Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

TN: since this novel doesn't only deal with a single "world", the term "parallel world" doesn't quite explain it well enough, please think of every instance of "parallel world" from this chapter onwards to have the same meaning as "parallel reality" or "parallel universe" instead. The term itself will be kept as "parallel world" in order to keep the paragraphs from overcrowding with big words.

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Following Gu Qing Shan's choice, all the other Cards on the [Origin] UI disappeared, leaving only the Gold Card left.

A few lines of blood-red text appeared to give further description:

[Attention please:]

[For you personally, a Condemnation Card is the only item capable of taking in the Earth Creator's power]

[This is a Gold Card, the power it contains far surpasses your expectation, if you choose this Card, you will no longer be able to draw other Cards]

Gu Qing Shan answered without hesitation: "I'll choose this Card"

Don't even joke about that, this is a Gold Card you know?

Little Dusk once told me, after Lapis comes Azure, after Azure comes Lilac, and after Lilac comes Gold.

Even 100,000 Lapis Cards are not equivalent to a Gold Card!

Even though this Card can only be used once, Gu Qing Shan could already tell how important it would be.

As Gu Qing Shan confirmed his choice, the Gold card fell into his hand.

[You have obtained the Gold Card: Earthen Dual Body]

[The Order has completed all current Quests, now evolving to the Revolution stage]

[During the Revolution stage, you can summon and control the Demon Lord war machines]

As these lines of blood-red text finished displaying their message, they slowly faded away.

Gu Qing Shan stopped caring about the [Demon King Order].

He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the immense surging spirit energy in his body.

A Three Thousand Worlds realm cultivator could destroy heaven and earth at the flip of their hands.

A Three Thousand Worlds realm cultivator was equivalent to the strongest Lord-class Combatants in the future 900 million World Layers.

But all of this was meaningless in the face of an Eternal Abyss monster.

Gu Qing Shan sighed, summoned his giant wings of sword, and ordered them to scatter.

The 700 flying swords scattered as ordered, performed the same set of swordplay in a perfectly fluid motion that was both natural and flexible.

Gu Qing Shan could now control 1200 flying swords at once, but he hasn't managed to find so many yet.

With his power as a Three Thousand Worlds realm cultivator, controlling 700 flying swords at once couldn't even make him break a sweat.

And since his total spirit energy reservoir had greatly increased, the power of his sword techniques were increased by several-folds again.

After fully grasping his current strength, Gu Qing Shan put his wings of swords away.

Luo Bing Li, the figure of light and the God of Frost and Chill all flew towards him.

「 How is the [Demon King Order] now? 」the figure of light asked.

"It's evolving again, it will soon reach its Revolution form" Gu Qing Shan replied.

The figure of light sensed a bit to confirm that his [Order] had indeed entered another dormant period and nodded in satisfaction: 「 Quite a decent speed of advancement 」

The God of Frost and Chill then asked: "What happened after you went to the Wraith Realm? Why did we have to leave that phantom image so quickly?"

Both Luo Bing Li and the figure of light seemed intrigued.

Gu Qing Shan replied: "Something huge happened in the Wraith realm, my spirit sense told me that I couldn't remain in the Wraith realm for a second longer. I still sensed death approaching me, so for the sake of safety, I wanted to leave right away"

The figure of light muses: 「 So it was because of your cultivator spirit sense, then I can understand your reaction at the time 」

Luo Bing Li also nodded.

Gu Qing Shan looked at the figure of light and asked doubtfully: "Did something significant happen in the Wraith realm during the time period that I went there in history?"

The figure of light replied: 「 There was only one notable event: all the demonic sea creatures and evil creatures of the Chaos Demonic Sea suddenly died, even one of the three strongest Evil Kings, the Lord of Total Distortion, lost his life. Death continued to spread over all the Wraith realm, killing all the evil creatures of many evil realms, but the Xie Qi Fiend Realm should have been unaffected 」

"Did you know the reason for this?" Gu Qing Shan tried asking further.

「 It was a matter of the Wraith realm, we very rarely paid much attention to it, so we didn't know the reason 」the figure of light replied.

The God of Frost and Chill glanced at Gu Qing Shan and asked with concern: "Why are you asking about the matter of the Chaos Demonic Sea? Weren't you staying in the Xie Qi Fiend Realm?"

"Because while I was cultivating in the Xie Qi Fiend Realm, the entire Wraith realm was loudly discussing the matter that happened in the Chaos Demonic Sea, causing a lot of unrest. It was due to it that I felt uneasy" Gu Qing Shan half-angrily answered.

The other three were surprised.

Luo Bing Li told him: "That is nothing important, you shouldn't think too much about it"

Gu Qing Shan nodded in agreement: "I'm just curious. But why do the two of you, the collective consciousness of the Divine race and humanity's selected guide not know anything about the Wraith realm?"

