Chapter 422

Brother Qian Chen slightly raised the Tengkong Sword, and the divine spirit within the blade awakened for an imperceptible instant. Upon the sword embryo, which resembled scrap iron, a trace of divine radiance shone once more. He lifted the sword and guided it, and the natural phenomena of the world appeared upon the divine blade again...

At this moment, with the group of Yin Spirit True Persons joining forces, they were already able to hold their own against the eight divine artifacts.

Every True Person had a sliver of divine sense observing the outside world, and by now, they had all discovered the turn of events on Brother Qian Chen's side.

True Person Zhu, however, had a fiery temper; even though he was vomiting blood from the strikes of the Nine Provinces Cauldron, he still stubbornly shouted at Brother Qian Chen: "Li Taibai, what kind of trick are you playing!"

Brother Qian Chen ignored him. Amidst the incredulous gazes of the crowd, he swung his sword in a single slash. The sword light did not fall toward the infinite divine brilliance of the eight divine artifacts, nor did it strike at the Yin Spirit True Persons; the sword light was even ethereal, as if it possessed no power at all, falling into empty space. Among the crowd, only Xiao Xie An could perceive that this sword had severed something profound and mysterious within the void...

The sword light passed, and the eight divine artifacts fell to the ground in response, turning into scrap iron!

This streak of sword light left the group of juniors watching from afar with a momentary blankness in their minds, as if all distracting thoughts had been severed by the sword light, wiping away all the dust upon their hearts, and in that instant, they felt a sense of clarity.

But for the several Yin Spirit True Persons, such sword light was nothing to be surprised about!

True Person Zhu lifted the Nine Provinces Cauldron, only to find that although the giant cauldron possessed the weight of ten thousand jun, it was merely a heavy lump of copper; no matter how he channeled his power, it showed not the slightest reaction.

The other True Persons also rushed to pick up those divine artifacts, examining them repeatedly in their hands.

"This... how is this possible!" True Person Gu said in disbelief: "The astonishing divine might from just a moment ago could definitely not have been fake! Divine artifacts like these, even if they were imitations, should not have been severed by a single sword strike from Li Taibai... Why did these divine artifacts turn into dead objects after he slashed them once?"

True Person Zhu shouted sternly again: "Li Taibai, what kind of game are you playing?"

Brother Qian Chen slightly raised the Tengkong Sword, the tip faintly pointing toward True Person Zhu, causing his expression to change drastically as he hurriedly summoned his golden cauldron to block in front of him. Brother Qian Chen smiled faintly: "The might of a divine artifact lies entirely in the divine spirit within the vessel. Without the spirit, the vessel naturally dies! Are you all blaming me?"

Brother Qian Chen raised an eyebrow and swept a glance over the disheveled crowd, his meaning very clear—without me, would you all still be able to hold on?

True Person Zhou Yin pondered for a moment and spoke up: "Then, Fellow Daoist Taibai, could you tell us where the spirits within the vessels have gone?"

"In the past, among the three Great Fangshi of the local Fangxian Dao, one had quite a childlike heart and imitated many divine artifacts, placing them here..." Brother Qian Chen glanced at the Tengkong Sword in his hand and smiled: "At this time, the Fangxian Dao has already declined. Although they still control a grotto-heaven and possess endless cultivation resources, refining magic treasures and divine artifacts still requires a great deal of effort. This place is merely the entrance to the grotto-heaven, a porch and gateway; you surely wouldn't think that heavy treasures like imitation divine artifacts would be displayed here so casually, would you?"

Brother Qian Chen shook his head and said: "These nine divine artifacts are nothing more than models!"

"But the awe-inspiring might of these divine artifacts just now could not have been fake! It couldn't be that the Great Fangshi used illusion arts to deceive us all!" True Person Zhou Yin sneered.

Brother Qian Chen was unimpressed: "Calling it illusion art is not entirely wrong, but you all should know about the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts!"

Xiao Xie An stroked his beard with a chuckle: "In the past, the Great Fangshi refined worlds into artifacts, calling them Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts. However, this matter was too shocking to the ear, and people in the world only took it to be another delusion of the Great Fangshi!"

"The ultimate concept of the Great Fangshi was to refine the entire cosmos into a single Luo Tian Immortal Artifact. Such a heaven-shaking feat naturally failed to succeed. But refining ordinary great worlds was not a delusion. In the past, the First Emperor of the Immortal Qin conquered the heavens and beat twelve rebellious and fickle great worlds into wastelands. To manifest his majesty, the First Emperor ordered the Great Fangshi to collect all the magic treasures and divine weapons of the twelve worlds, melt them into golden men, and refine the remains of the great worlds into them, forging them into Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts—the Twelve Golden Men!"

