4 Attack

Gu Qing Shan suddenly thought of something.

"War God System, I have a question."

[Ting]!

[Go ahead] replied the system.

"Why can't I recall the battle techniques and experiences that I had?"

[You've just traveled through Space-time, creating a storm-like disturbance in the Space-time Vortex]

[There are many other malicious parties that have sensed this anomaly and they are now looking for the source of the problem]

[So part of your memories must be sealed and hidden away for now. Once everything settles down, I will find a suitable time to break the seal on your memories]

Hearing this, Gu Qing Shan sighed.

Then felt his body suddenly slightly shivering in pain.

Looking down, he could see the white bandages all over his body slowly being dyed red.

Right, I was still recovering, his wounds not yet fully healed, using that much force of course would make them reopen.

Gu Qing Shan put the military bow back down, looked for a marching bed nearby to lie down and rest.

You can't rush these things, everything must be done as steadily as possible.

Gu Qing Shan took out the second remaining Healing pill and proceeded to swallow it without hesitation.

He closes his eyes, start to silently circulate his spirit energy to absorb the pill.

A night passes without any incidents.

At dawn, the downpour becomes even worse.

The climate outside is already beginning to become colder, from the rain water you can almost feel the frost seeping into the land.

In just a few dozen more days, Winter will come.

Inside the outpost.

Gu Qing Shan was awoken by the cold.

He stood up and stretched his body to find that his wounds were already closed up enough to move around again.

Military-grade Healing pills really aren't just for show, the potency is top-notch.

Just a few minutes after, a knock and the door was opened.

Zhao Lu once again carried a pot, carefully bringing it in.

Gu Qing Shan looks at the slightly smoking pot, smelling the faint scent of porridge inside, he asks: "How much food is left?"

Zhao Lu sighs: "Only enough left for a day and a half". As he answered, his eyes also took a glance at Gu Qing Shan's inventory bag.

Gu Qing Shan noticed, but didn't say anything.

When he "returned", his inventory also became as empty as everything else.

Gu Qing Shan took a bowl of porridge in hand as both of them silently had their breakfast.

"Your wounds, how is it now?" Zhao Lu asks again, looking a bit hopeful.

"Better", Gu Qing Shan stretches and nonchalantly asks: "Old Zhao, which squad were you in? Which position?"

Zhao Lu reluctantly smiles and answers: "I'm from Fireplace Squad, in a normal day I can make food for hundreds of people no problem"

Oh so he was originally a kitchen staff, no wonder he could make even a bowl of bland porridge taste good.

In this despair scenario, without Gu Qing Shan, a normal person like Zhao Lu would only have a single fate of death waiting for him.

But Zhao Lu doesn't know that Gu Qing Shan himself was only a Qi Training stage 1 newbie, if he ran into a squad of demons, Gu Qing Shan can and most likely will also die.

Gu Qing Shan silently mulled over his situation, glancing at the hourglass on his UI.

There isn't much sand left inside the hourglass, it'd run out any minute now.

Players can stay in this other world for a whole day and only an hour will have passed in Reality Qi Training stage 1 players have to return to Reality when this time ends, waiting for an entire day before they can come back here.

Gu Qing Shan really wants to know what year it was in Reality right now.

Having eaten half their breakfast, both of them stopped their hands.

"Brother Gu, seems like there's some commotion outside", Zhao Lu slightly shrinks his body, letting out a squeaky voice.

"I'll go take a look", Gu Qing Shan replies, takes the military bow and heads outside

The hourglass seems to only have about 10 minutes left, I hope there won't be anything too big.

As Gu Qing Shan left the room, he readied an arrow on his bow, slightly squinted to check all sides.

His eyes quickly darted around all the building, not leaving a single corner untouched.

That said, the outpost has an Invisibility formation in place, so demons aren't going to get in here too easily.

So what is happening really? 

Scratch, scratch, scratch, that sound again.

This direction, it's the outpost's gates.

Gu Qing Shan stuck close to the wall as he silently moved toward the gates.

A huge demon beast, as large as two fully grown adults, appeared in Gu Qing Shan's sight.

The demon beast is wagging its tail, standing on the edge of the mass grave, carefully looking around.

Even though the nonstop rain helped wash it away somewhat, the putrid smell of the mass grave could still draw in demon beasts like this.

