Chapter 1226: Pursuit of Apocalypse

The resonance had completed, but the supernatural phenomena still hadn’t disappeared.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t know what was going to happen next either, so he could only stay silent and wait for things to unfold.

The monster’s endlessly long snake body remained completely still within the dark void.

As Gu Qing Shan took a careful look, he noticed that its figure was actually an illusion.

This illusion was being formed on the basis of something real.

Indeed, the monster actually has only its skeleton remaining——–

Seeing through the illusion, even its skeleton was filled with cracks, several nodes at the end of the spine had completely vanished.

Suddenly, as if realizing something, it turned towards Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan was instantly frozen.

Both his soul vessel and body instantly fell into stasis, no matter how Gu Qing Shan tried, he couldn’t move a single muscle.

The gigantic monster slowly moved and arrived in front of Gu Qing Shan.

While they were a few hundred feet away, hovering in the endless void, Gu Qing Shan was only as big as the other party’s eye.

That entity observed Gu Qing Shan, then spoke in a thunderous deep voice:

「 How troublesome, Huang Quan Devil King, Mountain Lord of the Samsara, I can’t let you die here 」

Following this statement, Gu Qing Shan found the restraints over his body loosening up.

Did it recognize my weapons?

Who is it? Where did it come from? Why did one of its pieces of scale fall into the Tomb of Myriad Beasts?

Gu Qing Shan had a lot of questions, but no chance to ask them.

A powerful force was applied onto Gu Qing Shan, about to pull him away into the void.

That entity quickly stated: 「 I can pass down this power of mine to you, but you must leave immediately, you would definitely die if you’re even a bit too late! 」

It mustered all of its strength to dimly illuminate the surrounding boundless darkness with its skeleton.

Gu Qing Shan took one look and held his breath.

That darkness wasn’t actually darkness, but rather an innumerable number of black insects that filled Gu Qing Shan’s entire vision in every direction.

That entity was being restrained by dozens of bronze shackles, forced to remain completely stationary except for very slight movement within a limited range.

It was being trapped inside this sea of insects!

Those black insects seemed to have sensed something and started becoming hysterical.

Zhuuu——

One of the black insects uttered a sharp shriek and directly leapt towards Gu Qing Shan—–

「 GO! 」

The gigantic entity uttered a shout that reverberated like thunder.

Gu Qing Shan sensed the pulling force abruptly intensifying, taking him a far distance within a single instance.

The unrivaled speed caused his surroundings to be blurred.

Gu Qing Shan saw himself continuously lowering and lowering——–

Suddenly, at the very end of his vision, he saw that black insect continuing to pursue without giving up.

The insect had the face of a person as it gradually caught up to Gu Qing Shan.

『 Don’t—— try——— flee 』

For some reason, Gu Qing Shan seemed to understand the other party’s words.

Suddenly, the black insect sped up, opened its gigantic jaws, and attempted to chomp down on Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan found himself being unable to move!

As the insect was about to crush Gu Qing Shan’s head, at the very next moment——–

The world turned into nothingness and vanished from Gu Qing Shan’s vision.

Gu Qing Shan abruptly opened his eyes.

His surroundings were silent, peaceful, and unremarkable.

Gu Qing Shan found himself still standing on the third floor of the Fei Yu Tower of Heaven, facing the tattered piece of scale.

There were no monsters, no insects, no gigantic entity being restrained by several bronze chains.

It was as if nothing had occurred at all.

Thud!

Gu Qing Shan immediately sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

Cold sweat continuously ran down his back.

No, that wasn’t an illusion.

I was truly one step away from death, dying during teleportation where I couldn’t even retaliate at all.

What exactly happened?

His gaze fell onto the War God UI.

Lines of glowing text were being displayed here:

[You’ve successfully resonated and formed a spirit link]

[You’ve become a Spirit Linked Combatant]

[The form of your spirit link is: Fist Techniques]

When Gu Qing Shan read these notifications again, new lines of notification appeared:

[You’ve obtained a spirit link bypassing Space and Time]

[During the spirit linking process, a certain Apocalypse had tracked and followed you to your current location]

[This Apocalypse is endlessly powerful, the likes of which the Tomb of Myriad Beasts cannot go against]

[Fortunately, only an insignificant insect within the entire Apocalypse had followed you]

[Five minutes later, that black insect will descend into the Eastern Desolate Grotto]

[Attention, the Eastern Desolate Grotto is about to face an Apocalypse]

Apocalypse?

