"Everyone, we're about to enter the battlefield!"
Liu Ping loudly shouted.
All the Evil Spirits on the giant armor responded in unison.
In the void of space in front of them, countless world fragments of the Samsara spread out.
Apocalypses were quickly moving through the worlds one after another.
This power was the bane of Evil Spirits!
The three gigantic leaders were trying to think of a way to deal with all the Apocalypses.
Liu Ping focused his mind.
The gigantic black armor trembled and began to fly towards the void of space in front of them.
Right now.
Liu Ping unleashed layers upon layers of illusions to prevent the three leaders and the Evil Spirits on the armor from noticing each other.
He then manifested a strand of inner sight that instantly pierced through the countless world fragments and arrived at a certain world.
It was a technological-type world.
On top of a tall building in the slums, there were fluctuations of the power of Time and Mystery.
This fluctuation of power had drawn his attention, as if it had been waiting for him to show up from the very beginning.
Liu Ping landed and transformed into a man in black armor. He looked at the wall.
Only to see Lady Mystery's figure painted on the wall using ordinary paint.
As soon as Liu Ping appeared, Lady Mystery turned to him and spoke:
"To avoid the Evil Spirits, we've already left, I only have one thing to tell you."
"Remember."
"The Purgatory Divine Pillar's Pillar Spirit is your ally."
After Lady Mystery said so, all the paint that formed her figure vanished without a trace.
The wall was now completely white, nothing remained.
Liu Ping was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
That's right.
When the Commander found out about everything, he fell into slumber.
He said that when the time was right, he would definitely awaken!
Liu Ping suddenly realized something and returned to his original body, then had the giant armor look up towards the center of the battlefield.
Amidst the ever-changing Apocalypse, the Apocalypse's power gradually slowed down and was restrained by the three Evil Spirit leaders.
「Ahahaha! The power of the Apocalypse is about to be used by us! 」
「Xie Dao Ling, you're nothing more than that!」
「You'll never get that technique of yours back!」
They all laughed out loud.
Liu Ping held his breath and sensed, sure enough, he found that quite a few Apocalypses had been corrupted and controlled by the Evil Spirits.
This can't go on!
He raised his hand and released layers upon layers of illusions, causing all the Evil Spirits on his armor to sense something.
They could sense that among the three leaders, the relatively weaker leader was emitting an uncoordinated aura from time to time, as if it was not him, but something else.
For example, Xie Dao Ling.
Not only did it resemble Xie Dao Ling, but it also gave off the unique power of an Apocalypse.
"Everyone, you've all received the support of the battle armor and can see the truth. Please lend me a hand. Let's kill Xie Dao Ling together!"
Liu Ping roared.
「No problem.」
「Get rid of her, and make the efforts of all living beings go to waste.」
「End everything!」
「The future belongs to us!」
All the Evil Spirits on the armor responded loudly.
Liu Ping nodded slightly.
Now, he finally understood why his "Artist" could deceive all the evil spirits.
"Artist" came from the Martial Scripture, Xie Dao Ling, all Evil forces, and the giant armor.
It was the combination of all his powers, manifesting as the Performing Occultism power in his body.
It's not a combat skill.
But no one could deal with the Artist!
Liu Ping took a deep breath and controlled the giant armor to shake.
Pieces of black scales fell off the armor, circled in the void of space like a swarm of bees, and finally formed a black spear.
"Everyone, do your best!"
Liu Ping roared.
All the Evil Spirits, as well as all the Evil forces on the giant armor, gathered and gathered into the black spear.
Liu Ping held his breath and silently waited in the void of space where he couldn't be seen.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
The leader of the Evil Spirits was the weakest, so after such a long battle, he was the first to show an opening.
There were too many Apocalypses, so he was finally hit and stopped in mid-air.
Almost at the same time.
The two bright red eyes on the face plate of the giant armor let out a blinding light.
Liu Ping moved.
