"The so-called Sword List … is this thing"
The maid smiled as she walked in front of the green jade screen, put her hand on it, and continued: "This screen hides a Great Desolate Sword Array"
"Great Desolate Sword Array" Gu Qing Shan repeated without changing her expression.
The maid continued: "What Her Eminence was confused about was that even though this sword array had been subdued by her, she still couldn't find the real sword spirit"
"Your job is to enter the sword array and find the sword spirit"
Gu Qing Shan looked at the green jade screen.
— — -the entire screen was a scam.
Xuanyuan Tianzun used this item to exchange for quite a bit of top-notch Hundred Flowers Jade Brew from Hundred Flowers Fairy.
After being found out, he quickly apologized and promised her a few truly good things to appease her anger.
— — -these are all trivial matters.
I need to quickly expose the scam behind the screen, then follow her to the frontlines to save Gongsun Zhi and Ning Yuechan. That's the most important thing right now.
With that in mind, Gu Qing Shan clasped her fist: "Please allow me to try"
"Very well"
The maid nodded, formed a hand seal, and pointed at the green jade screen.
The green jade screen shook.
Various supernatural phenomena manifested one after another, giving off an ancient and vicissitude presence.
The maid formed another hand seal. A 7-colored light appeared from the screen and enveloped Gu Qing Shan.
A dignified voice resounded.
"Junior, you may enter only after burning the incense"
Gu Qing Shan lit the incense, bowed, and stepped through the screen.
As soon as he disappeared, the maid's previous relaxed demeanor disappeared and stared at the green jade screen with a solemn expression.
"It's been 10 years, but I still can't get the hang of it, I hope this young man can give me some inspiration" the maid muttered.
Suddenly, Gu Qing Shan's vision blurred, then found himself rolling down from the sky into a grand hall.
He stood up and looked around.
Indeed.
It was still the same ancient building from his memory.
On both sides of the main hall, there were two rows of sculptures of ancient cultivators with different expressions and postures.
The ten ancient cultivators were all different, the only thing they had in common was that they all had a long sword.
"An ancient sword cultivator" Gu Qing Shan muttered.
What a bunch of liars.
He looked forward and saw that a deity was worshiped right in front of the main hall.
This was a golden-armored deity. He held a mountain peak in his left hand and a strange longsword in his right. His expression was solemn.
Behind the deity was a wall that was as tall as five people. Murals were painted on the wall, depicting scenes of ancient cultivators fighting against monsters.
Gu Qing Shan watched all of this with a dazed expression.
It seemed like …
Is there anything that doesn't match up with what I remember?
Where was it?
He had a bad feeling in his heart as he strolled up to the first statue.
Gu Qing Shan bowed and asked respectfully, "May I know how you sacrificed yourself, Senior?"
The statue slowly turned around and looked at him.
This was a square-faced middle-aged cultivator, wearing a frosty white robe, the sword in his hand also gave off a chilling aura.
He looked at Gu Qing Shan and calmly spoke: "That year … after that … something suddenly changed"
Saying so, he returned to his original posture and stopped moving.
Gu Qing Shan once again clasped his fist and asked: "That year, what changed?"
The statue lightly turned around again and looked at him.
The middle-aged man spoke: "That year … after that … something suddenly changed"
Saying so, he stared deeply at Gu Qing Shan and returned to his original posture.
Gu Qing Shan was stunned.
"Senior — — can you explain it in detail?" he asked further.
The statue came back to life.
The statue stared at Gu Qing Shan and hurriedly spoke: "That year! That year! … after that … something suddenly changed!!! "
Saying so, the statue returned to its original posture.
Gu Qing Shan fell silent.
This statue was exactly the same as the one on the other side of the closed loop of time.
There shouldn't be any issues with the statue.
Then what changed?
Me.
In the main timeline, the one that truly changed was me.
Could it be …
These sword cultivator statues were purposefully acting as a bunch of swindlers to hide something.
But when they saw me this time, they gave up on that concealment?
— — what are they trying to say?
Gu Qing Shan walked forward a bit and stopped in front of the second statue.
This statue depicted a handsome young man. When Gu Qing Shan walked in front of him, he had already come back to life and hurriedly spoke:
"After Mount Bu Zhou was broken, the Origin World began to face a great calamity"
Saying so, he once again fell silent.
"Fellow Dao seeker, what kind of calamity was it?" Gu Qing Shan hurriedly asked.
The handsome young man came back to life and told him: "After Mount Bu Zhou was broken, the Origin World began to face a great calamity"
He seemed to want to reveal some sort of shocking secret, but couldn't utter a single word no matter what.
