Chapter 1036: Apotheosis

Xuan Ya’s home.

Laura rubbed her eyes as she sat up, stretched, and immediately noticed Gu Qing Shan.

“Gu Qing Shan, you’re back safely?” she asked, still a bit sleepy.

Gu Qing Shan smiled , walked up to her and lightly stroked her head: “As you can see, I’m perfectly fine. You, on the other hand, must have been exhausted after that trip through the ruins”

Laura emotionally replied: “Yes, I got to see many treasures from the ancient past, although I couldn’t take any of them with me, it certainly was an eye-opening experience”

Saying so, she put her hand into the void of space, grabbing something from it.

Everyone couldn’t ‘t help but look over.

Only to see that it was a clear blue staff with a flying bird adorned at its tip.

As soon as this staff appeared, the entire room was submerged in a faint misty fog.

Breathing in this fog made everyone feel refreshed and considerably more spirited.

Boss was surprised: “Ah, the style of this artifact, it feels like it came from the same era as those treasures in the God of Life’s ruin”

Laura replied: “That’s right, my ability has a certain characteristic. I need to experience and observe treasures of a certain level before I can actually grab treasures of similar level”

Hearing that, everyone couldn’t help but think of the same thing.

No wonder, during the exploration of the ruin when we couldn’t obtain any treasures within because of the covenant with the king, Laura said that it would still be a good thing to take a look.

It turns out that after she saw them…

She would be able to grab others…

Zhang Ying Hao suddenly took out his light-weight rifle and presented it for Laura to observe, asking: “Your majesty, please take a look at this gun, do you find any issue with it?”

Laura received it, a bit confused, but still took a glance: “This gun is quite good, however, it’s still hibernating”

Boss suddenly spoke up: “Your majesty, don’t look at that gun. If you have some free time , come to my part of the Abyss, there are a few strange Soul Artifacts with an unknown background that I’d like you to look at”

Laura was immediately interested and said: “Ah? Soul Artifacts with an unknown background? I’m really curious now, I’ll take that offer!”

“Wait a minute Boss”

Gu Qing Shan shoved Boss to one side and took out the twin swords Heaven and Earth: “Laura, it’s still a long while until we can arrive at the Abyss, take a look at these two swords of mine first”

“…” Laura.

Seeing everyone’s burning gazes, she slowly understood.

“Hah, Gu Qing Shan, you dummy. The twin swords Heaven and Earth are one-of-a-kind artifacts, I’ve already snuck glances at them numerous times. Also think about it carefully, even in the infinite void of space , how rare would Soul Artifacts of this level be? Of course, they would become source of fierce competition between countless unknown entities, there’s no way they would ever be without an owner”

Gu Qing Shan begrudgingly put his swords away.

That was indeed the truth.

If artifacts like the twin swords Heaven and Earth could be obtained so easily, the countless years of scheming and planning that the Soul Shrieker did would be nothing but a joke.

Thinking about that, the group put away such thoughts.

Laura continued: “That’s why, there’s an exceptionally low chance for me to grab a weapon or treasure of this level”

Exceptionally low chance…

Wait a minute!

Gu Qing Shan asked: “In other words, there’s still a chance that you might be able to grab one?”

“Hm, when I’m exceptionally lucky, of course. That’s really hard” Laura replied.

Everyone felt like laughing out loud.

Ye Fei Li sighed and said: “As the Duke of the Bramble Bird Kingdom, I feel like I don’t want to try anymore”

Laura waved his hands dismissively: “Don’t put too much hope in such unclear and illusory matters. You should know, treasures and such are still only external, the most important factor in obtaining what you want is still your own efforts!”

Your own efforts.

Why do those words sound so uncomfortable to hear?

Everyone tacitly agreed to avoid the subject.

Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a colorful rooster.

—–it’s already been a day, let’s see if I can obtain any new information.

It might just be his imagination, but Gu Qing Shan felt that the colorful rooster was about one size larger compared to when they last met.

He pulled on the rooster’s comb.

The colorful rooster came to life.

“Hic!”

It immediately hiccupped.

“Yo, youngster, what’d you find me for?”

As the rooster spoke, it seemed to be a bit dispirited, Gu Qing Shan also noticed it was a bit tired.

“For information, of course——- although, did something happen to you?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The rooster shook its wings and replied: “Nothing much, I’ve just been visiting an old friend, ate too much and got a bit fatter is all”

Gu Qing Shan nodded in understanding: “Ah, that makes sense. Then, please give me a piece of information related to myself”

“Same as before” the rooster formed a heart with its wings .

Gu Qing Shan reached his hand out and transferred a bit over 10,000 Soul Points.

Receiving the Soul Points, the rooster finally appeared a bit refreshed.

It peered its head up, carefully and cautiously peered into the void of space, as if looking for something.

After a while, the rooster pulled his neck back down, once again dejected.

“I made a loss this time… such important news… cost me so much Soul Points”

It muttered as it snuck a glance at Gu Qing Shan.

Knowing that this rooster fused with [War God Information], Gu Qing Shan understood that it was as much of a miser as War God UI, so he transferred another 90,000 Soul Points without hesitation.

