Volume 1, Chapter 200 – Reward

Sword spirit?

Shi Lan was slightly surprised. With the sword spirit of the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword as her prior reference, she had never once associated Wu Xu with that kind of artifact spirit that barely possessed any will of its own.

“You just said this trial was something you chose to let me pass? Why? In that case, what meaning does the trial even have?” Shi Lan asked, puzzled.

“Whether the trial has meaning is not for you to decide. You only need to know that you have now passed it,” Wu Xu replied. His tone still held no fluctuation at all, like dead water in a well.

“The people on that continent just now—where did they come from?”

“When Guiyun roamed the universe back then, he merged into the Guiyun Realm one great thousand world, one middle thousand world, and one small thousand world. Those people are the original inhabitants of that small thousand world, whose lineages have been passed down to this day.”

“What you just showed me seemed to have three layers of space. Aside from that continent, the other two layers are the other two worlds?”

Shi Lan did not understand very much about classifications like great thousand worlds or middle thousand worlds, but the Empress-raising System bound to her body was linked to three thousand great thousand worlds.

Thinking of it this way, great thousand worlds should not be all that rare.

“Yes,” Wu Xu nodded. “If you passed the trial and obtained the legacy, all of that would be yours.”

From Wu Xu’s mouth, those three worlds sounded like mere add-ons to the legacy.

“What’s the second trial?” Shi Lan did not dwell on it further and asked bluntly. Since she had come this far, taking a few more steps would not hurt.

“Before the second trial, I need to first give you the reward for passing this one.”

There was a reward too?

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Hearing this, Shi Lan’s mood improved quite a bit.

Wu Xu waved his hand. The surrounding space twisted and shifted, changing from blank whiteness into a boundless starry sky. Not far away, a massive star was burning fiercely.

Shi Lan glanced around at the brilliant starlight on all sides, a hint of shock flashing through her eyes. To be this close to the cosmos and stars made it hard not to feel one’s own smallness.

“All of Guiyun’s cultivation arts and sword techniques are contained within the legacy and cannot be used as a reward for you. The reward for this first trial is a supreme killing secret art Guiyun once stumbled upon when he was at the Emperor level—the ‘Heaven’s Extremity Seal.’”

“Secret arts of this level can only be comprehended, not explained in words. How much you can grasp will depend on your own fortune.”

Hearing this, Shi Lan could not help but frown. She had never considered her own comprehension to be particularly high.

Before she could think further, a figure appeared before that enormous star. Around the figure seemed to coil a layer of strange energy that distorted the light, making it impossible to see its features clearly.

The figure slowly raised both hands, as though turning a millstone, rotating them at an unhurried pace. Boundless Dao intent spread out as the motion traced a full moon, then the hands came together in a seal before its chest.

In an instant, all the starlight around them dimmed, as if the hand seal held to its chest had stolen their glow.

After a moment, the figure moved again. The seal at its chest was slowly pushed out, and a terrifying aura swept across the starry sky. Before the palm imprint even landed, the flames on the star’s surface were already roiling wildly.

The palm imprint left its hands and swelled at a shocking rate, spanning the cosmos. The dead stars around it seemed as insignificant as specks of dust.

The enormous palm imprint swept across the heavens, grinding countless dead stars into fragments, then fell soundlessly onto the star itself.

The surface of the star instantly cracked apart. Then the stellar body began to collapse, like the most dazzling firework in existence blooming in the cold, vast universe.

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The palm imprint shattered the star and reached straight into its deepest core, plucking out the star core before slowly dispersing.

The star’s blazing light faded away bit by bit as the body broke apart. The fragments that shot out gradually cooled, becoming meteorites that began a long drift through the cosmos.

[Congratulations, Host has obtained “Heaven’s Extremity Seal.” Current proficiency: Not yet initiated.]

[High-level martial art detected. Record it?]

The System’s notification jolted Shi Lan back to herself. She had no time to wonder why the System even had this function and silently thought,

“Record.”

The scene just now had been shocking, but it had not exceeded her understanding. She had, after all, once witnessed Pangu splitting heaven and earth—she was not exactly sheltered.

[System virtual space has recorded it. Host may review it at will.]

Joy flashed through Shi Lan’s eyes. Just now, she had merely felt as though she had touched on a few clues, still a world away from true understanding.

If the virtual space really could simulate that scene, then her chances of comprehending the Heaven’s Extremity Seal would undoubtedly rise greatly.

“Gained something?” Noticing the joy in Shi Lan’s eyes, Wu Xu showed a hint of surprise.

A supreme killing secret art was not so easily understood. If watching once was enough to get something out of it, then that level of comprehension was practically monstrous.

“A bit,” Shi Lan nodded. She did indeed have a few ideas.

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“And the next trial?”

Seeing her say this, Wu Xu swallowed back the words he had been about to say about watching it again.

He had originally thought Shi Lan would need to watch at least dozens of times before she gained anything, and over a hundred times just to get started.

As things stood, it seemed he had saved himself quite a bit of trouble.

Wu Xu waved his hand, and the surrounding starry sky gradually faded. A figure extremely familiar to Shi Lan slowly appeared.

Looking at the man before her, so handsome he seemed flawless, Shi Lan raised a brow. “What’s this supposed to mean?”

Staring at this incarnation of Guiyun, Wu Xu’s eyes rippled slightly. “Defeat this incarnation of Guiyun, and the legacy will be yours. Of course, this incarnation’s cultivation is only at the middle stage of the Earth Fiend Realm.”

With that, Wu Xu glanced at Shi Lan and added, “You have three chances.”

“One is enough.”

Looking at the incarnation of the Guiyun Sword Sovereign, Shi Lan’s lips curved slightly. She raised her hand and summoned the Purple Star Seven-Section Halberd. Though the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword was also lying inside the Qiankun Bracelet, she still preferred the Purple Star Seven-Section Halberd.

“Then shall we begin?”

Seeing the confidence in Shi Lan’s eyes, a barely noticeable curve appeared at the corner of Wu Xu’s mouth.

Shi Lan nodded without a trace of hesitation.

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Swoosh!

A blade of snow-bright sword light flashed out, sweeping past Shi Lan’s eyes.

Shi Lan lowered her lids, her body not moving in the slightest. Without even looking, she raised the halberd and swept it across.

Clang—

The halberd edge met the sword blade with pinpoint precision.

Wu Xu’s brow twitched. Shi Lan’s reaction was that of someone who already knew the sequence of Guiyun’s sword moves in advance.

Shi Lan unleashed all the strength in her body. A trace of violet flickered in her pupils as her vast true qi poured along the halberd shaft toward the sword edge.

With a single glance, Wu Xu could tell this long halberd was likely a replica of an imperial armament. Though the grade difference was enormous, it had managed to imitate a sliver of the original’s essence and had birthed a majestic aura of its own.

The first sword stroke failed. The incarnation drifted back lightly, a powerful momentum rapidly gathering behind him.

As a Sword Sovereign of his generation, Guiyun had naturally long since condensed his sword intent.

The surrounding void instantly seemed filled with invisible blades, brimming with hostility, pressing in step by step.

Behind Shi Lan, a field of black illusion slowly unfurled, shielding a radius of three zhang around her.

A phenomenon?