Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Gu Qing Shan reached towards his back and instantly wielded his bow.

Thunderous booms echoed across the world.

Blurry images of arrows was released one after another.

Despite trying its best to avoid, the Gloom Shadow Devil was still struck by one of the arrows.

The intense kinetic energy sent the devil rolling backwards like a cartwheel.

Lowering his bow, Gu Qing Shan displayed a mocking expression.

"The Heavenly Emperor isn't here, while the Gloom Shadow Devil and I are both normal Chosen Saints with our powers sealed, what deluded you to think that you could win against me?" he calmly said.

The Gloom Shadow Devil casually agreed: 「 You're right 」

Its body turned into a pool of blood.

From among the numerous black tubes, one of them lowered itself and placed the body of a giant in front of Gu Qing Shan.

All the tubes then retracted themselves.

The giant opened its eyes.

「 This is a giant that does not belong to the Samsara, he still has access to all of his powers, just enough to kill you 」the giant declared thunderously.

"Kill me?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

「 That's right, you're going to die 」the giant said.

With a thunderous battle cry, the giant swung its arm with all its strength, and smashed its own head with a single hit.

-------Azure Dragon Origin Hex!

Gu Qing Shan stood cross-armed with his bow and shrugged: "Use your true power, otherwise, I'd think that you just wasted your countless years of living------ actually, maybe you lived for so long that you've become dumb instead?"

The black tubes around them began to twist chaotically.

One after another, the substitute bodies were being placed down to face Gu Qing Shan.

Powerful Combatants of various races woke up one by one.

They all remained quiet while focusing their powers, ready to act at a moment's notice.

In a single blink--------

These Combatant puppets acted in unison, using their own techniques, weapons, and unarmed strikes against themselves.

『 Impossible… I know that you have a Dragon Hex that will take effect as soon as anyone talks to you, but I didn't say a word 』an insectoid voice spoke up.

Gu Qing Shan cleared his throat and replied: "You didn't say a word, but I'm tacitly recognizing that you were calling my name in your mind, so I tacitly answered in my mind"

-----that was why the Dragon Hex still took effect.

Complete silence.

The insectoid voice spoke up again:

『 I hate dragons, a bunch of low-life scoundrels… 』

Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt his body stiffening up.

At some point, a sharp black tube had already pierced through his back.

"Gah… argh…"

Gu Qing Shan fell down to his knees and started coughing up blood by the handful.

An insect noise reverberated across the world, which turned into a voice in Gu Qing Shan's mind:

『 Pitiable insignificant being, forcing me to personally act--------- Dragon Hexes can't affect me in any way, while you can't even take a single attack from me 』

Gu Qing Shan tried to endure the intense piercing pain and focused his mind.

The visage of vast endless land began to manifest behind his back.

-----[Virtue!]

[Virtue: The true power of a Saint Pillar (unique)]

[Description: By selecting a source of attack, all damage caused by that source will be jointly shared by you and your surroundings. You will gain the seed of that attack's power, then nurture it through the power of the Earth God until you obtain it as your own]

[To provide for all, nurture all, and grow all, such is the Virtue of the Earth]

As soon as the Saint Pillar's power was activated, all the black tubes around Gu Qing Shan were shattered instantly as they began to spew out a strange black liquid.

From that location all the way to the end of his vision, all the black tubes were shaking intensely.

This world of black tubes was sharing the damage from the Eternal Mind Seizer along with Gu Qing Shan.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!

The world of black tubes began to collapse.

Originally, Gu Qing Shan was standing on top of a huge black tube, but now that it had shattered, he began to fall into the darkness below.

『 That must have been your ace in the whole, but unfortunately… 』

More sharp black tubes abruptly shot out from the void of space around them, before piercing deeply into Gu Qing Shan's body.

"ARRGGH!"

Clenching his fists tightly, Gu Qing Shan uttered a horrifying and painful scream.

He looked as if he had just been dunked repeatedly into a pool of blood, his body skewered by numerous tubes and held up in the air.

The tubes then began to absorb the power from his body-----

Until eventually, when Gu Qing Shan's consciousness had all but faded, his eyes slowly shut.

『 This is the end, I will recreate your body from the beginning 』the voice said.

Right at that moment, a few lines of bloody red text suddenly appeared right next to Gu Qing Shan:

[You're in a near-death state]

[You've lost the following amount of Merits: 1.5]

[Heaven's Decree – Heavenly Emperor's Divine Eyes has been activated]

Gu Qing Shan abruptly opened his eyes.

Two rays of colorful light shot out from his eyes all the way into the sky, shining through the countless black tubes towards the infinite void of space.

He saw the body of an insect that was glittering with beautiful colors.

Eye technique, activate!

Cak cak cak cak cak cak---------

The black tubes that were attached to him began to give off consecutive noises as they swiftly returned all the powers they took, then detached themselves from his body.

At this moment, these black tubes were under his complete control.

This was the power of the Samsara Heavenly Emperor!

"Go"

Gu Qing Shan grunted.

The black tubes all shot into the sky towards the colorful insect.

The insect uttered a surprised noise.

『 You----- how can you control my thought feelers? 』

Gu Qing Shan didn't answer and simply shouted: "All of you, go!"

Under his feet, the numerous black tubes began to move at the same time, all aiming towards the insect.

The sky above him became chaotic.

An invisible force was continuously attacking the black tubes, striking them until they became scattered pieces.