[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1165":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Worlds' Apocalypse Online",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1791861,2388,"Chapter 1166 - Mountain climbing competition","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1165",1165,"\u003Cp>Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness that obscured even one’s hand in front of one’s face slowly receded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang opened his eyes only to find that he was being wrapped tightly around numerous chains and hung in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s happening to me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shivered, then slowly recalled what happened earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——that Huang Quan Devil King clutched my neck and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your father seems to be quite impressive, but keep this in mind: if you keep messing with me, your father won’t be able to save you next time”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t care about it at the time, but then suddenly felt a chill at my neck after that Devil King had left and completely lost consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, am I dead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang was shocked and wanted to struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of a sudden, an old male voice resounded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Zhang, do not move heedlessly”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang immediately froze up from surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This voice was too familiar to him, as this was the Wraith Lord with the greatest mastery of magical techniques, Hundred Grudges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was the voice he heard, then he definitely did not die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang regained his calm and asked: “Wraith Lord, sir, may I ask what happened to this humble subordinate?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundred Grudge’s voice resounded again: “You were killed. Fortunately, both your body and soul remained; since your father didn’t want you to reincarnate through a Wraith technique, so he asked me to use this resurrection Immortal Craft and save your life”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang silently sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life and death is a serious matter, as well as the strictest of the Laws of Realities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had revived through a Wraith technique, I would have had to become a jiangshi[1], a skeleton, or any of the many undead beasts we have, and not my current human body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To surpass the cycle of life and death to directly resurrect someone, an Immortal Craft was the only way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for an Immortal Craft to break the Law of Life and Death to save someone, it would still require great effort that not even a Wraith Lord would be willing to arbitrarily perform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since father wasn’t an expert at this Immortal Craft, he had to request Hundred Grudges to perform it instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows how great a price father had to pay to do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huang Quan Devil King...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang clenched his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundred Grudges continued: “Wu Zhang, no need to continue haggling over that grudge, your father had brought his army to surround that place”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The place you died, which was also where the Huang Quan Devil King had set off from to face his Tribulation——- once a cultivator completes their Tribulation, they would naturally return to where they left; and as soon as he appeared, death would be waiting for him”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, Cang Wu Zhang finally relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since father had taken it upon himself to act, there shouldn’t be any other issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the Huang Quan Devil King’s soul is extracted, I will have my revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, sir Hundred Grudges for saving me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Wu Zhang said with a grateful attitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kekek, no need to thank me, after all, everything has its own prices... and your father has already paid an appropriate price” Hundred Grudges replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven Pillar world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan sat in a palace within Heaven Pillar city, took the grass twine cage out to release all of the pixies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countless pixies surrounded him and quickly gave their thanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From who-knows-where, they took out a bunch of broken wood pieces, flowers, leaves, mushrooms, grass, and other things of the sort, before their souls jumped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These plant matters then quickly came to life and took the form of pixies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the pixies who chose a piece of wood as their body now had a brown body; those who chose a leaf were now wearing a green dress; those who chose mushrooms now appeared as literal mushrooms with limbs and facial features.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man reappeared and hurriedly asked: “Why didn’t you chop that guy up thoroughly? Not everyone is like us pixies who can revive in any random leaves on the sidewalk”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan smiled: “They have a Huang Quan fragment world on their side, which holds control over life and death, furthermore they’ve displayed their capability of using Immortal Crafts, so I assumed it wouldn’t have done much to spend more effort to kill him”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And also...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan carefully put a few pieces of hair into his Inventory Bag and said very sternly: “A person like him is actually a liability to the Wraith realm. So rather than helping the Wraith realm by killing him, I left him as a piece on the board, perhaps it might prove useful in the future”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man shrugged: “Alright, if you didn’t simply ignore him and actually had other plans then I don’t need to care”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan asked: “Where’s the God of Life?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man sighed: “According to those wraiths, the power of [Chaos] is quite effective against the Abyss. They had that Deity of [Chaos] lead the remaining carriers of [Chaos] within the 900 million World Layers to the frontlines and fight against the Eternal Abyss”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man moved his body uncomfortably, then mumbled in complaints: “This body... seems like I’ll have to spend some time meticulously making another when I return...