[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1826":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},1792610,2388,"Chapter 1827  Demon Dragon’s discovery","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1826",1826,"\u003Cp>[The slumbering Chao Yin sword has awoken]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scanning through these words, Gu Qing Shan felt an immense sense of delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately halted his charge in the middle of the air and drew the Chao Yin sword, asking it with his inner sight:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you awake?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chao Yin sword replied with a clear ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Gu Qing Shan smiled and was about to say something else, the sword fell silent again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another line of bloody red text appeared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Attention, the awoken Chao Yin sword had fallen back into slumber]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>----why did it fall back to sleep right after awakening?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was there an issue during evolution?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A layer of dark light then manifested over the sword, fully enveloping it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New notifications popped up again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A certain individual had applied a Causality technique on this sword]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[When it once again acknowledges its wielder, a vision of the past will be invoked]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Only after you've finished watching this vision would the Chao Yin sword awaken once again]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan realized what had happened right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right, the giant corpse did mention that------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"… I hid certain secrets within your sword… retrieve the sword from the Forgetting River…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have to observe the secret that the giant corpse had left, for the Chao Yin sword to thoroughly awaken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderous roar suddenly echoed across the world from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan's expression changed before immediately vanishing from where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like a long time, but he had only spaced out for a single breath's worth of time; during that period, the giant face-shaped nebula in the sky had already resolved his Secret Art and retaliated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blinding burst of starlight shot through where Gu Qing Shan originally stood and violently struck the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom--------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire planet began to collapse and expunged its remaining power all at once, then slowly faded away within the cold expanse of space like embers in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Observing this from the distance, Gu Qing Shan decisively put the Chao Yin sword away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-----this isn't the time to be looking into a secret, I need to finish this fight first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a suit of armor and lightly tapped it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armor instantly scattered into ten different components that rapidly reassembled on his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Specialized Battlemage Anti-magic Armor]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Properties: Intermediate Sturdiness, Basic Magic Resistance, Nimbleness]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After moving around a bit, Gu Qing Shan felt satisfied with the armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this armor is sturdy enough, I wouldn't have needed to avoid that attack earlier in such a hurry, on the contrary, I might have been able to face the monster head-on and even find an opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright------ time to fight\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grasped the Delimitation Divine Sword tightly and called out towards the giant face-shaped nebula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant face-shaped nebula slowly revealed a mocking expression and muttered: 「 A fight? 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Would you rather surrender instead?\" Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 No… Foolish being, do you really think that you'd be able to endure my attacks with just that shell you put around yourself? 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant face-shaped nebula began to mutter: 「 A spiritless armor cannot even dare to face me, as I fight in accordance with the will of the Lord of all Things」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following its statement, the armor around Gu Qing Shan's body began to crack and crumble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tak tak tak tak tak---------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire armor crumbled into fine dust as it was peeled off Gu Qing Shan's body bit by bit, scattering into the nothingness of outer space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took so much effort for him to find suitable armor and it was gone just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're courting Death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grasped the Delimitation Divine Sword tightly, which once again separated into hundreds of thousands of flying swords clad in black flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-------[Parting Fire]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single thought from Gu Qing Shan, all the flying swords vanished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant nebula monster vocalized a horribly painful shriek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan swung his sword again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another batch hundred thousand swords were manifested, clad in a faint chilling mist, then vanished into the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---------[Freezing Frost]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant face-shaped nebula's voice immediately ceased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been completely frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan focused his thoughts------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An immense but invisible sword will manifested out of thin air, and flew through the darkness, before it exploded directly inside the giant face-shaped nebula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack! Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire giant face-shaped nebula was shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining minor monsters around the giant face-shaped nebula were shocked and frightened into fleeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was also stunned and muttered with a surprised tone: \"Why is it so weak?