Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

While lingering at the bank of the lake, Gu Qing Shan carefully considered his options.

It had been a long time since he had been this cautious.

And no one could blame him for it, after all, he had just reached a mysterious realm------ Tribulation realm.

Very early on, while he was in Shen Wu world, the Wild Flame Raging Armor had already explained to him briefly about these higher cultivation realms.

He could still remember the Wild Flame Raging Armor's words at the time.

「 The limit of your world is Sainted realm, but above Sainted, there are still three more realms which are Projection realm, Tribulation realm and Virtualized realm 」

「 Among them, Tribulation realm is the strangest one, cultivators in this realm will have to face adversities one after another, all the way until you break through this realm and achieve Virtualized realm 」

And so, a cultivator at Tribulation realm will no longer be facing the Wind and Lightning Tribulation that they were used to, but various others of all shapes and sizes.

Once a cultivator manages to make it through everything, they will naturally advance to Virtualized realm.

A certain point of view was commonly accepted in the Suspended world--------- that a Tribulation realm cultivator is constantly facing a Tribulation.

This view was shared with the cultivators of Shen Wu world.

However, cultivators of the Suspended world had a more profound understanding of this realm.

They believed that the adversity faced by a cultivator directly correlated to their karma, good or bad.

Cultivators who had a lot of blood on their hands would be soaked in the sins of their past as karmic adversities caught up to them.

There was once an evil cultivator who had to go through a total of 8963 adversities during his Tribulation realm.

He died when he was going through the final adversity before advancing to Virtualized realm.

That adversity came from his junior brother.

Years before, when this cultivator had only just joined the sect, during a campaign when they invaded a certain world, he sold out one of his junior brothers.

That junior brother was tricked and trapped inside a dangerous ruin and was never heard from again.

This evil cultivator then went on to harass and court his junior brother's fiancee until she finally caved in and became his.

This was supposed to be a long-gone history.

But who would've thought that his junior brother was blessed and actually stumbled across an opportunity left behind by someone else, who then went on to cultivate in seclusion for 10 years until they could escape the ruins.

The time this junior brother came back was also when that evil cultivator was about to advance to Virtualized realm.

Taking the chance at the last few moments before he broke through, the junior brother ambushed and killed him.

That was why in the Suspended world, many cultivators weren't at all wary of the Virtualized realm Tribulation but were deathly afraid of the karmic adversities of the Tribulation realm.

After all, the cultivators of the Suspended world were constantly committing sins of various degrees, there were never short of karmic adversities for them to face.

Tribulation realm cultivators…

Are constantly… facing a Tribulation…

Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but felt a bit of a headache as he rubbed between his eyebrows.

He tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a jade tag.

This was one of many scriptures that he obtained from Guang Yang sect's grand elder Wang Hong Dao's Inventory Bag in the Suspended world.

At the time, right after Gu Qing Shan killed Wang Hong Dao, Shannu quickly took his Inventory Bag.

As a Cryptic realm grand elder, the items in Wang Hong Dao's Inventory Bag were the best of the best.

And now they all belonged to Gu Qing Shan.

As he took the jade tag in his hands, lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI.

[Item name: Tribulation Karmic Sensing Secret Art]

[Type: Scripture]

[War God Skills: Practicing this scripture will allow you to sense how many adversities you will need to face during Tribulation realm]

[Attention: This is a Secret Art scripture devised by cultivators of the Suspended world specifically for Tribulation realm. While it may help you determine how many adversities you will have to face, there is no way for you to know the exact timing of those adversities]

[Note: Learning this scripture will cost you 200 Soul Points]

[Doomsday Chronicles: none]

Since he had over 80,000 Soul Points left, Gu Qing Shan paid the 200 Soul Points right away.

He closed his eyes with the jade tag in hand.

A warm flow came from the jade tag into his finger, following his arm up and into his Thought Sea.

Very quickly, Gu Qing Shan comprehended everything that he needed to know about this Secret Art.

