"Demon Extermination Marshal?"
The instant he heard those four words, Ye Zhen's expression turned incomparably ugly. Seeing this, Yue An, the Brotherhood's leader across from him, burst into laughter. "It seems True Lord Black Water has heard of the Demon Extermination Marshal. That saves me the trouble of wasting more breath."
As Yue An, the Brotherhood's leader, laughed loudly, three figures abruptly emerged from the clouds several hundred meters overhead. All three were merely third-level Pulse Forging Realm martial artists, their cultivation not particularly high.
Yet the pitch-black, extraordinarily intricate crossbows they held—three meters long and one meter wide—were enough to intimidate any Palace Opening Realm King. Especially the ten arm-thick Spirit Arrows gleaming atop them; one glance was enough to make one's heart and courage tremble.
This was the Demon Extermination Marshal Yue An had spoken of.
The Demon Extermination Marshal was a weapon of war used by the various races in ancient times, a product of the same era as the General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat Ye Zhen had once obtained in the Black Dragon Domain.
A single crossbow could fire ten Spirit Arrows at once, and rare Attribute Spirit Crystals had to be embedded within it to condense those arrows.
The power of its Spirit Arrows differed according to the grade of Attribute Spirit Crystal embedded.
If mid-grade Attribute Spirit Crystals were embedded, its power would rival the full-force blow of a peak fifth-level Soul Sea Realm expert. If High-grade Attribute Spirit Crystals were embedded, its power would rival the full-force blow of a Peak Seven Pulse Forging Realm martial artist. And if someone possessed such terrifying wealth that they could embed ten Supreme-grade Attribute Spirit Crystals, its power would rival the full-force blow of a late-stage Palace Opening Realm King.
Judging by the aura fluctuations radiating from