The sky was dark.
Cold black blood poured down, dyeing the ground in front of the camp black, giving off a nauseating stench.
The Faceless Giant was standing right outside the camp, munching on corpses.
Lying in the mud, Zhao Lu's entire person had already fallen into a daze.
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised.
Behind him, the evil fiend seemed to have noticed something, abruptly leapt to the sky and disappeared without a trace.
Left?
Seems like the other 'me' had already sent Fusi to do that.
If that's the case, most of the evil fiends will be lured away to deal with the minor incidents that suddenly appeared throughout the long river of history.
In other words — — -
I've won the initiative for once!
Gu Qing Shan reached his hand out and lightly pressed on Zhao Lu's neck.
Zhao Lu instantly fell unconscious.
At this time, four blinding lights appeared behind Gu Qing Shan.
He placed his hand on his chest and muttered: "Only knowing, only knowing, only the sea is life, all living beings, all living things, be reborn!"
Instantly, lines of glowing text appeared in front of his eyes:
[You've activated the true power of the water of the Four Saint Pillars]
[Sea's Order: Choose all things, living beings, and the world, bestowing two new attributes upon it]
[As the task you've chosen is too difficult, the two attributes have been reduced to one]
[Special attention:]
[If you do not cancel the new attribute, you will not be able to activate Sea's Order again]
Reading these lines of text, Gu Qing Shan pondered for a few moments, then muttered: "One attribute then"
A deep blue radiance suddenly shot out from his hand and directly entered his body.
A second later, a new notification quickly appeared:
[You've bestowed a new attribute to yourself, named: Manifest]
[Manifest: When you stand on one side of time, everything about you will be manifested, while the other side of time will be hidden]
Reading this line of text, Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but sigh in relief.
Throughout history, there have been many minor issues.
There should also be some issues within this closed loop that I'm hiding in, that's why it's not so obvious.
However — —
This is my own closed loop of time, Fusi can't tamper with it.
So I still have to do it myself.
Right at this time, a notification popped up on the War God UI.
"Chicken Grandpa?" Gu Qing Shan greeted.
"It's me — wait, what did you do? Why can't I see the normal side of this history? "Grandpa Chicken's voice rang out.
"Time is like a coin. Earlier, I tried to keep both sides the same to deceive the demons, but the demons had already begun to monitor the flow of time, so I made every moment different from the past. At this point —"
Gu Qing Shan continued: "I've already managed to hide the other side of the coin, only letting the evil fiends see this side of me"
"They only saw you … In other words, when they couldn't see the true history, they were already destined to be unable to find you." Grandpa Chicken sighed.
"Yes, in terms of stalling for time, I've already won against them — — unless they come up with some new tricks" Gu Qing Shan flatly said.
"The other one, you asked me to bring a message," Lord Chicken said.
"What?"
"Kill as many demons as possible, he needs the power of the True Apocalypse"
"… I understand" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Grandpa Chicken didn't say anything else, obviously ending the conversation.
Gu Qing Shan crouched down in the mud, silently watching the monster that was eating outside the camp.
— — -the Faceless Giant.
I'm only at Qi Training stage 2, so killing this monster is impossible.
But at this point in time, there are actually more monsters that I can kill.
The other 'me' went deep into Primal Chaos to search for the past era, only to suddenly bring a message asking for more power of the Apocalypse.
— — -that 'me' was at its peak, wielding the Delimitation sword, wearing the Mystic Heaven Raiment and True Ancient Demon King Armor, my swordsmanship had already reached the level of [Loneswan Flying Heavenly].
Not to mention, I also have the Primal Chaos War God UI, so as long as I keep going, I'll continue to grow stronger.
But that 'me' wants to obtain more power right away.
What did he discover in the ruins of Primal Chaos?
Various thoughts flashed through Gu Qing Shan's mind.
While thinking, he glanced behind him without anyone noticing.
— — the demons still haven't returned.
"The past era … is that hard to deal with?" Gu Qing Shan muttered.
A few moments later.
