Chapter 1236
What Zhang Yu saw was a long scroll floating there, rings of golden talismans flickering around it, with a red precious-silk ribbon tightly binding it. The entire thing was immersed in a radiant treasure light.
At a glance, he saw that this object's true power did not lie in its present appearance, but in the precious material used to refine it. It was made from leaves resembling those of the Ipal Divine Tree.
He guessed that it most likely came from some plant spirit of this world's primordial wilderness age.
According to this world's ancient legends, only that era had contained such things. After the transformation of the Dao mechanism, such objects had become fewer and fewer. Most had either been slain and divided up, or had already perished.
What was interesting was that, although only Daoist Wei's aura was now attached to it, he discovered that more than one strand of divine aura had once been entrusted to this long scroll. Even now, traces of them could still be found upon it.
But there was a problem. Logically speaking, so long as divine aura remained entrusted to such a "divine object," one had reached the level of Reality-Illusion Intergrowth, and a cultivator would not die because of it. If they truly died, then the self would vanish, and no residual aura could remain upon it.
Then either these cultivators' Dao arts had a problem, or the artifact itself had a problem.
He suddenly thought of the cultivator suppressed beneath Light Capital. That man had once said that many upper-realm cultivators from the various sects had vanished without a trace. Could that be related to this situation?
After turning the matter over in his mind, he felt that some mystery surely lay within. But he could investigate it