Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
The monsters were speaking to each other.
Hearing their conversation, Gu Qing Shan realized something.
The monsters didn’t think that he could understand what they were saying.
After all, for the entire Age of Old, no cultivator had been able to converse with the monsters, and no one had been able to understand their language.
Gu Qing Shan, on the other hand, received a lapis card from Little Dusk during the struggle for the 3 Divine Armaments that allowed him to understand Desolate Tongue.
According to Little Dusk, this was the common language for both the Divinities and the monsters during the Age of Desolation. The language was made to fall out of use by the Divinities, but because Little Dusk was a powerful weapon that was part of the main battle force against the Desolate monsters, the Divinities made her study this language.
Even now, not a single human understood this language besides himself.
Gu Qing Shan’s mind quickly moved.
He decided to maintain his meditative pose and hovered in the sky.
Unfortunately, the monsters only spoke a few words before going silent again.
The 13th floor of the underground prison quickly regained its silence.
Only the river of blood on the floor that reached up to one’s knee continued to flow.
Sha.
Sha.
Sha.
Like tidal waves, the fresh blood was moving periodically.
Gu Qing Shan continued to wait.
The three powerful Desolate monsters don’t seem to want to open their mouths.
Gu Qing Shan was feeling impatient.
Why aren’t these three monsters talking?
It would be ok even if they only make small talk.
Even the most mundane conversation between them would allow Gu Qing Shan to understand them a bit better.
Time continued to pass.
The monsters still haven’t said a single word.
Gu Qing Shan was about to give up.
He suddenly opened his eyes and curiously looked at the floor.
“Strange, where is this blood coming from? Even the formation leading to the next floor is being obscured, how annoying”
While he said that, Gu Qing Shan formed a hand seal to manipulate items from afar and gathered the blood on the ground to form a large sphere of blood in the air.
When all the blood was gathered, the formation that led to the next floor was revealed.
Innumerable runes filled the formation like they were supposed to, even the spirit stones were perfectly engraved where they were supposed to be.
All Gu Qing Shan needed to do now was land and activate the formation to move to the next floor.
He looked at the formation, then again at the huge sphere of blood in the air, apparently thinking about whether or not to continue downwards.
All of a sudden, a short screech came from the ground below.
This sound was clearly coming from deep underground.
Almost immediately, new liquid blood slowly leaked out from the floor.
The blood silently filled the ground and rose up until it once again reached knee-height.
Gu Qing Shan told himself: “How strange, should I gather them up again?”
It was now that the three monsters on the walls showed some movement.
They were moving in an uneasy manner.
And began to speak again:
「 This moron, we can’t let him continue to anger the existence below 」one of the monsters said.
Its tone was filled with urgency and fear.
Another monster quickly suggested: 「 Should we tell him that the existence below absolutely cannot be offended? 」
The third monster seemed to be the leader of them as it angrily roared: 「 Fools! No matter how simple their language is, we can’t converse with him, this is part of the treaty! 」
The first monster suggested: 「 If we can’t go against the treaty, maybe we should roar loudly to distract him 」
「 Good 」the third monster immediately replied.
Right away, they angrily roared and struggled, rattling the chains on the wall like they wanted to take Gu Qing Shan’s life.
Gu Qing Shan was clearly caught off guard and lost control of his spell in the confusion.
His hand tilted and caused the sphere of blood to wiggle, then flew away.
Very coincidentally, the huge sphere of blood directly splashed on one of the three Desolate monsters when it lost control.
That Desolate monster trembled, froze, then began to roar even louder.
This time, its roar caused the entire area to rumble, carrying a sense of unprecedented desperation.
It was doing everything it could to struggle free.
The walls of the prison were shaking from its struggle.
All the defensive runes on the 13th floor were activated at once, giving off intense light.
The monster was pinned against the wall by a vast and invisible force.
It suddenly spoke in Desolate Tongue: 「 No, great one! You can’t eat me, I am your loyal servant! 」
Another hoarse voice came from the ground below: 「 Your flesh and soul will serve to kill me some time 」
Almost immediately, the blood splattered on the monster’s body was completely absorbed inside.
The monster stopped struggling.
It was dead.
The 7-8 Demon Restraining Chains on its body loosened.
The monster’s body fell into the blood, quickly turned into a thick block blob of blood and slowly disappeared.
A faint whirlpool slowly manifested on the surface of the blood, apparently something was being transported deeper underground through it.
An unintelligible muttering came from underground, carrying a hint of satisfaction.
Then everything returned to silence.
The other two monsters on the wall no longer struggled.
