Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Gu Qing Shan looked down at his neck.

----the only pendant he was wearing was Anna's Death Relic.

This pendant is still intact even after I went into the Old God's Ice Mountain.

There's nothing else but this pendant on my neck.

I can't use any items…

Gu Qing Shan looked back at himself.

Hm, so clothes don't count as items.

The Old God's divinity skill, is it used to prevent living beings from attacking them, or do they simply look down on the tools of their creations?

Fortunately, ever since going to the world of Huang Quan, due to bringing the entire inheritance of Bai Hua sect with me, I've always put both the fragrance bag and my Inventory Bag in my Thought Sea without arbitrarily taking them out.

Otherwise, those storage items would've also crumbled to dust.

And it seems whatever Laura took out was also destroyed by the divinity skill.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and regretfully spoke: "I told you, you shouldn't have taken it out"

Laura only smirked at him without saying anything.

Lines of glowing text suddenly scrolled past the War God UI.

[Unidentified]

[Unidentified is currently probing and evaluating you to decide what form to take as your armor]

[This is a lost relic from the Age of Old from the Unending Abyss of the broken worlds, a place where no living being can go------ besides a small number of Bramble Birds]

[Before it fully manifests, the System has no way to know the item's details, please patiently wait for it to manifest]

Gu Qing Shan was silently surprised as he read the War God UI.

"Where is the Unending Abyss of the broken worlds?" he asked.

[Ting]!

The War God UI responded: [The Unending Abyss is deep inside the Mystic Zones, practically the innermost layer of the Outer Plane]

Gu Qing Shan asked again: "So besides the Bramble Birds, no other living beings can go there?"

[Actually, most Bramble Birds would die before they managed to get too far inside, only very few members of the royal family can reach the Unending Abyss itself]

Are the Mystic Zones that dangerous?

Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but shake his head, thinking: no wonder every item from the Mystic Zones is so sought after, and why the Bramble Birds are so well received.

Even Barry and Kitty were hoping to pay back their debts with anything he could bring back that came from the Mystic Zones.

Kitty once told him that a lot of living beings couldn't stay in the Mystic Zones for too long.

And this 'Unending Abyss of the broken worlds' is supposedly so dangerous that you can't even go there.

"Laura, how did you get this thing?" Gu Qing Shan directly asked her.

"Ah? So you have noticed? That was much faster than I had thought"

Laura continued: "This item came from an especially dangerous place where no one else dared to go. At the time, to prove that I have become an adult, I went their once"

"You shouldn't go back there again, it's too dangerous" Gu Qing Shan firmly told her.

A place where no one can reach, even creatures from the Mystic Zones like the Bramble Birds would die if they tried going----- if it really is such a dangerous place, it would be better if Laura never went there again.

Seeing his worried look, Laura couldn't help but smile a bit.

"It is fine. If I do not go, no one would be able to go to that place at all"

"Why not?"

"Because of this"

Saying so, Laura suddenly disappeared from Gu Qing Shan's shoulder.

All Gu Qing Shan felt was his shoulder becoming lighter before Laura disappeared.

Instinctively, he used inner sight to search, but also found nothing.

Not being able to sense someone with inner sight------- this was especially terrifying for a cultivator.

Because most cultivators have made it a habit to use inner sight as a method of clairvoyance, if both their sight and inner sight were unable to detect the enemy, a cultivator would be nothing but a living target.

Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but recall the situation back at the royal green room.

At the time, Laura also suddenly appeared out of nowhere, catching me off guard.

And then…

Apparently even Combatants at the level of the Spirit of the Holy Tree, the big rooster as well as Triste couldn't detect Laura either.

How interesting.

"Laura, are you still here?" Gu Qing Shan called out.

"Yes, I am still sitting on your shoulder" Laura replied.

Gu Qing Shan tried reaching to his shoulder with his hand, but caught nothing as well.

"How strange, I can't feel you on my shoulder either"

"I am here, but you cannot find me. Because I am avoiding everything"

Saying so, Laura reappeared.

Gu Qing Shan felt weight on his shoulder again.

He thought about it.

As soon as Laura disappeared, even her weight would be gone, and my hand couldn't touch her either.

It seems she won't receive any damage while in this state.

If that was the case, this is a technique to enter a hidden and invulnerability state at the same time.

That's impressive.

"What kind of magic did you use just now?" Gu Qing Shan was curious.

