Chapter 766 - 223: The Demon Blade That Cuts Lifespan, the Terrifying and Devious Li Yuan

Chapter 766: Chapter 223: The Demon Blade That Cuts Lifespan, the Terrifying and Devious Li Yuan

At the end of the hammer’s handle, those ghastly pale fingers bloomed like flowers, grasping Li Yuan’s arm, beginning to continuously absorb life force.

As Li Yuan brought down the hammer, he first offered a thousand years of life force to probe the depths.

There was a booming sound.

Yin and yang were imbalanced, celestial thunder densely filled the sky, and earth fiend surged violently.

Thunderous slime accumulated above, hidden behind heavy iron-cauldrons of dark clouds;

Earth fiend swam like tadpoles, converging beneath the vast and desolate land.

Bang!!

Li Yuan felt like he hadn’t hit the bottom, so he struck again with the hammer.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

He hammered one strike after another.

A thousand years of life force after another, frantically surged in.

During the pounding, he realized that this ghost hand was, in fact, "not honest," or rather, there was a significant cost for a mortal to use this Beidou Hammer.

And that cost was shortened lifespan.

Li Yuan could feel that as the ghost hand drained a thousand years of life force, his own life span was also disappearing.

For every thousand years of life force flowed, he would lose a hundred years of his own lifespan.

However, Li Yuan did not mind loss of life force.

The imbalance of yin and yang grew more profound, the lightning in the sky had turned a bizarre red, and the underground evil qi had transformed from "tadpoles" to a form akin to a "venomous snake."

The red lightning and serpent-like evil qi simultaneously surged toward this pitch-black blade.

Li Yuan felt he had reached his limit, and after absorbing his millennia of life force, this Earth Fire Blade had also reached its own limits.

He put away the Beidou Hammer, using his golden body as a hammer, began pounding all around.

The blade’s body extended, gradually taking shape, and when it was fully formed, his golden body hurriedly placed the blade embryo into the nearby stream.

Sizzle!

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!!

The entire stream boiled over, turning into billowing white mist.

Li Yuan stepped forward, retrieving the blade embryo from the water, then quickly assembled the handle.

This handle was from ordinary materials, merely a hard horn from some Sixth Grade Demon Beast.

He knocked and crafted swiftly, and soon, it was completely finished.

Li Yuan held the blade with both hands.

The blade was jet black, but at the edge, there were fierce gray chaotic patterns, looking entirely different from the original black chimney.

Li Yuan grasped the blade, felt it, and then he let out a sigh of relief.

"It actually succeeded."

This blade, like a Spiritual Artifact, was under his control.

Li Yuan quickly glanced at his own data.

No change.

It seemed that because this blade was linked to the Human Soul, and his Human Soul’s power has yet to connect with the Celestial Soul, the progress of the Human Soul was overshadowed by the stronger Celestial Soul.

Then, he perceived the blade again.

For a long time... he showed a strange expression.

Through the link of the Blood Source, he already sensed the ability of this blade.

This is a truly ominous demon blade.

This blade, not only kills others but also harms oneself.

Simply put: when wielding this blade to strike an enemy, even without an appearance of a wound, just a touch... can cut off the enemy’s life force. But regardless of the amount of life force taken from the enemy, the user themself will lose a corresponding amount of life force.

This is a greedy blade.

Originally, it should have been impossible for anyone to wield it, but it turned out to be unexpectedly suitable for Li Yuan.

However, Li Yuan still couldn’t understand why the blade was forged this way.

His Source Blood harbored many chaotic Ancestral Talismans, he had infused life force, and the Earth Fire Blade originally imprisoned many souls, celestial thunder, earth fiend...

How did these elements transform into such greed?

Logically, this blade should inherently possess numerous characteristics.

Unless one characteristic completely suppressed the others, then... this "singular nature" would occur. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ

But among his characteristics, there was no "greed for life force."

What was going on?

Just then, he heard a woman’s scream suddenly emanate from within the blade.

This scream wasn’t evident outside but came directly from the blade, entering Li Yuan’s mind.

But this transmission wasn’t aggressive.

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes, and once he confirmed that the sound indeed came from within the blade, he suddenly thought of a possibility.

Thus, in his heart, he silently thought, "So there was still one who slipped through the net."

The woman didn’t respond but continued to scream, "I want... I want... I want!!"

"Want what?"

"Life force! More life force! Give me, give me!! Give me!!"

Li Yuan frowned, but he still picked up this black long blade, the blade lightly touching his skin, and a hundred years of life force surged out, directly entering the blade.

A woman’s voice came from within the blade.

"So comfortable, so comfortable..."

This voice slowly calmed, smoothing out.

Li Yuan said, "Now, can you speak properly?"

The woman said, "You’ve reforged the Earth Fire Sword."

Li Yuan said, "Yes."

Silence fell in the blade, then the woman said, "They all dissipated, didn’t they?"

Li Yuan said, "Why didn’t you escape?"

The woman said, "I couldn’t escape."

"Why couldn’t you escape?"

"My name is Yan Hongxiu, I was once the Palace Master of the Holy Fire Palace, and I don’t know how much time has passed now."

The woman spoke slowly, "However, unlike them, I wasn’t trapped in the Earth Fire Sword while attempting to break through the Third Grade, I entered willingly.

Because I couldn’t survive outside.

Only by becoming an Artifact Spirit, this peculiar form of life, could I continue to exist."

"Why?"

"A curse."

Yan Hongxiu said, "I inadvertently triggered a curse, a terrifying curse, it continuously erased my life force.

And since I happened to know the true nature of the Earth Fire Sword, I chose to enter it to avoid calamity."

She took a deep breath, suddenly called out, "Master."

At this moment, Li Yuan understood: It seemed that the person responsible for the blade’s predominant characteristic was not him, but the curse on the soul hidden within this blade.