In order to ensure a hit.

Gu Shen had been waiting... In the end, the silver arrow hit the opponent's face as he wished, but he miscalculated Qu Shui's ability.

This is not the main body.

It's her ability... a shadow.

From Qu Shui's reaction at the moment, it could be seen that the shadow was injured and she was also in pain. However, the originally fatal injury was greatly reduced. Blood kept flowing from her eyes, which perfectly matched the penetrating wound caused by the silver arrow.

The shadow under Qu Shui's feet moved irregularly, sometimes condensing into a delicate little girl, sometimes flicking into a tall man, like a wild beast struggling and rushing in a cage.

"Her ability is to control shadows and make them solid?" Gu Shen's expression became serious as he stared at Qu Shui. The shiny silver scissors made him feel extremely dangerous.

Too cautious.

Without knowing that he was a transcendent, he actually used shadows to enter the cave... If it was the protagonist who entered, the battle would have ended with just one arrow.

In the side world.

She cut off the "father's" throat with one slash!

And in Hu Danian's file, it was the same... all the victims died from their throats being cut by sharp objects, their bones crushed, leaving only a shallow layer of skin, and the transcendent aura could be sensed at the wounds.

Or... what she was about to do when she entered the cave required shadows?

No!

Gu Shen suddenly recalled a detail.

In the clinic, he used the power of fire and hypnotized Qu Shui... She had known that she was a transcendent a long time ago.

Since then, was she just acting?

With a "sizzle" sound, Gu Shen wiped his forehead with one finger, igniting the fire mark.

Qu Shui was stunned.

She looked at the flickering fire mark on Gu Shen's forehead, and the anger in her eyes suddenly dissipated, turning into infatuation in an instant.

"This mark of fire is really beautiful the more I look at it." She giggled, "You, the person I like, if I cut off your shadow, you will definitely accompany me... for a very long time."

The flickering fire illuminated the surrounding stone walls.

Gu Shen's face turned pale.

Shadows swirled and shook on the withered walls of the cave, like wall paintings hanging in a frame, these were all victims of the Jiangtan case, far more numerous than reported by Hu Danian, close to fifteen.

All of them were males.

These shadows were all cut off by Qu Shui and nailed to the cave.

This was what she referred to as "being together forever".

The scissors... should be the key to cutting off the shadows, but Gu Shen's intuition told him that this was not a sealing object, but rather an artifact that carried Qu Shui's transcendent ability.

Even without these scissors... Qu Shui could use any sharp object to cut open the shadows.

After his thoughts settled, Gu Shen had a rough idea in his mind.

He tightly gripped the ruler and said coldly, "How many people did you kill at Jiangtan?"

After hearing this, the girl actually lowered her head and seriously started counting on her fingers.

"One... Two..."

After counting for a while, she gave up.

"Dr. Xiao Gu, what are you talking about..."

Qu Shui raised her head, and a harmless and radiant smile appeared on her cute and gentle face.

She pointed to the withered walls of the cave.

"Where did I kill anyone... They are all here, aren't they?"

As soon as her voice fell, the figures on the withered walls began to shake violently like scrolls, as if driven by some kind of telepathy. One after another, they floated down and slowly stood up on the ground.

"Hold him down."

Qu Shui coldly uttered these words.

After landing, the more than ten tall shadows took about two to three seconds to condense their bodies, move their wrists, and in the next moment, one of the tall shadows instantly charged forward at an alarming speed, with a fist the size of a sandbag roaring towards Gu Shen.

And in the next moment—

Before the fist could hit Gu Shen's face, the tall shadow shattered itself into pieces, howling in pain, and fell to the ground piece by piece.

Qu Shui's pupils contracted. She was not a mental-type transcendent and couldn't capture the exact scene in the dim environment.

She didn't know what had happened... The shadows she controlled were instantly cut apart.

Gu Shen's ability had already been witnessed by her in the clinic.

That strand of fire had no killing power and looked ordinary and unremarkable.

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But the ruler was not ordinary. The arrow that had just hit her own shadow should have been the power of the ruler.

The danger she currently felt all came from the silver ruler in Gu Shen's hand.

Was it the ruler that had just killed the shadow?

This ruler could release the power to cut and shoot?

"Indeed, as I expected, these shadows... in order to cause harm in the material world, they need to condense their bodies. Correspondingly, after condensing their bodies, they will also be harmed by the material world."

Gu Shen chuckled softly."If your own shadow is hit by an arrow, you would feel pain. These people's shadows are hurt... and you show no reaction. It suggests that they are merely under your control, without any deeper connection. Interesting. Are you a Transcendent of the nature type, or the mental type?"

His complexion grew increasingly pale, not out of fear for these shadows, but because every second of maintaining the Scale of Truth was draining his mental power.

The pain was becoming more and more pronounced, and the duration of the scale was not long.

His thoughts, however, were becoming clearer and clearer.

He noticed Qu Shui unconsciously furrow her brows, clearly unfamiliar with the terms 'nature type' and 'mental type'. It was highly likely that she was a Transcendent who had awakened freely and had not attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the city.

Under the enhancement of the blazing fire, the dark stone wall world was filled with thin silver threads, crisscrossing and densely packed, surrounding Gu Shen within a two-meter radius. The towering shadow from just now was severed by these threads.

This was Gu Shen's arrangement in times of crisis, a tried and true tactic.

During the fire case, he used this move against the aggressive Transcendent on the rooftop.

It was an effective method against enemies who charged and attacked fiercely.

However, Gu Shen now had a more solid, enduring mental power and more experience. He chose to create nearly invisible threads in the narrow and dim environment.

Charging forward would be a path to self-destruction.

But the problem was... the Scale of Truth was not suitable for a war of attrition, and this was the second time it had been activated today.

Time was running out.

He needed to end this quickly.

"Do you want to cut off my shadow?"

Gu Shen stared at Qu Shui, word by word, "Since you're not pretending anymore, I'll lay my cards on the table... From the moment I saw you, I felt disgusted, nauseous."

"Do you know what you remind me of?"

"A fly, a bug."

Qu Shui's face indeed changed.

Veins popped on her forehead, and her pretty face was clouded with anger.

"A self-pitying fly trying to gain others' sympathy, a hypocritical bug that only knows how to flaunt its pitifulness..."

Gu Shen stared intently at Qu Shui, observing the changes in her expression.

His speech quickened, trying hard to utter words that would infuriate her. He was not good at cursing, these "dirty words" were the result of Gu Shen's racked brains.

For others, it would be hard to provoke anger.

But for a girl in love, these offensive words were enough to shatter her heart.

"Enough!"

The girl's angry shout interrupted Gu Shen's words.

The towering shadows that nearly filled the entire cave, at this moment, all erupted in unison. Amidst the roaring sound, a dozen shadows rushed towards Gu Shen's "Domain of Truth"!