Chapter 40

“So the only way to survive now is…”

Gongsun Zhi hit his storage bag and pulled out a dull, iron ball.

“Take the chance to go to that other world while you haven’t been discovered by the Demon Lord yet. Find the large Moving Magic Formation that I’ve set up there and place this token on it.”

Gu Qingshan hesitated. “General Gongsun, since you are so powerful, you could go there yourself instead…”

His voice slowly faded.

Gongsun Zhi undid his top, and a terrifying wound appeared in front of Gu Qingshan.

There was a deep, green flame that started from his shoulder, moved down to his chest, and then continued all the way to his lower back.

This wound was so deep, even his heart had been cut in half.

The flames were still burning quietly, and there were clusters of runes all around the flames to stop it from creating further damage.

These flames were Nine Nether Flames, the most powerful type of Demonic Fire.

Gu Qingshan looked at it and reached this conclusion quietly in his heart without saying it out loud.

These flames were like a drought, and just a small spark would burn up thousands of miles of river water.

It was a miracle that Gongsun Zhi was still alive after such an attack.

Gongsun Zhi explained, “I’ve used an Omnidirectional Sealing Formation to keep myself alive, so I won’t die just yet. But the Demon Lord inflicted this wound on me personally, so it will be able to sense me wherever I go.”

Gu Qingshan asked, “How long can you hold out for?”

Gongsun Zhi replied, “Half a day. The Omnidirectional Sealing Formation will collapse after half a day, and I will die.”

Gu Qingshan looked straight into Gongsun Zhi’s eyes and asked, “Who can save you from this sort of wound?”

Gongsun Zhi smiled brightly and replied, “I don’t think I can be saved unless I make it back to the human army base camp and get some Saint-level doctor to treat me.”

Gu Qingshan sighed. He looked back up at Ning Yuechan fighting in the sky, then clenched his teeth and said, “I’ll go, then.”

Gongsun Zhi was so happy to hear this. He placed the iron ball in Gu Qingshan’s hand and said, “We have some men in Shenwu World, but the Demon Lord has discovered them already, and I think they’re almost all dead by now, so don’t be too bothered by it.”

He pulled out a formation disk and placed it very solemnly into Gu Qingshan’s hand.

Gu Qingshan looked at it, but this formation disk was split into several pieces, and there were complicated-looking formation runes around each piece.

Gongsun Zhi held the formation disk in his hands and explained how to use each one of them before finally saying, “This is an All-Purpose Formation Disk, so there are many useful formations on it, but there’s a limit to how many times you can use each one. Use them wisely.”

“And here’s a map.”

After he had finished all his instructions, Gongsun Zhi took out a tortoise shell and told Gu Qingshan to stand on it.

“While you’re in the Space-time Turbulence, ignore everything you see and don’t do anything at all. If anything happens while you’re in there, even the Three Saints wouldn’t be able to save you.”

“Got it.” Gu Qingshan nodded in agreement.

“Go!” Gongsun Zhi patted Gu Qingshan.

Gu Qingshan vanished into thin air.

There was a loud thud as Ning Yuechan was blasted onto the ground by the Faceless Giant and created a deep crater in the ground.

“Humph.”

Ning Yuechan scoffed and leaped out from the deep crater.

“You sent him to Shenwu World?” she asked.

Gongsun Zhi replied, “That’s right. Both of us are well tracked by the Demon Lord’s Divine Sense, so it would never let us go anywhere near that Moving Magic Formation.”

“You want to help him escape?”

Gongsun Zhi sighed and replied, “I’ve already told him the secret. So if he manages to live, then he will help us to send the message out on our behalf.”

Ning Yuechan stood in the wind, and her cold gaze slowly became gentler.

She wiped away the blood on her lips and said quietly, “Then, I’ll have no regrets.”

She swung her arm, and the long knife reappeared in her hands.

“If I manage to finish off this monster, then I’ll die with no regrets too.”

Ning Yuechan then flew back into the sky as she held the long knife in her hands.

