Chapter 386: Saving a Blade

TN: from this chapter onwards, the Six Paths of Reincarnation will be referred to as the Samsara. They are the exact same thing, but Samsara takes less work to type XD.

Gu Qing Shan hid at the bottom of the Forgetting River, moving ahead in full speed for about an hour.

For one hour straight, no creatures could be seen in the river.

After so long, he finally couldn’t take it anymore.

Gu Qing Shan came up from the bottom of the Forgetting River, lightly hovering above the water.

This was already really far from the dark tunnel.

The sunset reflected on the water surface made everything appear faint, even the reflections of the sky above was blurry and chaotic.

When standing above the vast river without ends, all he could faintly see were a few tall mountains really far away.

In fact, it was a vast mountain range that connected the sky and the earth.

When Gu Qing Shan faced this direction, the mountain was all that he could see in his vision.

The mountain was like a wall that blocked out the sky.

“Seems like this is the way” Gu Qing Shan commented.

Sticking close to the surface of the water, he started flying towards the towering mountain range.

The old saying ‘Looking at the mountain kills the horse’ wasn’t wrong, it took Gu Qing Shan a whole two hours of flying before he got close to the foot of the mountain. (1)

Then, Gu Qing Shan was surprised.

Two lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI.

[You’ve arrived at the Grand Tie Wei Mountain] (2)

[The Grand Tie Wei Mountain is hell itself, formed from the Law of Huang Quan and hells, this mountain protects the 6 worlds of Samsara]

Reading that, Gu Qing Shan’s expression turned solemn.

So this was the Grand Tie Wei Mountain.

The Grand Tie Wei Mountain was the outermost layer of the samsara.

In the story of legends, outside the Samsara, there exists a Wind of Chaotic Tribulation that destroys everything.

It was a type of power even more terrifying than the space vortex.

Once the Wind of Chaotic Tribulation gets into a world, it’ll destroy both the world and everything that exists within it.

Before the Wind of Chaotic Tribulation, no creatures have any hope to survive, the world itself would also disappear.

And the Grand Tie Wei Mountain is the only thing that can stop this type of wind.

It was the grand mountain that protected the entirety of the Samsara.

The lower half of the Grand Tie Wei Mountain rested in the Forgetting River, where there are pathways leading deep into the endless underground.

The 18 hells of legends actually lie within these pathways below the Grand Tie Wei Mountain.

This mountain shields the inside from the wind of destruction, while suppressing the 18 hells that rests below itself, an incredible mountain.

After stopping to stare at the Grand Tie Wei Mountain for a while, Gu Qing Shan started heading towards the foot of the mountain.

It can’t be helped, since there was nothing inside the Forgetting River except the blue-dress maid from before.

He had no choice but to enter the mountain.

About another half hour of flying later, a faint sound of commotion could be heard from afar.

Gu Qing Shan tilted his ears to listen.

Screams, yells, the sound of metal hitting each other.

Immense killing intent that filled the mountain.

Gu Qing Shan was very close to the Grand Tie Wei Mountain at this point.

As Gu Qing Shan focused, he saw that there were countless demons and dead people on the mountain.

They were fighting among each other.

All sorts of demonic creatures, humans, giants, fiendkind as well as chaotic creatures.

They were killing each other in an all-out chaotic battle that didn’t rest for even a single second.

Gu Qing Shan silently ducked down into the water and observed this without anyone’s notice.

So the demons have taken over hell?

Doesn’t seem like it.

Some of the dead were allied with the demons to kill the other deads.

The other deads were desperately fighting back, doing everything they can to kill the demons.

An abrupt sound of something ripping through the air caught Gu Qing Shan’s attention.

This sound was like that of an extremely sharp knife cutting through the air.

Slightly sticking his head from the water, he looked at where the Blade was heading in the air.

At the foot of the mountain really close to the Forgetting River, innumerable demons and dead allied with each other to corner a group of dead that had barely over a hundred people left.

This group of just over a hundred dead were being pushed back towards the Forgetting River.

“Stop running you spineless cowards! Go back to your hell and sleep!” a Fiendkind roared.

It seems that the dead in hell only use their thoughts to communicate, so despite being from different Eras, the souls could understand each other.

The smaller group of dead were slowly being slaughter until there were no more of them.

The 10 remaining dead were protecting an armored dead human that carried a Blade in his hand.

Despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, they still persevered and fought.

On this part of the mountain that was close to the foot, the demons and dead surrounded and wanted to put these resisting dead back to sleep.

