Simulation of the Heavens: Starting from the Age of Desolation

Chapter 117 Gu Qi's Arrangements: An Unexpected Joy
"Charge in."

At this moment, the guardian deity Huozhu also became ruthless.

Although the power of the Void Mother Tree's leaves has disappeared, he still has other trump cards.

call!
A silver armor appeared on the body of the Guardian of Calamity Candle, and he headed directly into the depths of the Black Moon Swamp.

But just as the Guardian of Calamity Candle rushed out, a divine sword suddenly attacked.

laugh!laugh!laugh!
The divine sword pierced the silver armor, but it didn't cause much damage.

"They have so many trump cards," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

However, he also understood that it was difficult for these guardian avatars of the Mother Ancestor Sect to be reborn after they died, so he naturally cherished his life even more.

"Then let's see how many trump cards you have." Zhou Yu sneered inwardly. He changed his sword technique, transforming it from a move with terrifying destructive power into a strike using pure brute force.

After losing the blessing of the Void Mother Tree leaves, the Guardian of Calamity Candle was no longer as powerful as Zhou Yu, and his skills were far inferior to Zhou Yu's.

Faced with Zhou Yu's repeated blows, he couldn't withstand them at all and could only be sent flying like a ball.

Of course, the Guardian of Calamity, relying on his silver armor, was able to deflect a lot of the force. Even though he was knocked away time and time again, he still headed towards the depths of the Black Moon Swamp from different directions.

The battle lasted for almost half a day, and even after the power of his silver armor was exhausted, the Guardian of Calamity was still unable to truly enter the Black Moon Swamp.

At this moment, the Guardian of Calamity had also exhausted his skills, and his life force began to deplete again in the face of Zhou Yu's attacks.

"I can't hold on until reinforcements arrive."

The guardian deity Huozhu quickly understood.

The Mother Ancestor Sect also has a group of protectors in each of the other two grotto-heavens.

Although the guardians of the Calamity Candle had long sought help, none of the guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect were able to traverse time and space within the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel; relying solely on slow flight was indeed too slow.

At this time, the Mother Ancestor Cult teams in the other two cave heavens had only just arrived at the Blood Demon Cave Heaven, and it would take them a very long time to reach the Black Moon Swamp.

After persisting for a while, the Guardian of Calamity felt that he had lost more than half of his life force.

He immediately waved his hand, and three figures appeared nearby; they were the other three ordinary protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect.

"The three of you, escape on your own. Every one of you who can escape is a chance," Guardian Huozhu said in a deep voice, and the three ordinary guards were already mentally prepared.

At that moment, the three of them fled in different directions.

"Huh? Split up and escape?"

Zhou Yu frowned slightly.

He traveled through time and space, instantly arriving in front of the gray-robed woman.

"ah!!"

The gray-robed woman let out an incredibly piercing scream, and at the same time, countless green vines burst forth to entangle Zhou Yu.

The principle of using softness to overcome hardness is indeed useful when the difference in strength is not significant, but the difference in their strength was too great.

Zhou Yu completely ignored the binding force of the green vines. With a single burst of sword energy, he pierced through the gray-robed woman's body and pulverized it.

Zhou Yu didn't linger. He instantly traveled through time and space to catch up with another blue-eyed man. The man wielded two swords to block the attack, but he couldn't withstand two moves from Zhou Yu either. His body was also instantly blasted apart.

Immediately afterward, Zhou Yu was about to chase after the last purple-robed elder, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that Protector Huozhu had taken the opportunity to fly millions of miles away, heading straight for the depths of the Black Moon Swamp.

Without hesitation, Zhou Yu immediately went to the guardian of the Calamity Candle and blasted him back with his sword.

While Zhou Yu was repelling the Demon Candle Protector, the gray-robed woman and the green-eyed figure also reformed their physical bodies and fled at high speed once again.

But Zhou Yu caught up with the two and shattered their bodies with a sword.

"Take care of these three first," Zhou Yu decided immediately.

Given his speed, the best he could do without any mishaps is to deal with three people at the same time.

In fact, the other three guardians were just extras; only the top-tier guardian, the Calamity Candle Guardian, was the one Zhou Yu was determined to kill.

A top-tier guardian is far superior to ordinary guardians in every aspect; killing one of them is comparable to killing ten ordinary guardians.

Therefore, Zhou Yu must ensure that the Guardian of Calamity does not escape.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
At this moment, Zhou Yu shuttled between the three battlefields time and time again. After a few breaths, the gray-robed woman and the blue-eyed figure were completely extinguished of their life force and died on the spot.

On the contrary, the Guardian of Calamity could only suffer a tiny bit of damage to Zhou Yu's life force each time he unleashed his power. It took almost half an hour before the Guardian of Calamity finally died completely.

"This Guardian of Calamity is really hard to kill," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

Actually, it's because his level of understanding is not high enough.

