Chapter 706: Fight to the death, never retreat!

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Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr.Lock

Proofreader: Arya

The shockwaves and wind caused by the explosion were kicked up into the air, combining with the intense tornado of swords to form a huge storm of death.

And Little Xi didn’t stop there, she was still drawing card after card, unleas.h.i.+ng devastating spells one after another towards the remaining enemies.

As soon as Gu Qing Shan let go of the True Crimson Demon Spear, the Plate of Life’s Gracious Gift once again returned to him.

The five faint hexagon barriers were still circling around him on the outside of the armor.

Someone attempted to attack him, only to find that they couldn’t even get through the hexagon barriers.

Gu Qing Shan waved his hand.

The two flying swords returned to his hand in a flash.

Now that his defensive power had been reinforced to the point that the enemies couldn’t even pierce through it, as a sword cultivator, Gu Qing Shan knew exactly what he should do.

[Ground Shrink]

Slas.h.!.+

[Ground Shrink]

Kill!

[Ground Shrink]

Slas.h.!.+

In conjunction with Little Xi’s devastating spell attacks, Gu Qing Shan was picking off enemy after enemy.

Like a highly efficient meat grinder.

The entire bounty hunter squad only had around a few dozen people, and they were dropping like flies to Gu Qing Shan and Little Xi’s combination attacks.

All of a sudden, the grey giant shouted in fury: “Gather! We will fight to our deaths!”

His remaining subordinates quickly gathered around him.

As they did, they combined their furious roars and battle cries of unwavering conviction.

Gu Qing Shan’s sword stopped.

If this many powerful Combatant gathered all at once and attacked without regard to their own lives, even if he had the reinforcement of countless cards, he wouldn’t get off easy.

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Then the grey giant glared grimly at him and Little Xi, loudly asking: “Our bounty hunter squad was founded over 700 years ago, but we still haven’t been destroyed, do you know why that is?”

Little Xi curiously asked: “Why?”

“Because in the face of a decisive death, we would always use a secret spell scroll to sacrifice part of our life force in exchange for overwhelming power that kills our enemies” the grey giant smirked cruelly.

He carefully took out a scroll and unrolled it.

Behind him, his subordinates also funneled all of their powers into the scroll.

“Tremble, snot-nosed brats!” the grey giant shouted.

At the same time, the Combatants behind him also showed a frenzied and excited look.

They were chanting in unison.

“Fight to the death, never retreat!”

“Fight to the death, never retreat!”

“Fight to the death, never retreat!”

The atmosphere was filled with intense fighting spirit, as if everyone had already made their preparations for one final gamble.

As Gu Qing Shan gazed at their unwavering will, he also felt moved: “If that is so, to show my respect, I also give it my all”

He raised his swords, silently circulating all of his spirit energy to prepare for a serious clash.

Little Xi also said nothing and only silently drew more cards to prepare for their final attack.

In the sky, the grey giant activated the scroll!

As soon as the scroll gathered enough power, a blinding light erupted from it that enveloped all of the remaining members of the bounty hunter squad.

With a thunderous boom that cracked open the earth—-

Like a speeding comet, the blinding light took off and headed faraway.

With a few flashes of light, they disappeared out of sight, completely couldn’t be seen anymore

They ran away.

“…” Gu Qing Shan.

“…” Little Xi.

They were fully prepared to take a desperate attack, but not for this.

“That’s quite an impressive speed, we probably won’t be able to catch up” Little Xi commented.

“Hm, they really are too fast to catch up” Gu Qing Shan agreed.

The grey giant didn’t lie at all.

——- with that impressive of a runaway technique, combined with those acting skills and shamelessness enough to put lawyers to shame, no wonder their bounty hunter squad managed to survive for 700 years without being destroyed.

While standing in the sky, Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt like something inside his mind was gradually pa.s.sing.

New vitality rushed around his body, forming a mad tide of spirit energy unlike ever before.

Gu Qing Shan realized.

So my karmic adversity has already pa.s.sed.

A group of several dozen bounty hunters who vastly overpowered me came specifically for my head, but were beaten black and blue thanks to Little Xi’s [Duo Image] and were forced to run away.

So I made it through my adversity.

“I need to settle down for a bit” Gu Qing Shan said.

Without even landing, he arranged several dozen formations in the sky, sat cross-legged, and began to manipulate the overflowing spirit energy in his body.

In just a few moments, he fell into deep meditation.

He broke through, gradually but irreversibly, his strength was growing.

This was a breakthrough that could be accomplished without needing to face a Lightning Tribulation.

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But his three karmic adversities weren’t any less dangerous than a Lightning Tribulation. In fact, if Gu Qing Shan had a choice, he would rather face a Lightning Tribulation rather than a karmic adversity.

