Chapter 539: 3 breaths

The frozen wasteland.

The chilling wind blew.

The snowfall was getting thicker.

About a dozen demonized people formed a defensive formation, ready to receive any attack.

Across from them, the frenzied boiling fog from before suddenly calmed down, as if it had lost its drive.

The cold fog silently became still.

“What happened?” someone asked in a low voice.

“Quiet!” the Warrior solemnly shouted.

The other person quickly shut up.

Everyone held their breaths as they stared at the icy sheet of fog without blinking.

A figure appeared from the fog.

Then slowly became clear.

A man wearing golden armor and a silver mask emerged from the fog.

Holding a sword in hand, he was moving towards the group step by step.

“Why is… a man here?” someone asked in shock.

“Must be a summoning technique” someone else said.

A summoning technique—— paying a certain price, forming a contract with certain mysterious existences and summoning them to aid in battle.

Only a summoning technique would be able to explain the current situation.

Everyone briefly thought about it and nodded.

The Warrior on the other hand: “Fools, this isn’t a summoning technique, didn’t you notice the girlie isn’t here anymore?”

While saying that, he was staring straight at the man.

How strange, it gave off such a terrifying presence just now, why did the attack suddenly disappear without a trace?

And this silver mask swordsman, he doesn’t have any presence at all.

Is he bluffing, or is he actually hiding his strength?

The subordinates all suddenly realized.

As they carefully sensed the inside of the fog, they indeed didn’t find any trace of that girl.

That’s right, there’s no such thing as a summoning technique that can make the summoner disappear.

Which means, this golden armor swordsman must be that girl?

But their statures look different.

They all exchanged glances, feeling the situation to be a bit weird.

“Boss, what do we do now?” someone tried asking.

“Don’t worry, no matter what he is, he’ll just become our Soul Points in the end” the Warrior declared.

He held his shield tight and stepped out from the group.

“Where’s the girl?” the asked the golden armored swordsman.

The swordsman was still walking forward bit by bit, answering him: “You shouldn’t have asked that”

“Why not?”

“She’s mine”

“Who are you? Answer me, or I’ll kill you right now” the Warrior threatened.

He raised his shield, preparing for battle.

Gu Qing Shan stopped.

He evaluated the enemy first before looking at the group behind him.

The other people were also prepared to defend themselves.

With their unified defensive formation, it can be seen that they were all battle veterans.

…and besides their own strength, they can always exchange for more items from [Kindling].

Fooling them isn’t going to be easy.

Gu Qing Shan sighed, cracking his stiff neck.

“If you want to know who I am, you need to survive first”

Saying so, he disappeared.

A thick metal shield appeared where he originally stood.

This was the tower shield that the Warrior was using to block himself.

At the same time, Gu Qing Shan stepped closer to the Warrior and thrust into his chest.

This was a strike without any warning.

While being stabbed, the Warrior smirked: “Want to kill me? I will—–”

He bulked up every muscle in his many, clamping the sword down.

Since he has no way to pull the sword back out, if he lets go, I’ll punch him to death.

While the Warrior prepared his next move, his enemy had already continued his attack.

Gu Qing Shan raised his sword.

The Warrior was lifted up with it.

The sword was swung outwards.

The Warrior was tossed to the air, flying towards his subordinates.

“Quickly, catch the boss!”

The others ignored their defensive formation and hurriedly prepared to catch him.

The Warrior landed.

It was lucky that his men squarely caught him.

But the Warrior disappeared again.

A blue-dress girl appeared in his place, standing right in the middle of the group of demonized people.

She attacked.

Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow]

In a flash, layers upon layers of sword shadows bloomed.

Countless sword shadows shuffled, cut, weaved between the demonized group.

“No, my spell is unable to defend against this attack!” someone shouted.

Boom!

A thick blood mist erupted as desperate screams came all around.

On the other side, after the Warrior changed places with Shannu, he was standing in front of Gu Qing Shan once again.

He didn’t know what happened at all, only that he once again found himself in front of the enemy after his vision blurred.

The Warrior pulled out a spear, shouting: “You demon, I’ll kill——-”

But Gu Qing Shan was waiting for this moment.

