The Huntian Axe's raw material had been the wheel of the Ancient Sage Lord's imperial carriage. Its origins were extraordinary; it was a top-tier treasure.
That Ancient Sage Lord had led the people in a campaign against the bewitchers, in an era that had been humanity's darkest hour. The bewitchers had already grown powerful enough to establish a regime, bestow kingships and generalships, and form armies for war.
Later generations could scarcely imagine it: the battle between humans and bewitchers had become a life-or-death conflict between two species, a situation in which neither could coexist with the other.
Had the Martial Saint of that age not assisted the Sovereign and smashed the bewitchers' dynasty, the Fifty Provinces would likely now belong to bewitchers rather than humans.
That imperial carriage had accompanied the Sage Lord through countless perilous campaigns, great and small, more than ten thousand in all. It had been steeped in bewitcher blood.
After the great victory, the Martial Saint slew the Calamity Bewitcher that had proclaimed itself king, along with the Calamity Bewitcher generals under the four regional dukes and marquises, then refined their remains into the carriage.
The remains of the bewitcher king had been used to forge the main body, while the four wheels had each been made from a Calamity Bewitcher general granted a fief in the east, south, west, and north.
The Huntian Axe's raw material had been the front wheel on the left among them. With a Calamity Bewitcher's remains as its core, it had ultimately been forged with all manner of precious mineral metals.
As everyone knew, from antiquity to the present, although many crafts had been lost, the overall trend had still been one of progress.
The opposite was true of many precious materials. Excessive consumption had led to the depletion