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Chapter 84.1 - Six Spiritual Artifacts
“Of course, I exist for this reason.”
Lou Ming was shocked upon hearing the man’s words. It was followed by disbelief. If things were really so easy to solve, why did his former self deliberately leave behind this so-called memory?
“How can we solve it?” Lou Ming calmly asked.
The man smiled slightly, seemingly satisfied with Lou Ming’s calm and collected response. He raised his finger and pointed to the Bronze Sword floating in the air and said, “Use it!”
“The Bronze sword?” Lou Ming frowned. “But as soon as I touch it, the evil spirit in my body will riot. How can I use it to solve the evil spirit in my body?”
“When you touch the Bronze Sword, the evil spirit will be uncontrolled because the evil qi inside the Bronze Sword originates from you,” the man explained.
“The Bronze Sword’s evil qi comes from me?” Lou Ming was stunned, and then he shook his head. “The evil qi in my body is red evil qi, but the qi in the Bronze Sword is ordinary black evil qi. The two aren’t the same.”
“They are the same.” The man explained, “After the passage of time, and with no new replenishment of the qi, a profound fiend slowly weakened.”
“You are saying that a thousand years ago, the evil qi that the Bronze Sword stored is the profound fiend in me? But after a thousand years, my profound fiend became the ordinary evil spirit now?” Lou Ming understood.
“That’s right.” The man nodded. “If time is long enough, an ordinary evil qi will eventually disappear. There is nothing that can withstand the evanescence of worldly affairs.”
“Then how can this Bronze Sword dissolve the evil qi in my body?” After understanding, Lou Ming asked again.
“You have already found the way.” The man’s gaze fell on the three magic weapons that had just absorbed Lou Ming’s evil qi and commented, “But the medium used isn’t right.”
“Is it because the grade of this magic artifact is too low?” Elder Wu guessed, thinking of the man’s earlier remark that the artifacts were better than nothing.
Lou Ming’s evil spirit was deep in the soul, so separating it from his soul was the only solution. If there was any difference, it probably lay in the different grade of the medium used to seal his evil qi.
When Elder Wu found that there was still a seal inside Lou Ming’s soul, he realized that the evil spirit in Lou Ming’s body was too large for ordinary magic artifacts to contain its evil qi.
“That’s right.” The man nodded. “As long as we know that the evil spirit in your body is in your soul, then it isn’t difficult to think of separating the evil qi from within your soul. The hard part is that the instruments where we’ll transfer the evil qi aren’t easy to find.”
“I see. Separating a part of evil qi in your soul and transferring it to a magic artifact, or purifying your overflowing evil qi through the Green Spirit Hairpin is only a way to cure the symptoms rather than the root cause. In a year at most, your evil spirit will recover and become stronger,” the man explained.
More powerful? Lou Ming’s brow wrinkled. His expression also tightened.
“Not to mention whether you’re able to find enough magic artifacts to be the instruments of transfer, even if you find them, your body won’t be able to support it,” the man added.
“Then what kind of medium is needed to transfer away the evil spirit in my body at once?” Lou Ming asked.
“The most Yin to Evil spiritual weapon,” the man replied.
“That’s impossible.” Elder Wu denied, “Since it is a spiritual weapon, how can it be the most Yin to the most evil?”
The birth of a spiritual weapon required hundreds of thousands of years of spiritual nourishment to make it spiritual. Then it could be used to cut Yin and Evil and ensure peace. Therefore, a spiritual instrument itself was the opposite of Yin and Evil things in existence. It was impossible for them to coexist.
“Isn’t this it?!” The man flicked his finger and the Bronze Sword flew between the two men.
“This…” Elder Wu looked at the Bronze Sword carefully, and then couldn’t help gawking. This was the first time he saw an object that was full of Yin and Evil Qi, but was so peaceful.
“How did this arise?” Elder Wu’s curiosity was piqued, and he asked.
“The Bronze Sword was originally a very high grade spiritual weapon. It absorbed the profound fiend and was sealed up with a special technique. After a hundred years, the profound fiend within the Bronze Sword slowly weakens, and at the same time will change the properties of the Bronze Sword itself until the sword becomes a spiritual weapon of the most Yin and Evil,” the man explained.
It turned out to be like this. Elder Wu couldn’t help but stammer.
“Then how many pieces of this Yin and Evil spiritual artifact are needed?” Intuition told Lou Ming that it was impossible to only need one.
“Six pieces!” The man gently blurted out two words, but it sounded a desperate number.
As expected Lou Ming couldn’t help but respond with a bitter laughter. His eyes were also filled with helplessness.
“Senior, nowadays and in this era, metaphysics has declined. Spiritual artifacts are almost impossible to find, let alone the most Yin and Evil spiritual artifacts, let alone six pieces at a time,” Elder Wu said with a sigh.
“If these artifacts are so easy to find, the evil spirit would have been dissolved long ago, and you wouldn’t have seen me.” The man turned to Lou Ming and said, “My existence is to ensure that one day I will be able to collect six pieces of the most Yin and Evil spirit artifacts.”
“You mean…” Thinking of a certain possibility, Lou Ming looked at the man incredulously.
“In 1,256 years I woke up a total of sixteen times.” The man said, “Sealing the memories deep in your soul and going through reincarnation after reincarnation without extinction requires a very strong will power. And at the same time I have to stabilize the evil spirit within your soul, so there isn’t much time I can awaken.”
“There are only two ways to awaken me. The first one is when someone touches your soul seal.”
Elder Wu remembered his actions just now and realized that he had awakened this man by mistake.
“The second is when your evil qi is completely uncontrollable and will affect the innocent on a large scale. I will wake up to stop the spread of the evil qi and bring you back into reincarnation.”
Reincarnation? Lou Ming’s mind clicked: “On New Year’s Eve.”
“Not bad.” Seemingly grasping what Lou Ming wanted to ask, the man replied, “If it wasn’t for the Green Spirit Hairpin appearing in time to purify your evil qi, we would have been in the Underworld by now.”
It turned out that he was that close to the God of Death. Despite being thankful at the same time, Lou Ming couldn’t help but give a bitter smile: “The first me seemed to have made well-thought-out arrangements.”
It seemed that his fear that his corpse would turn into a scourge on earth after death was superfluous.
“But you’re most fortunate in this life.” The man continued under Lou Ming’s puzzled eyes, “Because the six pieces of the most Yin and Evil spiritual artifacts should have been made.”
“What? Where?” Even if Lou Ming was calm, he couldn’t help but get excited at this point.