Chapter 215: Supreme Heaven Cannot Kill Me

Su Mu smiled faintly. "Supreme Heaven cannot kill me."

Yan Moxie's pupils shrank. His instinct was to disbelieve it, but Pride's disdainful tone made him waver. "Your Excellency Pride, please don't joke," he probed. "Royal Power Artifacts are among the most powerful forces in the world. As far as I know, there is no one alive whom Supreme Heaven cannot kill."

The eyes beneath the Silver-White Mask cast an indifferent glance at Yan Moxie. "Have you seen Supreme Heaven?"

"Could it be that you have seen it, Your Excellency Pride?" Yan Moxie's breathing quickened.

"Naturally." Su Mu's low, magnetic voice rang out slowly. His tone was calm, yet it carried an insurmountable arrogance. "Which is why I know it cannot kill me."

He wasn't lying. He truly believed Supreme Heaven couldn't kill him. While its ability to erase a person from existence was terrifying, no matter how potent that power was, it could not rival a God.

Possessing the Sea God Divinity, he had long since achieved an Undying Body. To kill him, one first had to bypass the Sea God. Even if they managed that, the Primal Angel and the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity still waited behind it.

The Divinity of the Three Gods had already integrated into his soul. If Supreme Heaven were to try erasing that Divinity along with him, the price the user would have to pay would be immeasurable.

Su Mu didn't think anyone in this world could afford such a price.

If someone actually could, then he could only say... chalk it up to bad luck.

Yan Moxie nearly lost his composure. Even as a Gold powerhouse, hearing Pride dismiss the Royal Power Artifact Supreme Heaven so casually left him utterly shocked.

It felt entirely absurd, as if common sense itself had been shattered.

Reason told him Pride was bluffing, because no one could resist Supreme Heaven. Yet, he also felt that a powerhouse of Pride's caliber had no reason to bluff about something so obvious.

Unless...

He suddenly thought of a possibility! The only thing capable of countering a Royal Power Artifact was another Royal Power Artifact. Could it be... did Pride possess one as well?

While there had been no news of any nation losing their Royal Power Artifacts, such items were the very foundation of an Empire. Aside from the Longyuan Empire—whose Sword of Royal Power had shattered too publicly to cover up—any other Empire would absolutely keep quiet about such a loss.

Yan Moxie took a deep breath, not delving too deeply into the matter. He knew that even if Pride really did have a Royal Power Artifact, he wouldn't admit it.

"Your Excellency Pride, you mentioned you have seen Supreme Heaven. May I ask what kind of weapon it is?"

Su Mu's lips curled into a faint smile. "You want to know?"

"Yes."

"That will cost extra."

Yan Moxie: "..."

"The Revolutionary Army has three vice-commanders and one commander, all of whom are Gold powerhouses. Yet, you only provided three Transcendent pathways. I assume the commander's is missing? Tell me the Revolutionary Army commander's Transcendent pathway, and I can give you intel on Supreme Heaven."

Yan Moxie's expression darkened slightly. "Your Excellency Pride, only the commander himself knows his Transcendent pathway. Even as one of the vice-commanders, I have no right to that information. However, I can offer a new technology recently developed by the Revolutionary Army in exchange."

"Oh? What technology?"

"Mithril activation!" Yan Moxie said slowly. "Mithril activation is the Revolutionary Army's latest breakthrough. It allows indestructible Mithril to gain vitality. This active Mithril can be fused into the human body, granting it Mithril's defensive properties without sacrificing any of the body's flexibility.

"In other words, utilizing the mithril activation technique grants a person defensive power comparable to a Follower of Strength immediately! Perhaps even stronger, because aside from its hardness, Mithril also boasts a certain resistance to Transcendent abilities. It is akin to a full cyborg conversion, but absolutely superior, because becoming a full cyborg locks off any avenues for progression.

"It leaves you with zero potential. But mithril activation carries no such worries; it perfectly weds human potential with the characteristics of Mithril!"

Su Mu's eyes flickered. If this technology was real, its value was incalculable. If everyone in the Revolutionary Army underwent mithril activation, wouldn't that mean everyone effectively gained an extra Silver Law on top of their own Law? And a Law that completely avoided conflict with their existing system, at that.

If an ordinary person used it, they would essentially equal half a Follower of Strength. An artificial Silver?

"Get straight to the flaws. If this technology was truly as good as you claim, the Revolutionary Army would have overthrown the Chiyan Empire long ago."

"Your Excellency Pride is correct. This technology does possess a major flaw. Ordinary people cannot use it, and even the majority of non-strength-focused Low Tier Transcendents cannot use it.

"Active Mithril simply cannot be withstood by anyone with a weak body. Forcing the process will result in genetic collapse. According to our trials, the absolute minimum physical requirement to undergo the mithril activation experiment is either Bronze 3 in the Giant Demon pathway, or being a Silver Transcendent from another pathway."

Su Mu nodded. He wasn't surprised; the more powerful the technology, the steeper its corresponding requirements.

"There should be another flaw, right? Otherwise, every Transcendent in the Revolutionary Army at Silver or above would already possess a Mithril Body, including you."

Yan Moxie nodded. "Correct. Meeting the physical baseline for the experiment only clears the first hurdle. The second hurdle is willpower. Fusing active Mithril into the body generates an unimaginable agony—a pain that even surpasses death by a thousand cuts.

"A thousand cuts is at most a thousand blades. But active Mithril acts upon every single cell. It is like billions of blades slicing your body apart simultaneously, and it lasts for three full days!

"We ran the experiment many times, but only one case succeeded. The subject was a Silver 1 Follower of Strength. Upon success, he gained defensive power far surpassing anyone in the same tier. He grew stronger, yes, but... he also went mad.

"The experiment shattered his psyche, turning him into a completely irrational madman."

At this point, Yan Moxie hesitated. "Your Excellency Pride, I know this technology has major flaws, but its potential is immeasurable, so..."

"A ring," Su Mu said indifferently.

"What?" Yan Moxie froze for a moment.

"Supreme Heaven is a ring. A dark golden ring." Su Mu lightly raised his hand. Countless motes of light and shadow were drawn into his palm, slowly weaving together to form a dark golden ring inscribed with arcane patterns.

Yan Moxie stared dead at the ring, even forgetting to breathe. He memorized it desperately, terrified of missing a single detail.

In the Chiyan Empire, any intel regarding Supreme Heaven was an absolute secret. The outside world only circulated legends of Supreme Heaven; no one had even seen it with their own eyes.