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Published at 8th of June 2020 05:25:05 AM
Chapter 688: 688

Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr . Lock

Proofreader:  Arya

Sitting on his cushion, Gu Qing Shan was fully focused on settling his cultivation .

Once a karmic adversity had passed, a cultivator’s realm would automatically increase, this was quite a miraculous period of time during a cultivator’s life .

Like a tsunami, his spirit energy was increasing in irregular leaps and bounds, manifesting more and more in his body, but Gu Qing Shan had to think of a way to make this increase stable and constant, otherwise, the excess spirit energy would damage his acupoints .

He guided the spirit energy tsunami inside his body towards his Dantian and slowly formed a spiral inside it to slow down the speed of the flow .

This was an intricate task, but it would greatly reduce the strain that the wild spirit energy put on his body .

A day later .

Gu Qing Shan finally opened his eyes .

He was now a Tribulation realm late-stage cultivator .

This time, because he didn’t cultivate sword arts alone but together with martial arts, archery, Blade arts, and various others, all of his bodily attributes received an improvement .

Which was an unexpected pleasant surprise .

All of a sudden, a blinking icon in his vision caught Gu Qing Shan’s attention .

One of the icons below the War God UI was blinking .

It was the [War God Title]

Finding that a bit unexpected, Gu Qing Shan tried selecting it .

Lines of glowing text quickly appeared from the [War God Title] icon .

[You’ve reached the lowest cultivation requirement for unlocking a new title]

[Because you’ve become the Shen Wei General of the cultivation world and your cultivation has reached Tribulation realm late stage, your title: ‘You Ji General’ has been overwritten]

[You can now use the new title: Shen Wei General]

[Title: Shen Wei General (note: You Ji General and Xiao Qi Chaplain titles have been overwritten)]

[Note: This is the highest rank of General in humanity’s allied army]

[Equipping this title, you gain the unique Skill: Quick Attack (Advanced)]

[Quick Attack (Advanced): the user’s attack speed is increased by 20%]

Looking at his unexpected new title, Gu Qing Shan was grinning .

Previously, the [You Ji General] title gave him an extra 15% attack speed, now the [Shen Wei General] title will give him 20% .


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A whopping 20%!

His swordsmanship mainly relied on speed to win, so an increase of 20% was like giving wings to a tiger .

——no, not just his swordsmanship alone .

Martial arts, Blade arts, Archery, this title would support all of these as well .

This is terrific .

Gu Qing Shan equipped the [Shen Wei General] title, took out the Chao Yin sword, and took a stance .

He swung his sword .

The cold gleam flashed by .

“Ah?”

Gu Qing Shan scowled unexpectedly .

He found that his attack speed had indeed been increased, to the point that he was almost unable to control his sword stance .

This speed is… a bit too much .

Gu Qing Shan carefully considered it before nodding in confirmation .

A sword cultivator that was unable to control their sword was a hazard to themselves more than anyone else .

Gu Qing Shan’s attitude became serious .

He stood straight up and began to practice as he did in the past .

He started with the most basic sword techniques, then coordinated strikes, then a full show of his sword styles, then Secret Arts, and finally a sword array .

Through each step, Gu Qing Shan was slowly getting used to the change in speed .

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After practicing for two hours straight, he gradually adapted to the speed of his attacks with the reinforcement of the [Shen Wei General] title .

He put the Chao Yin sword away, sat back down on his cushion and rested .

Only now did he have some time to carefully think about what happened during this time’s karmic adversity .

But no matter how much he thought, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t figure it out at all .

Strange…

Why did the karmic adversity end in such a simple way?

From start to end, I only got hit by those people a single time .

And even that attack was blocked by my armor, so I didn’t get hurt at all .


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——was that the entire adversity?

Or did I actually run into some sort of extremely dangerous situation that I didn’t know about?

He carefully thought about it, slowly rewinding every detail of everything that happened so far .

With the process of elimination, Gu Qing Shan slowly got closer to the answer .

“Seems like the key factor was that tree…”

He muttered .

As soon as I saw the tree, I had already released my inner sight to check below the desert .

But I didn’t sense anything .

If my karmic adversity really did come from that tree, the tree’s power must have been far beyond my imagination .

Otherwise, it isn’t simple to fool a cultivator’s inner sight .

Then…

What exactly happened?

Recalling the little black scorpion that he saw after waking up from meditation, Gu Qing Shan realized something .

After a brief moment of silence, he remembered .

