Chapter 4

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Gu Qingshan suddenly thought of something.

“War God Operating Interface, I have a question.”

DING!

“Please say it,” replied the system.

“Why can’t I recall the battle techniques and experiences that I had?”

“You’ve just traveled through Space-time, and you’ve created a storm-like disturbance in the Space-time Turbulence.”

“There are many other malicious parties that have sensed this anomaly and they are now looking for the source of the problem.”

“So part of your memories must be sealed and hidden away for now. Once everything settles down, I will find a suitable time to break the seal on your memories.”

Gu Qingshan quietly sighed after hearing this.

He suddenly felt a dull ache in his body.

He looked down to find that the white bandages on himself were now stained with fresh blood.

Indeed, his wounds hadn’t fully healed and were still in the first stages of healing. Doing such vigorous activity would definitely cause the wounds to split open.

Gu Qingshan put the military bow down and found a cot to sleep in.

He told himself that he must not be in too much of a hurry to do anything and that he had to remain calm and patient.

Gu Qingshan took out the last Healing Pill and swallowed it without hesitation.

He closed his eyes and started to use his Spirit Power to disperse the medicine.

The rest of the night went on in silence.

The rain was even heavier the next morning.

The weather was slowly becoming colder, and the raindrops were icy cold as they drenched the ground.

Winter was coming in less than two weeks.

Back in the barracks.

Gu Qingshan woke up from the cold.

He got up and moved about for a bit, feeling that the wounds on his body had started healing up already.

The Healing Pills that the military used were really high-quality items. They were quite effective for healing wounds.

A few moments later, the door was pushed open.

Zhao Liu had cooked a pot of porridge and carefully brought it in.

Gu Qingshan looked at the steaming pot and smelled the fragrance of plain porridge as he asked, “How much food do we have left?”

Zhao Liu sighed. “It’s only enough for another one and a half days.” After saying that, he stole a glance at the storage bag on Gu Qingshan’s waist.

Gu Qingshan noticed it but didn’t say anything.

After traveling through Space-time, his storage bag had been emptied as well.

Gu Qingshan ladled out some porridge and quietly finished his breakfast.

“How are your wounds?” Zhao Liu looked a little hopeful.

“Much better,” Gu Qingshan stretched his arms and legs. Then, he asked, “Zhao, which battalion are you from? What type of soldier are you?”

Zhao Liu had an awkward smile on his face as he said, “I’m from the army kitchen, so I can cook for a few hundred people at any time.”

So he was an army cook. No wonder he could make even a simple bowl of porridge delicious.

In such a situation, if Gu Qingshan hadn’t appeared, an ordinary person like Zhao Liu would have despaired in the face of impending doom.

But what Zhao Liu didn’t know was that Gu Qingshan was only a Qi Refiner Level 1 cultivator. If they ran into a small group of demons, Gu Qingshan would also be killed off immediately.

Gu Qingshan continued to ponder quietly and looked at the hourglass at the top of the interface.

There wasn’t much sand left in the hourglass; it was close to finishing.

This seemed different from the official game.

There were a few luminous words beside the hourglass to explain this: after players stay one full day in the cultivating world, they will be sent back to the real world.

Now Gu Qingshan really wanted to know very badly what year it was in the real world.

They were halfway through breakfast when both of them stopped what they were doing at the same time.

“Bro, there seems to be some movement outside,” whispered Zhao Liu as he started shrinking back.

“I’ll take a look,” replied Gu Qingshan. He grabbed the military bow and walked out.

The hourglass looked like it was left with about another ten or fifteen minutes, so he hoped nothing terrible would happen during this remaining time.

Gu Qingshan walked out of the room, nocked an arrow to the bow, and narrowed his eyes as he looked around him carefully.

His eyes quickly scanned every structure around him and didn’t miss a single corner.

Generally speaking, if the campsite had a Concealment Magic Formation around it, demons wouldn’t come in so easily.

So what was it?

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. It was that sound again.

It was coming from the entrance to the camp.

Gu Qingshan kept close to the wall and quietly moved toward that direction.

A large demon about twice the height of a human appeared in Gu Qingshan’s line of vision.

This demon shook its head and its tail as it stood at the edge of the mass grave and looked around itself very carefully and warily.

