577: Steal the treasure from the Sword Tomb! Seize the Dao Sword Gourd!

Clatter!

When Xuan Du and his group reached the end of the passage, they were dumbfounded: "Holy crap! There's a formation here too?"

"How do we break it?"

The twelve people in the team looked at each other, speechless.

Whoosh!

Just then, the last person in the team suddenly twisted.

Then, a black mist emerged from the person's seven orifices, transforming into a Formless Ghost Clan member, and the person's skin fell to the ground.

It turned its head and said to Xuan Du and the others: "Everyone! You understand the purpose of Ancestor sending me here, right!"

"This isn't to monitor you, but to enter a formation that you cannot break!"

Saying that.

This Formless Ghost Clan member entered the formation.

It first glanced at the desk, then swept its gaze around, and then entered the inner room to investigate.

This Formless Ghost Clan member shook its head: "Nothing! There's nothing! Besides a pile of ashes on the ground, there's nothing here!"

Saying that, it walked outside.

Xuan Du and the others exchanged glances upon hearing this, and everyone turned to leave.

Su Lie quietly floated out of the formation at this moment.

When the Formless Ghost Clan member appeared outside the formation.

Buzz!

He directly used the Time Stop Skill: "You scoundrel! Still trying to fool me! The footprints on the ground and the marks on the desktop are clearly new. If it had shown any doubt, I might have spared your lives!"

"This damned thing, trying to trick me!"

"This cannot be tolerated!"

Saying that.

Su Lie first used the Divine Thief Talent on this Formless Ghost Clan member.

Under his theft.

This Formless Ghost Clan member's Talents and Skills all dropped.

Su Lie obtained 7 Skill books: Buddha's Light Golden Sword, Golden Light Body Protection, Buddha Fire, Sutra of Transcendence, Qiang Qiao Shu, and Shell Shedding Technique.

He obtained 7 Talent books: Sword Dao, sword aperture, Formless Body, undying core, Eerie, Moon Rule, and Buddha.

In addition, he also obtained a cultivation method called "Galan True Scripture."

Plus a scroll of "Buddha's Eye Golden Sword Art."

After stealing these cultivation methods and divine abilities.

This Formless Ghost, due to an imbalance of power within its body, entered a state of self-destruction.

As long as Su Lie ended the Time Stop state.

This ghost would immediately die.

Su Lie then looked at Xuan Du and the others, and after thinking, he used the Memory Reading Skill on Xuan Du and the others.

After he read the thoughts of Xuan Du and the others.

Su Lie had determined that these people, seeing no hope in the Sword Sect, had voluntarily pledged allegiance to the Eerie Ancestor for their own respective goals.

Among them, Xuan Du was introduced to the Formless Ghost Ancestor by Mysterious Feather, and after learning all the truth, he fell into despair.

He was then imprisoned for a few days.

Only then did he agree to Mysterious Feather's suggestion and pledged allegiance to the Formless Ghost Ancestor.

And willingly allowed the Formless Ghost Ancestor to brand him with a mark.

However.

As Su Lie touched this memory, Xuan Du's mark was also activated.

Su Lie frowned slightly at this, secretly lamenting the pity.

However.

When he stepped back a few paces, he realized that although Xuan Du's mark had been triggered, it had not activated immediately.

This was because the environment was in a Time Stop state.

"Hmm? When I previously stole from Black Pepper King and read his memories, I also touched this mark. At that time, this mark was in an explosive state inside Black Pepper King's head!"

Su Lie, performing the Divine Thief and Memory Reading acts again, now realized that Black Pepper King must also possess a time-based Talent, otherwise Black Pepper King's state would have been the same as Xuan Du's current state.

And Su Lie had not completely stolen all of Black Pepper King's Talents and Skills.

Evidently.

A part of Black Pepper King's power was unstealable.

"When I read Thousand-Hand Demoness's memories, I didn't touch any memories! It seems the Formless Ghost Clan's control over its subordinates also varies from person to person! ...No! Precisely because there was no arrangement for Thousand-Hand Demoness, that old fellow stole her heart of time!"

Su Lie thought of a possibility.

That is, Thousand-Hand Demoness was merely a tool that could be exploited in the hands of the Formless Ghost Ancestor, and not a true confidante.