It was fine if he didn't move, but once he did, he attacked with all his might.
"AHHHHHH, GO DIE!"
He roared and threw the black spear with all his might.
Under the cover of numerous illusions, the spear instantly pierced through the leader's chest.
How could Xie Dao Ling let go of such a chance?
As soon as the spear pierced through the leader of the Evil Spirits, dozens of Apocalypse forces gathered and swept across the leader's body.
「NO!」
The leader of the Evil Spirits roared in despair as his body was split in half.
Liu Ping suddenly appeared.
He was wearing the black armor, his body as large as heaven and earth, directly descending on the battlefield and grabbing the leader's split body.
「Don't worry sir, you won't die, I'm here to save you!」
After obscuring all the Evil Spirits' senses, Liu Ping loudly declared to the other two leaders.
Pieces of scales once again appeared on his armor and gathered together to form a sturdy chain.
Liu Ping tied up the two halves of the evil spirit's body, took a step back, and said:
"Sirs, please continue fighting, I'll go save him!"
Saying so, he disappeared.
The remaining two evil demon leaders exchanged glances.
「Kill Xie Dao Ling!」
「Let's go!」
The two leaders flew towards the depths of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Liu Ping tied up the corpse and returned to the Purgatory Divine Pillar. He grabbed the chain with one hand and the burning divine pillar with the other.
"Commander!" He shouted loudly.
A figure gradually appeared on the Purgatory Divine Pillar.
It was the old Divine Master who had an alliance with him.
"What are your plans?" The Divine Master asked.
"I will use the Evil Demon Art to consume all of its power. This process might go out of control. You must restrain me." Liu Ping said.
"The Purgatory Divine Pillar is indestructible. It can be used to restrain you, but you must find a way to control yourself so that the Evil Spirit won't take advantage of you." The Divine Master said.
Liu Ping said, "That's easy. Once I've digested its power, I'll be the strongest Evil Spirit."
"Even the two leaders will have to listen to my orders!"
He controlled the huge armor and stuck it tightly to the Purgatory Divine Pillar.
When he began to chant the Evil Demon Incantation, nails filled with ferocious auras gradually appeared in the void, nailing his hands, legs, neck, and head to the divine pillar.
"Alright … I'm going to start devouring."
Liu Ping said while panting.
"Begin. I'll help you too." The Purgatory Divine Master said.
Suddenly.
The surrounding void began to shake violently.
The Purgatory Divine Master looked back and sighed. "Xie Dao Ling lost."
"WHAT?!"
Liu Ping was shocked and immediately looked towards the void.
In the depths of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Xie Dao Ling had already grown into a cultivator, but she was still unable to meet the Apocalypse Art.
The two Evil Spirit leaders did everything they could to separate her from the Art. In the end, her power was exhausted and she could no longer fight the Evil Spirits.
The void flashed.
Two figures quietly appeared.
Lady Mystery.
Master of Time.
"Liu Ping, don't be in a hurry to devour the Evil Spirit's power. We only have one last chance left." Lady Mystery said with a worried expression.
"There's still a chance?" Liu Ping asked.
"Have you forgotten? Time is divided into two sides. I can still use this art one more time to split time into another side. This is our last hope. "The Master of Time said.
"If we still lose this time …" Liu Ping said.
"That will be the true end, because you are an Evil Demon. Even if you win against all of the Evil Demons, what will descend in the end will be the era of the end of the Evil Demons. Living beings will not have any more chances." Lady Mystery said.
Liu Ping was silent for a moment before he said, "I'll go and help you. Please help me suppress my corpse here. When I can be distracted, I will return to this dead body and continue to devour energy."
Lady Mystery shrugged.
A beam of light filled with the power of destruction hovered in her hand.
"This is a rather powerful Apocalypse power. It was originally Xie Dao Ling's trump card, but now, I'll use it on you." the Time Master said.
