The Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip was cyan in appearance, simple and archaic in design. It really did look somewhat like a section of bamboo.
Yet its thirty-six ringed bamboo joints were alive. When activated with mana, the joints could rotate. The stronger the mana poured into it, the more joints would turn, and the more powerful the thunderclap it unleashed.
There was another point: this bamboo-joint whip weighed three hundred and sixty thousand jin, and its material was incomparably sturdy. Even for a sixth-tier cultivator, that weight was somewhat excessive.
One had to activate mana even to hold it steady while wielding it, so it was not particularly handy for most cultivators. It was clearly a Divine Artifact suited for close combat.
To Gao Xian, though, it was actually a little light. Having refined the Five Qi Wheel, his body-refining art had already touched the threshold of the sixth tier.
With physical strength alone, wielding a weapon weighing several million jin would not take any effort at all.
For example, although Ru Dian's Small Mount Sumeru Staff weighed only one hundred and eight thousand jin, activating its core restriction could increase that weight a hundredfold or even a thousandfold. Once that happened, the power unleashed was exceedingly terrifying.
Gao Xian actually had several heavy Dharma Artifacts, and their weight was sufficient, but their core restrictions were too crude to be of great use.
In every respect, the Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip truly fit his hand. Its weight in particular gave it a great advantage in close combat, making it easier to shatter illusion with substance.
As the Merfolk clan's ancestral Divine Artifact, its core restrictions bore divine-sense imprints left behind by cultivators of every generation.
For anyone else, merely removing those divine-sense imprints would take one