Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Breaking apart the shroud of night, the cut-out sceneries of myriad worlds appeared in front of them, stretching all the way to space itself.

Gu Qing Shan looked carefully at the sceneries as he said: "Some advice please"

Lin glanced over them and replied: "Just look for a world without any people. A Measure Tribulation is best not faced in a place with many living beings"

"I know about this, the more people are within the range of the Measure Tribulation, the stronger it becomes" Gu Qing Shan replied.

He pointed at a barren, desolate world and said: "How about there?"

"Not good enough, choose another" Lin took a glance and suggested.

Gu Qing Shan hesitated, but quickly looked at another world.

The reason why he respected Lin's opinion so much was that even though her powers were lost, her cultivation wasn't.

At her level of cultivation, her sense of danger was several times more sensitive compared to Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan pointed at a blue world.

"What about this one?" he asked.

"I've already been there. There are people living underground, it's not a completely empty world"

"Alright, then what do you think about this one?"

"Hm, this one looks ok"

Lin agreed.

Their gazes were fixed onto a certain barren world.

A few moments later.

An airship took flight and went past the world barrier, heading towards that empty barren world.

Behind them, the world was collapsing at an even greater pace.

…

A world made entirely out of diamond.

There wasn't a single soul here.

This world itself was a gigantic block of diamond.

But this block of diamond wasn't a planet that was floating in space.

It was drifting by itself inside another world that was submerged underwater, one of that world's many sub-worlds.

The ship followed the path Gu Qing Shan ripped open in the void of space and directly entered this diamond world.

Gu Qing Shan jumped off the airship.

In order not to affect him, Shannu controlled the airship with Lin on it and headed further away.

Gu Qing Shan stood stably on top of the solid ground.

He could already sense the approaching Measure Tribulation from the unknown faraway.

As soon as he circulated his spirit energy to attempt to break through right now, the Measure Tribulation would be triggered.

Gu Qing Shan took out a pill, put it in his mouth, and closed his eyes.

He mediated his breathing and slowly circulated his spirit energy to break through the barrier of the next realm.

Approaching.

Closely approaching.

The Measure Tribulation was about to--------

Bam!

An abrupt sound resounded.

A little person that was around the size of his thumb appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan.

She was a cute small girl wearing a purple dress with a pair of dragonfly wings behind her back-------

This isn't the Measure Tribulation!

Gu Qing Shan forcefully stopped his breakthrough and shouted: "Who are you!?"

The small girl smiled at Gu Qing Shan, gave him a piece of parchment, bowed, and disappeared.

Gu Qing Shan received the piece of parchment and saw that it was written in ancient pixie language:

[Wanted]

[Evil Great Pixie Bart]

[The criminal Bart is wanted for possession of tobacco leaves harmful to pixies, attempting to look into the royal family's secret, sneaking into the royal palace to rob and attempted kidnapping of the pixie princess]

[Anyone who captures or kills him would obtain the pixie royal family's bounty rewards!]

[This bounty has been completed]

[Brave human young man, you have killed the evil great pixie Bart and is entitled to this bounty]

[Please use this wanted poster to wipe your snot or wipe your mouth after a meal to turn it in!]

Gu Qing Shan rubbed his temples and put the wanted poster away, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Pixies were infamous for not being able to read between the lines.

They only do what they think that they should do.

There was once a man who passed away after doing the pixie a great favor.

The pixies then pooled their efforts together to use a powerful Quipcraft to prolong the man's life, insisted that he accept their thank-you gift before they dispelled the Quipcraft.

The man was revived without understanding why.

Received a gift, then died again without understanding why.

The pixies, on the other hand, believed that they had expressed their gratitude enough and directly disappeared from front of the man's corpse.

------this was the characteristic of their race as a whole, so Gu Qing Shan can't criticize them at all.

However, the more the pixies got into contact with the other races, some of their puzzling actions could be explained and justified.

