Divine Rune Awakening: Starting With Various Divine Runes and Dominating the World

Chapter 172: A Mysterious and Powerful Black Shadow!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The third floor was terrifyingly quiet. It was empty without any decorations, and it only had an ordinary stone platform.

Ding…

The bell rang again.

Following the sound, Gu Changqing saw a small copper bell on the stone platform. As if it had been eroded by time, the bell had long lost its original luster and only left behind dull lead.

Ding…

As if afraid that Gu Changqing wouldn’t notice it, it rang again. Who had deliberately left such a bronze bell here? Does it have any special meaning?

He walked to the side of the stone platform and picked the bell up. After observing it with his spiritual energy, he didn’t find anything unusual.

“Huh?!”

Gu Changqing was suddenly startled, a sense of crisis that had not appeared for a long time surging in his heart.

Ever since his potential index broke through 30,000, he no longer felt any sense of danger. However, at this moment, he felt it. How powerful was this being that could bring danger to him?

In an instant, divine light emerged from his body, making the Ying-Yang energy behind him reverse. The two dragons transformed into Tai Chi as traces of Dao runes appeared on his grayish-white armor.

Above his head, there was an image of the Grim Reaper while his body was covered in Ultimate mode armor.

Ding!

All of a sudden, the sound of weapons clashing rang out.

Gu Changqing turned around. A shadow in the air stabbed toward him with a black sword, but it was blocked by the scythe in the Grim Reaper’s hands.

“What are you?”

Gu Changqing squinted his eyes, endless pressure surging toward the shadow.

“Hehehe…”

The shadow let out a strange laugh and disappeared into the air.

A surprised voice came from the void. The King of Hell didn’t seem to have blocked anything.

Gu Changqing became serious. The rules of space couldn’t be used in Universe City, which made him lose many methods in attacking.

However, the shadow’s sneak attack wasn’t restricted by the laws of space.

After all, it should be part of the creatures that originally existed in the city.

Gu Changqing fully focused on sensing every movement in the room. Above his head, the reincarnations of the Grim Reaper, King of Hell, Nezha, and Human Skull were guarding all four directions, ready to face the sneak attack at any time.

Gu Changqing shouted, “Show up, stinky rat!”

The shadow’s two sneak attacks failed and soon fell silent. Gu Changqing had no patience to talk nonsense with it and took the initiative to fight.

“Arrogant brat!”

A cold snort came from the empty space.

“Found you!”

Behind him, the Tai Chi Diagram quickly reversed. Since he could not use the law of space, he decided to forcefully disrupt it instead.

From where the voice had just come from, the Tai Chi Diagram emitted rays of divine light in the form of rings, constantly capturing and disturbing the order of time and space.

Feeling the steady flow of divine rune power flowing out of his body, even though he had long been mentally prepared, Gu Changqing was still slightly shocked by this consumption speed.

Just forcefully disturbing a small piece of space had consumed nearly ten percent of the power. If it was in the original universe, this amount was enough to open a wormhole with a diameter of hundreds of thousands of feet.

Gu Changqing thought to himself.

I must familiarize myself with the space here as soon as possible.

“I was actually discovered?”

In just a few seconds, the shadow had been surprised three times. “Let’s see where you can run to!”

The two dragons flew out of the diagram, their majestic dragon power strengthening and disrupting the space.

“Hehehe…

However, as if mocking them, the area where the shadow was only fluctuated symbolically for a moment before disappearing again.

Why was this thing so difficult to deal with?

Gu Changqing couldn’t remember when was the last time an opponent had made things so difficult for him. This one that could hide in the empty space at any time and render him unable to attack anywhere really gave him a headache.

“Do I need to use Rahu?”

Gu Changqing’s eyes were gloomy. No matter what, he had to catch that shadow. At this moment, the latter suddenly split into four and attacked from all directions.

Gu Changqing’s divine sense locked onto the four figures, trying to find its true body. However, what surprised him again was that all four were real.

What kind of strange power was this? He was interested.

Since all of them were its true form, he could directly capture all four!

With a thought, terrifying pressure emanated from his body. His armor shone even brighter, and the space in the room cracked.

A pressure that was several times stronger than before made the four walls of the room creak.

Rahu’s image appeared in the center of his head. The moment the four shadows saw Rahu, they stopped attacking.

Three of them merged into one. What was happening now?

The shadow looked at Gu Changqing and said, “I didn’t expect that after waiting for so many years, the heir would finally appear!”

Gu Changqing didn’t want to listen to useless words and simply asked, “Heir? What do you mean?”

“Hahaha… I believe that we will meet again!”

It laughed and disappeared from the room.

Gu Changqing thoughtfully held the copper bell in his hand. He was Blue Star’s Star Emperor. If this Universe City was built by the human race, it was understandable that he was called the heir.

“We will meet again!”

This was the last thing the shadow said before it disappeared. Did this mean that its real body was hidden somewhere in this city?

Putting the bell into the space ring, Gu Changqing left the tower. When he returned to the Gobi Desert, it was already daytime.

He immediately opened his divine sense to check on his subordinates’ current situation.

Zhang Hu and the others were quite active, but they seemed to be heading in the same direction.

“Wait, why is Taotie gone?”

His spiritual sense suddenly couldn’t detect Taotie’s location.

Zhang Hu shouted anxiously, “Boss, I finally got in touch with you!” Gu Changqing asked gloomily, “What’s going on? Where’s Taotie?”

“Taotie is under attack. His opponent is very strong…”

Zhang Hu said with a fierce look in his eyes, “By the time we discovered the abnormality, Taotie and his opponent had already left our divine sense’s range!”

“All of you, move closer to my position. Be careful of the space beasts and don’t let your guard down.”

After saying that, Gu Changqing turned into a stream of light and flew in the direction where Taotie disappeared.

Zhang Hu and the others were frustrated. Their strength had increased rapidly, allowing them to walk freely in the universe. Due to this, they became a little complacent and lost their alertness to danger.

Now that Taotie had disappeared right under their noses, everyone was blaming themselves. If they hadn’t been greedy enough to explore more of the wilderness, Taotie wouldn’t have gotten into such a situation.

Now, they could only pray that their Boss would be faster. They hoped that Taotie could hold on until Boss arrived..