After the Demon Dragon died, Gu Qing Shan stayed in the Wraith realm for a while longer.
He spent a bit of time to solidify his cultivation and checked his body.
After the [Living Being Sacrificial Dance] that he performed, the Demon Dragon’s power didn’t erode his body but was rather turned into strands of power that slowly but constantly helped him become stronger.
Gu Qing Shan kept what humanity’s strongest Combatant told him and carefully observed the changes with the Demon Dragon’s power.
As soon as anything out of the ordinary happened, he was meant to perform the [Sacrificial Dance] right away to deal with it.
The Silent Dusk Cloak also helped a lot, it allowed him to safely travel the territories of the evil creatures without infecting anyone with the Demon Dragon’s blood.
Gu Qing Shan noticed that this cloak also had another use.
The Silent Dusk Cloak had a powerful isolating effect that allowed it to contain the Demon Dragon’s power inside.
Because of that, the cloak also perfectly concealed Gu Qing Shan’s aura and allowed his actions to be silent, sneaky, and stealthy.
This was unexpectedly a good side effect.
Before the [Demon King Order] woke up, Luo Bing Li returned to the Wraith realm again.
They met on a secluded barren land in the Xie Qi Fiend Realm.
Luo Bing Li seemed to be quite nervous as she specifically came to talk with Gu Qing Shan.
“You mean to say that after the [Order] evolves once again, it can activate the power of the Demon King of Order?” Luo Bing Li asked.
“Yes, the [Order] had already evolved to its [Demon Tide] stage, the next stage will be [Demon King Ascension]” Gu Qing Shan replied
“In other words…”
“Correct”
The two of them both went silent.
The [Demon King Order] was already about to evolve into [Worlds Apocalypse Online: Demon Tide], only one step away from its last evolution to [Demon King Ascension].
Which meant that the final decisive battle was drawing close.
“Are you confident?” Luo Bing Li asked.
“Not at all, but my sword already has no more time to wait, I have to try” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“From the intel that you’ve obtained, the twin swords Heaven and Earth are components of a single Abyssal weapon. If these two swords are able to create an even more powerful weapon, what would you do?” Luo Bing Li asked.
“When I checked an ancient document, I found that each weapon can only have a single weapon spirit, so if the Earth sword is used to forge another weapon, its weapon spirit would naturally no longer exist, and I would definitely not allow that to happen” Gu Qing Shan replied.
This was how he truly thought, and the words that should be suitable for anyone to hear.
Regardless of who or what Luo Bing Li truly is, someone who wishes only for the Earth sword should pose little to no threat to her.
However, what exactly is Luo Bing Li?
Her behaviors have been very strange.
Gu Qing Shan silently thought while releasing his inner sight.
At Three Thousand Worlds realm, a cultivator’s inner sight was enough to cover the entirety of most Wraith realm fragments.
Gu Qing Shan’s inner sight quickly scanned through the wilderness, the market, the main square, the arena, and the palace.
The Cruel Bone Devil King was staying inside the palace.
Once again, there were still two Cruel Bone Devil Kings who both seemed extremely belligerent and were about to fight again soon.
Gu Qing Shan silently prayed for the real Cruel Bone Devil King.
The Fate Weaver is over there.
So why is Luo Bing Li here?
Gu Qing Shan’s expression didn’t change, he maintained his inner sight to observe even the tiniest bit of change.
However, he wasn’t worried about his safety right now.
Because he was the only person who could open the path toward the true final moment of the Age of Old.
None of the Abyssal monsters would try doing anything to him right now.
They were silently waiting for Gu Qing Shan to discover that moment.
Luo Bing Li replied: “But the Abyssal monsters would not think the same way you do. They would definitely take both of the twin swords away to create that Eternal Abyss weapon”
Gu Qing Shan sighed: “I really can’t imagine what kind of thing that weapon would be able to accomplish, that the Abyssal monsters would spend so much time and effort to spread the net and use humanity to create the twin swords”
Luo Bing Li remained silent and took out a certain thing.
A jade disk.
She told him: “This is the key to the second path that humanity prepared in anticipation that something happens with the first path, keep it safe”
Gu Qing Shan looked down at the jade disk and didn’t accept it yet.
In the palace several thousand miles away, one of the Cruel Bone Devil Kings lightly swung his hand and struck the back of the second Cruel Bone Devil King’s neck, instantly knocking him out.
That Cruel Bone Devil King then closed his eyes and began to sense something.
It’s not inner sight, so it must be telepathy.
