Today's first update: Chapter 2499! 1/4!
(My mother was hospitalized for surgery. I've been exhausted these past few days, so the content may be lacking. Please forgive me.)
Looking at the national treasure held out before her, Yang Yao was slightly dazed. This was not a situation she had anticipated.
What did Yang Guang's action signify?
First, he was presenting the artifact. Second, he was relinquishing power!
The artifact referred to the Great Sui Frost before her—a weapon shaped like a phoenix-wing gilded halberd, a treasure left behind from the era of humanity. Its value could not be described merely as a seventh-realm Supreme Divine Artifact or an artifact of the Yang Clan Xianbei Tribe.
The significance of a national artifact was the same as the newly forged National Artifact · Great Yuan Celestial Hunt, created after Chang Sheng Tian was shot down with Xu Kun's help and the fortune of the entire wolf clan was used to forge it. It was the essence of a race's fortune.
If fortune were compared to water, then the artifact that carried and guarded that fortune would be the channel!
The channel guided the water, and the water flowed through the channel!
National artifacts themselves were tools for suppressing a race's fortune. Moreover, looking back at those bygone eras, they were treasures left behind at every peak of humanity's history.
A national artifact safeguarded a race. What it suppressed was not merely a Tier-B Race, much less one faction within a Tier-B Race, but an entire era in which humanity had stood as a peak race.
Horizontal, all-encompassing coverage; vertical, an entire imperial dynasty!
If it were a national artifact at full strength, like the Great Jin Star Mark wielded by Sima Zhonghu, then among foreign races, it could fully serve as