Godslayer Sword

The entire crowd was stunned, their faces filled with profound disbelief. Wasn't Elder Danyangzi supposed to kill Su Hao? Why had he destroyed Feng Chuan instead?

Had he missed?

Liu Dao's expression changed drastically. He did not believe that nonsense about a missed strike, and immediately demanded, "Elder Danyangzi, what is the meaning of this?"

"Stand down!" With a sweep of his sleeve, Danyangzi cut off Liu Dao's next words. In terms of status, he stood several ranks above Liu Dao, so he naturally spoke without restraint.

Liu Dao gritted his teeth. To deny him face so thoroughly before all the disciples was simply treating him as beneath notice. Yet he did not dare say more; Danyangzi's cultivation far surpassed his own.

Danyangzi fixed his gaze on Su Hao and said in a dark voice, "Can you speak now?"

Su Hao smiled faintly. Facing a fourth-grade alchemist, he showed not the slightest fear and instead asked, "Do you want to live?"

Danyangzi's face darkened further, as though his patience had reached its limit. He took a step forward, his overwhelming aura descending like an invisible giant hand pressing down upon Su Hao's head. "Do not test my patience. I do not like wasting words."

Su Hao sneered, gritting his teeth as he withstood the immense pressure. Raising his head, he said, "You'd best withdraw your pressure. Otherwise, you will undoubtedly die!"

Danyangzi's eyes flickered. Su Hao seemed to have truly seen something. The pill toxin in his body had indeed seeped into his very marrow. If it could not be eradicated within a year, then at best, his cultivation would be completely ruined and he would become paralyzed.

Danyangzi had spent a full one hundred and thirty years reaching his current standing. Every moment of every day, he had been thinking of how to resolve the trouble within his body.

"You had better have a way to solve it. Otherwise, I will show you what it means to be worse off alive than dead. As an alchemist, my methods are beyond anything you can imagine."

Danyangzi issued his threat, but he withdrew all his pressure.

Su Hao sneered and glanced at Xia Xiaojiu. "Leave first. Wait for me at the foot of the mountain."

Xia Xiaojiu smiled. "It seems that even a dignified fourth-grade alchemist has been subdued by you. Impressive."

With that, Xia Xiaojiu laughed three times and turned to leave.

The surrounding crowd all wore puzzled expressions. They had no idea what had happened between Su Hao and Danyangzi, but one thing was certain: Danyangzi did not dare kill Su Hao.

"Come. We'll talk inside."

Su Hao strode forward and entered Danyang Hall directly.

"Disperse."

With a flick of his sleeve, Danyangzi followed him inside. The hall doors slammed tightly shut, and Liu Dao, who tried to follow them in, was sent stumbling back several steps. He gnashed his teeth. He did not dare insult Danyangzi, so he placed all his fury upon Su Hao instead.

The bronze-colored hall was quite spacious, divided into several rooms. Countless spiritual herbs were arranged within them, their rich medicinal fragrance permeating every corner.

Besides that, various materials were also stored here: rare metals and essences of the five elements. As an alchemist, Danyangzi possessed an exceedingly abundant fortune.

"My master is an alchemist too. They say he's even more capable than this Danyangzi, so why is he so poor?" Su Hao muttered. After taking Xiao Wuji as his master, he had not gained a single benefit.

"Can we begin now?" Danyangzi asked, suppressing his anger.

"Rest assured, Elder. As long as you refine a pill to reconnect my brother's meridians, I will immediately resolve the pill toxin in your body. To ordinary people, your pill toxin may be a serious problem. To me, it is merely a trifling matter." Su Hao spoke calmly, but his eyes gleamed green as he swept them over the spiritual herbs.

These were all rare treasures. If he could get his hands on them, his cultivation would surely advance further. Moreover, Su Hao was quite pleased with those materials; they were enough to forge a decent magic treasure.

"Do not wander around carelessly. This place is full of mechanisms, especially around those herbs and materials, all of which are protected by formations. Make a careless move, and be careful that you do not bring about your own death."

Danyangzi coldly tossed out those words before flashing into one of the alchemy rooms to begin refining pills.

"Heh. I may not have the skill to set up these formations, but breaking them is no difficult task. Besides, your life is in my hands. Why should I be afraid?"

Su Hao sneered and strode forward, inspecting the materials. In the end, he took several blood-red jade beads, several pieces of multicolored metal, and some high-grade spiritual herbs.

The formations covering them were quite simple. They would be dangerous to ordinary Qi Condensation cultivators, but to Su Hao, who possessed the Devil Master's inheritance, it was like entering an unguarded realm.

He stuffed the spiritual herbs into his mouth and swallowed them directly. Their terrifying essence scattered through his limbs, bones, and dantian qi sea.

With the abundant spiritual energy as support, Su Hao came before a huge pill furnace. This furnace was also blood-red, its surface adorned with ghostly faces. It was called the Ghostblood Furnace, a treasure artifact!

Su Hao was rather tempted, but he knew that even if he obtained it, he would be unable to unleash much of its power.

He immediately opened the furnace lid. As his cultivation circulated, a wisp of Innate Dao Fire took the shape of a lotus and slipped into the furnace, blazing fiercely to life.

As the flames burned, Su Hao moved his mind again. The rare materials he had taken from the shelves flew directly inside. Sizzling sounds rang out as the materials melted beneath the searing Innate Dao Fire, gradually turning to liquid. Yet they did not disperse; instead, Su Hao controlled them, keeping them condensed together.

Once that was done, Su Hao swept his sleeve. Green light flashed from his storage ring, and a longsword flew into the furnace, joining with the materials and slowly beginning to merge.

The method of fusion was strange as well. The melted materials seemed to transform into mysterious spiritual talismans, gradually integrating into the green longsword without damaging its original foundation.

This artifact-refining method was among the simplest in the Devil Master's inheritance, and it was the only one Su Hao could currently execute with absolute certainty.

Still, though it was simple, once the fusion was complete, it would greatly increase the green longsword's sturdiness and make its edge even sharper. Combined with the sword soul within, it would be enough to display the might of a high-grade spirit artifact.

Su Hao stared fixedly at the longsword within the pill furnace. At the instant all the materials were about to fully merge, his expression suddenly changed. He bit through the tip of his tongue and spat a mouthful of blood into the furnace. It landed on the sword and became a strange blood-colored spiritual talisman before completely fusing into it.

At once, the already agile sword became even more spiritually imposing, as though it had come alive.

The sword soul within trembled, completely falling under Su Hao's control.

"A blood-refined magic treasure is linked to my life essence, making it easier to control. And as I obtain more materials, I can gradually raise its grade."

"This sword can only be considered incomplete for now, but it has already reached the level of a high-grade spirit artifact. From now on, this sword shall be called Godslayer!"