Worlds’ Apocalypse Online - Chapter 191

Chapter 191: Ranking Up

At this point, crying voices of children could be heard from inside Liao Xing’s room.

‘Just listen, sounds like having kids is a huge pain, no wonder he had to video call his wife’ Ye Fei Li continued.

‘Just think of how many children he has. I heard he got even more the last few years ——–his wife has to sing and yell all the children to sleep, of course she would be breathing heavily from being tired’ Gu Qing Shan agreed.

‘Forget him, how have you been feeling these last two days?’ he asked Ye Fei Li.

Ye Fei Li tilted his head and thought for a bit: ‘There are delicious food and more than enough things to kill, I think it’s actually better than how I lived before the apocalypse?’

‘Impartial supreme-rulerdess is still looking for more targets for you to kill’ Gu Qing Shan said, ‘the next Game of Eternal will have to wait until the next night, so you just take some time to rest until then’

‘If that’s the case, I’m going to climb the world rankings a bit’ Ye Fei Li nodded.

He stretched, then threw himself onto the sofa and muttered: ‘Really, I feel like I’m the real normal person here’

Not too long after, a screen was projected onto the wall across from the sofa.

His game was starting.

Gu Qing Shan just sat there, slowly drank the rest of the wine in his cup, then stood up.

Walking by himself out of the mansion, he headed for the top of the mountain.

Up there, he found a place that had little wind, tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a formation plate.

Infusing it with spirit energy, his finger darted across the formation plate.

After setting up two [Wind Spirit Formation], one covered another, the entire mountain top has entered Gu Qing Shan’s range of detection.

This was the only formation he knew how to use, but it was exceptionally great for supervision and detection of danger.

After setting them up, Gu Qing Shan put away the formation plate and said: ‘Impartial supreme-rulerdess’

[I’m here] his Holo-Brain lit up.

‘Help me watch this area and don’t let anyone come near’

[Understood, sir]

Taking out a cushion, Gu Qing Shan sat down on it, cross-legged.

Taking the jade tag Bai Hua Fairy gave him in hand, the War supreme-ruler UI immediately popped up a notification.

[Detected Foundation realm scripture: Thousand Saints Core Formation Script]

[Your current cultivation is: Foundation realm late stage]

[To comprehend Thousand Saints Core Formation Script (Foundation realm peak), Soul Points cost: 50]

[Would you like to comprehend it now?]

‘Yes’

[Comprehension complete, Current Soul Points: 220]

A large wave of warmth flowed from the jade tag into Gu Qing Shan’s hand.

The warmth flowed from his hand to and around his body, then finally reached his Thought Sea and became a series of images and understanding.

In a single moment, Gu Qing Shan now knew Foundation realm peak stage like the back of his hand.

From Foundation realm late stage to peak, the main issue lies in how well you understand the realm and how well you understood the Laws of heaven and earth.

Relatively speaking, what this part mainly tested was a cultivator’s natural talents and abilities.

Some cultivators were able to pass this stage without any trouble, but others could get stuck on it for months or even a couple years.

But [War supreme-ruler Skills] trivializes everything that tests comprehension.

Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag, took out an energy pill and swallowed it.

After doing so, he closed his eyes and began the real process of breaking through.

A night passed.

Dawn came, the waning moon was still visible in the sky, and the cold morning breeze was blowing.

Gu Qing Shan noticed none of that, it was only until the first rays of sunshine reflected on his face that some warmth came back to it.

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked around.

From his eyes, a seemingly solid light was emitting from his gaze.

Flowing Lightning Pupils.[1]

This was the sign of reaching Foundation realm peak.

Gu Qing Shan pulled out the Earth Sword, jumped into the air proceeding to dance across the sky with the Flowing Clouds Style.

His body floated like a bird, flowing like a fish in water. He rode the wind, free and flowing. His movements were artful and animated.

[Flowing Clouds Style] was originally meant to be used while in the air. Its specialty was fighting and killing while in mid-air, as you could even ride your sword to fly for a very short period of time.

The gleam of the sword blinked from here and there, as slashes interlaced with more slashes, letting out a series of ‘wu wu’ sounds.

Standing on the side of the mountain looking up, you’d see a person holding a sword, dancing gracefully while in the air, like an immortal from heaven.

At Foundation realm peak, a cultivator can already fly for a short period of time; if not for that, Gu Qing Shan wouldn’t be able to use the Flowing Clouds Style so fluidly.

