Battle of Fate

This was happening? Gu Qingshan's expression changed, and he swiftly brought up the God of War Interface.

A stream of light flashed across the War God Operating Interface, transforming into several lines of blood-red text in the center.

"Shatter the shackles of fate, alter the predetermined history. Player Gu Qingshan enters the Fate Mission."

"Mission Description: Gongsun Zhi and Ning Yuechan are fallen figures buried deep within history. Changing their fates will alter the course of history itself."

"Mission Objective: Save Gongsun Zhi and Ning Yuechan."

"Upon successful completion of the mission, a special story reward will be granted: God of War's Divine Power (Unique)."

"Mission Failure: The player will be obliterated."

Gu Qingshan read it in one breath, utterly stunned.

"Me? Save them?" He gave a wry smile.

"Failure results in obliteration? That's interesting. It's as if the Demons would generously let me off if I failed."

Gu Qingshan looked towards the sky.

With his current strength, Gu Qingshan couldn't even begin to interfere in a battle of the Faceless Giant's level.

But if he were to flee, the surrounding Demons were increasing in number, making it almost impossible to escape alone.

Even if he could escape, the system mission had already been issued; he couldn't survive alone.

If Gongsun Zhi and Ning Yuechan died, he would be obliterated along with them.

Gu Qingshan looked ahead again.

The Demon Army was charging madly, about to enter their range.

The situation had reached its most critical point.

Gongsun Zhi's hands moved like butterflies flitting through flowers as he rapidly tapped the Array Disc, shouting, "Mountain Burial Array!"

The earth rumbled, and five mountain peaks rose from the ground, trapping dozens of Netherfire Evil Serpents and Blood-Drinking Demons among them, squeezing them back and forth like a millstone.

The mountain peaks rose higher and higher, and the squeezing force between them rapidly increased. Many Netherfire Evil Serpents were directly crushed into bloody masses of flesh.

Suddenly, a Netherfire Evil Serpent fell from between the mountain peaks, crashing to the ground, on the verge of death.

Gu Qingshan's eyes flickered.

He drew an arrow, placed it on the longbow named 'Night Rain', and shot it.

This was a specially made arrow, its tip crafted from the poisonous fangs of a Python Demon by Gu Qingshan, its power unmatched by ordinary arrows.

With a whooshing sound, the arrow pierced the Netherfire Evil Serpent's body, sinking deep into its internal organs.

The poison from the Python Demon's fangs took effect instantly, and the unfortunate Netherfire Evil Serpent quickly died.

Netherfire Evil Serpents were high-level Demon Beasts with a strong ability to sense danger, but before the Night Rain bow, it didn't sense the coming of death at all.

Gu Qingshan gripped the longbow tightly, his admiration for Ning Yuechan growing.

Gongsun Zhi turned his head and gave him an approving nod, saying, "Very good, keep firing arrows, and try not to let them have a chance to attack."

"Alright!"

Gu Qingshan drew another arrow, a thought suddenly occurring to him.

A prompt appeared in his sea of consciousness.

"Killed a high-level monster: Netherfire Evil Serpent, gained 20 Soul Power. Current Soul Power: 21/7."

It can be like this?

Gu Qingshan was somewhat surprised.

The Soul Power he possessed far exceeded his Soul Power Limit.

When hunting low-level Demon Beasts, once his Soul Power reached its limit, he could no longer accumulate it.

This made Gu Qingshan quite troubled.

The Netherfire Evil Serpent was a high-level Demon Beast, equivalent to a Human Race Foundation Establishment cultivator, far exceeding Gu Qingshan's cultivation realm.

Killing a Netherfire Evil Serpent accumulated 21 points of Soul Power, enough to comprehend many skills at once.

It seemed the War God Operating Interface greatly encouraged players to challenge opponents stronger than themselves.

Once one defeated a stronger opponent, they could ignore the Soul Power Limit and accumulate more Soul Power.

Gu Qingshan gradually understood, and simply put away the Night Rain Bow, replacing it with the Military Bow, and learned the "Precision" skill on the Military Bow.

"I choose to comprehend Precision."

"Precision has been comprehended, consuming 4 points of Soul Power. Current Soul Power: 17/7."

A surge of heat flowed from the Military Bow into Gu Qingshan's mind. After a few breaths, Gu Qingshan understood what Precision was.

He picked up an ordinary arrow and aimed at another Netherfire Evil Serpent, falling from the five peaks, on its last breath.

Whoosh!

Sensing the danger, the Netherfire Evil Serpent instinctively tried to dodge, but its injuries were too severe, and it couldn't move at all.

The arrow pierced the Netherfire Evil Serpent's eye socket, deeply penetrating its skull, instantly taking its life.

So that's it, Precision enhances accuracy, Gu Qingshan realized.

"Killed a high-level monster: Netherfire Evil Serpent, gained 20 points of Soul Power. Current Soul Power: 37/7."

Gu Qingshan put down the Military Bow and once again switched to the longbow "Night Rain".

He opened the War God Interface and quickly scanned the skills that the Night Rain Bow possessed.

"Bow name: Night Rain, has been used to cast the following skills:"

"First, Barrage, caster: Ning Annan, requires 10 points of Soul Power."

"Second, Precision, caster: Ning Yuechan, requires 6 points of Soul Power."

"Third, Hundred Steps Piercing Willow, caster: Ning Annan, requires 15 points of Soul Power."

"Fourth, Wind Riding (Passive Skill), caster: Ning Annan, requires 5 points of Soul Power."

Ning Annan, that was Ning Yuechan's father's name. It seemed this longbow, as Ning Yuechan had said, was the Ning family's heirloom war bow.

Gu Qingshan thought, silently reviewing the skills again.

"Precision" could further improve hit rate on the basis of "Precise", and "Hundred Steps Piercing Willow" had an even higher hit rate than "Precision".

"Wind Riding" was a passive skill that could increase the arrow's flight speed without deliberate casting.

"Barrage" was a powerful archery technique that could greatly enhance the arrow's lethality.

This was Ning Yuechan's gift, to thank him for saving her life.

Currently, the Demons were attacking. Judging from the historical trend, the Heavenly Peak Holy Maiden Ning Yuechan would soon fall into a desperate situation, falling after a bitter battle lasting a day and a night.

But this time, history had deviated. With Gu Qingshan's help, the poison she suffered was cleared, and her body was rapidly recovering.

In this life, Ning Yuechan's fated death finally had a glimmer of hope in the desperate situation.

Due to karma, Ning Yuechan gave such a powerful family heirloom war bow to Gu Qingshan.

With this bow, and the powerful skills on the bow, Gu Qingshan would become even stronger!

Gu Qingshan looked at the Night Rain Bow, his heart surging.

Such powerful archery, in ordinary times, no cultivator would easily teach to others.

But now, he had the opportunity to immediately learn these high-level archery skills.

Gu Qingshan made a decision without hesitation.

"It requires a total of 36 points of Soul Power, I choose to comprehend all of them!"

Along with his choice, the system's cold voice sounded:

"Comprehension complete, consumed 36 points of Soul Power, remaining Soul Power 1/7."

"Precision has been upgraded to Accuracy, Accuracy has been upgraded to Hundred Steps Piercing Willow."

"Player has learned Wind Riding."

"Player has learned Barrage."

A stream of scorching fire surged from the Night Rain Bow, rushing straight into Gu Qingshan's mind.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp killing intent condensed around him like a blade.