Gu Shen stood silently in the thick fog.

After Hu Danian's actions, he maintained this posture without moving, like a piece of wood.

And then Shi Li's voice appeared.

The light of the Truth Ruler slowly bloomed, and a long bow appeared in front of Gu Shen. He strung the bow in the void, slowly pulled it taut, and aimed the arrow at "Shi Li" in the fog...

He waited patiently.

Waiting for Hu Danian to create an opportunity for himself.

Because he couldn't see anything and couldn't unleash the flames freely, he maintained the action of drawing the bow, capturing every sound nearby... The fight started and ended.

Hu Danian's voice sounded very weak.

As expected, a direct confrontation... was indeed not a match for Shi Li.

The two questioned and answered.

In the end, Shi Li's voice showed a moment of surprise.

An opportunity!

Gu Shen aimed at the final location of the sound, released his hand, and the large bow burst into a trembling thunder, dispersing the fog within a radius of ten meters!

A virtual arrow crossed space, shooting out a long circular trajectory.

With this shot, three or four consecutive stone walls on one side of the factory were all shattered by the tremendous impact, and rubble flew.

At the moment the string was released, Gu Shen began to act.

He started running in Shi Li's direction.

The large bow in his hand changed shape in an instant, turning into a long knife.

Gu Shen knew that the arrow he had been preparing for so long... did not end Shi Li's life, because he did not hear the sound of blood splattering. In the brief moment of zero, there seemed to be a very round "bounce" sound.

Breaking through the fog and seeing Shi Li, Gu Shen knew that his judgment was not wrong... This man raised his arm to protect his head, and the skin on the outside of his arm was pierced by countless bones from the inner ear, which were pieced together into a shield, extremely smooth on the surface, with a deep white mark, obviously left by the arrow when it bounced off.

He raised his hand and struck again!

...

...

Shi Li looked terrified and angry.

When he was tripped by the Red Silver Fortress, his extremely accurate intuition surfaced once again.

Hu Danian, there is another teammate!

That person has been waiting for him...

So, before the cold glow of the arrow appeared without warning and occupied his entire field of vision... Shi Li took the "defensive" measure in advance, squeezing out the entire arm bone as a shield and polishing it as much as possible.

The heavy arrow was shot!

It was like being hit hard.

Even with the bone shield as a buffer, Shi Li still felt like half of his head was about to be blown off.

But fortunately, the heavy arrow was deflected!

Too terrifying... with the killing power of this arrow, if he had reacted a little slower, his whole head would have evaporated from the earth!

And Shi Li had not yet recovered.

The mastermind behind the hidden arrow had already rushed to his side, and what came into view was the cold, merciless face of a young man... and he was holding not a large bow, but a long knife.

"Buzz!"

A grand blade light hung upside down!

Shi Li looked in horror at the sudden flash of the blade light in front of him!

How could there be such a treacherous person?

At the critical moment, the shield blocked the blade light, and a long white mark was instantly split out.

"Wait a minute..."

Shi Li felt the shock from the bone armor, and he vaguely felt that the strength of this young man seemed very weak... not worth fearing.

...

...

Seeing the white mark on the bone armor, Gu Shen frowned. He was very dissatisfied with the power of his strike.

Before.

He only used one strike on Qu Shui at the riverside and killed him!

But now, this strike... couldn't even break through Shi Li's bone armor.

He had exerted all his strength, but from the effect, the power of the Truth Ruler should be directly linked to his mental power.

This strike killed Qu Shui.

But it couldn't break Shi Li's defense.

This was an opponent in the Transcendent trial who was at least two levels higher than himself.

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

The blade fell and rose again!

This time, Shi Li did not dodge, but instead counterattacked. The seemingly majestic blade light shattered upon contact with the bone armor, revealing a "quality" gap between the two.

"This kid's strength... at most, is only at the Deep Sea Third Level!"

With just one touch, Shi Li was sure.

He was filled with anger.

How dare someone at only the Deep Sea Third Level attempt to assassinate him...Watching Gu Shen being bounced off by the bone armor, still determined to swing his knife to make a third cut, Shi Li directly removed the bone armor. The clothes on his whole body were all torn apart by the bone spurs, and the huge bone spurs the size of spider legs enveloped Gu Shen, forming a large net!

Seeing through the opponent's strength and attacking intentions!

He no longer defended, but decided to tear this kid apart in an instant!

However, the next moment—

Gu Shen's third cut did not fall, but dissipated in the air. Countless silver-white lights were blown to pieces in the strong wind, leaving only a figure that sneaked in.

The two were close in the bone net.

Like two dead insects embracing in a cocoon.

At this moment, Shi Li's entire field of vision was occupied by a touch of red.

A bright and somewhat dazzling... fiery red flame appeared on the young man's forehead.

...

From the beginning, Gu Shen's planned "assassination" had nothing to do with the Measure of Truth.

No matter how good the timing was.

The Measure of Truth could only achieve a physical level of assault.

