Weapons were necessary for cultivators of every level.
Give a mortal a sharp weapon, and their killing power rose by more than a single notch. For cultivators, the boost their weapons gave them was greater still.
Of course, the weapon had to be at the cultivator's level, or even above it.
A Great Emperor would gain nothing from a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.
But with an Emperor Weapon, while it would not be like adding another Great Emperor to the fight, a boost of several tenths in strength was no problem.
After all, it was a weapon a Great Emperor had forged from the finest Immortal Materials in Heaven and Earth, using his own Emperor's Dao.
True Immortal weapons and Immortal King Weapons held the same significance for True Immortals and Immortal Kings.
Take the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the past. Why had Feather Emperor, a latecomer, been stronger than Azure Emperor and Hong Emperor?
His talent was one reason. Another was the Emperor-Slaying War Spear in his hand.
That weapon gave him an enormous boost. In the original story, the spear had even caused Shi Hao trouble.
While Feather Emperor was still alive, if the Great Luo Sword Embryo was set aside, the Emperor-Slaying War Spear could basically be called the finest weapon of the Perfect World era.
The weapons of Immortal Emperors and Other Shore Beings were more extraordinary and powerful still.
If such a weapon fully awakened, it was essentially equivalent to a weaker, incomplete Immortal Emperor or Other Shore Being.
At that stage, unless the gap in personal strength was overwhelming, having a weapon suited to one's level and going without one were two entirely different things.
In Lifetime, for instance, Lingbao Heavenly Venerable could lay down a Grand Formation with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the