——-after killing the Occultism spirit in that garden, he obtained 5,000,000 Soul Points, so now was the time to be generous .

The rooster raised its thumb and praised: “Very meaningful! You are just as generous as I knew you are”

“Listen well, as the Era of [Chaos] continues to descend, the 900 million World Layers is slowly but surely being enveloped by [Chaos]”

“One hour earlier, the Soul Shrieker successfully underwent apotheosis”

“A True Deity surpasses the normal concept of level and could never be defeated through regular fighting prowess”

“The Soul Shrieker is currently the only True Deity within the 900 million World Layers, currently spreading [Chaos] throughout every existing civilized world”

“The Seven Holy Churches of the Strife Zones have officially split up, a portion of the Holy Churches have chosen to surrender to the Soul Shrieker, while the others were faced with an ultimatum. If they do not choose to surrender, the Soul Shrieker shall personally destroy them”

“If you have any means to, you must quickly stop the Soul Shrieker, or it will all be too late”

After relaying that information, the colorful rooster turned back into a statue and couldn’t move any longer.

Gu Qing Shan fell silent.

Zhang Ying Hao patted his shoulder: “It seems we’ll have to quickly resolve the issue here and awaken the [Order]”

Ye Fei Li said: “The four fake Deities all hold a portion of the Card, so they should all be able to utilize the power of [Order] to a certain degree—— not only are they individually powerful, but they also have the power of [Order], how are we supposed to kill them?”

Boss sighed: ” In reality, their strength isn’t the issue, the main issue is the monster behind them”

Everyone went silent and couldn’t help but recall that scene.

——–several thousand giant black tentacles broke through the palace and reached into the air.

And that was only a small portion of the monster’s body.

Even the Deities only managed to defeat this monster without killing it.

Zhang Ying Hao spoke with a serious expression: “Other than the royal family, that monster can sense the death of every living being within Calming Soul Country, so if we kill any of the fake Deities, it’ll discover us right away”

Everyone went silent.

There were a total of four fake Deities, and if any of them were killed, they would attract the attention of that unbeatable monster.

What should they do now?

Gu Qing Shan silently listened without saying anything.

Laura silently watched him and noticed his train of thought.

She thought briefly and pulled on Gu Qing Shan’s sleeve: “Gu Qing Shan, last time you said that you wanted a Card from me in order to increase your strength?”

“Yeah, I did” Gu Qing Shan nodded.

At the time, I asked Laura for the [Elemental Wind Chaser Strike] Card in order to return to and comprehend the mystery converging the power of a thousand strikes into one.

As the Envoy of Condemnation, he has the ability to utilize Inner Plane Cards in order to advance his strength, but Gu Qing Shan’s power hadn’t reached the lowest threshold required for that yet.

And so for now, he could only consume normal Cards in order to improve his own swordsmanship skills.

——-similar to how the black cat evolved.

Laura asked: “Can you still use Cards to increase your strength?”

“I can”

“Then why didn’t you ask me for more ? Are you looking down on me?” Laura angrily questioned him.

“It’s not that… the Soul Shrieker took that chance to ambush me at the time so that matter was interrupted. One thing just kept happening after another after that, so there wasn’t any time to continue” Gu Qing Shan explained.

“A battle is approaching, so what other Cards do you still need? Hurry up and tell me” Laura asked.

That’s right, after my comprehension was interrupted by the Soul Shrieker last time, it’s been a long time since I contemplated my swordsmanship.

My control of sword phantoms had already reached a near-perfect degree, so I should only be one final step away from achieving the realm of converging a thousand strikes into one.

Gu Qing Shan immediately listed a few Cards.

Laura searched through her personal collection and quickly found the Cards that Gu Qing Shan needed.

Receiving them, Gu Qing Shan didn’t begin breaking through right away and instead told everyone: “If it’s only to kill those four Deities, I have a solution , but there are two problems that must be resolved first”

“The first?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.

“Firstly, we need to understand the extent of what everyone on our side is able to achieve in battle”

“The second?” Ye Fei Li asked.

“The four Deities do not appear without a reason, so we need to create an opportunity where they show up on their own accord and take that chance to kill them”

Boss said: “The first problem is easy to solve, we only need to display our strength in a secluded location in order to understand the extent of each other’s abilities”

Zhang Ying Hao mused: “As for the second problem, that’s relatively hard. Most likely, something extremely serious for Calming Soul Country as whole must occur for all four fake Deities to show themselves”

“Hm, the second problem really is tough”

“Unless another group of outsiders like us show up in Calming Soul Country”

Ye Fei Li and Laura both chimed in.

While they were discussing that, the light in the room suddenly flickered.

Radiant light began to shine behind them.

Everyone turned around.

Only to see endless golden light gathering on the body of the sleeping child.

Xuan Ya’s wandering soul was standing next to her child, completely shocked as she watched this.

She couldn’t help but mutter something.

“What did she say?” Gu Qing Shan asked in a whisper.

Ye Fei Li replied: “She said —– the new king has been born”