Forbidden artifacts were terrifying objects said to possess countless powerful and mysterious abilities. They could drive their users down the path of demonic cultivation, ultimately turning them into monsters that had lost all humanity.
Legends of the horrific disasters caused by forbidden artifacts had circulated throughout Human territory for ages. Whenever one appeared, people fought desperately over it until rivers of blood flowed, just like the peerless techniques that appeared in storybooks.
Tantai Pingjing looked at Lin Youde with profound meaning. "It seems that your ability to escape the pursuit of Chaoge Holy Land back then wasn't solely due to the power of the Mad Battle Way."
Lin Youde was the host of a forbidden artifact. With that, everything about this super dark horse from the Lower Continent, who had forcefully shattered the Holy Land system of that era, finally made sense.
"Uncle, have you been eroded by the baleful aura of the forbidden artifact?" Officer Lin asked in shock. There were countless folk legends about forbidden artifacts, especially stories about how their terrifying baleful aura would corrupt their hosts and turn them into demons.
"The baleful aura on the Wolf God Mask was actually purified because of certain circumstances." Lin Youde sighed faintly. "My body wasn't eroded by baleful aura... but by something even more terrifying. I call it the Heavenly Demon Factor."
"Heavenly Demon... Factor?"
"That's right." Lin Youde nodded. "The creation of every forbidden artifact begins with a fragment of a Heavenly Demon, which is then fused and smelted together with the soul of a peerless ferocious beast. The ferocious beast is killed at the instant of extreme rage and despair, filling its beast soul with tremendous hatred. That is why forbidden artifacts are born with terrifying baleful aura. Ordinary forbidden artifacts will cause their hosts to