The Soul-devouring Revenant was dead.
Aside from it, there was nothing else.
The entire valley had turned into a mountain range, but none of the revenants were anywhere to be seen.
The only clue was that eerie female voice.
But then, how are we supposed to determine who the owner of that voice was?
"Do you believe what that revenant said just now?" Ilya asked.
"I don't believe it, but I can sense its pride" Gu Qing Shan answered.
"Where's the ghost army? We heard someone ordering the ghost army to retreat just now, could it be that they really gave up on attacking? "Ilya asked.
"Probably not, for [Origin], it doesn't care about any kind of failure, it will only do everything it can to get what it wants" Gu Qing Shan answered without hesitation.
"But its army is gone."
"Maybe it's not that they're gone …"
Gu Qing Shan looked up at the sky and continued: "If they left this lost world, they would definitely return to the ice layer"
Triste's collection world was divided into three layers, the ice layer, the ocean layer and the lost world.
If the revenants left the lost world, the only place they could go would be the ice layer.
All the demonized would also be there.
Ilya hesitated: "But the artifact I used to get through the barrier is a one-time use item, if I go out again, I won't be able to return"
"It's fine, I can guarantee our return"
"Very well, then let's confirm it"
The two of them leapt up and flew towards the outer layer of the world.
When they reached the barrier of the Old Gods, Gu Qing Shan swung the Chao Yin sword.
An opening appeared on the barrier to allow the two of them to pass through.
As he swung the sword again, the rushing seawater outside the barrier also parted, leaving a path to the top.
"So this sword was forged by the Old Gods, it can be used to control water spirits" Ilya sighed, "no wonder Lola couldn't forget your sword"
"Let's go, let's see what's going on outside" Gu Qing Shan said.
The two of them flew straight up.
When they were about to reach the ice shell, Gu Qing Shan stopped.
"What's wrong?" Ilya asked.
"It seems that if we look up from the ocean, it'll be easier to conceal ourselves." Gu Qing Shan said.
Ilya looked up.
On top of the azure water, there was a thin layer of pure white ice shell.
With her strength, she could sense the movements on the ice shell in the sea. Indeed, there was no need for her to go up.
"That's fine. We'll follow the direction of the ocean current and investigate carefully. Let's see if we can find anything."
After swimming for a few minutes, they stopped in the sea.
Above them, the pure white ice shell exuded a dense demonic aura.
The demonic ghost army was densely packed here!
The two of them looked at each other and saw the surprise on each other's faces.
Did the [Demon King Order] really retreat?
Although Ilya was puzzled, she couldn't help but reveal a hint of relief.
Gu Qing Shan frowned.
That can't be right.
Even if he saw the demonic army retreating with his own eyes, Gu Qing Shan didn't believe that [Origin] would admit defeat.
He knows this thing too well.
Unscrupulous, cold, merciless, greedy and cruel.
Why would such an entity withdraw all of its demonic ghosts?
Even the Chaotic Demon Lords, the Entropy Ghosts, were forced to retreat from the underground remnant world.
What's the crux of this?
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
"Let's go, let's take a look at those demonized and see what they're doing" Ilya said.
"Got it" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The two of them dived into the ocean and swam right below where the demonized camp was.
Ilya carefully observed.
Gu Qing Shan also formed a presence concealment hand seal to carefully observe what was happening above the ice shell.
The demonized were packing up and preparing to leave.
That's right, even the camp for the night had been tidied up and tidied up.
The demonized were indeed preparing to leave.
"If the next step is for them to retreat, we'll be safe" Ilya said.
Gu Qing Shan was a bit shocked, still in disbelief.
"Under what situation would [Origin] withdraw all of its minions?"
He couldn't help but mutter to himself.
"Probably when the [Demon King Order] completely gives up on attacking" Ilya replied.
"Aside from that" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Ilya thought for a bit, then asked in return: "Under what situation would you give up on fighting?"
"Me? I won't give up on fighting, Origin is probably the same as me "
For some reason, he recalled that sighing female voice again.
The female voice was singing: 「 The road is too far to think about, I once dreamed of it, dreamed it was by my side, suddenly I felt it was somewhere else 」
There wasn't anything special about this voice, it was just the singing style that seemed to have awakened something from his memory.
Gu Qing Shan hovered in the middle of the deep blue ocean, carefully thinking.
The current situation was completely out of my expectations.
There must've been something that I don't know about, but it's already happened.
Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes and carefully recalled.
He recalled everything that happened ever since he entered the remnant world of the Old Gods.
When he first entered that world, because he didn't know anything and was completely blind, he chose a secluded city to land in the outskirts of the city.
What did he see at the time?
A man and a woman, tightly hugging each other.
Their faces were full of fear and despair, already dead.
Then, the Entropy Ghosts appeared.
Along the way, there were huge coral buildings everywhere.
There were people everywhere in those buildings.
These people were eating, walking, running, talking, all of them maintained the same posture as when they were alive.
Their expressions were so lifelike, as if they didn't know they were already dead.
Later on, the black horse whispered to me that it seemed to have seen a corpse smiling.
After I settled Lola down, I left the Six Paths Great Mountain sword to protect her, then went to the city by myself to investigate.
What did I see at the time?
Tens of thousands of dead people with eerie smiles on their faces, lined up neatly and silently walked towards the square.
In the square, there was a black mountain-like monster devouring corpses.
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but mutter to himself.
"That's a bit strange …"
"What kind of thing could take away the lives of living beings without making a sound?"
"What kind of entity could control corpses and continue to move?"
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit, then recalled the Soul-devouring Revenant that died just now.
I feel like … something isn't right.
This Soul-devouring Revenant had its own thoughts, its own emotions, and its consciousness was very clear when it spoke.
