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Chapter 796 - King of The Dead
Chapter 796 - King of The Dead
Chapter 796: King of The Dead
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
—-That wasn’t death from recoil at all!
That martial cultivator called Lin still isn’t dead.
Even now, that Void Revolution realm martial cultivator was still standing guard at the entrance of this world.
He was patiently explaining to Shannu about the greatness of the Eternal True God.
But Xie Gu Hong and the white-haired old man didn’t know about this.
Xie Gu Hong and the white-haired old man haven’t seen the Soul Shrieker and they don’t know what the Eternal Abyss is. They haven’t even seen the sight of a cultivator’s limitless resurrection after death, that’s why even though they were greatly accomplished cultivators, they still couldn’t discover the unimaginable clues from the dead body.
That’s why they mistakenly thought that the martial cultivator called Lin was dead.
——-dead from the bronze mirror’s recoil.
Then…
What kind of secret was hidden inside the mirror that the martial cultivator called Lin would give up his life to show Xie Gu Hong and the white-haired old man?
Gu Qing Shan glanced at the white-haired old man.
No changes.
He looks like he doesn’t know anything.
If that’s the case…
Gu Qing Shan sighed: “To think fellow Dao seeker Lin sacrificed his own life for the sake of our humanity’s future, a true example to follow”
Xie Gu Hong and the white-haired old man nodded in agreement.
Gu Qing Shan asked: “What kind of secret was he looking for?”
Xie Gu Hong gave the bronze mirror to Gu Qing Shan and spoke with a sad tone: “Fellow Dao seeker Lin used his life to erase the seal on the bronze mirror. Sect master Zhao, you can see for yourself what secrets lie within”
Gu Qing Shan received the mirror.
Lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI.
[Item: Historic Mirror of Light and Shadow]
[Description: An item from the Bygone Era that humans used to record secrets]
The two lines of text faded.
Some faint images began to appear inside the mirror.
The birth of the Desolate race was something that the Bygone Era humanity just happened to accomplish.
As time went by, the Bygone Era humanity discovered that they could leave a few simple matters to the Desolate monsters to do, so they began to give them a bit more power and abilities.
And then the secret of the Divinities’ birth.
A failed experiment.
They were personal combat Soul Artifacts that went past their expiration dates.
The secrets of both the Desolate race and Divine race were shown to Gu Qing Shan just like that.
They were indeed accurate, the same as what Gu Qing Shan had learnt.
——-in fact, within the mirror, the two races’ actions to harvest the lives of humanity was shown even clearer.
“Sect master Zhao, do you think what’s recorded inside this bronze mirror is true?” Xie Gu Hong asked.
Gu Qing Shan smiled bitterly: “It’s too clear to be false”
Xie Gu Hong nodded: “I’ve watched it many times, combined with some of the crucial historical records, I found what was shown to be accurate”
The white-haired old man sighed and spoke dejectedly: “The fate of humanity has truly been too sorrowful”
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan both fell silent.
The white-haired old man took out a tortoise shell and carefully observed the patterns on its shell.
He began to mumble something.
Xie Gu Hong asked: “Old Meng, what are you trying to calculate?”
The white-haired old man paused and replied: “This is a treasure vault of the Bygone Era humans, there must be something here that can help us change the current situation and change the future of humanity!”
He showed a sorrowful and resolute expression: “I must find that something!”
Xie Gu Hong scowled: “No! To predict the chaotic tides, you’ve already paid a lot of your life, you can’t calculate the fate of humanity as well!”
The old man was a Void Wanderer realm cultivator, so it wasn’t an issue for him to spend life force to predict the next chaotic tides.
But what he wanted to do now was find the item that would change the future of humanity within this treasure vault.
This had already gone past regular Divination or calculations, this was related to the movement of the entire world, and definitely not something the old man could take!
Gu Qing Shan also tried to stop him: “You’re crazy, if you do that, even if you find that item, you would die!”
The white-haired old man replied: “Sect master Zhao, didn’t you also want to risk your life to avenge your sect?”