"It will irregularly cleanse your body and armor, all the demons residing in your body will be unable to avoid it, they can only endure it." Lady Mystic explained.
She released the light.
The light instantly turned into a destructive beam of light that pierced through the heavens and earth, directly hitting the giant armor.
One by one, the Evil Demons couldn't endure this power and fell from the armor, turning into black skeletons that were being burned by the flames of Purgatory on the pillar, unable to escape.
"It's done!" the Master of Time shouted.
"What's the next plan?" Liu Ping asked.
"We'll attract the attention of those two Evil Spirit leaders. You'll find a chance to enter the Samsara's River of Time and find a suitable opportunity to help that Arcane Spirit and help him return to Xie Dao Ling's side." Lady Mystery told him.
"Who exactly is the Arcane Spirit?" Liu Ping asked.
Lady Mystery and the Master of Time exchanged glances.
"You're … very familiar with him …"
Lady Mystery muttered.
From the void of space, intense tremors abruptly resounded.
The two Evil Spirit lords roared in anger:
「Time … Mystery … you've hidden another timeline!」
「That's useless!」
The Lord of Time's expression changed, grabbed Lady Mystery's hand, and told Liu Ping: "We're going, we'll do our best to fight for an opportunity for you. It's all up to you now!"
As soon as she said that.
The two of them disappeared without a trace.
Only Liu Ping remained.
He manifested a body with his mind and turned into a man in black armor, silently leaving the Divine Pillar and traveling through endless time.
"I'm very familiar with him … who could it be?"
Liu Ping muttered to himself.
He stood on top of the River of Time, watching countless fragments of history being created, watching everything being created and destroyed, slowly understanding that person's identity.
He raised his hand to release the power of the Artist and began to weave an identity for himself.
And then.
When that moment arrived.
Liu Ping stepped into the scene of history.
Everything went from blurry to clear.
Wind.
Fire.
Smoke.
The smell of blood.
Boiling heat.
Crying, running, rumbling.
Countless Professionists, wearing various types of armor and weapons, were crossing a large river.
Above the river, a shadowy figure that blotted out the sky was moving back and forth.
Wuuuu!
The shadowy figure let out a deafening sound.
The human Professionists that surrounded it all fell into the river like dumplings, turning into corpses that filled the river.
"The strongest Demon Lord is here, we can't cross Demon Clouds River!" someone shouted in panic.
"What's the situation at the back?" another voice asked.
Liu Ping followed the voice and looked at the person.
The person was wearing armor and wielding a sword, protected by layers of Professionists as he stood on top of a high platform where he commanded the battle.
He was a sword saint.
His appearance was a bit weathered, his face was covered in terrifying scars, as well as a look of exhaustion.
As the years passed, he appeared even younger.
Everything didn't add up.
But his eyes didn't change.
Bright, resolute, and unaffected by the passage of time.
"… Master …"
Liu Ping muttered.
Right at this time, a loud shout came from the sky.
A man covered in blood flew down and rolled a few times on the ground before he was helped up by the people around him.
"Speak quickly." the young man spoke.
The man was breathing heavily and loudly: "The 9 Lords Professionists in charge of protecting the capital didn't show up at all!"
"The capital is about to fall!"
His voice was a bit panicked, as well as filled with hopelessness.
"Where's our Divinity?" the young man asked.
"The Divinity is still resisting!"
"Not good, our Divinity can't win against them, there are too many of them." another commander spoke.
"That's right, but the Demon Lords on the river are too strong, we can't help them." the young man spoke in a low voice.
Everyone went silent.
Liu Ping was hiding in the crowd, silently watching this.
Because he died here, he couldn't meet Xie Dao Ling.
Is that so?
Time and Mystery hid him very well, but he still died here in the end?
If he's dead, he'll definitely reincarnate into the Samsara, drink the Forgetting River water and forget even more. If he had to do it all over again, he'll have to go through a lot of hardships, the chances of meeting Xie Dao Ling will be even slimmer.
