The divine palace of Fate.
The three statues of the Deity of Fate were all shattered.
Reneedol's casual attack was indeed powerful, but Lachesis had already set up a defensive technique on the statues, so they were only broken into pieces and not completely destroyed.
Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight and scanned through the entire divine palace.
After a single breath's worth of time, he understood what was going on.
For a great cultivator of his level, it was a simple matter for him to put the shattered statues back together.
Gu Qing Shan casually formed a hand seal.
Pieces of rock of various sizes began to fly towards the center of the divine palace.
Following Gu Qing Shan's instructions, they slowly pieced themselves back together to form the three statues of the Deities.
Gu Qing Shan then stabilized the hand seal to ensure that these pieces of rock wouldn't break apart for now.
After doing that, he walked forward and carefully observed the three statues.
— — -but these statues were indeed only carved from stone, there was nothing suspicious about them.
A few minutes later.
Still nothing.
Gu Qing Shan sighed and waved his hand.
Three swords appeared from behind him.
"Help me take a look and see if there's anything wrong with these three statues" he said.
The swords flew out and circled around the statues a few times.
The Chao Yin sword was the first to return and let out an apologetic cry.
Gu Qing Shan consoled it: "Ah, it's fine, this is truly a difficult matter, even I couldn't find any clues"
A few moments later, the Earth sword also returned and hovered in the air.
It spoke with a resounding voice: 「 Reneedol is one of the three Deities, but even after careful investigation, she still couldn't find any secret, are you sure you're not mistaken? 」
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised, then replied hesitantly: "I don't know either. I just feel that Lachesis wouldn't say anything useless to me in such a short amount of time, given how hard it was for me to summon her"
The Earth sword thought for a bit, then returned and circled around the three statues to observe them.
A few moments later, the Six Paths Great Mountain sword returned. Shannu's voice came from the sword:
"Young Master, these three statues originally had some defensive spells on them, but they're gradually disappearing now."
Gu Qing Shan nodded: "They've already been destroyed once, so their defensive power will naturally fade away"
"Other than that, I didn't find anything else" Shannu replied.
Gu Qing Shan showed a helpless expression.
No matter how he looked at it, these three statues were just stones.
Perhaps the problem didn't lie in the materials and spells, but in other aspects?
Gu Qing Shan kept retreating, observing the three statues of the Goddess of Destiny from afar.
Among the three Goddesses, the eldest Clotho stood on the left, the youngest Atropos stood on the right, while Lachesis stood in the middle. All of them had calm and solemn expressions.
No one knew who the creator of these three statues was, but they perfectly displayed the three goddesses' graceful bodies, dignified looks, and charming bearing.
Gu Qing Shan watched quietly for a while and couldn't help but whisper,
"What are they looking at …"
The gazes of the three goddess statues were cast in different directions.
Gu Qing Shan casually formed a hand seal.
A ray of light flew out. One end connected to Clotho's eyes, and the other flew in the direction of her gaze, finally hitting the wall.
Just like the other divine palaces, the divine palace's wall was decorated with a grand epic mural that depicted the glorious past of the Deities of this divine palace.
The place that Clotho was looking at was a turning point in the epic story. Countless Deities were killed by the Apocalypse, only a single Deity whose entire body was enveloped in dark flames barely managed to crouch on the ground, praying to the three Goddesses.
This Deity wielded a long black scythe in his hand.
It was the Death God.
Gu Qing Shan's heart skipped a beat.
"… Death God, you are the only hope"
Lachesis' words once again resounded in his ears.
— — could it be that she had already foreseen this in Fate?
Gu Qing Shan lightly clenched his fist.
It was only now that he confirmed that his guess was correct.
These three statues must be hiding some sort of secret.
— — a secret that not even Reneedol was able to discover!
Gu Qing Shan quickly formed a hand seal with both hands and released two more streaks of light, connecting Lachesis and Atropos' gazes to where they were looking at.
