399: Unexpected Gains

Before this, Xiao Shi had been wondering if the kills he made in The Primordial Martial Era would drop items.

After all, with the reset of The Primordial Martial Era, even if he successfully killed these Saints, they would revive in the next reset.

Therefore, to some extent, these Saints were not truly dead.

Since they weren't truly dead, the kills Xiao Shi made might not drop items!

This was the problem he had been worried about.

It wasn't until the Crimson Refining Corpse killed a Saint and successfully dropped an item that Xiao Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he didn't have the chance to inspect these items immediately.

Now that the operation was successful, he eagerly began to examine them.

Name: Saint Weapon Forging Furnace

Type: Forging Furnace

Grade: Saint Grade

Status: Reset

Description: A special furnace capable of forging Saint Weapons. Materials can be placed into the furnace to forge Saint Weapons.

Remark 1: Any Saint Grade item can be used as a material and placed into the furnace. The furnace will then forge a Saint Weapon based on the material.

Remark 2: The more materials placed, the more powerful the forged Saint Weapon will be.

Remark 3: Materials below Saint Grade cannot be placed. Even if many materials below Saint Grade are placed, a Saint Weapon cannot be forged.

Remark 4: Materials above Saint Grade cannot be placed. If materials exceeding Saint Grade are placed, the entire Forging Furnace will be unable to bear the load and will shatter.

Remark 5: Items in 'Reset' status can only be used before the next reset. After the reset, the item will disappear.

Xiao Shi looked at the item information that appeared in his vision, and it suddenly dawned on him.

That is to say, any items he killed and dropped here would be in a 'Reset' state.

They could only be used before the next reset.

Once The Primordial Martial Era entered its next reset, this item would disappear.

This meant he wouldn't be able to take these dropped items out of The Primordial Martial Era.

“So, I only have three hundred years to use these items…”

Xiao Shi felt this situation was reasonable.

After all, these Saints weren't truly dead.

It was natural that the dropped items wouldn't be without restrictions.

When they revived after the reset, the items would also disappear.

From the perspective of this item's function, it was undoubtedly extremely useful to Xiao Shi.

After all, before this, he didn't even have a single Saint Weapon.

And the execution of Thousand Weapon Dao Slash precisely required weapons.

Xiao Shi pondered that if he had used Saint Weapons to execute Thousand Weapon Dao Slash before, he might have been able to pose a certain threat to the Dao Lord of the Blood Extension Lower Kingdom.

The strength of the weapon would also affect the power of Thousand Weapon Dao Slash.

Previously, the weapons Xiao Shi used to execute Thousand Weapon Dao Slash were only Martial Demon Grade weapons.

Naturally, such weapons could not compare to Saint Weapons in terms of power!

If Thousand Weapon Dao Slash were executed with Saint Weapons, its power would undoubtedly be even more formidable.

Therefore, this Saint Weapon Forging Furnace was very important to Xiao Shi.

It meant he could forge other Saint Grade items into Saint Weapons!

However, Xiao Shi was now puzzled: Since this Saint Weapon Forging Furnace was an item in a 'Reset' state, would the Saint Weapons forged by the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace also be in a 'Reset' state?

“If the Saint Weapons forged by the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace are not in a 'Reset' state…”

“Then I can forge all other 'Reset' state items into Saint Weapons that I can take with me!”

“That would be a huge profit!”

Xiao Shi's eyes lit up.

He immediately took out an item in a 'Reset' state to try.

The item he took out was a pitch-black thorny flower.

It possessed a powerful binding effect.

Even Saints would find it difficult to break free from such a bind.

However, it had no effect on a Dao Lord.

For Xiao Shi, it was somewhat redundant.

Immediately, as he placed this Saint Grade item into the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace, a chaotic clanging sound, like someone hammering iron, emanated from inside the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace.

After more than ten seconds, the sound disappeared.

A deep black battle-axe, covered in thorny patterns, then emerged from the mouth of the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace.

Xiao Shi gazed intently at the battle-axe.

Information about the battle-axe quickly appeared in his vision.

Name: Black Thorn Saint Axe

Type: Weapon

Grade: Saint Grade

Description: This is a powerful Saint Weapon forged by the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace.

