Chapter 899: Leaving And Returning

In the Bygone Era, the Abyssal Fate Weaver had infiltrated humanity, apparently killing many Combatants as revenge, and was finally caught.

The war between her and the leaders of humanity was already a battle at the highest level of strength for humanity at the time.

Comparatively, Gu Qing Shan was only a Three Thousand Worlds realm cultivator who hadn’t even reached Paragon realm.

In the Bygone Era, this was the level of strength for a teenager.

——to be specific, a ‘civilian teenager’.

Because of that, even though Shannu had the same level of strength as Gu Qing Shan, she was still unable to win against this powerful enemy who once stood at the peak of humanity before being assimilated by the Abyss.

Indeed, on the Gemini star, the tall slender woman that had lost the power bestowed to her by the Abyss and was also unable to use her own powers.

——but her body wasn’t something that Gu Qing Shan could hurt with his strength.

Fortunately, this was the Gemini star, otherwise, the difference in strength between the two of them would be too ridiculous.

Gu Qing Shan wouldn’t even have a chance to retaliate.

Gu Qing Shan stared closely at the tall slender woman and suddenly realized something.

He realized why the Demon Dragon craved the power of the Abyss so much.

He was imprisoned at the Abyssal Jail, tasked with watching over the Abyssal Fate Weaver’s corpse.

He knew the tall slender woman’s terrifying level of power and strength after being assimilated by the Abyss.

That was the real reason why the Demon Dragon craved the power of the Abyss so much.

He wished to become assimilated by the Abyss so that he could escape from humanity’s control!

This was the start of all of the Demon Dragon’s plans and actions!

Gu Qing Shan retreated a few more steps, keeping a constant distance between him and the tall slender woman.

The Abyssal Jail’s system once introduced him to her and her powers.

At that time, the system said that she turned into a top-level commander of humanity and infiltrated it in order to destroy the entire world of humans.

There are… a lot of things that might not be completely accurate.

It has been far too long, and the truth is still unclear.

But now, on the Gemini Star, as the only person capable of using her powers, Shannu had used the Mystic-type ability: [See you once again].

Under this situation, the Mystic-type ability would not be resisted and the Abyssal Fate Weaver couldn’t lie.

And so…

The truth has been revealed a bit more, but only of a brief moment of that era.

The entire truth was still very blurry.

Gu Qing Shan held his impatience back and tried to remain calm in order to keep thinking.

“Truthfully——– I have something to say to you” he spoke up first.

“What?” the tall slender woman asked.

“I’ve actually forgotten to thank you”

The tall slender woman gave him a strange look.

“Yes” Gu Qing Shan continued: “The three coins allowed me to travel back to the Age of Old over and over again, but this process was so dangerous that I used up quite a few tries, for example: when I was about to be devoured by the monsters in the fog of Time or was erased by the Law of Time in Bai Hua Hall, or when I met the remnant souls of my sect’s Sacred Beasts for the first time——-”

“During any of those times, if you had not been there to watch over and pull me back to the future right before my death, I would have probably died already”

The tall slender woman said nothing.

Gu Qing Shan kept talking: “The three coins can only allow travel through Time, but not revive me, so it must have been you who controlled the coins and allowed me to return to the future before my death”

“That was indeed the case” the tall slender woman replied, “You’re underestimating the power of the three coins. I actually used the power of the three coins right at the moment you died to rewind time back a few moments when you were still alive and pulled you back”

Gu Qing Shan didn’t expect to hear such a detailed explanation.

——that would… certainly be a lot easier, and wouldn’t require her to be quite as precise.

Gu Qing Shan clasped his fist: “Thank you very much, otherwise, I would have already died”

The tall slender woman gave him another strange look and replied: “Your attitude wasn’t like this at all when you killed me”

Gu Qing Shan admitted right away: “You were infinitely stronger than I was, with countless ways and means to kill me, but I only have a single chance to defend myself”

“What are you trying to do by telling me these useless words right now?” the tall slender woman questioned.

Gu Qing Shan asked with a serious expression: “Planning for so long like that, what exactly did you want to achieve?”

“Why should I tell you?”

“Because——–”

Gu Qing Shan lifted the two swords in his hand up.

The twin swords Heaven and Earth.

They were the swords he was using.

The tall slender woman stared blankly at the two swords and muttered: “The main body of the Abyssal Weapon, Evil-warding weapon of the Bottomless Abyss, the Guardians against ultimate extinction, the Swords of Changing Fate, the Key to infinite worlds, Heaven and Earth…”

During their exchanges just now, she had tried more than once to grab these two swords but didn’t succeed.

“Do you want to obtain these two weapons?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The tall slender woman’s gaze faltered a bit, then smiled deprecatingly: “The Soul Shrieker was a true monster of the Abyss, an entity that I can’t defeat——- but even such an existence fell at your hands, and these two swords fell into the hands of the weakest competitor. You really made a joke of strength”

“No, I was not the weakest competitor” Gu Qing Shan replied.

“Really now? Who else?”

“If the Soul Shrieker only had power on the same level as mine, I bet you that it couldn’t have achieved what I did”

The tall slender woman silently thought for a bit and nodded in agreement.

