Apocalypse Online For All Worlds - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Desire

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Gu Qingshan picked up the blood-colored Jade Plate. After carefully inspecting it, he filled the plate with Spirit Power and gently started it up.

A strange, otherworldly voice rang out from the Jade Plate immediately.

“Target is moving toward the south, east 726, south 94. Instruction: Faceless Giant, Blood Drinking Demon army to chase and attack target.”

Gu Qingshan immediately understood what was happening.

This was a dispatch order for the demon army, and it was a message to guide the direction of the army’s movement.

So this strange bird was really a messenger for the demon army, and it was here both to send a message as well as to move them in the right direction.

This messenger was moving at an extremely high speed and could fly at the speed of lightning when it went at full speed. If it hadn’t been so severely injured, Gu Qingshan wouldn’t have been able to shoot it down.

Without the information and instruction from this strange bird, the demon army was definitely going to end up going way off from the target they were chasing after.

Gu Qingshan pressed the blood-colored Jade Plate in his hands, then put it into his storage bag.

He hadn’t expected himself to coincidentally ruin the movement of a demon army.

Since the demon bird was dead, the Faceless Giant and the Blood Drinking Demons would probably be hampered for the time being.

His cultivation level was too low, so that was the most he could do. Gu Qingshan sighed quietly.

He couldn’t go on like this. He had to find a way to change his situation as quickly as possible.

Power! He needed more power!

Gu Qingshan’s eyes were filled with determination and desire.

He washed away the mud on himself, then went to look at Zhao Liu, who was still unconscious. Gu Qingshan then grabbed a whole bunch of arrows, slung the bow on, and left the camp.

Gu Qingshan finally dragged a demon back to the camp in the evening.

Actually, he hadn’t gone very far. His cultivation level had been too low, so he’d had no choice but to use all the stealth moves he had to take a walk around the camp, narrowly dodging several fierce demons and finally killing a few small and low-level ones.

All these demons were at the lowest level among the demons, so they were very suitable for refining Qi in the early stages.

Since he was only at Qi Refiner Level 2 and was fairly weak, he’d had to use all the arrows in his quiver as well as sustain more wounds on himself before managing to kill a few demons.

It was hard to blame him for being in this state. In his previous life, players had formed large teams and used all their might to kill off one demon when they’d first started hunting demons.

Even a small demon could weigh nearly 200 kilograms, so it was hard for an ordinary person to move that sort of weight by himself.

There was limited space in the storage bag, so in order to allow freedom of movement, Gu Qingshan had only brought one of the demons back.

He’d just given up on carrying the rest of them.

There were dangers everywhere in the forest. The stench of the blood on the demons’ dead bodies quickly attracted several predators.

The War God system didn’t seem to care for low-level demons. After spending the entire day hunting, the system only awarded Gu Qingshan with 1 point of Soul Power.

Now he had a total of 4 points in his Soul Power. But his XP side was doing well and had finally hit 10 points.

He could advance in level now.

That small demon he’d brought back was enough for him and Zhao Liu to eat for several days.

The two of them could stick around for another two weeks if not for the fact that there weren’t enough Spirit Stones at the Concealment Magic Formation.

By the time Gu Qingshan had returned to the campsite, Zhao Liu had woken up.

Zhao Liu stood at the entrance of the camp and looked out despairingly until he saw Gu Qingshan and the dead body of the small demon behind him. He was immediately filled with life again.

Zhao Liu bent down and stared intensely at that small demon without being able to look away at all.

He then said, “Bro, thanks for everything you did earlier. You’d better go take a rest, I’ll deal with this beast and I promise you’ll enjoy tonight’s dinner.”

“You can take it.”

Gu Qingshan left the demon there and went back to the room. He sat down cross-legged and shut his eyes.

“XP is now 10/10. Confirm level up?”

“Yes.”

Once Gu Qingshan had made his choice, the breath and blood flowing within his body started rushing, and even his Spirit Power started to move, but there were parts of his body where Spirit Power was stuck and didn’t allow anything to pass through.

Since he could feel where it was stuck, it meant that it was time to break through these barriers.

