Chapter 31

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The night passed, and the sun began to light up the sky in the east.

It didn’t rain today.

The sun slowly rose and hung itself high up in the blue and cloudless sky.

Gu Qingshan’s body suddenly appeared in the middle of a dense forest.

The carcass of the Demonic Python was still lying at his feet. There were dozens of arrows stuck on branches within a 200-meter radius.

After staying 24 hours in the other world, one hour would have passed in the real world. But when he came back into the other world, not even one second would have gone by in the other world.

It was a very strange time flow.

Gu Qingshan checked his storage bag. The Demonic Python’s blood, teeth, and other items were all still intact.

He had eaten one of the Demonic Python’s two gallbladders. The other one was still quietly lying inside his storage bag and would give off a gleam every now and then.

This was really good stuff. Gu Qingshan could still feel that his qi and blood was getting stronger and stronger, and he was reaching the level where he could become a Martial Arts cultivator.

Should he become a Martial Arts cultivator?

Gu Qingshan started to hesitate.

He decided not to think about these things for the moment. It was more important to get back to the camp.

He hadn’t eaten anything the whole day. Zhao Liu didn’t know how to do much, but at least he was a really good cook.

Gu Qingshan tidied up all his things and quickly returned the way he came.

He didn’t stop along the way at all. If he saw any demons, he avoided them in advance.

He had spent a night killing demons, then he’d gone back to the real world to complete the creation of a mecha, meet Anna, fight a Grandmaster, meet with the president and the Martial Arts Saint, and he’s even gone on television. He was now feeling really tired, both physically and emotionally.

He thought it would be a good idea to just rest the entire day inside this other world.

When he got back to the camp, Zhao Liu was standing at the entrance of the camp and waiting for him anxiously.

The moment he spotted Gu Qingshan, he quickly said, “Bro, something bad has happened.”

“What’s wrong?”

“A lot of demons appeared last night. They just kept appearing, one after another.”

“Huh? What’s going on?”

Gu Qingshan’s expression grew tense when he asked this question.

Zhao Liu didn’t understand anything about the military, so after stuttering for a long time, he still couldn’t explain exactly what had happened.

Gu Qingshan could only patiently ask. It took three or four questions before Zhao Liu would finally reply with one statement based on his memory.

It took nearly fifteen minutes before Gu Qingshan had finally gotten a clear picture of what had happened.

The night before, the demon army hadn’t sent out large troops. Instead, they’d sent out many small groups of special troops.

All these troops were well prepared and were all powerful demons. In Zhao Liu’s words, they “looked so scary that I wanted to die” and “were even fiercer than the weird thing we saw the last time”.

The demon troops were all moving at high speed, speeding past the entrance of the camp.

In order to make sure that they were not discovered easily and could move quickly, the demons grouped together in small numbers and moved silently.

If Zhao Liu hadn’t gotten up in the middle of the night to pee, he wouldn’t have discovered them at all.

After he finished listening to Zhao Liu’s recounting of the night before, Gu Qingshan started thinking about the Faceless Giant and the Blood Drinking Demons he’d seen the day before and started raising more questions in his heart.

The demon army was sending out so many special troops at such high speed. What were they trying to do?

This was supposed to be around the time when the first battle had just begun. The demons and humans were still trying to sound each other out and make sure they got a clearer picture of the enemy. So neither side had sent out their most powerful troops to fight to the very end yet.

These were all powerful demons that should have appeared only toward the end of the battles, but they had all appeared now.

Gu Qingshan murmured to himself and started to dig through his memories very seriously.

He had a bad feeling about this.

In his previous life, he had been commander-in-chief of the National Guild and the head battle strategist of the combined world forces, so he was very sensitive to the movement of army troops.

He had studied every battle in the game very seriously, too.

When he had just transmigrated, his cultivation level was too low, and he was also wounded, so Gu Qingshan focused all his energies on leveling up.

But now that things had changed, he could start to think about everything from the viewpoint of a battle commander again.