His sword flashed.

Oong—-

The Earth sword left afterimages as it swept through the Warrior’s neck with a high-pitched sound of the blade slicing through the air.

His head took flight.

The Warrior’s body was still standing in place with a spear that he just raised.

The headless body stood still, as if it was unwilling to accept that his life had ended.

“What did you say?” Gu Qing Shan stopped his sword and asked.

Clack—

The head encased in a thick metal helmet dropped down, forming a shallow hole in the ice.

Gu Qing Shan shook his head: “Seems like I asked too late”

With a light push, the headless body in full body armor fell with a ‘thud’.

Gu Qing Shan disappeared again.

He appeared next to Shannu.

At this time, [Drawn Shadow] had just ended.

Those who used spells to protect themselves were instantly killed thanks to Shannu’s anti-Law characteristic.

Those who used armor or items to block managed to survive, albeit still in a horrible state.

Gu Qing Shan raised the Earth sword.

Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow].

Another [Drawn Shadow]!

Black sword shadows bloomed.

The 86,370,000 tons Earth sword created highly destructive sword shadows that destroyed everything.

The remaining demonized people as well as their defensive items were equally crushed under such power.

Only a single demonized person managed to tell that his death was coming right at the very last moments of this speedy battle.

He roared: “[Kindling], I use all my Soul Points to exchange—–”

Unfortunately, before he could speak the words ‘Demon Lord’, a gigantic light blue sword phantom had already reached him.

This strike was so great that it directly erased him from the frozen wasteland.

Leaving not even a single scrap of flesh.

“Gongzi, it’s good that you’re here, he almost managed to do it”

Shannu still held the Six Paths Great Mountain sword in hand as she commented.

“I’ve been cautious all this time not to let them give [Kindling] any Soul Points to exchange for items”

Gu Qing Shan said.

He withdrew the Earth sword and looked around.

The outer layer of the frozen wasteland was broken through as the corpses of the demonized people floated on the water.

They all died.

From start to end, the battle lasted a mere 3 breaths.

In such a short time, before any of these demonized people managed to tell what was going on, they were already killed.

The full amount of Soul Points they gathered now belonged to Gu Qing Shan.

Shannu stood on one of the floating icebergs, curiously looking at the water below.

“Gongzi, the water below this layer of ice is so deep” she was surprised.

“Yeah, wait a minute, I need to deal with something” Gu Qing Shan spoke.

As he spoke, he glanced at the two System UIs.

A notification popped up on both the blue and red UI.

[You obtained 3165 Soul Points]

There were some more texts on the War God UI.

[You managed to gather 3000 Soul Points, activating the second Iaido]

[Please select the skill you want to use Iaido on]

“I choose the Taiyi Sword Array”

[Please confirm you want to choose this Skill]

“Confirm”

[The Skill has entered a second Iaido state, the next time you use it, its power will increase two-fold]

The text on the blue War God UI gradually faded.

A voice came from the red [Kindling] UI.

[You’ve collected quite a bit of Soul Points, you can now exchange for any items with the System]

Saying so, the [Kindling] UI exchange shop automatically opened in front of Gu Qing Shan.

The very first page was filled with various swords.

“All these swords, really…”

Gu Qing Shan clicked his tongue.

He just spent twice as much effort as he did in the battle just now to restrain himself from looking at the swords.

“Thanks for the reminder, but I’ll accumulate more Soul Points to exchange for more precious things” Gu Qing Shan replied.

[The amount of Soul Points you have should be more than enough to exchange for the most powerful swords here, what else do you want to exchange?] [Kindling] couldn’t help but ask him.

Gu Qing Shan coldly scoffed.

——you want Soul Points?

Heh.

“I want this” he selected another tab on the UI.

This tab showed various kinds of Demon Lords.

Gu Qing Shan pointed at the most powerful Demon Lord there and spoke: “I want this”

This was a human-bodied monster with a wolf head wearing a crown.

It had its eyes closed, silently hovering on the UI.

Below, this description was written:

[Dead Soul Demon King, Chaotic Demon Lord. Exchange price: 100,000 Soul Points]