Chapter 805: The Three Coins

The battle ended as fast as it started.

After all, the Golden Flame Divinity came from the future, and he had done thorough research on almost every Divinity in the past.

He himself wasn’t weak, and since he knew their weaknesses and abilities, he quickly defeated his opponent.

Gu Qing Shan simple declared:

“Restrain him”

16 Divine Guards as well as countless Divinities surrounded the Golden Flame Divinity at once without waiting for him to use any powerful attacks.

No matter how powerful the Golden Flame Divinity, he wasn’t a match for so many Divinities from the Age of Old, so he was easily captured.

He shouted in discontent: 「 Divine King, you don’t even have the courage to fight against me in a fair battle! 」

Gu Qing Shan calmly replied: “My life is worth more than your ‘fairness'”

He made a gesture.

An endless cold chill began to rise from the Golden Flame Divinity’s feet.

Transparent white ice climbed up the Golden Flame Divinity’s legs, froze him in place, and kept spreading up his body.

Wherever the chilling frost climbed, the Divinity’s golden glow faded.

The Golden Flame Divinity’s expression finally warped.

If he wasn’t from the future, he would have been just as clueless as the other Divinities here and not know about the truth of his technique.

This was the God of Frost and Chill’s hidden ultimate technique, [Frost Extinction].

Freezing air at absolute zero temperature would put all living beings into permanent silence.

Even the Golden Flame Divinity wouldn’t be able to escape from it.

But such a powerful technique naturally had a big flaw——

It required time to accumulate, thus making it tough to actually hit an enemy with.

But because the Golden Flame Divinity was being restrained by the other Divinities, when used on him, this technique has no weaknesses.

「 How dare you!? I am your brethren from the future! 」the Golden Flame Divinity shouted.

“You have never lifted a finger to help us Divinities from the Age of Old. You’ve even made a disappointing choice right at the very end” the Divine King replied without any emotions.

The frost continued to spread.

The Golden Flame Divinity hurriedly looked at the figure of light and shouted: 「 My mission is over, please send me back, I don’t want to stay here any longer! 」

The figure of light hesitantly glanced at Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan shook his head, controlled Elemental Ice with both hands to continue casting [Frost Extinction] and spoke:

“You represent the future”

He seemed to have fallen into a long thought as he spoke very slowly.

“But you represent a future that we do not wish for”

While he was speaking, the Golden Flame Divinity was still being restrained by other Divinities. Unable to even retaliate, he was soon turned into a frozen statue.

Shu!

An icicle spear manifested in the air and shot straight at the statue.

The frozen statue broke into countless miniature pieces and fell to the ground.

The Golden Flame Divinity who came from the future was killed in the hands of the Divine King, just like that.

The Divine King’s voice resounded from the top of the divine throne:

“When your life returns to eternal silence and slumber, the era of the past, our present, shall use your tomb as the base to grow and create a new future”

“A new future for our Divine race”

None of the Divinities inside the Grand Divine Palace said anything.

They all knelt down on one knee and respectfully bowed to the Divine King on his throne.

No one had ever seen such an Icy technique before.

Earlier, some people had indeed silently criticized the Divine King for not taking the challenge. But now that they had seen how the Divine King killed the Golden Flame Divinity in a single attack, they fully believed that there was no point for a battle in the first place!

The Divine King will surely change the fate of everyone’s death and lead us to surpass the Desolate race!

The Divinities looked at the Divine King with awe and respect.

While the Divine King was looking far into the void of space, seemingly staring at his vision of the Divine race’s future, his body clad in a deep sense of dignity and solemnity.

——-in truth, he was reading the glowing lines of text in front of his eyes.

[You’ve killed the Golden Flame Divinity]

[He was a powerful Divinity that came from the future]

[After going through deduction by the System, actual Soul Points obtained: 20]

Gu Qing Shan silently sighed regretfully.

Cling clang!

A coin fell out from the pieces of ice.

Gu Qing Shan showed a doubtful expression as the coin floated into the figure of light’s hand.

Another coin?

Why were there so many coins in the Age of Old?

The coins of the Strife Zones were rumored to be forged by the Divinities.

But… those coins were supposed to be passed down from the Age of Old, finally gathered and used as the main currencies by the Daemons of the Strife Zones.

Gu Qing Shan could no longer underestimate the coins.

Since he didn’t have a lot more to say, he dismissed the other Divinities from the palace.

The audience hall quickly became empty.

Gu Qing Shan then asked: “What was that coin?”

The figure of light replied: 「 It was a coin that could locate Gu Qing Shan. I was the one who gave it to Golden Flame, what a pity that he couldn’t live up to our trust 」

Gu Qing Shan was surprised: “Why could this coin locate Gu Qing Shan?”

The figure of light replied: 「 Because he was the only outsider within the phantom images. We could sense this disturbance in the timeline through the coin and use it to chase after him 」

He then glanced at Luo Bing Li.

Understanding what he wanted to say, Gu Qing Shan casually swung his hand and sealed Luo Bing Li within a block of ice.

———–it seems the figure of light is about to explain a very crucial secret, I can’t do anything but make her put up with it for now.

