Chapter 1096: Twin Snakes of Impermanence

In the boundless darkness, Gu Qing Shan was flying at full speed.

Occasionally, to speed himself up, he would use [Ground Shrink] to travel through a large distance.

——–but he didn’t use it too much.

Earlier, when he unleashed the three strikes of the Asura Divine Skill, both his body and spirit were greatly drained, and hadn’t been fully recovered.

Everything ahead was unknown, and there was a very real danger of running into monsters, so Gu Qing Shan was trying to conserve his strength.

In the darkness, he kept his inner sight released at all times but still couldn’t feel anything apart from the huge wall on top, whose border he couldn’t fathom.

After a bit of thought, Gu Qing Shan decided to fly close to the ceiling.

Occasionally, he would leave marks on the ceiling with his sword as well as arranging some warp formations.

This was done in order to leave bread crumbs for him to find his way back whenever necessary.

——-if all things went well, these preparations would naturally be unusable.

But in case of an abrupt situation, with these warp formations, he would be able to easily handle them.

About an hour of flying later, Gu Qing Shan felt that he was not too far away from reaching the 7-colored spear.

He summoned his two swords and had them hover around him to keep watch.

All of a sudden, he sensed it.

Something was pursuing him.

Gu Qing Shan stopped moving forward.

He stood still, silently waiting.

His pursuers entered the range of his inner sight immediately.

Two girls.

One with a black cloak, one with a white cloak, both wearing masks.

A few moments later.

They arrived in front of Gu Qing Shan.

“The twin snakes of black and white…” Gu Qing Shan muttered.

The black-cloaked girl displayed clear killing intent and shouted in question: “How strange, you are not a person of our world, how did you know of us?”

Gu Qing Shan went silent.

I met these two girls at the Death God’s site of inheritance.

We had even greeted one another.

But now they claim that they don’t know me.

One of them is carrying a jade-green fishing rod, while the other carries an azure glazed lamp, these are too unique to mistake.

The black-cloaked masked girl took out a piece of intact black jade and coldly asked: “Is this the target you wish to eliminate?”

An old voice replied from the black jade piece: [Indeed, this person might be an Asura, he has a Sword Divine Skill, please be careful, my Deities]

The black-cloaked masked girl indifferently declared: “It is no matter, just watch this Deity take away his soul”

She randomly tossed the piece of jade in the air and let it hover.

The white-cloaked masked girl lightly utilized her azure glazed lamp and shouted: “Soul Guide of Huang Quan!”

The azure glazed lamp then gave off bright light, summoning hundreds of azure locks of hair that scattered in all directions, slithering through the air like a swarm of snakes.

These azure locks of hair were too rapid and had made their way in front of Gu Qing Shan with just the blink of an eye, coiling around his body.

Gu Qing Shan swung his swords without leaving any gaps, drawing a flower of swords that bloomed in mid-air, slicing all the attacking hair apart.

All of a sudden, the black-cloaked girl raised her hand, causing the black hook of her fishing rod to vanish.

It was already hooked onto Gu Qing Shan’s left shoulder!

Gu Qing Shan was shocked.

——-who would’ve thought, ‘reeling soul’ was a sure-hit technique.

An unprecedented sense of danger encroached him.

In that split second, he turned the Earth sword and abruptly stabbed his own shoulder.

Kih!

As the black-cloaked girl tried to reel him in, the black hook was perfectly sent flying off his shoulder by the Earth sword.

Gu Qing Shan clutched his bleeding shoulder and took distance from the two girls in a flash.

The two pursued him without end.

The black-cloaked masked girl coldly commented: “Asura? He can’t even perform his Divine Skill, only a fake”

“No need to waste your words, just reel his soul in, he’ll be making a trip to Huang Quan” the white-cloaked girl’s emotionless voice followed.

She used her azure glazed lamp again.

A split second later.

Another million locks of azure hair were released, completely occupying the void as they made their way towards Gu Qing Shan.

The black fishing hook couldn’t be seen among the torrent of hair.

