Chapter 467: The truth (3)

Translated by: La0o9

Proofreader: Arya

The two women had left.

Only Shannu remained, standing by Gu Qing Shan.

The white fox looked at Shannu.

Gu Qing Shan explained: “She’s my sword”

The white fox nodded in understanding.

“I’ve made my choice” Gu Qing Shan continued.

“Indeed, and the correct one”

The white fox slowly spoke: “In their lives, living beings have very few chances to change their own fate, there are beings who strive and do everything they can to catch such a chance, while the rest remain clueless, wasting their lives away”

“I didn’t think such a high-ranked world like yourself would have such a thing” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“While worlds may be different, every living being’s nature has been the same. That is why I spit on useless pieces of crap and respect those who tries their best, regardless of whether they are a tiny ant or a great existence, and regardless of whether or not they succeed in changing their own fate”

“Thank you for your consideration”

“There is no need to thank me, as I myself came from such a background”

The white fox smiled and continued: “Since you’ve made the choice, I can officially recognize this”

The white fox’s tails started to spread and formed a glowing circle.

The circle formed a gate of light.

A dignified voice came from the gate of light

“What is it?”

“I request permission to add someone from the observation queue into the Rakshasa qualification test”

The dignified voice became a bit more relaxed, asking: “It seems the newcomer you spoke of before managed to be recognized by you”

“Yes, he went above and beyond expectations”

“Such a newcomer exists? But I’ve already checked, there is only one open slot for Rakshasa left”

They both fell silent.

“And so, we need to pick one person out of the two of them” the dignified voice commented.

“I agree”

“Then let’s begin the qualification test again”

“Very well, then what’s the conditions for being chosen as Rakshasa this time?” the white fox asked.

“On your side, is the world about to be destroyed?”

“It is, the Old God’s corpse was stolen by the demons, the sun, moon and stars have all been devoured, the land itself is almost fully digested as well”

“Such conditions are enough… then the test shall be for the two Rakshasa candidates to survive the destruction of the world. The one who lives until the end will became the new Rakshasa”

“So simple?” the white fox asked.

The dignified voice answered: “They’ll have to face such circumstances a lot after becoming Rakshasa anyways”

“That’s true, then it’s decided”

When that was over, the white fox asked another thing: “What’s the war situation right now?”

The dignified voice answered: “The situation is a bit disadvantageous for us”

“Do you need me to return?” the white fox asked worriedly.

“There is no need to for now, we can handle it, quickly choose one of them to join us” the dignified voice said.

“Yes, it shall be done”

“Farewell”

“Farewell”

The voice disappeared.

The gate of light also went away.

“Did you catch that?” the white fox asked.

“I did, I need to live longer than one other person when the world collapses” Gu Qing Shan answered.

“This is only the most basic requirement to become Rakshasa, I hope you understand”

The white fox added: “Rakshasa is an existence qualified to a certain degree to know the secret of the Outer Plane and to receive a unique power”

Gu Qing Shan didn’t say anything as he listened carefully to every word and only nodded.

The white fox thought for a bit: “Power, authority, knowledge, skills. If you consider these factors, the other Rakshasa candidate doesn’t have anything, but you have nothing, so I will give you a brief explanation of the situation”

“Please do, I’m all ears” Gu Qing Shan replied.

The white fox cleared his throat and spoke: “First you have to understand a few concepts. Our organization exists within the Middle Layer of the hundred million worlds”

“The Middle Layer?”

“Our world is situated in the Middle Layer of the Outer Plane worlds, compared to the worlds you’ve visited, our power and knowledge is mostly unimaginable”

“If that’s the case, would my world be part of the Inner Plane worlds?”

“No, no, no, that isn’t the case” the white fox shook his head.

Gu Qing Shan was a bit confused.

The white fox slowly considered his words and explained: “So far, the worlds we’ve found are split into ‘Layers’, respectively the Outermost Layer, The Middle Layer, and the Inner Plane Outermost Layer”

“The Outermost Layer worlds are the weakest, frequently destroyed by the demons without much effort”

“The Middle Layer is slightly stronger. For example, our world resides within this Layer, we are able to put up resistance against demons to a certain degree”

“At this point, our world doesn’t fear any normal demon or Demon Lords”

“As for the Inner Plane Outermost Layer worlds, the weaker Demon Lords don’t even dare to show up, only particularly strong or confident Demon Lords can attempt war with those worlds”

“Just like how my powers are unimaginable to you, the powers of living beings of the Inner Plane Outermost Layer worlds are unimaginable to myself”

“These three Layers are commonly referred to as the Outer Plane”

As Gu Qing Shan listened, he compared this knowledge to the strangeness of Shen Wu world’s coordinates and found that it actually made sense.

If you compare their coordinates, Shen Wu world and the Suspended world aren’t in the same ‘Layer’.

So Gu Qing Shan asked: “Does that mean the worlds I’ve been to all fall into the category of the weakest Outermost Layer worlds?”

“That isn’t correct either”

The white fox looked at him knowingly and answered: “They don’t belong to any of the three Layers of the Outer Plane”

Gu Qing Shan was confused: “Then which Layer do they belong to?”

“They belong to the scattered masses of worlds outside of the Outer Plane, tiny uninitiated worlds”

“As long as the demons don’t mind the trouble, those worlds are like little sparks of flame that can be put out at a moment’s notice”

“So the worlds you’ve been through are collectively called Scattered Worlds, because they can easily scatter into nothingness at any time”

Gu Qing Shan froze.

He never thought the truth would be this way.

“If it’s as you said, then the Outer Plane is divided into a total of 3 Layers?” he asked further.

“That isn’t it either” the white fox sighed, “the worlds are so vast and so great that even powerful kings and monarchs of the Inner Plane Outermost Layer don’t dare to claim they know how many Layers exist”

The white fox began to reminiscent: “There was a story, about a Monarch of the Inner Plane Outermost Layer world using a total of 36 worlds as the price to ask a Combatant of unspeakable level of power to answer one question” (1)

“The Combatant took the 36 worlds, but wasn’t able to answer the question”

“What question was it”

“The word Outer Plane, how did it come to be?”

“He already took the payment but wasn’t able to answer the question, so the Combatant felt a bit guilty and revealed another secret instead”

“What was the secret?”

“How many Layers are there in the Outer Plane”

The white fox smiled a bit: “Take a guess, how many Layers are there exactly in the Outer Plane?”

Gu Qing Shan tried guessing: “10 Layers?”

“Wrong”

The white fox cleared his throat and answered.

“The entire Outer Plane consists of 900 million Layers”

“What we call the Outermost Layer, the Middle Layer and Inner Plane Outermost Layer are merely the three outermost layers”

“Of the 900 million Layers, every Layer contains billions or trillions of individual worlds”

“The Combatant said that this was the common understanding of the Outer Plane, but that’s all they knew”

“As for why it was called Outer Plane, the Combatant didn’t know either”

“Do you understand? We purposefully chose a collapsing world within the Scattered Worlds in order to test our newcomer”

“That is why you got the chance to meet me”

“If you had miss this chance, passing through the trillions of worlds to once again to meet a person of our Middle Layer would have been impossible”

“You managed to catch a once in a lifetime chance”

Note:

(1) Combatant: Refers to those with a lot of personal strength before anything else, as opposed to those with only authority and wisdom but no strength and has to depend on others for protection.

The original word is “強者” – meaning “strong person”, after a lot of thinking I decided to translate this word as Combatant because it fits very well, the standard for being called “strong person” changes from world to world, so someone like GQS is a Combatant in his world, but is only a small fry in the Suspended world.