Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

"…You interrupted my exploration and forced me to return…"

The Heavenly Emperor said indifferently.

Gu Qing Shan replied: "You're the one who tried to attack Star Gazer city first, and what do you want, saying something like that now?"

"Die" the Heavenly Emperor curtly said.

As soon as he said that, the void of space around them started to tremble.

A completely new world manifested.

Gu Qing Shan noticed that there were numerous pipelines all around them.

-----these pipelines covered every single direction of this world, connecting heaven and earth together, they reached endlessly deep into unknown directions and were made of unknown materials.

Gu Qing Shan cautiously muttered: "This place is…"

"Where you die" the Heavenly Emperor replied.

He lightly waved his hand.

Dozens of thin long tubes shot out from the surroundings towards the Star Gazer Deus Machina.

As they ran into the tower shield in front of the Star Gazer Deus Machina, they moved around it almost as if they were sentient.

Then swiftly attached themselves deeply into the Star Gazer Deus Machina.

"Once all the Samsara Origin Power is sucked dry, I assume you won't be able to control this city anymore" the Heavenly Emperor said with his hands still clasped behind his back.

Gu Qing Shan was shocked.

Without waiting for him to react, the tubes immediately began to absorb the Star Gazer Deus Machina's power.

The Star Gazer Deus Machina was rendered immobile almost instantly.

It seemed to have run into some sort of unsolvable error.

After that, all the tubes pulled back in unison with considerable force------

The giant mech was swiftly dismantled into hundreds of components, which followed the tubes back into the pipelines where they originated from.

Gu Qing Shan blankly stood still.

Everything happened so suddenly that he appeared to be stunned and was unable to process what was happening at all.

The Heavenly Emperor calmly spoke: "You have one last chance to save your life, pledge your allegiance to me"

A mystical rune manifested in front of him.

The rune then hovered towards Gu Qing Shan without a sound.

"Imprint your real name within the rune, then pledge your allegiance to me. In consideration of the fact that you possess a Saint realm technique, I won't torture you" the Heavenly Emperor replied with an ultimatum.

He then turned around, seemingly uninterested in Gu Qing Shan's choice.

--------it was as if everything had already come to an end, and nothing unexpected could possibly occur.

After remaining silent for a few moments, Gu Qing Shan spoke: "I refuse"

"So you want to die? No, I'm going to inform you that that will be impossible------ I will extract your soul and leave it here in my world so that you would undergo a million years of unceasing torture" the Heavenly Emperor casually said.

Gu Qing Shan replied: "Defeat my Star Gazer city first, then speak"

-------wasn't Star Gazer city already destroyed?

Gu Qing Shan stood still, completely empty-handed, yet he still said something so strange.

Even stranger was that the Heavenly Emperor didn't refute his words.

"A very interesting person, one rarely comes by" the Heavenly Emperor muttered.

"This is also quite an interesting occurrence" Gu Qing Shan also commented.

The two of them fell into silence.

As if to confirm something--------

After a few more moments, the Heavenly Emperor asked: "How did you find out?"

Gu Qing Shan replied: "I am the City Lord of Star Gazer city, if the city gets so much as a tiny scratch, it will ask me to mobilize the Merits of its Chosen Saints to repair it"

"But it didn't use any Merit just now?" the Heavenly Emperor asked.

"Indeed" Gu Qing Shan replied.

The Heavenly Emperor nodded.

At the very next moment.

The pipeline world vanished completely.

Gu Qing Shan found that he was still on top of the Star Gazer Deus Machina's control platform.

A mass of light was draped around his body, constantly reading his motion so that he could control this mothership-level mech.

--------it turned out everything that just happened was an illusion.

Without a sound or warning, Gu Qing Shan's senses had been deceived and led him to believe that he was unceremoniously defeated.

If he hadn't noticed that the Star Gazer Deus Machina didn't give any response at all, Gu Qing Shan would have believed that he was actually defeated by the Heavenly Emperor.

"If not for this Samsara city, you would have lost" the Heavenly Emperor commented.

"I'm sorry, but this is a Samsara city" Gu Qing Shan shrugged.

"I'm starting to truly feel intrigued with you, this time, you can really become my subordinate" the Heavenly Emperor said.

"But why do you refuse to fight me?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

The Heavenly Emperor didn't answer.

"Wouldn't everything be resolved with a fight? What we're participating in is the Samsara Clash for Supremacy, wouldn't a battle be the quickest way to victory? What are you so wary of?" Gu Qing Shan pursued the question.

The Heavenly Emperor looked straight at him and replied with a slightly more solemn tone: "I merely don't want others to be the oriole"