Light Barrier

Chapter 92

Gu Shen closed the door.

He took a deep breath and told himself not to be so nervous. Then he went to the table and sat down. Unlike when he treated the mass insomnia earlier, the status of this woman in front of him was too important, and he had to be fully alert.

“Lu Nanzhi.” Madam sat on a chair with her legs crossed, looking elegant and graceful. Seeing Gu Shen’s hesitant expression of wanting to speak but not knowing what to say, she thoughtfully said in a soft voice, “You can call me Madam.”

“Madam...”

Lu Nanzhi’s voice had a peculiar soothing effect, calming Gu Shen’s nerves.@@@@

“Please forgive me for staring at you,” he apologized and summoned his slender Blazing Fire.

Buzz!

In the silent enclosed room, the moment the Blazing Fire appeared, the entire world changed color. Gu Shen gazed intently at the woman in front of him. She didn’t have any transcendental aura, but there was a faint, translucent layer of transcendental essence flowing around her. Her rings, earrings, necklace—almost every piece of jewelry she wore—contained extremely powerful transcendental power.

From what the Blazing Fire could see, Madam didn’t seem to be a transcendent.

But Gu Shen had a vague premonition in his heart. If he harbored any ill intentions, just activating one of these sealed objects would be enough to take him down in an instant!

With such powerful sealed objects protecting her, how could transcendental power corrode her?

He took a closer look.

His expression grew grim.

Under the guidance of the Blazing Fire, he felt a very, very tiny line between Madam’s eyebrows. This tiny line couldn’t be seen with the naked eye after being enhanced by the Blazing Fire, and he could only sense its existence through a mysterious, unseen induction.

He could feel it.

But he couldn’t see it.

That tiny line was tightly stretched, pulling at the entire mind, somewhat like... the curse imprint of the Solemn Stone Sculpture.

But it was only similar. Their levels were completely incomparable.

If a sealed object at the level of the Solemn Stone Sculpture approached Madam and emitted its nightmare power, it would instantly be shattered by the protective power automatically activated by her earrings, and even the stone sculpture itself would be reduced to fragments.

After a while, Madam said softly, “So, do you see anything?”

Gu Shen withdrew the Blazing Fire, thought for a moment, and said hesitantly, “With your status, I believe many mental-type transcendents have already examined you, right?”

Madam smiled. “That’s right. There was even a mental-type transcendent at the Tenth Level of Deep Sea, but none of them could tell anything.”

Gu Shen was stunned.

Even a transcendent at the Tenth Level of Deep Sea... couldn’t see the hidden tiny line?

But the Blazing Fire could sense it. His transcendental power was indeed very special.

However, he knew very well that with his current strength, seeing it and resolving it were two different matters. While he was hesitating, Madam’s voice sounded again.

“It was Cui Zhongcheng who recommended you to me. He said you could cure me.”

Hearing Cui Zhongcheng’s name, Gu Shen felt enlightened.

He knew that there were not so many coincidences in this world. The mass insomnia on Lipu Street was most likely part of Cui Zhongcheng’s plan. The patients from before had been half-forced into his hands, which could be regarded as ‘experience accumulation’.

Just as he resolved the incident with the Solemn Stone Sculpture, Madam came. This series of events made Gu Shen suspect Cui Zhongcheng’s true motive for adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes.

“Madam, your symptoms are very simple. It should just be... insomnia.” Gu Shen looked straight into the woman’s eyes and said firmly, “When you fall asleep occasionally, you have many dreams, and they’re all nightmares. Recently, your sleep time has been decreasing. Even with the protection of mental-type sealed objects, it’s unavoidable. I’m guessing it’s been a long time since you took off those two earrings, but you can only sleep three to five hours each day.”

This scene was within Gu Shen’s expectations.

“Go.” Gu Shen remained calm. He had long felt the mental anomaly between Lu Nanzhi’s eyebrows, so how could he not have the means to deal with it?

With this command, the Blazing Fire immediately surged toward Madam’s glabella. The tiny flame swept through the air with powerful and majestic momentum.

He couldn’t see the thin line, but he could sense it with the Blazing Fire.

Closing his eyes, Gu Shen placed all his attention on the Blazing Fire and used the mental space between Madam’s eyebrows as the battlefield. They were both tiny existences, but at the same level, they both became colossi.

The originally pitifully small Blazing Fire immediately turned into a vast sea of flames after entering Madam’s glabella.

This was the profound concept of containing the maximum within the minimum, a mountain within a seed, the infinite within the finite.

It was the first time Gu Shen had experienced such a mystical feeling. When he removed the Solemn Stone Sculpture’s imprints, he had directly immersed his soul without any obstruction. But this time was different. He was blocked outside before he could immerse his soul. Thus, his consciousness remained clear, but he had reached the Minute realm where his mind condensed into a small figure.

Perhaps the hypnosis of the mental system, slowed down, was a presentation of the Minute realm.

It wants to escape. Gu Shen’s face appeared in the sky above the sea of flames.

He looked down at the mental space in the glabella. On this battlefield, the thin line enlarged to a winding, majestic form, like a gigantic dragon. Although it looked spectacular, it was actually fragile. After being caught off guard by the Blazing Fire’s attack and hit hard, it roared furiously... and chose to escape.

It didn’t even put up a fight.

It seemed that the person who planted the mental imprint had already anticipated this, having prepared a countermeasure if any trace was detected.

However, wasn’t this reaction too spineless?

Gu Shen frowned and controlled the sea of flames to intercept the dragon. This time, he felt the power of his Blazing Fire characteristics. While they were both Minute mental characteristics, the opposing force was extremely insubstantial and collapsed at a single touch. In contrast, his mental characteristics were solid and compact. Every wisp of flame falling from the sea of flames could sear bowl-sized, bloody wounds on the dragon.

“Do you think you can escape?” Gu Shen retracted the sea of flames, forcing the dragon to curl up, connecting head and tail. Now that things had come to this, there was only the final encirclement left.

However... something unexpected happened.

The dragon wailed!

The dragon raised its head and smashed it down. Then its massive body drilled down. Gu Shen reacted swiftly. The sea of flames instantly fanned out and cut the drilling dragon in half. But it was still too late. Half of its massive body turned into nothingness under the flames as the Blazing Fire devoured its transcendental essence within seconds, while the remaining half completely disappeared.

This thin line was not a dragon at all but a worm!

Survival by severance.

This was a tactic of earthworms.

Who planted this imprint? Why is it so cowardly? Gu Shen’s expression was gloomy. But since this imprint escaped from Madam’s forehead, does this mean... I can hypnotize her and let her enter her dreams now?

Gu Shen was facing a decision.

From the perspective of ‘entering her dreams’, he had already fulfilled his employer’s request. The mental imprint had been successfully repelled, and Madam could now enjoy peaceful dreams.

But from another perspective, this imprint still had remnants. If he didn’t fully remove it, there could be future trouble.

Madam is Nan Jin’s elder sister, and Cui Zhongcheng specifically asked her to come see me... After a brief consideration, Gu Shen made a decision. I’ll try to see if I can completely pull out this mental imprint.

With this thought, the Blazing Fire dived.

Sure enough.

After the mental imprint escaped, Madam, who had her eyes closed on the chair, began breathing slowly and gently a few seconds later...

She successfully fell asleep.