Chapter 624: Secret

Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr.Lock

Proofreader: Arya

Gu Qing Shan held the Devil King Warden Rod and told everyone: “I’m going to greet the newcomers, be back soon”

Saying so, he activated the scepter’s skill: [Dead Essence].

[Dead Essence: The Devil King can travel at will among the layers of hell, communicate with the dead from long distances and immediately wake up the dead who fell into slumber]

The very next second, Gu Qing Shan disappeared in place.

Everyone was all mildly surprised.

“Gu Qing Shan obviously doesn’t know any Spatial magic, yet he was able to disappear in front of me, how interesting—— it seems to be that scepter’s power?” Kitty spoke in intrigue.

Ye Fei Li answered: “He’s the Huang Quan Devil King”

Zhang Ying Hao added: “Hell is his turf, he can come and go as he pleases”

What the two of them said caused even Barry to feel curious.

So he couldn’t help but ask: “Isn’t Huang Quan supposed to be the place where dead people rest in the Samsara? Why is Gu Qing Shan that place’s Devil King?”

Zhang Ying Hao told him: “That’s a bit of a long story”

“Well we have nothing to do right now, so go ahead” Kitty urged him.

“Alright, here’s what happened…” Zhang Ying Hao began to recount the story.

He told them everything from the events of the Frozen hell all the way to the end.

Barry grinned: “This method of saving the world is truly extraordinary, as expected of someone from our club”

Kitty was deep in thought: “Bro, have you heard of any magic that allows someone to directly travel to the world of the dead?”

Barry answered: “Besides the apostles of the Death God, I really can’t think of any other magic that can do that”

“That’s right, the Samsara world is truly miraculous, to be able to form its own closed cycle of reincarnation, it’s likely that not even the eternal Death God can reach his hand this far” Kitty commented.

Barry then mentioned another point: “I saw it clearly, what Gu Qing Shan’s sword did wasn’t anti-magic, but rather magic-break——– it directly shattered the soul magic, and also, that khopesh was able to grasp the souls, Gu Qing Shan’s scepter granted him directly control to hell, normal Divine Armaments wouldn’t be able to do this much”

Kitty nodded: “Hm, after seeing all that, I have an impression that the Samsara world’s Origin Law seems to be a bit too powerful——– much more powerful than any other worlds”

“That’s true, I really can’t imagine what the Old Gods thought when they created such a world and such weapons” Barry spoke emotionally.

…

On another side.

Huang Quan realm.

Hell.

With the Devil King Warden Rod in his hand, Gu Qing Shan was immediately able to sense everything that happened within the 18 layers of hell.

Millions of living beings that were suffering within hell appeared in his mind.

Soon enough, Gu Qing Shan found those God Institute people.

Five of them in total, none were able to escape and were trapped in hell.

It was now that Gu Qing Shan could relax just a bit.

The Divine Mountain’s [Law Breaker], Forgetting River’s [Soul Capture] and the Devil King Warden Rod, it took three Divine Armaments to trap these eerie people here.

—–in truth, Gu Qing Shan could’ve tried not using the Forgetting River Soul Separating Hook to confirm whether or not an outsider who dies within the Samsara world would enter the Samsara or return to their own system of hell.

But these people were too eerie and dangerous that Gu Qing Shan couldn’t risk it, he didn’t want them to return with any intel, so he brute-forced it and used the Forgetting River Soul Separating Hook to bring their souls directly here.

“…The Frozen Hell, huh?”

Gu Qing Shan’s body became blurred as he once again travelled between the layers of hell.

Within his vision, lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI.

[You have killed 5 enemies]

[You’ve successfully defeated 5 people stronger than yourself]

[Soul Points gained: 18,000]

[Soul Points gained: 17,000]

[Soul Points gained: 14,000]

[Soul Points gained: 20,000]

[Soul Points gained: 27,000]

[After calculations, your remaining Soul Points are: 96,000/600]

Soul Points was Divine Power, capable of showing extraordinary results within crucial moments.

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Seeing his Soul Points going up again, Gu Qing Shan felt more assured.

——-however, aren’t these people much weaker than that Purgatory Devil from before?

When we return to the Super Dimensional world, should I tell Barry and Kitty to capture another Purgatory boar so I can stock up more Soul Points?

While thinking that, he quickly travelled through the layers and arrived at the Frozen Hell.

Just like it always was, the Frozen Hell was frigidly chilling, the entire area was covered in nothing but ice and snow.

Gu Qing Shan followed the Devil King Warden Rod’s senses and silently made his way towards one of the occupied ice holes.

After a short while of flying, Gu Qing Shan hovered in the sky above the frozen fog and took a look below.

Some newly dead people were peacefully lying below the ice with their eyes closed.

From the look of it, they were indeed those people from God Institute.

Their souls have received bodies of the dead.

——to make sure that sinners can easily be tormented, the Law of hell would prepare a body of the dead for every new soul that arrives.

This body was exactly the same as how they were then they were alive, having the necessary senses to feel the pain of hell’s punishments.

Now for the next step.

With the Devil King Warden Rod in hand, Gu Qing Shan activated the power of [Dead Essence].

The people of God Institute sleeping below the ice suddenly woke up.

They opened their eyes wide and looked around in fear.

It was easy to tell that they were very shocked about where they currently were.

Soon enough, they managed to struggle free and broke out from the ice.

They all jumped out.

“Boss, where are we?” one of them asked.

“I’m not sure, but it looks like we didn’t return to God Institute” the leader spoke in a low voice.