The figure of light then started speaking: 「 The coins represent value and power, artifacts of the Bygone Era humanity 」

The Bygone Era!

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help scowling.

The coins of the Strife Zones were all created by the Divinities from the Age of Old, containing various knowledge and abilities, and it turns out they all came from the Bygone Era humanity!

The figure of light continued: 「 Humans liked to bestow various powers to the coins, giving them value to be exchanged as currency 」

「 After humanity left, there weren’t too many coins left in this world, most of which were collected and kept by the Desolate race 」

「 They were a bunch of fools 」

「 We used many methods and agreed to numerous treaties to obtain the chance to approach the coins 」

「 As you know, your Divine Majesty, our Divine race’s most powerful trait is our ability to learn and imitate 」

「 Through imitation, we obtained a part of the coins’ mysteries, as well as a shocking secret 」

“What is that secret? Gu Qing Shan asked.

The figure of light stared at him for a long while without saying anything.

“What is it? If it can’t be revealed, you can simply tell me so” Gu Qing Shan casually declared.

The figure of light shook his head: 「 There is a condition to learning this secret 」

“Tell me”

「 I need to ask you something. Is your will to save the Divine race still as firm as it was at the beginning? 」

“Of course”

「 Then you must promise me, after learning this secret, you must leave the current phantom image and come with me to another. Furthermore, at the final moments of the Age of Old, you must enter that true moment in history 」

「 Your Divine Majesty, I shall assist you with everything I have, while your responsibility will be to lead the Divine race out of this threat of extinction 」

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly and nodded: “I promise”

The figure of light then explained: 「 Do you know why the Bygone Era humanity had to leave the Primordial Heaven Realm? 」

“I do not”

Gu Qing Shan sat up straight and answered with a serious expression.

He could tell that he was about to hear an unprecedentedly shocking secret.

Sure enough, the figure of light continued: 「 The strongest suit of our Divine race is learning and imitation. Through studying the Desolate race’s collection of coins, we managed to determine the three most precious Bygone Era coins 」

「 These three coins represented the highest value among all the Bygone Era coins, as they displayed an unimaginable hidden connection between three forces 」

「 These three forces were: The Great Bramble Tree, The Angel of Condemnation, and The Demon King of Order 」

「 Once these three kinds of power are gathered in one place, the power they create can make all things go in reverse, revive the dead and make the fate of all living beings back down 」

Gu Qing Shan silently listened.

His heart skipped a beat.

The Angel of Condemnation!

That’s Little Dusk!

Thinking back, I once asked her if she knew the secret of the coins.

What did she tell me at the time?

…

“No, you can’t use the same standards as wealth to consider truth and secrets. Each of the coins numbered 900 and above all holds their own meaning, none of them are more important than the rest”

Apparently recalling something, Little Dusk’s voice became faint and puzzled:

“All the coins numbered 900 and above are equal, except… the final three coins, each of which only has one copy…”

…

So that’s why.

Gu Qing Shan regained his senses.

It turns out Little Dusk herself represents a kind of ultimate power.

No wonder that fake ‘God’ would rather go back on their words in front of trillions of living beings than to give Little Dusk back to me.

It wanted Little Dusk’s power!

Gu Qing Shan thought for a few moments, then suddenly asked: “I know that this is a shocking secret, but I don’t understand how this is related to why the Bygone Era humans left the Primordial Heaven Realm”

The figure of light purposefully lowered his voice and replied: 「 According to what we learnt, we found that the Bygone Era humanity didn’t actually know about this in the beginning 」

「 They only found out later on that by using the three coins as the catalyst to trigger the three forces that corresponded to each coin at once, this ultimate power would be created 」

「 The Bygone Era humanity was naturally joyful. But when they used this power to go through Space-time to alter everything and change the course of fate, they also brought an unknown threat to the Bygone Era humans 」

“Threat?”

「 Indeed, the fate of living beings, as well as Space-time itself, was constantly being changed through this power. This acted like a beacon that transmitted its signal across the fog of time, the Eternal Abyss as well as many other unknown locations 」

「 And terrifying beings of unknown powers that resided within those locations caught those signal 」

「 Perhaps, the Soul Shrieker that you mentioned came to this world at that time 」

「 Humanity wasn’t willing to forego the power of the three coins, so they tried to fight against the terrifying beings 」

「 They built some sort of unbreakable defense to stop those beings from peering inside——- from what we know now, that is the Tie Wei fortress wall that you mentioned 」

「 But in the end, the Bygone Era humanity found that they simply weren’t a match against those beings 」

「 That is why humanity chose to enter the Gate of the World to leave the Primordial Heaven Realm 」

「 As soon as they left, the power fluctuations stopped, the unknown terrifying beings also gradually left 」

At this point, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help asking: “And so you tried to replicate those three coins? Did you succeed?”

The figure of light sighed: 「 We failed countless times, never once did we succeed 」

Gu Qing Shan nodded and muttered: “Which means, these three coins that have been passed on since the Bygone Era up until now, or perhaps even to the future, there have ever been only one copy of each”