Edited by: Juicetin & VindiFan#1
Proofreader: Arya
Inside the sea of swords.
The Wild Raging Flame Armor was emitting a red light to block out everything around them.
“So what’s really the reason that you led me away?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“I’m going to tell you about the situation right now” the Wild Raging Flame Armor quickly spoke.
“The purple shirt young master didn’t come, but both of his subordinate Venerable did”
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised, asking: “How many people came?”
“Over 700, led by the two Venerable, they had just entered this world”
“I was fooled” the Wild Raging Flame Armor continued: “They already knew about the fact that weapon spirits are monitoring the world at all times, they purposefully led the high leveled cultivators away to fool me”
“The two Venerable have been notified about the Projection realm Tribulation happening here, one of them is currently on the way here, while the other is bringing troops towards your camp to kill and enslave your cultivators”
Gu Qing Shan asked in a low voice: “What realm is a Venerable?”
“Both of them are at Projection realm” the Wild Raging Flame Armor answered.
Gu Qing Shan’s heart sank.
Koong kooong, koong kooong!
The sea of swords was beginning to move.
Really far above, there was an intense wave of spirit energy being transmitted.
“He’s here!” the Wild Raging Flame Armor shouted, “your Shifu needs at least another 15 minutes to complete her breakthrough, that’s more than enough time for them to kill her”
The Wild Raging Flame Armor’s tone was a bit helpless: “Even though I can control the sea of swords, but my expertise isn’t killing, I can’t deal with a Projection realm cultivator”
As soon as she finished, the War God UI began to glow like crazy.
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but look at it.
A few lines of notification were flickering, as if urging him to check them immediately.
[Thaumaturgy Quest 4 complete]
[Thaumaturgy Quest 5 initiated]
[Quest description: The time of death has come; the System gives you two choices]
[Quest objective: The user must immediately make a choice]
[Option A: The System will use all of its remaining power to allow you to return again to a new beginning once more]
[Note: After this transmigration, you will lose all power that you currently possess and the System will go dormant for a year]
[Option B: think of a way to overturn this situation or save yourself within a minute’s time, otherwise you will die at the hands of the enemy]
[Note: There is only a single path from here to the surface, it’s impossible for you to sneak past the Projection realm cultivator and escape. Please carefully consider your current situation and quickly make your decision]
“I choose B”
Gu Qing Shan glanced over and instantly chose.
[Are you sure? This is almost certain death] the System asked.
“I’m sure”
Gu Qing Shan answered in a low voice.
In the past life he has been through numerous crises, hovering at the edge of death for over a dozen times, even when he fell into a certain-death situation, he would always get out.
At the day of the Apocalypse, he was the last human to survive to the very end.
Right now, Bai Hua Fairy was breaking through, if anyone were to interfere, it’s very possible that she might die.
If nothing else, this might very well be her omen of death becoming true.
So I have to risk it once!
Gu Qing Shan clenched his fists tightly.
Following his choice, the War God UI popped up another notification.
[You’ve chosen B]
[Thaumaturgy Quest 5 completed]
[Thaumaturgy Quest 6 initiated]
[Quest description: Use everything that you can use to survive]
[Quest objective: Survive]
Reading through the highly simplified Quest notification on the War God UI, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask: “Where’s the reward? Why has there been no rewards after all these Quests?”
[Ting]!
[Do you want to get a Divine Skill or not?] the System asked.
“Yes” Gu Qing Shan immediately answered.
[The System is accumulating power, please continue to complete your Quests]
After saying that, the System voice went away.
Gu Qing Shan shook his head and quickly thought about a solution.
What should I do now?
What other means do I have?
As his eyes swept through the countless layers of swords above, he suddenly thought of something.
Since they’re in so much of a hurry, he didn’t have much time to think and just looked at the Wild Raging Flame Armor.
“Can you help me hold them off?” he quickly asked.
The Wild Raging Flame Armor answered: “With my Divine power, I can make each and every sword in the sea of swords listen to my order, but I’m not an expert at attacking, the most can I hold them off for is a few minutes”
Gu Qing Shan’s eyes lit up, asking: “Is there any way you can let me borrow this power, my expertise is the sword”
The Wild Raging Flame Armor stopped for a bit, then said: “I’m a female armor, you’re a male, you can’t wear me”
“I don’t want to wear you, is there any other method to let me just borrow your power?”
