Chapter 1595: Outside the Reality Gate
The darkness of the void was boundless and unending.
Gu Qing Shan was being carried rapidly through s.p.a.ce by an immense force.
Unlike before, there was a lot of noise during this transport.
He could hear many voices, see many visions, and sense the existence of many other living beings.
At one point, he even saw a familiar scene.
It was the scene of him being taken in as Xie Dao Ling’s disciple in Bai Hua Hall.
However, there was a difference in this vision when compared to his memory.
Xie Dao Ling wielded the Earth sword as she leapt off the Throne of Ten Thousand Flowers and faced the Beast Saints.
Everything flashed by in an instant.
As he continued to fly, this vision disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan was speechless for a short moment.
——-strange, it was because s.h.i.+fu had given up on swordsmans.h.i.+p that she handed the Earth sword over to me, so why did she face the enemy while wielding the Earth sword in that vision?
Suddenly, another vision flashed by his eyes.
It was still Bai Hua Hall.
Xie Dao Ling was leaning on her Throne of Ten Thousand Flowers with a faint yellow aura in her hand.
Huang Quan Origin power!
Gu Qing Shan’s heart jumped for a second.
Without much time for him to think, the vision vanished as everything around him returned to darkness.
He continued to rapidly fly through the boundless void.
However, he had understood what those two visions just now meant.
——they were two completely different parallel worlds.
At certain instances in an individual’s life, Fate had split off at a forked road, resulting in a different future and path for each person.
Gu Qing Shan’s thoughts rapidly turned and asked: “Why did you show me all of this? Where are you?”
No one answered him in the void of s.p.a.ce.
But very quickly, another vision appeared.
—–it was a battlefield.
Gu Qing Shan could see the glowing cloaked skeleton, as well as numerous other skeletons and other gigantic monsters clad in white flames fighting against many powerful Professionists.
None of those Professionists was weaker compared to Gu Qing Shan, but they all slowly died off one by one in the battle with the white flames monsters.
Behind all the white flames monsters, a waterfall of light that connected heaven and earth slowly swept across the world.
The entire world and all the Professionists were completely destroyed.
All the visions disappeared at once.
The void became plunged in darkness again.
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but call out again: “Why are you showing me this? Where are you?”
From the void of s.p.a.ce, the strong wind howled intensely, but no voice answered him.
After a long while of silence, the howling wind finally turned into tiny whispers that spoke to him.
“Gu Qing Shan… I am currently fighting against an Apocalypse that far surpa.s.ses all living beings’ imagination, so I cannot appear to see you”
——-this was the giant corpse’s voice!
Gu Qing Shan asked: “You mean that light earlier? That was a true Apocalypse that Reneedol summoned”
The wind whispers answered him: “That’s right, s.p.a.ce-Time would no longer deceive it, so I have no other choice but to let one parallel world after another be destroyed to deceive it, hoping that it would leave this Reality Gate as soon as possible”
Gu Qing Shan instantly asked: “The parallel worlds are only a technique? Was it you who cast it?”
“No, the Parallel World Technique originated deep within the Dusty World. I was not the one who cast it, but the Dusty World is tacitly allowing me to use this technique to deceive the Apocalypse” the giant corpse replied.
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask: “What exactly is this white light Apocalypse? Why did even the Lord of Infinite Origins fall to it, and even you had no choice but resort to deception to draw it away?”
The giant corpse sighed and spoke: “Come, Gu Qing Shan, I will lead you to see the scenery outside the Reality Gate”
Before he even finished, Gu Qing Shan felt the pulling force on his body growing several times stronger.
Countless images appeared in front of his eyes, speeding through at a ridiculous speed that didn’t even give him a chance to see any of the visions on his way.
——all of them were parallel worlds.
“How many parallel worlds are you using to deceive the Apocalypse?” Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but call out.
“I’m not sure” the giant corpse answered in a low voice, “Perhaps only a dozen, perhaps all of them”
Gu Qing Shan felt a chill run down his spine.
—–if we cannot stop the true Apocalypse, then perhaps all the parallel worlds must be used to resist it!
The giant corpse continued: “In the near future of this timeline, Reneedol will summon a true Apocalypse—— or you can call it an Unfathomable Apocalypse——- in reality, the name ‘Unfathomable’ was coined by me. I purposely let this name drift throughout all the worlds to urge their living beings to ponder the true nature of the Apocalypses”
“Like I had said, s.p.a.ce-Time could no longer resist its invasion, so even when you’ve travelled back in time, some Apocalyptic elements would still follow you into the past to pursue and kill you”
Gu Qing Shan’s vision flashed briefly.
All the visions he saw disappeared.
In the darkness, a rapidly expanding ma.s.s of drifting sand was enveloped in white light.
The white light was continuously attacking the ma.s.s of drifting sand, unceasing, unrelenting, and unending.
His vision zoomed out.
There was a withered leaf outside of the drifting sand, which was drifting in the wind to fall onto the wasteland of a certain planet.
This planet was only a single one among hundreds of millions of stars within this galaxy.
There were still countless worlds outside of the galaxy that couldn’t be seen all at once.
And all of this was enveloped in endless white light, subjected to its unending corrosion.
The giant corpse resounded again:
“Gu Qing Shan, as you should know, sometimes, an entire world is merely a ma.s.s of sand, sometimes a piece of leaf might be the collection of 9000 worlds, and even billions of stars could just be a part of one gigantic world. And the world behind our Reality Gate is hidden among the void of these infinite worlds”
Gazing upon the world being corroded by white light, Gu Qing Shan was so shaken that he was speechless.
