A crystalline skull like black jade, covered in mysterious Great Dao patterns. Dark light flickered from its seven orifices, and it contained undying divinity, its surface etched with layer upon layer of restrictions.
The King Funeral Bell had actually been forged from the skull of an ancient saint.
Logically speaking, a saint's skull was where the Primordial Spirit was nurtured, the most essential part of a saint's Dao body. It should have been easily refined into a saint weapon, yet it had stopped at the level of a Great Completion King weapon.
That was because the Lunar Saint whose legacy had been stolen had borne too much resentment before death. Even after the weapon spirit within had taken form, it had never been able to forge itself into a supreme saint weapon that could be passed down through the ages.
There was even the occasional danger of it turning on its wielder.
After many attempts, the Duanmu Clan's ancestor had no choice but to impose layer upon layer of divine restrictions, controlling the weapon spirit formed from the Lunar Saint's remaining Primordial Spirit and forcibly putting it into slumber.
Though it was properly controlled, it had still been unable to enter the realm of saint weapons.
This King Funeral Bell, transformed from an ancient saint's skull, could manifest all manner of unimaginable strange powers—seizing souls, shattering flesh, and wielding unmatched might.
"What a pity. Not only were the descendants of the Lunar Saint Emperor robbed of their inheritance, even after death they were denied peace. Their corpses were made into peerless divine weapons by their enemies..."
As a long-lived great demon who had lived for a full three thousand six hundred years, Mystic Tortoise Elder knew many bloody secrets of the past and immediately recognized the weapon's origins.
His disciples