Xie Gu Hong hurriedly shouted: “But sect master Zhao wouldn’t throw his life away meaninglessly——– you should not perform this Divination, otherwise you will surely die!”
“If I can find a way to fight against the Desolate race and Divine race, then my death is worth it. Don’t stop me, this is my final choice!” the white-haired old man declared.
Boom!
An intense wind came off the old man’s body, making his hair and beard flutter without end.
His hands formed a complicated set of seals and loudly declared: “I burn all my lifespan, present to me the method to conquer my enemies!”
The tortoise shell in his hand shattered and crumbled to dust.
From how it seemed, the Divination was complete.
There was no going back now!
The old man will have to give up his life!
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan exchanged looks, feeling a sense of sorrow from one another.
The old man started to float upwards and fly into the warp formation leading to the next floor.
He shouted: “The vague Heaven’s Will had descended on my body, allowing me to sense a certain treasure!”
“Quickly come with me—— I won’t be able to endure this for long!”
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan both chase after him.
All three people stepped into the warp formation and vanished from this floor.
17th floor.
18th floor.
19th floor.
…
33rd floor!
The old man finally stopped here.
His aura was now incredibly weak, his eye sockets sunken in, his complexion was pale like he was at his deathbed.
Under Gu Qing Shan’s and Xie Gu Hong’s help, he finally arrived in front of a certain treasure.
It was a piece of long, dark purple rock that seems to be about 5 meters long.
“This is it” the old man weakly said.
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan both walked closer to the rock.
The old man reached his hand out, trying to grab it.
But he seemed to have already exhausted all his strength, unable to even grab it.
“Let me” Gu Qing Shan said.
He helped the old man close his hand around the rock and lightly shook it.
The long piece of rock crumbled into dust and revealed two jade tags inside.
The old man hurriedly grabbed the two jade tags, then coughed up blood.
He seems to have reached the end of his rope.
“Palace Master Xie…”
The old man spoke with difficulty.
“I’m here” Xie Gu Hong held the old man up and replied.
The old man took a deep breath and tried his best to speak: “I was able to divine this, this… this is the method to forge the twin swords Heaven and Earth”
“The twin swords Heaven and Earth?” Xie Gu Hong doubtfully asked.
“Indeed, the twin swords Heaven and Earth, weapons made specifically to kill the Divine race and Desolate monsters”
While speaking, blood was flowing from the old man’s seven orifices, but he endured and continued:
“The material that makes up these two jade tags are unique, there are no others like them. You need to imbue these two jade tags into each of the twin swords to fully complete them, remember it!”
“I will” Xie Gu Hong sincerely told him.
At this point, the old man seemed to have regained a bit of his spirit as his expression became a bit less pale.
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan exchanged glances.
They both knew that the old man had already reached his final moments.
The man old took another breath and spoke: “Promise me… You will forge the… twin swords Heaven and Earth… and change humanity’s…”
He wasn’t finished, but he already couldn’t say another word.
Xie Gu Hong cut in: “Don’t worry, this Xie Gu Hong will definitely do it!”
The old man appeared to be glad and closed his mouth.
His head suddenly became limp, his body completely sunk down in their hands.
He was dead.
Xie Gu Hong and Gu Qing Shan both said nothing.
They only lifted the old man’s body on either side, feeling a deep sense of sorrow and loss.
A while later.
Xie Gu Hong stood up first.
He carefully put the two jade tags away and spoke with a lonely expression: “Sect master Zhao, have you picked a treasure yet?”
Gu Qing Shan was surprised for a split second.
He replied: “I have”
Xie Gu Hong continued: “I haven’t, I will now go through the remaining floors until I find a treasure I want, and then immediately leave this place”
“Leave this place?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Xie Gu Hong said with conviction: “Yes, I want to return——- from this moment on, I can’t risk any other dangers, I need to bring the method of forging the twin swords Heaven and Earth back to humanity”
Gu Qing Shan was still holding the old man’s body and sighed: “Then go, I will stay here with him for a while longer, don’t mind me”
Xie Gu Hong nodded and clasped his fist: “Take care”
He leapt onto the warp formation and immediately left.