Putting his hand on the Inventory Bag, Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight inside .

The branch that the tree gave him was still silently sitting in his Inventory Bag .

It was a jet black sharp tree branch .

At the time, I was cautious so I used a manipulation seal to pick the tree branch up without touching it and stored it inside my Inventory Bag .

But now—–

At this point, it was because of his conjecture that he felt hesitant to touch the branch .

Gu Qing Shan lifted his hand away from the Inventory Bag and silently sighed .

He quickly made his decision .

——-although I don’t know why it decided to leave me alone, but this time was just sheer luck .

I need to be a lot more careful from now on, I was too reckless earlier .

That branch should be more than enough to tell me the truth of this entire matter .

According to Wang Cheng’s memories, there are some establishments within the black market that are responsible for appraising rare and mysterious items .

I’ll just have them appraise the tree branch for me to confirm my suspicions .


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Let’s move .

Putting the cushion away, Gu Qing Shan swallowed another spirit energy replenishment pill .

He lightly leapt upwards, flew high in the sky, going past the clouds .

The higher he went, the weaker the sand storm would be .

Finally, Gu Qing Shan reached a point where sand filled the air .

Normally speaking, the higher you were the stronger the wind should be, but this world was the complete opposite, with the wind getting weaker the higher he went .

Gu Qing Shan’s gaze extended far .

The entire world was covered by the wind and sand, reaching all the way to the horizon .

There wasn’t a single spot where he couldn’t see the sand storm .

Occasionally, some places could briefly be seen unaffected by the sand, but would soon be obscured again .

The only reason for that would be because some gigantic creatures or things were moving in the sand, briefly shifting it .

After confirming his direction, Gu Qing Shan turned into a streak of light that cut right across the horizon .

Five days later .

Gu Qing Shan finally reached his destination .

He appeared outside a small town, clearly worn out from the trip .

This small town in front of him should be the entrance to the black market, responsible for the verification and arrangement of those who wished to visit the black market .

Large and well-known organizations within the 900 million World Layers, as well as highly developed civilizations, would be allowed direct entry into the black market .

But anyone else who wishes to gain entry must go through a small admittance qualification test .

After a single second of hesitation, Gu Qing Shan decided not to reveal his identity as a member of the Justice Iron Fist Club .

Barry and Kitty are currently in his original world, and due to the transformation it was going through, they would temporarily be unable to leave .

Most if not all other Lord-class Combatants were heavily wounded in the war, currently protected inside Divine Power Frost Crystals and scattered around the Strife Zones .

It isn’t smart to reveal my identity right now .

He sighed and walked to the entrance of the small town .

Quite a long queue was already formed here, waiting for their turn to go into town .

The entire line of people was neat and orderly, not to mention highly efficient as they silently moved along .

Everyone was polite and amiable, maintaining a certain level of etiquette .

—–but this wasn’t because everyone here was reasonable and patient .

It was because along both sides of the path leading into town were countless severed heads stacked on top of each other, forming two long and tall walls .

The wall of heads stretched from the entrance of the town all the way to the vast desert outside .

These tens of thousands of heads all came from those who disobeyed the rules of the black market .

Under the scrutiny of the countless heads around them, everyone naturally learnt the manner of conduct in this place as soon as they could .

——-to enter the black market, there were two rules that everyone must follow:

No cutting in line .

And don’t be noisy .

Aside from that, the other reason why everyone was maintaining silence was that most of these people were carrying a book with them .

Everyone lowered their gaze, silently focused on reading the books in their hands .

After some careful observation, Gu Qing Shan found that above the long queue of people all sorts of books would occasionally appear .

They will randomly linger above the heads of those standing in line, at the same time asking if those people would like to read them to kill some time .

This was free .

Because the owner of this black market wanted as many people who came here to understand this world as well as the market as thoroughly as they needed to .

Looking at those books, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but sigh .

Unfortunately—— Wang Cheng didn’t know how to read .

Otherwise, I would’ve known a lot more about the black market already .

At this time, a green-back book flew over his head and gently asked: [Sir, do you need my service?]

“A, yes, I want to know what kind of knowledge you contain” Gu Qing Shan respectfully asked .

[Recorded on me is the knowledge regarding the 5th destruction of this world, if you are interested, you may read now]

“I’m very interested, thank you”

[You’re welcome, then shall we begin]

The book slowly fell into his hand and automatically turned the first page .

And so, while standing in line, Gu Qing Shan read about what happened during this world’s 5th destruction .

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