As soon as Gu Qing Shan closed her eyes, she felt a dream in her mind.
Xie Gu Hong was standing at the foot of countless mountains, at the foot of which was a flight of stone steps leading to the sky, next to it was a black stone tablet with nothing written on it.
"Do you know you're in a dream?" Xie Gu Hong turned around and asked her.
"Yes, but I can wake up at any time" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Strangely enough, dreaming was a type of magic in the cultivation world, but there were too few people who could use it, and those who could master it were even rarer.
Before he took the Heaven sword, Xie Gu Hong had hidden the clue in Xie Dao Ling's dream.
Who would've thought that just as he was about to tell her about his deepest secret, Gu Qing Shan would be pulled into another dream.
"Come with me" Xie Gu Hong said.
He walked towards the flight of stone steps.
Gu Qing Shan followed him a few steps and glanced at the black stone tablet.
— — -this stone tablet was very eye-catching, standing right next to the path and giving off various energy fluctuations.
Seeing that she was looking at the tablet, Xie Gu Hong asked: "What are you looking at?"
"Ancestor, why are there no words on this tablet?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"If there are words, then there's nothing to look at, let's go" Xie Gu Hong said.
"Fine" Gu Qing Shan helplessly replied.
As the two of them went past the stone tablet and reached the mountain path, Xie Gu Hong spoke: "I brought you here to tell you the secret of Primal Chaos"
"Please enlighten me, ancestor" Gu Qing Shan said.
"At the height of the Age of Chaos, I gathered the Saints of the world together with the Four Saints' Apostles to explore Primal Chaos. Unfortunately, Primal Chaos wasn't a place where living beings could stay for long, everyone couldn't hold on and retreated. Only I managed to stay for a few more days thanks to my swordsmanship and finally saw those tombs" Xie Gu Hong explained.
"Tombs …" Gu Qing Shan mused.
"Indeed, the true secret of Primal Chaos comes from those tombs, the second secret I want to tell you is related to the tombs" Xie Gu Hong said.
"Then, the third secret that ancestor is protecting is actually more important than the tombs?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
Xie Gu Hong casually replied: "Of course"
Gu Qing Shan's heart shivered, she nodded and said, "I understand."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden change —
A streak of light suddenly arrived, piercing through the sky, illuminating the entire mountain range until it became a blank land of nothingness.
The world began to shake.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly opened her eyes.
Two lines of glowing text floated in the air.
"Xie Gu Hong's Divine Dream Phantom Attraction has been broken."
"You have returned from your dream."
Gu Qing Shan's expression changed, and immediately looked around.
Bang!
One of the chains that bound Xie Gu Hong broke.
Xie Gu Hong's presence rose several times over.
A voice came from the river in the distance, "Back then, we didn't decide the winner and the loser, and we let you escape. You've kept that secret for so many years, but so what? In the end, aren't you still surrounded by me and have no chance? "
Xie Gu Hong didn't say anything, the chains on his body broke one by one as his presence continued to rise.
A peerless sword qi began to radiate from his body.
At the center of the river outside the mountain, a black statue silently appeared and looked at the two of them.
『You want to tell him the secret of Primal Chaos? Xie Gu Hong, oh Xie Gu Hong, did you think I wouldn't notice you? You won't get a chance to tell me this secret』 the black statue said.
Within the River of Forgetfulness, countless faces began to appear.
Evil spirits!
Countless evil spirits appeared from the Forgetting River, chanting a hex at the same time.
No one knew how long they had been chanting, but when they appeared, they had already finished chanting the last line.
The hex was complete!
An indescribable evil spirit manifested above the Forgetting River, instantly filling up the entire world.
Lines of glowing text quickly appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan's eyes:
[Attention!]
[All summoned spirits of Worlds Apocalypse Online – Demon King have arrived in this world]
[They have unleashed an inaudible hex on you!]
[From now on, as a living being, you have been completely cursed, unable to learn any secrets from Xie Gu Hong. If you learn even a tiny bit of it, you will immediately fall into a state of Demonic Assimilation!]
Gu Qing Shan's eyebrows twitched and couldn't help but say: "Ancestor, I've been cursed"
Xie Gu Hong put his hand on the table and slowly stood up, speaking regretfully: "Qing Shan, I've also been locked onto by the evil spirits. If I try to tell you anything, they will be able to sense it, and I will have to kill them all before I can tell you the secret"
Kill all the evil spirits — — -
If that was really possible, why would the Age of Desolation silently disappear?
The black statue scoffed: 「 You have a secret guarding technique, why wouldn't I have prepared a few similar techniques? Xie Gu Hong, you've lost this time 」
Xie Gu Hong couldn't say anything.
Gu Qing Shan also sighed dejectedly.
Suddenly, Xie Gu Hong patted his shoulder and spoke as if he had accepted his fate:
"Qing Shan, if you can't learn any secrets from here, and you're not strong enough to participate in the upcoming battle — — -"
He abruptly pushed forward and shouted: "Technique Dispel!"
Gu Qing Shan felt a powerful force pulling at his back.
Instantly, the world around him became blurry.
His body turned into a streak of light and escaped from the Huang Quan world fragment.
At the very last moment, a sword phantom that connected heaven and earth erupted from that world, followed by the furious roars of the black statue and the evil spirits.
Everything went far away.
Gu Qing Shan flew through the infinite space, heading towards a certain direction.
All of a sudden, his vision blurred.
He felt himself landing on solid ground. At the same time, a voice resounded in his ears:
"You're back?"
As he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Luo Bingli.