He formed a hand seal and infused it with spirit energy.

Right away, the world harmonized with him and showed both the good and bad karma he had accrued in his life so far.

The number of karmic adversities he had to face quickly appeared.

In total…

Three times.

Once each during the early, middle and late stages of Tribulation realm.

After that, he would advance to Virtualized realm.

Gu Qing Shan opened his eyes and was a bit surprised.

Three was the base number of adversities, every cultivator would have to face at least three adversities during Tribulation realm.

------do I really have so little bad karma?

Now that I think about it, I have saved a lot of people…

Regardless, there are only three adversities, I'll be able to pass them if I'm careful enough.

This is worth being happy about.

Gu Qing Shan's mood quickly became better.

Now that this is dealt with, I'll contact Shifu.

And then, I'll have to see the sect's situation and act accordingly.

He tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a unique talisman.

This was the Universal Talisman that Shifu gave him before.

As long as the distance between them wasn't too far, one person could take an item placed into a Universal Talisman by another.

Gu Qing Shan also took out one of Bai Hua Fairy's communication talismans, recorded a few words into it before putting it into the Universal Talisman.

Almost immediately, he could sense that communication talisman disappear.

Bai Hua Fairy had already taken the talisman out!

Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.

It has been a really long time since I last saw Shifu.

When I went to the Suspended world, I once tried to use the Universal Talisman, but perhaps because the distance was too great, the talisman wasn't usable.

Now that I'm back in Shen Wu world, even though this place has become a lot more vast than it once was, the Universal Talisman can be used again.

A few moments later, a communication talisman appeared inside the Universal Talisman.

Gu Qing Shan took it out and infused it with spirit energy.

With a concerned tone, Bai Hua Fairy's voice came from the talisman: "Qing Shan, someone tried to impersonate you lately, even though I've dealt with them, you shouldn't run around too much in order to prevent any unnecessary misunderstandings. Wait there for your two junior sisters to pick you up"

Tried to… impersonate me?

Gu Qing Shan was stunned.

But he quickly understood.

No one that wasn't a sword cultivator could impersonate him.

And there shouldn't be anybody capable of doing that in this world.

Which means it must be a cultivator from another world----- perhaps even from the cultivation alliance.

Whoever did this must have investigated the matters regarding Qi Yan's invasion of Shen Wu world thoroughly.

At that time, Bai Hua Fairy and the Great Monk of Sorrow had cooperated and used everything they had to fight against Qi Yan. In the end, Gu Qing Shan brought hundreds of thousands of Tianma to help them and sent Qi Yan to the Tianma realm.

But at the cost that Gu Qing Shan himself was sent to the Suspended world.

The entire cultivation world stood witness to this event.

Gu Qing Shan scowled.

Obviously, the person who orchestrated this knew about Gu Qing Shan's exploits.

They also knew that the person called Gu Qing Shan had left this world.

If someone were able to use my identity to travel the world, they would definitely be able to gain a lot of intel on this world.

But Shifu is here, why did they dare to-------

That's not true!

To obtain the world fusion quota, Shifu had to join the cultivation alliance.

She must have frequently left this world in order to participate in the alliance's wars.

If she wasn't here, and someone had indeed purposefully tried to impersonate me as best as possible, they might have actually succeeded!

The saviour of Shen Wu had returned from a faraway land.

This impersonator would've been treated with gratitude by everyone that knew him.

It's likely that the impersonator had already managed to obtain crucial information and secrets of this world.

The reason Shifu told me not to move around carelessly was most likely to prevent paranoid cultivators who were already deceived once from attacking me.

Gu Qing Shan went silent briefly before smiling bitterly.

I went to the Suspended world to impersonate Qi Yan, and someone came to Shen Wu world to impersonate me.

Is this what they mean by 'you reap what you sow'?

Fortunately, Shifu had already known and dealt with this.

However….

What did Shifu mean by 'my two junior sisters'?