“However, there are no ‘IFs’ in this world” the tall slender woman spoke, “I’ll admit that you have exerted your powers and abilities to their very limits, but right now, on this Gemini star, there are no powers the likes of [Earthen Dual Body], if you don’t give me your swords, I will…”

She stopped.

The Old Guide had hovered and stopped next to Gu Qing Shan.

It seems that the Old Guide had chosen to stand on the same side as Gu Qing Shan at this point in time.

The tall slender woman scowled.

The fact that this guy can use his abilities on the Gemini star makes him difficult to deal with.

Indeed, he can’t kill me, but if he wanted to take Gu Qing Shan away, I wouldn’t be able to stop him.

He only needs to carry Gu Qing Shan into the air and throw a few offensive spells at me to help Gu Qing Shan resolve his crisis.

“Old senior, I’ve also eaten your noodles, so why do you insist on protecting him over and over?” the tall slender woman couldn’t help but asked.

The Old Guide glared at her: “He ate a bowl of my noodles, so I’ll help him once, that is normal”

“I’ve also eaten your noodles” the tall slender woman refuted.

The Old Guide appeared a bit troubled.

As the tall slender woman saw the Old Guide’s expression, she asked: “I can eat one more bowl, this way, you’ll ignore our affair, won’t you?”

“No, my cooking ingredients for today have already been used up, you will have to wait until tomorrow” the Old Guide shook his head.

Hearing that, the tall slender woman felt this to be ridiculous.

But there shouldn’t be anything wrong about this, there really was such an Old Guide on the Gemini star whose stories have been heard in many worlds.

I even saw with my own eyes how he directed someone to another world.

That man managed to avoid all dangers and teleported to a so-called Flying Snow world.

The tall slender woman thought for a bit and spoke: “In other words, the amount of food you can give each day is limited, and as long as I eat everything before he does, he wouldn’t have anything to eat?”

“Yes”

“And you won’t favor him anymore?” the tall slender woman asked further.

“You can think of it that way” the Old Guide replied.

“Then I understand”

The tall slender woman looked at Gu Qing Shan and held back her killing intent: “In consideration of me also eating a bowl of your noodles, I ask that you don’t tell him about how to travel to the world he wants”

The Old Guide hesitated a bit before answering: “I can do that, but I will leave soon, as for tomorrow——-”

“Leave what happens tomorrow to tomorrow” the tall slender woman replied.

Today is no good, this old man will insist on helping him today.

Tomorrow…

As long as I arrive before him tomorrow…

The tall slender woman turned around, preparing to leave.

“Wait!” Gu Qing Shan shouted.

The tall slender woman turned around and looked at him with a code gaze.

“In the Age of Old, you already had the three coins in your possession. If you wanted to do anything, you could’ve done it without any issues, so why did you still want the Abyssal Weapon?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“That is my business, why should I tell you?” the tall slender woman curtly answered.

“Because I have the twin swords. If there is anything you need help with, in consideration of how many times you’ve saved me in the Space-Time vortex, I’m willing to give you a hand” Gu Qing Shan told her.

The tall slender woman gave him a look as if looking at a strange monster.

Gu Qing Shan nodded and confirmed again: “Without your coins, I wouldn’t have been able to save the Earth sword, or return alive”

The woman scoffed: “I only did it because I wanted you to take me to the swords”

Gu Qing Shan replied: “Regardless of why you did it, that doesn’t change the fact that you saved me”

The tall slender woman mocked: “You want to repay me? Then give me the twin swords”

“I can’t give you my swords, but I can use them to help you” Gu Qing Shan spoke with a serious voice.

The tall slender woman fell silent.

She glanced at Gu Qing Shan again.

“You… are a very strange person…” she muttered.

“I’m not strange, it’s just that after I think about it carefully, I’ve always been relying on your coins and ability, to slowly make it to the end, to finally obtaining the twin swords”

Gu Qing Shan sincerely spoke: “You didn’t actually kill me a single time or took my swords away, instead you were cut into pieces and thrown to countless fragments of parallel worlds”

“In the end, you’ve actually helped me a lot and haven’t harmed even a single hair on my body. In truth, I don’t hold any grudge against you at all”

The tall slender woman was calmly listening to him, then abruptly scowled and shouted in anger: “Hmph! We still don’t know who’s going to win against who!”

“Just you watch, Gu Qing Shan, I will definitely kill you!”

She turned into a blurred image and quickly disappeared.

Gu Qing Shan froze in place.

He stood still for a while, then suddenly face-palmed himself and dejectedly muttered: “Ah crap, I misspoke”

Those words I just spoke seemed to have touched her pride…

Shannu released her inner sight and observed until the tall slender woman had gone far away that she came close: “Gongzi, what are we going to do next?”

Gu Qing Shan muses: “We’re going to continue this tomorrow”

“Fool her into eating noodles again?”

“Yes”

“Then what about now?”

“We’re going to the next world——”

“Huh?” Shannu raised her voice in surprise.

“We’re going to head to the next world tonight, then return tomorrow to deal with her”

Gu Qing Shan recalled the details of the next world on the star chart and replied to Shannu.

“Gongzi, I don’t understand…”

“You will eventually”