103: Chapter 103 Companion-type Ancient Martial Arts

Planet Five, Central Teleportation Plaza.

With a blinding blue flash of spatial light rising into the sky, Su Yu's figure vanished instantly after a slight sensation of weightlessness.

Interplanetary spatial teleportation was merely a common commuting method in this high-level Star Domain where technology and martial arts coexisted.

It took only the time of a single breath.

When the view before Su Yu cleared again, he had already stepped firmly onto the land of the Aolan Academy main campus—Planet One.

"Hoo..."

As soon as Su Yu landed, he couldn't help but take a deep breath of air.

Except for when he first arrived to report for enrollment, this was the second time Su Yu had set foot on the main campus.

This was the absolute power center of the entire Aolan Academy.

Those who could stay here year-round were, without exception, the academy's high-level mentors, old monsters in seclusion, and some high-level members stationed by the Human Federation.

Ordinary students didn't even have the qualifications to approach this place.

Su Yu did not look around.

He followed the guided route given on his smart bracelet and walked along a road paved with white jade toward the deepest part of the main campus.

He walked for about ten minutes.

The view ahead suddenly opened up, and an extremely massive black stone plaza appeared before his eyes.

In the very center of the plaza stood a towering, ancient, and massive pavilion exuding the vicissitudes of endless time!

The Ancient Pavilion!

This pavilion towered into the clouds, and the spire could not be seen at all.

Its entire body was built from an unknown dark black ancient giant stone, and every giant stone was carved with dense, obscure Formation runes and mysterious totems.

Standing in front of this pavilion, Su Yu even had the illusion that he was not facing a building, but a prehistoric beast dormant in the river of time.

Su Yu calmed his state of mind, took large strides, and walked straight toward the tightly closed bronze gate of the Ancient Pavilion.

Just when he was less than ten steps away from the gate.

Swish!

An extremely hunched old man appeared out of thin air without warning, blocking his path.

The old man's eyes were cloudy, looking like an ordinary Mortal on the verge of death.

But Su Yu's Divine Thought, which had already reached the Martial Saint level, sent out a frantic warning of fatal danger the moment he saw this old man!

Inscrutable!

This old man's strength was definitely far more terrifying than the Star Envoy who had received him earlier!

"The Edict?"

The old man didn't waste words and straightforwardly extended a hand as withered as tree bark.

Su Yu was slightly startled, but he quickly reacted.

He flipped his wrist decisively and took out a token emitting a blinding golden light from his space ring.

This was the Golden Edict personally awarded by the academy's high-level officials after he had won first place with an invincible posture of sweeping everything before him in the highly anticipated "First-Year Martial King Championship"!

Su Yu handed the Edict over with both hands.

The old man took the gold token and cast a casual glance at it with his cloudy eyes.

After confirming the unique mark on it, he put the Edict away very casually, then turned slightly to the side, clearing the path to the gate.

"Go in."

The old man's voice remained calm, but it carried an unquestionable rule:

"Remember, the inside constitutes a world of its own. You only have one hour. Once the time is up, you will be forcibly teleported out, regardless of whether you have selected something or not. Opportunity is determined by heaven; do not force it."

"This Junior understands."

Su Yu nodded solemnly.

He stepped past the old man, reached out to push open the incredibly heavy bronze gate, and stepped inside.

As soon as he entered, the bronze gate behind him closed automatically with a "boom."

The scene presented before Su Yu was completely different from what he had imagined in his mind.

He had thought that the core treasure vault of Aolan Academy would surely be filled with dazzling treasures, with all kinds of peerless divine weapons piled up like cabbages.

But the reality was the exact opposite.

The first floor of the Ancient Pavilion was extremely spacious, one could even say it was empty.

The huge black walls all around only emitted faint fluorescent light; there were no shelves, and no weapons on display.

Only in the very center of the pavilion stood a massive circular stone platform.

The surface of the stone platform was densely carved with ancient Formation patterns a thousand times more complex than those outside.

These Formation patterns were like living things, flickering with strange, dim light.

In the air around the stone platform, dozens of light orbs of various sizes and colors were sparsely floating.

Inside every light orb, an extremely obscure fluctuation of Origin Qi was emitted.

Su Yu did not hesitate in the slightest, strode to the circular stone platform, leaped up, and sat cross-legged right in the center of the stone platform!

Boom!

The moment Su Yu sat down, he immediately closed his eyes, completely releasing the Chaos Body Qi and blood he had been suppressing, and at the same time, released his terrifying Martial Saint level Divine Thought, following the Formation patterns on the stone platform without any reservation!

"Hum, hum, hum—!"

With Su Yu's closing of his eyes and the release of his aura, the entire previously empty and dead-silent first floor of the Ancient Pavilion seemed to be completely awakened in an instant!

In addition to the dozens of light orbs originally floating around the stone platform, within the hard black walls all around, in the void, and even on the dome of the great hall, hundreds and thousands of brilliant light orbs emerged frantically, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!

These light orbs were all "manifestations of artifact spirits" of masterless ancient weapons and ancient treasures sealed here!

They had slept for countless epochs, but today, they were awakened by Su Yu's pure, extreme Chaos Qi and blood!

"Swish, swish, swish!"

These light orbs were like a pack of wolves that had been hungry for ten days seeing the most delicious fresh meat; they actually moved as if they had life, scrambling and crazily drifting toward Su Yu in the center of the stone platform!

ancient treasures choosing their master!

The light orbs surrounding Su Yu were colorful and brilliant to the extreme.

