Chapter 536: When I wither is when I bloom
Gu Qing Shan placed Laura back on his shoulder.
Laura glanced back up at the 600-floor skysc.r.a.per and couldn’t help but tremble from fear.
She never thought she would actually fly down from such a high place ever before.
Every battle was fierce, but concluded in a mere 2-3 exchanges.
If it were someone else observing, they would think that Gu Qing Shan won them very easily.
But having been trained by the very best since birth, Laura had nurtured a pair of sharp discerning eyes for most things, including battle.
She knew full well just how dangerous that was.
Some of those times, Gu Qing Shan’s life was hanging by a single thread.
But that was where his true strength lied.
In a situation where his life was on the line, Gu Qing Shan would always make sure that his opponent was the one to die first.
Sighing deeply, Laura lightly stroked Gu Qing Shan’s shoulder pad.
This armor was originally damaged, after going through so many harsh battles consecutively, it got even more dents and deeper cuts than before, some of which almost cut through the armor itself.
This armor…
Is really bad.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t know what Laura was thinking about.
He was staring at the [Kindling] UI.
“If this mission is over, give me the next one”
He said.
After a few seconds, [Kindling]’s voice came again.
[Your mission has been prepared]
[What comes next is a long journey, you must traverse through the entire frozen wasteland to reach the location of the next mission]
“Through the entire frozen wasteland?”
Gu Qing Shan muttered.
Just before, while he was on the top of the 600-floor skysc.r.a.per, he already observed the frozen wasteland.
——the frozen wasteland was so vast that even standing as high as he did, he still couldn’t see the end of it.
This journey will truly be a long and arduous trek.
…
I wonder if Su Xue Er is still on the frozen wasteland.
That girl… how is she now?
Gu Qing Shan held his sword tight.
“We’re going” he told Laura.
“Yes” Laura regained her composure and quickly replied.
Gu Qing Shan lowered his body slightly.
Laura immediately called out: “What are you doing!”
“Flying, since it’ll be quicker” Gu Qing Shan spoke.
“Do not fly, I just got back on the ground” Laura protested.
Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag and took out an airs.h.i.+p.
A wonderful calligraphed character ‘Shan’ was painted on the side of the s.h.i.+p.
This was a masterpiece that came from Qin Xiao Lou’s hands, as long as you had spirit energy to spend, it would always fly much faster than other airs.h.i.+ps.
There was a small but intricate cabin on the airs.h.i.+p.
Laura jumped on to check it.
As she closed the door of the cabin, the airs.h.i.+p’s spirit funnel formation activated.
The cabin was closed off from the outside, it had spirit energy to sooth the mind, a few snacks on the table and even a pot of spirit tea brewing on the stove.
——it was very comfortable in the cabin, and you couldn’t see what height you were currently at from inside.
Strands of spirit energy appeared and quickly got absorbed into Laura’s body through her skin.
Silently enjoying it for a bit, Laura smiled.
She then jumped back out and spoke: “Good enough”
“Can we go now?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Laura hesitantly spoke: “Would it count as cheating if we do this?”
“Probably”
“What?”
“We came here to cheat in the first place”
“If that is the case…”
Laura flipped her backpack around and rummaged inside.
Gu Qing Shan waited for a bit longer.
“Got it, we will use this” Laura took out a whistle, giving it to Gu Qing Shan.
“What is this?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“A whistle to summon the steed of the Great Devil of Purgatory, my father used the seed of a newborn world to exchange for it”
Laura insisted on using it: “It is much faster than your s.h.i.+p, and since it will be running on the ground, I can feel a.s.sured”
“Why don’t you use it then?”
“It is too big for me. Someone else needs to ride it and carry me” Laura glanced at him.
Gu Qing Shan then placed the whistle on his mouth and blew.
As soon as the sound of the whistle came, a black horse suddenly appeared in front of them.
“The Wings of Purgatory, at your service—– hopefully I didn’t scare you, dear summoners” it spoke in a low voice.
Gu Qing Shan picked up Laura and jumped on the horse.
“Do you know how to ride it?” Laura looked at his anxious expression and asked.
“I just learnt yesterday” Gu Qing Shan replied.
The frozen wasteland was silent.
Laura gave him a look of disbelief: “You do not even know how to ride a horse, and your girlfriend still likes you?”
“She was teaching me” Gu Qing Shan helplessly answered.
That was right, he only just learnt how to ride a horse when they went into Infini-worlds Town, so he was still a bit anxious.
“Summoners, there is no need for concern, I can run by myself” the black horse spoke.
Gu Qing Shan sighed from relief and pointed at the deep end of the frozen wasteland: “We’re going that way, there might be a few enemies on the way, please be careful”
“I need to ask one question first, are you in a hurry, or do you just want to take a stroll?” the black horse asked.
Gu Qing Shan replied: “We’re in a hurry, so please—–”
Boom!!!
The black horse turned into a gust of wind and disappeared on the spot.
In just the blink of an eye, it had already turned into a black dot on the horizon.
…
On another side.
The deep end of the frozen wasteland.
Su Xue Er was moving forward alone in the howling wind.
At a certain point, she noticed that she was about to reach the end of the frozen wasteland.
In the far end of her sight, the frozen wasteland was already gone, replaced instead by a grand structure.
Although she didn’t know what it was, Su Xue Er quickened her step.
The frozen wasteland was simply too cold for her const.i.tution.
More importantly, she only had 11 Soul Points left and couldn’t hold out against [Kindling]’s invasion for much longer.
However, after taking a few steps, Su Xue Er stopped.
She cautiously held her scepter in front of herself, staring forward.
Within the snow storm, a few horse-drawn carriages could be seen from afar.