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally prepared follow-up attacks as well, but his opponent had already been eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Delimitation Divine Sword suddenly spoke: 「 It wasn't a living being, but a 'thing', so it couldn't endure my strikes 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan understood right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Delimitation Divine Sword had an ability called [All Things Perish], the antithesis of any objects that exist, the unstoppable force against all things alike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For that reason, after being struck by a myriad of flying swords imbued by [Parting Fire], and then [Freezing Frost], then finally the Mind Sword, its entire body and form was broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A 'thing' huh… Just now it also said that it was a subordinate of the Lord of All Things… The monsters in this Boundless Void truly are strange\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Gu Qing Shan was silently thinking to himself, he suddenly noticed an entity composed of nothing but nebula approaching from far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's that guy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right, when I participated in that kamikaze mission, I faced it once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>------I'm still completely no match for it at all, let's just go ahead and leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Layers of white mist began to manifest around his body as he vanished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Tower Pagoda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High Deity as well as the 5 Virtuous Deities were all present, with Demon Dragon standing in the center, explaining his discovery to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Venerable ones, I was born with an innate Thaumaturgy called [Object Affinity]\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Dragon – Leng Qian Chen continued: \"While I was fighting those monsters, I slowly realized that something was amiss\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What was amiss?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan descended from the sky, landed outside the Tower Pagoda, then swiftly made his way inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, your grace for saving my life. I was just about to explain this matter to the High Deity and the Virtuous Deities, I discovered that those monsters were actually not living beings, but instead existed purely as objects\" Leng Qian Chen explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone fell silent for a brief moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fei Yue muses: \"Objects… then that means we've been fighting against objects under the control of artifact spirits?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Qian Chen replied: \"That's not it, this is also the strange part. I discovered that none of those monsters had artifact spirits, in other words-----\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They had no soul, merely machines of war\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan commented: \"In that case, there must be somebody hiding in the shadows to control these monsters\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, that should be the case\" Leng Qian Chen affirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone exchanged glances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exactly what kind of existence could control an innumerable number of monsters by itself and go to war against the entire Huang Quan realm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skull woman's eyes flickered briefly before she said: 『 Leng Qian Chen, your clear intel has contributed greatly to our cause, you may be dismissed for now 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Qian Chen bowed respectfully, then left the Tower Pagoda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the High Deity and the Virtuous Deities remained here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the skull woman began to speak: 『 Something isn't right, I've personally headed into the battlefield and fought against two nebula monsters, they weren't too much weaker compared to I am-------- so if they were controlled objects, how powerful would the puppeteer behind them be? 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Master of the Hall of Reincarnation added: 『 And if they truly are that powerful, why hadn't they swarmed and destroyed Huang Quan all at once? 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also a considerable question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone pondered on it but couldn't come up with an answer, so they all remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fei Yue turned to Gu Qing Shan and asked: \"Did you manage to save all the dead people on the battlefield?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had wanted to report it earlier-------- I ran into a nebula monster, since I was no match for it, I retreated\" Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 Which warzone? 』the skull woman asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Standard battlefield No.371\" Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skull woman stood up and said with a serious tone: 『 Very well, now that I know those monsters are soulless objects, I'll go and take care of them 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood\" the Virtuous Deities all complied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skull woman nodded and vanished from the high platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 The war situation will be temporarily under the Reincarnation Hall Master's jurisdiction, the rest of you will be under her command 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood\" the Virtuous Deities all complied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skull woman nodded and vanished from the high platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that the meeting was over, Gu Qing Shan also stood up and prepared to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are you going?\" Fei Yue asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have some urgent business to take care of, after I'm done, I'll seek you out\" Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>------regardless of the giant corpse's message, as well as what I need to do after this, I'll need help from Fei Yue's [Threads of Fate].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her ability is capable of bypassing all obscurity and providing a direct link to the truth through Fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his heavy expression, Fei Yue paused briefly and said: \"Alright, I'll wait\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan nodded and vanished from where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the depths of Hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan invoked [All-Encompassing Sword Realm] and isolated himself from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out the slumbering Chao Yin sword and grasped it tightly with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come… let me see what you wanted me to know…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan muttered to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark light imbued on the sword seemed to understand him and quickly expanded, transforming into a vision before gradually manifesting into an entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-------the barren wasteland world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant corpse was still pinned on top of the bronze pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gu Qing Shan, after so long, you've finally attained the necessary conditions\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come, return before the myriad worlds are destroyed, return to the inside of the Reality Gate-----\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can now free me from this bronze pillar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1756,"2026-06-09T03:06:15.926Z",1,"novelbin.me","7d11f5208c0a4454c1725d674bb10f7cf037e104e16b80cd8c6f7e219ec6a580","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1789","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-1788",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]