Suddenly, a woman in golden armor flew in from behind.
This woman is unparalleled in beauty.
"Bai Hua sect's You Ji General, Wang Ling Xiu is here." someone spoke in a low voice.
(TN: Xiu Xiu?)
"General Wang, why are you here?" the young man regained his senses and asked.
"If this continues, we'll definitely lose, won't we?" the female general asked.
The young man went silent for a bit, then answered: "That's right."
The female general sighed sorrowfully: "How regretful that my Shifu is no longer here, my first and second brother are also no longer here, I'm the only one left."
The young man didn't say anything.
The female general continued: "Gu Qing Shan, you're the only remaining sword saint of humanity, I remember that you know the Sword saint's Secret Art, [Tong Gui]"
Liu Ping silently listened.
His name is Gu Qing Shan, this is his name in the Samsara.
"Shut up!"
A human cultivator spoke with righteous indignation: "Once [Tong Gui] is used, even Mr. Gu will die!"
The young man stopped him and spoke in a low voice: "That's right, I know that Sword Art."
The female general spoke: "I'm willing to sacrifice my life and all my cultivation to help you activate that Sword Art."
She looked at the young man with a dazzling look in her eyes.
"We have no other choice. Only this sword can break the karma and sever everything. Please help us, Mr. Gu." she said.
The young man looked at the huge shadow in the sky and smiled bitterly.
"This Demon Lord is the ultimate weapon of the demons." he slowly spoke: "Just by using our lives to activate this strike, we won't be able to win against this ultimate Demon Lord."
The Final Demon Lord.
Liu Ping looked up.
The sky was dark.
The gigantic monster that traversed the sky almost completely blocked out the sunlight.
The monster's body was made up of countless heads.
Human, demonic beast, devil, unknown.
Every head closed and opened its mouth at the same time.
Countless dazzling attacks were unleashed from each of their mouths.
In the sky, the human cultivators responsible for attacking were killed one after another, their corpses falling into the river.
"This is … an Apocalyptic spawn that has already escaped control, used by the demons to exterminate all living beings"
Liu Ping thought to himself.
"We need at least two Sainted realm cultivators to be able to deal with it." the young man called Gu Qing Shan looked up at the sky and spoke.
"But the Saints have already fallen." another general sighed dejectedly.
"It seems that both the real world and this place can only walk towards destruction." Another general sighed.
The bustling and bustling of the camp slowly calmed down.
A cold wind blew.
It was completely silent.
The cultivators stopped what they were doing.
In front of the ultimate Demon Lord, all their actions were laughable and meaningless.
The cultivators stood motionless like statues.
Their faces were filled with unwillingness, anger, despair, and pain.
One by one, the female cultivators started to cry.
There's no other way.
There's no other chance.
Everything is about to come to an end.
Liu Ping stayed silent for a few moments, then stepped out from the crowd of cultivators and walked up the platform step by step.
"General Dugu, what's the matter?" Gu Qing Shan carefully asked.
This was the name and identity that Liu Ping created for himself.
In front of everyone, Liu Ping looked at the young man in front of him and spoke: "Perhaps if we win here, the other places won't have to consider whether to support us or King City, and they'll be able to return in time to save King City."
"That's right, that's the only way. But with my own strength, even if I sacrifice my life, I still won't be able to kill this Demon Lord." Gu Qing Shan answered.
Liu Ping held his breath for a bit, then slowly lowered his body, kneeling on one knee and clasping his fist.
"Mr. Gu, I'm willing to die with you." he calmly spoke.
At this point, all the commotion had faded away.
In the silence, Liu Ping's voice could be heard, echoing throughout the camp.
An inexplicable feeling began to form in everyone's hearts.
Seeing that, the female general immediately lifted her skirt and knelt on one knee, looking at Gu Qing Shan.
Her peerlessly beautiful face showed an indifference that transcends life and death.
She clasped her fist: "Mr. Gu, I'm willing to die with you."