But the Soul-devouring Revenant I met at the time wasn't like that.
How did Shannu judge it at the time?
"No, they've already lost their consciousness, they only know how to kill"
Those were Shannu's exact words.
That's strange.
Why did the Soul-devouring Revenant I met at the time lose its consciousness, but the one I met just now was still conscious even at the brink of death?
Could it be …
The Soul-devouring Revenant I met the first time, was it purposely placed there by someone?
But even so, the only purpose of those Soul-devouring Revenants was to be discovered and killed by me.
— — -could it be a coincidence?
No.
There shouldn't be such a coincidence.
After that, I don't think I met any Soul-devouring Revenants again.
As Gu Qing Shan thought about it, his eyebrows slowly scowled.
He suddenly asked the Earth sword: "When we first arrived at the lower world, we met a Soul-devouring Revenant from Huang Quan, it was attached to a corpse at the time, do you still remember?"
「 I remember 」 the Earth sword replied.
"How does this kind of revenant kill living beings?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
「 Kill living beings? 」 the Earth sword was surprised, 「 that kind of revenant came from Huang Quan, it can only devour the souls of Huang Quan to increase the suffering of the souls 」
"It can't devour the souls of living beings?"
"It can't, the way it kills normal living beings should be the same as normal monsters"
Gu Qing Shan smiled bitterly.
I was fooled by such a simple truth.
He then asked Ilya: "I have a very important question, you have to answer me properly"
Seeing how serious he was, Ilya also spoke with a serious expression: "Go ahead, I'm listening"
"A Chaotic Demon Lord like the Entropy Ghosts, how do they kill their enemies?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"I've seen this many times, they can directly pierce through all of the enemy's defenses and devour them"
"Devour them?"
"Yes, Entropy Ghosts are created from the fusion of countless Huang Quan Daemons, they like to eat flesh and blood" Ilya appeared disgusted.
"Are you sure?"
"Very sure"
Gu Qing Shan deeply sighed.
That's not right at all.
At the time, to investigate the situation, I personally checked a few corpses.
The organs of the corpses were perfectly intact, there were no external or internal injuries.
Some of the corpses even had some residual warmth.
At that time, his judgment that it was an attack on the Divine Soul was correct.
But after that, I took a wrong turn and thought that it was the work of an Entropy Ghost or a Soul-devouring Revenant.
Ilya said that Entropy Ghosts like to eat flesh and blood.
And the first time I met an Entropy Ghost, it tried to jump into the formation and bite me.
So Ilya wasn't lying.
Which means — —
The one who killed the entire city's survivors wasn't an Entropy Ghost! It wasn't a Soul-devouring Revenant either!
As for the monsters from Purgatory, their method is to devour all corpses, so there's no way for them to die without anyone knowing.
All of a sudden, the sighing female voice once again appeared in Gu Qing Shan's mind.
A thought popped up from the depths of his memory and appeared in his mind.
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but chuckle bitterly again.
Seems like … I was too careless.
I really didn't think [Worlds Apocalypse Online: Origin] would have such a deep level of scheming.
Perhaps it was because of their previous encounters that it became more cautious of me.
And because of the Old God's barrier, I was able to relax a bit after entering this world of survivors.
But I didn't know that [Origin] had already been here for a long time. As soon as I entered, it had already schemed and plotted against me.
First, the Entropy Ghosts attacked, then the Huang Quan Soul-devouring Revenant attached itself to the corpses, allowing me to discover and kill them.
Even the monsters from Purgatory were dispatched.
After I killed all the monsters, Purgatory's lobbyist appeared.
Every step, every encounter, every monster that appeared were all planned by [Origin].
Facing these sly monsters, even though I managed to see a few things, I was still led astray.
"[Origin] … how impressive"
Gu Qing Shan sighed and silently thought.
Seems like in the past life, the reason why the entire world collapsed in front of the [Demon King Order] wasn't just because of humanity's lack of knowledge and strength.
It was because [Origin] was too impressive.
At this moment, the faint female voice once again appeared in Gu Qing Shan's mind.
"The road is too far to think about, I once dreamt of it, I dreamt it was by my side, suddenly I felt I was in a foreign land …"
The female voice lightly sang.
Gu Qing Shan was startled.
"Let's go, we need to hurry back!"
After thinking through everything, he didn't care about anything else, grabbed Ilya's hand and flew down into the abyss.
"Did you notice something?" Ilya cautiously asked.
"I think we shouldn't have left Tidal city, hah, we were too careless"
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but shake her head.
"Did something happen?"
"I don't know yet, but according to my calculations, [Origin] will only give up under a single situation"
"What situation?"
"It's already gotten what it wanted"
"That's impossible!" Ilya couldn't believe it.
Gu Qing Shan made a strange expression and said: "It's not impossible, if it can even summon that kind of unique entity, then it's very possible …"
"Unique entity? You mean the owner of that female voice? "Ilya quickly reacted and asked.
"Yes, that's the truth" Gu Qing Shan sighed.
The seawater parted to make a path for them as the two of them continued to dive deeper into the deep blue abyss.
Recalling that faint female voice, Gu Qing Shan felt more and more uneasy.
"Not good, we need to hurry up!"
Gu Qing Shan circulated his spirit energy to its limit, formed a hand seal and flew down like lightning towards the lost world of the Old Gods.
At a certain point, he suddenly tapped his Inventory Bag and took something out.
It was a bracelet with 5 bells strung on it.
This bracelet was unexpectedly heavy, giving off a frigid aura that even spirit energy couldn't block out.
Gu Qing Shan tied it around his wrist and tightly wrapped it around his wrist.
As he flew deeper into the Sea Abyss, the bell jingled in the wind.
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