The instant Song Zhong's palm had only just touched the long blade, a Divine Sense swiftly surfaced in his mind, and then a hazy remnant soul appeared.
"You are the strongest Forget Dao Realm cultivator I have ever encountered. You are merely in the Forget Dao Realm, yet you can easily slay Half-Step Saints."
Song Zhong was not surprised. He had encountered this before; after many cultivators died, their remnant souls still possessed a certain life of their own and could know many things that happened afterward.
Only...
"Senior, are you from this blade, or are you the master of these ruins? The former ruler of some cosmos?"
Song Zhong truly did not know whether this was the blade spirit of the saber, or the remnant soul of the Cosmos Ruler.
"Is there a difference?" The remnant soul laughed when he heard this. "I am both the ruler of this cosmos, and likewise exist within this blade."
After a slight pause, he continued, "I know what you want to ask. You want to ask whether I am the blade spirit of this saber?
"Although I exist within the saber, I truly am not the blade spirit of this saber. The blade spirit of the saber is my predecessor, the Cosmos Ruler.
"And the one who previously released saber qi to attack those cultivators who wanted the long saber to acknowledge them as master was also him!"
The voice of this Cosmos Ruler was filled with deep disdain.
"This is a Heavenly Grade Immortal Artifact!
"They, a few tiny Quasi-Saints, actually wanted to obtain a Heavenly Grade Immortal Artifact? Are they even worthy!
"Of course, there was no need for me to act. That fellow was even more anxious than I was. After all, obtaining this Immortal Artifact is equivalent to