In Fallen Immortal Valley, the sealing runes grew ever more dazzling. Bai Yu sat cross-legged in midair, the Book of Life and Death radiating brilliant light above his head, while a dragon and a phoenix formed from the laws of life and death circled him.
Hum!
The Book of Life and Death hummed repeatedly, sending a stream of pure energy slowly into Bai Yu's body to repair the infinitesimally small latent flaws in his sea of consciousness.
Meanwhile, Bai Yu's soul gazed at the Panic Gu hidden within the Book of Life and Death, his eyes brimming with delighted surprise.
The Panic Gu frantically converted the various energies of the Starry Sky Ancient Road into laws of life and death. As these fed back into the Book of Life and Death, the friction between Bai Yu and this Imperial Weapon gradually disappeared.
Supreme Imperial Weapons possessed spirits of their own. By relying on that innate spirituality, cultivators could unleash greater power even if their cultivation fell short of the requirements for wielding them.
As Bai Yu gradually mastered the inscriptions on the Book of Life and Death, he also discovered something unusual.
"Is this the true power contained within the Book of Life and Death?"
Bai Yu murmured to himself. His soul beckoned, and the inscriptions on the phantom Book of Life and Death in his sea of consciousness emerged on their own, then peeled straight off it and flowed around him.
"This power... acts on the soul?"
Bai Yu sensed it briefly, and wild joy spread across his face. By his estimation, if he were to help the Undying Daoist suppress the Five Elements Corpse Evil Emperor now, he could use the power of these inscriptions to plant extremely potent death energy in the emperor's soul.
He would only