Gu Qing Shan hides in the shadow of the roof, raises his bow and slowly pulls back the string.

He knows this monster.

This is a low-level demon beast, even if it looks a bit clumsy, if it starts going crazy, its running and biting attacks are nothing to make light of, even 2-3 normal soldiers can't defeat it.

Gu Qing Shan can only thank his luck.

Lucky that I chose to learn ranged attacks, together with the outpost's Invisibility formation, I just might be able to kill it.

The demon beast slowly paced around the mass grave, sometimes rolling on the ground.

It's trying to bait and find out if there are any traps, or other demon beasts lying in ambush.

The hourglass only has 10 minutes left.

Gu Qing Shan silently holds his bow, not moving an inch.

Neighs! 

Neighs!

The demon beast stops, breaths out from its snout, his large head still looking around cautiously.

5 minutes left.

Gu Qing Shan stayed completely still.

The demon beast finally slowly lowered its head, wanting to eat one of the corpses.

Its snout hover over the dead body back and forth, finally deciding to open its huge mouth, showing the multitudes of jagged fangs inside.

Right at this moment!

Gu Qing Shan pulls the bowstring back fully, pouring spirit energy into the arrow.

Invisible wind forms around the arrowhead.

An arrow that has spirit energy poured in, is 5 times more destructive than a normal one.

These arrows were all specially made so that it could hold not just spirit energy, but also energy of the 5 Elements.

With the military bow pulled all the way back, Gu Qing Shan stayed silent for two breaths, then finally let go.

Whoosh!

The arrow shoots out in a flash and makes contact with the beast's mouth, in pain, the demon beast jumps forward, rolling on the ground.

After shooting one arrow, Gu Qing Shan fluidly pulls back his bowstring for the next one without hesitation.

Rapid Fire!

Each and every arrow turns into streaks of light, flying from the military bow at their target.

The demon beast roars angrily, running straight at the direction of the outpost to attack.

But in just a few steps, it started to turn around, wanting to escape.

More and more arrows were sticking to its body, all precisely aimed at its weak points or vitals like the organs, joints, and stomach area.

Its injury was becoming severe with overwhelming speed, turning the demon beast's intense rage into immense fright.

If it immediately decided to flee when first struck, then maybe its speed could save its life, but when it chose to retaliate then changed its mind halfway to flee, then it's already too late.

During that whole process, Gu Qing Shan's face shows no emotion, both arms as steady as a rock, continuously pulling out arrows, pulling back the bowstring, and letting loose.

1 minute left.

The demon beast fell flat on the ground, no longer moving.

Its body now looked like a pin cushion for arrows with fresh blood pouring from all over its vitals, soaking the ground red.

Gu Qing Shan only had around 40% of his spirit energy left.

Even so, he still continues to draw his arrows, putting spirit energy inside them, aiming precisely at the beast's vitals and letting arrows loose.

Demon beasts are relatively intelligent, they're not dumb and stupid like normal beasts, some are even craftier compared to humans.

They also know how to faint death and to lure enemies.

After 7-8 breaths later, as the demon beast's body kept being riddled with more arrows, it could no longer keep up the ruse and sprung up to flee again.

What it received for that was an even more intense flurry of arrows.

The demon beast tries its best to dash forward 5-6 meters more before crashing straight into a huge tree and falling down to the ground.

This time it really is dead.

Two lines of glowing text showed up in Gu Qing Shan's sight.

[Soul Point +1, current Soul Point: 1/5] 

[Experience enough, current Experience 5/5, you can now level up, please confirm if you would like to level up]

Earlier when he killed the Skinning Blood demon, he already received 4 Experience points, now he got 1 more, reaching the level up requirements.

Not a single bit of hesitation, Gu Qing Shan: "Level up"

Following his voice, the Experience stat turns from [5/5] into [0/10]

From Qi Training stage 2 to Qi Training stage 3, the amount of Experience required is doubled.

On Gu Qing Shan's character status screen, his level "Qi Training stage 1" also changes, turning into "Qi Training stage 2"

A flashy gold light emits from Gu Qing Shan's body.

The warm flow of water-like substance circles Gu Qing Shan's body, finally concentrating at his Dantian and turning into excess spirit energy.