If he reaches the top-tier Opening Realm solely through his own comprehension, then the power of his ultimate techniques will undergo a qualitative change, and killing Protector Huozhu might only take a few sword strikes.

"One left."

Zhou Yu then put away the many treasures left behind by the Guardian of Calamity Candle and looked into the depths of the Black Moon Swamp.

He didn't know much about this dangerous place. In the information given to him by the Blood Blade God Emperor, it was only said that this was one of the dangerous places in the Blood Demon Cave Heaven, where spacetime was disordered and contained unknown dangers, posing a considerable threat to ordinary Venerables.

However, even top-tier Venerables are generally quite confident of surviving if they enter.

"My ability to protect myself far surpasses that of ordinary top-tier Venerables," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

His physical defense was only slightly superior to that of the Calamity Candle Protector, yet when he was attacked, his entire body took the hit.

This makes his defensive ceiling extremely high.

During the previous battle, when the Guardian of Calamity attacked with all his might, he directly withstood it with his bare body without even breaking his skin.

"Go in and have a look."

Zhou Yu didn't think much about it.

This dangerous place poses little threat to him, and since he has opened up a spacetime tunnel, the impact of spacetime distortion on him should be minimal.

. . .

Black Moon Swamp is a rather peculiar and dangerous place.

Once inside, no matter where you are or what angle you observe from, you will always see that black crescent moon in the void.

However, Zhou Yu had no time to appreciate the spectacular sight; instead, he was searching for the purple-robed protector.

"This protector is very careful, leaving very few traces." Zhou Yu followed the trail, but found very few clues.

Since the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect do not have karmic threads attached to them, it is even more difficult to find them.

"It depends on luck."

Zhou Yu didn't think much of it; since he couldn't find any clues, he simply stopped looking.

Instead, they followed their intuition and moved forward.

As time passed, Zhou Yu still couldn't find any trace of the purple-robed protector. However, he did manage to collect some treasures, all of which were unique to the Black Moon Swamp as recorded in the annals.

"No more time wasted."

Zhou Yu quickly decided to give up, after all, he was just an ordinary protector and not worth wasting too much of his time on.

However, at that moment, Zhou Yu, who was flying, suddenly noticed a faint spacetime fluctuation in front of him.

"Hmm? Could it be the protector of the Mother Ancestor Sect?" Zhou Yu's spirits lifted immediately, and he followed the faint spatial fluctuations forward.

suddenly——

As time and space shifted ahead, Zhou Yu felt that everything before him had changed.

The black moon in the sky disappeared, replaced by a towering black mountain peak. The mountain peak naturally exuded an extremely terrifying aura, making Zhou Yu feel a sense of oppression.

"This isn't a mountain range, it's a corpse." Zhou Yu quickly recognized the true nature of the "mountain."

It has hundreds of claws, and its huge head hangs strangely upside down on its body.

"This Black Moon Swamp was probably formed due to the influence of this corpse." The closer Zhou Yu got to the corpse, the more chaotic the space-time became, and he understood. It was likely that the Demon Ancestor had thrown the corpse here, naturally creating a dangerous place.

call!call!call!
Zhou Yu continued to travel through time and space. Although the spacetime around here was chaotic, Zhou Yu had still managed to open up a spacetime passage.

He traveled along the way, and he also drew closer.

But just when Zhou Yu felt he wasn't far from the corpse, he suddenly felt an invisible force stop him.

"A magic array? Was it set up by the Demon Ancestor to prevent people from getting close?" Zhou Yu wondered to himself.

However, at this moment, a power surged out from the magic array, allowing Zhou Yu to see a scene.

In the scene, the corpse stands there, but a figure walks towards it.

The figure had silver hair and golden horns, but its face was blurry and unclear.

"This Demon Ancestor was lucky to find a Black Abyss Beast corpse, but he didn't realize that the Black Abyss Beast wasn't completely dead? If this corpse is allowed to absorb power here, it will probably awaken after endless years." The figure shook his head.

He then waved his hand, and a magic array was instantly set up.

In addition to the visuals, a great deal of information also came in.

The Black Abyss Beast is a void creature that appears to be dead, but is actually still slowly absorbing power to recover.

After that being discovered this place, it set up a magic array.

This magic array instantly turned what could have been a crisis into an opportunity.

The life energy of the Black Abyss Beast contains various magical effects. This magic array can extract and store this energy. When cultivators come here, they can fight and kill the life forms formed by this energy. As long as they can kill these life forms, they can obtain special benefits.

"Could that silver-haired, golden-horned figure be Gu Qi?" Zhou Yu thought to himself in surprise.

In this world, even a true god is only the beginning of cultivation; above them are void gods, and even more so, cosmic gods.

The "Tianyu Ancestor" who created this universe is a cosmic god.

Gu Qi is another cosmic god.

He has been to this universe and should have left a map in the Demon Ancestor's treasury, the place that map points to contains the legacy left by Gu Qi.

However, when Zhou Yu drew treasures from the Demon Ancestor's Treasury, what he drew was the opportunity to enter the Demon Ancestor's Cave.

