The sky darkened as one of the Great Demon of Nine Demons, Melaleuca, manifested in a billowing cloud of malevolence. His sinister laughter echoed through the peaceful landscape below, preparing to strike the world in chaos.
Gu Shan, wearing a mix of boredom and irritation, appear before him.
'How many times was it again? Thousand times? I lost count anymore.'
He nonchalantly twirled his sword and sighed as he looked at the Demon, "Really, destroying the world again? Can't you demons come up with something original for once?"
Melaleucia's eyes glowed with malevolent energy as she retorted, "This time will be different! No one can stop me!"
"I've already heard that too, Who wrote your script guys?"
"Enough human!" Melaleuca shouted in anger, "Your life will be the payment for destroying my advanced army! I will wash them with your blood today!"
"Sure, sure," Gu Shan encouraged, "Let's get this over with."
Suddenly, Gu Shan charged forward at the menacing demon. Its bulky body with ancient patterns glowed, expecting his strike.
Gu Shan clearly saw the predictable movement of the demon as he quickly activated his most strongest movement art— Nine Traceless Step.
He appeard at the back of the demon and kicked him, sending the creature flying down with great speed.
The great demon halted his trajectory but it was too late as Gu Shan was too fast. He suddenly appeared again in front of him, severing one of his arms.
The great demon's eye widened in shock, "You… you... although just slightly, It was really that feeling!"
Facing the opponent, he asked, "Human! how do you have a holy sword intent! A mere human no less!"
"Oh that?" Gu Shan smiled.
He had been hiding his holy sword intent from the beginning. Only those in the Holy Race can use it but Gu Shan somehow find a way to bypass it, allowing him to wield even a little of holy sword intent.
With a sword in his hand, Gu Shan pointed it at the shaking great demon. It just met its nemesis capable of wiping out his existence.
Even though Melalucia possessed eight hearts that is capable of allowing him to not die as long a one heart remain, in the face of the holy sword intent, it's nothing but a mere trick.
"No! No! I don't believe it! How can a human have it!" Melaleucia gritted his teeth, however, he can't denied the fact that what he was seeing was not an illusion because he physically experienced it.
"Don't worry I wont kill you, I still need you afterall."
With that, Gu Shan retrieve a divine sealing-orb and activated it towards the weakened Melaleuca. He activated the Nine Traceless Step and dashed towards him, pressing the orb on its forehead.
The creature was too late to react and was immediately chained, sealing him in an orb as little as the palm of Gu Shan's hand.
'Impossible...' the demon muttered in his last breath.
Seeing this, Gu Shan can't help but be excited.
'Finally…' he muttered in his low voice.
'Finally after countless cycle, I obtained a great demon without letting it escape. With this, I can increase the item's grade and evolve it to a low-grade world-sealing orb!'
Gu Shan laughed to his heart at that moment while waiting for the orb to evolve. He had been working hard just to obtain a world-sealing orb because his world had always been bothered by invaders. He works hard to stand at the apex of this world to save it.
He does not want to do it but he had no choice. It was a mission he couldn't ignore.
However, now that he had the world-sealing orb, his worries disappeared. His world will now have a barrier capable of resisting the invaders. It has also a concealment effect, hiding its existence in the 9 billion worlds.
After waiting, the orb now was a clear sphere with a beautiful soft glow unlike its state before.
Grinning, Gu Shan triggered the world-sealing orb by fusing it with the world seed from the world he was born into.
"My sweet life! Here I come!"
Suddenly, a vast illuminating light scattered in the air, enveloping the planet. Within seconds, a transparent luminance shield can be slightly seen covering the planet.
"Success! Now I saved the whole planet wothout any casualties!" Gu Shan rejoiced.
Ever since he was banished to a low-level world, in order to regain his freedom, Gu Shan was tasked with a mission to accumulate nine million good karma.
It was calculated by how many humans he can save or how many good things he could achieve. However, whatever he tried, it was always not enough.
He was always born into a low-level worlds were the longest time a cultivator can live is 500 years old.
How can he gather nine million good karma in one lifetime?
He also tried ignoring the mission and just lived a normal life but the world does not want him to as he has been relentlessly bothered by calamities.
Basically, he tried almost everything he could think of to collect the required good karma but all of that was futile.
Despite this, Gu Shan did not give up so he calculated and come up with a solution. There should be no casualties in a single action to collect enough good karma in one go.
One act takes it all. That was Gu Shan's conclusion.
"Wait for me Qincheng! I'm coming!" he declared.
When Gu Shan was celebrating, the panel that was showing his accumulated karma appeared and it keep rising from zero as well as his smile.
Before the numbers reached nine million, Gu Shan already lost consciousness with a smile on his face.
Moments later.
A ceiling appeared before Gu Shan's view as he woke up from a wooden bed.
"This… where am I?" he mumbled. "This is not the Nine Heavens… the spiritual energy is too thin."
Soon, memories of a young man entered his mind. It played like a fast forward movie as he remembered it all.
"So I… still failed huh?" Gu Shan said in a dejected voice.
He looked at the wooden ceiling to see a panel indicating his 44 good karmic points.
Looking at the panel, Gu Shan lost it all. He realized that he was tricked. It was a curse that he couldn't escape.
"Hahaha..."
"HAhAHAHAhaAhAHahaHAHAHAHA!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"Screw you Celestial Emperor! If you want to play dirty! I'll take you head on!" he shouted with absolute resolve, "This time, I'll win for sure!"
Suddenly, a rushed knock can be heard from the door of his room, "Young master! Are you okay!?"
Gu Shan wore a wry smile and muttered, "Right, I almost forgot about that."