Chapter 378: Battle of the collapsing world

After Gu Qing Shan left.

The mountaintop mansion became silent again.

“What do you think?” Zhang Ying Hao suddenly asked.

“It’s hard to say” Ye Fei Li answered.

He crossed his arms, and imitated Gu Qing Shan and sat cross-legged, tilting his head to one side.

“I’m a bit unsatisfied, I’m clearly already the strongest man in the wo—-”

Zhang Ying Hao cut him off: “ ——–the strongest asides from Gu Qing Shan and me”

Zhang Ying Hao continued: “I’m a bit envious of him, as an assassin, I still don’t know what it feels to be dead”

Ye Fei Li stayed silent for a bit, then couldn’t help but spoke up: “If only I were strong enough, I would be able to go to Huang Quan as well”

“Yeah, such an interesting adventure should include all three of us” Zhang Ying Hao complained.

Ye Fei Li looked at him, then said: “If you want to fight with Gu Qing Shan side by side, go and get stronger ——just look at you, only Qi Training stage 7”

“You’re also only just reached Foundation realm”

“But I’m still stronger than you”

“Foundation realm is still miles weaker than Gu Qing Shan”

“But I’m still stronger than you”

“You damn Man Killer Fiend, can’t we have a proper conversation?”

…

Gu Qing Shan left the human realm and entered the space vortex again.

This time he didn’t look around and only stood still, carefully sensing the change around himself.

A few moments later, a faint force appeared from all sides.

Gu Qing Shan quickly focused on it.

The force was slowly circling him, urging him towards the bottom of the vortex.

Gu Qing Shan stood still without moving.

In his vision, a line of glowing text appeared.

[Detected user triggering a never-before-seen world storyline]

[Detected user cultivation to be Ascended realm late stage]

[Requirements met]

[Initiating Quest: Battle of the collapsing world]

After Gu Qing Shan read them, the text disappeared.

A flash came by the War God UI, forming large blood-red letters.

[Breaking the chains of fate, changing the determined history, user Gu Qing Shan has triggered a Destiny Quest]

[Quest description: The world is at the verge of irreversible collapse, but you are able to travel to Huang Quan to find out the reason for the calamity, giving the world a small and rare hope of turning the situation around]

[Quest objective: Do everything you can to save the Huang Quan realm and human realm]

[After the quest is complete, you will receive the special story Quest rewards: War God Thaumaturgy (Sainted realm)]

[If the Quest fails, the user will instantly be transported away, permanently unable to return to Reality]

Gu Qing Shan stood at the entrance of the space vortex silently staring at the War God UI.

“I’ll be transported away? Unable to return to Reality?” Gu Qing Shan muttered.

[Ting]!

The War God UI responded.

[Correct, once the Quest fails, your only chance at survival will be to return to the other space-time, which is the space vortex that connects Shen Wu world and the unknown world]

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t say anything.

I’ll be unable to return if I fail?

Unable to meet those people I know…

He sighed and declared: “I won’t fail”

The War God UI spoke up again: [Furthermore, please pay attention, from now on, the user may spend 100 Soul Points to temporarily turn on the Appraisal function]

“Appraisal function?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

[Correct, there are too many unknown monsters and demonic gods in the space vortex, using the Appraisal function will allow the user to understand the changes to your own situation] the System spoke.

[This function will automatically turn off after you reach Huang Quan]

“That’s good enough, I’ll pay 100 Soul Points” Gu Qing Shan said.

“Ah right, aside from appraising the, can the System help me kill monsters as well?” he asked.

[Winning against adversaries is something that the user must do by himself, the System cannot do it for you]

[Also, please be careful and have a bit of shame, thank you] the System answered.

“Ah, fine” Gu Qing Shan regretfully spoke.

Gu Qing Shan then began to drift towards where the faint force was pulling him.

As time passed, the force got stronger and stronger, making it easier for him to tell the direction.

The winds of the void faintly formed a path that lead directly downwards.

Gu Qing Shan decided to just jump down and fell deep into the space vortex like a comet.

The process was long.

The wind around the space vortex became stronger and stronger.

Down.

Even more down.

Gu Qing Shan followed the direction of the wind.

He was gaining speed by the second.

It felt like he was diving down a waterfall.

On the way, countless strange and weird creatures briefly appeared.

But Gu Qing Shan was moving too fast for those terrifying things to block his way.

Gu Qing Shan’s mind moved a bit.

The Earth sword and Chao Yin sword appeared from the void of space, circling around him nonstop.

Since monsters have appeared, Gu Qing Shan put up his guard.

He has to be cautious.

Turning into a soul to travel to Huang Quan is a unique experience.

After two hours, Gu Qing Shan finally slowed down.

A several thousand meters wide dark tunnel appeared below.

Gu Qing Shan silently hovered above the tunnel.

As a single soul hovering above this tunnel, he was tiny.

Around the tunnel, a grey liquid stream flowed, there were also a few other tunnels a bit further away.

One of those tunnels had black smoke rising out of them, another transmitted the sounds of creepy laughter and high-pitched howling.

There was even one that flashed a 5-colored glowing cloud and beautiful singing voices.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t try to move, nor did he try to look to satisfy his curiosity.

He was keeping extreme caution at this place.

The giant corpse had warned him that he won’t be able to return if he goes to the wrong place.

After sensing for a long while, he confirmed that the guiding force does indeed urge him to go down into the dark tunnel.

Even so, he didn’t move.

His gaze was fixed on the outer rim of the tunnel.

There was a hand that appeared abruptly.

An enormous hand, one whose a single fingernail was even bigger than Gu Qing Shan himself.

After this hand appeared, another quickly followed.

The two hands grabbed at the edges of the tunnel and begun applying force.

At this time, a notification popped up on the War God UI.

[Discovered Faceless Giant, a demon chaotic species, power level equivalent to an Ascended realm late stage cultivator]

Following that, a head covered in a chaotic cloud appeared from inside the tunnel.

The same appearance as a chaotic species.

——–it’s a Faceless Giant!

Gu Qing Shan was shocked.

This is the entrance to Huang Quan, why would there be a Faceless Giant here!

Furthermore, from the looks of this giant demon, it didn’t eject its soul, but actually came to Huang Quan with its real body.

Huang Quan is only supposed to allow entry to souls, how did it come here?

Gu Qing Shan’s mind moved.

The Chao Yin sword flew out, greeting the Faceless Giant with a white grand crescent moon.

The crescent moon passed through the Faceless Giant’s neck.

The Faceless Giant’s head dropped back into the dark tunnel.

Followed by its gigantic body.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t show an expression of relief or joy from that.

Something isn’t right.

He looked down at the dark tunnel.

In the cave, light and shadows erupted, the air flow was erratic, and various chaotic presences as well as movements came and went.

Something seems to have taken over the tunnel that leads the way from the human realm to Huang Quan.