[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-542":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},1791488,2388,"Chapter 540 - Teaching","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-542",542,"\u003Cp>Chapter 540: Teaching\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dead Soul Demon King hovered in the UI with its eyes closed, unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Why do you want it?] [Kindling] asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It looks formidable, it can fight instead of me” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kindling] went silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan pointed at the Dead Soul Demon King and continued: “Do I have enough Soul Points? If I do, I’ll exchange for this”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——-with the amount of Soul Points Gu Qing Shan had right now, it was nowhere near enough to exchange for this Demon Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means [Kindling] had no way to obtain the Soul Points he gathered for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Not enough] [Kindling] can only reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm, I guessed so. This thing looks so menacing”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Gu Qing Shan stared at this Demon Lord, he couldn’t help but clench his sword tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Chaotic Demon Lord was a weapon of war that was stronger than a Remodeled Demon Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had various strange and unpredictable abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was believed that the advent of a Chaotic Demon Lord would signify the end of the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past life, they needed two Sainted realm cultivators working together to barely match up against a Remodeled Demon Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Gu Qing Shan found that a Demon Lord was nothing more than an item that can be exchanged for in the 900 million World Layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you compare the past life and this one, it all felt almost like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exchange shop closed on the [Kindling] UI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kindling]’s voice came again: [To exchange for this Demon Lord, you will need to put in a lot more effort]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan clenched his fist and replied: “I know”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kindling] went silent briefly before declaring: [Now for your next mission]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Outside the frozen wasteland is a glorious divine temple]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[In the Age of Old, when the Old Gods were still in this world, they had built this divine temple to view the beings they had created]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You need to go there and participate in the Old Gods’ ceremony]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the ceremony about?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Go and see for yourself]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You may now be on your way]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following [Kindling]’s explanation, a Quest market also appeared on the War God UI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Please decide the next Quest]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan went silent shortly before silently answering the War God UI: “For now, we won’t issue a Quest yet. Let’s wait until we learn more”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze extended far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was looking at the end of the frozen wasteland, where towering icy mountains were connected one by one, so tall that the highest peaks couldn’t be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the ice mountains peaks, a magnificent structure stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The structure was the same as the mountains around it, created completely out of ice and snow, exuding a sense of majesty from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan went into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Su Xue Er is saved, all that’s left to do is to deal with [Kindling].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just now, [Kindling] showed the Dead Soul Demon King on its UI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This implied a certain thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if no demonized people could accumulate enough Soul Points to summon the Dead Soul Demon King, [Kindling] itself can summon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which will be troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since I’ve already reached Sainted realm late stage, I’m not afraid of a Remodeled Demon Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Dead Soul Demon King was a Chaotic Demon Lord, much stronger than any Remodeled Demon Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking that, Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was sensing his flow of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spirit energy in his Dantian was full, circulating around his body through his acupoints; his sword qi was sharp and fluid, fully under the control and fueled by his spirit energy; his inner sight and mental power was at their peaks, as long as he willed it and forms the correct hand seals, numerous spells can be casted without any trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan looked upwards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the vast void of space, a faint connection could be felt calling out to him constantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the connection to the Laws of heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means, he was ready to break through Sainted realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a cultivator, whenever he broke through, he would always trigger a connection to the Laws of heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heaven and earth will then call forth a Lightning Tribulation to cleanse those who were enough, and take away everything of weaklings who attempt to do things above their own capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You either break through or die trying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of the world, a cultivator will always have to face the heaven’s Tribulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was written in the various cultivation jade tags he collected in the Suspended world as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Laws of heaven and earth have and will always be indifferently cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder, are there any steps after Projection realm, Tribulation realm, Virtualized realm and Cryptic realm that a cultivator can reach?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If so, how would they take another step forward?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Barry’s wound hasn’t fully healed at the time, Gu Qing Shan could judge that Barry was over 10,000 times stronger than Wang Hong Dao through his instincts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can cultivators become as strong as Barry?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reorganized his mind, no longer wandering off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of the answer, thinking too much about it wouldn’t help, it’d be better to keep moving forward step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, even though he can easily break through Sainted realm, Gu Qing Shan had a strange feeling from somewhere he couldn’t quite grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling almost seemed like it was born from himself, an intuition gotten through a lot of hardship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was telling him that this wasn’t yet the time to breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterall, compared to Barry’s level, would it make any difference if I were Sainted realm or Projection realm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan gritted his teeth, decided to follow his intuition and gave up on breaking through right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go” Gu Qing Shan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shannu nodded, went back into the Six Paths Great Mountain sword and hid herself in the void of space behind Gu Qing Shan again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth sword and Chao Yin sword also went away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan went back into the dense, icy fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a formation plate and undid the various concealment formations he set up on by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laura appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was sitting on the black horse, slowly eating a piece of cake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are done?” she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are really done already?” Laura asked again in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…We’re going”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan jumped back onto the horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laura could only put her cake away and wiped her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You finished too quick, I was prepared to watch a longer show” she complained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I hadn’t done it quickly, it would’ve been a lot more troublesome” Gu Qing Shan could only explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A lot more troublesome?