"Senior Blade Ghost, is this the peerless-grade weapon you mentioned?"
At the eastern side of the battlefield ruins.
Xu Taiping slowly tilted his head back, looking up along the great saber that stretched over a hundred zhang, his eyes filled with astonishment.
Apart from its intimidating appearance, this great saber, almost entirely eaten away by rust, looked no different from the other battlefield relics.
Blade Ghost laughed.
"Just take it without worry. This old man wouldn't misjudge this saber."
Xu Taiping asked curiously,
"Senior Blade Ghost, why are you so certain?"
Blade Ghost said,
"Because I once fought its owner."
Xu Taiping's heart shook violently.
Blade Ghost continued,
"This old man won't hide it from you. I came into these ancient battlefield ruins before they looked like this."
"And back then, this place had another name."
Amid his horror, Xu Taiping asked curiously,
"What name?"
Blade Ghost said solemnly,
"The God-Burying Mound."
Under Xu Taiping's stunned gaze, Blade Ghost explained,
"All those buried here were heroes of the Divine Being Clan from the Sky Demon War in ancient times. Those hills you see now are actually their corpses, worn down over a million years."
"And their blood became the source of the Soulfire Stone veins beneath this realm."
Blade Ghost's explanation made Xu Taiping's scalp prickle.
He had never imagined that Soulfire Stones, like Gold Essence Coins, were formed from the corpses of the mighty.
Something suddenly occurred to Xu Taiping, and he immediately asked,
"Senior, that big yellow dog said earlier that the existence of this realm was an endless humiliation inflicted by those masterminds behind the scenes upon the living beings of this realm."
"Could that also be connected to this God-Burying Mound?"
Blade Ghost's voice turned somewhat cold.
"Although it's still too early for you to know