Edited by: VindiFan#1
“You’re saying you’ll bring me back? To the camp?” Gu Qing Shan looked up in surprise.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane flapped its wings, confirming: “That’s right, let me bring you back, don’t worry, since I’m your spirit beast, I’ll make sure that you come back safely”
“Very well” Gu Qing Shan contemplated for a bit, then nodded.
He tried his best to stand up, barely able to throw himself onto the crane.
“Sit tight” Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane advised him as it spreads both wings and flew high up.
On its wings, two flaming clouds appeared, drawing two red lines in the sky, extremely pleasing to the eye.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane flew very fast, passed through numerous mountains and rivers in the blink of an eye.
With this speed, they only need a few hours to reach the camp.
“Aren’t we flying too high up?” Gu Qing Shan looked down and asked with a weak voice.
“There’s no problem, with my speed, no demon will be able to catch up, not to mention, the quicker we return, the quicker you can get fixed up” Flame=cloud Chasing Sky Crane explained.
“Fine” Gu Qing Shan said, “then please fly as stable as possible”
“Just go to sleep for a bit, we’ll reach there when you wake up” Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane nodded in agreement and slightly slowed down, flying more stably.
A few minutes later.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane was flying higher and higher, while Gu Qing Shan had already closed his eyes, seemingly unaware of this.
In just a few dozen seconds, the Flamecloud Chasing Sky Crane had already reached so high that Gu Qing Shan’s protective light already couldn’t fight back against the cold.
“Aren’t we flying too high?” Gu Qing Shan finally opened his eyes, looked around and once again asked.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane this time didn’t answer him, instead focused on flying higher.
“Too high, it’s too cold” Gu Qing Shan shivered as he spoke.
“It won’t matter how cold it is” Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane finally replied, “because you’re going to die”
Saying so, it suddenly turned it body and Gu Qing Shan rolled off.
Human cultivators need to reach at least Golden Core realm to fly and be able to control an airship.
Being a Foundation Establishment early stage cultivator, dropping down from this height, Gu Qing Shan will die without a doubt.
“What are you doing, catch me quickly!” Gu Qing Shan loudly shouted.
In the sky, the screaming wind covered Gu Qing Shan as his body turned into a blurred figure, free-falling.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane on the other hand, didn’t immediately leave after dropping him and instead followed his descent.
Its eyes had a mocking look, while its voice had already changed.
『Humans, so weak, yet so delectable』
This was obviously not Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane’s voice, but a clear and ringing female voice.
“Who are you?” Gu Qing Shan shouted in horror: “My Shifu is a Saint, you dare treat me like this, she’ll flay you piece by piece, skin you alive, capture and torture your soul for eternity!”
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane showed fright in its eyes, but was quickly replaced by cruelty and triumph.
『Tomorrow will be the decisive battle, nevermind you, even your Shifu isn’t going to live much ——–』
While it was talking without hiding anything, strong spirit energy waves suddenly spread in the air.
The spirit energy wave seems to come from that brat, but it’s probably only for show.
Because it clearly felt like Foundation Establishment late stage spirit energy density, only one step below itself at Golden Core early stage.
But the brat is clearly very heavily wounded, he couldn’t even pick up his sword before.
——–even if the brat was hiding his strength, Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane wasn’t the least bit afraid.
Because this was the sky, this was its home ground.
Even other flying-type beasts couldn’t catch up to it, what’s a human cultivator going to do?
In the blink of an eye, Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane felt its vision blurred, then the free-falling figure disappeared, there was only the open sky and earth left.
“Not good!”
It spreads its wings, about to flee.
Then an intense pain came together with a numbing sensation all over its body.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane was twitching non-stop; it couldn’t even flap its wings.
Its entire body was shocked; it is unable to control its body at all!
It couldn’t even circulate spirit energy inside its beast core.
One second passed very quick.
A white crescent sword slash illuminated the sky.
This was a strike that gathered all of Gu Qing Shan’s spirit energy
The long crane neck was severed from its body, then millions of extremely fine threads made of sword qi started moving about in the air.
In just a few seconds, the countless threads of sword qi had chopped up the beast so finely it couldn’t be recognized anymore.
Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane’s corpse was turned into a mass of blood mist, soaking the air red, then was blown away by the fierce wind.
The sky returned to its natural bluish hue. It was as if the battle just now never happened and is nothing more than a dream.
A single second.
A Golden Core realm spirit beast, killed in such a ridiculous way.
At the same time, War God UI showed a notification.
[You have perfectly completed two assassinations, killing targets that are stronger than yourself. Please try your best to complete three perfect assassinations and earn the corresponding title]
Hm? There’s also something like that?
Gu Qing Shan looked at it in surprise.
War God title is a very useful thing to have, just now, to kill the two spirit beast, he was using the title Skill of [Xiao Qi Chaplain] ———[Quick Attack].
You should know, a cultivator’s method of attack is simply using overwhelming speed and power to kill their opponent.
Gu Qing Shan’s sword was already fast, but that speed was buffed even further with the title’s Skill, making for very terrifying fighting strength.
