Water Tribulation

Let time turn back a little.

When the old man demanded that Gu Qingshan choose between undergoing the tribulation and Zhi Luo,

Gu Qingshan chose to undergo the tribulation without hesitation.

Protected by the defensive sword formation, he successfully passed the Fire Tribulation and left the Freely Transforming Heaven Realm.

The old man led the cultivators off to destroy the mountain.

Gu Qingshan, however, had already moved on to the Water Tribulation.

Among the four sacred pillars of earth, water, fire, and wind, wind and fire represented destruction and passing away, while earth and water represented birth and growth.

So the Water Tribulation wasn't actually meant to take a cultivator's life.

It was a tribulation of change and the unknown.

Gu Qingshan moved among countless glimmers of light.

At a certain moment, those glimmers linked together into a sheet of radiance, illuminating the entire world.

Gu Qingshan suddenly found himself standing on a boundless expanse of water.

There wasn't a trace of life anywhere in the world.

The water's surface was smooth as a mirror, reflecting the silver sky above and the only being beneath it—Gu Qingshan.

A moment later, a stream of water rose from the surface, gradually stretching and changing until it took the shape of another Gu Qingshan.

The two Gu Qingshans stood facing each other without moving.

Suddenly, one of them came to life.

He gazed curiously at his counterpart and asked, "Are you me from another world?"

"Yes," Gu Qingshan replied. "Looks like your soul has arrived. According to the rules of the Water Tribulation, nothing that happens today can cause you any real harm, so you can give it your all."

The other Gu Qingshan looked pensive. "So in a Parallel World, my main profession is actually a sword cultivator."

Gu Qingshan asked tentatively,