Chapter 860: Remedial Measure

「 No! 」

The Demon Dragon’s furious roar resounded within the gigantic space of darkness.

But it was too late.

The 12 shining stars engraved in the sky above received their order and swiftly merged, turning into a blinding light that illuminated this entire space.

Power gathered from all directions within the starry sky and made the light become even more blinding.

The Demon Dragon’s soul struggled, trying hard to escape from the black chains that restrained it.

But it was futile.

This black chain had existed since his birth and grew together with his growth in all these years.

And the moment arrived.

All the light in the sky above gathered into a point and gently descended.

This point of blinding light silently entered into the Demon Dragon’s forehead.

The Demon Dragon couldn’t move.

At this moment, he finally saw the fate that was about to befall him and felt unbridled rage as well as the unwillingness to accept.

「 Death to me is nothing but release, but you WILL take on all of my restraints, suffering, and solitude! 」

As he spoke, rays of light came off his body and shot into every direction.

The Demon Dragon was slowly being engulfed within the light.

At the very last moment of his life, he glared at Gu Qing Shan with a malicious smile in his eyes.

「 Receive it all 」

The light completely swallowed the creature.

Another long while later, the blinding light slowly dissipated.

The world returned to darkness.

The Demon Dragon had been eliminated from this world.

Gu Qing Shan silently stood still with a complicated look in his eyes.

He could already feel it.

From a deep unknown location, an aura of destruction appeared out of nowhere, turned into a fog of darkness surrounding his body.

The dark fog was being absorbed into his body.

Two black flames manifested in his eyes as twisted and evil patterns manifested all over his face.

An intense tornado of miasma surrounded him while howling and screeching.

In his vision, lines of blood-red text popped up consecutively:

[WARNING! WARNING!]

[Your Excellency, your body is undergoing an unprecedented change, you are turning into an inhumane existence]

[You are about to lose your identity as a human!]

[Please think of a way to stop this process, otherwise, your body will be irreversibly transformed into a humanoid weapon!]

[Please resolve this current problem before anything else!]

The black flames inside Gu Qing Shan’s eyes were growing stronger.

He opened his palms and looked down at him.

Both of his hands were turning pitch black as tiny and complicated patterns were gradually spreading all over his skin, his nails were growing to become sharper and longer.

A boiling, violent power was surging inside his body.

Gu Qing Shan could do nothing but smile bitterly.

Who would’ve thought, the [Demon King Order] wouldn’t even suggest any solution and just urge me to quickly come up with a way to deal with this problem.

It seems that this really is hopeless.

“Turning into the Demon Dragon can’t be helped, as long as…”

As long as he obtained the Heaven sword.

To obtain the Heaven sword on a path surrounded by the Abyssal monsters on every corner, this was the only way.

Gu Qing Shan spoke to himself, but couldn’t finish his sentence.

He was enduring the intense pain that emerged from all over his body.

This was the power of the Demon Dragon clashing with his human body.

After this was over, the power of the Demon Dragon would fully convert his body.

Pain that far surpassed what a human could withstand washed and lingered over him.

Gu Qing Shan dropped to his knees as every muscle in his body intensely convulsed.

He gritted his teeth and braved this inhumane torture.

The entire Abyssal Jail fell into silence.

But the starry sky slowly flickered in the darkness.

While Gu Qing Shan was being converted into the Demon Dragon bit by bit, the entire space of the Abyssal Jail was moving.

As if some preparation within the Abyssal Jail had been triggered.

Right above Gu Qing Shan’s head, star after star began to show up.

The number of stars in the sky kept increasing until it looked like an actual night sky on earth.

The stars were being arranged into a particular pattern.

As soon as the pattern was fully formed, some sort of distinct moment arrived.

The entire sky of darkness shattered.

All the stars above were stripped out.

They gathered at once in the void of space to form a humanoid figure.

This humanoid figure descended in front of Gu Qing Shan and turned into an almost realistic person.

It was an old man.

He was considerably tall and buffed, bald with a full silver beard on his chin, he donned a black cape that was draped over a neat military uniform that gave him a dignified and solemn appearance.

As he looked down at Gu Qing Shan, his icy gaze became a bit warmer.

[So there really was someone willing to sacrifice themselves to kill the Demon Dragon]

The bald old man pulled the black cape off of himself and threw it out.

The black cape automatically attached itself to Gu Qing Shan’s body.

Half of the intense burning pain was alleviated almost right away.

Gu Qing Shan regained his clarity.

He touched the black cape that suddenly appeared on his body.

A frigid sensation seeped out from the cape and helped him counteract the pain from the erosion of the Demon Dragon’s power.

Gu Qing Shan wiped his face.

He was soaked in the cold sweat that came from the pain.

[The cape can only suppress the Demon Dragon’s power for now. Stand up, let us talk first] the bald old man told him.

Gu Qing Shan stood up and asked: “Thank you very much. May I ask who you are?”

[I am the Chairman of the Total War Joint Military Committee, as well as the strongest Combatant of humanity] the bald old man replied.

“Greetings” Gu Qing Shan observed the other party and replied.

His body seemed to have been created from some sort of spell and didn’t contain any actual power.

But Gu Qing Shan was somehow able to sense the unparalleled aura of overwhelming power he gave off.

This meant that the other party was so unimaginably powerful that a mere image that couldn’t fully manifest was affected by the immense power of his real body.

The bald old man told him: [You don’t have much time, so we’ll make this short]

“Please go ahead”

[The Demon Dragon carried humanity’s dream of creating a weapon that surpasses Soul Artifacts, but it failed]

[Originally, the Demon Dragon should have been killed right away]

[But we had sowed a Causality Law on it that simply cannot be removed. Any human that killed the Demon Dragon would turn into the next Demon Dragon, a process that will never end]

“Couldn’t you make it so that the Demon Dragon died in battle?” Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask.

[We could not, any person who ordered it to go and die would also inherit the Demon Dragon’s power and become the new Demon Dragon. This was the strongest level of Causality Law, none of us could do anything about it]

[Because of that, through our discussions, we had the Demon Dragon watch over the Abyssal Fate Weaver’s corpse]

[In fact, everyone understood perfectly well that one day, sooner or later, this weapon would run out of control]

The bald old man smiled sarcastically: [Humanity is great, that is certainly not wrong, but humans are selfish. When faced with this weapon that would surely run out of control, no one was willing to sacrifice themselves]

The bald old man then looked straight at Gu Qing Shan and spoke with a serious expression: [That is why this issue can only be solved by the strongest human, me]

Gu Qing Shan was shocked: “You’ve come up with a way to destroy the Demon Dragon’s power?”

[No, that is not so. If I do that, you will also die]

The bald old man appeared emotional.

[In truth, after many long years of research, I finally found a remedial measure]

[Because the Law of Causality was a Mystic-type power, it was next to impossible to use any other types of power to channel the Demon Dragon’s power. But after much contemplation, I finally came up with a solution that would allow the Demon Dragon’s power to be slowly assimilated by human bloodline to become human power]

“Isn’t that essentially purifying the Demon Dragon’s power and turning it into my own power?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

[Correct] the bald old man replied, [This method will take an exceedingly long time and an extreme amount of untold effort to fully complete, but this is the only solution that I was able to come up with]

“What kind of solution is it exactly?” Gu Qing Shan had to ask.

The bald old man squinted his eyes and slowly replied:

[To be able to channel a Mystic-type power, it would naturally come from Mystic-type]