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm—- they would’ve summon a few really troublesome things”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While they talked, the black horse asked them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Summoners, will you be in a hurry, or going for a stroll?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re in a hurry——- but not too much of a hurry” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black horse kicked off the ground and continued to gallop through the snowstorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On another side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fog Isle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The House of Law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phantom images were becoming faint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan had already gone away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak gave Su Xue Er a knowing look and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er suddenly hugged her head, banging it on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing?” Lord Bloodcloak asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flicked his finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The table was instantly covered in soft pillows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er buried her head in the pillows, struggling to speak: “It’s so humiliating”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak smiled and consoled her: “His sword techniques are very sly, perfectly countering your style. If not for that, he might not necessarily be a match for you”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really?” Su Xue Er looked up and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right, if you have about a full course meal’s worth of time to prepare your spells, you’ll be able to defeat him without trouble” Lord Bloodcloak shook his glass gracefully and said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full course meal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ridiculous! Who’s going to give their opponent an entire full course meal’s worth of time to prepare in battle!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er once again buried her face in the pillow and dejectedly spoke: “Teacher… don’t tease me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak lightly laughed before he spoke seriously: “Do you know how many cold weapon users, despite living in battles all their lives, still couldn’t learn his style of fighting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you measure with strength, spells, or the destructiveness of their attacks, there are many who far surpasses him, but at his age, I’ve never seen such an unreasonable person before”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unreasonable?” Su Xue Er looked up and asked curiously: “Teacher, what do you mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No matter how much you can do, one of my attack will take your life, then you won’t be able to do anything”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Something like that” Lord Bloodcloak took a sip of wine and continued: “I really wonder, what did he have to go through to be able to do something like that at such a young age”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And also, it would’ve been better if you hadn’t trapped him”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm? Why not?” Su Xue Er was a bit confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You could’ve traveled with him instead. He’s the melee attacker while you’re a card user who supports from behind. You would’ve made a really good combination” Lord Bloodcloak explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Through battles, you will get to know each other better, nurturing your mutual trust and tacit understanding”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There would’ve been ample time in Triste’s world for the two of you to go through things that would go on to become precious memories later in life”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, nothing creates a deeper bond than being together in battle”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er trembled as she heard him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaaaa, now I really regret it!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She yelled out as she dug her face even deeper into the pillow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Su Xue Er’s reaction, Lord Bloodcloak appeared pleased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, what do you plan to do next?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waited for a bit before asking her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After everything is over this time around, I will apologize to him” Su Xue Er replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was the epitome of dejection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak thought for a bit before speaking again: “Hm, since the battle is over, if you don’t want to watch anymore, I’ll stop the spell——- do you want to watch him battle more?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er looked up, her eyes lit up as she nodded again and again like a chicken reaching for food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak smiled as he chanted the incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phantom images shifted from being faint to clear again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan showed up once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riding the black horse, he was quickly heading towards the end of the frozen wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xue Er’s gaze was fixated on Gu Qing Shan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost she was studying his form, his every move, focused unlike she has never focused before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Su Xue Er like that, Lord Bloodcloak was relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can watch him for now, teacher will be out taking care of a few things”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak left the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then casted layers upon layers of protective spells all around the House of Law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So a bunch of weaklings immersed in false authority dares to think of harming my disciple?” he muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing here, Lord Bloodcloak clapped his hand satisfyingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he suddenly disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very next moment, he reappeared in the space vortex about 12 World Layers from Aboul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing around, Lord Bloodcloak nodded and muttered: “Very good, no one noticed me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, before this war fully erupts, let’s find out where they’re hiding”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Bloodcloak drew several dozen blood-colored cards one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These cards quickly disappeared into the void of space.\u003C\u002Fp>",1972,"2026-06-09T03:05:21.780Z",1,"novelbin.me","a0a3d3ea8b505a0586cb1c8f77c2959e6e06c35ba8b4246c49487d916e60cb62","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-543","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-541",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]