[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-558":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},1791304,2388,"Chapter 556 - [Origin]’s invasion","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-558",558,"\u003Cp>Chapter 556: [Origin]’s invasion\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Translated by: La0o9\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Proofreader: Arya\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was now midnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two rigid corpses hugged each other tightly without moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan didn’t have the mind to look at the corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blocking in front of Laura, he was quickly moving his hands to operate the formation plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Layers upon layers of pretty lights scattered to the air as Gu Qing Shan’s Lightning-type spirit energy merged with the formation plate’s own and formed a formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lights faded soon after they lit up, surrounding Gu Qing Shan and Laura, holding the terrifying monster off for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan looked up and carefully observed the large fiendish head, silently shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This formation was combined with my Lightning-type spirit energy and that ghost still wasn’t countered…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grand Demon-Wraith Slaying Formation, requiring a total of 36 spirit stones to activate, was the highest level Ghost killing formation of the Suspended world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of how powerful it was and how much spirit stones it consumed, Suspended world cultivators weren’t normally willing to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once it was used, any Ghosts or revenant caught inside could only lay down and die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, since the Lightning Element naturally has the Smiting property, when a Lightning-type cultivator arranges this, the power of this formation will become three-fold!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was a Lightning-type cultivator, his spirit energy naturally has the Smiting property, and his formation standards were at the very top of the Suspended world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant that this particular anti-Ghost formation should be the strongest that had ever been used in known history!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even such an impressive grand formation couldn’t stop this Ghost before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the looks of it, it was only being angered by the Lightning Element of the formation as it became more fiendish and fierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time it attacked with its jaws, a layer of the formation would be ripped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>36 layers of anti-Ghost formations wouldn’t hold out for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which one of you knows what this is?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His three flying swords appeared behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oong~?” Chao Yin sword said it didn’t know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seemed a bit like one of the 808 hellspawns of Hell, but with a closer look, I’m sure there isn’t one that looks like this” Shannu observed the Ghost shortly before shaking her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth sword answered: 「 This is an Entropy Ghost 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s an Entropy Ghost?” Gu Qing Shan’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know it” Laura’s face went pale as she answered: “It is an extremely rare Chaotic Demon Lord, its own strength isn’t great, but has a natural-born thaumaturgy to be able to go through all things, even the barrier of the Old Gods couldn’t block it out”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“An Entropy Ghost is chaotic and unpredictable, once it appears, it could easily determine the outcome of a war”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is there no way to fight against it?” Gu Qing Shan scowled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There isn’t. It can easily go through any weapons or attacks, making it almost invincible despite not having much attack power”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it can go through any attacks…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then even if the Dead Soul Demon King went against the Entropy Ghost, the one to win in the end will be the Entropy Ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking that, Gu Qing Shan felt his head almost blowing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why does such a unique Demon Lord exist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laura sighed: “It’s fortunate that you have the formations of cultivation civilizations, being able to hold it off briefly”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While she spoke, she also searched around in her small backpack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan could hear her muttering: “Let me find a teleport item, we have to escape now”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth sword’s heavy voice suddenly called out: 「 There’s no need to run, Gu Qing Shan, you can use the Six Paths Great Mountain sword to kill it 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you know that?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me? Can I?” Shannu nervously chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth sword’s voice carried a bit of a satisfied chuckle: 「 Shannu, you can break through any Law, this is a thaumaturgy even rarer than the Entropy Ghost’s ability to go through everything, which just happens to be able to break its invincibility and intangibility 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 It probably doesn’t know that it just happens to run into the only thing that can counter it in the infinite worlds right here 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 Originally, this monster should have an infinite lifespan, but today will be the day it dies 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I’ll give it a try” Shannu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Six Paths Great Mountain sword drew a perfect arc in the sky and fell into Gu Qing Shan’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the sword, Gu Qing Shan pointed it straight at the Entropy Ghost’s wide open mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the Entropy Ghost had already broken through all the anti-Ghost formations, heading straight for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword phantoms glowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secret Art, [Water Flow Severance].