“There is none”
Gu Qing Shan quickly thought about it, then asked: “Then if I don’t need your power but only need you to trigger the power of all the sword spirits here, is that possible?”
The Wild Raging Flame Armor explained: “If I use my inner sight to control them, I can hold the enemy off for 5 minutes”
“Hm”
“But if I do as you suggest, using all my power to trigger the sword spirits, I’ll completely run out of Divine power at once”
“Once is enough!”
“Enough? Once is enough? No matter how numerous they are, a sword without a master can’t possibly kill a Projection realm cultivator”
“I have a way!” Gu Qing Shan replied.
The Wild Raging Flame Armor floated in front of him, silent.
“You broke through quickly, but right now you’re still only a Rejuvenation realm, why should I trust you?” she said.
Gu Qing Shan was a bit stunned.
He kept staring at the armor.
Above them, the shockwave of spells was getting more intense, they could almost hear the arrogant laughter.
Below them, the Wind Tribulation at the ruins was also reaching its most crucial moments.
Countless eerie screeching demons mixed with the sound of weapons clashing could be heard.
“All I can say is” Gu Qing Shan very sincerely and seriously spoke: “If we fail, both my Shifu and I will die here”
He stared at the Wild Raging Flame Armor and spoke in a low voice: “You don’t need to believe me as a person, you only need to believe the one fact that if I don’t use everything I have at my disposal, my Shifu will definitely not survive”
“Once my Shifu dies, our world will have no way to resist against them, the entire world will also fall”
“That is why I will risk my life to fight, to get that single chance of survival ———my own survival, my Shifu’s survival, and my world’s survival”
The Wild Raging Flame Armor stayed silent for a few seconds then finally spoke: “I can give you a chance, but if you fail, I will escape to the space vortex and won’t return”
“Alright” Gu Qing Shan said.
The Wild Raging Flame Armor then flew behind him, about to put the arm guard onto his shoulder.
“Wait a bit”
“What is it?”
“I only have one chance, so I have to use everything I have”
Saying so Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag and took something out.
It was a small sealed capsule, no matter which direction you look at it from, you couldn’t tell how to open it.
This was the reward from the Destiny Quest.
[Sealed capsule: The System has sealed something that belonged to you in the past life in the form of a capsule. When you need it, the System will return it to you (Attention, this is a consumable item, you must use it as soon as you open it, otherwise it will disappear completely)]
He already managed to find out what was sealed in here ahead of time.
Secret Art —–[Summon Soul Karma Strike]
[Summon Soul Karma Strike] consists of two strikes.
The first strike [Summon Soul] uses a relic of a deceased to summon their soul from the Six Paths of Reincarnation to attack an enemy.
The second strike [Karma Strike] is guaranteed to always hit, it siphons power from the souls of the dead to increase the overall damage.
Unfortunately, the soul is summoned from the Six Paths of Reincarnation, so it does not have a body and is unable to cause physical damage.
Which means, even if the strike is sure to hit, it doesn’t deal too much damage.
However! However!
There is an entire sea of swords here, an unprecedented situation.
If the souls of the sword cultivator are willing to come back and help…
Gu Qing Shan was still a bit uneasy.
The road to Huang Quan is a long one, passing through the paths of Reincarnation is also a form of torture to the soul, unless they have an extremely deep obsession in life, they most likely won’t be willing to return.
“Open” Gu Qing Shan spoke.
The Sealed capsule opened, a black and a white light came out, circling around him, one of them fell onto the Earth Sword.
Rising the Earth Sword, Gu Qing Shan saw that the shaft of the sword was enveloped in a dim dark light.
“This is [Karma Strike]”
Looking at the Earth Sword, he had a look of deep nostalgia.
At this time a white light was still circling in the air.
It was [Summon Soul].
Strange things were happening around the white light, wherever it passed through, countless phantom figures appeared around the swords.
But when the white light left, all the phantom figures disappeared again without a trace.
