Chapter 767: Taking Action

Half a day left until the Divinity was killed.

Night retreated as dawn came.

A crimson sun slowly rose as its million rays of light illuminated the world.

Flocks of birds flew in the sky, cawing sorrowfully as they did.

They seemed to have noticed the start of the war so they were hurriedly running away.

A heavy and deep sound of a war horn resounded across the air.

Oooo—–oooooo—-

The rumble of the warhorn proliferated thousands of miles, calling the remaining human cultivators to gather and once again regroup at the frontlines.

Gu Qing Shan silently stood among the ruins of the floating island, listening to the sound of the horn.

He already read through the war reports of this campaign and committed every last detail to heart.

At dawn, the Divinities left their respective Divine Palaces and headed to the frontlines to participate in the war.

The sound of the war horn signified the Divinities trying to reorganize the scattered troops of humanity in preparation for a decisive battle.

About half an hour later, the Desolate monsters would ambush and attack the rendezvous points of humanity’s troops.

The decisive battle would then begin.

This was the only time in history that all of the Divinities participated in a campaign all at once.

Through this decisive campaign, the Desolate monsters were temporarily forced to retreat, leaving the Divinities and humanity some breathing space.

This was supposedly a war where both humans and Divinities went all-out without holding anything back, so it was perfectly recorded in history.

Gu Qing Shan silently thought on how he should go about this.

All of a sudden, a flock of birds descended from above.

They landed inside a large open area of the ruins and began to rest.

Apparently having been through both; a long fright and a long flight, the birds approached a pond of water and began to drink water.

Even after they had their drink, the birds remained here, apparently satisfied with this new environment.

There was no huge rumbling, no stray spells, and no sharp sword-infused or intense blade-infused wind, so the birds thought that this place would be safe.

They could be assured safety while resting here.

Gu Qing Shan briefly observed these birds.

They were a species of birds called the Wind Feather.

They were named this way because they were the fastest flyer in the sky, far surpassing any other types of birds.

It was very easy to see these birds within the Primordial Heaven Realm. But because they have extremely thin bodies that have basically no meat to be eaten, as well as how they release a foul stench after death, no one really hunted them for food.

The reason why there weren’t as many of them around despite being born so ‘blessed’ was due to their own lackluster ability to breed.

When Gu Qing Shan was thinking about these birds, a streak of blinding light could be seen rising from the horizon all the way towards the sky.

The Divinities have begun to act!

This meant that the Desolate monsters have ambushed the various rendezvous points and have engaged in battle with the forces of Divinity and humans.

The decisive battle has begun!

Gu Qing Shan clenched his teeth, prepared everything he needed to do mentally before moving out.

He suddenly appeared behind a Wind Feather and pulled one feather from it.

The bird was surprised.

Fortunately, losing one feather doesn’t stop it from flying, so it cawed and immediately took to the sky.

Frightened by their friend’s cry, the other birds also took flight.

In that moment, one Wind Feather more than earlier also took flight.

But it didn’t chase after the other Wind Feathers, rather it was heading towards the direction of the frontlines.

…

Transformed into a bird, Gu Qing Shan was quickly flying across the sky.

Although the battle had only just begun, he had to make it to the fiercest point of the frontlines in order to find the appropriate place to observe how the Divinity was killed.

A few dozen seconds after he took flight, Gu Qing Shan suddenly heard desperate screams coming from the ground.

He released his inner sight to look down.

A giant skinless monster whose body consisted purely of red muscle fibers was charging straight into the ranks of the cultivators.

The light of the 5 Elemental powers erupted all over.

Metal-Wood-Water-Fire-Earth!

The cultivators were using Elemental spells to the best of their abilities.

But even when their spells hit the monster straight on, none of them managed to even make it flinch, let alone do anything else.

Elemental spells of this level weren’t enough to hurt it.

The monster grabbed an Elemental spell cultivator and tossed him straight into its mouth full of sharp teeth.

At that moment.

A cultivator stepped forward and started banging a gong in his hand.

While hitting the gong, he was chanting a Buddhist mantra at the same time.

The monster had to let go, unable to hold on to the cultivator anymore.

It was trembling and moaning from pain.

The cultivator with the gong was sweating bullets as he continued to chant the Buddhist mantra.

While the monster continued to take step after step towards the gong cultivator.

“Now!”

Another cultivator shouted.

All the cultivators stood up and attacked the monster with all of their strength.

The monster opened its mouth wide and let out an earth-shattering roar towards the cultivators.

This roar seemed to contain some sort of unimaginable power, as it killed the nearest cultivators right away.

The gong cultivator was also affected by its roar and coughed up some blood.

He collapsed on his knees, both hands trembling, unable to lift them up again.

The sound of the gong stopped.

Without being restrained by the sound technique, the monster once again regained its fierceness.

It lightly leapt forward and pounced on to the gong cultivator.

The monster had already opened its huge palms to grab the despairing cultivator.

It was then that Gu Qing Shan arrived.

