Chapter 722: The Terrifying Truth
As the two boxes were opened, the two Divine Armaments were revealed to Gu Qing Shan, showing off their ancient presence.
A long piece of bone with weakly glowing rays of light.
A pair of eyeb.a.l.l.s enveloped in darkness.
As soon as the two items noticed one another, they caused a reaction.
The eyeb.a.l.l.s began to absorb the bone’s light.
And the bone began to give off even more light, as if it was triggered.
That way, the eye slowly absorbed more and more power.
Gu Qing Shan was silently surprised.
He couldn’t help but curiously reach his hand out, wanting to see what the War G.o.d UI thought of these items.
But when he tried to touch them, an invisible force emanated from the 2 Divine Armaments stopped him.
I can’t touch them?
While Gu Qing Shan found that unexpected, a notification had popped up on the War G.o.d UI.
[A force protects these two items and blocks out all forms of clairvoyance, the System has no way to learn more about them]
A foreign energy wave appeared out of nowhere.
Far in the sky, something had seemingly sensed the appearance of these two items.
——–the only notable thing in the sky right now were the seven silhouettes of light representing the Divinities.
Something was about to happen.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly closed both boxes.
If these boxes were able to preserve and conceal the Divine Armaments from being damaged for so long, they most likely carried a powerful isolation property.
Let’s hope that they could still isolate these two Divine Armaments for now!
As soon as he closed the box, the supernatural phenomena all disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan was successful.
He sighed in relief.
Right now, I still have a lot of questions, so I’m not willing to give these Divine Armaments up just yet.
“How strange, I thought they would be some sort of intricate tools, but instead they were body parts” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
Little Dusk explained: “In the beginning, Divinities have always used body parts like these, only after many years later when they learned the ability to create better tools did they give up on this primitive usage of power”
“Where did these body parts come from?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Little Dusk answered naturally: “From the bodies of void monsters from the Age of Desolation, of course”
Gu Qing Shan was surprised: “Divinities used void monsters’ body parts as weapons?”
Little Dusk replied: “Yeah, void monsters in the Age of Desolation were exceedingly powerful, some of them so powerful that not even Divinities were their match”
Gu Qing Shan smiled bitterly: “Even now, those most powerful void monsters are still without a match”
He put both boxes away.
“Next, we need to consider——–”
While he was talking, ripples appeared around his formations.
Countless streaks of light focused into one large ball of light were heading here from the sky above.
Gu Qing Shan became silent and stared closely at them.
As soon as the ball of light stopped, several dozen powerful auras could be felt landing on the ground.
Immediately followed by the sound of discussions and arguments.
“Who do we help?”
“Ignore these monsters, we need to go”
“Everyone, follow me! I know where one of the Divine Armaments is! This king is going to become a DemiG.o.d!”
“Hmph, just by you alone?”
“Get searching already! Ignore them!”
Gu Qing Shan’s expression changed.
“The people of the black market are here”
He muttered.
A second later, Gu Qing Shan flew out of the underground room, quickly making his way back to the surface along the underground path.
Sure enough, the Combatants of the black market have arrived, they quickly scattered all over the labyrinth searching for the Divine Armaments.
While the black scorpion and a giant were locked in an intense battle at the very center of the labyrinth.
Obviously, the giant was the new body that the creature possessed.
Gu Qing Shan quickly left.
He entered one of the intact buildings, leaned on the wall and silently released his inner sight to observe his surroundings.
When Little Dusk looked at him, she found that his uneasy expression was only getting worse.
“Gu Qing Shan, what is it?” she asked.
“I keep having this feeling that there’s a lot of points that don’t make any sense” Gu Qing Shan told her.
Little Dusk turned back into her human form and smiled: “It’s ok, I’m right here so if anything happens, I can protect you”
While they were talking, the sound of cursing and shouting could be heard from afar.
“d.a.m.n it, the Divine Armament isn’t here”
Gu Qing Shan looked over there.
Three people were at the ruins of the library, searching around in a frenzy.
Several others were running towards the bell tower.
They already managed to solve the poems of divination!
More and more people were joining into the search for the Divine Armament.
And the possessed giant saw all of this clearly without fail.
It roared in anger before striking the black scorpion with a heavy punch coated in scorching hot flames.
Bam!
The earth trembled!
The full-powered attack caused the flames to erupt outwards, reaching even the clouds in the sky.
The snow melted,
Rain began to pour.
In the labyrinth, the black scorpion was sent flying several hundred meters backwards by the punch.
He rolled like a ragdoll across the ground, cras.h.i.+ng into and destroying a prayers hall before he was able to stop.
The black scorpion spat up blood and wanted to get back up, but he didn’t have the strength to do so.
The giant stood still in the middle of the garden.
Heavy rain poured all over him but was quickly evaporated by the intense heat he was giving off.
The creature took a deep breath, looked up at the sky and howled: “Zá gè rě bàn me sī tuō, ā hē bō zhě ní tì!”
The howl sounded extremely lonely, filled with sorrow and anger.
Although the Combatants were shocked at the giant’s might, they still didn’t halt their search for the Divine Armaments and instead sped up.
Gu Qing Shan silently listened to the giant’s howl and scowled but said nothing.
Even after learning so many languages, Gu Qing Shan still couldn’t recognize what language this was.
This is probably the creature’s natural language.