The chewing sound in the clouds stopped, the rain of black blood also slowly disappeared.
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
The earth trembled.
Two large feet stepped forward, rumbling away. In just a few steps, they were already out of Gu Qing Shan and Zhao Lu's sight.
The Faceless Giant left.
Gu Qing Shan waited for a while longer, then patted Zhao Lu to wake up.
Zhao Lu stood up from the mud, staggering as he walked to the camp's gate, looking at the pit of corpses outside.
The pit of corpses was empty, there were no corpses at all, only a half-filled pool of blood.
"Monster … monster …"
Zhao Lu muttered, then turned around and ran back, grabbing Gu Qing Shan's hand: "No, we need to hurry"
"Right, once we're done packing up and my wounds are fully healed, we'll leave right away" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Zhao Lu grabbed his sleeve, shouting: "Brother Gu, it's too late, we can't wait any longer, we need to leave right away!"
Gu Qing Shan had a strange expression on his face.
… Something's wrong.
On the other side of time, Zhao Lu clearly chose to stay in the camp.
Why was there a new change this time?
While he was thinking, he saw Zhao Lu had already let go of his hand and was running towards a certain barracks.
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit, then quickly followed.
Zhao Lu pushed open the door of the barracks, went in front of a formation plate, took out his bone-paring knife and started to pry out the spirit stones on the formation plate.
He screamed like a madman: "These are all mine, I'm leaving now — —"
Gu Qing Shan quickly stepped forward, holding Zhao Lu's hand.
"No! Once the concealment formation fails, we'll die right away "Gu Qing Shan spoke in a low voice.
Zhao Lu's expression changed, unwillingly asked: "Brother Gu, you also want my spirit stones?"
As Gu Qing Shan was about to explain, his expression suddenly changed, opening the window to look outside the camp.
Zhao Lu didn't understand, followed his gaze.
Only to see a single horned Dark Flame Serpent moving through the forest, its body slithering forward without a sound, leaving behind a trail of burning marks.
On its back, sat a humanoid monster, wearing grey heavy armor, hands and feet as claws, no other features on its face, only a big bloody mouth, splitting open all the way to the back of its head.
A Bloodthirster.
Following the appearance of the first Ghostly Flame Serpent, more Ghostly Flame Serpents appeared one after another. On the back of each serpent was a Bloodthirsty Demon.
A total of 20.
The demon army quickly went past the camp, chasing after the Faceless Giant, disappearing into the forest.
Throughout the entire process, the camp was not discovered.
Gu Qing Shan silently looked at Zhao Lu, only to see that his face was pale.
"That was close … just now if you had taken a spirit stone, the formation would've been slightly disrupted, those monsters would've noticed this camp for sure" Gu Qing Shan whispered.
Although Zhao Lu is a coward and greedy, he can still tell.
He sighed: "Brother Gu, I'll listen to you from now on"
Gu Qing Shan nodded.
Strange — — -
Why hasn't the demon monitoring me returned yet?
Did I really screw it over?
Even so, as long as the demon doesn't change its strategy, it will still send another monster to monitor me.
Gu Qing Shan thought hard, a vague idea popped up in his mind, but he couldn't grasp it.
He walked out of the barracks, stood at the edge of the camp, and looked in a certain direction.
Only to see a grey shadow flashing in the sky.
A small bird flew over the hillside outside the barracks.
This bird has a human face, shouting: "So tired, so tired, I'm almost there!"
It didn't stop at all, flying towards the direction where the demons disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan was stunned for a second.
That can't be right!
This demon bird was probably resting on a tree outside of the camp, that's why I had the chance to kill it and obtain the demon army's secret dispatch order.
But — —
On this side of time, it didn't stop at all!
If I didn't kill it, how would I gain the trust of Gongsun Zhi and Ning Yuechan?
How would the series of events that happened after that make sense?
Everything is changing!
Why?
Gu Qing Shan suddenly stopped thinking, his expression changed, shouting: "Not good!"
He dashed out of the campsite like lightning and chased after the Demon Bird with all his might.
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