Chapter 561: Ancient creatures

Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr.Lock

Proofreader: Arya

The mountain-like black monster was flying upwards in a flexible manner.

When it was several hundred meters away from Gu Qing Shan, the monster suddenly disappeared.

This is—–

Gu Qing Shan noticed and immediately used [Ground Shrink].

As soon as the monster disappeared, so did Gu Qing Shan.

One man and one monster went out of sight at the same time.

When the monster reappeared, it was at where Gu Qing Shan was before.

——–and missed Gu Qing Shan again.

『 Insect of another world, can you only run? 』

The countless faces on the monster’s body mocked him.

Then it felt a sharp pain.

Gu Qing Shan stood right behind it, both swords pierced into its body.

“I’m only getting into position”

Saying so, Gu Qing Shan suddenly activated a Secret Art.

Boom—–

With his full power, two strikes of [Water Flow Severance] combined into one and exploded all at once inside the monster’s body.

Immense sword phantoms erupted in a brilliant light, breaking the monster’s black body apart.

Large pieces of the monster’s body broke off, dropping from the sky.

It could only let out a short desperate scream.

Without knowing that this was only the beginning.

Gu Qing Shan’s body moved, his swords flew around leaving countless afterimages, slas.h.i.+ng at the monster nonstop.

He was simply too fast!

In the time the monster screamed, Gu Qing Shan had already struck it 36 consecutive times.

From the first Secret Art to the 36th strike, it took him a single blink of the eye, the monster couldn’t even react to it.

In the span of one breath, the monster’s body had been finely diced by the two swords, scattering around the air.

Having done all that, Gu Qing Shan took his swords and flew backwards.

One sword in front, one sword behind, he was cautiously s.h.i.+elding his body.

“Oong?” the Chao Yin sword asked in confusion.

“Its power level didn’t decrease at all, instead it’s getting stronger” Gu Qing Shan said.

As he spoke, the monster’s countless body pieces quickly gathered again, writhing.

After just a second, the monster had recovered.

『 So this insect uses cold weapons 』

All the faces on the monster’s body angrily roared at Gu Qing Shan and spoke.

Gu Qing Shan became more cautious.

Teleportation, indiscriminate devouring, void evasion, body parts fusion recovery, every single one of these characteristics were powerful.

To a cold weapon user, monsters that had a quick recovering characteristic were quite hard to deal with.

Furthermore, it knows how to judge my battle style.

This monster…

While Gu Qing Shan was thinking, the monster had already moved.

This time, it didn’t use its teleportation abilities to suddenly approach him, instead made some distance from Gu Qing Shan.

『 Your swords are very fast, it must’ve killed quite a few people who couldn’t react in time. But next, I will have you experience ultimate despair 』 the countless faces spoke.

Its black body began to writhe chaotically again.

The faces appeared to be in pain.

One of the faces suddenly detached itself from the monster’s body.

This seemed to be the signal.

Five faces, dozen faces, hundred faces, thousands of faces.

Over a hundred thousand faces detached from the monster’s body, lightly hovering around it.

A particularly mature male face silently hovered forward.

In a flash, it travelled a long distance and appeared in the sky.

Then it disappeared again.

Consecutive teleportation?

Gu Qing Shan’s eyebrows twitched, thrusting his sword forward.

As soon as the face appeared, it was pierced by the Earth sword.

The male face screamed.

Sword phantoms flashed.

The face was cut to pieces.

Gu Qing Shan managed to kill it in one strike, but he wasn’t at all glad.

This face was much more flexible compared to the mountain-like monster.

It can teleport twice in a row!

If all the faces were like this…

Gu Qing Shan’s gaze turned to the monster.

Sure enough, all the faces around the monster disappeared at once.

They flashed once to approach Gu Qing Shan, then came right before Gu Qing Shan in the second flash.

They appeared all around him, wanting to tear his body apart with their teeth.

In that split second, both of Gu Qing Shan’s swords attacked.

Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow]

Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow]

Two [Drawn Shadow]s bloomed to form black sword shadows without leaving any gap, slas.h.i.+ng back and forth nonstop in the sky.

Sha sha sha sha sha!

All the monster’s faces were cut apart, screaming as they faded away.

The black sword shadows gradually faded as well.

Gu Qing Shan appeared again.

With both swords in hand, he was staring down the monster.

The faces were growing back on its body.

They were all glaring at Gu Qing Shan, discussing.

『 His reaction is too fast 』

『 His sword is impressive 』

『 We need to think of something else to eat his flesh 』

『 Then let’s use that attack 』

As their discussing voices came out, the faces quickly filled the monster’s entire body again.

Every single face that was killed was revived on its body.

“Revival? So it has an ability like that as well?”

Gu Qing Shan muttered.

He was also observing it, trying to find its weakness.

Looks like I’ll have to try attacking its main body again, hopefully it doesn’t have the annoying revival property as well.

While Gu Qing Shan thought that, all the faces on the monster’s body opened their mouths.

『 AaaaAAAaaa—– 』

They let out a blood-curdling scream.

From this scream, various illusions appeared.

A vast burning land appeared floating in the sky as countless ghosts and revenants gathered, looking down at Gu Qing Shan as if waiting to attack him.

All of a sudden, a 7-colored light appeared from Gu Qing Shan’s body.

From the void of s.p.a.ce, golden petals and flowers appeared together with various beasts of luck.

This was the Guardian Deity Secret Art that the Great Monk of Sorrow gave him after the decisive battle in the cultivation world.

Whenever Gu Qing Shan’s soul vessel came under attack, this Secret Art would automatically activate to counteract it.

But obviously, the opponent was too strong this time around.

As soon as the 6 armed deities appeared, they started becoming faint.

Before they could protect Gu Qing Shan, they were already shattered.

Gu Qing Shan felt an intense headache and an immense pulling force acting on him.

“Not good!”

His expression changed, quickly taking out a formation plate and consecutively arranged soundproof formations.

Shortly after, the noises disappeared, the illusions became faint and the ghosts and revenants also faded away.

But until the very last moment, those ghosts and revenants were still staring straight at Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan realized.

This wasn’t a simple soul vessel attack.

This was some sort of combination attack that really could have ejected me to another world.

In the brief moments just now, Gu Qing Shan could almost feel the existence of that other world.

To have so many skills, this monster was truly terrifying.

While he was thinking, the monster’s body started to writhe again, seemingly preparing for a new round of attacks.

This time, it sprouted a pair of jet black arms.

The monster waved these arms to create a zone of darkness.

This darkness quickly spread all around.

From the looks of it, this monster was about to unleash some sort of spell.

Gu Qing Shan’s gaze became tense.

I can’t let it keep going like this!

As he raised his sword, another figure had already jumped out towards the black monster.

It was an old man covered in blood.

『 Ah? There was still someone left alive? 』the monster was shocked.

The old man took a few steps before his body suddenly magnified.

Cras.h.!.+

The old man charged straight into the monster, sending it flying, cras.h.i.+ng through countless coral buildings before landing several hundred meters away.

The darkness around them disappeared—— as the monster’s spell was cut-off.

Gu Qing Shan was stunned.

Because the old man had just turned into an ancient life form, exactly the same as the corpse he saw in the divine temple.

The ancient creature looked similar to humans, but compared to humans, they were noticeably uglier and fiercer.

But this ugliness and fierceness combined created an air of solemnity and majesty instead.

Perhaps the people of this world can turn into the ancient life forms?

Which means, the corpse of the ancient creature I saw on top was the corpse of people of this world?

No.

That’s not correct.

Perhaps not everyone in this world can turn into an ancient life form.

Otherwise, so many people wouldn’t have fallen victim to the monster so easily.

Probably, only a small portion of people in this world have that ability.

Suddenly, the ancient creature looked up at Gu Qing Shan.

“Those attacks are useless, not even my attack can do anything to it!”

The ancient creature loudly told him: “I can feel the power of Lightning in your body, only Lightning can counter it”