369: Chapter 367: The powerful Lord of the Old Era, tearing the King apart

Facing Nangong Jinglan's burning gaze, Gu Shengge actually wanted to say it was quite laughable, but he didn't dare.

Although she was bursting with a desire to share, this was a scandal after all. If she felt embarrassed, it wasn't impossible for her to eliminate him.

Nangong Jinglan laughed softly, suppressing the emotions deep in her heart.

"Gu Shengge, do you think I'm foolish?"

Gu Shengge didn't want to answer at all, but Nangong Jinglan wouldn't let him avoid it and continued to press him.

Facing the terrifying aura emanating from Nangong Jinglan, Gu Shengge had a bitter smile on his face: "I think you were just caught up in the moment and were accidentally deceived. It's not really foolishness."

"Do you really think so?" Nangong Jinglan pressed further.

"Of course, that's what I think." Gu Shengge wasn't lying; after all, Nangong Jinglan hadn't been powerful enough back then to know the past and future.

Nangong Jinglan seemed comforted, and a gratified smile appeared on her face: "You're right, it indeed wasn't this seat's fault, but this seat is still very sad."

Gu Shengge looked at her blankly, not knowing what kind of trouble she was going to stir up next.

Nangong Jinglan stared at him for a long time before grinning and saying, "Do you want to see how that Lord of Systems is doing now?"

Gu Shengge just wanted to steer the conversation away from the previous topic; where it went didn't matter... "Yes, of course I want to see. That fellow set me up many times along the way and even hid his strength as a Lord of Systems. If I hadn't met Senior, I'm afraid I would have been plotted to death by him."

Nangong Jinglan smiled coldly: "I know everything that happened after you entered the Sky Burial Underworld."

Gu Shengge fell silent; after all, along the way, he was the one who had set up Lord Seven Mysteries more often.

After a long while, Gu Shengge replied dryly, "Well, it's not like he succeeded in setting me up! Let's ignore that and see how the King of Seven Profound is doing. That's an opponent at the Lord of Systems level; can you really defeat him?"

Nangong Jinglan sneered disdainfully: "A mere Lord of Systems. It's not as if this seat hasn't killed one before in the past!"

Divine light flickered in Nangong Jinglan's eyes, and the wall in front of them hummed and flashed. In a short while, it transformed into a blue light screen. Under the activation of her hand seals, it shattered space and reached directly into Chaos.

Soon, Gu Shengge saw the King of Seven Profound and Nangong Jinglan. That "Nangong Jinglan," as she said, was just one of her Clones, something akin to a combat Puppet.

Gu Shengge was startled to see the King of Seven Profound's wretched state. Three wings on one side of the King of Seven Profound had been torn off and were scattered in Chaos, and half of his body was stained with golden blood.

The mask on his face also showed numerous cracks; he no longer had his previous majestic and mysterious appearance, looking extremely pathetic.

He had probably lost himself in the bloodlust of the fight, as he didn't even notice Gu Shengge and Nangong Jinglan while he was locked in a fierce battle with the combat Clone.

His eyes were filled with blazing rage: "Nangong Jinglan, by making an enemy of our System Race like this, are you really not afraid of facing a reckoning?"

Nangong Jinglan's combat Clone looked down at him, her eyes cold, like a monarch looking down upon the world.

"Didn't you say before that once a Lord of Systems acts, this seat would surely die? Am I dead? Now you're talking about a System reckoning. Do you really think you can settle scores with this seat?"

Nangong Jinglan acted again. Her figure flickered, and in an instant, she reached the King of Seven Profound.

The King of Seven Profound didn't even have time to react before he took a heavy blow to his chest and was sent flying backward.

He was already powerless to resist and could only barely cope.

In the process, he suddenly noticed Gu Shengge and Nangong Jinglan.

His eyes widened instantly, his face full of disbelief.

He looked at the Nangong Jinglan standing beside Gu Shengge, then looked back at Nangong Jinglan's combat Clone.

"Nangong Jinglan! You... which one is the real one?!"

He roared in anger, and Nangong Jinglan's combat Clone flickered, arriving before him.

"Which one do you think is real? You can't even defeat a combat Clone, yet you dare to dream of reckoning with my true self? Do you have the qualifications?"

The King of Seven Profound's face turned ashen, and his Battle Intent collapsed. After fighting for so long and being beaten so wretchedly, only to find that the opponent he couldn't defeat was just a Clone, he completely broke down.

"Aaaah! Why!"

"Nangong Jinglan, you will surely be purged by the System Race!"

"Gu Shengge, you won't escape either! You will surely fall at the hands of the System Race!"

Nangong Jinglan didn't give him a chance to continue speaking. Divine light condensed in her palm as she thrust her hand into the King of Seven Profound's heart, directly pulling out his System core.

The light in the King of Seven Profound's eyes dimmed and soon lost its luster, turning a dull gray as his body became completely silent.

Nangong Jinglan's combat Clone threw the System core to her true body. Nangong Jinglan caught it steadily. System rules flickered on the palm-sized core, which still contained unused Lord of Systems power.

Nangong Jinglan toyed with it in her hand, her eyes full of disgust and criticism.

"The System Race is the most disgusting. They attach themselves to Children of Destiny to Cultivate, treating them almost like slaves, yet in the end, it is their own Dao that they fulfill."

Gu Shengge deeply agreed with this. A Child of Destiny was a Child of Destiny because of destiny; in a certain time and place, they were bound to rise, with or without a System.

The only role of a System was to accelerate the rise of a Child of Destiny, skipping the arduous Cultivation process to reach the end of destiny directly.

However, a Child of Destiny who lacked tempering would naturally be at a disadvantage when they reached higher levels and tried to compete for destiny with others, because they lacked the experience of a difficult rise.

Gu Shengge looked at his hands with emotion. In all things, there is gain and loss. All things and experiences are but fleeting shadows; only oneself is real. Only by being strong enough can one shatter all delusions and reach the shore of reality.

Nangong Jinglan sent the System core to Gu Shengge: "Boring. Here, it's yours."

Gu Shengge was stunned: "For me?"

"Yes, for you." Nangong Jinglan was very certain, not appearing to be lying.

"What are the requirements?" Gu Shengge was still very interested in the System core containing Lord of Systems power, and the jade disc of creation was also very interested!

"This seat does indeed have something for you to do." Nangong Jinglan didn't hide it.

Only then did Gu Shengge feel at ease accepting it. Mainly, he had no capital to refuse; this woman had torn apart a Lord of Systems with just a combat Clone, so killing him probably wouldn't take much effort.

Nangong Jinglan looked wistfully at the dim sky outside the Sky Burial Underworld: "Once you advance to the Hedao Realm, draw out a wisp of the Sky Burial Underworld's Great Dao Power."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Gu Shengge asked, puzzled.

"The Sky Burial Underworld was formed from the collapsed Will of the Old Era; it is a dead land forgotten by time. If you use your New Era body to guide it, you can turn death into life for the Sky Burial Underworld, allowing it to fully recover!"