Anna wiped her tears away.
We’ve finally reunited after such a long ti, but he has to leave again right away.
“Can’t you stay for a while? Even a single day is enough” she asked him in an extrely rare begging tone.
Gu Qing Shan consoled her: “It’ll be ok, what I’m going to do isn’t travelling through ti, but to use [Distortion]”
“Is there a difference?” Anna asked.
“That ti when I left from the Temporal Oasis was an outlier. In reality, after activating [Distortion], I would begin to exist at a certain mont in the past and continue existing until the very mont I leave—- which was this exact mont”
“Then... the next ti you show up would be at this exact ti?” Anna asked.
“That’s right. You will see leave, then reappear in front of you right away” Gu Qing Shan explained.
Anna was a bit surprised but understood what he ant.
Hoh—–
She softly sighed, then held back her tears and said: “Seriously, making so sad for a brief mont like that—- then I’ll wait right here for you”
Gu Qing Shan nodded.
Shroud spoke with a serious tone: “We can’t delay anymore, the Apocalypse won’t wait for anyone, we need to leave right away before the situation changes again!”
“Wait a minute” Anna said.
She took a ring off her finger and put it on a certain finger on Gu Qing Shan’s left hand.
“That contains my entire collection of good liquor” Anna said.
Gu Qing Shan nodded and happily told her: “Then I’ll graciously accept”
Kitty was standing on the side, slowly comnting: “Right, and she put it on his ring finger—–”
Laura replied: “It’s for assurance”
Everyone nodded like it was obvious.
Everything was ready
Shroud turned back into black flas and entered Gu Qing Shan’s Thought Sea.
The three coins were thrown into the air, where they motionlessly hovered while radiating a miraculous fluctuation.
—–Gu Qing Shan was the Angel of Condemnation as well as the Demon King of [Order], and with the branch of the Bramble Tree that Laura gave him, it was easy for him to activate the three coins.
Instantly, a glowing river appeared behind him, after which he retreated one step and vanished from everyone’s sight.
The three coins danced in mid-air, moving against the surging flow of the River of Ti, bringing Gu Qing Shan upstream in the river.
His Soul Points were rapidly being depleted.
——–just like the previous ti, since [Distortion] was an ultimate Space-Ti ability, he needed to expend the corresponding amount of Soul Points in order to activate it.
Gu Qing Shan turned to the War God UI.
“We won’t be able to travel too far back” he told Shroud.
Shroud replied: “That’s not important, we just need to pay attention to avoid both your and my past selves”
Gu Qing Shan nodded.
The three Great Laws of Reality doesn’t allow soone to et their past selves within the sa tiline.
If that happened, the three Great Laws of Reality would erase one of the two in order to ensure that there weren’t any historical paradoxes.
Only an entity at Lady Unextinguishing Sand’s level, or Shroud at his peak, would possess enough power to resist the three Great Laws of Reality.
“This is a bit of a headache, I can’t head back to the 900 million World Layers, since my past self was there; and I can’t go back to the Tomb of Myriad Beasts or the Wraith realm, since the version of who used [Distortion] the previous ti was there”
Gu Qing Shan told him.
Shroud thought briefly and said: “Then let’s choose a location that we haven’t been to yet”
Gu Qing Shan suggested: “Let’s go to the island that we arrived at earlier——- if Su Xue Er had brought there, I assu there must be a special reason for it”
“Since we’ve chosen a location, what about the ti? How far can you go back?” Shroud asked.
Gu Qing Shan turned to the War God UI and checked the rapidly decreasing Soul Points value.
He smiled wryly: “At most, I’d only be able to return to the period when I was about to leave the Tomb of Myriad Beasts”
“That’s enough” Shroud nodded.
The two of them turned towards the River of Ti.
“Get ready, I’m heading down”
Gu Qing Shan said.
“Let’s go, we have a lot of things to do, so the faster, the better!” Shroud replied.
Gu Qing Shan shifted his body and dived down.
He crashed straight into a vision of the past.
Oong oong oong!
The three coins began vibrating while giving off a rapid loud noise.
From the darkness, space rapidly beca distorted to form a huge gap.
Gu Qing Shan imdiately rushed through!
Everything then returned to normal, as if nothing had happened at all.
...
Space was distorted for a brief mont.
Gu Qing Shan instantly reappeared.
Shroud also flew out and manifested into human form, cautiously observing their surroundings.
The sa place.
——–the two of them were at the sa place they had left earlier.
But the scenery was much different compared to before——
Nurous airships could be seen moving in and out of the island just a bit further away, clearly a prosperous location.
Even after they had returned to the past the island was still covered in a layer of light.
“The barrier...”
Gu Qing Shan muttered.
“That’s right, this place seems to be quite crucial” Shroud replied.
Every ti an airship wanted to enter, the faintly glowing barrier would open a gap.
Of course, there were also the sporadic Professionist moving in and out.
They had to show their certificates or hand over a certain amount of cargo money before the rcenaries guarding the barrier would let them through.