Both battles ended without the giant moth or Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane being able to dodge the very first full power strike.
Gu Qing Shan checked his Soul Points.
After killing a Foundation Establishment peak giant moth and a Golden Core early stage Flame-cloud Chasing Sky Crane, together with what he got from killing the two Burrowing Demon Pythons, his current Soul Points reached 300!
Checking the cool down period for using Soul Points to comprehend cultivation scriptures, it’s already half-done.
War God UI’s style is the exact same as before, always encouraging the user to enter battle with stronger and stronger foes.
But now there’s something more important at hand, Gu Qing Shan have to put this off for another time.
Stowing away his sword, Gu Qing Shan could already draw a conclusion to his investigation.
Since things have reached this point, he made the choice very decisively.
——-it’s time to begin the preparations for the upcoming decisive battle.
Clasping his hand into a speaker-like shape, he shouted: “Come save me quick!”
His voice transmitted very far despite the screaming wind.
Over a few hundred feet away, a silently drifting cloud was suddenly parted by a golden light.
The golden light turned into a figure and quickly appeared in front of him.
As it stopped, the golden figure turns out to be a graceful girl wearing golden armor.
Heaven’s Limit sect’s Saintess, a You Ji General of the Humanity Cultivation Alliance army, Ning Yue Xi.
She caught Gu Qing Shan, followed his fall for a little bit more before slowly lifting him up.
“What happened just now? Why did you kill your mount so suddenly?” she frowned and asked.
“I’ll explain later, right now there’s something urgent I must do”
Saying so, Gu Qing Shan took out a communication talisman and reported everything from start to finish.
As she listened to what he said, Ning Yue Xi’s eyes opened wider and wider, extremely shocked.
After finishing his report, Gu Qing Shan let the talisman turned into a flame and flew away.
He already understood just about everything.
The biggest lost campaign for humanity in the past life is just about to happen.
Before everything happened the way it did, nobody could even expect something like that.
It wasn’t until the decisive battle started, when demons and humans were in the middle of their biggest campaign, that “that” happened.
The spirit beasts betrayed them.
To be serious, the demons had already prepared this since before the game began. The plan has already been hatched since the cultivation world was still at peace.
But it wasn’t until 7 years into the Apocalypse that the demons suddenly enacted that plan in a carefully calculated battle.
All the spirit beast turned around and attacked humanity.
At first, the situation was the same as what’s happening with humanity’s camps.
All the camps’ formations started to malfunction, yet they found no traitors, driving morale downward, everyone felt uneasy and the Generals didn’t know what to do.
Then, when the campaign reached its most pivotal moments, the spirit beast that were originally companions of humanity against the demons, turned their heads and attacked humanity from behind.
Gu Qing Shan can still feel his heart beating fast whenever he recalled the devastation at the time.
One of the 3 Saints, Xuanyuan Tianzun, died in this battle.
Even the players couldn’t escape from the betrayal of the spirit beasts.
The spirit beasts that were accepted by the System as mounts, as summoned beasts all suddenly turned to attack the players.
You can imagine the shocked expressions of players at that time.
Being caught off-guard, the army couldn’t mount any sort of useful resistance, human corpses littered the battlefields after that great battle, humanity as a whole was dealt a devastating blow and had to retreat backwards 3000 miles.
Originally, the demons only had the slightest edge over humanity, meaning there was still a bit of a chance for humanity to win.
But from this campaign onwards, humanity entered a state of prolonging the inevitable, all the way until the end.
Gu Qing Shan sighed.
This time, having the chance to redo everything, having known the truth, he couldn’t possibly let history repeat itself.
Not to mention, since it’s only the opening act right now, there’s still time for him to do something.
———for example, taking this chance to hatch a scheme and repay the grudge from the past life.
Holding Gu Qing Shan, Ning Yue Xi tapped her Inventory Bag and took out an airship.
On the airship, Ning Yue Xi couldn’t help but want to touch her spirit beast bag, but was stopped by Gu Qing Shan.
“It’s not time yet” he said.
Hearing so, Ning Yue Xi looked at him and put her hand down.
“Is it true?”
“Hm, very true”
Ning Yue Xi breathed in deeply, then said: “If it’s really true, then it’s too dangerous”
“It’s dangerous, but it’s also a chance” Gu Qing Shan smiled.
“The risks are too high, one wrong step and the situation will become irreversible” Ning Yue Xi sighed sorrowfully.
“That’s what war is, small and scattered battles don’t mean anything, it has to be the final battle for it to matter” Gu Qing Shan said.
Ning Yue Xi scoffed at him: “You’re just a Xiao Qi Chaplain and you want to teach me about war?”
She lifted her chin up pridefully and straightened her posture on purpose to let Gu Qing Shan see her golden armor.
This intricate golden set of armor is a symbol of status for You Ji Generals.
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but stare at her.
“Your figure really is beautiful…” he spoke with a “I have to admit…” tone.
And Ning Yue Xi’s face instantly flushed.
She looked outside the airship and reminded herself that this place is too high, if she threw him out he might die.
