Chapter 768: Wings of Swords

The drums of war rumbled.

The horns of war echoed.

Streak after streak of glorious light erupted from the horizon one after another.

After turning into a bird, Gu Qing Shan flew forward at full speed.

Whenever he came across a battle zone that seemed desperate, flying swords would appear from the void of space.

——–[Dreamjolt]!

This was a Lightning Thaumaturgy, one that could counter the Desolate monster the most.

With five seconds of them being restrained, regardless of how clumsy the cultivators were, they would have a way to turn the table.

In reality, Elemental Sound techniques could also counter Desolate monsters, but as they were hard to grasp and required deep understanding to use, cultivators who were already used to Elemental spells normally weren’t able to adapt.

Wind-Lightning-Light-Dark-Sound——– among the mutated Elements, Sound was the only one that existed in the Age of Old cultivation world.

Gu Qing Shan’s Elemental Lightning was a unique exception.

He flew across the sky, headed straight deep into the frontlines before transforming back into a human, and landing in the middle of the battlefield.

This was already the frontline.

Besides the Divinities and great cultivators who were holding back the most powerful Desolate monsters elsewhere, this should already be the frontlines against the Desolate monsters.

The war had reached its most desperate point.

The entire army of Desolate monsters had already reached them.

Humanity was being pushed back.

This wasn’t the same as the army of Desolate Demon Eyes from before.

This was a total invasion on all fronts!

Gu Qing Shan stopped hesitating and joined the fray.

Shannu’s voice came out.

“Gongzi, aren’t we going to wait for the right moment to kill that Divinity?”

“No” Gu Qing Shan replied, “that Divinity’s fate had already been decided, we can’t steal the kill, otherwise, if we were followed into this phantom image, they would immediately notice us for changing history”

“Then what are we doing here?” Shannu asked.

“We’re going to see how that Divinity died—— I’ve already killed a lot of things, but I’ve never killed a Divinity before, so I need to watch how the Desolate monsters did it” Gu Qing Shan replied.

The Chao Yin sword returned.

A Desolate monster was eliminated by a group of cultivators.

Gu Qing Shan managed to take the last hit.

Seeing a notification pop up on the War God UI saying [Soul Points +100,000], Gu Qing Shan continued: “We’re going to keep fighting while we wait”

“Yes, gongzi” Shannu replied.

His two swords both took flight.

Gu Qing Shan manipulated both swords and entered the fray.

Powerful monsters like the 6-legged winged snake have already joined the battle against the Divinities and the great cultivators of humanity.

The majority of the Desolate monsters here were around the level of the soldier-class monster he killed earlier, specifically used to fight large numbers of cultivators at once.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t have to spend much effort to kill each of them.

With his current strength, he was capable of defending an area of just over ten miles by himself, ensuring that the battle situation would turn to the side of humanity.

But the frontlines itself was several hundred miles long, so his contribution alone was like a drop of water in the ocean, it didn’t affect the big picture of the war too much.

Boom!

Far at the horizon, a streak of light suddenly came and exploded right in the middle of the battlefield, killing numerous cultivators and Desolate monsters at the same time.

Gu Qing Shan was originally there, but he managed to react in time and used [Shadow Shift] to switch places with a Desolate monster.

He managed to escape with his life, but the number of human casualties kept on increasing in this war.

Gu Qing Shan gritted his teeth, put a few pills in his mouth, and performed his sword arts to their absolute limits.

His swords left two long tails of blue lightning behind them, whizzing through the battlefield nonstop.

“Who are you!?”

A cultivator suddenly jumped out in front of Gu Qing Shan and shouted.

“I’m a disciple of the Drifting Moon Immortal Sect” Gu Qing Shan loudly replied.

“Ah, no wonder you look so familiar—— but why aren’t you wearing armor?”

“My armor was broken” Gu Qing Shan replied.

“Come, take mine. This is my family heirloom armor, never have I been wounded while wearing it”

The cultivator said nothing else and tapped his chest piece. His armor quickly came off his body piece by piece before automatically reassembling itself into a full suit of intricate armor that hovered between the two of them.

Gu Qing Shan was a bit shocked.

He looked at the other cultivator: “If I wear that, what about you?”

The cultivator stroked the armor with his hand and replied: “I’ll be fine. I’m a Fire Elemental cultivator so I can just stay behind you and attack”

Seeing how Gu Qing Shan was still hesitant, the cultivator added: “But you’re different. If you have armor, you can go deeper into enemy lines, gaining a lot of breathing room for everyone——- are you willing to don my armor and kill your way into enemy lines?”

