Modifying a Void Hunter's Weapon?

"Soulsteel? Modifying a Void Hunter's weapon?"

Yixuan understood every word Griseo said, but put together, they sounded strangely unfamiliar.

After all, Yunkui Mountain's founding master had not created the Azure Nether Sword.

The founding master had merely transformed a Strange Object containing two immense powers into the Azure Nether Sword of today. One power came from the First Lord; the source of the other was unknown. The two were like yin and yang...

"Auntie Yixuan, I know."

Griseo looked at Yixuan. When Meflor had introduced her to the family's Twelve Gods Chronicle, she had read its chapter on the Azure Nether Sword.

Griseo asked softly, "Then what if I replaced those two powers with my own?"

"That's impossible. No human could—"

Yixuan blurted it out, then stopped as realization struck. A gleam flashed through her eyes, and delight spread across her face.

"Griseo, can you really do that?"

Of course.

That was one way to understand the Azure Nether Sword's backlash.

The two powers within it were locked in constant conflict, like duelists who would fight until one of them died.

And that endless duel continually spilled destructive energy into the world around it.

If that energy escaped, it would cause a catastrophe on the scale of the Old Capital's fall.

So the Azure Nether Sword's wielder served as a third force, sacrificing her own life to mediate between the two.

But what if a stronger power replaced them outright?

If both warring powers were removed, the backlash would naturally disappear.

No one had considered it before. The Azure Nether Sword drew on power at the First Lord's level, a height humanity could never reach.

But now—Yixuan looked at Griseo before her.

Regardless of which of them was stronger, Griseo was here in person, while the power in the Azure