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Chapter 456: Chapter 456: Heavenly Fiend Great Demon_1

On one side of the small space, a meditation mat was placed on the ground, worn thin to a mere layer, its color a dark yellow, indicating that the strong person who meditated here did so for a long time. It was just unknown who had sat upon it in those years.

Next to the meditation mat, leaning against the wall, there was a heavy sword with a pitch-black hue and faint red light faintly circulating around it, as if it carried a baleful fire, exuding a fierce aura.

Xu Fan felt the aura of the heavy sword, fierce and cold, yet it was not killing intent or malevolence.

It was—Demonic Qi!

Xu Fan lightly waved his sleeve, creating a gust of wind that dispersed this aura.

If it had been an ordinary Martial King caught off guard by this Demonic Qi, their consciousness could easily have sunk, losing rationality and turning into a bloodthirsty, murderous demon.

But Xu Fan, having seen much and knowing much, was unfazed by the Demonic Qi; he simply dispersed it with a wave.

But a question surged in his mind, why was there Demonic Qi on Sea Blue Star, and such concentrated Demonic Qi at that!

Could it be because of this sword?

Xu Fan’s spirit became vigilant, and he paid several degrees more attention to the heavy sword. On guard, he extended his hand to grab it out of thin air and caught the heavy sword in his hand.

The moment the sword was grasped, even Xu Fan’s extraordinarily strong spirit was affected, leading to a moment of daze.

He seemed to see a world filled with crimson red, boundless and without any life, with huge ravines crisscrossing the land.

At the bottom of the ravines, rolling magma bubbled, flowing slowly.

The excessive magma made the ground searing hot and cracked, with all moisture evaporated, only forming cloud formations very high up, but the clouds were also tinged with red.

In the distant sky, countless figures were fiercely battling, and although Xu Fan could not see clearly, he still sensed the intense aura of battle there.

A second later, Xu Fan’s spirit snapped back to clarity, his eyes bright and his face now carried a few more shades of solemnity.

This heavy sword must have some origins.

Then, a thought crossed his mind—the material used to forge the heavy sword was actually Black Divine Iron.

The blade of the heavy sword was 0.3 meters wide, 1.6 meters long, solid and heavy. In hand, it astonishingly weighed 180 kilograms.

Such a heavy sword would be very difficult for an average Martial Arts Grandmaster to control with True Qi, let alone use it in battle, probably moving slower than their opponents.

But what Xu Fan paid more attention to was the shocking Demonic Qi within the heavy sword.

The Demonic Qi was extremely intense; even he was affected by it, to say nothing of others whose spirits were far weaker than his own.

Therefore, he was very curious about the origins of the heavy sword.

The crimson world he glimpsed in his distraction seemed not to be fictitious but truly existing.

Despite merely having a momentary glimpse, Xu Fan still sensed an extremely powerful presence deep within the world, a presence he dared not underestimate.

However, the heavy sword that originally belonged in the depths of that world, why did it appear on Sea Blue Star?

Xu Fan pondered…

Perhaps, that crimson world was not located within this galaxy but was instead far, far away.

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Xu Fan couldn’t help but feel excited.

Before his rebirth, he had thought the entire universe consisted of the Cultivation World and The Immortal Realm.

It was not until he faced the Celestial Tribulation that his consciousness seemed to glimpse other worlds in the vast emptiness beyond; these worlds, large and small, were inhabited by different beings, giving rise to their own civilizations. In the vast, boundless galaxy, they were like countless stars beyond number.

Back then, he thought it was a misperception, an illusion laid upon his consciousness by the heavens. Only after coming to Earth did he finally understand that the Cultivation World was just one among the many in the universe, and Sea Blue Star was even more insignificant due to its sparse Spiritual Energy, thus developing a civilization that prioritized technology with Ancient Martial Arts as a supplement.

As for the crimson world glimpsed in his daze, it gave him an uncomfortable feeling, as if born from evil. All the creatures within that world appeared malevolent, cultivating a civilization based on Demonic Qi, to the extent that even a weapon carried intense Demonic Qi.