“Two youngsters, you seem to be strangers here”
A voice called out.
Gu Qing Shan regained his senses and saw that a rcenary was approaching him.
From the other side of the barrier, he tightly wielded his weapon and observed the two of them.
“What kind of currency do you accept?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Is this your first ti here? I can’t let first-tirs in arbitrarily—– it isn’t an issue of money, it’s about whether or not you can be trusted” the rcenary cautiously explained.
He then signaled to soone behind him.
A few monts later.
A female rcenary arrived.
Gu Qing Shan opened his eyes wide at the female rcenary, his gaze turning a bit cold.
“Why her again?” Shroud sent his voice, seemingly irritated.
“I also feel like we’re a bit unlucky this ti” Gu Qing Shan replied.
In the future——-
It was this female rcenary who refused to let through.
The reasoning she used was extrely prude.
The female rcenary flew towards the barrier and glanced at Gu Qing Shan, then at Shroud.
She displayed an amused expression without smiling and patted the other rcenary’s shoulder, telling him: “Take their money and let them in”
The male rcenary was surprised: “But big sis, they’re first-tirs, why are you letting them in without thoroughly checking them?”
“What is there to be afraid of about a couple of young birdies? Have them pay the fee and let them in” the female rcenary said just that and imdiately left.
The male rcenary was stunned.
Gu Qing Shan was also stunned.
They faced each other’s direction.
The male rcenary explained: “Normal currency won’t be accepted, you need to use hard currency—– like Origin Gems, Superior tal alloys, magic items, perfect-grade spirit stones, ancient totems, doomsday beads, etc., things of the sa nature”
“I have Origin Gems, how many?”
“One”
“...I just have the one here, it’s a real sha to hand it over”
Gu Qing Shan took out an Origin Gem from his chest pocket with an extrely stingy expression.
The male rcenary shook his head: “I can tell that you aren’t the wealthy kind, otherwise, you wouldn’t be——- alright brother, since you’ve co here, you’re trying to make a fortune for yourself. Just head to the rcenary guild and accept a mission, after a few adventures, as long as you don’t die, you’d still have a chance to leave your—— behind. Got it?”
“Got it” Gu Qing Shan amicably replied.
The male rcenary took out a Card and opened a gap in the barrier.
“Co in”
“Alright”
Gu Qing Shan and Shroud both entered the barrier.
“There you go, there’s a lot of opportunities on the island, so don’t try to take on anything too dangerous right away——- you’ll have to figure out the rest yourself” the male rcenary was very friendly and even advised him.
Gu Qing Shan clasped his fist and flew towards the island.
On the way, neither of them said anything.
——while they were let in without issues, they weren’t pleased about it.
After a while.
The two of them found an inn, booked a room, then sealed it tightly.
They were both Combatants who had been through many worlds, but neither of them could tell what was so unique about this island.
“Now that there’s so ti, I need to begin communicating with the sword spirit”
Gu Qing Shan took out a long rectangular box and opened it in front of Shroud.
——the box contained the fragnts of the Delimitation Divine Sword together with the artifact spirit.
Shroud glanced at it and judged: “I think you need to expend Soul Points in order to communicate with the sword spirit”
“You’re right” Gu Qing Shan was impressed.
The War God UI also said the sa thing.
But Shroud only needed to glance at it once to draw to that conclusion.
“You’ve used up your Soul Points to activate [Distortion], while I’m about to use my Soul Points for sothing else, so I think you should wait until you’ve recovered so Soul Points before you think about waking the sword spirit” Shroud suggested.
Gu Qing Shan was surprised and asked: “Was there sothing more important to deal with right now?”
“Of course, hand the six Sealing Tokens” Shroud said.
Gu Qing Shan handed the Sealing Tokens to Shroud just as he asked.
Shroud’s expression slowly beca serious.
“Gu Qing Shan, I carry with a certain secret related to the frozen corpse, and I’m going to hand it over to you”
“Why?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Because after this, I want to regain my power and would have to make a dangerous gamble, thus unable to protect this secret”
As they spoke, the six Sealing Tokens gave off a faint glow as they began to circle around Shroud.
Shroud began chanting sothing in a whisper.
A mass of translucent light erged from his chest and hovered in front of Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the mass of light and mused: “This is...”
“I’m not sure what it is either, apparently it was sothing that the frozen corpse found within the Reality Gate before it was sealed away—– I’ve tried everything I could but still couldn’t open it, but I can sense crucial portions of the frozen corpse’s mory—— this object is extrely important, even more so than any other treasures” Shroud replied.
Gu Qing Shan hesitated a bit before reaching his hand out to receive the mass of light.
Instantly, lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI:
[You’ve received a secret]
[Because you carry with you a fragnt of the Traveler’s Proof (Key of the Past), you’re qualified to co into contact with this secret]
[When you find the second fragnt of the Traveler’s Proof, you will be able to trigger this secret]
[Special note: The most precious secret within the Reality Gate]
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