Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

The old man laid on the ground, moaning from the constant pain of being impaled by the Devil King Warden Rod.

He tried his best to let out his voice and spoke: “So you want to know the secret of the twin swords?”

Gu Qing Shan replied: “Of course, that’s why I came here”

The old man stared at Gu Qing Shan and gritted his teeth: “The Eternal True God planned for a very long time to be able to reach this point. If you manage to ruin the plan because of me, I will definitely be eaten by the True God”

“If you don’t tell me, you’ll die right now” Gu Qing Shan directly declared.

Both a black and a red glow appeared on the Devil King Warden Rod, slowly weaving together to form an eerie light that slowly crept down into the old man’s body.

This was the scepter’s power of [Dispersion].

A dead person eaten by the Devil King Warden Rod would only become the scepter’s nutrient, unable to ever revive.

Hah, hah, hah——

A heavy voice came from the Devil King Warden Rod as if it was preparing to feast.

The old man began trembling.

As a dead person, it was impossible for him to hide or conceal his fear towards the Devil King Warden Rod.

All of a sudden, the old man cried out in a broken tone of voice: “I’m only a minion, how could I know what the True God wants to do? Please spare my life, I will even be your servant!”

Gu Qing Shan spoke without changing his expression: “I can tell that the Soul Shrieker is very invested in this matter”

“That martial cultivator’s job was only to stop me, while the one who strung this entire matter along was you——- a mere minion wouldn’t be trusted so much or be assigned such an important role”

“That’s why you are no minion, don’t lie in front of me”

The old man froze.

“I won’t accept any begging” Gu Qing Shan coldly declared: “One last time, tell me, or die”

His killing intent became stronger.

Staring at his eyes that contained no emotions, the old man had countless thoughts, but none of them would guarantee his life.

He sighed and couldn’t help but say: “Tell me first, how did you notice the truth about this? Only then can I tell you about the twin swords”

Gu Qing Shan questioned: “This is a transaction?”

“Yes, if the reason why this matter failed was due to the True God’s arrangements, they wouldn’t arbitrarily devour subordinates like us” the old man said.

“I have to confirm that I would be alive before I told you anything, otherwise there’s no reason for me to do unnecessary things”

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly before confirming: “I also prefer fair transactions, so I can tell you, but if you change your mind, I will immediately grant you eternal death”

“Agreed” the old man quickly accepted.

Gu Qing Shan shook his head: “Truthfully, this was so simple that I didn’t even need to think to see the truth”

The old man couldn’t help asking: “What do you mean?”

Gu Qing Shan slowly explained: “Because as soon as I reached this world, someone tried to stop me——– your God is still stuck on another world, unable to come here due to my interference, but since it was afraid that I would mess up its plan, it ordered someone to block my way and temporarily stop me”

“Since it wanted to stop me, it was clear that its arrangements were still ongoing in this world”

“After escaping from the obstruction, I caught up with you and Xie Gu Hong”

“It was a simple process of elimination: One of you must be trying to do something by the God’s orders, so there must be an issue with either you or Xie Gu Hong”

“All I needed to do was keep observing”

“After you died, the only one left that could have an issue was Xie Gu Hong”

“But at this point, I still haven’t confirmed if you were truly dead or if you have the resurrection power granted by the Soul Shrieker and only faked your death”

“If I wanted to find the key to the issue, I only needed to perform a simple confirmation”

“——-confirm if you were truly dead or just faking death”

“Since you were faking your death, then the issue must have obviously lied on what you did before”

“And you only did a single thing: Telling Xie Gu Hong about how crucial the twin swords Heaven and Earth were to humanity’s future”

“Since there’s an issue with you, there must also be in issue with what you did”

“And so there must be an issue with the twin swords Heaven and Earth”

Gu Qing Shan sighed: “I don’t even want to explain this elementary-level deduction process a second time”

The white-haired old man trembled.

He thought over and over, then couldn’t help but ask: “Are you also an existence from within the Eternal Abyss?”

Gu Qing Shan didn’t answer.

His tone simply became cold and merciless: “You don’t need to care about who I am, now it’s your turn to fulfill our bargain”

“I’ll ask you one last time, why did you purposefully give the jade tags with the forging method for the twin swords to Xie Gu Hong?”

The old man glanced at Gu Qing Shan, then at the Devil King Warden Rod, and recalled his previous words, slowly showing a dejected expression.

The old man sighed: “The True God needs a weapon”

“A weapon?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The old man continued: “Yes, I’m not sure what it is exactly, but they require the most precious material within the Eternal Abyss to be forged into the twin swords Heaven and Earth—— for humanity, these two swords by themselves can be used as swords, but they were in fact only crucial components within that weapon”

Gu Qing Shan asked: “You told Xie Gu Hong that the two jade tags need to be imbued inside the twin swords because those jade tags themselves are materials from within the Eternal Abyss?”

“They are, you really responded too quickly” the old man sighed.

“Why didn’t the Soul Shrieker forge the swords itself?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The old man hesitated briefly before gritting his teeth: “The twin swords Heaven and Earth must be forged with extreme precision, and it must be done for over several years to fully complete”

“The True God’s main body is still asleep, only one of their split bodies are awake”

“The avatar exists in order to provide nutrient to the main body, it is great at fighting, but it doesn’t know how to forge weapons”

“Because of this, the avatar has to rely on an intelligent species to create the twin swords”

“The avatar believes that the human cultivators to be extremely weak and only have enough intelligence and technique to forge the weapons, but are unable to pose a threat. That’s why it arranged everything”

Gu Qing Shan silently listened and asked: “Why was its body sleeping?”

“I don’t know about this” the old man replied.

“Did the avatar ever tell you why it needs to forge the twin swords?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“To complete that weapon, but it didn’t tell me what the weapon was specifically” the old man answered.

Gu Qing Shan tried another question: “Did you surrender yourself to it? Why didn’t you find someone to directly help it instead?”

“I can’t” the old man smiled bitterly, “at least 5 to 10, Three Thousand Worlds realm cultivators need to work together to forge the twin swords”

The old man continued: “Cultivators of that realm can’t win against the avatar, but they can’t be controlled by it either—— since it couldn’t enter the Primordial Heaven Realm”

Gu Qing Shan was surprised: “You said it couldn’t enter the Primordial Heaven Realm?”

“Yes, in the Bygone Era, a defensive measure was put around the Primordial Heaven Realm, making it so that if the True God appeared inside, they would be immediately warped away” the old man explained.

“But it was able to go in when it acted as the Lord of Desolation” Gu Qing Shan questioned.

“Only for a short moment, when time runs out, it would still be discovered and be warped away” the white-haired old man answered.

Gu Qing Shan was surprised.

No wonder the Lord of Desolation left so quickly after killing the Divine King in the previous war.

That was because it couldn’t stay for too long.

The old man continued: “More importantly, even though the True God supplied the method and main materials to forge the twin swords, they didn’t give the other materials”

“Other materials?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Yes, these two swords require all of the power and resources of the Divine race and humanity, including most of the Primordial Heaven Realm’s resources as well as sacrificing the bodies and souls of humans and Divinities in order to truly complete”

Gu Qing Shan muttered: “If that’s the case, both the Divine race and humanity would rather die in battle than forge the twin swords”

The old man continued: “That’s why the best method for them is to create a trap, a lie for humanity to believe in”

At that point, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but sigh.

“Indeed, once humans are deep enough in despair, they would surely devote all their resources, some would even be more than willing to give up their souls and place all of humanity’s hopes into these two swords”

“This would certainly make it so that humanity would willingly create the twin swords Heaven and Earth”