Chapter 915: Taking Action

Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9

What is a sword?

A killing weapon.

What kind of person is Gu Qing Shan?

He was a chef, a General, a man who had briefly learnt archery, magic, martial arts, and various other skills, an expert formation user, an expert Mech designer, and an excellent actor.

Despite his many capabilities, when he held a sword, he had only one identity.

A sword cultivator.

When Gu Qing Shan killed people in Triste’s collection world, Lord Bloodcloak once used a technique to show Su Xue Er how he fought.

Lord Bloodcloak told Su Xue Er that Gu Qing Shan was an unreasonable person.

——-this didn’t mean that he can’t be reasoned with.

In truth, normally, Gu Qing Shan was more than willing to listen to the opinions of others, as long as what they said made sense.

This description was referring to how he performed in battle. Regardless of an opponent’s countless capabilities, when Gu Qing Shan drew his sword, they wouldn’t be able to perform anything at all.

Because they were already dead.

This was also Gu Qing Shan’s fighting style.

This was what was unreasonable about him.

His sword was very fast.

Very very fast.

The Heaven sword flashed——

Oom!!!

The rock and sand of this barren land exploded into a cloud of dust like they were struck by a meteor.

“You’re all dead”

Gu Qing Shan lightly whispered as he stepped into the cloud of dust.

——-at the same time, he activated 9 consecutive Taiyi Sword Arrays infused with [Dreamjolt].

This came from the Heaven sword’s ability: [Heaven’s Choice]

[Heaven’s Choice: At the moment you attack, you can immediately increase an additional 3,6, or 9 copies of the exact same attacks]

A full-powered Taiyi Sword Array infused with his [Dreamjolt] Elemental Lightning ability, then was further reinforced an additional 9 times at once, resulting in him essentially performing 10 Taiyi Sword Arrays at once, the power of which had far surpassed what the Lords could imagine.

Yellow sand and rocks were picked up by the howling wind like a sand storm.

Everything was swallowed up.

“No!”

“Damn it!”

“Save—-”

“Don’t!”

“I was wr——-”

“Ah!!!!!!”

Within the chaotic sand storm, desperate screams resounded all around.

Every scream was short but filled with fear as if they had abruptly awoken from a nightmare, or suddenly lost the ability to speak.

——–this was the realization and despair that they felt before death.

The intense sand storm swiftly turned into a tornado that brought all the rocks and sand away far into the horizon.

[Dreamjolt] swiftly faded into the sand.

The sword array was dispelled.

The scenery around them became clear again.

The corpses were all erased, leaving no trace behind.

Only about a dozen heads were lined up neatly next to one another.

Every Lord who came to block his way had already lost their lives, only a single person was left alive because Gu Qing Shan had something to ask him.

It was the short man.

He crouched close to the ground, still surrounded by gusts of wind that occasionally swept by his body, paralyzed from fear.

The short man screamed in a panic: “I beg you, please spare me! I can give you everything I have, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have come to steal your secret!”

“What did the Great Pixie tell you?” Gu Qing Shan casually asked.

“He said that you have a lot of secrets, that I wouldn’t lose any money by looking for you. And if I can obtain those extremely valuable secrets, I can even sell them back to him” the short man hurriedly confessed everything.

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly and put both swords away.

He turned around and walked back to Lin and Shannu.

Seeing him leave, the short man uttered a heavy sigh, feeling relieved that he managed to keep his life.

He hurriedly stood up, leapt up to the sky, and fled this terrifying place.

A split second later, the short man had already reached far in the sky, heading to outer space.

He soon went out of sight.

Thud!

Something fell from high above, landed on the ground with a heavy sound and rolled on the sand until it was next to the rest of the Lords’ heads.

It was the short man’s head.

He still had an expression of relief from escaping a calamity.

But he was already dead.

It was simply that Gu Qing Shan’s sword was too fast so his head hadn’t fallen off and his life hadn’t been fully extinguished yet.

Gu Qing Shan returned to Lin and Shannu.

“Some of them had interesting abilities, but it was already over before I could see anything, how boring”

Lin complained, but her eyes were flashing just a bit.

