Chapter 39

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

At the moment, Gu Qingshan had five archery techniques: Gallop in Wind (Passive Technique), Bombardment, Sharpshooter, Rapid Shot, and Volley (Elementary Level).

Among these, Sharpshooter was a technique with an extremely high level of accuracy, and Gallop in Wind was a passive technique that was constantly used and increased the speed of the arrow’s flight. Rapid Shot and Bombardment were very practical archery techniques.

As for Volley, this was a unique Growing Skill, and he hoped that it would become a Secondary Divine Skill.

These were all techniques that were hard to come by.

Even a powerful cultivator, who was an army general, might not be able to grasp such high-level techniques.

After comprehending the techniques of Night Rain, the only problem Gu Qingshan had at the moment was his cultivation level.

A Blood Drinking Demon fell from the five peaks, rolled, and got up again. It spotted the formation the moment it looked up and started running toward the formation.

It was fortunate enough to have escaped with few injuries and had about 70% or 80% strength left in it to fight. Breaking through formations was something these particular demons were very good at.

Gu Qingshan lifted up Night Rain and took a deep breath.

Gallop in Wind!

Bombardment!

Sharpshooter!

The arrow shot out like a shooting star and landed on the Blood Drinking Demon before it even had the chance to react.

The Blood Drinking Demon was instantly blasted more than ten meters out. It crashed hard against a huge tree and spat a whole mouthful of blood out.

Gu Qingshan was so shocked that he forgot to keep shooting.

Blood Drinking Demons were equivalent to an Initial Nascent Soul cultivator.

One arrow was powerful enough to increase Gu Qingshan’s power by two stages and blasted a Blood Drinking Demon aside.

It was definitely god-defying for an archery technique to be this amazing.

Gu Qingshan forced himself to calm down and quietly checked how much Spirit Power he had used.

This shot alone had used up 90% of his Spirit Power.

This wouldn’t do. It consumed too much Spirit Power.

Given the total Spirit Power that Gu Qingshan had, he could only strike like this one more time.

Then he would have to just wait to be killed.

In reality, Bombardment was an archery technique meant for a Nascent Soul cultivator. Cultivators at that stage would have been better able to use the power of Bombardment.

Since Gu Qingshan had prematurely comprehended such a high-level archery technique, he was naturally unable to keep using it since he was only at Qi Refining stage.

Even Gongsun Zhi looked at Gu Qingshan in surprise.

“This young boy has such an incredible talent for archery? How interesting.”

Gongsun Zhi’s rating of Gu Qingshan went up inside his heart.

The Blood Drinking Demon was bleeding all over. It roared and got up, ready to make a mad dash to tear that irritating human to pieces.

But a slew of arrows came flying its way, and it had to keep stopping, so it couldn’t even take a single step forward for a long time.

But this time, Gu Qingshan hadn’t used Bombardment.

His archery technique had reached a fairly high level, so even an ordinary shot was pretty powerful in itself.

Technically speaking, Gu Qingshan was only at Qi Refiner stage and there was no way he could kill off a Blood Drinking Demon.

But because the Blood Drinking Demon had been injured from the formation, then injured further by a powerful archery technique, and then attacked by a downpour of arrows, the demon couldn’t move any further ahead.

Blood Drinking Demons were very powerful in close combat, but it was very far off from Gu Qingshan now. These demons were not able to activate any of the five elements and didn’t possess any long-range fighting skills.

It was also blocked by a few of Gongsun Zhi’s formations, so it wasn’t able to rush over in a short time either.

Each arrow powerfully pierced through its body, and every single one landed on target. As its injuries worsened, the Blood Drinking Demon also began to feel fear.

This human’s arrows were too powerful, so it had to use all its strength to fight back!

The Blood Drinking Demon curled itself into a ball, then a chilling and evil air started to seep out from its body.

Gu Qingshan’s eyelid twitched a little when he saw this happen.

Gongsun Zhi’s expression also changed. He pressed both hands on the formation disk and quickly set up a defensive formation.

Gongsun Zhi yelled loudly, “Be careful! It’s going to use Nether Fire Explosion!”

Nether Fire Explosion was a Fire Element technique that mixed in the dark Qi of the Netherworld. It had a great impact and could blast a hole in any formation.

Every Blood Drinking Demon had dark Qi of the Netherworld accumulating inside of it since birth. So when they were pushed into a corner, they would sacrifice their lives in exchange for their only chance to use one of the Elements.

The dark Qi of the Netherworld would ignite as a result of the Fire Element used.

Blood Drinking Demons could only attack like this once when they were about to die.

This move had caused Gongsun Zhi quite a big headache in the last few days when he fought them.