Remark 1: Wielding the Black Thorn Saint Axe can unleash black thorns to entangle targets. Even Saints would find it difficult to break free from the black thorns in a short period.

Remark 2: The Black Thorn Saint Axe contains powerful Saint Weapon energy.

Remark 3: This is a Saint Weapon without a weapon spirit.

“It really works!”

Xiao Shi's eyes lit up.

This Saint Weapon, forged by the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace, was no longer an item under the 'Reset' status.

Thus, he only needed to forge all these 'Reset' state items in his hand into Saint Weapons, and then he could take these Saint Weapons out of The Primordial Martial Era.

This was undoubtedly a good opportunity to acquire many Saint Weapons.

Regardless of the era, the number of Saint Weapons was very limited and extremely rare.

Even if Xiao Shi could obtain them by killing, there weren't many Saints on Tianwu Continent, and he didn't have the opportunity to kill them.

He was completely unable to acquire Saint Grade items through killing.

Now, being able to obtain so many Saint Grade items from The Primordial Martial Era was already an enormous gain for him!

However, Xiao Shi was not in a hurry to forge all the Saint Grade items in 'Reset' status into Saint Weapons.

He first carefully examined these Saint Grade items.

If there were any Saint Grade items among them that were very useful to him, similar to the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace, he could use them first and then forge them into Saint Weapons to take away when it was time to leave.

Through the forging just now, he had realized that the Saint Weapons forged by the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace had a strong correlation with the Saint Grade items placed inside.

They would possess, to a certain extent, the functions of the Saint Grade items placed inside!

And so, Xiao Shi meticulously examined these items.

This time, he had killed a total of thirty-six Saints, acquiring thirty-six Saint Grade items in one go.

Although most of the combat-oriented Saint Grade items weren't of much use to him, not all of these thirty-six Saint Grade items were combat-related.

Among them were several items that deeply stirred Xiao Shi's heart.

At this moment, he focused his gaze on these few items.

Name: Enlightenment Stone

Type: Consumable

Grade: Saint Grade

Status: Reset

Description: A special stone born of heaven and earth that can accelerate the speed of enlightenment.

Remark 1: Holding the Enlightenment Stone in your palm will activate its effect.

Remark 2: During the enlightenment process, the Enlightenment Stone will gradually be consumed until it is completely exhausted.

Remark 3: Items in 'Reset' status can only be used before the next reset. After the reset, the item will disappear.

Xiao Shi believed that this item alone would be enough to make any Saint's heart pound with excitement.

The accelerated enlightenment speed brought by the Enlightenment Stone was not only for secluded enlightenment but also significantly hastened the comprehension of the Dao Source.

Now that Xiao Shi had killed many Saints, he had already accumulated a large number of Sources of Dao.

Next, he needed to continuously comprehend these Sources of Dao to transform them into true 'Dao'!

And with this Enlightenment Stone, he could undoubtedly accelerate the speed at which the Dao Source formed the Dao.

For Xiao Shi at this stage, it was exactly what he needed most!

Also, since this item was a consumable, there was no need to consider whether it could be brought back from The Primordial Martial Era to Tianwu Continent.

He only needed to use it within The Primordial Martial Era.

Next was the second item.

Name: Hair of Dao Connection

Type: Hair

Grade: Saint Grade

Status: Reset

Description: A strand of hair from the Dao Ancestor during his creation of the Dao, imbued with various Dao auras, thus possessing the ability of Dao Connection.

Remark 1: After absorbing this hair, one will possess the ability of Dao Connection.

Remark 2: Even the Dao Ancestor himself did not know he had such a strand of hair…

Remark 3: Items in 'Reset' status can only be used before the next reset. After the reset, the item will disappear.

Xiao Shi didn't expect the Dao Ancestor to have such a treasure!

He knew very well that the so-called ability of Dao Connection meant being able to ignore the categories of Dao to a certain extent!

The Daos between heaven and earth all had many different categories.

For example, if Xiao Shi practiced the Grasping the Dao through the Dao of Slaughter, what he would ultimately be able to wield would be the Dao of Slaughter category.

And The Dao of Goodness of the Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord before was a Dao of the karma category.