It was an incredibly eerie scene.
At first, the millions of swords stayed still, but as soon as they saw that, they started to collectively let out an ear-ringing sound.
They were almost in a frenzy, shaking, crying.
They were pushing through to move up and got close to Gu Qing Shan.
They were all nervously and silently waiting.
So that’s it… that’s it…
Gu Qing Shan understood.
He then called the Chao Yin sword over and carefully placed the white light onto it.
The Chao Yin sword began to let out a white light, while the Earth Sword let out a dark light.
Both the white and dark lights were flowing across the swords, waiting for something.
Gu Qing Shan looked at all the swords in the sky and seriously spoke: “Just like your masters, I am a sword cultivator”
“Your enemies have once again come to this world, to harvest the fruits of their victory”
“Your suffering, not long after, will happen again in my world”
“I definitely cannot stand for this”
“And so I swear, I will use my everything to fight, to make sure either they die, or I will”
He asked loudly: “Are you all willing to fight alongside me?”
Instantly, the sea of swords began to let out a dreary cry one after another.
Ong… ong… ong…
They were shaking with all their might, rubbing against the air to show their willingness and desire for a single thing.
Looking at all the swords in the sky, Gu Qing Shan had a look of unprecedented sorrow in his eyes.
“Go… don’t cry…” he muttered.
The Wild Raging Flame Armor hovered silently near Gu Qing Shan.
Her voice also became dreary, but firm.
She asked softly: “Let us begin?”
Gu Qing Shan answered in a low voice: “Let us begin”
The entire Wild Raging Flame Armor then broke apart, each and every part turned into searing flames, circling around Gu Qing Shan.
Right now, Gu Qing Shan looked just like an emissary who brought fire to the world.
A sword in both hands, he moved, flying straight upwards.
All the swords along the way parted to make a path, then followed behind, orderly and silently ascending the abyss.
The entire sea of swords from the very bottom to the top was behind him.
After ascending, Gu Qing Shan finally left the sea of swords and stood tall.
The unknown cultivator suddenly turned around, looking at him.
“Ah ———so it’s just a Rejuvenation realm bug” the unknown cultivator sighed softly.
“You may tell me how you want to die” he crossed his arms and smirked: “Quickly, I don’t have much time, after killing you, I still need to go down there to deal with the one facing the Tribulation”
“Ah? What’s that around you?”
He suddenly noticed the parts of the Wild Raging Flame Armor circling around Gu Qing Shan with a shocked look in his eyes.
Gu Qing Shan ignored him, lowering his head to look at the sea of swords.
In the sea of swords, countless swords were hovering up and down, unable to stay still, but carefully trying not to make any sudden movements, as if afraid they’d disturb him.
Gu Qing Shan sighed, then said: “Senior”
A female voice came: “Alright!”
Bam!
A blinding light as bright as the sun passed through the entire sea of swords.
Each and every sword was letting out a sword phantom, both strong and weak.
The unknown cultivator was so shocked that he jumped back a few feet and shouted: “Divine power!”
At this time, Gu Qing Shan swung the Chao Yin sword down, muttering: “[Summon Soul]”
The white light escaped from the Chao Yin sword.
Like the warm sun at the end of winter, it emitted a warm radiance that illuminated the entire sea of swords.
The next second, there was a phantom figure next to each and every sword.
The souls of the fallen sword cultivators of Shen Wu world have appeared again.
They held their swords, each with an expression of both joy and sorrow on their faces.
They were softly talking to their swords, seemingly consoling and comforting them.
Each and every sword let out a small yet clear cry, as if they were sobbing.
That’s right, all the cultivators never left after all.
They have been staying by their swords as phantoms, as souls all this time.
As the swords remains, so does the person.
Gu Qing Shan silently watched this scene, then spoke with a low voice: “Now, let us go on our way to defeat this foe”
All the souls then disappeared.
The swords also fell to silence.
The souls did not leave; they have combined with their swords.
At this very moment, the fallen sword cultivators and the swords have become one.
They are ready.
The very next moment, all the swords let out a loud screech of metal.
All the screeching combined into one, as the entire sea of swords began to ring.