"I used to call it [Playing Tag], but according to the records of our ancestors, this talent has only appeared once before over 10,000 years ago. At the time, it was called [Shelter of Infinite Worlds]"

Laura puffed out her chest and continued: "This is a natural born talent unique to the Bramble Bird royal family. It is said to be very hard to awaken, only appearing twice in several 10,000 years, and I am the second bearer of it"

"Very extraordinary" Gu Qing Shan praised her.

Laura took out another piece of cake and started eating.

As she ate, she explained: "Whenever I use this talent, I would feel really hungry, so I need to replenish my energy"

"This talent cannot affect any life forms except for myself, and if I run out of stamina and cannot fill my stomach in time, I would not be able to use it"

"It's still very impressive" Gu Qing Shan smiled and told her.

He stood still, waiting until Laura finished her cake.

"I am full now, let us go"

"Hm"

Gu Qing Shan stood still.

"What is the matter?" Laura asked, concerned.

Gu Qing Shan looked a bit at her, then at the mountain, staying silent briefly.

Regardless if there are any traps, the divine temple at the top of this mountain is a real creation of the Old Gods.

It definitely holds the secret of this world.

If that's the case, to win against [Kindling], I must take a look!

Gu Qing Shan finally decided.

"It's nothing, let's go" he said.

"Hm" Laura nodded.

They got back on their horse.

The black horse followed the stairs of ice, quickly making its way up the mountain.

With how fast it was, it reached the top of the mountain in just a few moments.

Gu Qing Shan went off the horse, picked Laura up from the horse's back and put her on his shoulder.

They went into the divine temple.

The temple itself was the same as the ice mountain, created from transparent, glittering blue ice, showing the sky above as if the ceiling didn't exist at all.

There wasn't anything like statues of the Gods inside this temple.

Gu Qing Shan glanced around.

Beside a large staircase, an empty high platform and a large plaza, this divine temple had nothing.

Although it was most likely abandoned, there was still more than enough space here to fit several thousand people.

And right at the middle of the temple's central plaza, there was a large ice cave.

In the ice cave, the faint blue water and light was mixed with the ink-like clouds of blood, reflecting on the dome atop the divine temple like a scenery out of a dream.

This ice cave was connected to the inside of the mountain.

It seems that in the Age of Old, Old Gods used to summon their creations from below with this opening.

A large hill-like monster was lying flat on the ground just outside the ice cave

Its body was filled with shockingly large holes, where blood was still dripping out.

The monster laid still on the ground, obviously dead.

Around the monster, a few hundred people formed various smaller groups, resting.

Briefly counting, Gu Qing Shan estimated there to be about 800 people.

From the looks of it, these people had about the same level of strength as the group of 10 he killed before.

It was obvious that these 800 people killed the monster.

And he confirmed something.

My guess was right, [Kindling] is commanding these demonized people to hunt ancient life forms to collect Soul Points for it.

But I still don't know how much [Kindling] has gathered.

Or has it already become [Origin]?

Gu Qing Shan felt a sense of crisis unlike never before.

He looked at the crowd of people.

At a glance, he could tell they were waiting for something.

Could it be, there was another ancient life form coming up to the surface of the water?

Gu Qing Shan stopped and stared at the [Kindling] UI.

"I'm here now, what should I do next?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

The dark red UI stayed still without responding.

[Kindling] didn't answer him.

Very quickly, the entire [Kindling] UI turned grey.

Gu Qing Shan was surprised as he saw that.

What does this mean?

The crowds of resting people suddenly all turned towards him.

They all had the same observing expression.

"So he's the mission target? Looks kinda weak" a hammer-wielding warrior commented.

"His strength could be considered decent even among us" another man whose eyes were glowing purple stared at Gu Qing Shan and said.

Apparently he was using some sort of appraisal type technique.

"Ahh---"

The people around all nodded and started to become rowdy.

"If God's Eye said that, it must be true"

"So what if he's decent? With this many of us here, we can just pile him to death"

"That's right, to get such high rewards by simply killing these two, it's so hard to understand why"

"Like we discussed before, we're all going to go at once, whoever kills him gets the prize"

"Of course, like we all agreed"

…

Over 800 demonized Combatants stood up one by one.

They prepared their weapons and eyed Gu Qing Shan with malice.

They were all ready for battle------- and since they were chosen by [Kindling] to hunt the ancient life forms, they wouldn't be new to battle either.

Gu Qing Shan turned to look behind.

The entrance to the divine temple had already been blocked off several groups of demonized Combatants.