The sky was boundless.
The night wind howled.
The lonely moon hung high in the sky, spilling down its boundless cold light that illuminated the entire land.
A young man was walking alone through the ruins of a city.
— — -this ruin wasn't a destroyed city, but rather a floating island that fell from the sky.
At this time, besides the young man Gu Qing Shan had turned into, there was no one else alive on the floating island.
He had been searching through the ruins for over half an hour now, but still hadn't found the information he wanted.
He needed to know the current time.
In the history of the past, time is the most important factor, and it can remind you that something important is happening in the near future of this timeline.
Gu Qing Shan had gone through the Heavenly Court's escape, his years of cultivation as a disciple, the destruction of the Heaven realm, as well as several fragments of the phantom images, he had already obtained a lot of historical records.
— — -the things that were extremely important in history.
But even after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find any information that could tell him what year it was in the Age of Old right now.
At a certain point, Gu Qing Shan stopped in front of a wide, muddy field.
He stood still, not daring to breathe too loudly.
His spirit sense was trying its best to remind him that death was approaching him without any warning.
Gu Qing Shan stood still.
He had no idea where the attack would come from.
But that didn't stop him from doing something.
— — his inner sight had already covered a radius of several hundred feet, so it was now focused on a collapsed wall.
All of a sudden, Gu Qing Shan disappeared.
A wall replaced him and appeared where he originally was.
[Shadow Shift]!
Almost at the same time, a low screech resounded.
The wall was instantly hit by an afterimage and turned into flying dust.
Gu Qing Shan reappeared several hundred feet away, using his inner sight to observe the gigantic attacker.
A pair of thin, transparent wings, 6 legs, and a body as long as a snake.
If you only looked at its head, it had a pair of vertical pupils that made it look like a dragon — — but if you looked at its wings and 6 legs, it didn't look like that at all.
One of the monster's wings was stuck to its back, unable to move.
The side of the monster's head was cut open by something. It looked like it was about to fall off, barely hanging on its neck.
At this moment, two cold lights flashed.
The two swords alternated as he slashed at the deep wound on the monster's neck.
The monster's head was still attached to a thin layer of skin, and it had not completely fallen off.
But its life had finally come to an end.
The monster struggled to drag itself forward a few times before it stopped moving.
The two swords slashed the monster back and forth until its head was completely cut off.
Thousands of feet away, Gu Qing Shan held her breath.
He knelt on one knee, unable to move for a long time.
Bright red blood dripped from the top of his head and soaked through his clothes.
Even after the two swords flew back, he still did not move an inch.
It had been a long time since Gu Qing Shan had experienced such a moment.
There was no way to predict, no way to prepare, no time to react.
This was a battle where life and death were only a hair's breadth apart.
Fortunately, the monster was already heavily injured.
— — -it makes sense, to destroy one of the largest sects in the cultivation world, even a Desolate monster wouldn't be able to escape unscathed.
It was most likely because it was so heavily injured that it was afraid of being eaten by its companions, so it silently hid until Gu Qing Shan came closer.
Gu Qing Shan sighed.
While taking out a formation plate to quickly set up an alarm formation, he carefully used his inner sight to check his wound.
His spirit energy had already gathered there to temporarily seal the wound.
— — I clearly avoided the monster's attack, how did I still get injured?
Blood seemed to be pouring out from my pores.
Seems like it wasn't an actual attack.
Could it have been that bird cry just now?
When the monster cried out, I was so dazed that I didn't even have time to unleash my [Iris Sword].
Thinking back, the void of space above my head seemed to have moved a bit …
Gu Qing Shan's back was covered in a layer of cold sweat.
He had already analyzed the monster's attack.
In the blink of an eye, the monster's attack manifested into three types.
The first was a sound soul vessel attack that caused one's consciousness to become blurred.
The second was an invisible void slash, although he didn't know how it was activated, it almost took Gu Qing Shan's life.
Third, it pounced with all its might, turning the entire wall into flying debris under its pounce.
In an instant, three different attacks were unleashed at the same time.
— — -fortunately, I used [Shadow Shift] to avoid the monster's attack.
As soon as I used my flying swords, the monster wouldn't be able to defend against me in its current state.
Gu Qing Shan slowly stood up.
The two flying swords followed his will and attacked the monster within a radius of several dozen miles around it with powerful sword phantoms.
No unusual movements.
It was now that Gu Qing Shan arrived in front of the monster's corpse and carefully observed it.
The wounds on the monster's body were terrifying.
Although it was already dead, the 5 Elemental spirit energy still lingered on its body, as well as clear marks of stabbing, slashing, slashing, poking, and piercing.
Quite obviously, it had received a lot of attacks.
Putting the monster's corpse away, Gu Qing Shan's emotions were a bit fluctuating.
To become a cultivator, one has to go through Qi Training, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Ascended, Saintly, Projected, Tribulation, Virtuous, Cryptic, Chaotic Star, Origin Returning, Radiant Soul, Void Beholder, a total of so many realms.