Xu Fan decided not to delve deeper, shifted, and reached out to grab a yellowed book that was on the stone table into the air and started to flip through its pages rapidly with his True Qi. @@novelbin@@

This book, just as he had expected, turned out to be an autobiographical account of a powerful individual who had created a small world. It contained not only insights from a lifetime of cultivation and tales of adventures across the world but also emphasized how he came to possess this heavy sword.

Xu Fan finished reading it in no time.

As it turned out, the powerful figure who had created the small world was named Luo Wutong.

The autobiography began with the sentence, “I, Luo Wutong, have cultivated for a hundred years, achieved Dongxu Realm, and came very close to Proving Godhood, yet I ultimately failed to fulfill my wish, which remains my greatest regret in life!”

“Proving Godhood?”

Xu Fan frowned, wondering who this person was to make such an arrogant claim.

Godhood—it was something that existed only in legends and was the dream of countless cultivators.

Even someone like Xu Fan, who was at the very pinnacle of the Cultivation World and a towering figure of the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, only dared to call himself Immortal Venerable, never daring to associate with the word “god”.

Moreover, to his knowledge, those from the Cultivation World who ascended to The Immortal Realm and then sent special transmissions back, communicated exclusively within the context of immortality, without any mention of godhood.

It was laughable that such a backward and ignorant minor planet would dare claim its inhabitant was only a step away from Proving Godhood.

Xu Fan certainly didn’t believe there were gods on Sea Blue Star.

He guessed that Luo Wutong’s so-called Dongxu Realm was equivalent to the Golden Core Stage of cultivators, and Proving Godhood was akin to the Nascent Soul Stage.

If that were the case, it was actually quite remarkable.

At least Xu Fan had originally thought that the Ancient Martial Artists of Sea Blue Star could, at most, reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, with only one in a hundred million being able to cultivate to the Golden Core.

Yet, there turned out to be cultivators at the peak of the Golden Core Stage.

Xu Fan, though he looked down upon the ancient martial system, knew that if he faced a Dongxu Realm Ancient Martial Artist now, even employing all his means, his only choice would be to flee, and whether he could escape at all was another matter.

In the face of absolute power, all techniques and schemes seem pitifully weak.

In this moment, Xu Fan couldn’t help but feel a sense of wariness, understanding that one should not underestimate Sea Blue Star even if it was primarily a civilization of science; it was more complex than he had imagined.

In addition, Xu Fan learned some information about the heavy sword from the book.

This sword, with its mere name exuding dominance, was called Heavenly Fiend Great Demon.

Luo Wutong found it in an ancient ruin during the late stages of Dongxu Realm.

According to his records, the ancient ruin was incredibly dangerous—virtually a certain death with ten out of ten not making it out alive. At that time, there were six Dongxu Realm and more than twenty Heavenly Venerable Realm practitioners who entered with him, along with over seventy Venerables of martial arts.

However, the only one who came out alive was Luo Wutong himself.

And it was entirely due to the Heavenly Fiend Great Demon that he survived.

As for what exactly happened, Luo Wutong had no idea; all he remembered was that as soon as he grasped the Heavenly Fiend Great Demon, his mind roared, and he lost all sense of reason.

When he awoke once more, all his fellow explorers were dead, surrounded by their cold bodies and blood everywhere.

This naturally caused a huge shock throughout the Ancient Martial World.

After all, so many top-notch ancient martial artists had fallen at once, including five from the Dongxu Realm.

Following this incident, Luo Wutong dared not show his face in the Ancient Martial World. He lived incognito, bringing along the heavy sword to dwell in solitude in the Descending Dragon Tower on Mount Longshou, where he continued his cultivation in seclusion and studied the secrets of the heavy sword.

Yet, he ultimately discovered nothing.

Reflecting on Luo Wutong’s records, Xu Fan had a bold conjecture in his mind.

The many powerful individuals who had explored the ancient ruin with Luo Wutong might not have died from the dangers within the ruin but rather could have been slaughtered by Luo Wutong himself, who had been possessed by the heavy sword as if he had entered a demonic trance.

If that was indeed the truth, then the Heavenly Fiend Great Demon truly lived up to its name as a magic sword.