The divine palace of Fate.
The three statues of the Deities of Fate had been broken into pieces.
Even a casual attack by the current Reneedol was powerful, but Lachesis had made sure to prepare defensive techniques on the statues, so they were only broken into fragnts by the attack instead of thoroughly crumbling to dust.
Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight throughout the entire divine palace.
He had a complete grasp of the situation in one re breath’s worth of ti.
For a cultivator at his level, it was as easy as turning his palm to fix a couple of broken statues.
Gu Qing Shan casually ford a hand seal.
The small fragnts flew into the air and gathered at the center of the divine palace.
Following Gu Qing Shan’s will, the fragnts reford into the shape of three statues.
Gu Qing Shan used a technique to temporarily hold the fragnts together and make sure that they wouldn’t abruptly collapse.
After that was done, he approached and began to carefully examine the statues.
——-but these statues were just carved out of rock, there was nothing suspicious about them at all.
15 minutes later.
He still couldn’t find anything.
Gu Qing Shan sighed, then waved his hand.
Three swords appeared behind him.
“Take a look for if you can see any issues with these statues” he said.
The swords flew out and circled around the statue a few tis.
The Chao Yin sword was the first to return, loudly vibrating with an embarrassed tone.
Gu Qing Shan consoled it: “Ah, it’s ok, this is very difficult for sure, even I couldn’t discover any clues”
A few monts later, the Earth sword also returned and hovered in mid-air.
It asked in a mountainous heavy voice: 「 Reneedol was one of the three Deities, but even after she examined them, she couldn’t find any secrets. Could you have made a mistake? 」
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised, but answered hesitantly: “I’m not sure either. I simply thought that after being summoned that way, while she didn’t have a lot of ti, Lachesis wouldn’t tell useless things”
The Earth sword thought for a bit, then flew back and continued circling around the three statues again.
A few monts later, the Six Paths Great Mountain sword returned, Shannu’s voice reported from the sword:
“Gongzi, there were originally defensive techniques on these three statues, but they’re gradually fading away now”
Gu Qing Shan nodded: “Since they’ve been destroyed once, it makes sense for their defenses to gradually weaken”
“Other than that, I didn’t discover anything either” Shannu replied.
Gu Qing Shan appeared a bit helpless.
No matter how he looked at them, these three statues were still only statues.
Perhaps it isn’t a matter of the material or technique, but sothing else entirely?
Gu Qing Shan retreated a bit further and observed the three statues from afar.
Among the three statues, the eldest Clotho was on the left, the youngest Atropos was on the right, while Lachesis stood in the middle. Their expressions were calm, dignified, and focused.
It’s a real wonder who the sculptors of these statues were, as they perfectly depicted the three Deities’ delicate physique, graceful features, as well as overwhelming charm.
After silently observing for a while, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but mutter:
“What are they looking at...?”
The gazes of the three statues were respectively looking in different directions.
Gu Qing Shan casually ford a hand seal.
A ray of light shot from his hand and connected to the iris of the Deity of Fate Clotho, then followed her gaze until it reached the wall.
Like the other divine palaces, the walls of this divine palace were also decorated by a series of grand murals that depicted the glorious past of the palace’s Deity.
The place Clotho was gazing at depicted a pivotal mont in the saga of the past, countless Deities had been killed by the Apocalypse, only a single Deity clad in black flas was barely still sitting on the ground while praying to the three female Deities.
This Deity wielded a long-handled black scythe.
It was the Death God.
Gu Qing Shan’s heart jumped a bit.
...
“...Death God, you are the only hope”
...
Lachesis’ statent sounded by his ears once again.
——could she have been able to foresee this within Fate?
Gu Qing Shan lightly clenched his fist.
It was only now that he had finally confird that his conjecture was correct.
These three statues were definitely hiding so sort of secret.
——a secret that not even Reneedol had been able to discover!
Gu Qing Shan put his hands together to form another hand seal, sending two more rays of light towards Lachesis and Atropos’ eyes respectively.