For example, this time around, they abruptly appeared just moments before Gu Qing Shan's dire Measure Tribulation in order to give him a bounty that he didn't even know existed, but they sealed the prize inside the wanted posters parchment, so they just gave it to him and left without an extra word of gratitude.

For them, this was already the most formal way they knew to treat other people.

Gu Qing Shan had no words.

He could only settle himself down again to prepare to face the Measure Tribulation.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

Following his breathing, his spirit energy once again gathered and began breaking through the Paragon realm bottleneck.

All of a sudden--------

An illusory image appeared around him.

It replaced the entire world, then turned into the world itself.

Gu Qing Shan found himself standing on top of a high platform.

Various still images stood right in front of him and stretched all the way to the end of the world.

Each picture depicted terrifying monsters that were waiting and ready to face him.

Meanwhile, behind Gu Qing Shan, the world had already begun to crumble into a fine white powder that dissipated into the endless darkness below.

As Gu Qing Shan looked at the crumbling world behind him, his expression became serious.

The endless darkness represented the Law of Total Destruction, a Law manifested by the Measure Tribulation that cannot be bypassed or stopped.

Any living being caught by this darkness would crumble away with the illusory world, their soul included, not even leaving them a chance to reincarnate.

This was also the reason why he had been so wary of facing the Measure Tribulation.

In the Age of Old, this was also the reason why Xie Gu Hong couldn't face this Tribulation.

He was being monitored too closely by the Divinities.

Even a split second of delay within the Measure Tribulation could mean permanently losing his life without any chance of return.

And to successfully make it through the Measure Tribulation, there was only---------

Gu Qing Shan turned back and looked straight at the still images in front of him.

He had to make it through every image.

The first image depicted a black demon with goat horns.

It was the first demon that Gu Qing Shan remembered killing, once again manifested by the Law of Heaven in order to avenge its own death.

Gu Qing Shan went into the image and swung his sword.

The horned demon charged forward to stop him but was sliced in half.

-------the Law of Heaven operated under its own rules.

Although Gu Qing Shan killed this demon all those years ago, he did it in order to save himself, so the Law of Heaven didn't grant this demon too much power.

It was only three times stronger than it originally was.

And the equipment it was wearing was the best a demon like it could obtain.

But for the current Gu Qing Shan, dealing with such a demon was very simple.

After the horned demon died, the image collapsed and Gu Qing Shan returned to the Measure Tribulation world.

Behind him, the world was crumbling faster and faster.

The darkness spread, corroding everything in front of it.

Gu Qing Shan didn't stall any longer and swiftly charged into the next image.

This image depicted five demon beasts.

Gu Qing Shan drew his sword.

The demon beasts died.

The image collapsed.

He charged forward again.

---------these first few demons and demon beasts were nothing but a warm-up.

After a while, he finally met the first person he killed.

To be exact, it was a group of people, including a few hitmen and a Martial Master.

They worked under the order of the Confederate aristocrats, cornering him on the streets in order to kill him.

They were once again given form and power by the Law of Heaven to avenge themselves.

Gu Qing Shan charged towards them and swung his sword.

The people died.

The image collapsed.

Gu Qing Shan felt his heart becoming a bit heavy.

These people were originally just regular people, yet they were reinforced by the Law of Heaven and Earth to have power equivalent to Rejuvenation realm cultivators.

This was quite a large boost.

There wasn't time for him to think.

Gu Qing Shan kept charging forward, creating distance from the crumbling world and the darkness behind.

He charged into the next image-------

A horde of demons!

These were the creatures from the cultivation world, a horde of low-level demons from Shen Wu world that he killed in order to escape their encirclement.

Gu Qing Shan's twin swords swung.

All the demons were killed without leaving a single one.

The image collapsed.

With his current strength, killing these monsters felt equivalent to chopping vegetables!

The darkness behind him had already swallowed the second image and silently continued to give chase.

Gu Qing Shan swiftly entered the next image.