"It's fine, it's fine, we'll be leaving soon"
The black-skinned man quickly comforted his son.
The staff was obviously shocked as well. He bowed to them and hurriedly retreated from the room.
The door closed behind him.
The air froze for a few moments.
Everyone silently felt the trembling and struggling of the ground.
The entire Drifting Sand world was shaking. No one would believe that this was an earthquake.
"How many minutes left until we leave?" the Demon Scorpion Empress suddenly asked Gu Qing Shan.
"Half a minute" Gu Qing Shan answered.
"That's good, we're about to leave" the black-skinned man sighed.
"Wait a minute, I have a question — — there were thousands of people in this hall, how did you manage to recognize me as soon as I appeared?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
The man smiled: "My needle has always been with you, but you've never used it before"
"So that's why"
The man sighed a bit helplessly: "You can actually use it without worry"
Gu Qing Shan awkwardly explained: "I didn't actually use it because I didn't know how to use it"
Since the door to the private room was closed and no one else was here, he returned to his original appearance.
The man smirked: "With my needle, no monster in the desert will trouble you. Furthermore, any enemy that gets stabbed by it will definitely die — — trust me, my poison is very hard to cure"
"I understand, thank you sir" Gu Qing Shan nodded.
The Demon Scorpion Empress suddenly reached her hand out to Gu Qing Shan.
"What is it?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"You killed that black-robed man, everyone who saw it has a share" the Demon Scorpion Empress answered.
"You weren't there at the time, how did you see it?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"I don't care, I've secretly helped you a lot" the Demon Scorpion Empress still had her hand out.
Gu Qing Shan smiled.
Such a Combatant wouldn't lie for such a small matter.
And when Gu Qing Shan fought with her, she noticed that she didn't hold any killing intent towards her at all.
"But there's a problem. I can't open this bag," Gu Qing Shan said honestly.
"Don't worry, no one in the entire black market can open his personal treasure bag, but my husband can" the Demon Scorpion Empress proudly declared.
The dark-skinned man smiled in embarrassment.
His wife immediately glared at him.
"What do you mean?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"We'll help you open it, we'll split the things inside 50-50" the Demon Scorpion Empress said.
"With your strength, do you still care about this little bit of money?" Gu Qing Shan was puzzled.
The Demon Scorpion Empress spoke worriedly: "After we leave our home, we'll definitely need to spend money everywhere. Our children will also need to receive good education, nutrition, and all other necessities won't be a problem. We'll be spending money like water at that time, so we need to earn as much as we can for now"
"That makes sense, let's split the money." Gu Qing Shan sighed.
Without hesitation, he took out the black bag and threw it to the man.
The Demon Scorpion Empress threw it to the black-skinned man.
The burly man took the small bag and weighed it in his hand. Suddenly, he stretched out a finger and pointed at the mouth of the bag.
Bam!
With a light click, the bag was opened.
The burly man picked up the bag, wanting to give it to Gu Qing Shan.
The Demon Scorpion Empress glared at him.
The burly man begrudgingly put the bag back on the table.
"It's fine, you can pick what's in this bag first" Gu Qing Shan said.
"So generous?" the Demon Scorpion Empress smiled.
"Hm, I'm a single man anyways, I don't have as much pressure as you do, so you can pick first" Gu Qing Shan said.
The Demon Scorpion Empress' smile became a lot more sincere.
This brat doesn't know what's in the bag, and I can pick first, so I can take as much or as little as I want, right?
Since he said that, she wasn't in a hurry to pick anything, that would be too ungentlemanly.
She decided to speak first: "From what I can see, you should be at Tribulation realm late stage among cultivators, and you're about to break through"
"Ah, that's right" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"From what I can see, you should still have one last karmic adversity left"
"Indeed"
"If that's the case, follow us for the rest of the way, we'll take care of you"
"Thank you!" Gu Qing Shan clasped her fist solemnly.
A karmic adversity is a big deal for me, but for someone like the Demon Scorpion Empress, as long as she's willing to take care of it, it's nothing.
"No need to be so polite, since we're both going to escape this place, helping each other out isn't a big deal" the Demon Scorpion Empress generously replied.
Suddenly — —
Boom!
An intense earthquake!
The world around them shook intensely.
The earthquake this time was much stronger than the previous ones, even the sky itself was filled with intense wind.
Fortunately, the airship had already taken off.
The airship broke through the layer of clouds, turning into a streak of light as it sped up.
"We're finally leaving"
The Demon Scorpion Empress' expression was a bit pale.
"Hah, I don't want to leave the Abyss of Sin, but there's no other way, staying alive is more important" the black-skinned man said.
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but ask: "Why are you leaving?"
The Demon Scorpion Empress sighed: "The same reason as you"
"That's right" the black-skinned man replied, "that thing is about to wake up"
He reached his hand out to touch his son's head.
All of a sudden, a golden rune appeared out of nowhere.
This rune manifested into a thread that coiled around the black-skinned man's body and took him away.
Before the Demon Scorpion Empress could do anything, another golden thread had already bound her.
