[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-140":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},1790936,2388,"Chapter 140 - Demon Slaying","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-140",140,"\u003Cp>Translated by: La0o9\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Edited by: VindiFan#1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An uneventful night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A white crane with a red scruff flew from Bai Hua Palace, heading to far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crane’s speed was exceptional, every time it flapped its wings, a transparent flame-like cloud appeared around its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who’s knowledgeable will know that this is the fastest of all flying mounts, the Flamecloud Chasing Sky Crane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This type of crane doesn’t have excellent fighting power or defensive capabilities, its only specialty is speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators can also fly, but when they enter into long-term battle, they must have a mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Airships cost spirit stones, while spirit beasts don’t even consume any, in the worst situation, just giving them a Fasting Pill when they’re hungry is enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If cultivators were to fly by themselves they would have to waste spirit energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on the battlefield, every little bit of spirit energy can be the difference between life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the best choice is to use spirit beasts as a mount. Cultivators would not need to spend precious spirit energy or stamina while on the move, and they could even meditate and recover while on the mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting on the white crane, Gu Qing Shan extends his sight far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exiting Bai Hua Immortal country, they passed by Mountain Spirit Sect, Flowing Clouds Sect, West Mountain Sword Sect, and then into desolate land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a lot of cities, fields, towns and villages on the way, but they all quickly passed with the crane’s speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, what came into sight as a broad, barren country area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few of them were even abandoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone there has been convinced to migrate further into the mainland, no matter if they were mortals or cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This area is already very close to the frontline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, there were groups of 3-5 formation users scattered across the land, setting up all sorts of formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would be considered a buffer zone between the frontline and the mainland, if the frontline ever breaks, the formations set up here will be used for defensive and counter attacking purposes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying for another hour or so, Gu Qing Shan finally saw the military outpost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s called an outpost, but the area set up here is easily as big as a mid-sized city. The outer ring of the outpost was covered in a 10-meter radius dome-shaped defensive formation, occasionally there were cultivators on their spirit beasts, flying around patrolling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true military war fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re going down” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right” Flamecloud Chasing Sky Crane answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It landed on an empty field right outside the outpost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan took out a pill and gave it to the white crane, saying: “It’s been tough on you, come rest up first”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating the pill, it went back inside the spirit beast bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan quickly walked to the outpost gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’s there?” the two guards shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Qi Chaplain, Gu Qing Shan, reporting for duty” Gu Qing Shan answered, then threw his badge over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them took the badge, infusing it with spirit energy and the badge lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A light floated from the badge, forming the characters “Xiao Qi Chaplain Gu Qing Shan”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scanning it, they found the badge was indeed linked with the young man standing before them, nodding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giving Gu Qing Shan back his badge, he said: “Come on in”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan replied: “Thank you”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the outpost, everything was quite busy and rowdy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’s in charge of pills for Jia Zhi camp?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where are the formation plates? Have the frontline formation users finished crafting the plates yet? We’re moving out tomorrow, why haven’t they delivered it yet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Someone record this for me, the two camps at the West is under attack, I need to move out”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many great cultivators were shouting, ordering around, their aides were running around unable to sit still for even a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan went into a queue, placing his badge on the table when it came his turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the cultivator at the table put a spirit rune inside, he gave it back and said: “Next”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan quickly took the badge, following another person into a different building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the nameplate, it saids: Quartermaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After going in, another cultivator took his badge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let out his inner sight and scanned the badge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Xiao Qi Chaplain, you arrived at the right time”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying so, he turned around, walked into the storage room and took out a set of armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Check it carefully, if there’s no problems then put your fingerprint here”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, ok, thank you”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan took the set of armor to another table, and carefully examined it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a black armor with red patterns, the red patterns on it were quite small and inscribed on hard-to-notice places. This would be the armor’s spirit energy circuit formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breast plate, shoulder pads, helmet, wrist guard, gauntlet, belt, knee pads, marching shoes. All of them were brand new and of the highest quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This entire set of armor was all equipment at Spirit grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equipment of all kinds made from smithing are categorized from lowest to highest as: Sharp, Treasure, Spirit, Law, Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit is only the middle rank, but it’s already extremely valuable, not to mention this was a full set of Spirit-grade armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having this set of armor, he can be assured and just focus on killing demons without fear of demons whose expertise is sneak attacks, like the Heart-stealing Imp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden set of armor that Ning Yue Xi wore before was a standard set of armor for Generals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wearing that, even if she only stood still for demons to attack, they wouldn’t even leave a scratch on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that set of armor should be about peak Law-grade. The resources and time needed to craft it are extraordinary, so it’s very valuable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan carefully checked everything and confirmed with his fingerprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him not complaining at all, finished checking and confirming so quickly, the other cultivator was quite glad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he said: “Very good, now for your weapons”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flipping through a list, he spoke: “Let me see, Xiao Qi Chaplain, hm, you can choose two weapons ——what weapon do you use?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit, then replied: “I’ll use my own weapon, but can I exchange the two weapons for a few more Demon Slaying Arrows instead?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t want the two weapons but want Demon Slaying Arrows?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other cultivator looked at him serious, then spoke: “At your rank of Xiao Qi Chaplain, you can only receive 1 Demon Slaying Arrow, but if you’ll give up the weapons, I can give you a total of 5 Demon Slaying Arrows instead”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes please” Gu Qing Shan happily agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivator went deep inside the storage room. After a while, he returned, trying to best to carry five arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he put down the arrows, they made a dull sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivator breathed heavily, saying: “These things are damn heavy, right, check them for yourself”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan took one and examined it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Slaying Arrow let out a dark light, from one end to the other, it was inscribed with extremely intricate and small runes. The entire arrow was covered in runes without any blank space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon Slaying Arrows are crafted from meteorites, its power is immense, but there’s very few of them, normally only used for important tactical-level campaigns, very rarely are they given to soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is without a doubt life-saving equipment, so there can’t be any problems with it, Gu Qing Shan was examining every inch of it with utmost care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After checking all five arrows, he clasped his hand at the cultivator, saying: “There are no problems, thank you very much”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come here, put your fingerprint on the weapons log as well”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving his supplies, Gu Qing Shan went out and was guided to a certain building by another cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were more than a dozen cultivators there, silently sitting and waiting for orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the cultivator brought Gu Qing Shan to three other cultivators, he said: “You group here is complete, you can start preparing now, when you’re called, all of you will leave together”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying so, the cultivator left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other three people also carefully checked their belongings again, making sure they didn’t miss anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan went to one of the guards, asking and went to the tent where they deal with Military Merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A while later, he came back smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few great cultivators was told of his arrival by Ding Yuan General Gong Sun Zhi, so they have been waiting for him since morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Gu Qing Shan gave them the list of demons, the great cultivators there all praised him highly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a very good thing to have, it would definitely give them a huge advantage on the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan received 100 Military Merit for this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It takes 180 Military Merit to advance from “Xiao Qi” to “Zhen Wei”, so he’s already more than halfway there with this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to that, the pressure from the Destiny Quest was eased somewhat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gu Qing Shan came back, the other three had already donned their armor.\u003C\u002Fp>",1547,"2026-06-09T03:05:01.243Z",1,"novelbin.me","7c015af5254545a26ae4328a4170544aa2e5d90d9f0b614440a92f5509d06635","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-141","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-139",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]