World's Apocalypse Online Chapter 545

When the flames of war were brewing in the 900 million World Layers.

When Iron Fist Barry and Lord Bloodcloak together with almost 100 Lord-class Combatants were facing off against a True Demon at the crack in space.

When the Spirit of the Holy Tree Tethys and the big rooster were in the royal green room, sending the news out to the infinite worlds.

When Triste came and left just as quick.

Gu Qing Shan and Laura were still in Triste's collection world------ which was inside the giant 12-layer cake on the table in the royal green room.

At this time, in Triste's world.

At the foot of the ice mountain.

Gu Qing Shan silently stared at the layer of ice beneath him.

Below the thick ice, you could see blood slowly being mixed into clear blue water.

This was the sign of death.

A lifeform created by the Old Gods had just died.

But it was a living creature, a sentient being.

Which meant it must also have Soul Points of its own.

According to the [Doomsday Chronicles], in the past life, today, Triste betrayed the Bramble Bird royal family and turned to the side of the demons, unleashing [Worlds Apocalypse Online: Kindling] on Aboul.

However!

Must reported news be the actual situation?

Ever since his return in time, everything that Gu Qing Shan had a part of in the past life had shown itself to not be as simple as he thought it was.

The System itself also told him that it was only to give him the information related to the famous historical events, but not the truth behind those events.

There are at least a few hundred million people currently in Triste's world.
[Kindling] is also here.
It has been issuing Bramble Bird missions in place of Triste.
And the few hundred million participants all do as it says.
Using that advantage, as long as [Kindling] issues a mission to kill ancient creatures, then offer to give them strength in exchange for Soul Points…
With a few hundred million people, even if only half of them accepted the mission, the rate that it gathers Soul Points would still be unbelievably fast.
As for how strong the ancient life forms are------
Didn't one of them die just now?

Gu Qing Shan sighed.

I entered this world much later compared to the others.
Right now, it's possible that a lot of them are currently or had already completed the missions given, gathering enough Soul Points for [Kindling] to upgrade itself.
This is already an irreversible situation.
No one has the ability to surpass the limit of space and time to reach those people and stop them from helping [Kindling] gather Soul Points.

Even if he could, what could he actually do?

Indeed, with Gu Qing Shan's strength, it's not too hard for him to suddenly catch about 10 decently strong demonized people off guard and eliminate them.

But I'm alone, how am I going to fight against over a hundred million demonized people?
It's impossible to win.
Not to mention, if [Kindling] had already finished upgrading to [Origin]…

Remembering the despair everyone felt back in the past life, then comparing it to the current situation, Gu Qing Shan fell silent.

He looked at the top of the mountain.

Is that [Kindling]'s trap, or is there actually a mission there?

Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes and silently thought about it.

If it is a trap, that means [Kindling] has decided to eliminate me since it sees me as a rebel.
With so many demonized people at its disposal, it becomes very easy to prepare a perfect trap.

No matter how powerful he was, Gu Qing Shan was simply not capable of winning against several hundred million geniuses from the 900 million World Layers.

So the best solution for now is to not climb the mountain and retreat right here.

Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.

But if I do that, I won't be able to find out exactly what [Kindling] did and what secrets this world holds.

He already saw the life forms created by the Old Gods, and a divine temple of the Old Gods at the peak of this mountain.

------this world obviously holds some sort of secret.

After several ten thousand years, the Old Gods had already left the 900 million World Layers and can no longer be seen.

But the creations of the Old Gods stayed behind and continued to thrive.

If he couldn't even find the deeper secrets of this world, then there was no way for him to find out what [Kindling] was planning.

But under the situation where both his eyes were blind, Gu Qing Shan alone couldn't go against the several hundred million demonized people under [Kindling]'s control.

And so, at this very moment, standing at the foot of the ice mountain, despite normally being very decisive, Gu Qing Shan was hesitant.

-----retreating means giving up the right to compete with [Kindling].
-----but going up the mountain makes it highly possible for me to fall into [Kindling]'s trap.

Gu Qing Shan sighed deeply, unable to help himself putting his hand on the frozen cliff.

Bone-chilling cold.