"Damn it, this is God — — -"
The Demon Scorpion Empress angrily cursed and disappeared.
Right after that, just as their son was about to cry, he was also taken away by a golden light.
In the blink of an eye, all three of them disappeared without a trace.
Gu Qing Shan only saw a few flashes of golden light in front of his eyes before everything was over.
On the table, the four cups of hot tea were still smoking.
But he was the only one left in the green room.
Gu Qing Shan slowly stood up.
The current situation was completely out of his expectations.
Both the Demon Scorpion Empress and the black-skinned man were powerful entities.
But they were taken away without even a chance to resist.
Although he knew that even the Demon Scorpion Empress couldn't resist that kind of power, Gu Qing Shan still drew the Six Paths Great Mountain sword out of habit.
Boom!!!
The ground was shaking more and more intensely.
An even more intense will of death descended from the void of space, tightly gripping Gu Qing Shan's body and mind.
A karmic adversity had arrived!
Gu Qing Shan forced himself to calm down and silently prepared himself.
Suddenly, he looked outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
Up in the sky, a number of burning spaceships were descending.
Gu Qing Shan silently looked at the serial numbers of those airships.
He closed his eyes and recalled the information he saw in front of the terminal.
… it's the same.
These are all the airships that just took off.
Why are they all crashing down?
Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight to check the sky.
Countless burning airships were crashing down from the sky, as if the end of the world had arrived.
All of a sudden, the airship that Gu Qing Shan was on began to shake intensely. The various magical fluctuations on the airship quickly became stronger.
Not good — —
Gu Qing Shan's heart sank.
He quickly put the black bag on the table away, raised his sword, and stabbed the outer wall of the airship with all his might.
Secret Art, [Water Flow Severance]!
Dong dong dong dong dong!
No matter how sturdy the wall of the airship was, it couldn't withstand his full strength, a large hole was blasted open by the sword phantoms, letting in the cold wind outside.
Gu Qing Shan's figure flashed, turning into a black shadow as he rushed out from the hole in the wall.
Boom!
As soon as he flew out, the airship had already exploded into a giant ball of fire, crashing down from the sky along with the other airships.
Gu Qing Shan hovered in the air, looking up at the sky.
A layer of faint golden runes was slowly manifesting.
These runes covered the entire sky.
Gu Qing Shan paused for a bit. Many powerful people were struggling to fly out from the falling fireballs.
But no one knew why this was happening.
Everyone's faces were filled with panic and confusion.
Occasionally, he would see airships flying into Drifting Sand world from outer space.
However, from the beginning to the end, any spaceship that attempted to leave this world would turn into a ball of burning flames and crash after touching the runes.
— — very clearly, only entry, not exit.
Gu Qing Shan squinted his eyes at the golden runes and muttered: "This is Divine Script …"
He had seen similar runes before in Triste's collection world, on the peak of the Old Gods' ice mountain.
Who would've thought that the Divine Script of the Old Gods would appear again in the Strife Zones?
Thinking back to the time when the scorpion king's family was kidnapped, it was clearly the work of a certain Divinity.
For some reason, Gu Qing Shan's heart slowly tightened, his entire body felt cold.
What are the Divinities trying to do?
Aren't they already dead?
Could it be that they already knew that the Angel of Condemnation – Dusk would one day escape, so to trap that evil entity, they prepared something else?
A few moments later, a resounding voice resounded from the Divine Script.
「 Summon, Desolate World Eater Demon Bug 」
After the voice resounded, the golden runes in the sky slowly disappeared.
— — -the runes had used up all of their power to summon, so they naturally disappeared.
A layer of red flesh covered the entire sky, forming a new barrier.
The wall made of flesh began to wriggle.
Quite a few people tried to fly up and break through the layer of red flesh, but all of them were smashed into pieces by the invisible force.
Gu Qing Shan saw with his own eyes a Combatant whose presence was comparable to a Lord-class being squashed by the invisible force while trying to break through the flesh barrier.
And when this Combatant died, he was still a few meters away from the flesh barrier.
A few thin and long tentacles reached out from the flesh barrier and sucked the flesh and blood of the powerhouse clean.
— — quite obviously, from now on, the flesh barrier would be blocking everyone's way out.
Gu Qing Shan gritted his teeth and silently thought about how to break through the barrier.
All of a sudden, a female voice came from his sleeve.
"Ah, it's so noisy"
Gu Qing Shan immediately took out a Card.
Inside the Lapis Card, Little Dusk had just sat up on her bed and yawned: "What's going on, I can't even sleep well"
"Look at the sky" Gu Qing Shan told her.
As Little Dusk looked up, she immediately woke up.
"Oh no, this is a demon bug that can eat worlds, Drifting Sand world has already been eaten into its stomach!" Little Dusk said.
"Is there a way to get out?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"This demon bug existed before the birth of Divinities, it's extremely powerful, my current strength isn't enough to deal with it" Little Dusk replied.
The two of them exchanged glances, both feeling heavy.
…
At another location.
In another part of the world, a ship had just entered Drifting Sand world not too long ago.
On the ship.
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