And this only went so swimmingly because Gu Qing Shan’s personal merits were so great that he only needed to go through three karmic adversities.

Cultivators who frequently did evil things usually lost their lives during Tribulation realm—— because they had at least several hundreds of these karmic adversities to go through.

They could literally choke and die while drinking water.

Their lives were simply unimaginably miserable.

A minute later.

Gu Qing Shan opened his eyes.

I’ve finally reached Virtualized realm!

Lines of glowing text quickly scrolled past the War G.o.d UI.

[Your advancement is complete]

[You’ve successfully reached Virtualized realm]

[You are now a Virtualized realm cultivator]

[Due to your natural spirit sense being pa.s.sively increased during Tribulation realm to be able to sense karmic adversities, your spirit sense has been overworked and will fall dormant for a short period of time, the duration of this dormant state differs from one individual to another]

[Special attention, breaking through Projection realm, Tribulation realm and Virtualized realm will not bring any opportunities to awaken a new Thaumaturgy. You can only awaken another Thaumaturgy after breaking through Cryptic realm]

After displaying the message, the glowing text faded away.

Gu Qing Shan wasn’t too concerned about his Thaumaturgy since he already knew about that when he broke through to Tribulation realm.

His spirit sense becoming dormant might prove to be a challenge.

Since cultivators had a habit of using their instinct to feel the connection between them and the outside world, he would have to get accustomed to suddenly losing spirit sense like this.

He looked around.

Little Xi appeared to be extremely sleepy, already bobbing her head back and forth, but was still forcing herself to maintain clarity and silently protect him.

“I’m done here” Gu Qing Shan said.

“Great, you’ve finally advanced” Little Xi yawned.

“Why are you so tired to this degree?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Because of [Duo Image]”

“[Duo Image]? But I don’t feel like I was affected at all”

“Of course you aren’t affected” Little Xi rubbed her tired eyes and explained: “Your level is so low that you couldn’t activate cards to fight, so during [Duo Image] battle mode, I had to bear all the expenditures for the usage of both of our cards by myself”

“I’m sorry, then tell me how to become stronger as an Envoy of Condemnation, I’ll do my best to get stronger and share the burden with you next time” Gu Qing Shan spoke apologetically.

Little Xi answered: “There are three ways to get stronger. The first is like what you’re doing and naturally advance; the second is to consume other cards; the third is to find any heritage of the Old G.o.ds from the Age of Old and use them to increase the grade of your card”

Heritage of the Old G.o.ds?

Gu Qing Shan suddenly recalled what happened not too long ago.

In Triste’s collection world, the [Demon King Order – Origin] schemed and plotted to its best abilities to obtain a heritage of the Old G.o.ds, successfully evolving into [Revolution].

Who would’ve thought, one day I would be the same as an [Order] and need something like that to advance.

Little Xi continued: “Natural advancement is the slowest, consuming other cards is much faster—– but not every card will do, you need to find cards that have relative suitability to yourself in order for the consumption to work. As for the third way, using a heritage of the Old G.o.ds from the Age of Old will be fastest, but those things usually are secrets wrapped within secrets, they aren’t something you’re going to find randomly”

“Bah, I said enough. I’m deathly exhausted, going to sleep for a while”

Little Xi left those words before turning back into a lapis-colored card and fell into Gu Qing Shan’s hands.

Inside the card, she had already changed into another cute pajama, snuggly laid on her bed sleeping.

Gu Qing Shan gently placed the card back into his jade box and put it inside his sleeves.

He looked at the War G.o.d UI.

Currently, a card has appeared in the middle of the UI.

It was a grey card, depicting him dual-wielding swords, hovering in the center.

[Grey card sword cultivator Gu Qing Shan]

[Grade: Grey card Lv0]

[Partner: Condemnation Angel – Xi]

[Residence deck: Fugitive Deck]

All the information suddenly disappeared.

A line of text appeared below the card.

[Your personal strength has increased, leveling up from lv0 to 1 star]

[You became a 1 star card]

[You received the grey-grade ability card: The Injury Deepens]

A grey card with grey background appeared on the UI.

At the center of the card, a Blade was depicted with a gleam that periodically appeared on its edge.

[Ability card: The Injury Deepens]

[When using this card, whenever you deal damage to your opponent, your opponent will receive an extra 3 points of damage]

[Note: This is a grey pa.s.sive ability card when you equip this card in battle, its effect will persist until you cancel it]

[As a grey card, it is already trying its best]

Reading the effect, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but feel that his card was a lot weaker compared to Little Xi’s cards.

…it’s alright, I’m still low-leveled, having a card to use at all is already a good thing.

Gu Qing Shan silently consoled himself.