His thoughts merely turned.

He used the Divine Thief Talent on Xuan Du.

Before long.

Su Lie obtained 1 lifespan pearl of 3000 years, 14 Skill books, 23 Talent books, and 7 divine ability manuals.

These were all untranslated classics, each one very thick.

He also obtained 1 Sword Dao cultivation method, named "Heavenly Sword Canon."

Afterwards.

Su Lie then performed Memory Reading on the other ten people and used the Divine Thief Talent.

He stole a total of 10 lifespan pearls, 120 Skill books, 233 Talent books, and 68 divine ability manuals.

As well as 10 Sword Dao classics from various peak secret collections.

These people came from different Sword Sect peaks and were all true disciples.

Some were naturally rebellious and immediately agreed when they heard about overthrowing the Sword Sect to establish a new sect.

Others were bought by benefits, and some were fence-sitters.

In any case, everyone had a reason for joining the Formless Ghost Ancestor's faction.

After Su Lie had tidied everything up, he then left the cave mansion.

After he left.

The Time Stop in this area automatically ceased because it lost Su Lie's control.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At this very moment.

Xuan Du and the others, due to their memories being touched, caused their marks to erupt, and they all died.

At this moment.

The Formless Ghost Ancestor, who was waiting for news on Heavenly Sword Peak, frowned. He suddenly blurted out: "A power touched the marks I left in their sea of consciousness, causing their souls to explode and their lives to perish!"

Mysterious Feather's face changed upon hearing this, and he couldn't help but ask through gritted teeth: "Ancestor! Could it be Su Lie?"

Xuan Du was his most favored auxiliary disciple.

He never expected.

To die within the Sword Tomb.

This made a dangerous light flash in his eyes.

The Formless Ghost Ancestor shook his head: "No! His strength has been tested. Although this fellow is outstanding in management, his combat power is not good! At most, he can provide some intelligence for his helpers!"

"Moreover, Yu Jianying doesn't have the qualification token to enter the Sword Tomb!"

"Who did you give them to, do you remember?"

He looked at Mysterious Feather and asked.

Mysterious Feather was startled and quickly bowed, replying: "Ancestor! I have records of all the Sword Tomb qualification tokens I've given out! Please inspect them!"

Saying that.

He took out a small booklet.

This booklet recorded all the Sword Tomb qualification tokens he had issued over the years.

Even before he occupied Mysterious Feather's body, as long as he had seen the issuance of a Sword Tomb qualification token, he would record the user's name.

The Formless Ghost Ancestor was overjoyed after reading it: "Good! I order you to immediately arrange for people to investigate the individuals on these lists!"

"Yes!"

Mysterious Feather secretly breathed a sigh of relief... At the same time.

Su Lie arrived at the mid-slope of the Sword Tomb.

He found the crooked-neck tree here.

It's just that there were indeed some swords hanging on the tree, but Su Lie couldn't take any of them.

Whenever he touched these swords.

The swords would turn into phantoms and disappear in Su Lie's hand.

Su Lie was slightly puzzled. He knew the Exploration Hint wouldn't be wrong, so the only possibility was that the sword was still on the tree.

But he had already touched all the swords.

He had only not touched the gourd vine growing against the crooked-neck tree.

The gourd vine had already withered and died, but there was a dark, unappealing gourd still hanging on its stem.

"Could this gourd also be a sword?"

Su Lie extended his hand in confusion.

Buzz!

As he touched the gourd, a soft light illuminated it, and a scent of gunpowder emanated from its body.

This made Su Lie's eyes light up: "Is this thing a gun?"

Immediately after.

The gourd was directly taken into Su Lie's hand.

After losing the gourd, the gourd vine immediately turned into dust, which was blown away by the mountain wind and dispersed into the air.

Su Lie then used the Eye of Identification on the gourd.

【dao sword gourd: Red God-level Quality; Rule Sword Weapon; also known as "Guiding Sword Gourd," meaning a gourd-shaped sword box with automatic navigation capabilities.

