Inside the cave, everything appeared ordinary, not at all like the treasure trove Lin Fan had imagined.
The cave exuded a chilling, eerie atmosphere.
When Lin Fan reached the end, he saw a mass of pitch-black mist violently crashing against the walls. At this sight, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
“Haha, so it’s you behind all this trickery. What’s wrong? Feeling like your life is about to end?” Lin Fan laughed arrogantly.
Indeed, life is full of dangers everywhere.
This time, within the Wan Sha Ancient Domain, Lin Fan had grown increasingly distrustful of so-called masters after his experience with the Seven Saints’ Treasure.
After all, even masters are still human—they fear death, especially the stronger ones, who fear death even more. There’s no way they would willingly hand over their life’s opportunities to someone else.
Moreover, since obtaining the System, nothing could be hidden from him anymore. Trying to deceive him was simply a fool’s dream.
A mere “Demon Seed Transformation Talisman” was exaggerated into the “Heavenly Sage Imperial Talisman”—what a show-off.
In the novels he had read before, the protagonists always encountered various strange opportunities, and Lin Fan had once envied them. But thinking carefully now, those protagonists were likely no longer themselves, but had already been replaced by some ancient powerful beings.
Otherwise, why would someone give you such a rare opportunity?
“You…” A thread of black divine consciousness shrieked sharply at that moment and lunged toward Lin Fan.
He wanted to tear this guy apart—completely.
“Hmph! Even a mere thread of divine consciousness dares to act so recklessly. I wonder who gave you the courage!” Lin Fan roared furiously and instantly summoned the “Yao City.”
“Eat him!”
The ancient great demon within the “Yao City” roared loudly, tearing through the void with a single claw and seizing Qing Sheng Ancestor like an ant.
“This is impossible! The ancient great demon has long perished. How could it possibly be bound as a spirit within a weapon? Impossible…” Qing Sheng Ancestor screamed in disbelief at the sight of the ancient demon.
At that moment, the ancient demon opened its enormous mouth, and a violent gale surged forth, swallowing the thread of consciousness.
“Refine it!”
Qing Sheng Ancestor’s powerful consciousness struggled within the ancient demon’s body, but in an instant, it was completely refined.
“This is impossible…” In the final moment before being consumed, Qing Sheng Ancestor screamed wildly, but then fell into eternal silence.
“Hmph, what a weakling,” Lin Fan scoffed disdainfully as the power of the “Yao City” surged rapidly.
If this continued, even without gathering the Five Spirits, it could ascend to become a Dao artifact.
One overwhelming force can break through all laws; as long as sufficient strength is accumulated, even established rules can be shattered.
In Lin Fan’s view, who decided that supreme spirit artifacts must fulfill numerous conditions to ascend into Dao artifacts? If the power is strong enough, those conditions are unnecessary and can be broken.
However, the fact that Qing Sheng Ancestor could recognize the ancient demon surprised Lin Fan. Clearly, Qing Sheng Ancestor had existed for an extremely long time, possibly even before the ancient demon perished, and had some kind of prior connection with it.
“Although Qing Sheng Ancestor didn’t grant me any experience, he did strengthen the ‘Yao City,’ which is still a decent opportunity,” Lin Fan thought, somewhat disappointed but ultimately satisfied.
He also realized that his journey had been extremely perilous, constantly betrayed and harmed by others. He would need to be even more cautious in the future.
If he sought small advantages, he probably would have died somewhere unknown long ago.
“Ah, two corpses,” Lin Fan observed, scanning his surroundings. Within the empty cave lay two corpses.
One of them was deeply embedded into the wall, almost merging with it. However, the skeleton remained crystal clear and translucent. Lin Fan gently touched it, and instantly the skeleton shattered into dust.
“This is a human corpse,” Lin Fan realized upon contact. Human corpses were not naturally strong unless cultivated to a certain level, which could preserve the body eternally.
This corpse’s physical strength was actually quite high, but perhaps at the moment of death, it had exhausted all its power, even unleashing all its physical potential. As a result, the body had become ordinary at the moment of death, unable to endure the test of time.
“Who was this person?” Lin Fan wondered with confusion, then shifted his gaze to the ground beside it.
There lay another corpse—this must have been the body of the recently defeated Qing Sheng Ancestor.
This corpse was much larger, likely belonging to an ancient race.
Ancient races possessed immense natural advantages; even in death, their bones remained pitch-black and gleaming.
“Strange, what’s this?” At that moment, Lin Fan noticed a shard embedded in the ancient race’s skeleton.
This shard looked plain and dull, showing no signs of uniqueness.
Yet Lin Fan sensed something different about it.
Buzz…
Suddenly, the Eternal Axe inside his backpack trembled violently.
“What’s going on?” Lin Fan was puzzled but quickly took out the Eternal Axe. The moment it left his bag, the Eternal Axe floated into the air and instantly emitted a powerful force that enveloped the shard.
“Could this be a fragment of the Eternal Axe?” Lin Fan’s expression changed drastically. The Eternal Axe had originally been a divine artifact, but its power had greatly diminished after being damaged.
The current situation was extremely strange—the shard clearly had a close relationship with the Eternal Axe.
The Eternal Axe contained the immensely powerful technique “Heaven-Sundering Three Moves.”
So far, Lin Fan had only mastered the first move, “Cang Qiong,” which had benefited him greatly, almost like a divine skill.
If this truly was a lost fragment of the Eternal Axe, then after merging it, the second move might appear. Mastering it would surely elevate his strength dramatically.
Suddenly, a beam of light shot forth from the shard, forming an image in midair.
The Eternal Axe shattered, its fragments tearing through space and scattering throughout the world.
A human obtained one fragment and, after years of effort, forged it into a longsword. When the sword was completed, heaven and earth trembled, calamities descended, and it became a Dao artifact.
Eventually, this human engaged in a fierce battle with an ancient race, slaying the immensely powerful ancient warrior, but at the cost of his own life, dying here.
Scene after scene unfolded before Lin Fan’s eyes.
“Phew…” At this moment, Lin Fan exhaled deeply. So this was how it ended.
This human was not as mighty as Yuan Tiandi and others, yet he fearlessly sacrificed his life to overthrow the ancient race—an act Lin Fan deeply admired.
Buzz…
The fragment circled around the Eternal Axe, hesitating to merge.
Seeing this, Lin Fan understood immediately. It was likely that over such a long time, the Eternal Axe had self-repaired its missing parts, leaving no space for this fragment to return.
“Heaven and Earth Crucible, refine!”
Without hesitation, Lin Fan instantly summoned the “Heaven and Earth Crucible,” casting both the Eternal Axe and the fragment into it.
With the Heaven and Earth Crucible, all problems would no longer be problems.
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