Even though the continuous heavy rainfall washed away many things, the smell of blood from the mass grave still attracted a demon anyway.

Gu Qingshan hid in the shadow of the roof. He raised his military bow and slowly drew the arrow.

He knew what this creature was.

This was a low-level demon that looked fairly clumsy. But if it started getting wild and angry, its ability to crash into things and tear things apart was quite terrifying, so it was normally impossible to get close to it even if you had two or three soldiers together.

Gu Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He was so glad that he had chosen a long-range weapon. With the cover of the Concealment Magic Formation around the camp, he might succeed in attacking from afar.

The demon ran around the mass grave and rolled on the ground from time to time.

It was trying to check if there were any traps around this grave, or whether they were other demons waiting in ambush.

There were ten minutes left on the hourglass.

Gu Qingshan quietly held onto his drawn bow and didn’t move.

Sniff!

Sniff!

The demon stopped and snorted as its large head continued to look around warily.

Five minutes left.

Gu Qingshan continued to stay still.

The demon finally slowly lowered its head and was going to start munching on one of the corpses.

Its nose smelled the body for some time before it finally opened its mouth full of sharp teeth.

NOW!

Gu Qingshan drew the bow to its maximum and loaded Spirit Power into the arrow.

A shapeless wave emanated from the arrow.

Spirit Power could increase an arrow’s damage to five times higher than an ordinary arrow.

These arrows were all made from a special material, so it wasn’t just able to take in Spirit Power, but it was even able to take the in Five Elements.

Once the bow was fully drawn, Gu Qingshan remained quiet for two breaths, then released his fingers.

WOOONG!

The arrow shot out with a whoosh and landed in the demon’s mouth, causing it so much pain that it collapsed and started rolling on the ground.

After one arrow was shot, Gu Qingshan immediately drew the bow and shot another one in quick succession.

Rapid Shot!

The arrows were shot out so quickly from the military bow that they just became shadows.

The demon immediately gave a terrifying roar as it started pouncing toward the camp.

But after taking a few steps, the demon turned its head and decided to make a run for it.

There were more and more arrows burying themselves into it, and they were all on vital areas like its sensory organs, joints, and its stomach.

Its injuries were getting more severe at a terrifying rate, so the demon’s initial outburst of anger had become deep-seated fear.

If it had chosen to run when it’d been first attacked, then it might have made it out alive. But it had chosen to attack first before trying to run, so it was too late.

Throughout this entire process, there had been no expression on Gu Qingshan’s face at all. His hands were as steady as a rock as he continually pulled out arrow after arrow, drew the bow, and shot out the arrows.

The hourglass was down to its last minute.

The demon collapsed onto the ground and didn’t move anymore.

Its entire body was filled with arrows, so fresh blood started flowing from its wounds, dyeing the ground red.

Gu Qingshan was only left with 40% of his Spirit Power.

Even so, he continued to pull out arrows, fill them up with Spirit Power, and aim them at all the vital points of the demon.

These demons were intelligent; none of them seemed stupid. Some of them were even more sly than humans.

They knew how to play dead and lure their enemies too.

After several moments, there were more and more arrows in the demon, so it couldn’t pretend to be dead anymore and leaped up from the ground.

But it was met with an even wilder stream of arrows.

The demon tried its best to run about five or six meters, but after it hit a large tree, it collapsed onto the ground with a loud thud.

This time, it was really dead.

Two rows of luminous blue words popped up in front of Gu Qingshan.

“Soul Power +1, Current Soul Power: 1/5.”

“Experience has reached maximum. Current XP: 5/5. Level up is possible. Confirm level up?”

He had earned 4 XP earlier by killing off the Skinning Blood Demon, and now he had earned 1 XP, so he had fulfilled the requirements for leveling up.

Gu Qingshan replied without hesitation, “Level up.”

After he said that, the XP field went from 5/5 to 0/10.

To move from Qi Refiner Level 2 to Qi Refiner Level 3, he needed twice the amount of XP.

Gu Qingshan’s profile label also changed from Qi Refiner Level 1 to Qi Refiner Level 2.

There was a bright and majestic glow that emanated from Gu Qingshan’s body.

A warm flow wrapped itself around Gu Qingshan before finally gathering at his Dantian and became a huge amount of Spirit Power.