Chapter 1023: Oh Shit (1/2)

A year and a half later, in the royal treasure, located in the deepest section of the city's administrative building, was a woman. She was old and frail, looking like she was at the final vestiges of her life.

However, in contrast, her body seemed heavy, the toughest in fact. The fact that she had been the only one to oversee and protect the royal treasury was a testament to her strength. She was the previous City Lord, the mother to the current City Lord.

During her prime, she had even clashed with a Demon God once. Sadly, it wasn't even a fight. A single hit was all it took to bring her to death's door. But for some reason, the Demon God had let her live. After that incident, she retired and focused on healing her injuries using Water Essences.

Once recovered, she decided to oversee the royal treasury, stepping back from everything. Pacing around the massive hall, she looked at numerous items, sighing as she could feel their past glory.

Most of the items in the place were thought to be brought by the first generation. Each of those items contained boundless might. And now, they were placed in different altars of sorts, one per item.

The old lady arrived before an altar, looking at the sword placed on it. She inched her hand forth, lightly touching it, immediately feeling as if her body was poisoned. Hurriedly retracting her finger, she sighed, 'Just who are our ancestors? There's too much mystery surrounding them. Did they really hail from the legendary immortals? Why did they come here? And why have they decided to settle here? Were they fleeing from something?'

Her thoughts weren't too far, though. After all, the first generation of humans to arrive at the place were cultivators from the God Realm. Except for a few of them who entered voluntarily, everyone else had been forcefully pulled into it.

Left with no other choice, they had to settle in the place and get accustomed to the laws of the place. Of course, all the items in the royal treasury were those the cultivators had brought with them. Weapons, armors, pills, storage rings, robes, and other related things.

To a cultivator, they weren't much, just the items they used on a daily basis. But to a mortal, even the robe was a stellar item. After all, even that had a faint layer of Godly Energy within it. To a mortal, Godly Energy was something wielded by the gods, something they couldn't even touch.

That's why she experienced such a heavy reaction even though she only touched the sword lightly. Had she remained in contact for a couple more seconds, she would have burst into a murky goo.

When Feifei arrived at Layer 3, she had used her sword to kill her foes. Veins had popped on her hand, intending to rip it apart. She seemed on the verge of death for wielding a weapon of the gods as a mortal.

But in the end, the amount of damage she received from holding a weapon of the gods was way less than what the old lady currently faced. It was because of one difference.

Even though she had become a mortal, Feifei was originally part of the God Realm, having high cultivation. She was only forcefully turned into a mortal by the laws of the Sub-Realm. So, the amount of damage she received from holding a weapon of the gods wasn't too much.

But in the case of the old lady, she was a true mortal. If she took a step into the God Realm, just the sheer Godly Energy would render her into dust. So, it was impossible for her to even hold a weapon of the gods, not to mention using it for a moment like Feifei.