Chapter 72: The Battle Eight Thousand Years Ago

Outside the grand hall.

Sikong Lun's mind felt like mush.

He had not yet reacted to the sacred heart mirror fragment fleeing from battle.

Then he saw a black and white hand covering the sky, dragging the sacred heart mirror back into the hall like catching a chicken.

Sikong Lun clearly saw that just as that towering black and white hand reached out,

the sacred heart mirror fragment suddenly erupted with dark mysterious light, its aura shaking the heaven and earth.

However, under that towering black and white hand, this dark mysterious light was like fire meeting water, melting away in an instant.

"This… this… this…"

Sikong Lun trembled in his heart.

That was an Evil Weapon.

It was also a true Divine Weapon fragment.

When Divine Weapons do not appear, Divine Weapon fragments are invincible.

They cannot be resisted by human manpower; this is also an ironclad rule.

Yet right now, Sikong Lun discovered that the Divine Weapon fragment was not as strong as he had imagined?

At least in front of that black and white towering hand, it appeared exceptionally fragile?

No.

Sikong Lun's heart was suddenly startled.

It was not that the Divine Weapon fragment was fragile.

Rather, that black and white towering hand was simply too strong.

"How… how could there be such a powerful…"

Sikong Lun's mind was in chaos, and Lin Yuan, whom he had just met not long ago, flashed through his heart.

That black and white towering hand just now should also be Lin Yuan's doing.

However, Lin Yuan was neither a Divine Weapon nor a Soldier Envoy, so how could he possess the strength to crush a Divine Weapon fragment?

According to the intelligence gathered by the Reverse God Society over so many years,

all Soldier Envoys were deeply influenced by Divine Weapons, carrying a cold, indifferent, and aloof temperament on their bodies.

And Lin Yuan clearly did not fit this point.

Inside the grand hall.

Lin Yuan sat casually in front of the desk.

In front of him, a fragment resembling a mirror was floating.

"Are you a human? No, how could a human Cultivate to your extent?"

The sacred heart mirror fragment emitted terrified spiritual fluctuations.

Compared to its perception outside the grand hall, being in front of Lin Yuan at this moment,

the sacred heart mirror was deeply shocked by Lin Yuan's ocean-vast aura.

Even though it still fell short of a true Divine Weapon's awakening, it far surpassed Divine Weapon fragments like itself.

In the eyes of the sacred heart mirror fragment, this was extremely unbelievable and unimaginable.

The end point of this world's Cultivation system was only the Blood Refinement Martial Saint, and going any further was simply a dead end that could not be traversed.

However, Lin Yuan…

"This is the essence of a Divine Weapon."

A strange look appeared on Lin Yuan's face; the sacred heart mirror fragment before his eyes only looked like a fragment on the surface.

But in Lin Yuan's eyes, it was as if it were the most perfect thing in the world.

Observing the sacred heart mirror fragment was like observing a part of heaven and earth.

No, it was observing a part of heaven and earth whose surface had been dissected, revealing its essence.

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Observing part of the essence of a realm's rules, you have gained some insights.]

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Observing part of the essence of a realm's rules, you have gained some insights.]

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Observing part of the essence of a realm's rules, you have gained some insights.]

"The so-called Divine Weapon is the external manifestation of this world's rules?"

Lin Yuan's expression was thoughtful.

As his strength continuously progressed, walking further and further along the Tier 3 level,

Lin Yuan also began to vaguely sense the essence of the rules that supported heaven and earth and maintained the operation of the world.

Even in the Main World, Lin Yuan had this feeling, except that the rule essence of the Main World was exceptionally powerful.

Even if Lin Yuan tried his best to comprehend it, his harvest was very small, just like when Lin Yuan once tried to comprehend the endless starry sky.

As a result, the progress was exceptionally slow. Wanting to fully comprehend the mysteries of the operation rules of the endless starry sky might not succeed even if he sat in seclusion for ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, or a million years.

Upon descending to this realm, although the essence of the world was far inferior to the Main World, it was likewise not an easy matter for Lin Yuan to comprehend the essence rules of this realm.

After all, as long as it was a world, no matter how weak, it formed a perfect cycle.

All fundamental essences were already internalized, so the difficulty of comprehending them was naturally very great.

Yet right now, Lin Yuan looked toward the sacred heart mirror fragment before him, a scorching look surfacing in his eyes.

Divine Weapons like the sacred heart mirror were manifestations of this realm's rule essence, which was why they could give birth to spiritual intelligence and be inherently powerful.

