The ninth Parallel World.
"A Great Tomb? The apocalypse? Perfect. Let's go," one Gu Qingshan said.
The tenth Parallel World.
"I can hardly wait to experience such a completely new challenge, one the likes of which has never been seen before," another Gu Qingshan said.
The eleventh Parallel World.
"Speaking of which, which one of me went through something this incredible?" yet another Gu Qingshan asked.
All the Gu Qingshans turned their heads in unison, looking toward the original Gu Qingshan, who had come from the Great Tomb and held the Heaven and Earth Twin Swords.
"Oh, it was you?" that Gu Qingshan said.
"It was me. What about it?" the original Gu Qingshan replied.
That Gu Qingshan looked around at all the others and said thoughtfully, "You... seem to be the strongest version of me."
The original Gu Qingshan smiled. "Want to come with us?"
"Of course."
The twenty-ninth Parallel World.
A crowd of Gu Qingshans stood on a cliff, gathered around a grave.
"I... died in this world?" one Gu Qingshan murmured.
Xie Daoling said, "You didn't die. What you're sensing is a false Death Qi. It comes from the Yellow Springs Path, and as it happens, I know a little about it."
She drew her whip and lashed the grave with all her might.
Boom!
The grave split open.
A figure sprang out of it.
With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, he held a pen in one hand and a stack of letter paper in the other. Irritably, he said:
"What's going on? Who interrupted me—why are there so many of me?!"
A little while later.
"That's how it happened." Gu Qingshan explained the whole story.
"Oh... I'd be willing to go. Wait a moment while I finish writing this last part."
He rapidly finished