He originally wanted to go pass this area and headed towards the battle zones with more intense battles.

But at that split second between life and death, he suddenly vanished from the air.

At the next second, he had turned back into a young man and silently landed not too far away from the monster.

Gu Qing Shan glanced at the monster.

The monster vanished for a split second before appearing again.

Thud!

One of the monster’s arms fell to the ground.

The monster looked up and roared in pain.

Thanks to its battle instincts, the monster was able to sense everything that happened around it, but even if it had been wounded before, it had never been wounded by such a strange attack.

One split second before, a man suddenly appeared.

The man simply stood behind it a bit further away without doing anything.

But it found itself in a world of darkness.

Before it could even react, a cold, sharp gleam sliced off one of its arms.

And it immediately returned to reality.

Damn it!

What exactly happened?

The furious monster turned to look at Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan’s sword art had already been triggered!

The Chao Yin sword and Six Paths Great Mountain sword both let out a slight ‘wu wu’ sound.

Both swords glowed sharply with blinding sword phantoms and slashed towards Gu Qing Shan’s neck.

Just as the swords were about to connect, Gu Qing Shan disappeared.

The monster appeared where he stood, facing the combined attack of two swords.

One of the swords used [Dreamjolt], while the other used [Swallow Returns]

The monster stood absolutely still, completely unable to resist for five seconds.

Two intense sword phantoms overlapped from different directions at its neck and swiftly severed it.

The battle was over.

“A Void Beholder realm Sword Saint!” someone called out.

Void Beholder realm meant that he was already close to being a great cultivator of humanity, and being a Sword Saint, it wasn’t a surprise for him to be able to eliminate a Desolate monster by himself.

Everyone appeared glad.

Gu Qing Shan turned back at the cultivators, seeing that they were either wounded or close to death.

Another furious roar came from afar.

The ground trembled again.

Some sort of giant monster was quickly approaching this area.

Gu Qing Shan immediately ordered everyone: “Leave this place to me, the rest of you are in no shape to fight again, leave the frontlines, find somewhere to rest and wait for further orders!”

“Understood!”

The cultivators responded.

They hurriedly carried their wounded comrades away, running for humanity’s camps.

The gong cultivator staggered over and clasped his fist: “Thank you for saving”

“Don’t worry about it. Leave now, otherwise, you won’t get a chance to”

Gu Qing Shan urged him.

He could already smell a foul stench in the air.

That was the smell of rotten corpses in the Desolate monsters’ mouths.

The gong cultivator put a talisman into Gu Qing Shan’s hand and said: “Take this, I was about to use it earlier, but even if I did, I would’ve only been able to stall for a few moments before I die. It’s good that you came when you did”

As Gu Qing Shan took the talisman, lines of glowing text scrolled across the War God UI.

[Item: Perishing Sound Talisman]

[Single-use unique item]

[Using this item will immediately create a thunderous sound wave that destroys an enemy’s soul vessel]

Gu Qing Shan put the talisman away and replied: “This is very useful, I will graciously keep it. Thank you”

The cultivator lightly nodded to greet Gu Qing Shan and turned to leave.

Once all the cultivators have retreated.

Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.

“Shannu, I really messed up huh? I was supposed to not care about this place, I was supposed to go straight towards the most crucial point of the frontlines, but I couldn’t help myself stopping here and wasted so much time” he said.

He originally wanted to go straight to the most crucial point of the frontlines, transform into an unassuming creature and hide, then silently wait for the moment that a Divinity loses their life.

But he couldn’t help himself stopping on the way and saved a group of cultivators.

Shannu’s soft voice came from the Six Paths Great Mountain sword: “Gongzi, you didn’t mess up at all. It was because gongzi did it that you are gongzi”

Gu Qing Shan chuckled: “That’s quite a mouthful that you just said”

While talking, his hands didn’t stop.

He quickly put the monster’s body away.

From what he saw, this type of Desolate monster was only a soldier-class monster at most.

It was decently strong, but still far weaker than the 6-legged, winged snake Gu Qing Shan saw before.

In front of Gu Qing Shan, soldier-class monsters like these only need to show the slightest opening for the battle to be decided.

His [True Soul Cleaving Eye] was still at its primary level, but it was already able to forcefully pull an enemy into a temporarily-created world and attack them with a [Soul Sword] that temporarily physically manifested from his soul vessel.

For now, this temporarily-created world could only last in a blink of an eye, and the [Soul Sword] could only attack once.

But by ambushing them, combined with the powerful [Dreamjolt] Thaumaturgy, Gu Qing Shan could easily find many weaknesses of any enemy.

As a sword cultivator, the battle styles Gu Qing Shan could employ were becoming more and more numerous.

——the sound of monster roars could be heard coming from all over.

They were quickly approaching him.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t waste any more time here, activating [Ground Shrink] and left this area of the battlefield, appearing somewhere else several dozen miles away.

He turned into a Wind Feather bird again and took flight.

The frontline is close!