shen was reassuring. The first person he saw upon opening his eyes was Gu Shen, who treated him well and helped him recover his memory with the blueprints he sent.

Since everything was arranged by destiny, there was no point in resisting; he might as well go along with it.

The Tomb Ghost raised his head.

He looked at the young man in the snow wearing a black feathered cloak, and a black fire burning on his forehead, and smiled brightly.

“Gu Shen, we meet again.”

And the Traveler pinned to the snow mountain rock wall also trembled.

“Gu Shen…”

“We meet again.”

This hoarse voice pierced straight into the Heart Sea, making Gu Shen’s hair stand on end.

The Traveler knew him.

He said his name… not the former Netherworld King’s!

The scariest part was when the Traveler said “again.”

When was the last time?

Gu Shen calmly thought; if destiny’s plans allowed others to glimpse, then an extremely powerful being should be able to sense the corresponding glimpse through the lines of destiny… The reason the Traveler said “again” might very well be because when he peeked with the black gem, he was noticed.

This explanation was the only reasonable one he could think of.

Gu Shen took two steps back slowly.

He calmly said, “Did you see me here because you want to continue the deal with me?”

The Tomb Ghost within the shell was startled.

This response was completely beyond his expectation.

He just wanted to make a simple greeting, then ask about the situation, but the terrifying thing happened at this moment; he realized he had no control over this broken shell… that movement and speaking earlier seemed to happen naturally due to destiny, and this time he wanted to open his mouth to clarify.

But destiny no longer allowed it.

He struggled to open his mouth, but couldn’t make a sound.

The “actor” on destiny’s stage can only follow the script after the curtain rises… no other path can be chosen.

The Tomb Ghost watched himself open his mouth.

“Yes.”

After receiving the response, Gu Shen lowered his eyes, smiled, and said, “I understand… when I first peeked at Black Snow Mountain, I was locked on by ‘destiny,’ and when that big guy impacted the Heavenly Sheath, you came here, the true form must be somewhere on the Five Continents, and at this moment, has already revived.”

“…”

In response, the Traveler didn’t reply.

The Tomb Ghost inside the shell was stunned, digesting this vast information.

“So, our meeting this time… is also part of the deal between the ‘Traveler’s Spark’ and the ‘Netherworld King’s Spark’ from back then?”

Gu Shen murmured, “When the two sparks made the contract, they were bound together by destiny, and the outcome of meeting in the Black Snow Mountain Dream is something I can’t escape… as long as the ‘Netherworld Fire’ contacts objects contaminated with ‘Traveler’s Flame,’ it will trigger the karma of that year.”

At this point, the Tomb Ghost was already unable to comprehend.

But the shell’s response was very simple, clean, without any hint of hiding.

It was still just one word.

“Yes.”

Gu Shen furrowed his brows, looking at the perfect life form pinned to the stone wall. For some reason, the more he looked, the more the “Traveler” seemed like a familiar acquaintance, although the face, body, and aura didn’t match at all.

But that intuition was there.

“Then, what was the deal between you and ‘him’?”

Gu Shen asked straightforwardly; after figuring out the context, he was no longer panicking.

He was most worried about the issue of “status” in this dream. Being summoned into a dream by a divine-level being was not a good thing.

But seeing the Traveler in this forlorn state…

The biggest issue seemed no longer an issue.

Regarding the mysterious identity of the former Netherworld King, he now had some clues… these clues pointed towards the Ruler, and perhaps he could extract some useful information from the Traveler’s conversation.

The shell’s answer was consistently concise, as if saying one more word would mean death: “Live.”

“Live…”

This was not hard to understand, Gu Shen asked, “Do I need to help you survive?”

This time, the Traveler didn’t even say “yes.”

He slowly moved his head, nodding to express affirmation.

“I can’t help.”

Gu Shen said calmly, “I can’t pull out this spear, I can’t handle these arrows either.”

Actually, it was not a matter of whether he could pull them out. He had absolutely no intention to touch them, not even to reach out!

This dream came out of nowhere.

And the “negotiation” at first sight escalated to a matter of life and death.

Gu Shen had long been on guard.

His “deal” with the Devil was a previous lesson.

If he hadn’t been one move ahead, he would’ve been killed at the Nether River—

A lesson learned, the Devil was no good, and the Traveler seemed unlikely to be good either.

He didn’t know what kind of deal the former Netherworld King and the Traveler had made, how it extended to him… as a clueless “dreamwalker,” Gu Shen first needed to understand the trade situation, the responsibilities he was involuntarily bearing.

What he really cared about was whether meeting the Traveler in the dream, with the Heavenly Sheath Fragment as the medium, was enough to prove that the Heavenly Sheath was an authority item wielded by the “Traveler”—

Further deducing, could the “Stone Sword” that fell onto the Five Continents six hundred years ago be a derivative of “Traveler’s Spark,” the Old World’s Gospel Box Fragment?

If so!

Then regarding the Heavenly Sheath Curse… does the Traveler have the ability to remove it?

Gu Shen tactfully expressed his lack of ability, and the Traveler pinned against the stone wall slowly shook his head.

“…”

Gu Shen couldn’t understand this headshake.

Was it rejecting his refusal?

Or did it mean something else?

“Live… live together.”

The Traveler’s voice was hoarse. This time he spoke more than one word, and each word was shocking, like a thunderclap.

“You help me. I help you.”

That nod and then the shake of the head meant—

The emaciated figure slowly raised two fingers.

And then that presence that lingered in Gu Shen’s heart, like a shadow that could not be shaken off, the “Heavenly Sheath Curse.”

It just dissipated like that.

Like that.

“””