And now, Gu Qing Shan had finally reached the end and reached Void Beholder realm.
At Void Beholder realm, one could break through the void of space and see the world.
Right now, he was the same as Xie Dao Ling, only one last step away from breaking through the cage and becoming a strong cultivator.
But facing the heavily wounded Desolate monster, he was still almost killed by it.
It was only because Gu Qing Shan was here, if it was anyone else at the same cultivation level as him, they would have been killed by the monster on the spot.
— — if humanity had to face such monsters, then …
Gu Qing Shan shook his head.
Even the notification on the War God UI that [Soul Points increased by 300,000] didn't make his heavy mood any better.
— — -I need to continue breaking through!
If Xie Gu Hong was able to single-handedly enter the Desolate world and kill the Desolate leader, I need to do the same!
Gu Qing Shan silently swore.
Half an hour later.
On the other side of the ruins.
Gu Qing Shan still didn't find any more clues.
He found a secluded place, took out a pill, and slowly chewed it.
This wasn't a pill with any special effects, it was only a Fasting Pill that Gu Qing Shan made himself.
This pill contained all the nutrients a cultivator's body needed, as well as the ability to refresh their minds.
Recently, he had been a bit tired, so he didn't have the time or the mood to cook spirit cooking, so he could only make this kind of pill.
After eating the Fasting Pill and resting for a bit, Gu Qing Shan finally recovered.
He began to summarize the information he obtained.
From the tattered clothing and the crafting style of the ruined tools, Gu Qing Shan was able to confirm the origin of this floating island.
In the Age of Old, only the most powerful sects had such a large-scale floating island.
Barren Cloud Heavenly Palace, Drifting Moon Immortal Sect, Radiant Jewel Pavilion.
Barren Cloud Heavenly Palace's clothing was all black, Drifting Moon Immortal Sect only allowed Daoist robes, Radiant Jewel Pavilion preferred colorful clothing because most of their members were female.
Gu Qing Shan found a few clothes inside the blood, all of them were Daoist robes.
Obviously, this was the floating island of the Drifting Moon Immortal Sect.
But in history, the Drifting Moon Immortal Sect had been destroyed twice.
The first time was very early on. At the time, the Divinities had just come into contact with humanity and helped humanity rebuild this sect that was destroyed by the Desolate monsters.
The second time was a few years after I joined the Barren Cloud Heavenly Palace.
At the time, the war was getting more and more intense, and countless great cultivators died.
Because the Drifting Moon Immortal Sect was located very close to the frontlines, during one of the most important battles, the entire sect was destroyed by the Desolate monsters.
"Which … was it?"
Gu Qing Shan muttered to himself.
After a bit of thought, he took out a formation plate and arranged a series of concealment formations.
He patiently waited.
If it was the first time, many Divinities and humans would soon arrive.
If it was the second time …
Gu Qing Shan sat cross-legged in the middle of the formation with her eyes closed, waiting while cultivating.
One day quickly went by.
He put the formation away, stood up, and sighed.
No one came to check on the situation, and no Divinities brought cultivators to rebuild the sect.
This meant that the war was still ongoing, and it had reached a very tense state.
Excluding the first time.
This was definitely the second time they were destroyed.
When the Drifting Moon Immortal Sect was destroyed for the second time, the Divinities didn't come to save the sect.
At the time, the frontlines were completely destroyed.
All the powerful cultivators went to help, even the Divinities acted.
The Barren Cloud Heavenly Palace's Palace Master, Xie Gu Hong, also put aside all of the sect's affairs, didn't even bother to teach his two new disciples and brought many of the sect's experts to the frontlines.
At the time, Xie Gu Hong entrusted his two disciples to Gu Qing Shan, telling Gu Qing Shan to teach them in his stead.
Wait a minute … if it was at that time …
Gu Qing Shan recalled what happened at the time.
At the time, Huang Zhan and Shen Yang had just returned to the Barren Cloud master peak with me. I asked them if they knew anything about the frontlines.
What did Huang Zhan say at the time?
Gu Qing Shan recalled what happened at the time.
…
Huang Zhan lowered his voice: "I heard that the war was quite intense, a Divinity went missing, the initial guess was that he was killed by the Desolate monsters"
Shen Yang also whispered: "This was the first time a Divinity had fallen in front of everyone, it seems that all the sects have fallen into panic"
…
Gu Qing Shan slowly nodded.
The Drifting Moon Immortal Sect was destroyed. One day later, the frontlines collapsed. Another half a day later, the Divinity was killed.
The Divinities then brought all the great cultivators of humanity to the frontlines to fight against the Desolate monsters.
This was about the same time that the frontlines collapsed.
There was still half a day before the Divinity was killed.
— — how strange, didn't the Divinities have an agreement with the Desolate monsters?
Why would the Desolate monsters kill a Divinity?
… This was the first time a Divinity had died.
How it was killed was a very important question.
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