Worlds’ Apocalypse Online
chapter-638

Chapter 638: The shadow of Old

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Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr.Lock

Proofreader: Arya

The shadow stood still, it was looking through the bronze left eye of the statue silently staring at Gu Qing Shan.

But Barry and Kitty didn’t notice it at all.

Barry kept on talking: “You guys should be a bit careful, sometimes strange changes will occur before a world tomb unseals itself”

“That doesn’t really matter much though, with bro and my powers, we should be able to deal with it no problem” Kitty grinned.

The three of them kept flying down towards the bronze statue.

A few moments later.

They were standing on the bronze face’s nose.

“Next, we should split up, to search and see if there’s something special about this bronze statue” Barry explained.

“Usually, those special parts will be related one way or another to how to unseal this world tomb” Kitty explained to Gu Qing Shan a bit more clearly.

“That’s right, so how about we get started now?” Barry spoke excitedly.

Regardless of what happens, this was still something left behind by the Old Gods, being able to explore it was already an adventure by itself.

Gu Qing Shan was indifferent.

He noticed that Barry and Kitty really couldn’t see the shadow.

This pair of brother and sister, as he knew them, were righteous and easy-going.

—-if they really were trying to deceive me and pretend not to notice that shadow, never mind Kitty, Barry would have already shown it on his face.

Which means something isn’t quite right.

Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath.

He decided to remind Barry and Kitty again, this time using spells instead of just their vision.

With some help from magic, they might be able to discover that shadow.

Gu Qing Shan spoke: “Barry, Kitty, can you guys use some sort of spell to check that bronze face’s left eye, I noticed——”

He stopped.

As soon as he said ‘the bronze face’s left eye’, his surroundings had completely changed.

The scenery around him stretched endlessly and warped, then shattered in front of Gu Qing Shan’s eyes.

The entire world turned pure white.

Gu Qing Shan noticed that he was hovering, then once again landed on solid ground.

He tried expanding his inner sight all around.

The four directions extended endlessly.

Besides a single color of white, there was nothing in this world.

And the place Gu Qing Shan was standing was a deserted island.

——-in the blink of an eye; he was standing on a deserted island.

Kitty and Barry were nowhere to be seen.

He was the only person on this entire island.

The island was floating above an endless dark abyss.

This seemed very similar to the floating islands of the Suspended world.

But unlike the Suspended world, the only thing below the island was a bottomless abyss and not the realm demon.

Gu Qing Shan looked down and tried stomping the ground.

The ground was exceptionally hard and was slightly shimmering in a metallic bronze color.

——this was actually an island made completely from bronze.

After a bit of thinking, Gu Qing Shan coldly chuckled.

It is simply too hard to capture and transport two Lord-class Combatants away without causing a commotion.

Which means—— only I got affected.

“An illusory technique?”

Gu Qing Shan muttered and drew the Six Paths Great Mountain sword from the void of space.

This sword could break any Laws.

Fortunately, I can still move as normal, if I use all my power, I might be able to dispel this illusion.

He raised his sword—–

“Please wait”

A familiar voice came out.

Hearing the voice, Gu Qing Shan almost froze solid, unable to even hold his sword properly.

As experienced as he was in battle, no matter how tough of a situation he faces, he could maintain a certain level of calm and rarely did he ever lose his focus.

But as soon as he heard this voice, Gu Qing Shan felt a cold chill run down his back.

“Who are you?”

Gu Qing Shan shouted with a threatening voice.

“Who am I? That’s not important”

A black shadow flew up from the bottomless abyss below the bronze island.

The shadow landed right in front of Gu Qing Shan.

It had no facial features or clear figure, the most he could do was barely make out that it was a black humanoid shadow.

—–a very familiar one.

Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath and barely maintained his calm.

“What kind of magic did you use to take me here?” he asked.

“Compared to what I need to say, these minor details are insignificant” the shadow spoke.

“Then tell me something else, what exactly are you?”

The shadow replied: “I came from the Age of Old, once a shadow of a certain person. I managed to survive for so long without dissipating by using the sparse divine power left behind in the world tomb”

“I was left here all alone because that person felt that they needed to leave a piece of truth for the later generations, in the hopes that someone may find out one day”

“To make sure that this secret is only bestowed to those that can use it, that person had set up numerous levels of authorities, of which the specifics are unknown to me”

“My role is to simply relay his words to the one that fused the Samsara world together and unsealed the world tomb”

“Then go ahead” Gu Qing Shan spoke.

The shadow spoke: “These words will only be spoken once, and according to that person, only you may know about this. You definitely cannot tell anyone else about this, otherwise, you will not have time to regret your actions”

The shadow’s voice changed into a lower, more serious tone.

「 I don’t care who you are but listen closely 」

「 The Old Gods had created a lot of worlds, with the Samsara being the pinnacle of them all, but it was still easily broken apart 」

I already know about this!

Without thinking, Gu Qing Shan hurriedly asked: “Who was it that broke the Samsara?”