Gu Qingshan put aside his distractions and started to focus on thinking about this situation.

Since the troops that were on the move weren’t the main troops of the demon army, then whatever was going to happen wasn’t going to occur at the frontlines of the battle.

So that eliminated the possibility of an actual battle.

Could it be an ambush of sorts?

Gu Qingshan shut his eyes and looked through the map of this world in his mind.

The army camp he was at was part of the front lines, and this area had already been lost to the demons.

What around here would have been worth the demons’ while to send out such powerful and elite troops to attack the human army’s side with so much force?

The next human army barrack was outside the border city and was nearly 500 kilometers away from here.

There weren’t any targets worth ambushing around here.

So an ambush could also be eliminated.

After eliminating these two possibilities, Gu Qingshan became even more nervous.

Could it be some sort of assassination attack?

Gu Qingshan continued to think about this quietly.

Many top human cultivators had died in battle in this year in history.

So which important human cultivators had been assassinated by demon troops before the battles suddenly broke out?

Many names appeared in Gu Qingshan’s mind.

He started to think through them and narrowed his list down.

Suddenly Gu Qingshan thought of two people.

These two had shocked the world with how incomparable they were in power and had contributed greatly to the history of mankind.

Many historians had said before that if at least one of them hadn’t died before the battles began, they would have rewritten history.

Gu Qingshan suddenly asked, “What day is it today?”

Zhao Liu scratched his head and replied, “June 7th.”

Gu Qingshan’s heart skipped a beat. That matched up!

The Supreme Elder of the Sacred Path Faction, Formation Grandmaster Gongsun Zhi, had fallen to the enemy on June 8th.

The Celestial Pole Sacred Lady of the Celestial Pole Sect, Ning Yuechan, had fallen to the enemy on June 9th.

Gongsun Zhi had been surrounded by 3,000,000 demons and died within his own formation.

Ning Yuechan had been attacked by five demon generals and had fallen after battling them for one day and one night.

Many players were all dumbfounded when they read this part of history because they couldn’t understand what had happened at all.

Formations were the best way to hide from the enemy, and even the lousiest one could still help one to run from the enemy.

Among all the sects and factions, Gongsun Zhi’s formation technique was the best in the world and was a Grandmaster who was nearly able to attain the way of heaven and understand all things on earth.

So it didn’t make sense that someone with such a high level of formation technique would be trapped by millions of demons and eventually die like that.

The fall of the Celestial Pole Sacred Lady, Ning Yuechan, was particularly tragic.

The Celestial Pole Sect was one of the most powerful sects in the cultivation world. Ning Yuechan had become a Celestial Pole Sacred Lady at a very young age, so her constitution and cultivation levels were considered one of the highest in all of the cultivation world.

Such an outstanding lady ended up being surrounded by five powerful demon generals, and she fought with all her strength for one day and one night and finally died after she had finished using up all her strength.

If she had sent out even just a small cry of help, then highly skilled fighters from the human army would definitely have gone to help her during her fight.

But the higher-ups of the human army hadn’t known she had battled the demons for one day and one night until she had already fallen.

There had been a mighty cultivator who’d said before that if Gongsun Zhi hadn’t died, then the humans might not have lost the first battle. And if Ning Yuechan hadn’t died, then she might have stood a chance to fight the Nine Nether Demonic Lord a decade later and change the fate of mankind.

But these were all regretful what-ifs. History had already been written, so it was meaningless for the people who came after to say such things.

Gu Qingshan paced up and down and thought about these things quietly.

Today was the 7th of June. That meant that in just two days’ time, these two legendary people would fall to the enemy one after another.

So this was probably why the demon army had sent out all these elite troops.

The place where these two legends had fallen was…

Gu Qingshan started to recall where they had fallen and quickly found the position recorded in history on the map in his mind.

As expected, it wasn’t too far from here. It was only about 50 kilometers out.

Once he had confirmed his suspicions, Gu Qingshan felt more relaxed inside.

The moment these two powerful human cultivators showed up, the demons would definitely go crazy trying to surround them.