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong dong dong dong dong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consecutive explosions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shining sword phantoms exploded inside the Entropy Ghost’s mouth, disintegrating it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan withdrew his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed and muses: “This type of Demon Lord can easily pass through this world’s protective ice layer and enter this place to destroy everything”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry, there shouldn’t be too many Entropy Ghosts” Laura said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth sword also said: 「 Indeed, this is an extremely rare Demon Lord, they will only ever appear in larger numbers at crucial and pivotal grand-scale wars 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why does such a thing exist?” Gu Qing Shan muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 Because it is a Demon Lord created by fusing countless hellspawns and Ghosts of Huang Quan, this process is extremely likely to fail, leading to a new one being very hard to make 」the Earth sword answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So we’re safe for now”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laura sighed in relief and said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I don’t think so” Gu Qing Shan scowled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This monster is the key to overcoming the barrier of the Gods…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since [Origin] doesn’t have any other ways to get in, it can only use this type of unique Demon Lord”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan muttered as he kept going with his conjecture: “And since [Origin] is desperate to obtain something, if it finds out about that ‘something’ being in this world, [Origin] will definitely—–”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, Gu Qing Shan suddenly shut up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both he and Laura looked up to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spots of golden light erupted in the dark sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden light quickly expanded, followed by countless golden runes that formed circular defensive barriers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something seemed to be triggering the Old God’s barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the largest circular defensive barrier, the figure of a large, terrifying fiendish head slowly appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was doing everything it could to plow downwards and pass through the Old God’s barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wanted to enter the world below!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, a fiendish head appeared in every circular defensive barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Another Entropy Ghost! How could that be, why are there so many of them!?” Laura exclaimed in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems I was right”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan spoke as he quickly formed a plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfew!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The autumn-like blue Six Paths Great Mountain sword flew away in a flash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, the sword jetted to the sky without resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan reached out his hands and lightly formed a hand seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secret Art, [Silver Star]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the night sky, five shining strings appeared out of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were sword phantoms manifesting as strings, leaving a trace akin to that of a comet’s trail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at these strings, Gu Qing Shan’s hands moved again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secret Art, [Silver Star].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secret Art, [Silver Star].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secret Art, [Silver Star].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was performing one Secret Art after another without stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his cultivation at Sainted realm late stage that could easily breakthrough to Projection realm at any moment, this Secret Art was something he could perform without worrying about expenditures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where his sword flew, shining strings of stars were carved in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These string-like sword phantoms kept dashing forward, going towards the barrier in the sky and attacked the Entropy Ghosts one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angered cries of pain and desperation echoed across the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Entropy Ghosts were truly unfortunate, as a rare type of Demon Lords, even the Old God’s barrier couldn’t stop them from invading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——but they were currently at a pivotal moment in breaking through these barriers, unable to dodge or move out of the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no choice but to be hit by these Secret Arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Six Paths Great Mountain sword’s anti-Law characteristic perfectly countered them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky, the circular golden barriers slowly disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Entropy Ghosts were dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flying sword dashed through the sky, went above the cloud before free-falling down and stopping right next to Gu Qing Shan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Laura’s eyes lit up and couldn’t help but say: “This sword, I want to—-”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan glanced at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laura obediently changed the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This must have been a carefully coordinated attack, but it got countered so perfectly by you being here. The [Demon King Order] must be extremely unhappy”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know what else it’s going to come up with, so let’s investigate this world a bit first” Gu Qing Shan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already used formations as well as flying swords, creating quite a large commotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanting to carefully sneak around to investigate at this point in time was unrealistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan put Laura on his shoulder and lowered his stance, wanting to fly into the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t help but stop briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several lines of glowing text scrolled past the War God UI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Attention]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You’ve killed several special Chaotic Demon Lords, an unprecedented feat across the Samsara worlds]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Using the water of the Forgetting River, you’ve also killed another Demon Lord, in total killing at least 2 types of Demon Lords]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You’ve completed the Unique War God Title Quest]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Unique War God Title now unlocked]\u003C\u002Fp>",1657,"2026-06-09T03:05:22.790Z",1,"novelbin.me","e88008657d5a79b71c6b7adaaed0c231c1d2f27f533bcf0e306766f4a13e42b2","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-559","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-557",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]