"Xie … Dao … Ling, I'll remember this name"
Gu Qing Shan looked at the little girl sealed inside the ice crystal and solemnly clasped her fist: "Don't worry, Shifu, as long as I'm alive, I will definitely protect her"
The Barren Cloud Palace Master nodded.
He was very pleased with this disciple of his.
With a flip of his hand, the floating ice crystal disappeared without a trace.
Instead, a crystal clear ring of ice appeared in his hand.
"This is the Heaven's Paradise Ring, connected to a small world where she hibernates. There's nothing else in that small world other than 81 spirit stone mountains specifically for her ice crystal to replenish spirit energy"
The Barren Cloud Palace Master carefully rubbed the ring of ice in his hand, sighed, and gave it to Shen Yang.
Shen Yang solemnly received the ring of ice and put it on his arm.
Huang Zhan looked at the ring of ice, then at Shen Yang with a worried expression.
Zhao Kuan glanced at the ring of ice and lowered his head.
At this point, the Barren Cloud Palace Master told his three disciples: "Go, go to the bottom of the Heavenly Palace, the sect has prepared a World Breaker airship there, it's best if you split up. Also, for safety's sake, cut off contact with each other after descending, quickly go!"
Seeing how the three of them were still hesitating, the Palace Master angrily shouted: "The sect's destruction is only a matter of time, each of you is shouldering my heavy responsibility, do you still want to stand here and wait for death?"
"Quickly! Otherwise, I won't be able to rest in peace! "
The three hurriedly replied: "Yes, Shifu!"
Huang Zhan couldn't hold it in anymore, roared to vent his anger and rushed out of the door.
Zhao Kuan hurriedly chased after him.
Gu Qing Shan told the Barren Cloud Palace Master with a serious expression: "Take care, Shifu, if there's no other choice, compromising to save your own life is also a choice"
The Palace Master didn't get angry this time and only looked at him with a smile: "You fool, do I need you to teach me? Scram! "
Gu Qing Shan clasped his fist and left.
The three disciples finally left the Heavenly Palace.
The door closed.
The Palace Master silently stood there.
A figure hovering in the air appeared in front of him.
It was an old man with white hair and beard.
"Immortal King" the Barren Cloud Palace Master clasped his fist.
The old man nodded, asking in confusion: "Sect Master Xie, you originally intended to pass the position to Shen Yang, why did you pass it to Zhao Kuan in the end?"
The Palace Lord sighed softly and said, "Zhao Kuan is meticulous and thoughtful in all aspects of his work. The only flaw is that his five desires are too strong, and his Daoist Heart is slightly flawed, so his swordsmanship can't reach great heights. Since that's the case, I might as well let him go down to the Lower Realm to establish his own sect and pass on the torch."
"Huang Zhan is an excellent spellcaster, an honest and trustworthy person, as well as a person who can keep secrets, so I'm very assured leaving the Earth sword to him"
A complicated look appeared on the Palace Master's face, "As for Shen Yang, if he didn't have great wisdom and determination, how could he have given up on worldly affairs and focused solely on cultivation? Shen Yang is naturally the best choice for the sect's leader, but the situation has changed. The Divinities are trying to harm us, and we are about to retaliate. At this time, it's best to hide him away, not burdened by the sect, not disturbed by anything, continuing to focus on the martial path. Perhaps in the future, he will be able to surpass all of us "
The old man sighed: "I actually hope that he will be able to surpass us and defeat the Divinities, that way I won't have to work so hard to arrange for his funeral"
The Palace Master smiled bitterly: "I'm confident that he will be able to surpass me, but to surpass you, Immortal King, that will depend on his own luck"
…
At another location.
Following his memory, Gu Qing Shan was flying down to the foot of the Heavenly Palace mountain.
He was a bit confused.
What exactly am I doing right now?
Or rather, will what I'm doing right now actually affect the Age of Old?
