The cold rain continued to rain on the ground.
The sound of the rain was getting louder and louder, but the alleyway was plunged into darkness.
The old man clasped his hands behind his back, standing at the entrance of the alleyway.
A few moments later.
The spell ended. The darkness faded.
But still nothing.
"… If she's not here, where did she go?"
The old man muttered in confusion.
After a brief moment of silence, he suddenly shouted: "Everyone, go and find her! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, find that Pure Witch! "
In a split second, countless shadows flew out from his body and scattered towards every corner of the city.
The old man stood still, silently waiting.
Not too far away from him, Gu Qing Shan and Lola were still standing still, but he couldn't see them.
"Gu Qing Shan, what do we do now?"
Lola asked.
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought and didn't answer.
Power …
Within the space vortex, there were many different types of power.
For example, Magic-type, Technology-type, Spirit-type, Cultivation-type, Nihility type, Occultism type, etc.
Occultism was a type of power that couldn't be understood.
If even 'couldn't be understood' was classified as a type of power, it could be seen just how chaotic the space vortex was.
When a Professionist fights, they can only use their opponent's type of power to make basic countermeasures.
A lot of the time, people would need to fight for real to know who's stronger and who's weaker.
Unless the difference in strength was too great.
From the battle just now, the old man didn't show his true strength.
Because he knew that he could win for sure.
Gu Qing Shan's heart skipped a beat.
Why is that?
What kind of power could make him ignore my swordsmanship and think that I can't win against him?
"Lola"
"Hm"
"Hold the umbrella, I'm going to test him again"
"Ah, yes"
Lola stood up from Gu Qing Shan's shoulder and raised the umbrella in her hand.
Gu Qing Shan sighed and grabbed the Earth sword from the void of space.
He walked towards the black-clothed old man step by step, constantly adjusting his state.
10 meters away.
Gu Qing Shan had completely retracted all of his killing intent.
Twenty meters.
The Yellow Springs Origin Power that surrounded him was completely absorbed into his dantian.
Thirty meters.
His whole body suddenly grew a few inches taller, and his eyes flashed with a lively divine light.
This was a natural reaction caused by adjusting his entire body's strength to its peak state and activating the Origin Energy in his body to its maximum limit.
Gu Qing Shan brushed past the old man and stood behind him.
At this moment, he looked like an ordinary person, but also like an unreasonable monster.
It was the first time that Gu Qing Shan had such an illusion.
"I can feel my heart palpitating. Gu Qing Shan, what are you trying to do?" Lola said with dissatisfaction.
"Hold on a little longer. I'm going to attack with all my strength." Gu Qing Shan smiled.
He raised the Earth sword and pointed it at the old man's neck.
The old man didn't notice anything.
From time to time, a black shadow would fly over from somewhere in the city and land on the old man's body.
He was still searching for traces of Gu Qing Shan and Lola.
Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes.
Skill.
Experience.
Wisdom.
And, strength.
Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath as his eyes became sharp.
Boom!
The Earth sword gave off a faint yellow light that reached the sky, causing the entire void of space to tremble.
This was a strike that contained all of Gu Qing Shan's strength!
If not for Lola's protection, this strike would've caused countless supernatural phenomena to manifest in the void of space, enough to shake the entire city!
"Die!"
Gu Qing Shan shouted.
The void of space around him scattered as the sword slashed towards the old man's head with unstoppable momentum.
A heavy sound resounded.
The sword stopped at the old man's neck, leaving a shallow cut, but couldn't go any further.
Time stopped at this moment.
Gu Qing Shan looked at him in shock.
Lola also couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hand.
Such a strike wasn't able to cut off the old man's head.
The old man turned around to look at the void of space behind him, displaying a terrifying and eerie smile.
"So you were hiding here, I've caught you"
In the blink of an eye, black shadows turned into chains that wrapped around Gu Qing Shan's body, trapping him in place.
Gu Qing Shan disappeared, but the old man reappeared where he originally stood, bound by the chains.
[Shadow Shift]!
Gu Qing Shan managed to escape, grabbed the Heaven sword from the void of space, and slashed behind him.
Heaven sword, [Heaven's Choice]!
Countless sword phantoms appeared from the Heaven sword, as soon as they appeared, they split into nine, reaching a total of 1200 swords in the blink of an eye.
The sound of slashing resounded like a tidal wave. In a single breath's worth of time, all 1200 swords had been slashed.
The old man was unharmed, the chains on his body flew towards Gu Qing Shan.
He spoke with a mocking tone: "It's useless, don't even think about running away this time"
His voice was cut off.
An illusory sword appeared out of nowhere, pierced through his forehead, and came out from the back of his head.
The old man's contemptuous expression froze.
Bygone Era Sword Art, [Karmic]
In a single breath's worth of time, Gu Qing Shan had slashed 1200 times with the Heaven sword, activating this Causality Divine Skill!
But after unleashing this strike, Gu Qing Shan's entire body was soaked in sweat as he knelt down on the ground.
He couldn't hold the Heaven sword anymore, letting it fall to the ground.
Seeing that the situation wasn't right, the Heaven sword hurriedly flew up and silently hid behind him.
"Gu Qing Shan!" Lola screamed.
"Go"
Gu Qing Shan shouted in a low voice.
A cloud of white mist quickly descended and pounced on him and Laura, taking them with it as it was about to disappear.
But countless black walls appeared from the void of space to surround the white fog.
The white fog couldn't leave.
A woman in an ancient robe suddenly appeared behind Gu Qing Shan, wielding a sword: "Gongzi, don't worry!"