The shadow answered: 「 I can’t reveal that to you, but I can tell you this much, the Old Gods feared that type of existence 」

“Where are the Old Gods? Why can none of the Old Gods be seen anywhere in the 900 million World Layers?” Gu Qing Shan asked another question.

「 The Old Gods ran away 」 the shadow answered.

Its body was becoming thinner and dimmer as if answering these questions took a lot from it.

「 There is one other thing, you must listen well 」

「 Originally, there were a total of 9.9 billion World Layers, but one by one, they were destroyed and fell into the Doomsday Necropolis 」

9.9 billion Layers!?

If that was true——

Gu Qing Shan took a deep breath and couldn’t help but spoke: “I don’t believe you if there were originally 9.9 billion World Layers, why has no one within the 900 million World Layers ever heard of this before?”

The shadow answered him: 「 If mortals have never even heard of the Doomsday Necropolis, then of course they wouldn’t know how many Layers there originally were, and furthermore not how they were destroyed 」

“9 billion World Layers… how did so many get destroyed…?”

Gu Qing Shan mumbled, still in disbelief.

The shadow explained: 「 Because originally, the Old Gods created the infinite worlds for nothing but a single goal 」

“There was a reason why they created the worlds? What was the Old God’s goal?” Gu Qing Shan pursued further.

「 To buy time 」the shadow answered him.

Gu Qing Shan thought about that and slowly spoke: “Buying time is also a strategy, are the Old Gods trying to accomplish something? What do they need time for? To accumulate power and retaliate against those enemies?”

「 That isn’t so 」

The shadow continued: 「 The Old Gods only wanted to escape as much as they could, to stay away as possible from that existence 」

“Why didn’t they try to think of a way to fight back?”

「 Because they couldn’t 」

Saying that the shadow became fainter.

「 The Old Gods ran away because they were afraid, they went mad with despair, they died because they tried to fight back, and they hid because of fear 」

「 This is the Worlds Apocalypse, the Apocalypse of the Old Gods, the Apocalypse of all living beings and all things! 」

Hearing this familiar voice, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t contain his emotions anymore and roared: “Then what’s the point of telling me about all of this!? I’m just a mere insignificant cultivator!!!”

The shadow slowly faded and finally disappeared into nothing.

Leaving only a single statement:

「 The Old Gods created a lot of things much stronger than themselves, because of that, before the infinite worlds are all destroyed, no one can really say whether or not something unexpected would happen 」

The voice also faded away.

Everything became silent again, around him everything returned to endless nothingness.

Gu Qing Shan’s legs became limp as he collapsed on the spot.

He was breathing heavily, wiping the dripping sweat from his forehead over and over.

After a while, he slowly calmed down again.

Gu Qing Shan sat on the cold ground and silently fell into thought.

Compared to the System’s Samsara secret, the shadow just told him a much more significant secret.

But Gu Qing Shan wasn’t someone to panic when it really counted.

No matter how terrifying these secrets were, how much of a threat the 900 million World Layers were facing, they couldn’t hinder his thought process.

Even if an Old God dropped dead right in front of him, he wouldn’t panic.

The thing that truly made him feel the chill was that shadow’s voice.

——-because of how familiar that voice was.

Even if Gu Qing Shan became an idiot, he would still recognize that voice.

That’s right.

It was his own voice.

Gu Qing Shan looked up, his eyes full of doubt and confusion.

I know for a fact, I was an orphan of the Confederate, my parents died in an accident.

When I graduated high school, because I got too close to Su Xue Er, I was framed by the 9 Lords’ people.

After [Worlds Apocalypse Online] appeared, I started half a year later than everyone else and began my journey between the two worlds.

After a lot of struggle and effort, I finally became a Sword Saint.

In the end, at Demon Clouds River, facing humanity’s losing inevitability, I and all of my comrades used all of our powers for one last strike and killed that Demon Lord.

——and when I woke up again, I found myself lying among a pile of corpses.

This era was one when the cultivation world hadn’t started to head towards ruin and when the demons had already begun their invasion.

Back in the original world, time was also rewinded to the day when I graduated high school.

Every step, every event, every phase was clear as day.

Then why did I meet a shadow from the Age of Old in this world tomb?

Why did it speak with the exact same voice as me?

It said it used to be a person’s shadow, then who was that person?

There was no more time to think.

Within the completely empty space, the countless warped and endlessly stretched scenery return to its original space at unimaginable speed.

The scenery of reality returned in front of Gu Qing Shan’s eyes.

He had returned.

“Alright, we’re going to split up and see what kind of mechanism this statue has”

Kitty excitedly declared.

Barry had already moved towards the bronze statue’s mouth.

He loudly spoke: “I bet that there’s a pathway to the Samsara world’s world tomb right inside the Old God statue’s mouth”

Gu Qing Shan silently watched everything in front of his eyes.

——-it seems no one except me knows about what happened just now.

Gu Qing Shan fell into a long silence.