Only under the desperate situation where it couldn’t do anything but wait for itself to be sealed again did it ignore other languages and use its original one.
Which means the creature was no longer wary of being heard.
…whatever it’s saying, it must be very crucial!
Gu Qing Shan turned around, only to see that Little Dusk’s expression was a bit off.
“Little Dusk, do you know what the creature is saying?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Little Dusk told him: “That was the common language for both monsters and Divinities during the Age of Desolation, but it was already replaced by the Divinity’s own language during the Age of Old. Because I had to fight with these creatures, the Divinities made me learn it”
While she was talking, she took out a lapis-colored card.
The card depicted an ancient and tattered-looking book.
Little Dusk pressed the card on Gu Qing Shan’s chest: “This is called Desolate Tongue, not only is it very old, it was made to fall out of use by the Divinities, so there’s probably no one that knows about it now, let alone speak it. Take this card and put it into your deck, you’ll be able to understand the creature and use this language as well”
Gu Qing Shan accepted the card.
The card then turned into a lapis-colored light that slowly sank into Gu Qing Shan’s body.
A few moments later, Gu Qing Shan tried recalling what the monster said and found that he was able to understand it.
While carefully recalling that moment, Gu Qing Shan muttered: “‘First the Divinities, then you, why do you all want to seal me away’… is what the creature meant, huh?”
“Yes” Little Dusk sighed and lowered her head: “In hindsight, this creature has been sealed away ever since its birth, truly a pitiful one”
Gu Qing Shan was completely stunned, to the point that he didn’t even hear that Little Dusk said.
He felt a s.h.i.+ver welling up from deep inside his own chest.
“That’s not it” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
Little Dusk refuted: “It isn’t wrong though, there are so many people around here, and its powers were already sealed by the figure of light, so it must be feeling despair”
“Despair?” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
“Yeah, because it can only possess a single Abyss of Sin warden at a time, but with so many people, there’s no way it will be able to kill them all” Little Dusk explained to him.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly shook his head: “No, that’s not it at all”
“Then—— wait, what’s the matter with you?” Little Dusk looked worriedly at Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan was completely pale, his eyes completely frozen, no longer as calm and indifferent as before.
Gu Qing Shan spoke in a low voice: “You may not have noticed it, but when it said that, the creature was looking at the sky”
“In order words, the creature wasn’t talking to us, the ones looking for the Divine Armaments”
“It was talking to whoever is setting up this time’s seal”
Gu Qing Shan once again repeated: “The creature was asking——– ‘first the Divinities, then the bunch of you, why are you even trying to seal me away?"”
“That is…” Little Dusk completely froze, speechless as well.
Gu Qing Shan lightly nodded and sent his voice: “Yes, the ones who set everything up this time weren’t the Divinities”
“But then, then——” Little Dusk stuttered, unable to speak the words she had in her mind.
“Yes, if the creature isn’t lying…” Gu Qing Shan continued: “Since this was also done by the figure of light, then from the very beginning, what the figure of light announced about lighting the Tree of Divinity was never the will of the seven Divinities in the first place”
“Most likely, the Divinities are already dead”
“Something else is behind all of this, impersonating the Divinities, attempting to raise more G.o.ds”
Gu Qing Shan spoke in a low and cold voice.
This was a horrifying truth.
This was possibly the most terrifying secret in all of the 900 million World Layers.
As Gu Qing Shan and Little Dusk exchanged glances, they both sensed the fear in each other’s eyes.
They both looked at the giant at the same time.
At this point, the giant had already changed its expression.
No longer having a look of despair, it rushed towards the nearest Professionists.
With its flaming fist, the giant easily killed the Professionists in a few swings of its hand.
The giant then roared.
“Accomplices and hounds, you may not know about any of this, but you will all die right here!”
This time, Gu Qing Shan understood what it was saying.
It was speaking in the giant’s language.
Immediately the giant dashed towards another group of Professionists.
The strong Combatants of the group tried to fight back, but they were vastly overpowered by the giant.
It was clear that this giant was one of the most powerful wardens in the Abyss of Sin.
The giant began its ma.s.sacre.
Everyone felt a chilling fear of death, but very few actually tried to flee the labyrinth.
They were all thinking of the reward.
——-as long as I find a Divine Armament, I will become a DemiG.o.d!
There’s treasure with danger.
And this is a once in a lifetime chance, so no matter what, I won’t let it slip from my hands!
The frenzied search for the Divine Armaments continued.
The only people who did not move at all in the labyrinth were Gu Qing Shan and Little Dusk.
“What do we do now?” Little Dusk asked anxiously.
“Run, let’s run out of this place first!” Gu Qing Shan decisively made a choice.
Just as he was about to pull Little Dusk and leave, a voice declared.
“Ahahahah, I found a Divine Armament! I found a Divine Armament!”
The old man stood with a frenzied look on top of a building.
He was holding a beautiful treasure box with both hands above his head.
Gu Qing Shan’s expression warped as he shouted: “No! Don’t open it!”
But it was too late.
Many people were running towards the old man.
So he had to quickly open the box as soon as he could.
The presence of primal chaos erupted from the box, reaching all the way up to the sky.
The old man looked up at the 7 silhouettes in the sky and loudly declared: “O’ G.o.ds, I am your most devout believer, I have found the Divine Armament, please bestow upon me the power of a DemiG.o.d!”