Wang Xian'er did not let her pride as an elder prevent her from apologizing to Su Yuan. Both her expression and her tone were utterly sincere.
She had indeed been wrong, and she ought to admit it.
To think that despite more than two hundred years of experience, her judgment was actually worse than that of a child whose age was not even a fraction of hers!
Indeed, what in this world was truly eternal?
If it were not a supreme treasure itself, how could it possibly sustain the curse left upon it for thousands of years?
"But... even if we know it's a treasure, how are we supposed to remove its curse?" Wang Xian'er instinctively asked Su Yuan.
"Remove the curse? Easy!" A sharp gleam flashed through Su Yuan's eyes.
Many people had fallen into a misconception. Having seen Electrolux burn away the curse with his soul fire in the original story, they assumed that only Electrolux could accomplish it.
Admittedly, the miraculous Dora-Electrolux could do anything. He was practically a walking cheat code in Douluo.
But saying that only Electrolux could remove the curse was going a little too far.
After all, this thing had merely been cursed by an Evil Soul Master of the Douluo Continent. Even a Titled Douluo Evil Soul Master was still an Evil Soul Master-a human, not a god. It had not gone beyond the scope of what human power could resolve.
To name just one example, Mu En could certainly do it.
With his light sacred dragon martial soul, his soul power radiated supreme strength and pure yang energy. To counter Evil Soul Masters, he had even created two ultimate techniques: Dragon Emperor Evil-Splitting Rend and Dragon Emperor Domain-Shaking Realm.
Besides possessing the cultivation of a Limit Douluo, he could also draw upon the power of the Golden Ancient Tree. Could anyone seriously claim that Mu En could not deal with this little thing?
It was simply a matter of how troublesome the process would be, and whether Mu En was willing to put in the effort for you.
Next, Ye Guyi could certainly do it as well.
Her holy angel martial soul had devolved from the six-winged angel after Qian Renxue's divine position shattered, but the holiness and purification unique to an angel martial soul remained. It was the bane of Evil Soul Masters.
At a low level, she might lack the ability, but once she reached the Titled Douluo realm, removing the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife's curse should not pose much of a problem.
Finally, there was Wang Xian'er, standing right before him!
That was right. In Su Yuan's eyes, Wang Xian'er also had a chance of removing the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife's curse!
Her martial soul was a healing angel-an angel-type martial soul!
As long as she possessed a purification soul skill, she could attempt to purify the curse on the carving knife.
Even if her purification ability was insufficient and weaker than a holy angel's, Wang Xian'er still had the advantage of her life attribute. If purification alone was not enough, she could provoke the curse into resisting during purification, then trace the network cable back and use her life attribute to cut off its energy source. Wouldn't that do the trick?
Ultimately, the curse was troublesome because it clung to the gold of life and could draw on its vitality to sustain itself, making it difficult to remove.
But if it could be eliminated in one go, the curse itself was not actually very powerful.
Even with Electrolux reduced to a sliver of health and borrowing Huo Yuhao's body when he had only two rings, he had still managed to purify the curse. How high could its energy level possibly be?
For most people who obtained the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, the real reason to seek out Electrolux was not to remove the curse, but to use the gold of life.
Removing the curse was not difficult. Figuring out how to use it was!
As it happened, neither of those difficulties troubled Su Yuan!
As long as Wang Xian'er had a purification soul skill, the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife's curse could be removed. Once it was gone, her healing angel martial soul would allow her to pry loose the gold of life's power bit by bit, even without the correct method, absorbing its vitality to improve her soul power.
So...
"Granny, does your martial soul have a purification soul skill?" Expectation and apprehension filled Su Yuan's eyes.
"A purification soul skill? Of course." Wang Xian'er nodded naturally.
Was it strange for an angel martial soul to have a purification soul skill?
Besides, she was a healer, a healing-type Soul Master. A purification soul skill was standard equipment. Healing alone was not enough, after all. Skills that purified toxins and the like were also essential abilities for healing-type Soul Masters.
"It's just that my purification soul skill probably won't have much effect on this curse, will it?"
Wang Xian'er wanted to try, though she had little confidence.
The curse looked thoroughly troublesome.
"Granny, what do you think Evil Soul Masters love most?" Su Yuan asked another question.
"Slaughter, cruelty, bloodshed, and doing whatever they please." Wang Xian'er's voice grew low.
"But what they actually crave should be flesh and souls. Or, in other words... vitality." Su Yuan gazed at the curse on the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife as he spoke thoughtfully.
"Aside from pleasing themselves, all their brutal slaughter is fundamentally meant to make them stronger-to gain vitality from killing that strengthens them."
"Now look at this Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife. As we already said, the fact that the curse has lasted thousands of years means the knife itself is an enormous energy source. But energy of a single attribute can rarely sustain a curse for long. Only vitality can keep such vicious energy from fading over time."
Of course, it could also have been an object of supreme yin.
However, such an object would be an immensely nourishing supplement for filthy things like curses, making it impossible to sustain one for a long time.
A curse had no intelligence. It knew nothing of letting a thin stream flow steadily or sustainable development.
Rooted in an object of supreme yin, it would only absorb yin energy without end to strengthen itself. The moment it exhausted that energy and reached its strongest state would also mark the beginning of its decline.
The whole process would end very quickly, rather than lasting on a scale of thousands of years.
Thus, it could only be vitality!
Su Yuan was essentially working backward from a known answer to give Wang Xian'er the process of solving the puzzle.
"If the knife itself has a life attribute, then when you purify it, if you find the curse troublesome, you can simply use your soul power to block the channel through which it absorbs vitality, turning it into rootless duckweed."
"That way, even if your purification ability falls a little short, you can wear the curse away completely with time alone!"
By the time Su Yuan's final word fell, Wang Xian'er's expression had gone utterly blank.
"Little Yuan, you're simply a genius..." Wang Xian'er marveled at Su Yuan's analysis.
And the carving knife was a treasure with a life attribute...
Wang Xian'er immediately recalled Su Yuan's claim that she, too, could become a Limit Douluo.
Could it be...
Could this tiny carving knife before me be the opportunity I need to reach the Limit Douluo realm?
At that thought, Wang Xian'er's heartbeat quickened uncontrollably.
Was that possible?
How could there be such a coincidence?
"Regardless, we've laid out the method. All that's left is to put it into practice." Su Yuan now wanted only to try it as soon as possible and see whether they could remove the knife's curse.
If they could, Wang Xian'er would have her ticket to becoming a Limit Douluo.
Once she truly broke through to that realm, even if she was not skilled in combat, the sheer strength of her soul power would let her crush anyone below rank ninety-nine. Su Yuan could then swagger about completely unhindered!
"Granny, give it a try!"
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