How was the God Slayer Sword forged, exactly? What kind of existence was its "creator"? How did that evil power control an entire race through a sword, ultimately accomplishing the inconceivable feat of assassinating a true god?
These could be said to be the several ultimate questions Hao Ren was most concerned about at present.
And now, he finally seemed to have touched the tip of the iceberg of those ultimate questions: quietly floating before him was a piece of Primitive Material used to forge the God Slayer Sword. Not only had this Primitive Material retained its form from before it had become a blade, but it also carried the aura of the Ancient Fiend's true body!
Raven 12345's finger moved lightly through the air. A black "fragment of the universe" floated before her, slowly rotating under the pull of invisible divine power. Starlight drifted across the fragment's black background, as if an actual cosmic sky were hidden inside it.
Beside it, Hao Ren had already taken the God Slayer Sword out of his personal storage space. The dark sword likewise floated in midair, its blade shimmering with the same light and shadows as the dark fragment of the universe.
"From the outside, the materials of the two are virtually indistinguishable." Hao Ren rubbed his chin. "How can you tell that this fragment is unfinished?"
"Because it isn't stable enough." Raven 12345 leaned back and pointed at the fragment of the universe with one raised finger. "They're both fragments of the universe, but the structure of the God Slayer Sword has completely solidified. It won't decay, nor will it collapse internally. But this fragment... You can't see it, but I can. It's constantly 'evaporating.' The amount of information it contains is steadily leaking away at a fixed rate, and the