She swung her sword and attacked the black walls with all her might.
The black walls seemed to be unstable, flickering in and out of existence while giving off fluctuating power fluctuations.
As soon as the old man used this trapping technique, he was stopped by the [Void of Beginning] sword, so the technique wasn't fully completed.
"Break!" Shannu lightly shouted.
The black walls scattered in response.
The white fog finally regained its freedom and took the three of them away.
And then the old man.
The old man struggled to raise his hand, grabbed the illusory sword in front of his forehead, and pulled it out.
Pfft!
A putrid putrid black blood splattered everywhere.
As the black blood fell on the cobblestone ground, it sizzled and gave off white smoke.
The old man appeared to be in pain and muttered in a low voice:
"I was too careless …"
He looked down, only to see that the illusory sword in his hand had already disappeared.
On the other side.
Gu Qing Shan and Lola escaped back to the main road and sat down next to a street lamp.
Shannu carefully stood guard next to them with her sword in hand.
At this point, the rain was getting heavier, covering the entire city in a gloomy curtain of water.
There was no one on the road.
The patrolling knights were also nowhere to be seen.
"Gu Qing Shan, how are you?" Lola asked with a sobbing tone.
Gu Qing Shan sat paralyzed next to the street lamp, her hands trembling without the strength to even stand up.
The first strike just now took all of his power, the second strike was a last resort strike that forced the [Void of Cause] sword out, giving the two of them a chance to escape.
"I'm fine, I just overexerted myself, I'll be fine after a bit of rest"
Gu Qing Shan forced a smile.
Lola took out a small backpack from the void of space, hung it in front of her chest, and took out a golden bottle from inside.
"Drink it!" Lola hurriedly said.
Gu Qing Shan didn't ask anything, received the bottle, and drank everything inside in one gulp.
Immediately, the sweat stopped, as did her trembling hands.
Gu Qing Shan felt herself returning to her peak state.
"Gongzi?" Shannu asked in concern.
"I'm fine now" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Shannu nodded, turned back into a sword, and disappeared into the void of space.
Lola also sighed in relief, holding the flower umbrella in one hand while holding Gu Qing Shan's hand with the other, muttering: "It's a good thing you're not injured"
"So what if you're injured?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"That old man has a power that I've never seen before, even though I have countless treasured medicines, I'm not confident that I can heal the damage he caused" Lola worriedly said.
"How impressive, I've never seen someone like that before" Gu Qing Shan sighed emotionally.
Just now, I was so close to not being able to escape, it was a matter of life and death.
Gu Qing Shan shook her head and looked at the void of space.
Lines of glowing text had already stopped there:
[Your [Void of Cause] struck the enemy]
[Due to the difference in strength between both sides, the [Void of Cause] was unable to kill the enemy]
[This sword will absorb all of your power, causing the enemy to be temporarily paralyzed]
[Your Soul Points has returned to zero]
[Your power and Huang Quan Origin power have returned to zero]
[You've drunk the pixie royal family's secret Holy Spring]
[You've recovered your condition]
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit and stood up.
He put Lola back on his shoulder and said: "Let's go, we're going to the monastery"
Lola sighed in relief and asked: "We're not going to fight against that monster anymore?"
"That's right, acting rashly won't do us any good, we need to understand this city a bit more and gather some useful information" Gu Qing Shan said.
Lola nodded: "The monastery should be safe, after all, there are knights and their higher-ups there, so it's a good place for us to gather some information"
Gu Qing Shan smiled mysteriously.
"Lola"
"Hm?"
"Don't relax, prepare to fight at any moment, this time you'll need to take out all the treasures you can use"
Lola opened her eyes wide and looked at Gu Qing Shan in shock.
"You're saying …"
"That's right, the monastery is actually a trap"
"Why!?" Lola shouted.
"The Crying Bridge of Resentment was built 500 meters away from the monastery, but it's still there and hasn't been destroyed, I don't think the monastery wouldn't know about such an evil thing" Gu Qing Shan said.
Lola was stunned.
Gu Qing Shan continued: "The knights said that it's very dangerous at night, so they have to be prepared to fight against evil at any moment. But when I fought against that monster on the river, the entire bridge was destroyed and the river was flooded, yet no one came to check on such a commotion, that doesn't make sense at all"
"Furthermore, when we came out of the alley, it was already late at night, so we were safe the entire way. It was only when we met the knights and headed to the monastery that we ran into that monster"
"That monster was waiting on the bridge"
"It's waiting for us"
"Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps the monster isn't controlling the monastery, or perhaps it's just a misunderstanding, but one thing is certain"
"In this city, there aren't any forces on our side"
"That's why the monastery isn't safe, it's most likely a trap"
"Lola, do you understand now?"
Lola thought about it from top to bottom, her back was already covered in cold sweat.
"Then, then why do we still need to go to the monastery?" she asked.
Gu Qing Shan took something out from her chest pocket.
A knight's plate.
This plate gave off a holy glow in the night.
"I don't know if you've noticed, but every single one of those knights are wearing a black plate, only when they're in my hand do they start to glow" Gu Qing Shan explained.
"So we're going to find such a holy artifact?" Lola asked.
Gu Qing Shan replied: "That's right, perhaps the era has already changed, but if even a knight's ID can still resonate with my Title, then there must be some holy artifacts from the past that still exist in the Monastery"
"Even if they've been covered in dust for a long time, I should still be able to awaken them"
"I think so"
"That's the meaning of my Title"
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