"No, it's already quite obvious."
Shen Qian smiled faintly, "I was a little surprised when you first appeared. You were in such a hurry, with your soul power surging, that you were clearly rushing to find me... Although I don't know how you determined my location, with your soul power, you must have left some invisible mark on me beforehand."
"Even if I was just being paranoid at the time, every time you made a move along the way, you made a big show of it, as if you were afraid that others wouldn't notice me."
"Of course, these may not be the most important things. The most important thing is that I gave up those readily available high-level 'literary positions' out of friendship when we rushed to the Book Mountain Basin. But what did you come here for?"
"Although we are friends, we haven't known each other for very long, so we're not at the point where we'd share life and death, are we?"
"And you were able to withstand the knowledge storm. I knew you were no ordinary person at that moment. I hid my strength to lure people in, but what were you up to?"
He sighed before sinking down.
“I see…” Sun Zuo was stunned for a moment, then gave a self-deprecating laugh. “I thought I was careful enough, but I didn’t expect to still reveal so many flaws.”
"Sun Zuo, why did you do this? Even if you can kill Shen Qian, can you still live to collect the bounty from the City in the Earth's Core?"
Taishi Wuwei, his face full of disappointment, questioned him resentfully.
"What do you know!"
Sun Zuo's face turned ferocious. "I've been stuck at the peak of the Mountain and Sea realm for a full eighty-nine years... Do you know how long it took me to go from a beginner martial artist to a master of the Mountain and Sea realm!"
"Besides, do you think I care about those 20 billion? All I want is a chance to glimpse the gates of royalty!"
Sun Zuo was extremely unwilling. He was just a hair's breadth away from succeeding, but he couldn't understand why Shen Qian, who was seriously injured and extremely weak, could still unleash such strong power in that instant and block his fatal blow.
Little did he know that even though Shen Qian created nine clones, he still left a folder in the system's storage cabinet, just to guard against Sun Zuo.
As for the others, they had long been accustomed to Shen Qian's various inhumane behaviors in the past, and they would not understand why he would be killed by Sun Zuo like this.
"Fool, who can help you become a king or nobleman?" Taishi Wuwei said speechlessly. "You're not a child anymore, how can you still believe in such absurd things..."
"That's just your ignorance. Who says it can't be done!"
Just then, a low laugh suddenly rang out, interrupting Taishi Wuwei's words.
Everyone was startled. Someone had come so close without them noticing. Turning their heads, they saw a figure slowly emerging from dozens of feet away, like a ghost.
"Wang Shuo?"
Tantai Qin frowned.
"Tsk tsk, I'm still your junior brother, even if we go back a thousand years, we were still classmates. Why are you so cold to me now?"
Wang Shuo grinned.
Everyone frowned, because Wang Shuo's appearance was also quite strange, no better than that of the Ghost Clan.
The soul is inevitably the truest reflection of the self. At this moment, Wang Shuo's body was still normal, but on his head, there were two faces, one in front and one behind.
The face in front still resembled Wang Shuo, but the back of his head was occupied by an unfamiliar young man, with only a tightly closed vertical doll on his forehead.
"So you've completely merged with Erlang Shen's soul?"
Shen Qian was also somewhat surprised to see Wang Shuo's Frankenstein-like appearance.
Wang Shuo ignored Shen Qian and nodded to Sun Zuo, who was being restrained by Taishi Wuwei, "Well done, don't worry... Although you won't live today, all these people will be buried with you!"
Just as Sun Zuo was about to say something, a cold sword light pierced through his skull, freezing his expression forever.
Shen Qian failed to stop Tantai Qin from taking action, and Wang Shuo suddenly appeared, making the situation unpredictable. At this point, it was natural to eliminate any possible variables in advance.
Moreover, Shen Qian was somewhat surprised, not expecting that the person who colluded with Sun Zuo was actually Wang Shuo.
He didn't know what Wang Shuo was relying on, but the fact that the other party dared to appear so blatantly, based on the spiritual feedback he had received before sinking, was probably the biggest crisis he had faced since entering the "sea of learning".
"Qu Bai, you all step back first."
Following his intuition, Shen Qian looked at Qu Bai.
After exchanging glances for a few seconds, Qu Bai and Shen Qian nodded without saying a word, then pulled Lin Sanmo and the others away to a distance.
Li Muyi hesitated to speak, but ultimately fell silent under Shen Qian's sharp gaze.
She understood what Shen Qian meant; they couldn't help him at this level of confrontation, and might even become a burden to him.
After Li Muyi left, Shen Qian looked at Taishi Wuwei again, "Thank you for your help earlier, but this is enough...."
Taishi Wuwei didn't insist much, but sighed, "Indeed, our friendship isn't strong enough. Even if I stay to help you, you might not be completely at ease. I should go search for 'Wenwei'... Before we go out, let's have another drink!"
Taishi Wuwei saw things very clearly and knew Shen Qian's concerns. After speaking, he turned around and left gracefully, flying directly away from the Shushan Basin.
Wang Shuo remained silent throughout, only laughing hysterically.
As long as Shen Qian is killed, none of these people will escape, so he doesn't bother to stop them.
Soon, only Shen Qian, Tantai Qin, and Wang Shuo remained within this area of several thousand feet.
But Shen Qian knew it wouldn't be that simple.
All three of them had reached the true pinnacle of the Mountain and Sea Realm, and had interacted with each other many times, so they knew each other very well. It was impossible for Wang Shuo to have come alone.
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