Next, Xia Li imdiately had the Heaven Chip begin a full inventory and categorization of the contents inside Mo Ye's storage ring.In less than three minutes, the chip had already produced a rough breakdown.There were around 1.5 million spirit stones inside.Not as many as Xia Li had imagined,but still certainly not a small amount.After all, no cultivator simply hoarded spirit stones forever.The key was always how to turn spirit stones into strength.Keeping only a portion on hand for ready use was normal.Then there were all kinds of pills.Unfortunately, not a single one of them was usable for Xia Li.Every last one was a demonic pill,refined mostly from the qi and blood of other living beings,so of them even mixed with human blood, bones, and organs.This was not rely a matter of being psychologically unable to accept them.Eating them could very likely affect the mind itself.There were also various materials for smithing, strange treasures, and unusual valuables.But again, most of them were the kind of thing demonic cultivators favored, grotesque in appearance and wholly lacking the spiritual grace proper to true spirit treasures.As for books, there were many demonic arts,as well as all kinds of texts introducing demonic treasures, outlines of demonic cultivation thods, and the like.Only one item stood out.It was sothing wrapped in human skin.Xia Li imdiately took it out of the storage ring and began examining it,because the Heaven Chip had reported that it could not scan whatever was inside the skin."What could it be?"Just as Xia Li was about to peel back the outer skin and take a look,Qiu Fu suddenly lunged forward and knocked the thing from his hands."Don't open it!"With a face drained of color, Qiu Fu grabbed Xia Li's wrist.Cold sweat stood on her forehead.Her eyes were full of fear as she stared at the wrapped object on the ground."Qiu Fu? You recognize that thing?"Seeing her reaction, Xia Li imdiately ordered the Heaven Chip to scan his own body, afraid that sothing might already have gone wrong."I think I can guess what it is. Don't move..."Qiu Fu stepped forward, carefully picked up the skin-wrapped object,then slowly tightened her grip so that the shape of whatever lay inside beca visible through the hide.It looked like a dagger.But the shape was deeply abnormal.The whole thing twisted and curved unnaturally.Even the hilt had nurous strange protrusions rising from it,like thorns or barbs growing all over the handle."A dagger? So kind of taboo treasure? A world-ending evil weapon?""Most likely an imitation Death-Curse Blade. It's a heaven-defying demonic weapon. The hatred of countless living beings is condensed into it. Once a true Death-Curse Blade is completed, it must be sealed imdiately with saint-skin. And every ti it's used, it drains the life of the wielder as the price. Whoever is struck by it suffers the most terrifying curse under heaven: the Foul-Death Curse. Even immortals cannot withstand it.""This one is only an imitation, but the skin wrapping it absolutely belonged to a fragnt of so forr Great Power's body. It lacks the power to slay a true immortal, but it can still seal a pseudo-immortal.""Mo Ye was planning to use this against a pseudo-immortal?"Xia Li was horrified.He had never imagined that Mo Ye had privately forged such a baleful weapon.How many deaths had Mo Ye caused in order to make it?"That should be the case. And he must have been preparing it for a very long ti. A Death-Curse Blade cannot be made overnight. There are at least a million tragic deaths behind this thing.""What?"At that, Xia Li imdiately smacked the Death-Curse Blade out of Qiu Fu's hands as well.The thing was too evil.Too terrifying.rely holding it made it feel as though so catastrophe might happen at any mont."During the ancient war against the immortals, all the major lineages created immortal-slaying instrunts in order to rebel against the immortals. The Divine Path inheritance was even broken because of it. The Death-Curse Blade is the demonic path's immortal-slaying weapon.""The righteous path used the Immortal-Suppressing Bell, forged by staking the fortune of all living beings. Demonkind used the Immortal-Rending Staff, forged from the essence blood of ten thousand demons. The Buddhists used the Immortal-Falling Seal, ford from the faith of countless beings.""Along with the Death-Curse Blade, or more properly the Immortal-Cursing Dagger, and the supre Divine Path ability specially created in ancient tis to break immortals, Sever Heaven and Earth, these four great instrunts together could slay a supre true immortal!"
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Qiu Fu told Xia Li everything she knew about the ancient war against the immortals."If there is a distinction between true immortals and pseudo-immortals, then that ans the ancient war involved more than one immortal?""One Supre Immortal, ten High Immortals, and a hundred Pseudo-Immortals.""I see..."Xia Li nodded.An imitation Death-Curse Blade could threaten a pseudo-immortal.Then the true Death-Curse Blade could directly contend against a true High Immortal.And if all four great instrunts were brought together, along with the Divine Path's supre art Sever Heaven and Earth, then even a Supre True Immortal could be slain.But then again, given Xia Li's own understanding of immortals,he had once thought of them as a higher-dinsional civilization, sothing against which the Profound World should have had no chance to resist.Or had those immortals, like the higher-dinsional being he had once encountered, also been constrained after descending into a lower-dinsional universe?Yet the Profound World's anti-immortal thods did not sound like things that would work against a higher-dinsional lifeform.At least from Xia Li's own encounter, higher-dinsional beings feared only black holes.So...perhaps immortals were not higher-dinsional lifeforms after all.Perhaps they were simply a more advanced cultivation civilization.That made sense.To use a simple analogy:if modern Earth sent an invasion force led by one Nascent Soul, with ten Golden Core squad leaders and a hundred Foundation Establishnt troops, to invade Earth from five hundred years ago, then the conventional weapons of that old Earth might be useless.But if it deployed strategic-level weapons, nuclear weapons flattening the land, then killing such an invading force would not be impossible.Immortals were not a higher-dinsional civilization.They were perhaps only a superior civilization.This information was crucial.If the enemy were a higher-dinsional civilization, their hostility would be as unreasonable as a black hole drifting by.Nothing could be said.Nothing would matter.But if they were only an advanced civilization, then they were not unassailable.There might even be so reason why they could not launch an all-out invasion.Otherwise, the Profound World would not still exist in its current form.Once Xia Li grasped that, a realization flashed through him.He bent down and picked up the skin-wrapped object once more, the sa thing he had knocked from Qiu Fu's hand.This Death-Curse Blade was, in essence, the Profound World's "nuclear weapon."Its role was almost the sa:the last line of resistance against things that could not be asured by ordinary logic.Mo Ye had been its wielder.And throughout their entire battle, Mo Ye had shown no intention of using it.At the end, he had even intended for the xiao demon to take it away.Otherwise, could Xia Li really have won?One strike from this thing would have killed him without question."Pitiful, tragic, regrettable, but never deserving of pity."Xia Li looked at the Death-Curse Blade wrapped in skin in his hand.He realized that Mo Ye was an exceptionally complicated man,not soone whose actions could be judged by any simple theory of good and evil.But no matter what,this "nuclear weapon" aid at immortals...Xia Li accepted it.It might have great use in the future.It might beco the sole chance of survival in so otherwise certain death."Xia Li, that thing can't be used. You would die."Seeing Xia Li pick up the Death-Curse Blade, the worry in Qiu Fu's eyes nearly beca tangible.This was the demonic path's immortal-slaying weapon.Though it was the easiest of the four to make,the process was the bloodiest and cruelest,and the price of using it was also the greatest."I... am not afraid of death."More accurately speaking,he was not afraid of dying for the first ti.Xia Li carried the authority of Twilight Afterglow.That encounter with a higher-dinsional being had made him into an "incomplete young god."Even if he once walked into sunset,he could still return to dawn.
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