Xiao Xie An pondered for a moment, nodded slightly and said: "I have heard of this matter as well, but I did not know that these Twelve Golden Men were actually Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts. I had thought they were merely acquired spirit treasures!"

"But what does this have to do with these few divine artifacts?" True Person Zhu had a fiery temper and asked anxiously.

"These few divine artifacts are Luo Tian Magic Artifacts!"

Brother Qian Chen gently wiped the blade of the Tengkong Sword, his divine sense probing inch by inch through the sword. Within the dead object, there was not a trace of seals. The methods of the ancient Great Fangshi were indeed extremely brilliant; many things were left there for you to examine, yet you could not discern any clues.

"Luo Tian Magic Artifacts?" Xiao Xie An slightly raised his hand to pacify the scowling True Person Zhu, and said with a smile: "I wonder what connection these Luo Tian Magic Artifacts have with the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts?"

"A Luo Tian Immortal Artifact is not simply refining a world into an artifact."

"It is said that the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact was crafted by an ancient great Great Fangshi after entering the 'Great Luo Heaven', where he had an epiphany and imitated the Great Luo Heaven to refine it."

"Luo Tian means the heaven above heaven. Its essence is like the Golden Core Realm or the Divine Realm's Yin Earth; it is a realm above realms. It is just that the concept of the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact is even more magnificent, serving as the 'spirit' of a world. If this universe is the body of a world, the mountains are the muscles, the rivers are the blood vessels, the plants are the hair, the wind and rain are the breath, and the sun and moon are the eyes..."

"Then the Luo Tian is the soul of the world."

Brother Qian Chen introduced it as vividly as possible, using a portion of the information he had just obtained from the divine spirit of the Tengkong Sword. But the sheer audacity of the ancient Great Fangshi, described in just a few words, already left the local bumpkins of the aristocratic families speechless.

Hearing these delusions of the Great Fangshi, one felt that cultivating to become an immortal was nothing more than this!

Compared to the extremely arrogant feats of these madmen, immortality seemed like merely a beginning.

"Therefore, to refine a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact, one must extract the soul of a world and refine it into a 'spirit'!"

"A Luo Tian Immortal Artifact is like a living Divine Lord. Its dominant divine kingdom can naturally respond to all living beings; therefore, as long as one is within the sensing range of the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact, one can borrow its divine might. And the Luo Tian Magic Artifact is a magic artifact that can connect to the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact and borrow the might of the immortal artifact."

"It requires no refining of seals and no channeling of magic power to exert twelve times its might. It is simple to manufacture, its destruction is not a pity, and its maintenance is even more convenient. Therefore, when the Immortal Qin was at the height of its power, it cast countless Luo Tian Magic Artifacts, using the Twelve Golden Men as the pivot, to launch expeditions into foreign lands. Even if they were destroyed, it was merely the loss of some materials. Furthermore, besides the Luo Tian Magic Artifacts, there were Immortal Qin war puppets, chariots, starships, and mechanism magic artifacts... all based on the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts!"

Explaining to these ancient bumpkins was troublesome. To put it plainly, a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact was a spirit, capable of serving as an internet carrier, cast within a powerful divine artifact, containing a mental world within it.

By borrowing the spirits of the living beings of a world to enter it, constantly refining it, collecting wish power and thought power, and the wisdom of all living beings, it was cast into 'Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals' or 'Intelligent AI'. Anything the divine path could do, the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact could accomplish; it was a way for the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty to usurp divine power.

Brother Qian Chen even suspected that the destruction of the Immortal Qin was not unrelated to the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts. After all, this was digging up the foundations of all the gods!

The 'Great Luo Heaven' that the ancient Great Fangshi entered should be the place of the cosmic reincarnation.

They discovered that this 'reincarnation', which was only one step away from all worlds, all space-time, and all existence in the cosmos, could be called the ultimate of creation.

These crazy Great Fangshi began to imitate the place of cosmic reincarnation and refine 'Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts'.

But in the end, they didn't manage to imitate a 'Main God Space', but instead created the 'Internet'.

The Luo Tian Immortal Artifact refined a world into an artifact, containing an 'Internet' that enveloped a world. Its 'artifact' was the sum of all servers carrying this Internet. And the divine spirits of these divine artifacts were nothing more than 'Cloud Divine Artifacts' calculated by borrowing Internet resources.

Xiao Xie An pondered over the secrets of the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts that Brother Qian Chen had spoken of, and could not help but feel awe in his heart...

Many things were terrifying to think about!