One insect?

In the place where that gigantic entity was being held, there were an endless number of black insects, so if all of them had followed me, it would have been a dangerous situation.

But a single insect shouldn’t be of any issue.

While Gu Qing Shan was thinking, spatial fluctuations could be felt from the Fei Yu Tower of Heaven.

This was a warp technique, most likely the Tower of Heaven sensing that he had completed a spirit link and was about to warp him outside.

Gu Qing Shan waited for a moment.

Sure enough, that spatial fluctuation became increasingly stronger until it took Gu Qing Shan outside the tower.

Appearing at the entrance of the tower, Gu Qing Shan smiled: “Uncle Zhang—–”

He abruptly stopped.

Because there was an entire crowd of people outside the Fei Yu spirit link tower.

The Fei Yu Patriarch, the Patriarch’s wife, the Elders, as well as the branch family heads were here.

A large number of experts were waiting outside the Fei Yu Tower of Heaven with heavy expressions forbidding anyone from approaching.

Gu Qing Shan was stunned.

Without waiting for him to talk, the Fei Yu Patriarch asked him first: “The spirit link fluctuations came from the third floor, so did you successfully form a spirit link with the Flying Feather, or the piece of scale?”

This could easily be confirmed, so Gu Qing Shan casually replied: “It was the piece of scale”

Everyone instantly became rowdy.

One of the Elders couldn’t help but speak up: “You must be lying, if it was the piece of scale, why did you return alive?”

“Silence!” the Fei Yu Patriarch shouted.

This time, he wasn’t at all concerned about his son’s matter and sternly told Gu Qing Shan as he approached him: “Regardless of what you saw when you resonated with, don’t say a word about it, just answer me: When you returned, did something follow you?”

Gu Qing Shan answered right away: “There was an insect, completely black, human-faced, eight legs, extremely fast”

As soon as he said this, Gu Qing Shan clearly felt everyone’s expressions turning stiff.

“Are you sure it was only one?” the Fei Yu Patriarch questioned with a heavy voice.

“I’m sure” Gu Qing Shan replied.

Gu Qing Shan then saw everyone’s expressions relaxing.

“It’s fine as long as it’s only one” someone said.

“But we don’t know how destructive it could be, there might be some issues” someone else said.

Everyone subconsciously looked at a white-haired old man.

The white-haired old man replied: “It isn’t one of the 179 known Wicked Ones, if over three of them arrived at once, our entire Eastern Desolate Grotto wouldn’t be able to handle it”

Everyone went silent briefly.

“By that logic, that piece of the scale wasn’t something we could deal with” someone muttered.

“It’s fine, only one of them attacked” the Fei Yu Patriarch said, then turned to Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan once again nodded to confirm.

——-it wasn’t only me, but the War God UI also said that, so there should be no mistakes.

Seeing how confident he was with his confirmation, everyone sighed in relief.

“Patriarch, we will need to inform the city lord and make appropriate preparations” the white-haired old man suggested.

“Report immediately, send our men to aid the city lord’s battle as well——- send only our best men. Remember to inform the city lord that if any damages are incurred from this battle, our Fei Yu clan will take full responsibility for it” the Fei Yu patriarch ordered.

“Understood!”

Everyone responded at once.

Several streaks of light then shot from the manor and headed towards the city center.

The Fei Yu Patriarch turned to Gu Qing Shan.

“Previously Li San, from today onwards, you may have your own name”

“Follow me!”

Gu Qing Shan could only follow the rest of the clan.

Everyone brought him and everyone else towards an unassuming room within the manor.

The Patriarch appointed several teams of people to defend the manor, then let Gu Qing Shan and other young people of the clan into an underground secret room.

——Gu Qing Shan had already seen this room from young master Zhang’s memories.

This was an underground bunker used to defend from any and all calamities.

If a disaster could destroy the entire Eastern Desolate Grotto, a teleportation technique would be triggered here to send everyone into another region.

In other words, this was a place of protection.

The gate closed behind Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan looked for somewhere to sit down and silently waited.

5 minutes later.

——-that black insect should have already arrived at the Eastern Desolate Grotto.

Boom!!!

While he was thinking, a deafening explosion resounded from outside, followed by the shrill noise of an insect.

Right from the very start, the battle had entered its most intense phase, with numerous sounds of combat.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and picked a chair to sit on, leaning on it.

Hm, seems like I’ve just triggered something quite considerable.