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan immediately apologized: “I’m really sorry, the power of the coins can only travel backwards to a point in the past, but not the future, so I have no way to save you”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three Space-Time Coins, the Embodiment of History’s Distortions, could only use their powers to travel in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coins could choose to return to any moment in history and bring them to the past, but it had no control over the present and future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a user of the coins returned from [The Present] to the [The Past], time would continue to move forward in [The Present], so when the user returned to [The Present], it would have already been [The Future] compared to before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——-the user cannot return to the exact moment when they used the coin to leave, not even if they used the power of the coins again in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that period of time had thoroughly been detached from the user of the coins, thus belonging to others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, while he was inside the seal of Drifting Sand world, each time that Gu Qing Shan returned to the Age of Old and died half-way through, whenever he returned to the seal, he would find Lin, who was impersonating the dark figure of light, doing something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only when she sensed that Gu Qing Shan had died that she returned to the moment of Gu Qing Shan’s death and took him back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, Lin would also remain in the darkness and travel with Gu Qing Shan to immediately take him to the future whenever the situation became too much to handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All in all, the fact that they returned to the Age of Old didn’t stop time in [The Present] from moving towards [The Future].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his return from the Age of Old, when he arrived at the Earth world, the War God UI told him that one year had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, the gold coin informed him that if he didn’t travel forward one year relative to before, Gu Qing Shan would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan had thought that the gold coin was referring to a trap from the Demon Dragon, Lin, or Soul Shrieker; but in hindsight, the gold coin couldn’t have known so much, it was just referring to the Law of Time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was also the reason why Lin was waiting to ambush him at that moment, she knew that he had no other period of time to return to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why these three coins were referred to as the [Key of The Past], their powers were focused on what had already happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The past...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan had a sudden thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, there might be some sort of unique item that can take me to the future?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the long-bearded old man happily said: “No matter, you’ve already saved us. Although, what is this place? Should we hold a banquet to celebrate the aversion of our disaster here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan regained his senses and answered: “This is Heaven pillar world”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man then saw the sky-high Pillar To Heaven at the center of the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoa, how thick! How strong! How regretfully broken!” he exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pixie king appeared next to him and propped his hand on his hip: “It’s been a very long time since we got to be in an unfamiliar world like this, should we climb that pillar?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man’s eyes glowed as he heard that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right! This is a symbol of cultivators! We should indeed go ahead and conquer it!” the long-bearded old man declared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan facepalmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pixies’ line of thought is jumpy and unpredictable, while I have to focus on my Tribulation without having time to mind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t climb that pillar” Gu Qing Shan cleared his throat and tried convincing them: “If you want to leave this place, you can only go up the mountain with me, to finish this as fast as possible, I think you’ll need to stay hidden. Most likely... next to me...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could finish his words, the long-bearded old man and pixie king were already enthusiastic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s a mountain as well?” the king asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, the Divine Mountain of Sumeru” Gu Qing Shan noticed that he might have said something that he shouldn’t have, but still answered them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Divine Mountain!!” the long-bearded old man and pixie king both exclaimed in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-bearded old man paused for a brief moment before suddenly shouting: “Everyone, prepare yourselves! This year’s first mountain-climbing competition is about to begin! The last pixie that makes it to the summit will be turned into a table cloth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The king loudly added: “——And you’re going to stay a tablecloth for an entire year!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he even finished his words, the long-bearded old man had already run ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father’s father’s father’s father’s father, you’re cheating! You’re running ahead!” the pixie king exclaimed breathlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then immediately dashed after him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pixies exclaimed ‘tablecloth’ one after another in excitement as they followed the king and the kingdom’s ancestor towards the Pillar To Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan stood still, his mouth wide open, but was unable to say a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rule number 57 of the infinite worlds: When the pixies have gotten interested in a certain matter, anyone will be powerless to stop them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Divine Mountain is still severely weakened, and things have only just gotten back in order, there shouldn’t be too much danger... right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Gu Qing Shan was hesitating, a group of many cultivators flew in from afar and landed in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone clasped their fists: “Your excellency, you must be the one who came to face their Sumeru Lord realm Tribulation”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the overwhelming spirit energy fluctuations on his body, everyone exchanged gleeful looks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level of spirit energy is simply——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost unheard of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, after someone managed to pass the Sumeru Lord realm Tribulation, it caused a huge commotion all over the parallel cultivation worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this time, a lot more people had come to attempt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a total of over 30 people here, all of which had enthusiastic expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One cultivator respectfully said: “Please give your orders, your excellency, how should we prepare? When will we set out? Please feel free to arrange our persons as you see fit”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan sighed, then suddenly laughed and loudly declared: “Come, we’re climbing the mountain. Whoever makes it to the summit last will turn into a tortoise in front of everyone”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His figure flashed and leapt forward before anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[1] a jiangshi is specifically a Chinese zombie, which have notable differences compared to a regular zombie, google for more information\u003C\u002Fp>",2043,"2026-06-09T03:05:48.268Z",1,"novelbin.me","4971a66f0f623c7385b872c3925e68c2c193677e5585e08135d9eacb88169e86","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1166","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1164",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]