Light Barrier

Chapter 80

To ensure a fatal strike, Gu Shen had been waiting patiently. In the end, the silver arrows had successfully pierced Qu Shui’s face, but he had miscalculated her ability.

This wasn’t the real Qu Shui.

It was her ability... a shadow.

From Qu Shui’s current reaction, it was clear that her shadow was injured, and she was in great pain. But the injuries that should have been fatal had been significantly reduced. Blood kept flowing out from her eyes, which matched the wounds caused by the silver arrows.

The shadow at Qu Shui’s feet moved irregularly. Sometimes, it condensed into a petite girl, and sometimes, it morphed into a tall man, like a wild beast struggling in a cage.

Is her ability to control shadows and condense them into physical forms? Gu Shen’s eyes were grim as he stared at Qu Shui. The gleaming pair of scissors seemed exceptionally dangerous.

She was too cautious.

She didn’t know that he was a transcendent, but she had actually used a shadow to enter the cave... If she had entered with her real body, the arrows would have already ended the battle.@@@@

In the Profile world, she had cut her ‘father’s’ throat!

It was the same in the files that Hu Danian had given him. All the victims had died from sharp objects cutting their throats, and their bones were crushed, leaving only a thin layer of skin. Moreover, transcendental aura could be detected in the wounds.

Or rather, what she wanted to do after he entered the cave, she required a shadow to do it?

No! Gu Shen suddenly recalled a detail.

In the clinic, when he used the power of the Blazing Fire to hypnotize Qu Shui, she already knew that he was a transcendent.

Had she been acting since then?

Swish.

Gu Shen swiped a finger across his forehead and ignited the Blazing Fire.

Qu Shui was startled.

She stared at the flame on Gu Shen’s forehead, and the anger in her eyes suddenly dissipated, replaced with infatuation.

“This flame looks more beautiful the more I look at it.” She giggled. “As expected of the person I like. When I cut off your shadow, it will definitely accompany me... for a very long time.”

The flame flickered, illuminating the stone walls around them.

Gu Shen’s face turned pale.

Shadows lingered on the desolate walls of the caves, swaying and twisting like murals hung on the walls as the wind blew. These were all the victims of the River Shoal murder case. There were far more than in Hu Danian’s report, numbering close to fifteen.

All of them were male.

Qu Shui had cut off these shadows and nailed them in the cave.

“When the arrows hit your main body’s shadow, you felt pain. When these people’s shadows are injured, you won’t have any reaction. It means that they are merely under your command and don’t have any further connection. Interesting. Are you a nature-type transcendent or a mental-type?”

His complexion grew paler, not out of fear for these shadows but because every second spent maintaining the Ruler of Truth consumed his mental power.

The stabbing pain became more and more pronounced, indicating that the ruler’s duration was running out.

Yet his thoughts became clearer and clearer.

He noticed Qu Shui subconsciously frown. Clearly, she was unfamiliar with the terms ‘nature-type’ and ‘mental-type’. It was very likely that she was a transcendent who had awakened freely and did not attract the attention of the upper echelons of Dadu.

With the enhancement of the Blazing Fire, the pitch-black cave was filled with slender, silvery-white threads that crisscrossed and densely covered two meters around Gu Shen. These threads had cut apart the tall shadow just now.

This was Gu Shen’s tactic during his crisis, a familiar move.

Back during the fire case, he had used this move against the assault-type transcendent on the rooftop.

It was an extremely useful method against enemies who suddenly charged and attacked.

However, the Gu Shen of today possessed more solid and lasting mental power, along with greater experience. He chose to create threads that were almost invisible to the naked eye in the cramped and dim environment.

Once anyone charged in, it would be a path of self-destruction.

But the problem was... the Ruler of Truth was not suitable for a battle of attrition, and this was his second activation today.

Time was running out.

He had to end this quickly.

“Do you want to cut off my shadow?”

Gu Shen stared at Qu Shui and enunciated word by word, “Since you’re not pretending anymore, I’ll lay my cards on the table too. From the moment I saw you, I felt disgusted and nauseated.

“Do you know what you remind me of? A fly, a worm.”

Qu Shui’s expression indeed changed.

Veins bulged on her forehead, and her pretty face darkened with fury.

“A self-pitying fly trying to gain the sympathy of others, a hypocritical, pretentious worm who only knows how to feign being pitiful...” Gu Shen stared intently at Qu Shui, observing the changes in her expression.

He spoke faster and faster, trying his best to say words that angered her. He wasn’t good at cursing, and these ‘dirty words’ were already the result of him racking his brain.

If it were anyone else, it would be very difficult to provoke anger.

But for a girl in love, these unpleasant vulgarities were enough to shatter her heart.

“Enough!” The girl’s angry shout interrupted Gu Shen.

The tall shadows that almost filled the entire cave erupted at this moment. Amidst roars, more than ten shadows swarmed toward Gu Shen’s ‘Truth Domain’!