Usage Requirement: Sword Dao Talent

Inner Sword Qi: 1 million blades;

Damage: Each sword qi is 10 times your current 100% Spirit value;

Critical Hit: 100%;

Critical Damage: 100,000 times;

Consumption: Each activation of a sword qi consumes 100 million Spirit attribute points;

Rule Restoration: If the sword qi is damaged, it can be restored to its original state within 1 hour. If the sword qi is broken, it can be fully restored within 24 hours.

Rule Penetration: Sword qi is unaffected by physical obstacles, can easily penetrate any physical obstacle, and deals penetrating damage to life behind the obstacle.

Rule Instantaneous: Sword qi can be activated instantly and retracted instantly.

Rule Shao Dian Trajectory: When sword qi flies towards a target, it will fly according to the operational law of the Shao Dian Trajectory. This trajectory cannot be deciphered, cannot be locked, cannot be tracked, and cannot be intercepted.

Rule Spirit Lock: You can lock onto all enemies within the maximum range reachable by your Spirit exploration through spiritual power. Once locked, the sword qi will automatically track the enemy and deal damage to them.

Note: This sword weapon can be augmented by all Sword Dao Talents or beneficial Skills and divine abilities.】

Su Lie's eyes lit up upon seeing this: "This dao sword gourd is no different from a missile. Could the senior who developed it be a reborn individual?"

He merely had a thought.

Immediately.

He first used the soul attachment orb, Gold and Silver Soul Orb, on this dao sword gourd.

This mixed orb augmented the dao sword gourd with 1000 times its damage.

And reduced the dao sword gourd's consumption by 100%, meaning the dao sword gourd could be used freely without consuming any resources.

It also added 3 Skills to the dao sword gourd.

【Active Skill Brilliant Blade: Each of your attacks will be accompanied by 10 Brilliant Blades. The damage of each Brilliant Blade is 100 times the weapon's base damage.

Passive Skill Metal Manipulation: While holding the weapon, you will gain the temporary ability to manipulate metal.

Passive Skill Split: Each Brilliant Blade you release, upon being hit, or when about to hit the target, will automatically split into 100,000 fingernail-sized fragments, dealing slow slicing damage to the target.】

After receiving the augmentation from the soul attachment orb.

The dao sword gourd gained an additional rule.

【Rule Artifact Spirit: The dao sword gourd nurtures an Artifact Spirit. The Artifact Spirit can assist the master in battle and activate the power of the dao sword gourd. It possesses the abilities of Size as Desired, teleportation, and mental communication.】

And the Artifact Spirit it nurtured wore a gourd-shaped ornament on its head, resembling a gold and silver bicolored Little Lion in the style of a Gold and Silver Archmage.

It looked like a gourd lion!

The gourd lion seemed not to like talking. After seeing Su Lie, it first saluted, and then stood majestically on the dao sword gourd, looking into the distance, with a strong fighting Spirit radiating from its eyes.

Subsequently.

Su Lie then transformed the dao sword gourd into his companion supreme treasure.

Under the effect of the Companion Supreme Treasure Talent, the dao sword gourd's stats were augmented by 10 million times.

The dao sword gourd's inner sword qi became 1 quintillion blades of sword qi.

The damage of each sword qi became 100 billion times your current 100% Spirit value.

Critical damage became 1000 trillion times.

The dao sword gourd's rules remained unchanged.

And its recently acquired 3 Skills all received a 10 million times augmentation.

At the same time, it also gained two additional rules.

【Rule Upgrade: The dao sword gourd can be upgraded by devouring god-tier quality rule-type wood materials, reaching a maximum of 5000 levels higher than your current level.

Rule companion supreme treasure: The dao sword gourd gains the power of the Immortal and Indestructible rule through your Companion Supreme Treasure Talent.】

After reviewing the power of the dao sword gourd.

Su Lie was in a great mood.

He placed the gourd into a separate Equipment Slot.

Only then did he stride towards the mountain peak.

Before long.

In a meteorite crater near the summit.

He dug out a sword.

The sword's body was covered with dense patterns, making it look as if it were composed of countless fragments.

Holding this sword gave Su Lie a particularly intimate feeling.

As if.

This was his destined sword.

Su Lie curiously stroked the sword, whispering: "This sword is similar to Thousand Blades!"

Saying that.

He used the Identification Talent on the sword.

【Buzz!】

A panel appeared in Su Lie's vision...