Chapter 1102: The Formal Sacrificial Dance

Gu Qing Shan stepped out from the crowd.

“What do you think?” he asked through his inner sight.

The Earth sword replied: 「 That curse is a type of sentient power, once it approaches you, it will surely manifest as nearly invisible entities 」

Gu Qing Shan continued: “In other words, you can slay them”

The Earth sword replied: 「 Right, I can probably make sure that it won’t get close to you, but this will need Soul Points and your swordsmanship—— you must perform a sword technique without any gaps 」

Gu Qing Shan continued walking towards the gate in front of the bridge and pondered: “What if I combine [Earth’s Choice] and [Parting Fire]? Would I be able to perform better?”

The Earth sword replied: 「 You’ll have to give it a try——- hah, my expertise is in killing, not defending. If it was the Six Paths Great Mountain sword, it would be much better, since her expertise is cutting through all Laws, perhaps she would be able to get rid of this curse entirely 」

——Shannu was currently acting as Gu Qing Shan and was travelling with Boss’ group to the Bramble Bird Kingdom.

Gu Qing Shan shook his head.

He quickly thought through all of his means in his head.

I don’t have much information about this curse from the Dusty World, there’s no choice but to deal with it as I go.

Gu Qing Shan pushed the gate open.

“Let’s go” he whispered.

「 Got it 」the Earth sword replied.

Gu Qing Shan took a step forward onto the floating bridge.

A breeze softly blew.

Some sort of malicious power suddenly manifested out of thin air, converging towards him from every direction.

Gu Qing Shan’s eyes turned sharp as he wielded his sword.

In a brief moment, countless razor-thin sword phantoms surged forward from his sword, striking one another numerous times.

Sword of Extinguishing Flames, cutting through all techniques, [Parting Fire]!

The Earth sword’s Thaumaturgy, [Earth’s Choice]!

The power of his sword overlapped with the Asura Divine Skill to manifest a single technique.

Gu Qing Shan raised his sword.

Flames abruptly manifested with a slash that cut through the void.

Dozens of screams suddenly resounded.

The Heavenly Father cast his watchful gaze down from above.

Everyone who was watching from the side also appeared attentive.

This strike seemed to have struck something!

The ones before him could only make sure that the curse didn’t corrode them, but now, he had managed to achieve the next step and actively retaliated against the curse itself!

“A good chance—-”

Gu Qing Shan muttered as blue arcs of lightning appeared from his body.

“Whatever malicious spirits are interfering, show yourselves!” Gu Qing Shan shouted in fury.

The lightning erupted all over him, manifesting as numerous clusters of light that circled around his sword.

At the very next moment.

The numerous lightning snakes all converged to form a blooming blue lotus!

This was his Lightning Thaumaturgy [Dreamjolt] and Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow] combined with each other, a new combination Skill that Gu Qing Shan had only just come up with after he had a grasp of the Asura Deific King’s swordsmanship.

Secret Art, [Lightning Shadow]

The blooming lights dispersed as soon as they appeared, scattering further into the void of space.

Numerous invisible entities were struck by the lightning sword phantoms and became stunned, unable to move.

『 Chee—- 』

『… Ah… hateful…』

『 Life…』

『 Death! 』

Countless malicious voices mumbled senseless things in the air.

Quite obviously, Gu Qing Shan’s sword technique didn’t manage to injure them, only the power of [Dreamjolt] made it so that they temporarily couldn’t move.

The Earth sword’s mountainous heavy voice sounded: 「 While the curse isn’t dispelled, they can’t all be killed, attacking is meaningless 」

Gu Qing Shan lightly nodded.

He could see clearly that these things originated from the curse, so killing one or two of them held no meaning.

——-fortunately, the twin snakes of black and white helped me regain my expended strength before I got here.

It wouldn’t take too much effort to make it past these things.

But while the curse persists, I won’t be able to keep fending them off for too long, let alone save the Sacred Chant Angel.

Gu Qing Shan turned his train of thought.

As long as I can make the Sacred Chant Angel laugh, the curse will be dispelled.

…

…That’s not right.

Gu Qing Shan changed his perspective and continued to think.

Before I arrived, countless people must have already arrived in his Temporal Oasis in order to save the Sacred Chant Angel.

But none of them managed to make her laugh.

Including the Sacred Chant Angel herself, who had tried everything she could but still couldn’t force herself to laugh.

How could I make her laugh?

I’m not Ye Fei Li, I have no experience with things like making a girl laugh or enjoy herself.

Then, let’s think about this from another angle.

The reason why the Sacred Chant Angel can’t laugh is because she was struck by a curse from the Dusty World.

—–I don’t need to care about whether or not she laughs, I just need to focus my effort on dispelling the curse itself for her to recover.

This matter can be resolved that way and would not depend on whether or not she laughed!

However, dispelling the curse is easy to say, but not even the Heavenly Father could do such a thing.

Entities like the Giant of Beginning must have already been invited to take a look at the Sacred Chant Angel, but still couldn’t come up with a solution.

So many powerful entities had been helpless to dispel this curse.

And the Earth sword itself had claimed that it can’t kill them all.

Time quickly passed.

Five seconds was up.

The invisible entities in the void of space regained their freedom and once again went back into hiding.

Gu Qing Shan continued forward.

He swung his sword, killing these invisible creatures one after another.

The Asura only avoided these monsters, while he killed them.