There were a total of 7 carriages, each one drawn by 5 horses, all heading towards Su Xue Er.
And they came quickly.
Not too long after, the carriages stopped in front of Su Xue Er.
A few dozen armed soldiers stood facing her.
“What a pretty girl” one of them declared in a low voice.
Another agreed: “Pretty indeed, and she’s only reached the frozen wasteland after so much time. She must be quite weak, we can easily take her down”
Someone else warned him: “Don’t complicate things, we still have [Kindling]’s special mission to accomplish”
“We can still accomplish the mission while bringing her with us” someone else stared straight at Su Xue Er and protested.
Su Xue Er felt pressured.
From her intuition, she could feel that these people weren’t easy to deal with.
And she had already run out of Soul Points.
If she were to fight them right now, it would be hard to tell how she would end up.
Another person spoke up: “Your idea is fine, she’s also quite the looker, but if we mess up the mission because we brought her, boss is going to rip you to pieces”
As soon as ‘boss’ was mentioned, everyone went silent.
They all looked to one of the carriages.
As they do, a 2-meter tall warrior came out.
He was wearing a suit of heavy armor with a battle mace forged from pure metal.
The frozen ground was cracked by him simply stepping on it.
As soon as he appeared, all the voices disappeared.
Apparently they were afraid of him.
Obviously, he was the ‘boss’.
“Little lady, have you seen a man wearing golden armor, likes to use swords and bring a little girl with him?”
A coa.r.s.e voice came from the gaps of his helmet.
He was asking Su Xue Er.
Su Xue Er briefly thought for a moment before shaking her head: “Since I’ve arrived, I’ve never seen such a person”
The 2-meter tall warrior glanced behind himself.
“Boss, she’s telling the truth” someone called out.
The warrior seemed disappointed.
“Fine, it seems we won’t be able to get any more intel for now, keep heading forward” he returned to his carriage.
“Boss, this girl…” someone tried asking.
“Business first, none of you are to hinder me from completing [Kindling]’s special mission, or I’m going to use your brains as a drinking snack, got it?”
“Yes!” everyone loudly answered.
They quickly got on their carriages, and prepared to leave.
Su Xue Er stepped to one side.
She was observing them.
Occasionally, some of them couldn’t help but glance back with a l.u.s.tful look in their eyes, but none of them tried saying anything else.
It seems they were really going to leave.
——to catch that man that the ‘boss’ described.
Su Xue Er silently sighed, but kept the scepter in front of herself to maintain her guard.
The people began to leave.
A voice came from one of the carriages.
“You know who the target is?”
“Just some trash, we can easily take care of him”
“How do you know?”
“[Kindling] said he had only just pa.s.sed the 600-floor building”
“Ahahaha, only just pa.s.sed the 600-floor building, trash indeed——- I really don’t understand, why would [Kindling] be interested in someone like that enough to make us go catch him?”
“I don’t know either”
Su Xue Er silently listened, hoping that they leave as fast as possible.
She didn’t have much Soul Points left so she really needed to get to the next location to find some way to gather more.
But she can’t leave just yet, since it will be easy to expose her weakness to them.
She needs to maintain her guard card.
The carriages began to move.
Seems like I won’t need to fight yet.
Su Xue Er gradually relaxed.
At this point, their voices came again.
“The target is called Gu Qing Shan? Alright, I’m going to take his head”
“That’s for the boss to decide, don’t be rash. If you get beaten up by the boss again like last time, I’m not going to beg him to forgive you again”
…
As soon as Su Xue Er heard that name, she forgot how to breathe.
Qing Shan.
Right, I remember now.
Qing Shan uses a sword.
He does have a golden set of armor, he mentioned it once during our small talk.
He still came here!
…and these people wanted to kill Qing Shan.
Su Xue Er’s face went pale, quickly glancing at the amount of Soul Points she had left.
The [11] just became a [10].
I only have 10 Soul Points left.
The other party is over 10 people who came from various powerful worlds.
These people have already gone through countless tests to reach the main mission area.
They have powerful weapons and [Kindling] on them, able to exchange for more powerful items to fight at a moment’s notice.
They were all powerful demonized people.
Even I find them hard to deal with and want to avoid fighting them here.
But Gu Qing Shan is alone.
Su Xue Er was stunned.
The hand she was holding her scepter became pale from clenching it too tightly.
Time pa.s.sed.
Su Xue Er looked at the last leaving carriages before gritting her teeth.
Place a finger on her mouth, she softly muttered: “Burning Life Force”
A glowing card appeared in front of her chest and disappeared almost right away.
An invisible gust of wind drifted around her body as a large amount of Soul Points was being created.
Hoh!
The generated Soul Points created strong wind pressure that blew all the snow around her away.
This caused the group on the carriages to notice.
They stopped.
“Boss, look” someone called out.
The 2-meter tall warrior once again came down from the carriage.
He seriously looked at Su Xue Er.
“So much Soul Points… this much is worth it for us to delay a bit” he muttered.
The warrior waved his hand.
The dozen of people excitedly got off their carriages, skillfully and expertly prepared to attack.
Su Xue Er on the other hand, seemed like she hadn’t realized this.
She stabbed the Scepter of Law into the ice below and muttered: “Blood Sea’s End!”
Boom!
The Scepter of Law that accompanied her blew up and scattered into a pure white powder.
The powder flew to the air and condensed into 77 cards, lightly floating above Su Xue Er’s head.
Looking at the enemies getting closer to her, Su Xue Er’s heart wavered a bit.
Qing Shan…
Wiping the tears at the corner of her eye, the only thing left on her beautiful face was indifference.
With a strange and intimidating tone, she chanted the incantation:
“O’ destiny! When I wither is when I bloom!”