Gu Qing Shan sighed, briefly explained what happened, then said: "My ancestor's situation isn't looking good, we need to turn back and call for reinforcements right away"
"Then what are we waiting for!" Luo Bingli said.
She took Gu Qing Shan with her, casually drew a hand seal, opened the void of space, and left.
…
The space vortex.
Luo Bingli suddenly appeared with Gu Qing Shan.
The surrounding Dusty Spirit, Xie Shuang Yan, and Shroud all noticed.
"Gu Qing Shan, you're fine!" Xie Shuang Yan sighed in relief.
"I'm fine, right, I've already killed that insect" Gu Qing Shan said.
Everyone went silent.
Shroud smirked: "I knew it, that guy tried to scheme against you, he really didn't know how to write the word 'death'"
Gu Qing Shan introduced Luo Bingli to everyone, then explained what happened.
When they heard that the insect was finally killed, everyone cheered.
Although the process was difficult, it was still killed!
This was a ray of hope.
But after knowing that Gu Qing Shan had lost that secret, everyone felt regretful and tried to undo the undetectable evil technique he was afflicted with, but none of them succeeded.
"It can't be helped, your Grandmaster has most likely been targeted by the evil fiends" the Sacrificial Dance Lady sighed.
Shroud dejectedly said: "When it comes to techniques, we are indeed inferior to the evil fiends, their evil techniques are indeed undetectable"
Gu Qing Shan calmed down and said: "If that's the case, then my Grandmaster is currently under attack, please go and help him"
The Sacrificial Dance Lady replied: "No problem, if the evil fiends win, who else in this void would be able to survive? Let us go! "
She brought the spirits of the Dusty World, instantly triggered a tracking technique on Gu Qing Shan's body, then followed the direction of the technique.
"Luo Bingli, you're the strongest, go and save him as well" Gu Qing Shan said.
"Got it" Luo Bingli didn't say anything else and disappeared.
When Shroud was about to leave, Gu Qing Shan pulled him back.
"What is it?" Shroud asked.
"You can't go, you have to follow me to do something else" Gu Qing Shan told him.
"Then what about me?" Xie Shuang Yan asked.
Gu Qing Shan appeared solemn and replied: "Your mission is the most important … I've thought about it for a bit, and I've decided that I can only entrust this matter to you"
He signaled the two of them with his eyes.
Shroud and Xie Shuang Yan both understood and used their full strength to unleash isolation techniques to surround this area of the void, not allowing anyone to see through them.
It was now that Gu Qing Shan solemnly took out a jade tag.
"This is?" Xie Shuang Yan asked.
"A Recording Jade Tag, capable of recording images. You must immediately take it to find my future self, this matter is of utmost importance, it could even be said to be related to the war situation" Gu Qing Shan said and gave the jade tag to Xie Shuang Yan.
Hearing how serious he was, Xie Shuang Yan put the jade tag away, then took out a crystal that gave off a faint blue glow and said: "I'll go find your future self right now, but if something happens to me, this crystal will shatter. At that time, you can send someone else to deliver the message"
"Got it!" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Xie Shuang Yan's figure moved, turned into a stream of void, and followed the undercurrent of time towards the future.
…
The fog.
Deep inside the fog.
Closer.
Even closer.
Xie Shuang Yan swam forward with all her strength, arriving at that moment.
"Gu Qing Shan!" she loudly called out.
As an Apocalypse, Gu Qing Shan had already turned to look at her and smiled: "Why are you here?"
Xie Shuang Yan breathed heavily and put the jade tag in her hand.
"What's this?" Gu Qing Shan curiously asked.
"As a living being, you were investigating the ultimate secret of the evil demons, only to be ambushed by them and forever lose the qualifications to obtain the secret. Your Grandmaster Xie Gu Hong is also being besieged. As a living being, you asked me to deliver this jade tag to you, saying that it's extremely important!" Xie Shuang Yan explained.
"So that's how it is" Gu Qing Shan calmly replied.
A voice suddenly came from behind him: "Ah? Isn't this the simplest recording jade tag? How could it be considered extremely important? "
Xie Shuang Yan looked up to see a set of armor hovering behind Gu Qing Shan.
The Black Heaven Raiment!
When Xie Shuang Yan came in a hurry just now, it assumed that he was an enemy, so it was prepared to block a few attacks for Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan received the jade tag and infused it with spirit energy.
The jade tag began to give off clusters of light that manifested into images.
Huang Quan.
The Forgetting River.
The lone peak.
Xie Gu Hong appeared at the top of the mountain.
Then, everything that had happened before replayed itself.
It wasn't until Gu Qing Shan was warped away from the Huang Quan fragment world that the images slowly faded away.
"That technique of the evil demons … can't be undone?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"They had sealed both your Grandmaster and you as a living being, so they were naturally confident that you wouldn't be able to undo it" Xuan Tianyi replied.
"Even you can't do anything?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"How about I try?" Xuan Tianyi gritted her teeth.
"It's fine, there's no need. They only sealed me as a living being, not me as an Apocalypse" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"So we're going to kill our way into the closed loop of the past and find Xie Gu Hong?" Xuan Tianyi rubbed her hands and asked.
"No need" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Xuan Tianyi was surprised.
Xie Shuang Yan also asked: "You're not going to save them?"
Gu Qing Shan casually replied: "My Grandmaster was the Apostle of the Age of Chaos, so he must be the strongest Saint. Not to mention that he had been waiting for countless years in that world, so he must have prepared various means to deal with those evil demons, he wouldn't have not thought of a way to protect himself"
Xie Shuang Yan continued: "But those two crucial secrets — — -"
"Ah, thanks to you coming here, I already know about them" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"What!!!"
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