The two girls had coordinated their attacks!

From a combat perspective, this would surely be the most dangerous moment of Gu Qing Shan’s life.

He focused his mind and abruptly swung his sword.

Countless razor-thin sword phantoms erupted from the Earth sword, clashing against one another millions of times in a single split second.

Fwoom!

A boundless sea of fire was born!

——-Sword of Extinguishing Flames, [Parting Fire]!

This strike of the Divine Skill doesn’t kill people, it kills their technique.

The countless locks of hair were immediately dispelled with very little remaining, even the black fishing hook was sent flying.

This attack seemed to have angered the two girls as their aura rose again.

However, at the next moment, a layer of white frost had manifested over their hands and gradually spread to their entire bodies.

Sword of Destroying Frost, [Freezing Frost]!

The two girls were covered in frost, unable to move.

Very strangely, Gu Qing Shan wielded the Earth sword but didn’t perform the final strike, the Mind Sword – [Sun Moon Eclipse]

As [Parting Fire] was unleashed, the Chao Yin sword had already disappeared without a trace.

When [Freezing Frost] began to lock the figure of the two girls, Chao Yin sword had made it through the distance between them to appear behind the piece of black jade.

Just as the old voice from the piece of black jade hurriedly spoke: [My Deities, be careful of the third strike—–]

The sword gave off a sharp sword phantom and slashed with all its might.

Crack!

The piece of black jade was chopped to dust, destroyed!

The old voice abruptly vanished.

The Chao Yin sword let out a ‘wu wu’ sound before returning to Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan sighed in relief.

He looked in front of him.

The white-cloaked and black-cloaked girls continued to be frozen until they were two blocks of ice.

Their bodies remained still within the ice without moving.

Gu Qing Shan let go of the Earth sword and clasped his hand: “Sorry if I offended you, can we talk now?”

Crack!

Crack!

With a curt noise, the two girls emerged from the ice.

They stood still.

After a short moment, two unmasked girls flew out from their bodies.

They were indeed the black-cloaked and white-cloaked girls that Gu Qing Shan met before.

The white-cloaked girl stretched her back and said: “Now we can talk, we’ve already sealed these two’s souls, they won’t know anything for now”

The black-cloaked girl turned to Gu Qing Shan and smiled: “When did you notice?”

Gu Qing Shan replied: “I knew right as you tossed that piece of black jade out, then you reminded me to use the Asura Divine Skill and that you wanted to take me to Huang Quan, so I knew that you hadn’t forgotten what happened”

The white-cloaked girl was a bit uneasy: “Were we that obvious?”

Gu Qing Shan replied: “Not at all, the person who monitored you still reminded you to be careful at the very last moment”

The black-cloaked girl sincerely replied: “When we attacked you, we didn’t hold back a lot, and only the Asura Divine Skill could have stopped us a bit, so how could that old fogey have noticed anything?”

Gu Qing Shan clasped his fist again, sincerely asking them: “Please, I truly do not understand what the situation is, can you help me explain?”

The two of them exchanged glances.

The white-cloaked girl sighed and replied: “Finally, there’s no one to listen in”

The black-cloaked girl flew forward and grabbed Gu Qing Shan’s left hand.

The white-cloaked girl also came and grabbed Gu Qing Shan’s right hand.

The black-cloaked girl said sternly: “Devil King, what you performed just now was the Asura three-strike swordsmanship, if you only unleashed the first and second strike while withholding the final Mind Sword, the Mind Sword will recoil and injure your soul vessel”

The white-cloaked girl also spoke very seriously: “Yes, yes, yes. You can’t withhold it, just unleash the final strike now, once you’ve recovered a bit, we’ll talk”

Gu Qing Shan indeed felt the Mind Sword slowly accumulating power to its maximum within his soul body.

He pondered a bit and answered honestly: “…But I’ve already used this technique once before, if I use it again, I’ll be so drained that I won’t be able to deal with any upcoming battles”

The black-cloaked girl replied: “It’s ok, aren’t we here to supply you with mental power?”

