If the Witch Emperor were to break free of his restraints, the collapse of the great edifice might be imminent...
No wonder Luo Shenbo left in a hurry; it's likely that the remaining top combat power of the human race has already gathered in Beidu.
"Thank you for informing me, Seventh Senior Brother. I'll take my leave now."
He said something before turning to leave.
“Junior Brother…” Gu Donglai’s eyes flashed, and he suddenly called out to Shen Qian.
"Hmm?" Shen Qian turned his head in confusion.
"Although I don't know many secrets, I can roughly tell some of them. I suppose Minister Wu and the others... are placing their last hope on you?"
Gu Donglai said softly.
"Seventh Senior Brother?" Shen Qian was taken aback.
"But junior brother, do you think you can bear this hope?"
Gu Donglai lowered his eyes and slowly said to himself, "After Wansui Mountain was destroyed, many ancestors of the myriad races returned. Now, the kings and powerful figures of the myriad races have gathered under the call of the Wu Clan. There are at least thirty beings at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal... The most important one is the Wu Emperor. I don't know if you have ever faced a truly surviving Great Emperor. The difference between them would probably make you despair."
"What exactly does Seventh Senior Brother want to say?" Shen Qian narrowed his eyes and carefully examined Gu Donglai.
"This burden is too heavy, but junior brother, you are still so young."
Gu Donglai sighed, "Have you considered the consequences of failure? So many people who admire and trust you will turn to ashes along with you... I have another idea, Junior Brother, would you like to hear it?"
"Oh?" Shen Qian wasn't in a hurry to leave. "I'd like to hear more details."
“It’s simple, I’ll take your place…and bear this burden.”
Gu Donglai finally looked up, his gaze unreadable as he looked at Shen Qian.
"You?" Shen Qian seemed to want to laugh, but ultimately controlled his expression.
"Junior brother may not know me well enough."
Gu Donglai didn't care about Shen Qian's attitude, and just smiled and said, "Although I am not as dazzling as Junior Brother, I believe that I am second to none in terms of talent and cunning. Do you agree, Junior Brother?"
"I agree, of course I agree... How can I not agree with a genius who broke through to the King level in his early twenties, whose talent is even more exaggerated than that of Ling Tianhou?"
Shen Qian said expressionlessly, "Since you want to take on this heavy responsibility, you can go directly to Beidu. Why do you need to replace me?"
“Of course I’ll go to Beidu,” Gu Donglai said with a smile. “But before I leave, I still need to ask my junior brother for something.”
"What?"
"What you obtained inside the 'Gate' to the Earth's Core".
Gu Donglai's gaze suddenly turned intense as he stared directly at Shen Qian. "Junior Brother, there's no need to deny it. We all know that 'door' holds a great secret, and you are the first person to walk out of that 'door' alive after the Ninth Prince. You must have something on you."
"That's why Wu Wei and the other human powerhouses see you as their last hope, right?"
Shen Qian remained silent for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.
He looked directly into Gu Donglai's increasingly unpredictable gaze and asked, "Is the 'thing' for you, or for the person behind you?"
Gu Donglai was taken aback, then asked blankly, "What are you talking about, Junior Brother?"
"If it were you, you probably wouldn't address the minister by his real name so naturally, would you?" Shen Qian sighed softly.
A smile slowly spread across Gu Donglai's lips, a smile that gradually overlapped with the refined young man Shen Qian had seen in the Sky-Gazing Mirror.
Gu Donglai suddenly shifted his sitting posture and casually said, "You certainly didn't figure it out from the way you addressed me, did you?"
"That's not true."
Shen Qian shrugged and sat down, as if chatting with an old friend. "I've been wondering ever since the Battle of the Core, where have you been?"
“If you really suddenly decided to withdraw from worldly affairs, you should have left more than two hundred years ago. Why wait until now? The resurgence of the Witch Emperor was definitely within your expectations. You should have had the corresponding plan long ago.”
"I don't know what your plans are, and I don't even have any evidence."
Shen Qian paused for a moment and then said, "But after thinking it over, the only abnormality left around me is 'you'."
"A detective drama once taught me that when you eliminate all the impossibilities, the only remaining explanation, no matter how impossible, must be the truth."
"Now, only you remain in this Tower of Myriad Manifestations. Who else could it be but you... right, King Zhouyi?"
Shen Qian's gaze suddenly sharpened.
The space on the second floor of the Myriad Manifestations Tower seemed to freeze. Gu Donglai chuckled and said, "Actually, I never intended to hide it from you. At least, I didn't care after entering the Myriad Manifestations Tower."
"You are truly the embodiment of the King of Zhouyi."
Upon hearing the other party's admission, Shen Qian's feelings became somewhat complicated. "So, the reason your teacher expelled you from the sect back then wasn't because you disobeyed orders, but because your teacher sensed something, right?"
This was something that Shen Qian couldn't understand before.
Given the magnanimity of Marquis Jingcheng, even if Gu Donglai were truly rebellious, he would not punish him in such a drastic way, as this would be inconsistent with the "way of education" of Elder Gao.
But if that's the case, then everything makes sense.
Originally, King Zhou Yi had more than one incarnation than Ling Tianhou, but who would have thought that Gu Donglai, who also had an unparalleled reputation, was also his incarnation?
Gu Donglai's identity is sensitive and rarely mentioned, but he happens to be in charge of the daily affairs of the Council of Princes and Nobles, making him an ideal pawn.
“Wen Yuan did discover that I had stolen Gu Donglai’s destiny. He was helpless, but he could only remain silent because it was not a major event that endangered the human race itself, and he was not confident that he could turn against me.”
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