Chapter 856: The Law in the Hilt (1/2)

After chatting with Vardin for some time and staring off at the surroundings until he got bored, Krune soon returned to his room, planning to start working. He wasn't someone who liked to waste time.

Krune grabbed the sword, inspecting it once to see that its design was the same as any sword sold in the market. The hilt gleamed a faint green, making it look a bit special, but other than that, it didn't have anything else going for it.

When he went ahead and checked the conditions of the materials used using his divine sense, he noticed that a formation was embedded within the sword. But unlike those carved on the exterior, this seemed to be forged into its interior.

The texture of the blade formed a natural formation wherein Godly Energy could flow and emit the desired effect. Every piece of equipment, when forged, had a circuit in them through which Godly Energy could flow. That was how they were wielded by the cultivators.

This was precisely the reason cultivators couldn't use equipment four minor realms above their cultivation base. The internal circuits would siphon their Godly Energy dry and possibly even damage their cultivation base. This was a special effect of the weapons in the God Realm that Krune learned about once he joined the Blacksmith Guild here.

There had been cases where a cultivator used a powerful weapon—many stages above his cultivation base. Once that cultivator unleashed the attack using it, he instantly turned into a cripple. Then again, in his case, he was able to unleash the attack. But most times, the equipment would fail to activate, rendering the cultivator's sacrifice meaningless.

In the God Realm filled to the brim with dangers and threats to one's life, situations where cultivators were forced into a corner where they had to rely on powerful equipment were just too many. This was also the reason why Krune's cultivation base at the First Stage of Mortal Rejection Realm back then wasn't an oddity. Well, to be honest, others thought he was born with a defect instead of thinking that he came from a lower realm.

First Stage Mortal Rejection Realm. This was the cultivation stage a baby would be in while still being inside their mother's womb. In other words, this was the lowest cultivation stage in the entire God Realm.

Therefore, when one became a cripple, in this case, losing all their cultivation, they would fall back to the First Stage of Mortal Rejection Realm. This was why everyone Krune had met when he had just arrived in the God Realm asked the same things.

”Just what did you do to have your cultivation fall back to the First Stage of Mortal Rejection Realm?”

”First Stage of Mortal Rejection Realm? Holy shit! How did you become so weak?”

Krune recalled the words he had heard during his first encounter with the people from the God Realm. Despite the shock they displayed, they weren't too concerned about it. After all, they might have come across cultivators who had lost their cultivation bases before. Everything was all due to using equipment beyond what they were supposed to wield.

Krune noted how the formation forged within the blade elevated the weapon to a level beyond its stage.

Nevertheless, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. After all, the field of formation was also vast. A blacksmith who had also dabbled in the field of formations was capable of crafting something like this. Of course, if Krune classified the blades he had witnessed, the normal-looking blade in front of him was the finest of them all.

”I should start awakening this,” Krune muttered to himself as he activated his Calamity Laws, watching the dark cloud manifest before him once again. But this time, it was slightly different from before. The dark cloud was more condensed than before, with lightning flashing from time to time while flame tongues swirled within. Krune also detected other elements that he had either comprehended or come into contact with before, present within the dark cloud in a state of chaos.

His comprehension of the Calamity Laws had improved now that he was in the God Foundation Realm. The higher one's cultivation base, the greater they were able to look into the laws of the God Realm and comprehend them.

The chaotic state of the Calamity Laws had created numerous environmental factors in and around the blade. Whenever a condition suitable to awakening its spirit appeared, the blade would absorb it.

But for some reason, it wasn't even five minutes into the awakening process when Krune noticed something off…the blade's spirit had awakened. He wasn't even able to react when the green light covering the hilt had condensed and...destroyed the newly awakened spirit.

”…” Krune looked at it, stupefied. ”What the heck just happened?”

His first try succeeded in awakening a spirit. A startling success rate of 100 percent in contrast to his usual one percent. But Krune couldn't even register the thought in his mind before the hilt destroyed the awakened spirit.

”Let me check out what's causing this.” Krune tried it once again, condensing his Calamity Laws once more as he added more and more random conditions. While doing so, he could not help but notice that out of all the conditions he created, the blade absorbed more than half of them.

Ten minutes later, it formed a spirit once again. And, without any disturbance, the green light from the hilt destroyed the spirit. ”What the hell is wrong with this weapon?”