Gu Qingshan quickly pulled out one of his arrows that had python fangs on it and shot it from Night Rain.

Sharpshooter!

Volley!

Five arrows became gray shadows as they swiftly flew through the air. Their unpredictable flight path went around the defending arms of the Blood Drinking Demon in front of itself and struck the back of its head at the same time.

PUUUUUUU!

The arrows stabbed in at the same time and made only one sound.

Dark green blood started bleeding from the Blood Drinking Demon’s ears.

With a muffled sound, the Blood Drinking Demon collapsed onto the ground, and the dark Qi of the Netherworld that was around it started dissipating.

“High-level creature killed: Blood Drinking Demon. 30 Soul Power points awarded. Current Soul Power: 30/7.”

He had obtained 30 points of Soul Power, but after thinking about it, he realized that there were no more techniques left for him to learn.

Gongsun Zhi stared at Gu Qingshan in shock and complimented him, “That’s an amazing archery technique! Since you’ve learned so many fatal archery techniques at such a young age, when your cultivation level is high enough, it should enough to become a General.”

Gu Qingshan waved the longbow and poison laid arrows in his hand and said, “I just have good weapons on hand, and of course, the cover of your formations.”

He didn’t have many python fang arrows. Every time he used one, he would have one less. But in a time like this, Gu Qingshan couldn’t think about saving them anymore.

Gongsun Zhi shook his head and said, “You’re definitely capable of this. When I was your age, I was still hugging a formation disk and trying to figure out elementary level formation techniques.”

BOOOM!

There was a thunderous roar from the clouds that filled the earth.

Gongsun Zhi and Gu Qingshan looked up to see Ning Yuechan retreating quickly in the sky. Her gold armor was shimmering, and her white cape was flapping violently in the strong winds.

Gu Qingshan looked intently at this while thinking. Then he asked, “General Gongsun, do you have any other method left to contact anybody else?”

Gongsun Zhi felt a little guilty when Gu Qingshan asked this question.

If he hadn’t hesitated, that messenger talisman might have been sent out by now.

They wouldn’t have had to worry about their lives once the Saints arrived.

Now that the Faceless Giant was already here and could absorb anything with Spirit Power, then it would probably be impossible to send any more talismans out.

Gongsun Zhi hesitated for a while, then sighed and said, “The only way now is to go to Shenwu World. Our Teleportation Formation is set up there.”

Shenwu World?

What was that?

Gu Qingshan stared at Gongsun Zhi and couldn’t understand.

He was instantly covered in a layer of cold sweat.

At this moment, he felt like Gongsun Zhi was bringing him to look behind the long-lost history of mankind to witness a shocking secret.

Gongsun Zhi said, “You probably don’t know, but that is a destroyed world.”

Gu Qingshan was shocked. “You mean besides this world, there’s another one?”

In his previous life, he had never heard of another world until the apocalypse had fallen on them.

When the game had arrived in the real world, it was called Apocalypse Online for All Worlds.

In the initial stages, this name had attracted a lot of attention and was highly debated.

The people had only known about the cultivation world that was within the game and the real world they lived in.

Since there had been only two worlds, could they have been considered ‘all worlds’?

Eventually, after people had been familiar with going in and out between the two worlds, nobody had bothered looking for an answer to this question. Furthermore, the situation within the game had become worse with each passing day, and there’d been thousands of people dying at the hands of the demons every single day.

Fewer and fewer people had had time or energy to bother with this question.

Gongsun Zhi replied, “That’s right. There is a Space-time Turbulence behind the Demonic Lord’s Royal Chamber that will reach that destroyed world.”

Gu Qingshan asked, “You’ve been there?”

Gongsun Zhi replied, “Yes. After going in, we found the bodies of dozens of very powerful fighters, and our preliminary conclusion is that these are cultivators who have reached the peak of Martial Arts.”

The peak of Martial Arts—those were Martial Arts Deities!

Martial Arts Deities were legendary people. They were extremely rare, even in this cultivation world.

Out of the Three Saints, one of them was a Martial Arts Deity.

Even though Gu Qingshan had seen all sorts of horrors that the apocalypse had brought, he still couldn’t help but go into a slight daze at this moment.

He murmured to himself, “More than a dozen dead Martial Arts Deities… with such an incredible level of fighting power, their world was still destroyed…”

Gongsun Zhi sighed, “That’s right. We don’t know why, either. So the Demon Lord had already targeted us, then, and made sure that we didn’t run into anyone else and tell them this secret.”

He looked over at Gu Qingshan and said in a low voice, “Running into you was something that neither they nor we expected at all.”