Gu Qing Shan found that unexpected.

His spirit energy wasn't able to stop the chill coming from the ice.

And a few lines of glowing text showed up on the War God UI.

[Snow peak of the Gods]
[In the Age of Old, the Gods created a divine temple at the top to observe the lifeforms they created]
[This mountain contains a divinity skill left behind by the Old Gods]
[Divinity: Solemn]
[Solemn: Living beings who climb this mountain cannot use items unrelated to the Old Gods, otherwise such items will immediately be destroyed]
[War God Skills: You cannot learn a divinity skill of the Old Gods]
[Doomsday Chronicles: Across the history of the 900 million World Layers, this ice mountain has never appeared in the public's eyes]

Gu Qing Shan froze.

Divinity?
Being able to destroy any item, what kind of power is this!?
But the Old Gods have already been gone for over tens of thousands years, would their divinity skill still work?
…it couldn't, right?

He looked down.

He was already on the first step.

Which means he was already climbing the mountain.

Gu Qing Shan was shocked and hurriedly called out: “Earth sword, Chao Yin, Shannu”

「 I'm here  」
Oong!
“Gongzi?”

The three swords appeared behind him from the void of space and replied.

Gu Qing Shan sighed in relief.

Seems like that divinity skill is no longer in effect.

He raised his feet, about to take another step.

A cold breeze blew past.

The light golden You Ji General armor crumbled into dust and scattered to the wind.

Gu Qing Shan was stunned.

He immediately turned around to check his three swords.

They were perfectly fine hovering in the air.

Why!?

Gu Qing Shan's gaze slowly passed through his swords.

The Earth sword.

As he looked at it, Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but recall what Bai Hua Fairy said when she gave him the sword: “The Earth sword is the 100,000 years heirloom of my sect, it has never been used to fight and is extremely precious. I heard that at in the Age of Old, it was able to contact with Divinity, a ceremonial sword”

Apparently, what the cultivation world used to call Divinity were actually the Old Gods.

Since the Earth sword was able to contact the Old Gods, it squarely fits with the requirements [Divinity: Solemn], since it wasn't completely unrelated to the Old Gods.

-----although it seems to enjoy killing Daemons and other descendants of the Old Gods.

And then there was the Chao Yin sword.

Chao Yin was forged by the Gods from the Age of Old, so it qualifies as well

Next was the Six Paths Great Mountain sword.

This sword was the World's ceremonial sword, manifestation of the Grand Tie Wei Mountain, a Divine Armament of Huang Quan.

This sword was passed down from the Age of Old, used by descendants of the Old Gods to control the realm of Huang Quan, which would also qualify it as being related to the Old Gods.

All three of these swords managed to qualify and were unaffected by the [Divinity: Solemn].

Was it a coincidence? Or was that really the case?

Unconvinced, Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag to take out a formation plate.

After just a moment, the formation plate crumbled to dust and was swept away by the cold winds.

This confirms it.
The Old Gods' divinity skill still remains.

“Ah? Both your armor and items were destroyed?” Laura was surprised.

“Yeah, it seems some sort of powerful force still exists here” Gu Qing Shan replied.

He couldn't help but silently be amazed, who would've thought that something the Old Gods from the Age of Old left here would still be active.

Just what kind of power could be this potent?

“I can sense the power of the Old Gods here” Laura comfortably sat on his shoulder, speaking: “Your items are worthless so they were easily destroyed by only this much, however---”

“However what?”

“It's good that they were destroyed. Such a weak armor would not have done you any good even if you wore it”

Gu Qing Shan smiled bitterly: “It's still useful, at least, my armor has been useful many times in battle”

“That is true, you are a swordsman, you would need to get close to people…”

Laura looked at Gu Qing Shan and thought for a bit.

Finally, she seemed to have decided something and said: “I actually have an armor here with me, you can use it”

Saying so, Laura searched through her small backpack.

Gu Qing Shan hurriedly tried to stop her: “Don't take it out, the force surrounding this mountain is very powerful, your armor will be instantly destroyed”

As soon as he said that, Laura had taken out a pendant and put it on Gu Qing Shan's neck without saying another word.

Chapter end