Atropos was looking at the most intense part of the battle in the mural — — -
On the battlefield, corpses were scattered all over the ground, the Deities were dying one after another. Atropos was looking at the severed limbs all over the ground.
Lachesis was looking at the very top of the mural.
The top of the mural was at the highest point of the divine palace, the lighting there was quite dim, almost impossible to see without careful observation.
But at the very top of the mural, a Deity was standing on top of a tall cliff, wielding a horn that gave off holy light, summoning millions of Deities to participate in the final battle.
At first glance, that Deity was Lachesis.
But as Gu Qing Shan carefully observed it for a bit, he felt that it was a bit wrong.
Why do I feel like …
There's something wrong with this Deity.
In front of the grand mural that filled the entire divine palace, this Deity was only a tiny part of it, if one didn't look at it carefully, they would easily overlook it.
But the statue of Lachesis was currently looking at herself in the mural.
So this Deity must represent some sort of clue.
Gu Qing Shan's figure flickered, flew straight up to the top of the mural, and carefully observed it.
— — -indeed, it was Lachesis.
But there was something indescribable about her figure, which was different from the Lachesis that Gu Qing Shan saw, as well as the statue of Lachesis in the divine palace.
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
Three Deities.
Staring at three different places.
— — the Death God.
— — severed limbs.
— — a Deity that seemed right, but wasn't.
Gu Qing Shan closed her eyes and silently thought for a while.
The Death God represents death, this is easy to guess.
But what do severed limbs and unfamiliar Deities represent?
Gu Qing Shan silently descended from the highest point of the divine palace and looked around.
Reneedol had taken away two Divine Artifacts.
Other than the mural and the statues, there was nothing else here.
Gu Qing Shan once again recalled what Lachesis had told her.
"In the past, I had foreseen that in the infinite future, someone would act against our statues …"
"… But I never thought … it would be us Sisters of Fate …"
In other words — —
Someone would act against the statues, but it wouldn't be Reneedol.
Then, who did Lachesis think would act?
Gu Qing Shan silently pondered, then abruptly unleashed the black flames around her body.
The Death God.
The one who would act against the statues would be the Death God!
Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath, crouched down, and clenched her right fist.
Boundless flames filled the void of space, slowly descended, and converged on her fist.
Gu Qing Shan lightly threw a punch at the three statues of the Deities.
Boom!
The three goddess statues were once again smashed into pieces, and their fragments fell all over the place.
This time, the defensive technique on the statues had already been dispelled, so the black flames of death didn't scatter and instead continued to burn the rubble.
Gu Qing Shan silently waited.
A few moments later, quite a few of the rubble had already been melted into lava, only a few of them were glowing from the heat, but they still maintained their original form.
Gu Qing Shan carefully observed, only to find that the ones that remained in their original form were relatively large rocks, like Clotho's arm, Atropos's upper body, Lachesis's head, etc.
Scattered corpses …
Aren't these the 'corpses' of the three Deities right in front of me?
Then the only remaining clue is that unfamiliar Deity.
That's clear enough.
Gu Qing Shan waved her hand, causing all the statue parts to hover and hover in front of her.
— – there were about a hundred of them.
Gu Qing Shan continued to form hand seals to reassemble the statue parts.
Time slowly passed.
Soon enough, a brand new statue of the Deity appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan looked at this statue, then at the Deity on the mural.
"Take a look, is it the same?" he asked.
"It's the same, gongzi" Shannu spoke full of admiration.
Oong! The Chao Yin sword also chimed in.
「 They are indeed the same, but I have something else to say 」 the Earth sword said.
"What is it?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
「 Gu Qing Shan, you're a monster 」 the Earth sword replied.
While they were talking, the brand new statue of the Deity slowly gave off a faint grey glow.
As if some sort of mechanism had been triggered.
Under the dim light, the murals on the walls of the divine palace began to spin.
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