They were only trying to do everything they could to move a bit higher and get away from the blood, then became as still as statues, no longer letting out any sound.
Glancing at the blood below, Gu Qing Shan had a concerned look in his eyes.
When I got to this floor, out of consideration for safety, I instinctively avoided the flowing blood.
From the looks of it, once this blood touches you, the only outcome is death.
Even the monster on the 13th floor that I couldn’t even scratch with my full power was the same.
Gu Qing Shan silently floated in the air, apparently scared stiff by what he just saw.
But in fact, he was thinking rapidly.
They felt humanity’s language to be very simple.
They didn’t talk to me because they were afraid of breaking some sort of treaty.
An easy conclusion could be drawn from this: the Desolate monsters can understand human language, but they pretend that they don’t.
Then.
What is the treaty about?
And who was the treaty made with?
As Gu Qing Shan followed this vein of thought, he was subconsciously feeling an unprecedented shiver.
…
On another side.
After the two enforcer cultivators led Gu Qing Shan into the underground prison, they closed the gates and followed director Li’s orders to arrange the other personnel as well.
Half an hour later, they returned to director Li to report their work.
“Sir, all personnel who came in today have been arranged appropriately according to your instructions” one enforcer cultivator reported.
“Give me a detailed report” director Li said.
The other cultivator took out a jade tag and reported the arrangements one by one.
Director Li only nodded as he listened.
At a certain point, he suddenly cut the other person off: “The 9th reserve corps’ cook didn’t contribute enough spirit stones, give him a few more monsters to butcher”
“Understood, I’ll see to it immediately” the enforcer cultivator replied.
And the reports continued.
After a while more.
The report was finally done.
When director Li was about to dismiss everyone, he suddenly recalled something.
“Right, what about the brat from the 23rd reserve corps?”
“We’ve done as you instructed and threw that brat into the underground prison” one enforcer cultivator replied.
Sitting behind a tall stack of documents, director Li lightly patted the head of a decorative item made from spirit jade and lazily asked: “Did he seem regretful?”
“He didn’t sir, that brat was a real naive one. He just did as we ordered and entered the underground prison without saying a single word on the way” the enforcer cultivator reported.
Director Li thought for few moments before asking another cultivator standing next to him: “Get me that brat’s background profile”
The cultivator reported: “Yes sir, Zhang Xiao Yun was a loose cultivator with a long family career of making spirit cooking to live. During the last invasion, his family was all killed, he was the only one alive, that’s why he joined the army”
Director Li’s eyebrows loosened a bit and commented: “Hm, if that’s the case, I just sent him to meet his family, reuniting them all together”
“Hahaha, wonderfully said, sir”
“Of course”
While they were talking, the door to the camp automatically opened as a fully-armored cultivator flew in.
Director Li immediately stood up with a panicked expression: “General Wang, why did you come here yourself?”
Boom.
The ground suddenly trembled.
Immediately after that, a fearful scream came from deep underground.
Everyone’s expressions changed.
That scream came from the direction of the underground prison.
This prison was created because some monsters were too powerful to be killed, only captured.
Ever since the slaughterhouse was formed, it had periodically received a few terrifying monsters to be sent inside and imprisoned by their superiors.
And no trouble had ever come from it before.
General glanced at everyone here with a cold expression and asked: “Who is currently inside the sealed underground prison?”
Director Li stuttered: “A— a cook, that just came today”
“Name, cultivation, origin?” General Wang continued.
“Zhang Xiao Yun, Golden Core realm, the 23rd reserve corps”
“Someone that just reached Golden Core realm was able to enter a place that was ordered to forbid all entry without permission from above? What exactly did you tell him to do in there?” General Wang’s tone became sharp.
Director Li began to sweat bullets, unable to say a single word.
“Sir…”
He held an Inventory Bag in his hand and smiled, wanting to push it into General Wang’s hands.
Poof poof poof poof poof.
Divine light suddenly erupted from the bodies of cultivators here one after the other.
In mere seconds, everyone was turned to ash.
“This is!?” director Li was shocked.
Regardless of how terrible his morals were, he had to have the most basic discerning eyes to be placed in charge of such a place.
Director Li shouted in terror: “General Wang, no a Divinity…”
Poof.
Divine light erupted from his body and burned him to ash in mere seconds.
Every cultivator inside the room was burnt to ash.
Not a single person was left alive.
General Wang stood still.
A grey flame was constantly burning in between his eyebrows.
“Hmph, full of greed. No wonder he sent someone inside that place”
General Wang turned around and looked in a certain direction outside the door.
“Quite a few died in the underground prison… seems like I’ll have to take a look myself”
In the blink of an eye, he vanished.