But to truly fly among the clouds, to go in and out of the sky, using the air as footing to walk across rivers, you have to be at Golden Core realm.

Finishing his sword dance, Gu Qing Shan slowly landed.

After using spirit energy to rank up, his entire body was filled with spirit energy and brushed all the fatigue away, Gu Qing Shan was feeling extremely good.

Looking at the War supreme-ruler UI, he found no notifications on [War supreme-ruler Skills].

That means, he was able to keep using [War supreme-ruler Skills] to comprehend more cultivation-type scriptures.

‘The next step is to break through to Golden Core…’ Gu Qing Shan muttered.

There was a saying, ‘…as I swallowed the Golden Core, I knew that my fate isn’t up for supreme-ruler to decide’. Golden Core realm cultivators are considered the bulk of strength for the cultivation world, their fighting strength was on another level altogether compared to qi training and Foundation realm.

This was also the reason why Gu Qing Shan had insisted on inviting Leng Tian Xing to go with him to look for the truth about the spirit beasts’ betrayal.

Suddenly, on the War supreme-ruler UI, the [War supreme-ruler Thaumaturgy] icon was slowly moving.

Looking down at it, Gu Qing Shan noticed there were a few lines of text on the [War supreme-ruler Thaumaturgy] icon.

[Detected user to have become Foundation realm peak]

[Thaumaturgy breakthrough has been prepared]

[Thaumaturgy gacha has been prepared]

After Gu Qing Shan read through it, the lines of text disappeared.

There were now two circles on the War supreme-ruler UI, one big and one small. The big circle was on top while the small circle was at the bottom, but both of them were rotating.

In the middle of the smaller circle, the word ‘Smiting’ was written in dancing characters.

Above the small circle, the large circle was greyed out, no matter how Gu Qing Shan tried tapping it, it didn’t show any response.

[Ting]!

A large line of text showed up.

[The user must complete the Thaumaturgy Rank-up Quest before he can move onto the Thaumaturgy Drawing Quest]

Seeing this notification, Gu Qing Shan suddenly understood.

Every time a cultivator breaks through a new realm, they are given a chance to closely feel the Law of heaven and earth, awakening their Thaumaturgy at that time.

But a Thaumaturgy that has been awakened can still evolve again.

No one really understood the rules for evolving a Thaumaturgy, the general consensus was that the more you used it, the deeper you understood it, the more likely it was to evolve.

After going through Foundation realm early, middle, late and peak stages, Gu Qing Shan’s ‘Smiting’ Thaumaturgy is finally ready to evolve.

He can only go on to the next step after evolving ‘Smiting’ ———–which was to draw a new Thaumaturgy after breaking through to Golden Core.

There were also no real rules for what a new Thaumaturgy could be, since there were simply too many kinds of Thaumaturgies.

With just supreme-ruler’s Chosen Skills alone, humanity had gone through categorization and listed over 70,000 different types of supreme-ruler’s Chosen Skills, including numerous shapes and forms, usable and unusable. Not to mention the ones that weren’t willing to disclose their abilities and didn’t get them categorized.

And then there were Martial Thaumaturgies, which included: fist, palm, feet, and speed technique plus outer and inner power.

From just fist-types alone, you have crane, tiger, dragon, elephant, panther, snake, cloud, flower, mountain, 7 Stars, 8-Trigram, 9 Directions, 18 arms of Luo Han, 24 killing strikes, 36 sealing strikes, 72 stealing strikes… so on and so forth.

Palm, legs, speed technique, outer and inner power, for each one there were just as many, if not even more compared to fist-type.

Compared to that, Elemental awakening was the easiest to understand, there were only Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Light, Dark, and Sound.

Because of that, the only thing you could count on when drawing a new Thaumaturgy was your own luck.

The most that the War supreme-ruler UI can do was just let Gu Qing Shan have a certain few selections, which increases the chance of him getting a strong Thaumaturgy ———–but about which type and kind of Thaumaturgy to appear, he could only wish for good luck, as the System can’t do anything about it.

A bit excited, Gu Qing Shan tapped the ‘Smiting’ circle.

Three slots appeared from the circle.

A line of text that further explains it appeared.

[Please find a 99% concentration Martial Potential Enhancing Serum, Elementalist Awakening Serum, and supreme-ruler’s Chosen Awakening Serum. Insert them in each of the slots to have Smiting evolve and become stronger]

Looking at this description, Gu Qing Shan frowned.