As a Qi Refiner Level 5 cultivator, there was no way Gu Qingshan could even go near such a fierce battle.

Just the demon troops covering their comrades’ back would kill him off easily.

The only thing he could do now was to take this chance to quickly escape to the human army’s base camp.

Since all the demons were now focused on attacking those two legendary people, he had to take this chance to get out of this danger zone.

Gu Qingshan quickly reached a decision.

Under such circumstances, he could leave in the opposite direction, and that would be the way to avoid the most danger.

It would take a day and a night to get to the base camp outside the border city from here.

This amount of time wasn’t short, and there were many dangers on the way, but it was better than waiting to die within a camp that had already fallen.

So if he wanted to leave, then he had to quickly run for it while the two legends were still battling the demons.

Gu Qingshan didn’t think about resting anymore. He quickly checked all the things he had on him.

The Demonic Python blood, fangs, and gallbladder were still intact, and his military bow was still in good shape. He didn’t have many arrows left, so he would need to get more later after leaving.

The curved saber wasn’t of much use, but it was better to bring one along. At least he’d have a weapon if he would need to fight something up close.

“Pack your things, we have to leave right now.”

Gu Qingshan said this to Zhao Liu while packing his own things.

“Leave? Where to?” Zhao Liu replied with wide eyes.

He had just finished waxing some demon meat and was about to hang it under the roof to dry.

“Of course, we’re getting out of this fallen zone. We’re headed for the human army’s base camp,” replied Gu Qingshan.

Zhao Liu hesitated and said, “But, but we’ve already found Spirit Stones, so we can still hide for a while more within this formation.”

Gu Qingshan said, “This Concealment Magic Formation is only effective against anything at Golden Core level and below. Anything above Golden Core will be able to see through this formation easily.”

He continued, “That strange creature called a Faceless Giant we saw the other day had already discovered us long ago, but because it had a mission to complete and we’re not powerful fighters, it just ignored us.”

Zhao Liu took a step back, then took another step back. He shook his head and said, “Bro, why are you saying such scary things? Why do you want to lie to me?”

Gu Qingshan continued to explain to him patiently, “If my judgment is correct, this area is going to become a battleground soon, so if you want to live, we have to leave as soon as possible.”

Zhao Liu said, “Didn’t you just go hunting? How did you know all this?”

Gu Qingshan replied, “I know from the movement of the demon troops. Don’t worry, I’m very sure about this.”

But Zhao Liu kept shaking his head and said, “That’s not right! You must have made a mistake! It’s so dangerous outside and I could die anytime! If you want to leave, go ahead! I’m staying here!”

Gu Qingshan thought about how Zhao Liu had given him a Healing Pill and sighed. He continued to try to persuade Zhao Liu, “Come with me. You really can’t stay here anymore or you’d definitely die.”

Zhao Liu continued to shake his head vigorously and said, “Going out from here is even more dangerous. There’s a formation here, and I’ll be safe here. Besides, the human army will take this area back sooner or later.”

Gu Qingshan tried to persuade him further, but he noticed that Zhao Liu was very firm and even started looking at Gu Qingshan with some anger in his eyes, so Gu Qingshan gave up.

“I hope that you understand,” Gu Qingshan said very seriously, “the moment the demons arrive, you won’t even have the time to regret it.”

Zhao Liu stiffened his neck and refused to say anything.

Since that was the case, Gu Qingshan had no choice but to turn and leave the camp without even turning back to look.

After Gu Qingshan disappeared from sight, Zhao Liu spat hatefully.

“Tsk! Leaving this place is the most dangerous thing to do! Those soldiers left the camp, and that’s how they died at the hands of demons!”

“Everyone ended up in that mass grave while I alone survived.”

“I thought he was here to rescue me, but he’s turned out to be some newbie who got lost. I can’t believe I’ve only realized this after serving him for so many days.”

“What a joke. He can go ahead and die if he wants, but he actually tried to convince me to die as well.”

Zhao Liu cursed all the way back to his room.