The Transformation Brought by the Core

Outside.

Axe was still there. It had not left immediately, instead continually watching the spot where the Sixth Celestial God was from afar.

Quite some time had passed, yet there had been no movement inside.

After a long while, it shook its head. "See? That's what they call overestimating yourself. That's the price of recklessness. Isn't it good to stay alive? Why insist on throwing your life away?"

"What a waste. Before he went in, I should've asked where he kept his property. Once someone dies, there's no use leaving their belongings behind. Better to give them to me—like leaving behind his origin cores. I could keep them for him, then give them back when he comes out..."

"If he can't come out, then I could just eat them now?"

"Exactly. What a waste, such a waste. If I ate them, then I..."

Axe nodded. The next moment, it shuddered and instinctively looked back, only to discover that Li Su had appeared behind it at some point.

"Ahhh~!"

With a shrill scream, Axe shot more than a hundred meters away, scared out of its wits, even its spiritual radiance drifting loose.

After a good while, once it confirmed that it was Li Su and not a Celestial God that had discovered it, Axe could not help shouting, "What's wrong with you? Why do you walk without making a sound? Don't you know people can scare each other to death?"

A saying?

Li Su's eyes flickered. At first, he had not thought much of it, but after what Fuxi had said, this Axe struck him as very strange. Its manner of speech, its vocabulary—it did not sound like an ancient weapon at all.

Numinous Treasures could possess thought, but this manner of communication was clearly very wrong.

It had once said