Chapter 399
Translated by: La0o9
Gu Qing Shan looked up the long stairway .
The top of the stairs .
A mystical black veil dotted with shining stars covered the entire platform like a set of curtains .
When Gu Qing Shan tried to use his inner sight to look through the veil, it bounced right off .
Seems like there’s no way for him to look inside from the outside .
“Acting all mysterious”
Gu Qing Shan muttered .
Holding the Six Paths Great Mountain sword, he made his way up the flight of stairs .
1800 steps were easily passed in the blink of an eye .
Gu Qing Shan went straight through the black veil .
Heaven and earth shifted .
He then landed in an empty field .
A sheet of snow blanketed the ground .
A cold breeze blew through the air .
The vast wild surrounded him .
It was nighttime .
Gu Qing Shan crouched down to pick up a handful of snow .
Skin-piercing cold .
The feeling was so real that it surprised Gu Qing Shan .
“This was all created by the Devil King Warden Rod?” he asked .
“That is correct, its powers are enough that even without any spirit thaumaturgies, the rod itself hosts a vast array of powers, truly unimaginable” Shannu explained .
“It’s that powerful even without a spirit, no wonder it was able to stand up against Divinities of the realms” Gu Qing Shan sighed .
A faint sound of music could be heard in the wind .
Gu Qing Shan followed the music and extends his gaze far .
At the border of the wild was the vast open sea .
A giant freight ship was anchored by the beach shore .
In the dark of night, the ship’s bright lights illuminated the area .
From nowhere, a notice entered Gu Qing Shan’s mind .
It was the Devil King Warden Rod’s urging him from places unknown .
“Board the ship…” Gu Qing Shan muttered .
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He suddenly thrust his sword at the empty air .
A lion abruptly jumped out from the darkness, opening its mouth wide as if to attack him .
Originally, it did wanted to sneak an attack on Gu Qing Shan, but he had instead attacked first .
This attack was completely without any foretelling signs so the lion couldn’t even dodge .
Am I the one that got sneak attacked? The lion had such a strange thought .
The sword tip directly stabbed into the lion’s open mouth and went deep into its body .
It was almost like the lion had purposefully jumped and skewered itself on the sword .
“Reowwwww!”
The lion’s paws flapped about in the air, screaming .
“Animal ------ah no, this Beast King realm fellow, you wanted to greet me?” Gu Qing Shan asked .
The lion hurriedly nodded .
Shill!
Gu Qing Shan pulled the sword back .
The lion got free .
It then roared furiously!
“Roar! Damn human, I -------”
Shill!
The sword once again stabbed into the lion’s body through its mouth .
The Six Paths Great Mountain sword was originally longer than normal longswords, so it had no problem piercing through the lion’s entire body from the mouth .
Gu Qing Shan lifted the sword up .
Being skewered on the sword again, the lion’s paws struggled, but to no avail .
“Fella, I’m new here, your attitude is going to scare me” Gu Qing Shan spoke very sincerely .
“Reow! Reow reow reow!”
The lion roared begging for forgiveness .
This time it was very sincere .
It couldn’t get away from his sword at all .
Obviously, that means its opponent was exceedingly stronger than it, enough to take away its life at any moment .
“We can talk instead, how about that?” Gu Qing Shan asked .
The lion nodded over and over, expressing agreement .
The sword was then pulled out .
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“So, my friend from the Beast King realm, why are you hanging around here instead of trying to get onto the ship?” Gu Qing Shan asked .
The lion sat down and answered dejectedly: “Everything has already been decided, what use is there trying”
“That can’t be right, from what I know, the Blood River Hell should still be in the middle of the selection” Gu Qing Shan questioned .
The lion answered: “He’s already been selected . It’s because of his whim that he isn’t willing to board the ship yet”
“Not willing to board the ship?” Gu Qing Shan frowned .
“That’s right, he hasn’t eaten enough”
The lion trembled like it had recalled something .
“Eat?”
“You’ll understand when you see him” the lion slowly answered, seemingly fishing out Gu Qing Shan’s strength .
While the man talked with the lion, more dead silently surrounded them .
Giants, Fiendkind, beasts, chaotic creatures, Asura, varied and numerous .
“An unfamiliar face” someone commented .
“Not part of our hell”
“Does someone know him?”
Gu Qing Shan looked over the group of dead and rubbed the lion’s head: “I’m his friend, I heard that he wanted to become the Devil King so I came to watch him fight”
The group of dead stopped .
