Gu Qing Shan reached towards his back and instantly wielded his bow.

Thunderous booms echoed across the world.

Blurry images of arrows was released one after another.

Despite trying its best to avoid, the Gloom Shadow Devil was still struck by one of the arrows.

The intense kinetic energy sent the devil rolling backwards like a cartwheel.

Lowering his bow, Gu Qing Shan displayed a mocking expression.

“The Heavenly Emperor isn’t here, while the Gloom Shadow Devil and I are both normal Chosen Saints with our powers sealed, what deluded you to think that you could win against me?” he calmly said.

The Gloom Shadow Devil casually agreed: 「 You’re right 」

Its body turned into a pool of blood.

From among the numerous black tubes, one of them lowered itself and placed the body of a giant in front of Gu Qing Shan.

All the tubes then retracted themselves.

The giant opened its eyes.

「 This is a giant that does not belong to the Samsara, he still has access to all of his powers, just enough to kill you 」the giant declared thunderously.

“Kill me?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

「 That’s right, you’re going to die 」the giant said.

With a thunderous battle cry, the giant swung its arm with all its strength, and smashed its own head with a single hit.

——-Azure Dragon Origin Hex!

Gu Qing Shan stood cross-armed with his bow and shrugged: “Use your true power, otherwise, I’d think that you just wasted your countless years of living—— actually, maybe you lived for so long that you’ve become dumb instead?”

The black tubes around them began to twist chaotically.

One after another, the substitute bodies were being placed down to face Gu Qing Shan.

Powerful Combatants of various races woke up one by one.

They all remained quiet while focusing their powers, ready to act at a moment’s notice.

In a single blink——–

These Combatant puppets acted in unison, using their own techniques, weapons, and unarmed strikes against themselves.

『 Impossible… I know that you have a Dragon Hex that will take effect as soon as anyone talks to you, but I didn’t say a word 』an insectoid voice spoke up.

Gu Qing Shan cleared his throat and replied: “You didn’t say a word, but I’m tacitly recognizing that you were calling my name in your mind, so I tacitly answered in my mind”

—–that was why the Dragon Hex still took effect.

Complete silence.

The insectoid voice spoke up again:

『 I hate dragons, a bunch of low-life scoundrels… 』

Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt his body stiffening up.

At some point, a sharp black tube had already pierced through his back.

“Gah… argh…”

Gu Qing Shan fell down to his knees and started coughing up blood by the handful.

An insect noise reverberated across the world, which turned into a voice in Gu Qing Shan’s mind:

『 Pitiable insignificant being, forcing me to personally act——— Dragon Hexes can’t affect me in any way, while you can’t even take a single attack from me 』

Gu Qing Shan tried to endure the intense piercing pain and focused his mind.

The visage of vast endless land began to manifest behind his back.

—–[Virtue!]

[Virtue: The true power of a Saint Pillar (unique)]

[Description: By selecting a source of attack, all damage caused by that source will be jointly shared by you and your surroundings. You will gain the seed of that attack’s power, then nurture it through the power of the Earth God until you obtain it as your own]

[To provide for all, nurture all, and grow all, such is the Virtue of the Earth]

As soon as the Saint Pillar’s power was activated, all the black tubes around Gu Qing Shan were shattered instantly as they began to spew out a strange black liquid.

From that location all the way to the end of his vision, all the black tubes were shaking intensely.

This world of black tubes was sharing the damage from the Eternal Mind Seizer along with Gu Qing Shan.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!

The world of black tubes began to collapse.

Originally, Gu Qing Shan was standing on top of a huge black tube, but now that it had shattered, he began to fall into the darkness below.

『 That must have been your ace in the whole, but unfortunately… 』

More sharp black tubes abruptly shot out from the void of space around them, before piercing deeply into Gu Qing Shan’s body.

“ARRGGH!”

Clenching his fists tightly, Gu Qing Shan uttered a horrifying and painful scream.

He looked as if he had just been dunked repeatedly into a pool of blood, his body skewered by numerous tubes and held up in the air.

The tubes then began to absorb the power from his body—–

Until eventually, when Gu Qing Shan’s consciousness had all but faded, his eyes slowly shut.

『 This is the end, I will recreate your body from the beginning 』the voice said.

Right at that moment, a few lines of bloody red text suddenly appeared right next to Gu Qing Shan:

[You’re in a near-death state]

[You’ve lost the following amount of Merits: 1.5]

[Heaven’s Decree – Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Eyes has been activated]

Gu Qing Shan abruptly opened his eyes.

Two rays of colorful light shot out from his eyes all the way into the sky, shining through the countless black tubes towards the infinite void of space.

He saw the body of an insect that was glittering with beautiful colors.

Eye technique, activate!

Cak cak cak cak cak cak———

The black tubes that were attached to him began to give off consecutive noises as they swiftly returned all the powers they took, then detached themselves from his body.

At this moment, these black tubes were under his complete control.

This was the power of the Samsara Heavenly Emperor!

“Go”

Gu Qing Shan grunted.

The black tubes all shot into the sky towards the colorful insect.

The insect uttered a surprised noise.

『 You—– how can you control my thought feelers? 』

Gu Qing Shan didn’t answer and simply shouted: “All of you, go!”

Under his feet, the numerous black tubes began to move at the same time, all aiming towards the insect.

The sky above him became chaotic.

An invisible force was continuously attacking the black tubes, striking them until they became scattered pieces.

