A woman sat on the throne, wearing a bright green feather dress with a thin veil over her face.
"Were you the one who attempted the Sword list?" Hundred Flowers Fairy asked.
"This humble one" Gu Qing Shan clasped her fist and bowed.
"I heard you came here to attempt the list because of the frontline situation?" Hundred Flowers Fairy asked again.
"That's right, the frontline situation is urgent, please help us, Saint" Gu Qing Shan hurriedly spoke.
"… Do you have a badge with you?"
"I do!"
"Do you have your badge?" Hundred Flowers Fairy asked.
"Take it out" Hundred Flowers Fairy replied.
"Yes"
Gu Qing Shan took off the bronze badge from her waist and held it in her hand.
Hundred Flowers Fairy waved her hand. The bronze badge flew across the hall and hovered in front of her, giving off a faint glow.
A line of text appeared in the air.
[Vanguard, Gu Qing Shan]
The badge was indeed there, and it formed a natural connection with the young man in front of her.
Hundred Flowers Fairy's expression became a bit more serious and asked: "What exactly happened at the frontline? Tell me "
Gu Qing Shan then told her everything from start to finish.
Hundred Flowers Fairy silently listened, then formed a hand seal and cast a spell on the bronze badge.
— — Divine Skill, [Void Spirit Seeker]!
Boom!
A loud noise came from the void of space.
A flash of light struck the void of space, creating a black hole about two people tall.
Faint figures of people appeared from the black hole.
They were the auras of all living beings that had been stained by the bronze badge in the past.
Dead people pit … barracks … Shen Wu world … everything that happened recently flashed in front of her eyes.
She nodded and muttered: "That's right, you didn't lie"
"Saint, please help General Gong Sun and Ning Shengnu" Gu Qing Shan clasped her fist.
Hundred Flowers Fairy didn't say anything. She just stretched out her jade-like fingers and calculated quickly.
A moment later, her expression calmed down and she said, "I just did a divination. They won't die within a quarter of an hour."
"What if something unexpected happens?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"What are you worried about?" Hundred Flowers Fairy looked at him and asked.
"— — Just now, inside the Great Desolate sword formation, the sword cultivators said that something was trying to invade our world, I'm worried that something unexpected might happen" Gu Qing Shan said.
Hundred Flowers Fairy waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, they won't die. Even if they do, I'll pull them back from reincarnation."
This sentence again!
But this time, Gu Qing Shan completely believed her.
— — However, if one were to look deeper into it, why would the Hundred Flowers Fairy head to the Yellow Springs alone in this timeline after the apocalypse engulfed everything, no longer bothering with the affairs of the human world?
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
Hundred Flowers Fairy continued: "Since you're going to attempt the list, everything must be done according to this Saint's rules"
She clapped her hands, summoning two maids without a sound.
"Saint, what is this?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
Bai Hua Fairy continued: "Even though you got on the Sword list, you didn't use a sword from start to finish inside the green jade screen, that doesn't go against my rules"
"Trying to attempt the Sword list without using a sword, if everyone did this, wouldn't my Hundred Flowers list be completely messed with by you?"
"Because of that, I can't count you as having completed the Sword list"
"These are my two maids, I told them to suppress their cultivation to qi training stage 7, you'll fight once"
"If you can't win against them within a quarter of an hour, this Saint will recognize your failure to attempt the list"
Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.
— — as expected, I'll have to fight against her two clones to help her understand me a bit more.
While he was thinking, Hundred Flowers Fairy hesitated a bit and said: "You just asked about Phase Worlds, very well, I'll show you what a Phase World really is, if you can still win … this Saint will grant you one thing"
Gu Qing Shan was surprised.
This statement contained a lot of information, as soon as he realized it, Hundred Flowers Fairy clapped her hands and declared: "Begin!"
As soon as she declared so.
The two maids silently stepped forward, bowed, and slowly drew their swords.
A line of glowing text suddenly appeared from the void of space:
[Attention!]
[A Phase World is about to overlap with the Main World]
Gu Qing Shan was shocked.
What?
She was able to summon a Phase World in such a low realm of combat?
At the very next moment.
The entire Bai Hua Palace howled forward. The world turned blank.
A completely different world appeared.
Gu Qing Shan looked around, only to see that he was standing on top of a heavy black iron cage.
Beneath his feet were black iron bars that were as thick as an arm, and they were engraved with fine and dense runes. Inside the cages, there were countless demons and ghosts, and from time to time, they would let out shrill and shrill cries.
Not too far away from him, two maids stood with swords in hand.
An Phase World.
It really is an Phase World!
Where exactly did it go wrong? Why does the cultivation world have the ability to summon an Phase World at this point in time?
One of the maids replied: "The Saint's swords are too powerful, they can be used to kill enemies, but this place is only meant to test your swordsmanship, so we will provide your swords"
The other maid waved her hand.
Four swords descended and neatly hovered in front of Gu Qing Shan.
The first sword was filled with endless sharp killing intent.
The second sword was entirely crimson red, almost like it was burning.
The third sword was completely black without any light, light and silent.
As the fourth sword danced, it gave off a soul-stealing sound that disturbed one's mind.
— — -they were the swords that Gu Qing Shan wanted to choose from in the previous timeline.
However, the Earth sword had already recognized him as its master, so it wasn't among them.