“I’ve never seen him before, everyone, come and kill this hatchling!” the lion roared .
All the dead jumped in .
“What hurtful words” Gu Qing Shan commented .
In the darkness, a blinding crescent manifested out of nowhere .
One slash, blood and flesh were scattered .
Before the rain of blood could touch the ground, it was already blown away by the fierce wind .
The crescent slowly disappeared .
As Gu Qing Shan reappeared, his expression became grim .
At the moment that the crescent lit up the area, he saw countless dead surrounding this place .
All the strongest of the Blood River Hell had gathered in the wild .
There wasn’t even enough space to stand around .
They were commencing a most basic and brutal form of battle: wrestling, seeking to find the pleasures they once had .
But no matter how brutal their fighting got, none of them dared got closer to the ship .
From the looks of it, one particularly powerful dead have already came near the ship .
But this dead had other thoughts, which is why he didn’t board the ship yet after all this time .
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“Seems like I don’t have much time”
Gu Qing Shan muttered .
While saying that, he only held the Six Paths Great Mountain sword tighter without moving .
“Aren’t you going to compete for the title of Devil King?” Shannu couldn’t help but ask him .
“I am, but there are so many dead from here to there, how long would I have to fight for?” Gu Qing Shan frowned as he answered .
“So you plan to just stand there?” Shannu asked .
While they were talking, a great mammoth charged at him .
It wanted to crush Gu Qing Shan .
“Tiny human, die! Turn into mince meat!”
The great mammoth roared in a frenzy .
A blinding sword slash flashed through the air .
The mammoth became still .
Gu Qing Shan had used [Stiffness] to turn it into a temporary living target .
Two seconds later, the 7 sword strikes have finished .
Flickering lights appeared on the longsword .
They were flashing as if to summon something .
With his full power, Gu Qing Shan held the sword with both hands and slashed forward as hard as he could .
Everything happened in the blink of an eye .
A lightning glow increasingly became brighter on the sword .
The blinding lightning illuminated the entire world in darkness .
[Seven Swords Flowing Dragon]!
A giant dragon head made of lightning escaped from the sword, biting on the mammoth .
In mere seconds, the mammoth was thoroughly dead .
Immediately after, the rest of the dragon flowed out from the sword, swirling like a snake .
“Wait for me” Gu Qing Shan called out .
As if sentient, the lightning dragon coiled in midair .
Gu Qing Shan jumped up to the dragon’s head .
Roar!!
With a thunderous roar, the dragon ascended into the air .
Gu Qing Shan pointed the tip of his sword forward .
The dragon turned into an explosive lightning strike, zipping through the wild area .
Intense wind blew past his ears .
The scenery around also quickly zipped past .
The dead that filled the wild were powerless against the force of lightning .
In mere seconds, he’s already made it to the ship .
Gu Qing Shan could even see the situation on the ship .
17 dead stood on the deck, forming their own circles .
Gu Qing Shan also noticed the 7 leaders of hell from before .
With how blinding the dragon was, the 7 leaders naturally also noticed Gu Qing Shan standing on top of it .
The expressions on the 7 leaders’ faces were exceptionally hard to describe .
Temporarily ignoring them, Gu Qing Shan looked at the area next to the ship .
A masculine giant the size of a small mountain sat in front of the ship .
He had made a campfire, occasionally throwing some crippled dead into the fire to grill .
When the dead are grilled to near-death, the giant then throw them into its mouth .
Ignoring the screams and cries coming from his mouth, the giant chewed .
--------seems like he’s the one that the lion was talking about .
The giant also noticed the lightning dragon .
He became cautious and took up his battle axe .
“Grilling and eating people alive? Your retribution has come”
Gu Qing Shan muttered .
It pointed his sword straight .
The giant lightning dragon started to descend .
The dragon opened its large mouth and chomped on the giant .
When the giant tried to swing his axe, the axe directly passed through the shining dragon scales and missed .
The dragon bite the giant .
“Aaaaa!”
The giant squealed .
The full power of [Seven Stars Flowing Dragon] used by an Ascended realm late stage cultivator isn’t just for show .
Soon enough, the giant was charred black, smoking from being burnt .
He fell down and extinguished the campfire .
It was now that Gu Qing Shan landed .
He then received an invisible message .
[Strongest of the Blood River Hell, please board the ship]