The white-cloaked girl continued, speaking in a slightly spoiled tone: “That’s right, as long as you don’t use that strike to attack us, we’ll be able to help you recover all of your strength”

Hearing that, Gu Qing Shan carefully focused his mind on experiencing the last strike, the Mind Sword.

Sha——-

The void in front of Gu Qing Shan was cut apart, revealing countless silent stars.

It then quickly closed back up.

The two girls held Gu Qing Shan’s hand tightly and uttered a small heave as they transferred their power into Gu Qing Shan’s soul.

Gu Qing Shan was surprised to find that all of his fatigue was gone.

He had never felt this level of clarity and spirit before.

“What kind of power is this?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.

The white-cloaked girl answered: “This is the pure essence refined from world [Origin] and power of the soul, it can recover any type of expenditure, so we wouldn’t arbitrarily use it”

The two girls let go of his hands.

The black-cloaked girl said: “There, now we can talk”

The white-cloaked girl pursed her lips a bit before softly speaking: “She’s Gou Hun, I’m Duo Ming, two minor Deities of Huang Quan, also hailed by humanity as the twin snakes of black and white” (TN: Gou Hun and Duo Ming literally means “soul hooker” and “life taker”, i think it’s obvious why i didn’t use an English translation here)

Gu Qing Shan hesitantly asked: “The two of you are real Deities?”

The two girls nodded.

The black-cloaked girl continued: “The two of us are actually the two Deities with the closest relationship to you, because the dead people that we reel in would all become your subordinates after going through karmic evaluation, so you’ll always reward us”

The white-cloaked girl followed up: “That’s why, we’re actually the closest friends and siblings you’ll ever have”

Gu Qing Shan was speechless.

——-even before I understand the situation of the parallel world, I’ve already gotten a couple of siblings.

Gu Qing Shan then asked: “The Devil King Warden Rod’s artifact spirit was already dead, so it instinctively chose a Devil King among the dead people of Huang Quan. I had to go through a test and triumphed against all the other dead people to become the Devil King, how did you obtain your Godhood?”

The black-cloaked girl raised her jade-green fishing rod.

The white-cloaked girl raised her azure glazed lamp.

“Then, it was our Divine Armaments that chose us?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Not quite, you can’t really say it was the Divine Armaments, since they’re the manifestation of the Quang Quan’s will, it should be Huang Quan that chose us” the black-cloaked girl corrected him.

Gu Qing Shan thought of something and continued: “But my Samsara was only an imitation, it’s probably different from your world”

The two girls listened to him with understanding expressions.

“Devil King, you must remember this clearly, a Samsara that can give birth to a Huang Quan Divine Armament is surely not fake” the black-cloaked girl explained.

“Even if it was an imitation, it must have used a fragment of the real Samsara to stimulate a complete Samsara” the white-cloaked girl added.

The black-cloaked girl followed up: “Because of that, your Samsara must have used a real fragment of Huang Quan as its [Origin] in order to create an entire Samsara”

The white-cloaked girl then continued: “In other places, there are also various Samsara created from fragments of the Heavenly realm, Wraith realm, Human realm, Asura realm, so on and so forth—– there are actually quite a few of them”

Gu Qing Shan froze.

It makes sense.

The Grand Tie Wei Mountain was indeed not fake, as not even Abaddon managed to leave a dent on it.

When the Soul Shrieker tried to warp to Huang Quan, I also used the Devil King Warden Rod to prevent its course.

With such power, how could it be fake?

He couldn’t help but ask again: “Then, are there other Huang Quan Devil Kings within the other Huang Quan fragments?”

“How is that possible?” the black-cloaked girl giggled: “The Deities within every fragment of Huang Quan are different, only by combining them all could a complete Huang Quan be formed”

The white-cloaked girl explained: “In our fragment of Huang Quan, there are only a few techniques and spells within the Devil King’s knowledge inheritance, but not your actual self; similarly, I believe that us two Deities wouldn’t exist within your fragment of Huang Quan either”