CHAPTER 317: CHAPTER 302: SWORD BODY FRAGMENT

"Are you saying that the alien king wants me to deal with his enemies?"

In the broken Inner Cosmos, Wang Xu and Fen You were flying. Upon hearing Fen You’s words, Wang Xu was deep in thought.

"The alien king has already suffered severe injuries; I can clearly sense his life force weakening bit by bit. If I’m not mistaken, some alien powerhouses have noticed this and intend to seize the king’s position." Fen You said.

"Who is it?"

"Do you really need to ask me?" Fen You looked at Wang Xu. Wang Xu’s eyes turned, and after a brief moment of thought, he immediately understood.

"It’s him! Yes, it must be that damn Erxiwei!"

With Fen You’s reminder, Wang Xu suddenly understood much. The alien king was injured, and his strength was waning day by day. At this time, when he let Wang Xu marry the princess and inherit the throne, it was clear that this was not the king’s true intention. His real aim was to use Wang Xu to deal with his true enemy.

In the Imperial Palace, the only ones who could rival the alien king were the other three kings.

But among the three kings, only the second king’s son, Erxiwei, acted against Wang Xu. Who was ambitiously vying for the throne was obvious.

"Erxiwei is just an ordinary Celestial God Realm, his strength below yours, but he dares to assassinate you, the one appointed by the alien king as the successor, indicating that there must be a stronger figure supporting him." Fen You’s words directly hit the point.

"It’s the second king. I’ve heard some things about the four kings over the years. It’s said that the second king’s strength vaguely rivals the alien king’s, but he lost to him in the throne battle. In the entire alien imperial palace, only he has such ambition and corresponding strength." Wang Xu said.

The two guessed the general course of the whole affair.

For some reason, the alien king was severely injured, losing much of his strength. Taking advantage of this, the second king sought to seize the throne. Be it the previous three alien geniuses or Wang Xu, they were all stumbling blocks to the second king, naturally needing removal.

"I see it! It’s an abyss!"

The two flew for a long time, finally seeing a vast abyss at the horizon, filled with a bloody scent, immeasurable in depth.

They stopped at the edge of the cliff, and Wang Xu and Fen You looked down, releasing their Spiritual Consciousness, but still couldn’t discern what lay beneath the abyss.

"I can sense that living beings are below this abyss." Wang Xu said. He didn’t know how he perceived this, but it felt as if someone was guiding him in the dark.

"Go down." Fen You said, stepping forward and flying directly into the abyss. Although Wang Xu was worried about potential dangers below, seeing Fen You’s decisiveness, he had no choice but to follow closely behind.

The wind howled, the abyss was eerie and chilling, filled with a dense, dark red mist.

Both of their descending speeds slowed significantly, wary of any danger that might arise from within the abyss.

They passed through layers of fog and finally reached the abyss’s bottom, where they also saw the majestic Blood Altar before them.

Wang Xu’s eyes were grave. A thick bloody smell emanated from the Blood Altar. When the light illuminated the pile of skeletons stacked like mountains, his pupils couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

"This altar... at least tens of billions of beings were slaughtered here." Wang Xu finally understood where the overwhelming sin and blood light came from. Enormous sin, covered the entire altar, seeped into each skeleton, staining them blood-red and forging this Blood Altar.

"One, two, three, four... a total of seven altars!" One altar extinguished tens of billions of beings, seven altars, that means hundreds of billions were slaughtered! Moreover, these were only beings that died on the altar, those who died in other parts of the island were countless to a horrifying degree!

What exactly happened here? Why did so many beings perish?

"There seems to be something on the altar." A glint of light reflected in Wang Xu’s eyes. His Spiritual Consciousness couldn’t spread vastly here. He rose into the air, crossed several kilometers of the altar’s height, and landed on top of the altar.

On the altar was a broken stone disk made from decaying porcelain stone, cracked through the middle as if struck by a terrifying force.

Inscribed on the disk were mysterious texts that Wang Xu couldn’t comprehend, but he could see a half-embedded blood-red fragment in the center of the disk.

"War Soldier Fragment?" Wang Xu was curious, why was there only this fragment? In typical battles causing the fragmentation of War Soldiers, there should be numerous fragments scattered.

He walked up slowly, leaned down, and reached out to the blood-red fragment.

"Don’t touch it!" Fen You’s voice suddenly sounded behind Wang Xu, who was startled and quickly withdrew his hand.

"What’s wrong?" Wang Xu asked.

Furrowing his brows, Fen You’s gaze fixated on the blood-red fragment, unease rising in his heart: "This is a Sword Body Fragment. You are not qualified to pick it up. Touching it recklessly will lead to your demise."

Wang Xu was amazed. This blood-red fragment was evidently something formidable, but what exactly?

"Fen You, do you recognize this blood-red fragment?" Wang Xu inquired.

