Translator: La0o9
Gu Qing Shan picked up a fistful of yellow sand.
Under the scorching sun, the sand was so hot it felt like a mass of flames.
Sensing the heat in his hand, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but mutter: “So realistic…”
He swung his hand scattering the sand into the air.
An intense blowing wind swiftly swept the sand away revealing a perfectly clear blue sky.
Gu Qing Shan leapt into the air and looked around.
An endless sea of sand.
——this was the Drifting Sand world.
The place where Gu Qing Shan first met Little Dusk.
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
Could it be, the world I create will depend on my memories?
He drew the Six Paths Great Mountain sword from the void of space.
The sword swiftly cut open the air.
The void of space was cut open to reveal the scene behind this world—-
The Bramble Tree ship.
“How does it feel?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Shannu’s voice came from the sword: “Gongzi, your World Technique seems to be a bit unstable, it doesn’t take me a lot of effort to break through it”
“In other words, it’s a very weak technique?”
“Truthfully, to be able to create a world out of nothing is already very impressive, gongzi, there’s no need for you to feel dejected” Shannu consoled him.
“I’m not dejected, you’re the sword that breaks all Laws. I just wanted to understand a step further about how to adjust this world and allow it to take one step further” Gu Qing Shan told her.
While talking, he was recalling the recent events.
“This world can be further improved? Gongzi is truly impressive” Shannu praised.
Gu Qing Shan chuckled but said nothing else.
He closed his eyes and began to slowly adjust his state.
After the first failed Measure Tribulation, he had to use the Heaven sword’s [Chaotic Flow] to reduce his own cultivation to Three Thousand Worlds realm early stage in order to escape a sure-death situation.
After his patience and effort, Gu Qing Shan finally managed to return to Three Thousand Worlds realm peak stage, once again qualified to attempt the Measure Tribulation.
This time, thanks to the giant corpse’s advice, he managed to use a powerful Profession from the Inner Plane—- the Envoy of Condemnation and created a world using Inner Plane Cards.
Truthfully, the key point of this entire thing wasn’t how strong this world was or if it could bring him any benefits in battle.
If it could help Gu Qing Shan finish facing his Tribulation, Gu Qing Shan would be able to thank the Heavens above.
Gu Qing Shan stabilized his breathing, silently he followed the instructions from the scripture, and circulated his spirit energy.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
Following his command, the spirit energy inside his body once again gathered and began to break through the bottleneck of Paragon realm.
A line of glowing text appeared on the War God UI:
[The Paragon realm’s Tribulation is about to begin]
[Attention, this time, the Heaven’s Tribulation is a Measure Tribulation]
Following the War God UI’s reminder, Heaven and Earth began to sense and react to Gu Qing Shan’s spirit energy fluctuations.
The world began to change.
All the sand in the desert slowly receded away to reveal a bottomless pit of nothingness.
The only place that wasn’t shrouded in nothingness was a single high platform where Gu Qing Shan stood.
Following that, myriads of images appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan’s eyes and extended infinitely far away.
Inside those images, it was completely stable, only the terrifying monsters that were killed by Gu Qing Shan stood inside, waiting for him to come to them.
「 DIE! 」
『 DIE! 』
「 DIE! 」
The monsters’ unified thunderous roar rocked the world, filling it with nothing but immeasurable killing intent.
Gu Qing Shan ignored it all and turned around.
The world behind him had started to shatter, fell to pieces, and scattered into the endless darkness.
This was the Law of Total Destruction, any living being that was affected by this darkness could only shatter and collapse together with the world, even their souls would be broken down and destroyed, not leaving a chance to reincarnate.
Even if Gu Qing Shan was several realms stronger, he would still not be able to stop this power at all.
It cannot be touched!
Gu Qing Shan turned back and looked at the still image in front of himself.
He jumped into the first image.
The Measure Tribulation had begun!
———and the first image was still that black horned demon.
It was the first demon in Gu Qing Shan’s memory that he had ever killed, now once again manifested by the Law of Heaven in order to avenge the grudge of its own death.
Briefly sensing it, Gu Qing Shan found that the monster was still three times stronger compared to before.
If this monster was still reinforced to become three times stronger, I’ll have to wait and see if the later parts of the Tribulation would account for my Merit and karma to weaken the killing trial
Gu Qing Shan performed a casual swing.
The monster and the image were slashed to pieces at the same time.
Gu Qing Shan appeared behind the image and swiftly jumped into the next one.
Behind him, the Law of Total Destruction seemed to have awoken as it quickly spread forward.
It was chasing Gu Qing Shan!
One breath’s worth of time later.
The second image shattered
Gu Qing Shan reappeared and ran into the third image.
This image contained a group of Confederate hitmen.
Just like the last time he faced the Measure Tribulation; these men were reinforced by the Law of Heaven to achieve a Rejuvenation realm level of power.
Gu Qing Shan took notice.