Gu Qing Shan silently thought.
Inner sight was the manifestation of the human soul vessel’s power and would be noticed by other human cultivators.
Other races couldn’t recognize this invisible power of clairvoyance.
The Divine race, the Desolate monsters, the Abyssal monsters, all of them only knew how to use telepathy.
Telepathy wasn’t too different from inner sight in practice, but inner sight was something that only humans had, not to mention humans could also learn how to use telepathy if they wished to.
While Gu Qing Shan kept up his inner sight to observe the Cruel Bone Devil King, he looked straight at Luo Bing Li.
Luo Bing Li was biting her lip with a slightly pale expression.
This is even stranger.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t receive the jade disk.
“You should keep it for now, give it to me when we’re about to leave” he said.
“I can’t, this jade disk is rigged with a very tough obstacle, you have to begin solving it now, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to move into the next hidden phantom image when the time comes” Luo Bing Li told him.
“Solve?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.
“Yes, to make sure that nothing else unexpected happened, humanity’s second path is made to be much stricter, only a true cultivator from the future would be able to understand how to use this jade disk” Luo Bing Li explained.
Gu Qing Shan remained silent and still didn’t accept it.
Within the range of his inner sight, the Cruel Bone Devil King over a thousand miles away was fully focused on his telepathy.
Why?
Does it not know how to enter the second path of humanity?
Then what’s the issue with Luo Bing Li?
A certain thought abruptly flashed by Gu Qing Shan’s mind, causing him to feel incredible shock, but quickly showed a smile and just told her: “This jade disk is too crucial, to make sure that the figure of light doesn’t suspect anything and does not ruin our entire plan, I think it’s best to return to the Primordial Heaven Realm before I study it”
“That’s true, you really are more thorough with these matters”
Luo Bing Li seemed to sigh in relief before putting the jade disk away.
Over a thousand miles away, the Cruel Bone Devil King opened his eyes.
Without changing his expression, he glanced at the other Cruel Bone Devil King, put his foot on his head, and slowly crushed it.
Obviously, he wasn’t in a good mood.
But Gu Qing Shan’s mood clearly improved.
After careful probing, he discovered another truth from the Age of Old.
The second path of humanity had already fallen into the Abyssal Fate Weaver’s hands.
Even the Bygone Era humans had no way to watch out for the Fate Weaver, so how could the cultivators of the Heaven realm?
The cultivators of the Primordial Heaven Realm had thought that they were only up against the Divine race and Desolate monsters, but they didn’t know the true terror that lingered beneath.
The plans and arrangements of the cultivators would naturally fall into the Abyssal monsters’ hands.
This made sense and was in fact inevitable with how the situation was at the time.
However!
The human cultivators managed to do something praiseworthy.
All those years ago, right as they finished forging the twin swords Heaven and Earth, they unexpectedly hid the final true moment away.
I have no idea how the human cultivators did this.
But this action as well as the era phantom images technique perfectly managed to do what the Abyssal monsters didn’t expect them to.
Even though they had indeed managed to take advantage of humanity to create the twin swords Heaven and Earth, they couldn’t determine the whereabouts of the two swords.
They still couldn’t locate the final moment that humanity hid away, not even now!
This was the entire truth!
Gu Qing Shan felt his vision turning completely clear.
He looked at Luo Bing Li.
Luo Bing Li had already calmed back down and spoke: “Then, should we return to the Primordial Heaven Realm right away and think of a way to decode this jade disk?”
“Alright, you should go first, I still have a small cultivation problem that I need to solve before I leave” Gu Qing Shan told her.
Hearing him say that, Luo Bing Li could only nod, leapt upward, and vanished into the void of space.
Gu Qing Shan then drew a sword out of thin air and began to practice his sword skills in the middle of the barren land.
He fully immersed himself in his swordsmanship, and became oblivious to everything that happened around.
Over a thousand miles away, the Cruel Bone Devil King didn’t bother to wait patiently any longer and just leapt up to disappear from this world.
It seemed to have gone to the Primordial Heaven Realm.
Even then, Gu Qing Shan still patiently swung his sword.
“It has enough power to crush me without question but didn’t try to threaten me. The only reason for this must be because it knows that it’s useless to kill me as I’ll simply return from the future again and again”
“I can indeed return again, but I would still have no way to avoid it and search for the Heaven sword”
“In other words, we’re essentially playing a tug of war”
Gu Qing Shan silently contemplated, then realized another problem.
“Hm, if she’s restrained, that would certainly be a very difficult situation to solve”