"This island is called the Fallen Sword Abyss. This Sword Body Fragment should be from the sword that shattered and fell into the abyss." Fen You pointed, "Didn’t you notice its coincidence centrality on the disk?"

"Someone is using countless lives’ blood to worship this Sword Body Fragment, attempting to awaken it, collect other fragments, and presumptuously reforge the sword."

What?!

Use the blood of tens of billions of creatures to sacrifice a piece of Sword Body Fragment?

Madness, sheer madness!

Wang Xu took a deep breath, it must be an incredibly insane person to use the blood of tens of billions, hundreds of billions of creatures, to sacrifice a piece of Sword Body Fragment!

"What kind of fierce sword could be worth sacrificing so many lives?" Wang Xu asked puzzledly.

"I don’t know either." Fen You shook his head, "Back then, Qu Yao didn’t pay much attention, he left this place, only occasionally hearing about the Fallen Sword Abyss, but there’s nothing saying what the sword that fell into the abyss was."

"There are seven altars here, representing seven Sword Body Fragments... it seems someone deliberately did this but for some reason gave up later and stopped the sacrifices."

Wang Xu skimmed over the seven altars, each one had a blood-colored fragment inserted, varying in size and shape, some with obvious notches.

"Wang Xu!" Fen You shouted loudly.

"Try using your Spiritual Consciousness to touch them, enter those Sword Body Fragments."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xu asked no more, moved to one of the altars, and his Spiritual Consciousness extended out, permeating the blood-colored fragment.

Boom!

In an instant, Wang Xu felt as if his brain was about to explode, causing him to groan and grit his teeth.

"Help me... save me!!"

"Die! Just die, kill for me!"

"Haha... your blood, it’s so sweet, haha..."

"I’m unwilling, unwilling!"

Resentment, pain, anger... countless voices echoed in Wang Xu’s mind, blurred faces and distorted voices tore at his nerves, making his face pale, as if he was plunged into great torment.

"This is a mental impact, you must withstand these negative emotions and go deeper!" Fen You’s voice rang out, Wang Xu’s Spiritual Consciousness withstood all mental impacts, gritting his teeth as he advanced.

Moments later.

Phew~

All the voices disappeared, the pressure suddenly lifted.

What lay before Wang Xu was dense and intricate patterns made up of gold, black, and white lines.

What is this?

Wang Xu’s consciousness shuttled through the patterns, these crisscrossed, chaotic patterns left him puzzled.

"Remember the positions of these patterns, their directions, and construction patterns, you have only ten minutes!" Fen You’s voice came again.

Immediately, Wang Xu, without considering much, followed Fen You’s instructions to imprint all the positions and construction patterns of these lines, even their thickness and size, exactly in his memory.

This rote memorization required no high skills, and it only took him eight minutes to memorize all the patterns.

It seemed that by remembering more, he gained some insight into these patterns, and Wang Xu lingered for another two minutes.

"Get out!" Fen You’s urgent voice rang out, and only then did Wang Xu withdraw. As he was about to leave, a surge of Spiritual Consciousness roared down from above, and almost instantly, half of Wang Xu’s Spiritual Consciousness was pulverized into dust!

What’s going on?!

Fortunately, the other half of Wang Xu’s Spiritual Consciousness escaped this disaster and directly retracted.

"Ten minutes is the time you can exist in the Sword Body Fragment, once you exceed ten minutes, the Spiritual Consciousness contained in the Sword Body Fragment will find you and grind you into dust!" Fen You said displeasedly; he had already warned Wang Xu, but Wang Xu hadn’t taken it seriously.

Wang Xu was alarmed, it seemed he had been too complacent and nearly forgot that these Sword Body Fragments were sacrificed with the blood of tens of billions of creatures, their Spiritual Consciousness’s intensity could definitely kill him instantly!

"Now, use your Spiritual Consciousness to simulate those patterns according to the positions you just remembered." Fen You continued.

Without doubt, Wang Xu’s Spiritual Consciousness moved and immediately began to construct the patterns from memory.

"Isn’t this just that Sword Body Fragment?" After the simulation was formed, Wang Xu was amazed to find that the constructed patterns were exactly the same as the Sword Body Fragment before him!

With a thought, the fragment composed of Spiritual Consciousness swept over the disk, though it left no trace, Wang Xu could clearly feel that the power of this Spirit Soldier was almost the same as that of the Double-Headed Dragon Slash!

"You’ve discovered, right, this is the ’Spiritual Pattern Imprint’, every treasure has a core Spiritual Pattern Imprint, you are a ’Cosmic Spirit God’, Spiritual Consciousness is your only weapon, if you want this weapon to become stronger, you must copy the core Spiritual Pattern Imprint of the treasure, the Spirit Soldier simulated this way will be very powerful!" Fen You said. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)