Having just opened the book and turned to this passage, Xu Yi was immediately shaken by the benevolence and boundless compassion of the Northern Sacred Court's rulers.
With such a divine art, countless lives could truly be saved, bringing blessings to hundreds of millions of living beings.
But after only two pages, his surging emotions ebbed away like a tide.
He saw an explanation of the Skull Token's function. This token was called the Kill-Stopping Tablet.
Ironically, its purpose was to spare killers from having resentment cling to them.
The principle wasn't explained, but from the instructions for using it, Xu Yi guessed that after killing an opponent, one would crush the tablet, making the victim's heavenly and earthly souls vanish completely and thus preventing resentment from forming.
What made it even more absurd was that the tablet came in three grades—and was sold for a price.
A first-grade Kill-Stopping Tablet cost only ten Spirit Stones and could be used three times.
At this point, Xu Yi reread the surrounding passages several times before figuring out what "could be used three times" meant.
It turned out that the Kill-Stopping Tablet contained a restriction. Xu Yi couldn't understand exactly what kind; it seemed to have some kind of memory function, recording who had used it.
For example, if Xu Yi used it, he could crush this first-grade Kill-Stopping Tablet only three times. When he killed a fourth person, no matter how mighty his supernatural abilities were, he wouldn't be able to crush it. And if he couldn't crush it, he couldn't prevent resentment from forming. Falling to darkness would be inevitable.
The second-grade Kill-Stopping Tablet cost a hundred times as much: a thousand Spirit Stones, and it could be used nine times.
The third-grade Kill-Stopping Tablet was worth ten thousand Spirit