「 Because there are too many unclear matters within the Wraith realm, those evil creatures harbor a great grudge towards us. Furthermore, there were many hidden paths leading into the Eternal Abyss constructed in the Wraith realm from a long time ago, there simply wasn't any benefit for the Divine race to explore the Wraith realm 」the figure of light answered him.

"For humanity, it was the same. Whenever we faced our Tribulations, we would always have to fight with those evil creatures, let alone exploring the Wraith realm. Since humanity didn't even have the leisure to do anything else but save ourselves, we naturally didn't care about what the evil creatures did" Luo Bing Li told him.

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly.

What they're saying makes sense.

If I didn't travel to the Abyssal Jail and awaken the sleeping Demon Dragon, would the Abyssal Fate Weaver have been able to escape?

As soon as he had such a thought, Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but contemplate it further.

For some reason, he kept feeling like something wasn't quite right about this matter.

The sleeping Demon Dragon and the Abyssal Fate Weaver should be entities around the level of the Soul Shrieker.

Any movement they made would greatly alter the future of the world.

Unfortunately, the sleeping Demon Dragon wasn't willing to help humanity, instead it craved the power of the Abyss.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and said: "I want to travel to the Wraith realm again"

"The Wraith realm is too dangerous, I suggest that you don't try that again" Luo Bing Li spoke seriously.

"It will be fine, this time period should already be several years later after the last time I went to the Wraith realm. Whatever happened back then should have already happened, not to mention, I've already gotten used to how easy it is to advance in the Wraith realm. This time, I can definitely help the [Demon King Order] evolve to its [Demon Tide] stage or perhaps even close to the [Demon King Ascension] stage"

The God of Frost and Chill spoke: "Very well, you should leave now. It's best to allow the [Demon King Order] continue its evolution, that way, we can complete our transaction. I shall help you obtain the Heaven Sword, while you provide me the power of the [Demon King Order]"

"Understood, then we shall split up again. Your side should go and get the Divine race of this era on your side, I heard that the Divine race has a few things that can help the [Order] evolve" Gu Qing Shan replied.

He then sent his voice to the God of Frost and Chill: "Watch out for them"

Shannu understood.

"What about you?" Luo Bing Li asked again.

"I'm going to the Wraith realm to help the [Demon King Order] evolve further" Gu Qing Shan replied.

Luo Bing Li was still hesitant but didn't say anything.

"Don't worry, there is no one stronger than I am, not to mention he's here" the God of Frost and Chill pointed at the figure of light and said.

Hearing the Divine King say that, and since the [Demon King Order] really was evolving very rapidly, the figure of light didn't voice any opinions.

Luo Bing Li hesitantly told him: "Then you must be careful, from what I understand, the Chaos Demonic Sea is an exceedingly dangerous area, definitely do not go and throw your life away there"

"I wouldn't do that" Gu Qing Shan said with a serious expression: "I still have a lot I need to do, my goal is still the Heaven sword, so everything else is nothing but secondary"

Only after hearing that did Luo Bing Li nodded.

After their discussion was finished, Gu Qing Shan once again left.

The Wraith realm.

The Xie Qi Fiend Realm.

Since this was another phantom image, the owner of the Xie Qi Fiend Realm was still the Cruel Bone Devil King.

When Gu Qing Shan arrived in this world, he noticed something happening inside his Inventory Bag.

The two Strings of Law disappeared.

When they came into contact with the Xie Qi Fiend Realm and Cruel Bone Devil Realm of another timeline, they were erased by the Law of Time.

Gu Qing Shan didn't pay much attention to that.

He didn't even want to take over this evil realm anymore.

Because he noticed that his strength had undergone a qualitative change and made it so that fusing these small evil realm fragments couldn't give him enough benefits to do anything.

But if he tried to take over enough evil realms to break through again and fused them, that would draw the attention of all the powerful evil creatures.

At that time, he would face a senselessly huge battle.

Compared to that, it was more important for him to look for the secret of the Abyssal Jail.

Gu Qing Shan was extremely curious to know what happened to the Abyssal Jail after that event transpired.

He transformed into a random evil creature and quickly made his way to the Chaos Demonic Sea.

Standing on the beach, Gu Qing Shan fully released his Three Thousand Worlds realm inner sight, stretching it several thousand miles away to scan the entire nearby ocean area.

"Not a single demonic sea creature? Are they really all dead?"

Gu Qing Shan muttered doubtfully.

While standing on the beach, he was sensing an inexplicable sense of chill in the air.

Unlike his lie earlier, this was really his spirit sense recognizing a threat this time around.

"Chao Yin"

He called.

The Chao Yin sword appeared from the void of space and landed in front of him.

"Let's go"

Gu Qing Shan held the Chao Yin sword, parted the sea, and jumped in.