Suddenly, he noticed that the ma.s.s of sand earlier had been erased by the white light.
—–it was completely destroyed by the Apocalypse.
“What exactly is this Apocalypse that consists of nothing but white light?” Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help himself asking.
The giant corpse replied: “There are many kinds of Apocalypse, many of which I can deal with, but for living beings, true Unfathomable Apocalypses are like this—–”
His voice suddenly became cold and restrained:
“This kind of Apocalypse believes that living beings are nothing but sentient coincidences, and its mission is to erase all coincidences to let the void return to silence”
“As you can see, its power is vast and endless, naturally being capable of destroying all living beings——- I don’t know who exactly gave it this power, and I can’t stand in front of its way—— because that would be the same as letting myself all into eternal erasure”
“——This kind of Unfathomable Apocalypse has surpa.s.sed the limits of what living beings can fathom. Simply by existing, it was naturally capable of destroying everything——- including me, including you, as well as all living beings”
“No one could resist it”
Gu Qing Shan immediately asked: “Are there really no solutions at all?”
The giant corpse replied: “There were originally no solutions at all. Fortunately, you had the Key of Past, as well as the support of the Chrono race, which allowed you to escape from it. At the same time, the glowing skeleton that its clone had manifested into had lost too much power that it was no longer capable of destroying everything or summon the power of its original form”
Gu Qing Shan silently thought a bit and asked in a heavy tone: “It also wanted to obtain the frozen corpse, could it want to absorb the frozen corpse’s power to summon its original form outside the Reality Gate?”
“That’s exactly the case. Once it had regained its power, the parallel worlds that I used to deceive its main body would no longer work” the giant corpse replied.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the boundless light that was illuminating the darkness of the void.
More and more worlds were being corroded and destroyed by the light, but the light did not grow weaker for even a little bit.
Destroying everything.
For the boundless light, this was a natural and righteous thing to do.
This was the meaning of its existence.
Gu Qing Shan stared blankly at it and muttered to himself: “…The Reality Gate had now been opened, the glowing cloaked skeleton that it manifested into had travelled through time following me, then continued to pursue me and even destroyed the entire Twin Rivers of Life and Death”
The giant corpse sighed and continued: “I have no choice but to continuously give up more parallel worlds for it to destroy, using this to temporarily deceive it and stall for time”
“…You definitely have a solution to fight it” Gu Qing Shan suddenly said.
“No, there is no means of fighting it, but there is one solution that would allow us to not die at its hands” the giant corpse replied.
“What is that solution?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“To close the Reality Gate and obscure it from its vision” the giant corpse answered.
“Closing… the Reality Gate?” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
The giant corpse explained: “That’s right. It only managed to find the Reality Gate through Reneedol’s summoning—— you must understand one thing, the Reality Gate was being hidden among boundless s.p.a.ce, so it can’t be discovered too easily. Once we have closed the Gate, it is very possible for it to be unable to find us again”
Gu Qing Shan pondered: “It’s worth a try… but how do we close the Reality Gate?”
“No one could achieve this, because a Reality Gate can only be opened and closed through the usage of a corresponding Traveler’s Proof” the giant corpse answered.
Gu Qing Shan realized something and said: “You mean… the Key of the Past in my hands?”
“The Key of the Past is only a fragment of the Traveler’s Proof, it won’t be able to close the Reality Gate—— now that we want to close it, we must find the ent.i.ty that initially forced the Gate open—– we would be able to close the Gate using their power”
Gu Qing Shan hesitantly asked: “You mean…”
“Yes, the Reality Gate was hidden deep within the center of the Eternal Abyss——- a long time ago, it was once destroyed by the frozen corpse, so you will need to awaken that Secret Apocalypse and use its power to close the Gate from the inside”
The giant corpse sighed and finally said: “Perhaps the overseer of the seal had realized or even had a premonition of this that it slowly turned itself into an Apocalypse, gradually taking over control of the frozen corpse, then turned into the Lord of Infinite Origins, and finally guarded the Eternal Abyss, hiding the Reality Gate within itself——— but all of this was its instincts, it did not realize the true reason for its actions”
“Are you talking about—– Shroud?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“I am” the giant corpse praised, “It was certainly impressive, having made all the preparations ahead of time and even hide the frozen corpse away using the six Sealing Tokens, waiting for this exact moment of time”
“Go, Gu Qing Shan”
“Hurry and search for all the scattered parts of the frozen corpse, rea.s.semble it and let it awaken once more”
“Only its power would be able to close the Reality Gate”
“I won’t be able hold on for very long”
“Hurry——”
Oong!!!
A loud wind-ripping noise resounded in his ears.
Gu Qing Shan was being yanked back to his original location by an irresistible force.
He had gone past countless parallel world images, some of which were still fighting against the light Apocalypse, while some were already completely destroyed.
——-after all of these parallel worlds had been destroyed by the Apocalypse and the Reality Gate still hasn’t been closed again, then everything would be over.
Gu Qing Shan observed the countless silent parallel world visions.
He continued to fly down.
And down.
And further down, the longer he traveled, the faster he was travelling, but time also felt like it was elongating.
Suddenly, at a certain moment——–
Inside the inn, Gu Qing Shan abruptly opened his eyes.
“Gongzi?” Shannu’s intimate voice sounded next to him.