All the cultivators silently watched this.
Following that, one cultivator after another knelt on one knee and clasped their fist.
The crowd seemed to be exuding an overwhelming power. Within this power, they were expressing their will.
In the entire camp, tens of thousands of Professionists and cultivators all knelt on one knee, looking at Gu Qing Shan.
People loudly declared their determination to fight to the death.
"Mr. Gu, I'm willing to die with you!"
"I'm willing to die with you!"
"I'm willing to die with you!"
"With my blood, I'm willing to die with you, sir!"
…
The Western wind howled.
Gu Qing Shan stood in the wind, looking around.
In the entire camp, there was no one else standing except for him.
Everyone knelt on one knee, clasping their fist towards him with a resolute look in their eyes.
Gu Qing Shan slowly knelt on one knee and clasped his fist towards everyone: "It's only life and death, today, I'm willing to die with you."
Saying so, he flew up into the sky.
Behind him, all the cultivators stood up.
Tens of thousands of cultivators all looked up at the figure in the sky.
Halfway there, Gu Qing Shan uttered a battle cry.
"Swords, come!"
Instantly, hundreds of thousands of flying swords appeared from the void of space.
These flying swords quickly descended and arrived at the side of each cultivator.
The cultivators grabbed the swords next to them and began to burn their cultivation, life, and soul to infuse their power into the flying swords.
At this moment, everyone shouted in unison: "We're willing to die with you!"
They turned into blinding light and fused with the swords in their hands.
All the swords flew up on their own, forming an orderly formation that gave off blinding light.
Sword Saint Secret Art
Sword Array, [Return with you]!
Oong!
An earth-shattering Sword Qi exploded.
The mountains and rivers were in chaos.
The light of the sky was obscured by the demonic shadow.
But there were sword qi rampaging through the sky.
With a sword in hand, Gu Qing Shan rode the sword array and continued to fly upwards.
He charged towards the Demon Lord.
Closer.
Even closer.
The final sword saint in the world was unleashing his final attack with all his might.
Once the sword was out, there was no turning back.
The blinding sword phantoms swept through the sky, dispelling all the darkness.
Within the darkness, billions of screams of pain resounded.
But right at this moment, the entire scene of fate seemed to have stopped.
Everything suddenly slowed down. All sound disappeared.
Liu Ping stood still, observing all the power on Gu Qing Shan's body, then abruptly declared: "Not enough!"
He waved his hand.
Lines of burning text appeared in front of his eyes:
[Are you sure you want to fuse the Heroic Spirit UI into the Sequence that Time and Mystery had prepared for him?]
"With my power of creation, I will fuse all powers into the Apocalypse Sequence of the infinite worlds and accompany him!" Liu Ping replied.
Another line of burning text appeared:
[Please name this Sequence]
Liu Ping paused briefly, then spoke: "The moment we've lived, everything before and after was darkness. But from this moment onwards, everything will change."
"The Heroic Spirit is already a thing of the past, the new Sequence will bring you through Space-Time and restart everything once again."
"This is the path to shatter the shackles of fate, so I call it."
"WAR GOD!"
As soon as he said that.
Everything returned to normal.
In the sky, Gu Qing Shan slowly opened his mouth and uttered a furious roar.
The light became even brighter.
A mass of white light spread across heaven and earth.
The white light slowly dimmed and turned into nothingness, followed by darkness.
This was the end of the scene.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly vanished.
He had left this moment and returned to the moment when the battle began.
Everything was about to start again.
Liu Ping smiled faintly and retreated.
This time, I will appear in the history of the Samsara.
Everything will be different.
(End of book)
(TN: APPLAUSE!!! I've finished my first book. hope yall have enjoyed it as much as i did translating this book. i apologize if there are name errors or translation errors, irl it is war and i had limited time to edit and review. if anyone feels like it feel free to reach out to me.)
(everything, everywhere , all at once!)