A thick stench of blood could still be faintly smelled drifting from the other branches of the mine.
Earlier today, a Cloud Pattern Immortal Jade vein was discovered in the mine, causing the mining cultivators to riot, leading to Xue Nu arriving at the scene to suppress the commotion, killing the mine’s manager as well as two squad captains, then leaving with Chen Fifth. Before he left, he also issued the order to kill the remaining squad captain as well as all the mining cultivators who were currently wounded.
Having killed so many people and after cleaning up the aftermath, the sun was now setting.
Naturally, this meant that today was no longer suitable for mining, and since he had exerted his newfound authority, the mine’s new manager had ordered everyone to take the rest of day off, restarting regular operation tomorrow.
Gu Qing Shan concealed his presence and remained hidden inside the dark mine.
He didn’t do anything and simply stood there waiting.
——waiting for time to pass.
Until finally.
At midnight.
Gu Qing Shan took out the pocket watch.
The hand of the clock had moved past the angel wing symbol, now pointing at the dark tunnel.
Ding ding!
The pocket watch gave off a resounding chime.
Lines of text quickly appeared in the void of space:
[Attention: Activating the Non-fusion-type World Linking Device right now will send you into the dark tunnel]
[By spending 10,000 Soul Points, you will be able to directly jump to that world]
[Attention, once you jump to the dark tunnel, you will temporarily be unable to return to the Wraith realm until enough time has passed for the clock hand to point to the Wraith realm portion]
[Would you like to pay the Soul Points?]
“Yes”
A gust of invisible wind appeared around Gu Qing Shan’s hand, slowly infusing itself into the pocket watch.
Ring ring ring ring ring!
The watch gave off a resounding chime.
Instantly, the world around him disappeared.
The endless dark tunnel became overlapped with the mines, displaying various apocalyptic sceneries.
Gu Qing Shan took a step back to enter the new scenery.
The Wraith realm faded away from his vision.
The surrounding scenery gradually became clear and manifested as a profoundly long tunnel.
Gu Qing Shan looked around and found himself standing in the middle of an endless abyss, the platform of bones could no longer be seen anywhere.
——so, after going around the Wraith realm, I still ended up returning here.
“I remember when Zhao Xiao Seng and I ran into a fork in the road, I chose the left path, but there were still two other paths, one leading forward and one leading downward” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
Since he had already reached the end of the left path, it would probably be a good idea to return and try one of the other paths.
But before that—–
Gu Qing Shan casually pulled a colorful rooster statue out from his chest.
At a time like this, even a little bit of information goes a long way.
Gu Qing Shan pulled on the comb of the colorful rooster.
The rooster came back to life.
“Hah, you’re still alive?” the rooster cautiously looked around and asked.
“I’m alive, but there are too many secrets regarding this place, so I need some information” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“What’s that in your hand? Let me take a look” the rooster said with interest.
Gu Qing Shan gave it the pocket watch.
——-the rooster was in truth a function of the War God System, [War God Intelligence], so Gu Qing Shan didn’t feel hesitant about it.
Catching the pocket watch, the rooster moved it around a bit in his hand, then said: “How strange, according to the legends, this was supposed to have 12 portions… who had hidden them all?”
“You know about this device?” Gu Qing Shan quickly asked.
“I do. In the past, when the Awaitings entered the Reality Gate to avoid the Apocalypse, they met the masters of this artifact——-” the rooster explained.
Gu Qing Shan continued to listen, but the rooster didn’t say anything else even after a long while.
“And then?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
The rooster’s gaze was straight, his mouth kept completely shut and remained still as if he didn’t hear him.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you?” Gu Qing Shan impatiently asked.
The rooster whispered in reply: “Don’t bother me, what I’m doing is called staying as still as a statue”
“…Why do you have to stay as still as a statue?” Gu Qing Shan asked doubtfully.