A pained expression flashed across his face, and then he fell into silence again.
Gu Qing Shan was stunned for a few moments.
The Origin World … began to face … a great calamity.
— — the Origin World.
Who would use such a title?
Gu Qing Shan abruptly turned around, only to see two rows of statues on both sides of the hall, each of which were cultivators from the Age of Old with different postures and expressions.
Each of the ten cultivators from the Age of Old were different, the only thing they had in common was that they all carried a sword.
Sword cultivators.
Sword cultivators.
They originally turned into heroic spirits to protect the Origin World — —
The Age of Chaos!
But after I broke Mount Bu Zhou, the Age of Chaos was split into countless fragments that scattered into the void of space.
Where are the sword spirits?
What are they doing now?
Gu Qing Shan walked in front of the third statue.
The statue instantly came to life — — -
It was a white-haired old man wielding a sword in one hand, shouting like a madman: "Like planting crops!"
Gu Qing Shan clasped her fist to him and walked in front of the next sword cultivator statue.
The sword cultivator came to life and hurriedly said: "They've learned that person's method!"
Gu Qing Shan once again clasped her fist and walked to the next statue.
As he walked past each statue, he finally understood what the sword cultivators wanted to say.
"Replace … or perhaps you could even say change …"
"They took over the power of Chaos, and at a certain point in time — — -"
"The Laws of Old viewed them as enemies, but not Chaos"
"Descended … the Sequences … descended"
"Everything became two separate lines"
"They want to use that person's method to deal with that person!"
Gu Qing Shan once again stood still at the center of the hall.
The sword cultivator statues fell silent, but somehow, Gu Qing Shan could sense that they were looking at him.
"Everyone, I think I understand now" Gu Qing Shan said.
There was silence.
— — -crack crack crack!
The ten sword cultivator statues crumbled to the ground.
The illusory light figures condensed into human figures and nodded at him in greeting. Then, they disappeared into the void and quickly disappeared.
All of a sudden, a female voice called out:
"What exactly is going on?"
A figure lightly landed.
It was the palace maid.
Xie Dao Ling.
"Why did you also come here?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"Every time I asked them, they would always say the same thing, but they had never shattered — – but just now, I noticed that their spirits had all returned to the Phase Worlds, why is that?" the palace maid stared closely at her and asked.
Gu Qing Shan replied: "Because they felt that I understood what they wanted, so there was no need for me to stay here any longer, so they left"
"You understood?" the palace maid doubtfully asked.
"— — they felt that I understood, so they left without worry, so I should have understood" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"What exactly are these sword cultivator spirits trying to say?" the palace maid asked.
"Something is currently changing history — — - starting from the moment Mount Buzhou was broken. But this change is definitely not allowed, so they borrowed the power of 'Chaos' to avoid all punishments, then planted a seed in history like planting crops" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The palace maid thought for a bit, then asked: "Everything became two separate lines — — what do you mean by that?"
Gu Qing Shan fell silent.
After a while, he finally spoke: "I don't really understand either, after all, I've only lived for a dozen years and barely reached Qi Training stage 6-7. There are a lot of things in the cultivation world that I've never heard of or seen before, so I don't dare to speak carelessly"
"Go ahead" the palace maid said.
"Then I'll tell you my conjecture"
"Go ahead"
"I don't understand at all, someone could change the past, wouldn't that cause the world to fall into chaos?" Gu Qing Shan shrugged.
The palace maid nodded and gestured for him to continue.
"Then, what if we don't change the original history, but instead place a parallel line at a certain point in time and cover it up?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
The palace maid froze.
Gu Qing Shan shook her head: "I'm still young, my knowledge is shallow, so thinking about this kind of thing makes my head explode, so I can only think of so much"
"… This secret … is too big, but we still don't know the full picture" the palace maid muttered.
Gu Qing Shan recalled something and looked forward.
A Divinity was worshiped at the front of the palace.
This was a golden-armored Divinity, holding a mountain peak in his left hand, a strange sword in his right hand, his expression solemn and dignified.
Behind the deity was a wall that was as tall as five people. Murals were painted on the wall, depicting scenes of ancient cultivators fighting against monsters.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the mountain peak in the Divinity's hand.
"Bu Zhou …"
He muttered in his mind.
Noticing his strange expression, the palace maid asked: "What are you looking at?"
Gu Qing Shan regained his senses and answered: "I'm thinking — — the most important thing in this Great Desolate Sword Array should be the worshiped Divinity"
"It should be able to tell us something"
The palace maid followed his gaze and looked at the Divinity being worshiped.
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