In the primordial era of the Dou Qi Continent, countless races stood side by side. Besides the alchemist system, there was another equally remarkable system: artifact refiners. As their name suggested, artifact refiners forged weapons, and they, too, had their own ranking system. The so-called divine artifacts were the equivalents of Emperor Grade Pills.
Beyond divine artifacts, however, there was another kind of terrifying weapon, known to later generations as Ancient Demonic Artifacts. Some came from beyond the heavens, while others were born from mutations in nature. Every one of them was an exceedingly terrifying object, and some could even rival a Dou Di, possessing supreme, baleful might.
Yet as time passed, a great war erupted on the Dou Qi Continent during the primordial era. It left the divine beasts and ferocious beasts almost entirely slaughtered, shattered all the divine artifacts and fiendish weapons, and smashed the continent's own artifact-refining system to pieces.
Later generations could only learn of this history through fragments of ancient texts left behind from that era. Using the remnants of the artifact-refining system as their foundation, they developed the magic core weapons that came afterward. Still, these so-called magic core weapons fell far short of those forged by the artifact refiners of the primordial era.
After learning this history back then, Xiao Yan had traveled through the ruins of ancient battlefields. Over nearly a hundred years, he gathered the bones and blood essence of countless ferocious beasts, branded them with the patterns of Ancient Demonic Artifacts, and combined them with the body-tempering Dou Techniques he had collected. Distilling complexity into simplicity, he finally created the exceedingly terrifying Dou Technique known as the Unending Void Demon Body.
If cultivated to full mastery, this Dou Technique allowed even a casual palm strike to rival the full baleful