But similarly, because they were the external manifestations of rule essence, observing such Divine Weapons was far easier than directly comprehending the essence of heaven and earth.

Especially since the sacred heart mirror itself was already shattered, the rule essence revealed within was even clearer.

Merely observing and comprehending it for a short while allowed Lin Yuan to slightly improve his martial arts Cultivation system, saving him a day or two of effort.

"You… what exactly do you want to do?"

"This seat is a heaven and earth Divine Weapon and cannot be destroyed."

Seeing Lin Yuan staring at it with scorching eyes, the sacred heart mirror fragment felt somewhat creeped out inside.

"With your strength, in the eyes of those thirty-six old fellows, you are undoubtedly a coveted prize, the most delicious feast in thousands of years."

"If you let this seat go, I will impart a secret technique to you—a secret technique that can evade the perception of those thirty-six old fellows. How about it?"

The sacred heart mirror fragment immediately began negotiating terms.

The 'thirty-six old fellows' it spoke of naturally referred to those thirty-six complete State-Protecting Divine Weapons.

"Cannot be destroyed?"

Lin Yuan divided a portion of his mind and looked up and down at the sacred heart mirror fragment a few times.

This fragment was indeed correct. As the manifestation of heaven and earth rules, at least in this world, the sacred heart mirror fragment was indestructible.

Of course, the destruction here meant complete destruction, leaving not even a fragment behind.

As for going from a complete Divine Weapon to being shattered, that could still be done.

"The only thing that cannot be destroyed is the Divine Weapon itself. As for the spiritual intelligence and consciousness, they can still be worn away, right?"

Lin Yuan said with a half-smile.

As soon as these words came out,

the sacred heart mirror fragment was suddenly startled.

"How do you know?"

The sacred heart mirror fragment found it hard to believe.

Back when the complete sacred heart mirror was shattered, its original consciousness had already vanished.

As for the current sacred heart mirror fragment, it was merely a new consciousness born on the fragment itself after a long period of time.

Not even just this sacred heart mirror fragment; new consciousnesses had likewise been born on the other sacred heart mirror fragments.

Evil Weapons like the sacred heart mirror fragment feared truly complete Divine Weapons precisely because they worried about falling into the other party's hands and then having their consciousness obliterated.

It was just that this matter had always been a secret among Divine Weapons.

Other Divine Weapon fragments would also not tell Mortals about this matter.

"As for the secret technique… without you needing to say it, I can take it myself."

In Lin Yuan's pupils, inexplicable vortexes faintly emerged. The black and white Taiji marks diffused and permeated, and terrifying spiritual exotic power and Soul power suddenly suppressed downward toward the sacred heart mirror fragment.

Lin Yuan intended to search the Soul of the 'sacred heart mirror fragment'.

Since the sacred heart mirror fragment had given birth to self-consciousness, it belonged to living beings and its memories could be forcibly browsed.

This kind of 'Soul-searching' secret technique was created by Lin Yuan after observing several evolutionary pathways such as 'Soul' and 'spirit'.

There were also other similar secret methods in the Main World, and their general uses were about the same.

"You?"

"What on earth do you want to do?"

The sacred heart mirror fragment screamed abruptly.

Dark mysterious light lit up on its body surface once again.

What a pity, under the suppression of Lin Yuan's Taiji Field,

all the dark mysterious light rapidly dissipated, and a massive and formless power invaded the depths of the fragment.

Through the Soul-searching method, Lin Yuan browsed through the other party's memories in a flash.

Because the sacred heart mirror itself was already shattered, many memories were incomplete.

But Lin Yuan still found the information he wanted.

According to the description in the memories,

that was something that happened eight thousand years ago.

On the Nine Heavens, fierce gale winds blew, which could easily tear apart a Blood Refinement Martial Saint.

This was a forbidden zone for life.

But at this moment, hundreds of terrifying auras stood tall here.

The sources of these terrifying auras were unexpectedly pieces of armaments and weapons.

Sabers.

Spears.

Swords.

Halberds.

Bells.

Cauldrons.

And so on.

"That is?"

Through the memory imagery,

Lin Yuan saw a long spear.

As if all the light between heaven and earth converged onto that long spear.

On the surface of料 the spear body, sun and moon were engraved, and the surroundings were filled with the ultimate sharp force.

The sun moon spear.

That State-Protecting Divine Weapon of the Great Yan Dynasty.

It was also one of the thirty-six complete Divine Weapons of the current era.