If I really did return to the Age of Old and replace Shen Yang, would everything I'm doing change the entire future?
Everything that happened in the last several ten thousand years would change, that's a bit too unimaginable.
Gu Qing Shan went silent for a bit, then silently shook his head.
According to what I've seen so far, in this current era, humanity's power should have only just reached the point where it could threaten the status of the Divinities.
And he knows that the power of the Divinities can't reshape time.
If that's the case, humanity wouldn't be able to either.
Which means my current situation is most likely the same as a real event that happened in history.
I'm currently Shen Yang.
If that's the test — — -
Then the test's goal is probably to see how much better I can do compared to Shen Yang.
Gu Qing Shan thought about it again and confirmed this point.
At this point, he had reached the foot of the mountain range.
Numerous grey airships were parked here, each of them engraved with unique World Breaker runes.
Activating these airships would allow one to directly break through the limits of the world and travel from the Heaven realm to the other worlds of the Samsara.
According to the different runes engraved on the airships, some would directly travel to the Asura realm, while others would travel to the human realm.
Heaven, Human, and Asura were the Upper Three realms, so cultivators who wanted to travel through the World Breaker realm would only choose between these three realms.
As for the Wraith realm, Beast realm, and Huang Quan realm, they were the Lower Three realms that no one would be willing to travel to.
At this point, several Elders were already making arrangements here.
Quite a few young cultivators of the sect were given airships by them.
As soon as an airship was full, the leading cultivator would activate the airship to break through the void of space and escape to another world.
One of the Elders noticed the three of them.
"So it's the three of you, come, these are your airships"
The Elder led them to three small-sized airships.
"Each of you has your own mission, so the sect has arranged for each of you to take your own airships"
"The first is Zhao Kuan's, the second is Huang Zhan's, and the one at the very end is Shen Yang's, make sure you don't take the wrong one"
Boom!!!
While they were talking, the ground trembled.
A resounding voice resounded from far above.
"Barren Cloud Heavenly Palace, disrespecting the Divinities, plotting to join the Desolate world, your crimes are punishable by death!"
A glorious light descended from above, illuminating the entire night sky.
The Elder's expression changed and shouted: "Hurry! Leave! "
His figure flashed and disappeared from the trio's sight.
The three of them didn't hesitate and boarded their own airships.
Zhou Kuan threw two jade tags to Huang Zhan and Gu Qing Shan.
He spoke quickly, "Junior Brother Huang, Junior Brother Shen, once we descend to the lower realm, our original communication talismans can no longer be used. Keep this jade slip, it can sense our location. We'll meet again when we descend to the lower realm!"
Huang Zhan nodded and put the jade tag away.
Gu Qing Shan also put the jade tag away into her Inventory Bag.
Time was of the essence, so the three of them didn't say anything else and activated the formation on the airship.
The airship let out a sharp screeching noise as it broke through the void of space and headed towards the lower realm.
…
The space vortex.
Another space vortex.
As soon as the airship broke through the void, Gu Qing Shan watched as the other two airships headed in different directions.
Seems like the three airships were heading to different locations.
He carefully observed his surroundings.
Within the grey space vortex, the wind continued to blow.
This was a space that belonged to the outside world, so any strange existence could appear here.
But the space vortex of this era wasn't the same as the future. Besides the wind, Gu Qing Shan didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Perhaps it was because of the frequent wars in the Heaven realm, all kinds of unknown existences had already avoided this space.
Gu Qing Shan slowly calmed down.
Taking advantage of this last bit of peace, he sat down cross-legged and began to meditate.
All of Shen Yang's martial arts went through his mind one by one.
Gu Qing Shan began to think about how to use his martial arts to attack.
He wanted to infuse Shen Yang's martial arts into his own fighting style.
Time slowly passed.
While Gu Qing Shan was silently analyzing his martial arts, an airship appeared.
The flying boat seemed to be startled as well. It circled around cautiously for a while before approaching.