Shi Li was a powerful attacker whose true strength far exceeded his own. A fierce attack was the most wrong choice.

Using one's spear to attack the enemy's weakness is the most correct tactic.

However, in this heavy fog, once he got close, he would be detected, and his "mental hypnosis", which he was best at, would have a greatly reduced success rate. Only by making Shi Li misjudge, would there be a chance of success.

What Gu Shen was waiting for was the moment when Shi Li removed the bone armor and made up his mind to kill him.

"Enter the dream for me!"

The fiery flame trembled!

The two pairs of eyes met, and the killing intent in Shi Li's eyes instantly dissipated, turning into confusion.

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But he did not directly enter the dream.

Instead, Gu Shen felt extremely strenuous. When facing Shi Li, his mental power was rapidly depleting at an unimaginable speed!

All Transcendents, regardless of their abilities, need to cultivate both their spirit and physical body... Shi Li's realm was at least two levels higher than his own, even though he was a powerful attacker, his mental power would not be weaker than his own.

To hypnotize him, he could only rely on the "characteristics" of the fiery flame.

"Enter the dream!"

Gu Shen roared again, his forehead showing blue veins. At this moment, all his mental strength was fiercely poured into Shi Li's spiritual ocean.

Shi Li's face turned pale, frantically resisting Gu Shen's mental invasion.

"Crack..."

In just a few seconds, Gu Shen's spirit reached its limit.

The Six Blessings Bracelet on his wrist directly cracked open, as if an invisible force of destiny descended, flowing through his mind like a clear spring, filling up his dried-up spirit!

As the two wills entangled.

Hu Danian, who was sitting against the wall, struggled to raise his hand, and the red and silver on the ground rolled again, turning into a sharp blade, stabbing towards Shi Li's foot.

The intense pain invaded his mind in an instant.

Shi Li's eyes became distracted.

This mental struggle had reached its final moment of confrontation, and anyone who was distracted for a moment would be enough to determine the outcome.

"Boom..."

It seemed as if Shi Li heard something exploding in his mind.

Blood was flowing from his mouth and nose, and it seemed as if his consciousness was being forcibly chiseled out of his body by a heavy hammer.

When the explosion sounded in his mind, Shi Li knew—

It was all over.

...

Hu Danian gritted his teeth and tried to get up... The Transcendents in the Longevity Foundation had implanted a "self-destruct" program in their minds to prevent leaks caused by mental hypnosis.

If Gu Shen won.

Then next... Shi Li would explode!

The frozen giant bone net was silent in the heavy fog. After struggling for a few seconds, Hu Danian did not wait for anything, and there was only the whistling wind and the unyielding fog on Yuandan Street.

"..."

The self-destruction did not happen.

The loss of control did not happen either.

He slowly moved into the solidified bone spur spider web, and in the midst of the thousands of bone spurs, he saw the young man who had saved his life.

The bone spurs were a little less sharp than a knife, and they were about to pierce the flesh.

Gu Shen was not injured, but his whole body was soaked in sweat.

He seemed to be holding something very delicate between his two fingers... It was a second hand of a stopwatch, and the tip pierced into Shi Li's forehead.

The skin was broken, and blood should have flowed.

But... it didn't.

That small hand of the clock seemed to have frozen everything in Shi Li's forehead wound, the pain, the blood, and... a certain mental level, had already been triggered and the "explosion" was set off.

Hu Danian held his breath, and he saw a slender flame slowly flickering on Shi Li's forehead, burning.The final wisp of flame stretched out into a long line... and burned it into nothingness.

Invisible smoke diffused through the thick fog.

Having done all this, Gu Shen let out a long sigh of relief, his expression one of a burden lifted. He pulled out the second hand stopwatch, lighter than a feather, yet it seemed to drain all his strength, causing his fingers to tremble incessantly at the end.

Bone spurs... slowly retracted.

Shi Li had not died but had fallen into a state of consciousness sinking.

He had been hypnotized.

Hu Danian stared blankly at Gu Shen, as if looking at a freak who did not belong to this world.

In his understanding... the Transcendents of the Longevity Foundation were incurable madmen, indifferent to their own life and death, indifferent to victory or defeat... They were the extreme scourge that the council tried every means to eradicate, but no one had any good solutions.

Because no one could stop a person bent on death from detonating their own spirit.

But... Gu Shen had done it.

Silence lingered for a very long time.

Hu Danian's voice was hoarse, "Is it all... over?"

"Mm..."

Gu Shen replied wearily.

He squatted down and used the Scale of Truth to simply treat Hu Danian's wounds. The snow-white radiance flowed, the bleeding stopped, but that was all it did... Hu Danian stared in amazement at the silver light. From the arrow just now, to the two slashes of the knife, and now to the healing, could all these have come from a sealed object?

He looked up and saw a wisp of fiery red flame.

A gentle voice, carrying an irresistible force, rang by Hu Danian's ear.

"It's over. Forget the pain and have a good sleep."