“I was reading a daily-release novel recently, whenever a character uses this type of speech that gets cut off in the middle, the author would usually stop the chapter right there as a cliffhanger——- just take a look at your anticipating and disappointed expression right now, ahahahaha!”
The rooster suddenly became animated again, laughing while holding his belly with his wings, causing even his comb to shake.
“…” Gu Qing Shan silently looked at this rooster, silently muttering to himself that he’d show this chicken how he liked to boil chicken the next time he summoned him.
——–but I still need him right now, otherwise, I wouldn’t have another way to learn what happened in the past.
—–but I’m definitely going to give him what he deserves next time!
Gu Qing Shan silently swore to himself.
“Brother chicken, your cliffhanger was quite good, here’s a bit of my sincerity, you can take it first”
Gu Qing Shan transferred 20,000 Soul Points to him.
Having received these Soul Points, the rooster was in high spirits.
“Ah—– it’s like this, your pocket watch originated from four of the most powerful monsters in the void, the certified bosses of all the void monsters, hailed as the Four Evil Gods of the void”
“Why were they called Evil Gods?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
The rooster explained: “As soon as the Awaitings entered the Reality Gate, the four Evil Gods immediately discovered them; they also discovered that the Awaitings were almost all heavily injured”
“These four monsters were afraid that if the Awaitings were to fully recover, they would steal their positions as overlords of the void, so while the Awaitings were still heavily injured, they took that chance to ambush and devour several of these heavily injured Awaitings”
“This resulted in the anger from both the [Order] and [Chaos] factions”
“Four powerful Awaitings acted together, battling these four monsters for several days in a row until they were ultimately defeated and they took the right to rule over the Void from them”
“——-As you know, these four most powerful Awaitings were later hailed as the Four Pillar Gods of the void: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind”
“From that moment onwards, the four void monsters who were defeated ran away, vanishing without leaving any traces”
“That artifact in your hand was one of the toys that those Four Evil Gods created”
At this point, the rooster suddenly went closer to Gu Qing Shan’s ear and whispered: “This dark tunnel was actually also their masterpiece”
“Gu Qing Shan, you must find the artifact left by the four Evil Gods, although I don’t know what it is, it is definitely within this tunnel”
“Perhaps that artifact would be able to help you”
After saying so, the rooster turned back into a colorful statue and remained still.
Gu Qing Shan put the colorful rooster statue away.
The Four Evil Gods.
In other words, entities who were strong enough to directly face someone of the Earth Creator’s caliber.
However, this tunnel is like a bottomless abyss without an end, how am I supposed to find the artifact that they left behind?
A black thread manifested from the void of space, coiling around his wrist.
The other end of the black thread reached into the tunnel ahead.
Gu Qing Shan was stunned.
He found that he was able to sense the information arriving from the other end of the black thread.
It was leading him to the artifact he was searching for.
After a long while, Gu Qing Shan finally sighed and muttered: “[Longing]… truly deserving of being a Fate-type ability”
When he first obtained this ability, the War God UI once gave him a reminder:
[Special attention: This is an extremely unique and rare Fate Talent; it is as deep as the ocean depths and as miraculous as any miracle. You must carefully study it in order to understand its true value]
It was only now that Gu Qing Shan had started to uncover the true power of this Fate-type ability.
—–as soon as it was necessary, Fate would immediately provide guidance, truly a Divine Skill among Divine Skills!
He finally started to understand why the wraiths coveted this Fate-type ability so much.
—–I wonder how Fei Yue and the others are doing.
And Crow as well.
He won’t truly be getting married to a Wraith lord, right?
Following Gu Qing Shan’s thought, another black thread gradually manifested and coiled around his left hand.
As soon as the new thread appeared, another thread appeared out of thin air to coil around it.
The two threads became intertwined, eventually turning into a single thread.
Suddenly, Fei Yue’s voice was heard from the thread”
“That’s great, you’ve finally learnt how to use this Fate-type ability”