Zhou Xuan could not be bothered with them anymore.
He turned his head, his gaze falling once more on the enormous fleshy sac.
Sickly green poison gas continued pouring out, filling the entire stone chamber with a nauseating stench.
As though he could not smell it, Zhou Xuan walked straight toward the sac.
"Token Master!"
Seeing this, Ji Chen paled in alarm and hurriedly called out to stop him.
"What are you doing?"
Zhou Xuan did not stop.
"Removing this fragment and refining it."
Ji Chen grew frantic and stepped directly into Zhou Xuan's path.
"You absolutely must not!"
“This is the Immortal Court's source of Slaughter!”
"Old Ancestor Cangwu only came within thirty feet of it just now, and the shock destabilized his sword heart."
"A law this violently savage is simply beyond human power to subdue!"
"If you forcefully refine it, it could easily trigger a backlash against your divine soul! At best, you would suffer cultivation deviation; at worst, your body would explode on the spot!"
Old Ancestor Cangwu also tried to dissuade him.
"Please reconsider, Token Master!"
"This thing is too sinister. We should seal it with a formation first, then take our time deciding what to do."
Zhou Xuan stopped.
He looked at Ji Chen blocking his way, then at Old Ancestor Cangwu's worried face.
Suddenly, he laughed.
"Backlash?"
He raised his right hand, palm facing up.
A mass of pitch-black mist surged from his palm, instantly turning into a dancing Black-Gold Flame.
Within the flame, the auras of destruction and creation intertwined perfectly, radiating a terrifying pressure that reigned above all things.
"Before my black-gold dao fruit..."
Zhou Xuan's voice was quiet, yet it reached everyone's ears clearly.
"Even the fiercest law is nothing but pure nourishment."
At those words, a deathly silence fell