Fang Yuan froze as though someone had pressed pause.
Seeing him stop, the cold voice spoke again, as if urging him on:
"Pick up the Demon Sword. Let the blade and Scabbard replace your arms, and from this day forward, you will possess a Demigod Body."
But no matter what the voice said, Fang Yuan's fingertips remained poised just short of the Asura Demon Sword. He never closed the gap.
At last, the cold voice could no longer contain itself. "What are you doing? Why have you stopped? Wasn't everything you did for the sake of inheriting my Godhood?"
Fang Yuan finally stirred. But instead of reaching for the Asura Demon Sword, he slowly withdrew his hand.
"What are you doing? Pick up the Demon Sword! Cut off your arms and let the sword and Scabbard become one with you!" The cold voice erupted in fury.
A faint smile appeared on Fang Yuan's face.
When he heard the conditions for accepting the Asura God's Godhood Inheritance, he had finally realized something was wrong.
The cold voice undoubtedly belonged to the Asura God. At Fang Yuan's current level of strength, only a god could speak directly into his mind without leaving a trace.
And the Asura Demon Sword that had emerged from Tang Chen's body was certainly genuine. Fang Yuan could sense the dense Killing Intent and surges of Divine Power within it.
The Asura God's identity was not in question. It was the conditions for accepting the Godhood Inheritance that had set off alarm bells in Fang Yuan's mind.
The reason was simple: Fang Yuan had read the original story.
In that story, inheriting the Asura God's Godhood involved nothing so convoluted.
After Tang San became the Sea God, he merely had Xiao Wu fuse with the Asura Demon Sword