"Our sect master once said that the Half-Immortal Artifact in the Quicksand Land had originally been a Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure, forged by a senior of our sect at the Mahayana Ascension stage, who gave up the chance of Ascension to Immortality and used his own Immortal Essence."
"It was meant to leave the Cultivation World with a chance to resist the Devil Race!"
"Yet after the Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure emerged, the Devil Race appeared and tried to destroy it. Instead, they accidentally caused it to mutate, absorbing the powers of every faction present and advancing into the Half-Immortal Artifact it is today."
Su Shi'er hurriedly spoke, revealing the information he knew.
Miaofa Tathagata nodded. "Correct! That senior of your sect was a cultivator of the Mystic Dao Sect. The Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure he forged had always been an ultimate treasure of supreme hardness and pure yang. Now that it has advanced into a Half-Immortal Artifact, only something of utmost yin and evil can suppress the power within it!"
Su Shi'er hesitated. "But... during the Half-Immortal Artifact's advancement, it also absorbed the Devil Race's demonic fire, as well as much Demonic Yuan and the Quicksand Land's bizarre evil power."
"Whether it is demonic fire, Demonic Yuan, or the sinister power of the Quicksand Land, at their root, they are all energy of heaven and earth. When cultivators perish, they return to heaven and earth; when demons and devils die, the same is true."
"For an ultimate treasure of the Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure's rank, its attributes were essentially determined from the very beginning of its forging. If, during its advancement, it had not transformed those various powers into the treasure's own strength—"
"Then the Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure would either have been destroyed on the spot, or the