"My king... until today, I have finally waited for your arrival."

My king?

Gu Shen was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was talking to himself.

No... to be more precise, he was having a conversation with the "Fire of Hades" between his eyebrows.

Since the war between the gods in the cemetery, the aura of Pluto's fire has blended with the "blazing fire" between his eyebrows. After the two blended together, although Gu Shen is not yet able to refine the fire... But he can already show vague emotions in his movements.

The pressure of God.

This is also the reason why Blazing Fire can directly crush Ghost Veil!

This is the unburnt fire of Hades——

Although the situation is weak now.

But one day... it will become a prairie fire!

After the big snake finished speaking, it maintained a respectful posture.

Gu Shen touched his forehead.

He frowned and slowly looked at the maze.

Twenty-one years?

Is this big snake the "pet beast" left behind by the previous Pluto?

Lin Lin raised a dog with the ability to mentally hypnotize, so it seems reasonable for Pluto to raise such a big snake with the ability to awaken, but this snake is also too big.

Is it because you are in a dream?

"Remove the dream and let me see what you look like in the real world."

Gu Shen issued the first order.

The surrounding environment has not changed.

"My king... what you see now is my true appearance." The big snake spoke respectfully.

Gu Shen's pupils shrank slightly.

"I walk between reality and illusion... I am the ferrying spirit in the 'Pure Land'."

The slender golden snake eyes stared at Gu Shen. The big snake spoke slowly and in a delicate voice: "You suffered a serious injury, so you placed me here, saying that you are waiting for the next encounter in the wheel of fate."

"So, all this..."

Gu Shen looked at the blood all over the floor.

"If you don't mind... these extraordinary beings can be extracted and become souls in the 'Pure Land'." The big snake whispered: "Over the years, I have prepared many souls for the king, and they are buried under this canyon.

There are many bright soul fires, your ghost fire can feast as much as you want."

"extract?"

After hearing these words, Gu Shen's blazing fire actually started to react.

Blazing fire covered the field of vision.

He seemed to have really seen through this dream... The extraordinary beings of the second elite team did not die in battle, but fell into this dream. Their spirits fell into silence, and their bodies were destroyed.

The snow is freezing!

It turns out...the strangeness in the Book of Life and Death comes from this!

This big snake, following the will of the previous Pluto, has been entrenched here, collecting the souls of "explorers"...

And the scary thing is.

The souls of Yuan Yuan, Li Chen, Su He...these people are like a dim light at this moment. With just one thought, you can decide to extinguish it or rekindle it.

This kind of ignition is not a direct awakening.

But in an "alternative" way... to ignite the soul.

Once these extraordinary beings who have sunk into the spiritual world of the serpent are "resurrected" by the blazing fire in this way, they will become soldiers of Pluto!

This... is extraction!

This idea... only crossed his mind for a moment before Gu Shen gave up.

"I don't want extraction."

Gu Shen said coldly: "I want them all to 'come alive'."

The big snake was slightly startled and said softly: "My king... in fact, they are not dead, but their spirits have fallen into 'sinking'. This is what you ordered back then. Without your token and entrustment, we must not let them go."

Did the previous Pluto leave such an order?

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes slightly.

"The spirits of these extraordinary beings can be revived, but before..." The big snake coiled on the rock.

Gu Shen looked back and saw wisps of dim soul fire exuding in the biting wind.

Those are the souls of those who have passed by.

The winding maze was no longer hidden at this moment. Countless routes extended and spread. The barriers at this moment were like air... Gu Shen saw countless wanderers in this snowy mountain maze.

Not only the extraordinary beings of the Survey Corps... but also some explorer troops from other continents. Many of those who had arrived in the maze before were buried in the snow.

The serpent preserved their souls, waiting for Pluto to extract them.

And their physical bodies have been frozen forever.

The bodies of those people were severely eroded... and could no longer be revived.

Gu Shen said softly: "I understand, just revive these people in front of you."

I have to say that seeing the large amount of soul fire emerging really shocked Gu Shen.

Are these the spirits that you can "extract"?

However... no matter how powerful the previous Pluto's method was, it was impossible to revive his broken body.

"I obey your wishes."

The big snake lowered its head slightly, spitting out its thin tongue, and a burst of golden mist spurted out. The eleven soul fires of the second team of the Survey Corps dissipated in the golden mist... The previous battle was actually in a dream.

It broke out, but the participants in the second team were not really harmed.

If there is.

It's just some mental damage.

In the battle just now, the snake saw the "monarch" who had been away for twenty-one years. It mistook Gu Shen's observation as a censorship-like gaze, so it showed its strongest fighting power without reservation...

The elite team of the Second Team of the Survey Corps has never experienced such a brutal battle.

No matter how hard they tried and cooperated with each other, the whole battle was still overwhelming.

A complete failure!

Li Chen, who "lived" to the end, even thought this was a boring game for Orochi.

In fact.

Orochi has no such evil intention of delaying time. He is just showing Gu Shen... his strength.

Watching these eleven soul fires gradually dissipate in his Pluto induction.

Gu Shen felt much relieved.

He looked at the big snake, frowned and asked: "How many years have you...followed me?"

"..."

The big snake's golden pupils shrank slightly.

It seems to be thinking.

And after a long silence.

It slowly said, "My king, we have only met once since he was born..."

This was an unexpected answer.

He was originally a little worried that this was the creature raised by the previous Pluto, and whether it would recognize his true identity... Judging from the induction just now, it seemed to identify its owner through the breath of "Pluto's fire".

"Twenty-one years...you have only grown up for twenty-one years?"

Gu Shen was a little shocked.

This big snake is hundreds of meters in size in the real world. Judging from the combat power just displayed, it is probably a combat power that can directly destroy a city. Without the cooperation of two banned people, it is almost impossible to stop it...

If we want to judge based on the danger level of the [Deep Sea] mission.

This foundation is an "S-level" mission!

The big snake lowered its head and closed its eyes, showing a posture of quiet contemplation. From the center of its eyebrows, a wisp of dark black flame slowly emerged.

Gu Shen's blazing fire stirred up that familiar resonance again.
To be continued...