Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 841 - 523: The Assault

Chapter 841 -523: The Assault

Looking at the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword in his hands, Xu Yang shook his head repeatedly, sighing time and again.

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This was not because he was complacent and arrogant, wanting to further disgrace the Red Flame Demon after his death, but rather that the old demon had truly committed a travesty, turning a perfectly fine Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword into something neither human nor ghost.

In the Earth Immortal Realm, top-grade immortal artifacts mainly came from two sources, one was imitation by later generations, and the other was obtaining them from secret realms.

There is no need to elaborate on the former, as crafting top-grade immortal artifacts requires a mastery of eighth-order Dao of Tools, and even if we included him as a newcomer, there are no more than a handful of eighth-order artifact refiners in the Earth Immortal Realm today.

With so few people, even if they worked to the bone, they could not meet the demands of the cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm.

Therefore, the main source of top-grade immortal artifacts is still the legacy of immortal gods found in the Heavenly Secret Realm.

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Compared to the items imitated by later generations, these Heaven-Connecting Secret Treasures, although of superior quality, have a fatal flaw: they are generally incomplete, having endured the Ancient Wars and the relentless erosion of time. Even the Immortal Arrays and Immortal Treasures are damaged, let alone the Immortal Artifacts below them.

Although these incomplete Heaven-Connecting Secret Treasures can still be used reluctantly, various effects are inevitably reduced, and there may even be fatal shortcomings. Therefore, after obtaining these treasures, the user usually tries every avenue to repair them.

The Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword is one such artifact!

Compared to crafting, the difficulty of repairing is much lower, and some skillful artificers can even repair artifacts beyond their own capability.

As a top-quality immortal artifact, the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword, as long as one finds a seventh-order artifact refiner, there is a complete hope of successful restoration.

But the Red Flame Demon did not have this condition. Firstly, he himself had almost no understanding of the Path of Artifact Refining—completely clueless and powerless to repair it.

Secondly, there was the issue of connections. Although there were many Immortal Masters among the Immortal Artifacts in the Earth Immortal Realm, most of them belonged to the Four Great Taoist Dominions of immortals, demons, Buddhas, and devils. He dared not reach out to the immortals and Buddhas, and he could not trust the demons and devils either. Being trapped in the Heavenly Secret Realm, in order to repair it, he could only send out this treasure that was as dear to him as his own life and wait thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

After all, the Artifact Refining Immortal Masters all have important duties to attend to, and it was impossible for them to come to this Heavenly Secret Realm to provide specialized services for him. Even if they came to the Heavenly Secret Realm, the primary task was to pursue the mysteries of enlightenment, who would have the spare time to repair immortal artifacts for him?

In a situation where he had no choice, the Red Flame Demon had to rely on his own efforts to self-learn and master a Demon Path Instrument Law and then use his Seven Calamity Demon honor’s cultivation to forcibly apply demon skills to repair this supreme immortal artifact.

The end result was this mess!

Artifact refining, like alchemy, is all about interdependence and assistance among the lord, ministers, helpers, and envoys, along with the interactions and restraints of Yin Yang and the Five Elements. One cannot rely on sheer cultivation and brute force, otherwise, even if the artifact is successfully crafted, the result would be inferior.

The Red Flame Demon was this type. With the cultivation of the Nine Tribulations Seventh Calamity, forcefully repairing an eighth-order immortal artifact, whether it could be done was naturally possible, but the result was poor and shoddy. It went against the fundamental intent and essence of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword. The immortal sword was no longer an immortal sword, and the demon blade was not a demon blade, epitomizing a contradiction and distortion.

It was only because the starting point of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword was high enough that it did not fall from top-grade to superior-grade due to his meddling.

Even so, this “demonically modified” Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword was still the mainstay magical treasure that the Red Flame Demon relied on to commit evil acts, having slain numerous Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods and established a fearsome reputation.

This shows the essence of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword!

If it hadn’t gone through this demonic modification and had found a better artifact refiner for restoration, not only could it have been a top-notch top-grade immortal artifact, but it might have even had the potential to ascend to being an Immortal Treasure. After all, it might have been an Immortal Treasure in Ancient Times, but due to the Great War and the passage of time, it fell from grace.

Xu Yang shook his head, placed the sword across his knees, and with a casual flick of his sleeve, the Five Colors Divine Light flowed through his palm, sweeping away the Red Flame Devil Fire from the sword, along with all traces of blood and filth, leaving behind a Seven-Inch long White Light Flying Sword with distinct features – a nose, eyes, eyebrows, and wings, existing between the realms of the tangible and the ethereal, filled with agility and spirit.

This was the original appearance of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword before the Red Flame Demon’s “demonic modifications.”

Seeing this, San Yun, who was behind him, also spoke up.

“Within the Heavenly Secret Realm, there are two Heaven-Connecting Treasures that are mighty weapons of slaughter!”

“One is the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword, and the other is the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife!”

“The former specializes in attacking the Primordial Spirit. Once the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword is unleashed, it locks the enemy’s mud palace, rendering the Primordial Spirit immobile, at the mercy of being slaughtered; even Nine Tribulations True Immortals, once captured by its sword radiance, face the peril of their souls disintegrating.”

“The latter specializes in severing the physical body. Once the Immortal-Slaying Knife passes, the body is split in two, even an Undying Vajra Body or the True Immortal Undying Body can’t withstand its slice, and it cannot regenerate or be restored; a cut from the knife surely means death.”

“These two formidable weapons of slaughter, even among Heaven-Connecting Secret Treasures, are regarded as top-notch, and they’re incredibly lethal in their specialized offensive abilities. Even the true immortals of various paths dare not test these treasures with their own bodies; avoiding contact with them is common, hence almost no one in the Earth Immortal Realm can mimic the crafting of these two weapons.”

“However, the Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife were extraordinary items even in Ancient Times. That’s why Ancient Immortal Gods also made imitations and refined many second-rate Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Swords and Immortal-Slaying Flying Knives. Typically, they are eighth-order top-grade immortal artifacts, with a few reaching the threshold of the ninth order, ascending to the status of Immortal Treasures!”

“The Spiritual Rhinoceros Divine Sword in the Red Flame Demon’s hands is one of the few that was originally a ninth-order Immortal Treasure. Due to the severe damage suffered during the war in Ancient Times and the wear and tear over the years, it fell to the status of a top-grade immortal artifact, with many imperfections.”

“Even so, it still had the chance to revert to an Immortal Treasure. However, it fell into the hands of the Red Flame Demon. This villain didn’t understand the method of artifact refining and dared not send such a treasure out of the secret realm for repairs, so he had to reforge this perfectly good Immortal Treasure into what it is now using his demon skills.”