Gu Qing Shan just sat there for a bit longer.
He gently put the old man’s body back on the ground, still holding onto one of his hands.
“For humanity, what a great sacrifice and accomplishment”
Gu Qing Shan lightly muttered.
He grabbed a black scepter from the void of space.
The horned skull on top of the scepter suddenly jerked.
A red glow emerged out from its eyes.
The most terrifying moment for all dead people was here!
As if sensing something, the body on the ground suddenly glowed purple.
At the very next moment, it began to give off an intense aura as if it was waking up.
This was a conversion between the boundary of life and death, completely unimaginable, unexplainable, and unbelievable.
This was the power of the Eternal True God!
But Gu Qing Shan was currently holding onto the body’s hand.
Elemental Lightning of Life, [Dreamjolt]!
[Dreamjolt: When hit by your Elemental Lightning spirit energy, the target’s consciousness will connect with the Lightning and be forced to enter a brief dreamscape, during which they lose control of their body. Duration: 5 seconds]
[Note: This is the evolved Thaumaturgy from Stunned, Rigid and Severance, no living being is immune to it]
The old man immediately went limp again.
The purple glow from his body instantly faded—— since the spell was interrupted, for the next few seconds, he had turned back into a dead person.
Gu Qing Shan directly stabbed the Devil King Warden Rod into his chest.
The body let out a sharp, harrowing scream.
He tried to struggle and resurrect himself again.
But as soon as he tried to trigger the purple glow, a sword cut off his head.
The old man was once again a corpse.
The sword didn’t go away and stayed right at his neck, cutting it off again and again.
“If you struggle any more, I’m going to use the scepter” Gu Qing Shan gently said.
A bright red glow manifested around the Devil King Warden Rod.
Sensing the power of eternal death from the scepter, the body froze and stopped struggling.
“How impressive” Gu Qing Shan sighed emotionally.
He started to give off faint killing intent.
Sensing his killing intent, the old man hurriedly begged: “Please forgive me! Don’t kill me! I don’t want to die!”
“Ah?” Gu Qing Shan’s voice became contemplation: “Even as an Eternal life form, you could sense the power of eternal death from my scepter?”
“Yes, I know about it, this is the presence of the Huang Quan path from the Samsara”
As soon as he said that, the old man tried to grab the Devil King Warden Rod with his hands, apparently trying to do something.
But his hands were immediately turned into blood mist as he screamed even more painfully.
——-this was the scepter of the Devil King, representing one of the three unrivaled powers of the Huang Quan path, how could a mere dead person touch it?
Gu Qing Shan held the scepter, looked down and stared at the dead old man.
“Do you want to live?” he asked.
“Yes” the white-haired old man immediately nodded.
In fact, if he didn’t wish for eternal life, why would he betray his past?
“So you want to live? Very well”
Gu Qing Shan lightly turned the scepter.
Since the old man was being pierced by the scepter at his chest, he immediately felt intense pain.
“Aaaaaa! Forgive me, I beg you, I’ll do anything you want!” the old man begged.
Gu Qing Shan stopped his hand, feeling a bit more refreshed.
“In Xie Gu Hong’s eyes, that martial cultivator’s death was real, the information in the mirror was also real——– they were so real I couldn’t even find any mistakes in them, and then your death was also real”
“No wonder Xie Gu Hong was able to find the jade tags to forge the twin swords Heaven and Earth, no wonder humanity believes so strongly in forging the twin swords in the future”
“No wonder regardless of the time, the Desolate race never tried to stop humanity from forging the twin swords Heaven and Earth, not even once”
“Regardless of the time?” the white-haired old man was a bit puzzled.
Gu Qing Shan shook his head.
His voice became grimly low: “Alright, now please tell me, what exactly are the twin swords Heaven and Earth?”