This immediately stimulated the curse and caused it to unleash even more power.

More and more invisible monsters gathered where he was until they fully encompassed the space around Gu Qing Shan, not leaving him a single gap.

Gu Qing Shan turned his hand to grab the Chao Yin sword, wielding both swords at once!

Layers upon layers of sword phantoms overlapped with one another, each swing slaying several of the invisible monsters.

However, the monsters were endless, and the monsters that emerged afterwards were gradually becoming more and more powerful.

By the time he reached the center of the bridge, there were too many invisible monsters in the void of space to count.

The monsters uttered ear-piercing screeches and screams, but were still completely unseen, causing many to feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

While continuously performing his sword dance, Gu Qing Shan quickly thought of possible countermeasures.

Damn it, how exactly should I dispel this curse?

At some point, he couldn’t help but mutter: “Dispel…”

For some reason, a voice suddenly resounded in his ears.

It was a dry, hoarse female voice that seemed a bit disappointed that muttered: 「 Too little power… it is fine… I shall unleash your power 」

Gu Qing Shan was surprised.

It took him one breath’s worth of time to realize what just happened.

A split second later, his body shot backwards, still retaliating against the invisible monsters while retreating from the floating bridge, and landed right outside the gate.

As he had left the floating bridge, the power of the curse couldn’t reach him.

They were not able to affect things outside of their range.

The Heavenly Father’s voice resounded from above: “Do you wish to give up?”

Gu Qing Shan shook his hands and loudly asked: “Wait a moment, I’ve just thought of a new solution. I’d like to try again, is it possible?”

The Heavenly Father froze briefly before answering with a joyful tone: “Of course you can. As long as you’re confident with your solution”

“Thank you”

After saying so, Gu Qing Shan stood right outside the gate of the bridge and silently readjusted his breathing.

——-he had understood what just happened.

Lines of glowing text appeared on War God UI:

[Through your previous hard work and training, your Sacrificial Dance has accumulated a bit of power]

[This is a curse from the Dusty World. Its intense attacks of you and your wish to dispel this curse has successfully attracted the attention of a certain entity related to the Living Being Sacrificial Dance, who had casted their attention onto you from a distant world]

[This entity had ignited the power of the Sacrificial Dance that you had accumulated before leaving]

[As you are the Huang Quan Devil King of the Samsara, you have the property of ‘earth’]

[As you are the Earth Pillar of the void, you have the property of ‘earth’]

[Now, you may perform a formal Dance of the Earth God]

[Attention, this is not a training session!]

[Attention, this is not a training session!]

[Attention, this is not a training session!]

[This is a formal performance of the Living Being Sacrificial Dance]

[Dance of the Earth God]

[Begin]

Gu Qing Shan quickly skimmed through everything.

He seemed to have understood something from the distant unknown.

At the same time, the heaven, earth, sun, and moon all turned dim.

A sandstorm began to manifest from the void.

The entire world seemed to have entered a gloomy state.

A gentle faint glow seemed to have appeared on Gu Qing Shan’s body, which made him seem almost like an Apocalyptic Deity.

He took a deep breath, felt the power of the dance, and lightly took a step forward.

Dong!

The bang of a drum.

Unlike the previous festive drumming, this was a resounding and heavy bang of a battle drum.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The sound of the drum was gradual but rhythmic.

—–other than the sound of the drum, there was no other music, only the sound of the fluctuating howling sand storm that drifted about the air.

Dignified, solemn.

Gu Qing Shan took another step forward.

Wielding his sword, he pointed it forward.

“Awaken” he muttered in a low voice.

Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum!

The drumming started to become rapid as if urging something.

At another location in the Holy Heaven, where Archangels from countless hundred millions years ago who died in battle were laid to rest, a faint light that reached all the way to the sky erupted from below.

A skeletal angel who still donned their armor climbed out from their grave.

After a moment of silence, the angel reached their hand into the ground to pull out a greatsword buried in the vicissitudes of time, fapped their skeletal wings and took to the sky.

The skeletal angel looked towards Gu Qing Shan’s direction.

Dong dong dong! Dong dong dong!

The sound of the drum became even more rapid!

The second skeletal angel emerged from their grave, wielding a half-moon curved blade as they took to the sky.

The third armored skeleton pushed open their grave, propped a heavy mace on their shoulder and also took to the sky.

The fourth…

The fifth…

A total of 12 Archangel skeletons.

They were the 12 most battle-worn and heroic Archangels of war in the history of the Holy Heaven.

Gu Qing Shan took another step forward, once again entering setting foot onto the floating bridge.

In front of him, the invisible monsters within the range of the bridge converged all at once, manifesting as a giant visible face.

It observed Gu Qing Shan, then spoke in a low voice: 「 That body, I want. Wielder of the Earth, you cannot foil my plan! 」

As the face spoke, the world itself began to tremble.

All living beings were forced to the ground, their powers stripped away.

Even the Heavenly Father was forced out of the sky, only by exerting all of his holy power was he able to stop himself from falling.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t reply.

He grabbed the Chao Yin sword and the Earth sword in his hands, then softly danced.

A sword dance!

Among the sound of the drum, his voice resounded: “This is a battle from the past of the Dusty World, where you and I stand on different fronts!”

12 faint streaks of light flew across the sky before landing behind Gu Qing Shan.

The Archangels of war had shown themselves.