Gu Qingshan felt like he had become a missile and was flying faster and faster through this vast and limitless empty space.

It was hard to gauge how much time had passed because one’s senses would feel like everything was taking a long time. One might feel like several days had passed when actually it was only the blink of an eye.

The nothingness around him slowly disappeared and was replaced by nothing but darkness.

This was the outermost layer of space. Once he got out of this layer, he would hit the Space-time Turbulence.

Gu Qingshan’s heart felt tighter and tighter.

When he transmigrated, he had gone through this process, and he knew how terrifying it could be.

Even though he had gone through hundreds of battles and met with countless evil and dangerous people, he started hoping for good luck on the way.

“The best would be to run into absolutely nothing along the way.”

That was what Gu Qingshan thought in his heart.

In the next moment, the entire world vanished. Gu Qingshan had burst through the final layer of space and had gone right into the Space-time Turbulence.

A sudden force rushed out and wrapped itself around Gu Qingshan, hurtling him through the time layers between certain parts of the past and the future at an unimaginably high speed.

Everything in front of Gu Qingshan’s eyes became a blur as this force pushed him into a scene.

There was a gigantic, bronze pillar that went through both the sky and the earth, standing by itself on the vast and boundless empty land.

A dead body was nailed firmly to the middle of the bronze pillar with five nails.

This dead body’s head was drooping, covered from head to toe in black armor, and was about ten stories tall.

But even so, the dead body still looked very small compared to the gigantic bronze pillar.

There were countless black skulls wandering around at the bottom of the bronze pillar, and they wanted to climb up the gigantic bronze pillar.

They stacked themselves up and they were nearly stacked high enough to reach the toes of that corpse.

Gu Qingshan suddenly appeared from the nothingness. He flew through this weird space and continued on.

“Help me.”

There was a voice that rang out in Gu Qingshan’s consciousness.

Gu Qingshan clenched his teeth and continued flying forward without even looking back.

He couldn’t stop at this point. Any movement he made would affect the layer of mysterious force surrounding his body.

This force was bringing Gu Qingshan to Shenwu World. If anything happened along the way, he couldn’t predict what sort of consequences he would face.

He might land in some unknown world, or he might be torn to pieces in the next moment. But the most likely thing to happen was that he would remain in this world and never find a way out again.

“Help me, and I will grant you eternal life.”

That voice continued to speak, and it even sounded a little authoritative.

Gu Qingshan didn’t bother with it at all. Finally, everything went dark as he entered another layer of space-time and left this strange world.

After a long time.

The dead body on the gigantic, bronze pillar shifted a little, opened its mouth, and blew out a mouthful of air.

This mouthful of air carried a huge amount of deep, green flames, and it completely consumed all the black skulls stacked below it.

“D*mn it. A lifeform finally came after 200 million years, but he got away.”

The corpse tried hard to struggle free, but the nails that nailed him to the gigantic pillar didn’t budge at all.

After a while, the dead body was tired from struggling and was calm once again.

Black skulls started emerging from the mud below the gigantic bronze pillar.

In no time, the skulls covered the entire space again. They looked up at the dead body on the bronze pillar and slowly started moving again.

Gu Qingshan continued to fly through this disorderly time-space, and there was suddenly an exit after a long time.

Gu Qingshan went out head first and instantly felt a cold wind blow on him. The layer of force surrounding him slowly thinned out and slowly formed a shape in the air.

This was a milky white ball with Gu Qingshan in the middle of it. It was like a giant soap bubble floating through the air.

There was a gray mist outside the ball, and it covered the whole sky and earth.

This gray mist was very strange. It was so thick that it almost appeared black, but at the same time, it seemed transparent, and he could even see far objects clearly through it.

Gu Qingshan lifted his head and looked out at the world outside the bubble.

He could see nothing but countless demons, and they covered the land as far as he could see.

Extremely far off, there was a Faceless Giant stuck somewhere in the clouds as it fought hard with a demon that was exuding an extremely cold air around it.

This entire world had been destroyed, and an immense number of demons had taken over.