The lines even revealed some secrets about the conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Qin, and even the Immortal Qin's war against heaven, leaving Xiao Xie An not daring to ponder deeply.

True Person Zhu had seven parts of disbelief in his heart. Looking at the Nine Provinces Cauldron in his hand, he hardened his heart, picked up the golden cauldron at his side, channeled his magic power, and smashed it down. Only a loud bang was heard, attracting everyone's attention, but they saw True Person Zhu staring blankly at the bronze giant cauldron that had already been smashed into several pieces, a trace of dullness appearing on his face.

"Actually, it really can be easily destroyed... If this cauldron had even a trace of might, it wouldn't be like this..."

At this moment, the group of True Persons all sighed silently, and looking at the 'divine artifacts' in their hands again, they felt they were like chicken ribs.

"So..." Yu Liang nodded slightly and said: "Fellow Daoist Taibai perceived the mysteries of these Luo Tian Magic Artifacts and severed the connection between these few magic artifacts and the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact!"

Brother Qian Chen nodded slightly.

A flash of brilliance passed through Yu Liang's eyes, and he suddenly said: "In that case, could it be that a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact still exists within this grotto-heaven?"

Brother Qian Chen smiled: "In the late years of the Immortal Han, the three remaining Great Fangshi of the Fangxian Dao finally chose the Jin Ling Grotto-Heaven as their foundation. It couldn't just be for the ancient divine path relics here! If there were remains of a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact passed down from the Immortal Qin here, then it wouldn't be hard to understand!"

"Remains of a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact!"

Hearing Brother Qian Chen's explanation, everyone's heart rose.

Listening to what Brother Qian Chen had said before, possessing a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact was not just letting a family have an extra powerful divine artifact capable of suppressing their heritage and being passed down for ten thousand generations; it was equivalent to possessing a portion of the Immortal Qin's war potential and system from the past. Just those Luo Tian Magic Artifacts that could borrow the power of the immortal artifact were like letting a family possess countless magic treasures!

Such supreme treasures, who wouldn't be determined to obtain them?

Hearing this, although the group of aristocratic True Persons could not help but feel a trace of greed, their ability to cultivate their temperament was not bad, and they knew that such immortal artifacts were not something to be rushed. Spending tens of thousands of years and several hundred generations to slowly scheme for them was worth it!

Even if a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact truly existed, it must be hidden in the most heavily guarded place of the Fangxian Dao. They couldn't even get up to the floating islands of the hanging mountains on the periphery now. Thinking about these things now was still too early!

Several people secretly exchanged divine senses and one after another put away the 'Luo Tian Magic Artifacts' in their hands.

Even if these were just 'models' or 'toys' made by some Great Fangshi, as long as they were related to a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact, they were worth carefully collecting.

Xiao Xie An, however, pondered for a while, then left only one ancient King-Respecting Pagoda among the four Luo Tian Magic Artifacts in his hand, and sent the mirror, seal, and arrow to Brother Qian Chen, saying: "Many thanks to Taibai for clearing up our confusion, allowing us to subdue these magic artifacts! Taibai exerted nine parts of the effort, yet I, this old man, luckily obtained these four magic artifacts. I will shamelessly keep one so that future generations can witness the wonders of the Luo Tian Magic Artifacts, and return the other three to Taibai..."

Brother Qian Chen waved his sleeve to accept them, then took out the imitation Western Kunlun Mirror and sent it into the hands of Ning Ning Shimei Si, saying: "Wang Wang Zhiyuan and I had an agreement beforehand; this item shall count as one of them!"

Ning Ning Shimei Si accepted it calmly on the surface, but secretly contacted Brother Qian Chen excitedly: "Yan Yan Shixiong, Yan Yan Shixiong, what is the use of this thing?"

"Don't worry about that for now, I'll give you something!"

Brother Qian Chen selected one of the nine palm-sized silver talismans from his sea of consciousness—which seemed to be cast from silver sheets, with smooth lines and full of strange beauty—that had a mirror-shaped rune, and sent it to Si Princess Qingcheng.

Ning Ning Shimei Si touched it slightly with her divine sense and felt the thing merge into her sea of consciousness, landing in the hands of her soul. Her divine sense sensed an inexplicable spiritual mechanism between heaven and earth, connecting to a profound and mysterious place.

"Divine sense connection detected... Unregistered user

"Warning! Unauthorized link... Beep! Special authorization detected... Connecting to Luo Tian!"

A sliver of Ning Ning Shimei Si's divine sense suddenly entered a dark world where countless stars floated in the void, and an indifferent voice asked: "Do you wish to register for the Luo Tian Immortal Talisman?"