The Knife came out.
A cold wind sprang up in Beheading Alley for no reason, raising goose bumps and striking fear into anyone who felt it. It could make a person lose heart before the fight even began!
It was no ghostly wind. It was a courage-killing gust of Baleful Aura.
This was what had become of the blade after Xu Feng forged its sinews and killed in the name of the law.
The Lower Nine Classes' Meteoritic Iron Treasure Blade had changed from what it once was. Now it reeked of blood and could whip up winds and blot out the sun... It had spilled too much blood and taken too many lives. An affront to heaven, it had grown uncanny.
Then it acquired Army Breaker.
In its description,
the drawback requiring it to drink blood every three days was gone.
As for Army Breaker, it was "saturated with Baleful Aura, linked to the stars, and possessed of the nascent form of Army Breaker." To Xu Feng's eyes, the Knife's markings now looked like human meridians, covered in Blood Veins.
Those Blood Veins had not grown at random, either.
They had already formed the "Sacred Embryo Star Pattern." One day, the Knife's Blood Veins would slowly turn into blue veins, then finally become pure white.
Only then would it become the second kind of fully awakened sword or blade Old Master Shen had heard of in tales of the strange.
Lying on its rack at night, the blade would fly off to sever heads.
But even now, Xu Feng had tempered it almost as far as he could. After all, he had never personally carried a blade into battle, much less been Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao, who, as legend had it, "struck through three provinces and six prefectures with