Gu Qing Shan only observed it for a short period of time before bloody red text began to pop up:

[You’ve activated the ‘Millions of thought feelers that takes over bodies’ technique]

[Attention, this is a part of the Eternal Mind Seizer’s body that was manifested through its thoughts, whenever an enemy harbors any sort of thought, they are capable of entering that thought, infiltrating that soul, and eventually take complete control over them]

Gu Qing Shan felt a bit shocked.

An enemy will be attacked by these thought feelers simply by having a single thought.

Unless someone specifically cultivates soul techniques, or if the difference in strength between the two is quite considerable, this technique alone is already unbeatable.

He looked up at the sky.

The thought feelers were still moving frantically following his orders, but none of them could even come close to the Eternal Mind Seizer’s body.

Oh no.

Gu Qing Shan suddenly remembered something.

During many of his encounters with this entity, they’d consistently had zero thoughts, their mind had always been completely blank!

In other words, this technique couldn’t do anything to them.

Suddenly, something flashed in the void of space.

All the black tubes were diced into tiny pieces and left to fall like black snow.

The insect noise could be heard again, this time with a bit of caution in its voice:

『 Within the Boundless Void, there are always abilities that even I haven’t witnessed, how unexpected that a bug like you somehow managed to take control of my thought feelers 』

『 Unfortunately… 』

『 You still have no chance at survival at all, because my strength is already far beyond your wildest imagination 』

『 I know every secret there is to know, have witnessed every truth there is to witness, not even the Sequences dare oppose me 』

『 The only thing I care about is the Samsara 』

『 So you can—— 』

Gu Qing Shan suddenly cut it off and loudly declared: “So the one thing that might be able to kill you is also the Samsara!”

He raised a broken sword fragment and shouted: “Again!”

The sword fragment gave off a solemn and shrill noise.

A strange power began to emanate from it and slowly envelopeed Gu Qing Shan.

——this time, it truly was Gu Qing Shan’s last stand.

He had activated [Govern Spirit]!

[This Samsara Delimitation Divine Sword fragment contains the unique power: Govern Spirit]

[Govern Spirit: You can die at a moment’s notice, until you wish to be revived again]

Gu Qing Shan collapsed on the spot, his presence completely fizzling out.

He was an inch from death.

Right at that moment, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

He had activated the [Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Eyes] at a moment of near-death.

——the final activation he could for now!

[Description: Any techniques that can kill you will instead be under your control and attack your enemy, additionally, any enemies you kill while the eye technique was active would be forcefully sent to Huang Quan to undergo reincarnation]

Lines of bloody red text instantly popped up:

[Govern Spirit has recognized you as its master]

[You now possess Govern Spirit!]

[You can use it to attack your enemy]

Gu Qing Shan focused his mind.

The unseen solemn presence shot into the sky through the numerous black tubes, through even the invisible barrier, and directly struck the large colorful insect’s body.

[Govern Spirit] had struck!

Gu Qing Shan stood up from the ground.

A furious insect noise could be heard reverberating from the sky:

『 Such a technique——- no, it can only cause me to die for a split second, then I can return to life again—– 』

Its voice was suddenly cut short.

A completely different presence had abruptly manifested from the void of space.

A slightly yellow presence.

Another world had silently arrived from a place unknown and became overlapped with this black tube world.

A giant black mountain, and the violently flowing Forgetting River.

Countless Deities were flying back and forth in the sky before eventually settling down on top of the Grand Tie Wei mountain, silently observing the black tube world from above.

They saw Gu Qing Shan as well as the giant colorful insect whose body was as big as the world itself.

「 What is this… 」someone muttered in shock.

“Shhhh—- don’t say a single word, this isn’t something we can interfere in” another Deity next to him immediately cut him off.

The entire world had fallen to silence.

『 How could Huang Quan appear!? No, I should be able to return to life after an instant! 』the insect noise furiously called out.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and replied: “Fairly speaking, that’s how [Govern Spirit] works, but my eye technique doesn’t think so, that’s why they’re currently contradicting”

“I assume——”

“The Samsara wants you to remain in Huang Quan instead of reviving”

Fwooo——

The violent water from the Forgetting River abruptly swelled up and flowed like a reverse waterfall onto the giant insect in the sky.

At the very next moment.

All the supernatural phenomena disappeared.

The Huang Quan world, the black tube world, everything was gone.

Gu Qing Shan found himself standing on the mechanical city square of Star Gazer city with nobody around, only him and his body riddled with wounds.

I’m back!

He sat directly on the ground.

The cold metallic sensation of the floor finally affirmed him that this was reality.

——I managed to send that insect that could devour a person’s soul and take over their body with just a single thought to Huang Quan.

Gu Qing Shan laid exhausted on the ground.

In a moment of life and death, things could have gone either way.

It’s a good thing that my gamble worked out.

This is a feat that goes beyond the restraints of power, accomplishing something that no living being has ever been able to achieve, so not even the Samsara can criticize me in any way.

And also…

He looked towards the void of space where a few lines of bloody red text were hovering:

[You’ve activated Virtue and received several attacks from the Eternal Mind Seizer]

[Virtue has collected the seed of the Eternal Mind Seizer’s power]

Suddenly, all the text disappeared.

The ground began to tremble intensely.

The world, the void of space, even the unknown edge of the world felt like they were quaking.

“What’s going on? Why do I sense anger from the will of the Samsara?” Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask.

At the very next moment, new lines of text appeared in front of Gu Qing Shan’s vision:

[Warning!]

[The Eternal Mind Seizer is one of the most powerful entity within the Boundless Void]

[It concentrated the power of 80 billion outside living souls into a single attack and was able to free itself from the Huang Quan realm’s restraints]

[——it has escaped!]