Gu Qing Shan replied: “Nothing to fear!”

The cultivator then grinned at him and pulled his hand away from the armor.

Gu Qing Shan reached his hand out, touched the surface of the cold, heavy suit of armor and infused it with his spirit energy.

Countless spirit energy runes lit up on the outside of the armor.

Oom!!

The entire armor split apart and reassembled on his body to form a full suit of armor.

Shannu sent her voice to remind him: “Gongzi, why are you going deeper now? Did you already forget that we’re supposed to remain here to wait and see how a Divinity is killed?”

“I know, I forgot” Gu Qing Shan replied.

He pulled his visor down, wielded both of his swords in hand and shouted: “I am a sword cultivator, everyone, follow my lead!”

He flew straight towards the army of Desolate monsters———-

——on the way, blinding sword phantoms of lightning manifested as an unstoppable torrent and charged forward without fear!

Seeing this Lightning-based attack, the Desolate monster recognized that something wasn’t quite right and cautiously retreated.

The morale of the human cultivators were quickly raised as they shouted in response.

“Charge!”

“Charge!”

“Kill them!”

The human army began to break into the Desolate monster’s side of the war.

This was a counter-attack!

Gu Qing Shan slashed again and again with his swords, each strike faster than the last.

With this sturdy armor, all he had to worry about was to kill! Kill! Kill!.

Like a tsunami, humanity’s troops charged in with frenzy into the ranks of the monsters.

The monster’s casualties began to increase.

They fell at the cultivators’ march.

At some point, Gu Qing Shan sensed something and suddenly roared like mad.

The Elemental cultivator who lent him the armor had died.

Among the Desolate monsters, there was one that liked to ambush by throwing razor-sharp spears that grew from its own body.

Without armor to protect himself, the Elemental cultivator was screwed and killed instantly.

This was a battlefield, the frontlines of a war, a place where countless people are killed every moment.

But even so——-

“DIEEE!!!” Gu Qing Shan shouted furiously.

Boom!

The storm of lightning bloomed like a storm, ripping the bodies of several Desolate monsters apart.

Gu Qing Shan also didn’t have much time to vent his emotions, he needed to be on constant guard to prevent himself from dying in the same manner.

He had to force himself to regain his calm.

But the words of that cultivator were still lingering in his ears.

“But you’re different. If you have armor, you can go deeper into enemy lines, gaining a lot of breathing room for everyone——- are you willing to don my armor and kill your way into enemy lines?” he asked

“Nothing to fear!”

Damn it!

Damn it!

Why——-

I’ve already done everything I could, I’ve tried everything to become stronger——–

Why am I still unable to save a living, breathing life right in front of me!?

Gu Qing Shan’s eyes were bloodshot.

He went silent for 1 breath.

The cultivators around thought that he was exhausted, so they hurriedly gathered around to protect and block attacks for him.

A sword cultivator wouldn’t easily go into enemy lines, but once they do, they are the one target that everyone follows and supports to the best of their abilities.

Because sword cultivators have never abandoned their own comrades, not even in death.

“Aaaaa———”

Gu Qing Shan’s sorrowful cry echoed across the battlefield.

His spirit energy erupted from his body, sweeping towards the back of the battlefield.

Fallen next to monster bodies, fallen by pools of blood, lost in various places on the battlefield, stuck on the monster’s bodies…

All the swords.

Oong——

They vibrated at the same time.

A sword flew out of a dead cultivator’s hand, silently circled around its owner briefly before leaping to the air, going against the wind, and arrived behind Gu Qing Shan’s back.

A second sword flew out of a pool of blood, cried sorrowfully, and also flew towards Gu Qing Shan’s back.

A third sword dislodged itself from the body of a monster and arrived behind Gu Qing Shan.

A fourth sword…

All the swords of dead sword cultivators gathered behind Gu Qing Shan’s back, turning into a pair of constantly growing wings of swords.

They lightly touched one another, vibrating, waiting.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and sent his voice: “Shannu… I’m sorry, I have many ways of looking into how the Divinity died, but I can’t leave right now”

Shannu replied: “It’s ok, gongzi, regardless of what you do, I will always stand by your side as I am your sword”

Gu Qing Shan abruptly looked up and glared at the sea of monsters ahead of him.

“Come, have a taste of my Elemental Lightning Taiyi Sword Array” he muttered.

Intense powerful wind.

Roaring furious lightning.

The sword array was slowly manifesting.