Gu Qing Shan felt that he had made the right choice.
As a Divinity of Huang Quan, he chose the world of Huang Quan to face his Tribulation on top of the Forgetting River.
This was a reasonable decision.
It wasn't a shortcut at all.
He stood in front of the old man and smiled: "Old sir, do you think we can bury the hatchet?"
The old man stared at him.
He waved the Devil King Warden Rod in his hand.
A moment of silence.
"Ahahaha" the old man suddenly looked up at the sky and laughed: "Just look, just look, this is truly a flood rushing against the Dragon King's temple, I only wanted to test your character in the face of difficulties"
"And then?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"Your excellency is a modest gentleman, pure as jade, gentle and refined, open and upright, virtuous and noble, different from the rest of the world, pure as ice and as clean as jade"
The old man shook his head, swaying along with the movement of the scepter. He quickly uttered a long string of words.
"Hm, so that's how it is" Gu Qing Shan nodded in satisfaction.
The Earth sword whispered in his Thought Sea: 「 Shannu, Chao Yin, perhaps you don't know, but this old man only got one thing right after praising so much 」
Shannu couldn't help but ask: "Which one?"
As the Earth sword was about to answer, it was sent flying by another sword.
"Don't listen to this guy's nonsense"
Luo Bingli yawned and lazily said.
— — she had just woken up.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"It's a long story …" Shannu slowly explained to her.
On the tree, Gu Qing Shan naturally knew what happened in his Thought Sea, but he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the Earth sword.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the old man and said: "Tell me about your life, then I'll send you to reincarnation"
"Ah, thank you, fellow Dao seeker, I'm a person of the Nan Hua Dao world, I was born without a spirit root, so I had no choice …"
The old man spoke for a while.
Hearing that, Gu Qing Shan asked again: "Has anyone come to take part in the Saint Selection recently?"
"Not at all in the past few thousand years. Yellow Springs Realm is a very secluded world, and it's related to the dead, so it's not a pleasant place. That's why when we saw you, we lost our sense of propriety a bit." The elder spoke truthfully.
Gu Qing Shan nodded and said, "Goodbye."
He waved his sword.
The vines around the old man's neck were cut off.
The old man tumbled down from the tree and fell into the surging river, quickly disappearing from sight.
Gu Qing Shan continued to climb up the branch.
The feeling that fell on his body between heaven and earth appeared again.
This time, it was even stronger than the previous two times.
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but stop and look at the top of the tree.
The top of the tree could not be seen. The branches of the tree went all the way into the dim yellow clouds, and the end could not be seen.
He walked up to the fourth hanging corpse.
The corpse was also a woman. She spoke first, "Can I stay here?"
"Why?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"Because I like it here," the woman said.
"No, because the people before you are all dead, if someone else comes here to face their Tribulation, the first one to reap the benefits will be you" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The woman froze.
Gu Qing Shan asked: "But you've already hung yourself here, what will you do after you reap the benefits?"
The woman hesitated and said nothing.
Gu Qing Shan lightly placed the Devil King Warden Rod on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, I don't like to threaten people, if you really don't want to tell me, I can understand" he said.
The woman appeared sorrowful and muttered in a low voice: "Thank you"
"Then let's change the question — — after being hung here as a corpse for countless years, what's there to miss?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
The woman replied: "This place has avoided the Apocalypse, it will never be destroyed, I can always exist here"
Gu Qing Shan looked at her.
The woman lowered her head: "It's true, I don't want to leave, but I can let you pass"
"No need" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The woman abruptly let out a shrill scream.
Her entire body turned into a mist and was sucked into the black scepter.
Creak … creak …
The scepter let out a soft chewing sound.
The wind blew, the river flowed, but there were no other sounds on the tree.
The corpses were silent.
They could feel the power of the scepter.
This was the power of the Laws of Huang Quan, one that could decide their fate!
Gu Qing Shan waited until the scepter finished eating before muttering: "If anyone tries to lie to me again, they'll end up the same"
One of the corpses abruptly spoke: "You're going to treat a female cultivator who can neither live nor die like this?"
Gu Qing Shan asked in return: "She can't even reincarnate, and you call that 'neither live nor die'?"
That corpse was speechless.
Another corpse spoke up: "What if she really did this to avoid the Apocalypse?"
Gu Qing Shan asked: "Huang Quan can avoid the Apocalypse? Who thinks that's true? "
— — -he had experienced the Huang Quan Tribulation himself, so he naturally knew that the female corpse was lying to him.
The corpses didn't say anything.
Even now, they still couldn't figure out this person's background, so they didn't dare to take any risks.
Gu Qing Shan shook his head and shouted helplessly: "Fellows, please understand the situation. This is Huang Quan, not a charity, you should at least be honest and respect this Devil King"
"Those who don't respect me won't receive my respect"
He walked past the female corpse's original position and continued to climb upwards.