But the dead human wasn’t that easy to kill.

The Blade in his hand had unbelievable power.

Whenever he slashed with it, sharp chills would form blade slashes that flew forward.

The demons and dead that took this attack head on couldn’t survive, instantly slaughtered without offering any resistance at all.

But there were so many of them, whenever one of them died, another would quickly follow to fill the opening, and then some.

The demons were rushing in towards them nonstop to surround them.

Despite his might, the dead human could only temporarily ensure that the enemies couldn’t get close to himself.

His men were quickly killed one by one, until he was the only one left.

“Die! Die! All of you die!”

The dead human screamed and roared, constantly moving his body to make sure his attacks had no opening to be taken advantage of.

But he was only a single person.

He was already staggering and even almost fell down a few times.

And when he does, the demons and the dead would spare no time to make sure he stays down.

The Earth sword hovered in the air, asking in a low voice: 「 What now? 」

“Let’s save him first” Gu Qing Shan answered.

Following his thought, the Earth sword flew out.

With its full weight of 86,370,000 tons, the Earth sword turned into a blinding crescent slash.

The slash was so large that it instantly cleared out a large area in an instant.

Any demons that tried to stop the Earth sword all got turned to mush.

Receiving such a chance, the dead human managed to catch his breath.

But since he was covered in wounds, this short moment of relief instead of helping him, caused him to collapse.

“Who are you!” he shouted as he looked over to Gu Qing Shan.

“The one who saves you” Gu Qing Shan answered.

His Blade suddenly rang loudly.

“I’m already done” the person threw the Blade upwards and shouted: “Save it!”

Only the Blade?

Gu Qing Shan jumped up, catching him and his Blade in midair before jumping back down into the Forgetting River.

The river split apart.

Gu Qing Shan took the dead human into the Forgetting River with him, weaving his way through.

As the demons got close to the Forgetting River, they didn’t dare to get in.

They know about its dangers.

If they fall into the Forgetting River, the only thing waiting for them will be suffering in hell or be reincarnated into another world.

The Laws of Huang Quan doesn’t give exceptions even to demons.

While roaring in regret, the demons could only stand at the river banks and watch.

“Get out of the way, we’ll do it!” a dead Fiendkind hissed as it pushed the demons aside.

The dead can enter Forgetting River.

They jumped into the river one after another, chasing after Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan swung the Chao Yin sword backwards.

The Forgetting River kicked up large waves that pushed the dead back to the river bank.

When the dead finally stood up and wanted to enter the Forgetting River, they found it already returned to its original state.

The person they were chasing was nowhere to be seen.

A few dozen miles away, the bottom of the Forgetting River.

The dead human laid on the ground, unmoving.

After a while, he slowly sunk into the ground and disappeared without a trace.

「 His wounds were too heavy, he’s dead 」the Earth sword spoke with an echoing voice.

“Yeah, I had hoped to get a bit of information from him” Gu Qing Shan said.

A dead person when killed will go back into slumber in hell, waiting for the next time they wake.

Gu Qing Shan felt a bit frustrated.

He originally wanted to ask about what happened in Huang Quan before deciding his next actions.

Who would’ve thought the person would die so quickly.

While he was considering to catch a dead person, the Blade on the ground moved by itself.

“Hm?” Gu Qing Shan squinted his eyes and held the Earth sword tight.

“Don’t panic, we’re on the same side”

The Blade spoke.

“Ah, how do you know I’m on the same side as you?” Gu Qing Shan stared straight at the Blade and asked.

He saw the Blade’s power with his own eyes so he can’t be careless.

“Your presence. You have her presence on you, so of course you’re one of us” the Blade stood up and spoke.

A puff of white light slowly manifested at the hilt of the Blade.

It was a small, pure white bird.

The small white bird flew up and flew circles around Gu Qing Shan.

It spoke with relief: “I can finally catch my breath”

Note:

(1) Looking at the mountain kills the horse: a Chinese idiom, it means looking at a goal too far away without realizing it will end badly for you.

(2) Grand Tie Wei Mountain: Literally “great border mountain of steel”, the origins of which has been explained above. The word reincarnation itself implies a never ending cycle, like a turning wheel, so the Samsara has always been represented as a wheel, in which the 6 sections inside are the worlds, or paths of reincarnation. For this reason, it’s easier to think of the Grand Tie Wei mountain as a sort of tire for the wheel that protects the things inside.