His flying swords flew.
They were all dead.
The image shattered again.
Gu Qing Shan continued forward.
Everything was going smoothly, not a single wasted second.
But Gu Qing Shan’s heart sank a bit.
——–sure enough, inside the next image, the horde of demons that he eliminated received reinforcement to become three times as strong as they were.
But his Merit still hadn’t been accounted for.
Gu Qing Shan brandished his swords, killed all his enemies
, and went into the next image.
This time, he faced Li Chang An.
“You killed——-”
Li Chang An opened his mouth to shout something.
Sha!
His head was erased by a cold gleam of metal.
The body collapsed.
Gu Qing Shan wielded his sword and continued forward into the next image.
Another horde of demons!
Back in Shen Wu world, he killed these demons by borrowing the power of his Lightning Tribulation.
At this moment, each demon was bestowed power equal to Ascended realm cultivators.
And still, no Merit was accounted for!
Gu Qing Shan steeled himself and charged into the horde of demons.
——-the giant corpse wouldn’t deceive me about this.
But then where is my Merit?
Then again, what exactly does the Law of Heaven and Earth consider to be good karma and accrue Merit?
Gu Qing Shan quickly thought about it.
A sound of shatter.
The world collapsed once again.
Without time to catch his breath, Gu Qing Shan jumped into the next image.
“You killed me, you killed me!”
A cultivator was madly shouting.
Followed by several spirit beasts.
These were the spirit beasts and the cultivator he killed during the spirit beasts’ betrayal.
Just like last time, Gu Qing Shan raised his sword and curtly explained to the cultivator: “Military law is as heavy as a mountain, don’t blame me”
The man’s head flew to the sky.
Followed by the cries of spirit beasts.
This image shattered.
Gu Qing Shan landed on the ground and dashed towards the next image.
What exactly constitutes Merit?
Why haven’t I seen any of my Merit manifest yet?
He once again thought about this.
But he didn’t have much time to think about it.
Behind him, the darkness was continuing to spread
Gu Qing Shan had no choice but to go into the next image as fast as possible.
Roar!!!
A Faceless Giant roared in madness as it charged straight at him.
This Faceless Giant was among the horde of demons within the dark caves that led from the human realm to the Huang Quan realm.
Its power was still reinforced to become three times stronger.
But Gu Qing Shan wasn’t worried about this monster and swiftly cut it down with a single strike.
Gu Qing Shan continued into the next image and wielded his sword to eliminate a group of vicious demons.
These were the demons that were watching over the dark caves of Huang Quan, now also accounted by the Law of Heaven to fall under Gu Qing Shan’s kills.
At this point, Gu Qing Shan’s heart was already beating faster.
——-I’ll reach the fight of Huang Quan soon.
If I enter that image and still find no Merit to help me, then it would be a huge problem!
Should I think of a way to retreat from this Measure Tribulation?
——–no, I’ve already retreated from the Measure Tribulation once.
This time, I’ve made ample preparations, not only did I fully read over the cultivation experience of cultivators from the Age of old, I had even made an ‘Inner Plane World’ specifically for this.
If I still retreat at this point, when am I going to be able to advance?
Gu Qing Shan clenched his teeth and dashed out from this image.
It collapsed.
The image of the dead people of Huang Quan was in front of him.
——-it truly was accounting for his kills in Huang Quan.
Gu Qing Shan jumped inside without hesitation.
Just like the last time, he began in this world by falling from the sky.
On the vast boundless ground below, countless dead people filled every last remaining space to stand.
Gu Qing Shan hovered in the sky and released his inner sight to search where his vision couldn’t reach.
Just like last time, countless dead people filled this entire world, all of which were given strength equivalent to Sainted realm.
“DIE!!”
The dead people roared.
Shannu’s worried voice called out:
“Gongzi, it hasn’t changed at all, let’s run!”
She urged him.
Gu Qing Shan stood still.
He drew the Earth sword and Six Paths Great Mountain sword, wielding them in both hands.
“I refuse to believe it”
Saying so, overwhelming sword qi erupted from his body and surged forward into the endless horde of dead people.
Time suddenly stopped.
All the dead people froze.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly noticed that the scene around him began to change.
Images of the past were being shown.
He killed his way into Huang Quan, met Shannu, saved the weapons, became the Devil King, used the 7-colored spear to kill all the demons, threw the spear out of the Huang Quan realm, returned to the human realm alone, wrestled with the Heavenly God through his words, led countless dead people to face the army of demons and Demon Lords, then finally obtained victory.
It wasn’t until Zhi Luo hugged him, smiled, and disappeared that the image ended.
A golden light appeared behind Gu Qing Shan’s head and formed a perfect circle.
A second later.
The intense golden light suddenly emerged from Gu Qing Shan’s body, illuminating the countless dead people below.
This was Gu Qing Shan’s Merit!
His Merit had finally been manifested!
