761: Chapter 760 The Spirit of the Weapon!!

The legacies of the two Venerables were the most precious treasures in the Ruined Battlefield.

However, unlike the bustling crowds at Venerable Purple Thunder's Legacy site, Venerable Destruction's Legacy site was currently completely deserted.

Not a single person had come to Venerable Destruction's Legacy site!

Deep within the thick fog, the illusory figure of an old man watched this scene, feeling quite uncomfortable in his heart.

His figure was blurry and semi-transparent, floating in the darkness like a ghost, with a faint black light emanating from his entire body.

His face was aged with deep wrinkles, and his eyes were filled with loneliness and helplessness.

He was the weapon spirit of Venerable Destruction's natal spirit weapon—the spirit weapon that had accompanied Venerable Destruction throughout his life, witnessing his rise, glory, and fall.

After Venerable Destruction fell, the spirit weapon was also heavily damaged, and the weapon spirit became weak, only able to exist in an extremely illusory form.

The weapon spirit looked at the bustling scene over at Venerable Purple Thunder's side.

Then he looked at his own side, which was completely deserted, neglected for decades, and utterly desolate.

His heart was filled with unwillingness, helplessness, and a deep sense of loss.

"Is Master's Legacy really going to be wasted like this?"

The weapon spirit murmured to himself, his voice full of loneliness.

"However, finding a powerful Martial Artist who practices both Qi Refining and Mental Energy is indeed a bit too difficult."

The weapon spirit sighed, his illusory figure trembling slightly.

The reason no Martial Artists came here was not because Venerable Destruction was weak, but because countless Martial Artists failed to meet Venerable Destruction's requirements for his successor!

Venerable Destruction's Legacy was far more demanding and difficult to satisfy than Venerable Purple Thunder's Legacy.

During his lifetime, Venerable Destruction's own strength had reached the Late Stage Venerable Realm, just one step away from the Peak Venerable Realm.

Moreover, he was also a powerful Spiritual Power Cultivator!

His Mental Energy was as high as 744 Hz, and in terms of combat strength, it was equivalent to an ordinary Middle Stage Venerable. Although his Mental Energy Realm was not as high as his Martial Dao Realm, he was already an extremely rare existence among Venerables of the same level.

Furthermore, he was also a Spirit Array Master.

A Spirit Array Master—a profession of Spiritual Power Cultivators—uses Mental Energy to construct Formations, mobilizing the power of heaven and earth to unleash power far exceeding their own Realm.

Back then, it was precisely by relying on a Spirit Array that Venerable Destruction set up a shocking killing array here, allowing him to defeat Venerable Purple Thunder, who was a tier higher than him, with only the strength of a Late Stage Venerable!

That battle was the most glorious battle of Venerable Destruction's life, and also his last.

Defeating the strong as the weak and overcoming a superior rank, he forced Venerable Purple Thunder into a desperate corner.

If Venerable Purple Thunder hadn't self-detonated at the end, Venerable Destruction wouldn't have fallen!

The power of Venerable Purple Thunder's self-detonation before his death was world-destroying; Venerable Destruction had no time to dodge and was caught in the center of the self-detonation, dying along with Venerable Purple Thunder.

Therefore, Venerable Destruction had extremely high requirements for his successor—they had to practice Dual Cultivation of both Qi Refining and Mental Energy, be exceptionally talented, preferably fit the Dao he cultivated, and ideally be a Spirit Array Master... All sorts of conditions made it extremely demanding.

Combining all or even just a few of these conditions, the weapon spirit had not seen a single person who met the requirements over all these years.

Occasionally, a few Martial Artists who cultivated the Dao of Destruction would come here, but they either only practiced Qi Refining, had too weak Mental Energy, or simply did not fit the Dao of Destruction at all.

The weapon spirit could only watch them leave in disappointment and continue to wait.

"Eh?"

Just then, the weapon spirit suddenly uttered a sound of surprise, his illusory body shaking violently.

His gaze turned toward the distance.

In that direction, a majestic and dense aura of destruction suddenly dispersed!

That aura of destruction spread in all directions.

Wherever it passed, the black fog of destruction was dispersed, and the thick fog surged like boiling water.

The concentration, purity, and intensity of this aura of destruction actually seemed even purer than the destruction aura of his master, Venerable Destruction!

It was not stronger, but purer.

Although Venerable Destruction's destruction aura was powerful, it was not so overbearing.

As for this current one, it was more like the pure, most original power of destruction.

This filled the weapon spirit's heart with shock!

Having lived for hundreds of years, he had never seen such a pure aura of destruction.

Immediately, his gaze pierced through layers of thick fog, looking toward the source of that aura of destruction.

...

In that place, a young man sat cross-legged.

Clad in a white profound robe, he had a gentle face and slightly closed eyes, his entire body enveloped in a dense aura of destruction.

He sat there like a statue, motionless, with only the aura of destruction around him slowly circulating.

This person was precisely Qin Yan.

At this moment, above Qin Yan's head, the original pitch-black sphere of light was gradually disappearing, replaced by the phantom of an all-black long spear.

The long spear phantom was about ten feet long, its shaft straight as if carved from ink jade, and its tip so sharp it seemed capable of piercing through the void. Countless mysterious and profound black patterns wound around the spear's body, writhing and flowing slowly like living creatures, each pulsation emitting a terrifying aura of destruction capable of turning all things into powder.

The entire long spear phantom floated quietly in mid-air, rotating slowly and emitting a heart-palpitating pressure.

Under this pressure, the surrounding black fog of destruction dispersed one after another, not daring to draw near.

"The embryonic form of the Great Destruction Spear Intent has finally finished condensing."

Looking at the black long spear phantom high in the air, Qin Yan finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Several hours had passed since he began condensing it.

Four steps—releasing the Destruction Spear Intent to draw in the aura of destruction; fusing the four prerequisite Spear Intents; using the aura of destruction as fuel for tempering; and nurturing the embryonic form of the Great Destruction Spear Intent.

Every step was extremely difficult.

"But it's finally complete." The corners of Qin Yan's mouth curled up slightly.

"Now, only the last step remains." Qin Yan took a deep breath. "To integrate the Great Destruction Spear Intent into my body and completely complete the nurturing of the embryonic Great Destruction Spear Intent!"

The embryonic form of the Great Destruction Spear Intent was, after all, just an embryonic form.

It still needed to be integrated into the body, fused with the master's will, and nurtured within the body.

Only by completing this step could the Great Destruction Spear Intent be considered truly and successfully condensed.

Acting on his thoughts, just as Qin Yan was about to absorb the embryonic Great Destruction Spear Intent into his body—

"Roar—!"

"Ah—!"

"Wooo—!"

Roars and shrieks echoed from all directions, from deep within the thick fog, and from beneath the ground.

The sounds rose and fell, some high and some low, some far and some near.

Some were low like muffled thunder, some sharp like sharp blades, and some hoarse like broken gongs.

Immediately after, figures of Resentful Spirits appeared one after another around Qin Yan!

They drifted out from the black fog of destruction, manifested from the void, and walked out from the darkness.