This was his chance for a breakthrough!

Gu Qingshan allowed himself to enter into a state of breakthrough.

HOOO!

Gu Qingshan felt much better after he spat out a mouthful of filthy Qi.

He had finally successfully reached Qi Refiner Level 3!

Gu Qingshan immediately pulled his Spirit Power together and carefully sent it out into his meridian channels to slowly heal his body.

There were too many tiny wounds on his body, so he couldn’t be too hasty about things.

He used his Spirit Power to nourish his body and peeked at the interface at the same time.

“Current XP: 0/15”

He had to go out and continue hunting to level up again.

Gu Qingshan felt a pressure building up in his heart that he had never felt before.

Faceless Giants were equivalent to completing the Nascent Soul stage, which was something that Gu Qingshan could only dream of from afar now.

The Faceless Giant should have been powerful enough to discover this camp, but because the camp only contained two weaklings, the Faceless Giant wouldn’t have been bothered to attack them.

This feeling of having his life in the hands of demons felt really terrible.

Gu Qingshan paced the room for a while and finally came to a decision.

He had to start cultivating right now until he reached Foundation Building.

When one moved from Qi Refiner to Foundation Building, or from Foundation Building to Golden Core, or basically whenever one moved from one stage to another, there was a chance to obtain Magical Power, but of course, one could fail to obtain it as well.

There were four types of Magical Powers in this world, and they corresponded to the ones in the real world. They were split into Guicang Martial Arts, Extraordinary Elemental Arts, Chosen Ones, and Deity Descendants.

Guicang Martial Arts dealt with increasing the strength hidden in the body. The area for expansion was fairly large, so it was the best for Sword Cultivators and Physical Cultivators.

Extraordinary Elemental Arts dealt with the Spirit type of the body. It developed the Spiritual Root of the Major Five Elements or the Peculiar Five Elements so that one could use the power of these elements to go into battle.

Chosen Ones had skills of all types, and Gu Qingshan knew of thousands of different skills they could have.

This sort of Magical Power was a gift from birth and randomly developed in a person, so it was difficult to predict and wasn’t necessary to mention.

As for Deity Descendants, that was just a name used to call anyone with divine skills.

Divine skills included the creation of things, doing supernatural things, changing the course of nature, altering fate, making the stars fall, bringing an end to all things, and more.

This sort of skill was something that all ordinary players could only dream about and never obtain.

Even in this other world, only the strongest human cultivators could have divine skills.

Gu Qingshan didn’t think about attaining a skill of a Chosen One, and definitely didn’t think about reaching the point where he could obtain divine skills. He didn’t even hope to develop elements.

He just wanted to activate the power of Guicang Martial Arts and increase his battling skills as much as possible.

He had to obtain this Magical Power and keep himself alive!

Gu Qingshan was filled with a desire to become stronger, but he continued to remain patient and continued to use his Spirit Power to nourish the wounds on his body.

His wounds were not all healed up, and his mind and body were both very tired, so he couldn’t force himself to go out and hunt demons for the time being.

As the saying goes, the time taken to sharpen the axe is not a waste of firewood chopping time. He had to give himself some time to recover first in order to be able to carry on.

After two hours, Zhao Liu came into the room.

He placed a sumptuous meal consisting of barbequed demon meat and plain porridge on the table.

Gu Qingshan and Zhao Liu quickly and happily ate up everything, then sat around the fire to chat after they had cleared everything away.

“Are there any swords within the camp?” asked Gu Qingshan.

He had reached Qi Refiner Level 3, so he could start practicing his swordsmanship.

Bows were for long-range attacks, while swords were for close combat. This was the ideal that Gu Qingshan had for his battle strategy in this life.

“Swords?” Zhao Liu shook his head. “Only officers get to have swords, but they’re all dead and their weapons were thrown into the mass grave along with them.”

The entire mass grave had been swallowed whole by the Faceless Giant and hadn’t left a single trace behind.

Gu Qingshan sighed helplessly. He was a Sword Cultivator but couldn’t even get his hands on a sword since his rebirth. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.