Different categories of Dao were often not interconnected.

If Xiao Shi practiced the Grasping the Dao through the Dao of Slaughter, he could only wield the Dao of Slaughter category.

But if he had the ability of Dao Connection, he could ignore the categories of Dao.

Even with the method of slaughter, he could still wield other categories of Dao!

It could be said that the value of this item was among the best, even among all Saint Grade items.

Moreover, with this item, Xiao Shi no longer had to worry about the problem of wielding the other two Daos later.

Even if he continued to practice the Grasping the Dao through the Dao of Slaughter, he could still wield other types of Dao.

Not all three Daos had to be the Dao of Slaughter.

The third item.

Name: Aura of Dao Plunder

Type: Aura

Grade: Saint Grade

Status: Reset

Description: A powerful aura that can plunder the Dao Source.

Remark 1: After inhaling this aura, one will possess the ability to plunder the Dao Source until the aura dissipates.

Remark 2: The target of plunder must be a Saint. It cannot plunder a Dao Lord who has already formed their Dao.

Remark 3: Items in 'Reset' status can only be used before the next reset. After the reset, the item will disappear.

This item was equally powerful!

Its primary target was the Half-Step Dao Lords!

Xiao Shi knew that these Half-Step Dao Lords were called such because they had already accumulated many Sources of Dao.

However, they had not yet transformed these Sources of Dao into the Dao.

If he could plunder all the Sources of Dao from them, it would undoubtedly yield even greater benefits than killing those Saints!

After all, the Sources of Dao on some Half-Step Dao Lords were far more numerous than the Sources of Dao Xiao Shi currently possessed!

In this way, plundering the Dao Source from one Half-Step Dao Lord would be equivalent to Xiao Shi killing dozens, or even hundreds, of Saints!

With this item, Xiao Shi felt that his next goal could be to hunt those Half-Step Dao Lords from other eras!

It was just right that after he hunted the Saints of the Blood Extension Lower Kingdom this time, he basically had no chance to hunt Saints in other lower kingdoms.

Then those other Half-Step Dao Lords would undoubtedly be the best choice!

It just so happened that these guys were also full of hostility towards him.

Hunting them would not cause Xiao Shi any psychological burden.

Next was the fourth item.

Name: Forging Dao Source

Type: Dao Source

Grade: Saint Grade

Status: Reset

Description: A Dao Source of the forging category.

Remark 1: A Saint can practice the Grasping the Dao by absorbing the Dao Source.

Remark 2: Items in 'Reset' status can only be used before the next reset. After the reset, the item will disappear.

Xiao Shi had never expected to drop a Dao Source through killing!

And this time, the Sources of Dao he dropped were not just one.

Instead, he dropped a total of three distinctly different Sources of Dao.

Although these Sources of Dao were not the Dao of Slaughter Sources of Dao, with the Hair of Dao Connection, Xiao Shi could absorb even different categories of Sources of Dao into his body, further increasing the Sources of Dao he possessed.

He was now eager to know how much growth these three Sources of Dao would bring to his own Sources of Dao after he absorbed them.

However, before absorbing the Sources of Dao, he needed to absorb the Hair of Dao Connection first.

Immediately, he held the white hair in his hand and quickly began to absorb it.

Whoosh!

Soon, Xiao Shi successfully absorbed the white hair.

As a result, this white hair grew from his head, hanging above his forehead, very conspicuously.

And with this Hair of Dao Connection, he possessed the ability of Dao Connection, allowing him to ignore the categories of Dao to a certain extent.

Then he began to absorb the three Sources of Dao in his hand.

Buzz!

He first absorbed the Forging Dao Source.

Under the effect of the Hair of Dao Connection, the entire Forging Dao Source directly merged with the Dao of Slaughter Sources of Dao on him.

There was no conflict between the two at all.

And after Xiao Shi carefully felt the improvement brought by the Forging Dao Source, his mind suddenly trembled.

He found that the improvement brought by the Forging Dao Source was almost comparable to the Sources of Dao he obtained by killing twenty Saints!

Once he absorbed all three of these Sources of Dao, it would even be more than the Sources of Dao he obtained from killing those thirty-six Saints this time!