“There are still powers that you don’t know about?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Of course, there are countless interesting and inexplicable abilities being conceived every moment within the infinite worlds, and I’m always eager to see more” Lin answered as if that was obvious.

“Sorry about that, I don’t have a habit of giving others a chance to act” Gu Qing Shan said apologetically.

He looked up at the sky and sighed: “We’ve already missed the chance to head to the next world”

“In other words, you want to face your Measure Tribulation here?” Lin asked.

“I do”

“I remember you said that there was a Great Pixie in this world, these people were incited by him to come to look for you, so if you want to face your Tribulation here, you need to be careful” Lin reminded him.

Hearing that, Shannu was nervous and pulled on Gu Qing Shan’s sleeve: “Gongzi, I’m not afraid of any Quipcraft, let me go kill that pixie!”

Gu Qing Shan shook his head and made a hand seal.

Secret Art, [Torrent]

A high-pitched howl resounded in the air.

The faint sword phantom streaked across the shroud of night and into the sky.

The Earth sword.

When Shannu saw the flying sword jetting away, she thought briefly about it and calmed down.

Lin crossed her arms and asked with interest: “What kind of power did the Earth sword obtain after awakening?”

Gu Qing Shan answered without much thought: “Not much, it can now extinguish and kill anything”

“A pixie’s lair isn’t that easy to breach” Lin commented.

“That’s why for this strike, I had it increased its weight a bit, enough to destroy this world as well”

Gu Qing Shan replied.

They silently waited in the shadow of the night for a few breaths’ worth of time.

Soon enough.

On the unseen side of the horizon, a huge rumbling sound of impact reverberated.

This sound grew louder and louder.

The ground broke apart.

Lava erupted from below.

Black clouds of destruction filled the sky.

The three people silently sensed their surroundings.

The entire world was now trembling and rumbling, falling to destruction.

Lin muses: “Hm… the power to extinguish everything, reinforced with a strike several times the world’s own weight, that’s a lot more than ‘enough to destroy this world'”

“Sorry about that. It seems like I used a bit too much force” Gu Qing Shan said shyly.

“Haven’t you killed anyone after you obtained the twin swords?” Lin asked.

“That’s right, I normally don’t kill people” Gu Qing Shan replied.

Lin stared at him, then at the crater right next to them and the line of heads at the bottom of the crater.

She then turned back to stare at him again.

“Fine” Gu Qing Shan explained: “But it’s only when people are being unreasonable that I would take action like this”

“What if they try to be reasonable?”

“I would convince them with my reasoning”

“‘Convincing’ my ass, your conning skills just as formidable as your swordsmanship”

While they were talking, Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt something as his complexion turned pale.

“The Measure Tribulation?” Lin asked.

“Yes” Gu Qing Shan rubbed between his eyebrows.

Seeing Gu Qing Shan’s complexion, Shannu hurriedly: “We need to find another world quickly, otherwise gongzi would have no choice but to face his Tribulation in the space vortex”

Indeed.

As this world was broken apart by the Earth sword’s attack, it would soon crumble and fall to ruin.

The Great Pixie had already been killed so thoroughly that not even his body was left.

Fortunately, Gu Qing Shan obtained enough Soul Points from killing it to balance out his expenditures.

A streak of light came flying back from the black clouds.

Gu Qing Shan looked at the approaching streak of light and asked: “Why did you use so much force that the entire planet exploded?”

The Earth sword fell in front of Gu Qing Shan and answered with its deep voice: 「 You can’t blame me for that——- wasn’t that all because of your inexperience that you pushed it a bit too hard? 」

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Gu Qing Shan froze.

He really didn’t want to continue this topic in front of the two ladies, so he simply put the Earth sword away without exchanging his expression and prevented it from saying anything else.

“We can’t head to Riddle World anymore, so where do you intend to go?” Lin asked.

“Not sure” Gu Qing Shan replied, “Right now, I have no choice but to break open the void of space first and look for a place to temporarily stay”

He drew the Chao Yin sword and lightly slashed the air.

Silently, the void of space was ripped open, displaying cut-out sceneries of myriad worlds in front of him that extended all the way to the clouds above.