A few moments later, he arrived in front of another corpse.
"Fellow Dao seeker, why is there someone willing to stay on this tree?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
The corpse trembled: "If no one successfully faces the Tribulation for a long time, the Laws of Huang Quan will gather and nourish this tree, we will also receive benefits"
"What benefits?"
Saying so, Gu Qing Shan lightly placed the Devil King Warden Rod on the corpse's shoulder.
The corpse hurriedly replied: "We will obtain power — — for the past few thousand years, we've obtained a lot of Huang Quan's unique abilities. One day, when Huang Quan is destroyed by the Apocalypse, we'll be able to take this power and escape"
Gu Qing Shan said: "So that's how it is, after absorbing the power of Huang Quan, you instead kill all those who attempt to face the Tribulation, not allowing anyone to reach the top of the tree"
The corpse appeared confused and said: "These are the rules of the Tribulation, and as time passes, the stronger we become, the less likely it is for those who face the Tribulation to reach the top of the tree. To be honest, even we don't know why the rules are set up this way"
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit, drew his sword, and swung it.
The corpse fell into the Forgetting River and disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan continued to climb.
He didn't ask the corpses any more questions and only continued to climb.
The Laws of Heaven and Earth continued to descend, giving him a stronger and stronger sensation.
Two hours later, he finally reached the top of the tree.
This place had already passed through the layer of clouds and reached the deepest part of the sky.
The wind was still blowing.
A sea of clouds.
Gu Qing Shan looked down.
There weren't any more corpses on the tree.
Deep yellow fog slowly filled the air and enveloped the entire tree.
The sensation between heaven and earth had reached its peak, illuminating him like a deity.
A sense of realization once again appeared in his mind.
"Inheritance? So I only need to verify the inheritance when I reach the top of the tree? "
Gu Qing Shan muttered.
「 How do you intend to verify it? 」 the Earth sword asked.
「 I remember becoming a Star River Saint requires manifesting both a Spiritual Heavenly Tome and a Virtuous Karmic Tome, this should be the time 」 Gu Qing Shan replied.
He clenched his fist and unleashed a [Ethereal – Grand Mountain] strike towards the sky.
A few moments later.
The sound of wind whistling could be heard from deep in the sky.
Gu Qing Shan focused his gaze.
Only to see a collapsed palace falling down from the sky.
The palace completely collapsed a few hundred meters away from the tree.
Countless bricks and tiles scattered, but didn't fall into the sea of clouds.
These bricks and tiles formed a giant face in the sky.
— — -the appearance of a one-horned demon.
This demon looked down at Gu Qing Shan and spoke in a thunderous voice:
「 So it was the Devil King of Huang Quan, master of the Samsara Divine Mountain. For you to be able to obtain the inheritance of [Ethereal], you must have gone through countless hardships and battles 」
Gu Qing Shan didn't have anything to say and could only nod in agreement.
In the end, he had obtained the inheritance of [Ethereal] in the most dangerous of situations.
When he killed that monster in the great tomb, the War God UI's words were:
[You've accomplished the impossible — — - this is equivalent to a dust insect killing a dragon]
And that monster's soul stealing was a technique of the wraiths.
— — -which means, it was the Wraith realm that had been trying to steal this inheritance.
But in the end, it was obtained by Gu Qing Shan.
The one-horned demon stared closely at Gu Qing Shan and spoke in a booming voice:
「 The identity you possess, as well as the things you've accomplished, are truly rare in this world 」
「 — — it seems the Saint Selection of Huang Quan can now end 」
Following its declaration, the entire world of Huang Quan began to collapse.
In just a single second, the world of Huang Quan disappeared without a trace, as did the great tree.
The only thing left in the void of space was a faint yellow bead.
Gu Qing Shan stood in the void of space and clasped her fist: "May I ask who you are, sir?"
The one-horned demon replied: 「 No need to ask me, I will soon disappear from this world, but I will leave behind a strand of Origin to maintain the Saint Selection for future cultivators 」
It breathed out a mouthful of faint yellow mist.
The faint silhouette of the world of Huang Quan appeared again.
The faint yellow bead flew straight in front of Gu Qing Shan.
「 Take this bead, this is the true Saint Selection Bead 」 the one-horned demon told her.
"What exactly is going on here? Where are the Star River Saints' Spiritual Heavenly Tome and Virtuous Karmic Tome? "Gu Qing Shan asked in confusion.
The bricks on the one-horned demon's face slowly fell off, turned to dust, and disappeared.
「 That is a matter of normal cultivators, it has nothing to do with you 」
「 You are one of the Samsara Lords of War, qualified to participate in the new era's Samsara Clash for Supremacy 」
「 The Samsara had already been broken once … 」
「 Do not … let it … shatter again … 」
The one-horned demon completely disappeared.
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