The mural Atropos was looking at depicted the most intense part of the war——-
On the battlefield, severed limbs and body parts were scattered all over the ground, the Deities were dying off one after another while Atropos herself was looking towards the severed limbs and body parts.
While Lachesis was gazing towards the top of the mural.
This mural reached towards the peak of the divine palace, where there wasn’t quite enough light to lit it up completely. Without carefully taking a look at it, one wouldn’t be able to see anything clearly at all.
At the top of that mural, a single Deity was depicted standing on top of a tall cliff with a war horn in her hands. The war horn gave off a divine holy light that summoned millions of Deities to the decisive battle.
At a glance, that Deity was indeed Lachesis.
But as Gu Qing Shan carefully observed, he found that it only looked that way.
It’s as if...
This Deity is not quite right sohow.
Within the divine palace filled with murals of history, this Deity took up such an insignificantly small portion that anyone would easily miss her if they didn’t take a careful look.
But Lachesis’ statue was gazing straight at herself on the mural.
Then, this female Deity surely represents sothing.
Gu Qing Shan’s figure shifted a bit as he moved towards the top of the mural to take a closer look.
——-indeed, this is Lachesis.
But her figure carried a sort of indescribable aura that was different from the real Lachesis as well as Lachesis’ statue within this divine palace.
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
Three Deities.
All of which were gazing at different locations.
——-the Death God.
——-severed limbs and body parts.
——-and a specious depiction of a Deity.
Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes and silently thought for a while.
The Death God represents Death, this was easy to infer.
Then, what do the severed limbs and the unfamiliar Deity represent?
Gu Qing Shan silently descended from the ceiling of the divine palace and looked around himself.
Reneedol had taken two Divine Artifacts away.
Other than the murals and statues, there wasn’t anything else in this place.
Gu Qing Shan recalled Lachesis’ words once again.
...
“...In the past, I once predicted... soone in the far future would attack our statues... I made sure to imbue the statues with strong defensive asures to ensure that they remain intact”
“Never did I think... the one who ultimately caused the statues to break was actually one of us three sisters of Fate...”
...
In other words—–
Soone would have attacked the statues, but it wouldn’t have been Reneedol.
Who did Lachesis think would attack the statues?
After a mont of silence, Gu Qing Shan abruptly exuded black flas from his entire body.
The Death God.
The one who would have attacked the statues would have been the Death God!
Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath, crouched down, then clenched his fist.
The boundless flas that filled the air slowly descended and converged towards his fist.
Gu Qing Shan threw a light punch towards the three statues.
Bam!
The three statues were once again broken apart and fell all over the ground.
This ti, as the defensive techniques on the statues had already scattered, the black flas did not fade away and instead continued to burn the fragnts.
Gu Qing Shan silently waited.
After a few monts, most of the fragnts had already lted, only a few that were burnt to the point of glowing incandescent, but still remained intact.
As Gu Qing Shan took a close look, he saw that the fragnts that still remained intact were the relatively larger pieces, like Clotho’s arm, Atropos’ torso, Lachesis’ head, and so on and so forth.
Scattered severed limbs...
Aren’t they the ‘corpses’ of the three Deities right in front of ?
Then the only clue remaining would be the unfamiliar Deity.
That’s very clear now.
Gu Qing Shan waved his hand and summoned the remaining statue fragnts towards him.
—–there were around 100 pieces in total.
Gu Qing Shan kept up a hand seal while putting the fragnts of the statue back together again.
Ti slowly passed.
Very quickly, a completely new Deity statue appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan checked this statue, then looked back at the Deity on the mural.
“Do you think they look similar?” he asked.
“They’re exactly the sa, gongzi” Shannu exclaid with a tone full of admiration.
Oong!
Chao Yin also replied.
「 They’re indeed the sa, but I have sothing else I want to say 」the Earth sword said.
“What’s that?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
「 Gu Qing Shan, you’re seriously a monster 」the Earth sword told him.
While they spoke, the completely new statue slowly gave off a dim glow.
As if so sort of chanism had just been triggered.
Under the dim light, the murals on the wall began to turn.
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