Some light orbs emitted a soft, deep blue water light like the sea, with the sound of surging waves faintly coming from within; some light orbs shone with a scorching red light capable of burning the sky and boiling the sea, the high temperature emitted even igniting the air; others presented a violent and mysterious purple, with thick thunder arcs lingering on their surface!

There were second-tier, and even a few top-grade ancient weapon light orbs emitting terrifying fourth-tier auras!

They swirled and danced crazily around Su Yu, seemingly trying their best to show their strength, eager to gain the favor of this peerless Prodigy!

If it were an ordinary Martial King, facing such a shocking scene of ten thousand treasures coming to pay homage, he would have probably fainted from happiness long ago, as grabbing any one of them would be a fortune enough to change his destiny.

But Su Yu remained with his eyes closed, unmoved.

"There is still time, wait a little longer."

Su Yu shook his head secretly in his heart.

What he wanted was a blade that could truly match his invincible path!

Just as Su Yu was preparing to continue increasing his Divine Thought output, attempting to awaken the divine objects deeper in the Ancient Pavilion, a change happened suddenly!

"Hum—!!!"

In the endless dark dome high above Su Yu's head, a black light orb, only the size of a fist and completely dark, appeared out of thin air without warning!

The moment this black light orb appeared, the temperature of the entire first floor of the Ancient Pavilion dropped to freezing point!

A profound chill that made one's Soul tremble and palpitate to the extreme swept across the entire hall like a tsunami!

"Squeak, squeak—"

An extremely dramatic scene occurred!

Those hundreds and thousands of light orbs that were originally swirling around Su Yu, fawning over him and emitting various brilliant lights, the moment they felt the aura of this black light orb, they reacted as if they had encountered a natural predator!

They emitted weak humming sounds as if they had been frightened, and then they retreated crazily in unison like a receding tide!

They forcibly cleared a large area of absolute vacuum around Su Yu, not daring to get too close to that black light orb at all!

Overbearing!

Incomparable overbearing and pressure!

The black light orb did not pay attention to the "light orbs" trembling around it; it exuded a deep aura that seemed to be able to swallow all light, slowly descending from mid-air.

Finally, it hovered steadily directly in front of Su Yu's forehead, at a distance of less than three inches.

"Rip—!"

A crisp tearing sound, as if even the real space had been forcibly torn apart, exploded in Su Yu's ears.

Following this light sound, Su Yu felt abruptly that the space within three feet around him and the black light orb had been stripped away in an instant, turning into a Realm of absolute darkness from which not even light could escape!

Immediately after, the shell of that black light orb shattered inch by inch, and the entity of a blade slowly manifested in the dark Realm!

It was a long blade about four feet long.

The blade was pitch black as ink, reflecting no light, as if it had been forged directly from the dark matter in the deepest part of the Universe.

On the long, narrow blade, it was covered with extremely fine, eerie dark red patterns that looked like a demon's blood vessels.

As soon as this long blade fully manifested, the surrounding air was instantly frozen into countless tiny black ice crystals.

A killing aura capable of severing space and swallowing Souls rushed toward him!

Su Yu opened his eyes abruptly.

Those deep, cold eyes erupted with an unprecedented fanatical brilliance the moment he saw this blade!

"It is you!"

Su Yu did not hesitate in the slightest, slammed his right hand out, and gripped the pitch-black hilt tightly!

"Boom!"

The moment Su Yu gripped the hilt, a massive stream of information, carrying a wonderful resonance as if they were connected by blood, instantly rushed into his mind along his arm!

[Ancient Weapon Name: shadow soul-devouring blade]

[Current Grade: Third-tier!]

[Core Attributes: Space, Dark]

[Special Classification: companion-type ancient weapon!]

"Companion-type?!"

The moment he read this last piece of information, even the steady Su Yu couldn't help but have huge waves rise in his heart, and a huge joy instantly surged into his heart!

He had hit the jackpot!

This time, he had really picked up an immeasurable treasure!

In the vast Star Domain martial arts world, although ancient weapons were precious, the vast majority were dead objects with fixed grades.

For example, a second-tier ancient weapon would always be a second-tier ancient weapon; when a Martial Artist's strength improved, they could only discard it and exchange it for a higher-tier weapon.

This made it difficult for Martial Artists to cultivate a true, extreme rapport with any one weapon.

However, companion-type ancient weapons were different!

These were supreme wonders nurtured by heaven and earth, or crafted by ancient peerless divine craftsmen who exhausted their life's work!

Such weapons not only had power far exceeding the same tier, but what was even more Heaven-Defying was that they possessed "growth potential"!

As long as a Martial Artist performed a Bloodline binding with it and refined it into their life-bound ancient weapon, this blade could continuously advance and evolve along with the Martial Artist's own Realm Breakthrough and the nourishment of Qi and blood!

What did this mean?

This meant that this "shadow soul-devouring blade" not only perfectly matched Su Yu's own characteristics, but it would also be a lifelong partner for Su Yu to step onto the Peak of the Universe and even aspire to the highest level in the future!

"What a good shadow soul-devouring blade."

Su Yu felt the throbbing desire for blood coming from the blade, and a domineering, cold smile curled the corners of his mouth: "From today on, you will accompany me to kill through this Universe!"

With a thought, the black long blade instantly turned into a shadow and was neatly stored into the space ring on Su Yu's finger.

Afterward, Su Yu stood up.

He did not take another look at the light orbs hiding in the corners, turned around, and walked out of this mysterious Ancient Pavilion.