Gu Qing Shan stood up and looked at the airship.
The airship looked familiar.
The person on it was even more familiar.
"Eldest brother?" Gu Qing Shan was surprised.
"What a coincidence, third brother, it seems the direction we're heading to is quite close" Zhao Kuan commented.
Gu Qing Shan smiled: "That's great, as long as we brothers are together, there shouldn't be anything in the human realm that can stop us"
Zhao Kuan also smiled and replied: "I was thinking the same thing, how about I put my own airship away and stay on yours, we'll land together later"
Gu Qing Shan happily agreed: "That's how it should be"
Zhao Kuan put his airship away and leapt towards Gu Qing Shan's airship.
Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag and took out the jade tag.
"Senior brother, I won't need this jade tag anymore, I'll return it to you"
He tossed the jade tag to Zhao Kuan.
Zhao Kuan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the jade tag.
It was indeed the jade tag he gave out just now, it was to allow fellow disciples to sense each other's location.
"Very well, I won't be needing this jade tag anymore"
Zhao Kuan chuckled and caught the jade tag.
Something happened — — -
Sha!
The jade tag suddenly disappeared as Shen Yang appeared in front of Zhao Kuan.
Divine Skill, [Shadow Shift]!
As soon as Shen Yang appeared, he grabbed Zhao Kuan's hand.
Zhao Kuan's expression changed, but his body suddenly went numb, unable to move at all, his spirit energy was no longer under his control.
[Severance]!
At this point, Shen Yang's fist struck Zhao Kuan's body.
In a split second, he struck Zhao Kuan several times in a row, causing the light around his body to scatter and all of his defenses to collapse.
Zhao Kuan roared without stopping, but didn't even have a chance to resist.
When the three seconds were about to end.
From the void of space, a woman with a cold expression appeared with a sword in hand.
The woman thrust her sword forward.
[Severance]!
The sword that Zhao Kuan spent so much effort to summon fell into the space vortex and disappeared without a trace.
He once again lost control of his body!
Another iron fist.
Shen Yang's expression was expressionless as he continued to punch Zhao Kuan with all his strength.
At this point, Zhao Kuan's defenses were completely broken, leaving him powerless to use any other defensive or life-saving measures.
Taking this chance, Shen Yang crushed every single bone and joint in Zhao Kuan's body.
The final kick.
Dong!
Zhao Kuan was sent flying.
Shen Yang disappeared, reappeared in the space vortex far away, caught Zhao Kuan, dragged him back, and threw him onto the spirit airship.
Zhao Kuan was now powerless to resist.
He spat up some blood and shouted: "Shen Yang! You've betrayed your Master! "
"Betrayed my Master?" Gu Qing Shan softly asked.
"That's right, Master appointed me as the next Heavenly Palace Master, yet you ambushed me when I wasn't paying attention, did you want to be the next Palace Master?" Zhao Kuan shouted.
Gu Qing Shan slowly crouched down in front of him and shook her head: "You're the one who betrayed your Master, aren't you?"
Zhao Kuan angrily shouted: "Bullshit! I, Zhao Kuan, have always been loyal to the sect, I've never been disloyal, don't you dare slander me! "
Gu Qing Shan smiled and softly asked: "Then let me ask you, Master clearly told us to split up, and for safety's sake, to cut off contact with each other after descending to the lower realms, why did you give me a communication jade tag?"
Zhao Kuan froze.
Gu Qing Shan continued: "Let's take a step back, if you and I were heading in the same direction, why would the sect arrange for three separate airships? Wouldn't that be an unnecessary move? "
He sighed: "Senior brother Huang was an honest and loyal man, under the sudden change of events, his mind was shaken, and seeing that you were his senior brother, he wasn't careful enough to fall into your trap"
"Zhao Kuan, Zhao Kuan, do you really think I'm as gullible as senior brother Huang?"
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