The group glanced around only to see nothing but ice and snow that stretched as far as the eye could see.

One of them commented: “I still remember clearly the familiar feeling of being transported away after death didn’t change, why are we here now?”

Another replied: “At first we really were being transported, but you seemed to have lost their senses too early, I was able to feel, at the very last moment, a powerful pulling force that dragged me away”

Another person agreed: “I was also able to feel it, it was a sort of irresistible power that finally brought us here”

The group went silent and began to think about what this meant.

Gu Qing Shan was going to fly down, but as he heard their discussions, he suddenly stopped.

After some brief thinking, he silently flew up back above the dome of the Frozen Hell and hid himself among the frozen fog.

It seems their consciousness wasn’t fully active during the process of the soul magic.

—–let’s observe them first, I might get some unexpected harvest.

Thinking that, Gu Qing Shan became still and remained hidden.

A few moments later.

Sure enough, after the people of God Institute scouted around the area for a bit more, they once again discussed their situation.

Someone spoke absentmindedly: “Could it be because we failed our mission that our God was disappointed in us and transported us here instead?”

Surprisingly, his conjecture received unanimous agreement from everyone else.

The leader nodded: “Take a look, there are so many souls frozen inside the ground here, all of them appeared to be suffering—– I’m guessing this must be a place to suffer for repentance”

“Then it must be true, God must’ve punished us”

“Indeed”

“I also agree”

“Then what do we do now?”

“Hah, our mission already failed, let’s just accept our fates and the punishment”

“We can only hope that God will forgive us soon and grant us a new mission so we may make up for our mistake”

The leader spoke in a low voice: “Now spare the useless chatter, if God can bring us here, God must also know about our current reactions. Everyone should obediently accept the punishment of God”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

They then imitated the other dead people and buried themselves into the ice below.

Within the ice holes, the group quickly shivered from the chill.

——–the Frozen Hell didn’t have any terrible bodily punishment like some other places, but the cold of this hell directly acted upon the soul, so the agony that these dead people felt here was not at all lacking compared to the other Hells.

In just a few moments, someone was already unable to bear it.

“Boss, this place is too cold, why does God——” he called out.

The leader shouted: “Shut up! God is always watching us, do you WANT God to put us through an even more severe punishment?”

The other person went silent.

They all silently endured the torture of the Frozen Hell.

Gu Qing Shan: “…”

Although you could say that these people were idiots, this was also partly due to the fact that they haven’t witnessed the Hells of Huang Quan.

It was indeed rare to see a force so great that it could casually affect a soul even after death.

In fact, you could say that besides their ‘God’, these people have never seen any entity capable of such a feat.

Even Lord-class Combatants like Barry and Kitty haven’t seen such a thing.

So their current thoughts and conjectures made sense.

But their conversation caused Gu Qing Shan to scowl.

——-didn’t their ‘God’ only live for a single split second?

Are they speaking nonsense?

If their ‘God’ has actually chosen to feint death and hide away without showing itself? This would be very interesting if that was the case.

What was it planning?

Gu Qing Shan continued thinking.

Apparently, these people came to a Scattered world in search of a world tomb.

But world tombs are things hidden away by the Old Gods, not only is there no way to confirm whether or not they are actually there or not, it wasn’t possible to know what exactly would appear once a world tomb is opened either.

Furthermore, with how many worlds there were in the 900 million World Layers, and how many world tombs were hidden among them, why did they specifically go to a Scattered world?

And how did they find this place?

…I have to make all of this clear.

Gu Qing Shan pointed the Devil King Warden Rod towards the guy that complained about the Frozen Hell being too cold.

He activated [Soul Dispersion].

[Soul Dispersion: The Devil King can use the power of the scepter to permanently eliminate the soul of a disobedient dead, the eliminated soul will disperse and turn into sustenance for the scepter]

A moment later——-

That dead person suddenly felt immeasurable fear.

He could sense it from his soul, this was the power of an Origin Law.

And that this power could completely destroy him!

He panicked and instinctively shouted: “Aaah, please no! I have continuously collected souls for you, there is a soul-storage item in my personal prayers chamber! There are over 90,000 souls that I still have yet to dedicate to you, o’ great God, I beg you, my God——-”

And then, he uttered an anguished high-pitched scream.

The great power penetrated his soul, making him experience pain even greater than being in hell.

This was the Huang Quan Devil King’s ultimate punishment—— the life and death of all dead people within the 18 layers of hell could be controlled with but his single thought.

The man’s body and soul soon completely disappeared from the ice hole.

He had been completely destroyed and dispersed, never again to appear in any other place.

Everyone else was shaking in fear.

The leader loudly declared: “Do you see! He dared to deceive God and hid away 90,000 souls for himself, that is why God wanted to kill him!”

“Indeed, his death was deserved!”

“A heretic!”

“All souls belong to God, yet he dared to hoard it for himself, he deserved to die!”

Everyone else quickly agreed.

Suddenly, deep in the sky, a loud voice came.

「 At the will of God, I have come to judge you 」

「 You may now speak! 」

The voice was solemn. It had only declared why it came, but the tone was stern and questioning without allowing any objections.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

With the frozen fog obscuring the sky, they weren’t able to see anything.

But these dead people could feel the power that forced them to submit——- the very power that ruled over this realm!

Without reinforcement from God, who could obtain such great power in the first place?

The leader gulped and quickly reported: “I don’t know which great one had come, but this humble one can swear, we have indeed followed the will of God to investigate that unique world tomb”