Gu Qing Shan walked straight to the leftmost side and drew the sword.
With a 'clang', sword qi rose to the sky.
Just by holding this sword in her hand, she could feel the intense killing intent emanating from it.
Gu Qing Shan sighed, sheathed the sword, and held it in her hand.
"Why didn't you choose and chose this one instead?" one of the maids asked with interest.
"This sword is more than enough for me to borrow" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The two maids were a bit surprised.
"This sword is filled with boiling killing intent, easily disturbing a person's mind … did you not notice that?" the other maid asked.
"Indeed, this sword is extremely vicious" Gu Qing Shan replied, "I haven't even thought about it yet, but it already has killing intent. Am I going to use it, or is it going to use me? One day, I might be enslaved by it and become a killing machine, so I won't use it "
The two maids nodded, waiting for the rest of her words.
Gu Qing Shan slowly drew the sword, muttering: "But now that it's in my hand, no matter how much killing intent it has, no matter how evil it is, it can only be used by me"
"Aren't you afraid that it'll lead you to become a demon?" one of the maids asked.
"All rivers return to the sea, demons are only a branch on the way, how could it lead me?" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"Very well" the maid replied.
The two maids didn't say anything else and drew their swords.
Two cold gleams of light suddenly appeared, one long and one short, one fast and one slow, complementing each other's weaknesses, one after another. In the blink of an eye, they attacked in front of Gu Qing Shan.
This kind of coordination, this kind of swordsmanship, there's nothing fancy about it, no sense of morality or elegance, everything they do is to take the enemy's life, simple to the extreme.
Seeing their level of coordination, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they're using two sets of swordsmanship at the same time.
The gleams of the swords came at her.
Gu Qing Shan held the sword in her hand, silently thinking.
Should I perform a bit better?
No …
This is already enough. Going too far is as bad as falling short.
He attacked.
Clang — — clang!
The sound of two weapons clashing resounded.
The two maids took a few steps back, surprised.
"Wind Slash?"
"No, Split Mountain"
They were hesitant, unable to confirm.
Gu Qing Shan caught up, the sword in her hand seemed slow but was actually fast, slashing five times in a row.
The two maids tried to parry, but were forced back 7-8 steps.
"This is [Gale Strike]!"
"No, it's [Split Mountain Sword Hammer]!"
The two of them spoke at the same time.
They silently activated their swordsmanship, trying their best to attack, but their coordination was already gone.
As the swords came at them, as they were about to raise their swords, they felt their hands shake. Their swords were knocked away, landing on the other side of the black cage.
"Alternating sword wills, changing as one pleases"
One of the maids smiled: "We didn't lose unjustly, this is a sword technique that combines the true meaning of [Wind Slash] and [Split Mountain], only someone who has thoroughly mastered both sets of swordsmanship would be able to do this"
At the very next moment.
The entire world disappeared along with the maids.
Gu Qing Shan returned to Bai Hua Palace.
Hundred Flowers Fairy looked at him, musing: "The fact that you were chosen by the Earth sword to be its master means that you and I are truly fated, not to mention that in order to save your comrades, you traveled thousands of miles, completed numerous challenges, and finally arrived in front of me …"
She hesitated for a few moments, then said: "I have an even more important question that I want to ask you" Hundred Flowers Fairy said.
Gu Qing Shan replied: "Please ask your excellency"
Hundred Flowers Fairy observed Gu Qing Shan from top to bottom, then asked without changing her expression: "Who else is in your family? Why did you join the army? "
While saying so, Hundred Flowers Fairy secretly formed a hand seal inside her sleeve.
No lie can escape her eyes.
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised, but quickly realized that this was the final moment of their meeting.
He thought for a bit, then clasped his fist: "Saint, this humble one's parents unexpectedly passed away when I was young, so I struggled to survive and grow up alone. Now that the demons are in chaos, I want to quickly become stronger, then think of a way for everyone to survive"
"If that's the case, then you're still an orphan" Hundred Flowers Fairy purposely asked, "this Saint is curious, what does it feel like to struggle to survive alone?"
Gu Qing Shan replied: "I've experienced loneliness, it's good and bad …"
He suddenly stopped.
Indeed, according to what he said last time, he might be able to move her just as easily.
Because ever since the Age of Old, she has also been alone.
She was an orphan.
But then — —
Do I really have to tell her about the past?
Everything … has changed. Do I really have to say those words?
Gu Qing Shan lightly shook her head and spoke: "After a long period of loneliness, I met a lot of people. They were people who shared the same ideals as me, my family, people who were willing to protect living beings, Combatants with a burning desire in their hearts"
"From then on, even when I was fighting for my life on the battlefield, I always knew that I wasn't alone"
"Not alone?" Hundred Flowers Fairy repeated.
Gu Qing Shan calmly replied: "That's right, the people I protect, no matter where they are or what they're going through right now, I can clearly understand one thing. That is, their hearts are with me, and they will always return to me"
"And my sword exists to protect them — — – as long as I have a sword in my heart, I will never feel lonely again"
His voice reverberated throughout the hall until it returned to silence.
Hundred Flowers Fairy closed her eyes, seemingly thinking about something.
A few dozen seconds later.
She suddenly opened her eyes and smiled: "Gu Qing Shan, are you willing to join my Bai Hua sect?"
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