[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-716":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},1791412,2388,"Chapter 717 - Coping","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-716",716,"\u003Cp>In the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was currently standing in mid-air, operating a formation plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Periodically, light would come off of the formation plate and turn into a streak that shot itself into the vast desert below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While watching him, Little Xi couldn’t help but speak up: “We need to hurry up, quite a few poems must’ve already been found and analyzed already”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know” Gu Qing Shan told her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi muttered: “But that scorpion is so powerful, with it watching over the entrance to the labyrinth, with our current strength, it’ll be a very hard battle”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm, I know” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He changed positions and continued to set up more formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi exclaimed: “The wardens from the Abyss of Sin are basically all at his level, some of them even more powerful than he is. With such a force watching over them, no one would be able to enter the labyrinth and bring the 3 Divine Armaments out”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I also know that” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi reached her hand to grab his arm and shook him: “If we can’t get the Divine Armaments, you won’t be able to become a Demigod, the creature won’t be sealed again, and we might even possibly die here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since his arm was shaken, the formation he was arranging got interrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t keep on arranging the formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he stopped and weakly told her: “I already know everything that you just said, so I’m preparing for it right now”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him so indifferent, Little Xi felt a bit relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you trying to prepare?” Little Xi asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan explained: “I can’t confirm for sure whether or not the scorpion is actually dead, so I ‘m setting up a non-lethal measure against him”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ever since a long time ago, I’ve always considered what I should do in case I don’t want to kill someone outright, and the result was this formation— —– this is a combination of formations that I came up with after my long years of practicing formations”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A cultivation formation right? I know a bit about them, but I’ve never seen a formation being set up like what you’re doing” Little Xi scowled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Time is always changing” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He resumed arranging formations and asked her: “Little Xi, you said you sealed his creature away countless years ago, how did you do it at the time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi thought for a while before answering: “I just beat it and beat it over and over again, I beat it until it couldn’t resist anymore and then sealed it away”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did the monster just stand still and let you beat it?” he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It used its countless arms trying to catch me while unleashing a sort of devastating invisible attack over and over again” Little Xi answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Invisible attack?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm, I don’t know what it was, but it didn’t affect me. Everyone else as well as the Divinities seemed to be very wary of that invisible attack though” Little Xi told him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan thought about that: “It seems you have some sort of unique power that allows you to be unaffected by the creature’s invisible attacks…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While talking, his hands were still quickly operating the formation plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beautiful and colorful lights shined all over the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lights melted together, slowly converged into one before fading into the void of space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formation was complete!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan carefully checked it before putting the formation plate away: “Let’s go, we need to collect more intel”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>” Go where?” Little Xi asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The seven Gods’ labyrinth”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re going to fight that scorpion head-on?” Little Xi was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I’m just asking him some questions”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think he’s going to answer you honestly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s worth a try”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“… I really don’t understand what you’re thinking” Little Xi sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entrance of the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan and Little Xi landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was holding onto Little Xi with one hand while hiding the formation plate inside his sleeves with the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-skinned man appeared, facing him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did you return?” the black-skinned man asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I forgot something” Gu Qing Shan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” the black-skinned man asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“According to what the seven Gods said, if I go into the labyrinth to collect the 3 Divine Armaments, I’ll be able to seal that creature away, I think we might be able to do that” Gu Qing Shan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And what are you going to do?” the black-skinned man asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I discovered that the entrance to the labyrinth is hidden right under the sand dune behind you” Gu Qing Shan explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so?” the black- skinned man grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right, so how about you come with us into the labyrinth and look for the 3 Divine Armaments together” Gu Qing Shan offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was carefully observing the man’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face became slacked slightly before reluctantly curving the corner of his mouth to form a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So that’s what this is about, then did you find the way to leave yet?” the man asked in a gentle tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan was shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think that’s better left for after we find the Divine Armaments” he slowly spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, he triggered the seal he prepared on the formation plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long-distance warp formation was activated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both he and Little Xi disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right as they disappeared, the sound of the air being ripped apart could be heard .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shill——–\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long black tail stinger arrived from the air, piercing the area where Gu Qing Shan originally stood, turning all the yellow sand a sickly green color, sizzling as it was melting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gone? How regretful, just a bit more”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-skinned man muttered in a low, cruel voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless light appeared in mid air, slowly forming a 5-colored light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the light scattered, the figure of two people appeared in the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan and Little Xi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you set up a warp formation?” Little Xi asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yep, so that we can leave whenever we want to” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them stood still and said nothing for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this, the scorpion’s intent not to let them enter the labyrinth was clear, ripping all pretense away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now that we’re confirmed to be enemies, should we go take him on?” Little Xi asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I’m curious about something. He was very insistent on whether or not we could leave” Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi told him like it was obvious: “If the creature was controlling him, of course, the creature would want to leave”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan continued: “We’re going to try something again”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xi reminded him: “We really should hurry up, the others might have already found and analyzed quite a few poems of divination”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan casually replied: “The more we’re in a hurry, the less hurried we should be, let’s go”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few moments later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They once again stood facing the black-skinned man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without waiting for him to do anything, Gu Qing Shan shouted: “We found the way to leave, do you want to come with us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He black-skinned man was initially taking an offensive stance, but as soon as he heard this, his fighting spirit disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The way to leave, the way to leave, the way… to leave…” he muttered again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah” Gu Qing Shan offered: “Let’s go, come with us and leave this damned world”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-skinned man’s eyes were hollow, but still tried to make a smiling expression: “Damned world, yes, well said, we should leave”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began to walk towards Gu Qing Shan and Little Xi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait a minute! There’s something else” Gu Qing Shan put his hand forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-skinned man instantly appeared furious, his voice becoming cruel and mad: “What? You don’t want to take me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just think that since this is such a good chance, why don’t you bring your wife and child with us as well” Gu Qing Shan smiled and said.\u003C\u002Fp>",1356,"2026-06-09T03:05:24.739Z",1,"novelbin.me","5f4329c245e7d53da6d2ffdea1ac389882f8f6e2773f4eed0696701ef8e4cbd3","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-717","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-715",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]