"The silver-haired, golden-horned man is very likely him," Zhou Yu thought to himself with a sigh.

Since the other party left a map in the Demon Ancestor's Treasury, they must have been to the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel. They came to the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and discovered the problem here, so they set up this magic array.

"Since it's an arrangement by the God of the Universe, there shouldn't be any problems." Zhou Yu didn't think much about it at the moment.

With a thought, he entered the magic array as instructed in the message.

Upon entering, the terrifying aura emanating from the enormous "corpse" assaulted Zhou Yu's senses, making it even more palpable.

"This 'Black Abyss Beast' is probably no ordinary void creature," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

At this moment, power suddenly condensed in front of Zhou Yu, instantly forming a thousand-clawed beast that bore a striking resemblance to the towering corpse.

The beast let out a low growl and pounced on Zhou Yu.

It has little intelligence, but its body naturally contains some profound mysteries, making the beast's pounce quite mysterious.

"Ok?"

A divine sword instantly appeared in Zhou Yu's hand.

Immediately following, a terrifying sword light erupted.

Annihilation of spacetime!

puff!

The beast was instantly cleaved in two, its terrifying power annihilating the beast's strength.

Wow! Wow!
Two more dazzling sword lights followed, instantly annihilating the beast into nothingness.

"This strange beast is weaker than an ordinary protector of the Mother Ancestor Sect, barely qualifying as a Venerable-level being," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

However, this is not surprising, since only Venerables can enter the Blood Demon Cave Heaven, and the strange beasts formed by this formation cannot be too strong.

At this moment, the invisible power was absorbed by Zhou Yu.

He felt that his soul had improved considerably.

"So this is the opportunity mentioned in the information from that magic array." Zhou Yu understood.

For cultivators, the soul is extremely important. A strong soul leads to faster cultivation and improved comprehension.

For example, the Bloodblade God Emperor possessed a treasure called "Void Soul Liquid," which could greatly enhance a cultivator's soul. This treasure was also called the greatest opportunity he had encountered in his years of cultivation.

"Huh? Primal energy, I've absorbed primal energy!" Suddenly, Zhou Yu was stunned.

Moreover, he absorbed a tremendous amount of primordial energy at this moment, ten times more than when he killed the Guardian of Calamity.

Although he only killed a clone of the Calamity Candle Guardian, the Calamity Candle Guardian was, after all, a top-tier guardian. The amount of primal energy absorbed from killing it was ten times greater than what he absorbed from killing the Calamity Candle Guardian. This meant that the primal energy from killing this beast was practically equivalent to completely annihilating the Calamity Candle Guardian.

"This"

Zhou Yu was overjoyed.

At this moment, another strange beast suddenly materialized in the void ahead.

The beast roared as it charged forward. Its strength was clearly much greater than the previous one, and it should be comparable to an ordinary protector of the Mother Ancestor Sect.

But for Zhou Yu, such strength was merely a matter of striking a few more swords.

In an instant, Zhou Yu unleashed more than ten sword strikes, completely annihilating the strange beast.

call!
First, Zhou Yu absorbed the invisible power, which enhanced his soul once again. Then, he absorbed a massive amount of primordial energy, even more than before.

“It seems that what happened last time wasn’t an accident.” Zhou Yu’s eyes lit up at this moment.

He vaguely understood at this moment.

His battles with these strange beasts were essentially the same as his battles with the abyssal creature "Black Abyss Beast," except that the Black Abyss Beast's life energy was extracted by Gu Qi's magic array and transformed into ordinary strange beasts.

How high is the life essence of this Black Abyss Beast?

At this moment, Zhou Yu was essentially absorbing the Black Abyss Beast's primordial energy, which naturally made him feel an astonishing amount.

Although Zhou Yu was pleasantly surprised, he remained calm on the surface and steadily killed each of the strange beasts that appeared one after another.

However, the strength of these strange beasts is also constantly increasing.

Zhou Yu killed six in succession. By the time he killed the seventh, the beast's strength was already terrifying, even surpassing that of the Calamity Candle Protector.

Zhou Yu was still able to fight and kill it without being defeated, but his special moves could no longer hurt the Black Abyss Beast.

If you can't hurt them, it means you can't kill them.

Zhou Yu had no choice but to retreat outside the magic array for the time being.

"This formation is similar to the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel; each person has three chances to enter," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

He could have waited until he was stronger before coming.

"Let's simulate it first."

Zhou Yu thought to himself that he had just absorbed too much primal energy, which made the simulation opportunity, which was originally far from being able to gather enough primal energy, suddenly become a reality.

Given the opportunity, Zhou Yu naturally wanted to conduct a simulation.

However, Zhou Yu was also taken aback when the simulated world was extracted.

"Is it this world again?" Zhou Yu sighed, but he didn't dwell on it and continued reading.

P.S.: That's all for today. I'll add more tomorrow if needed.
(End of this chapter)