The Jade Casket was no larger than a palm, just the right size to rest in one hand. Originally, its luster had been limpid, soft and clear, like dew dripping from the eaves, with an air of ethereal transcendence.
Now, however, its crimson light was savage.
It had the momentum to shoot straight up to the Dipper and the Ox!
Even merely holding it made his scalp faintly prickle, as though something utterly evil had fixed its gaze upon him, leaving his mind inevitably unsettled.
Chen Heng lifted the lid of the casket. Inside lay a fragment of a sword blade, its edges sharp.
Though it lay motionless, its savage air, as though it would slaughter every tangible and intangible thing beneath heaven, still made Chen Heng frown slightly despite himself.
"The Avici Sword..."
Chen Heng saw that eighty or ninety percent of the Golden Light Great Talisman wound around the Avici Sword fragment inside the casket had already vanished.
The remaining ten or twenty percent was also in a precarious state, tottering on the brink of collapse.
It seemed that in the very next instant, the fragment's harrowing killing intent would grind it to pieces, leaving nothing behind!
Seeing this, he did not hesitate. He simply sat cross-legged on his cushion and followed the instructions in the secret formula, rousing his True Qi and silently reciting Mystic Words.
In mere moments, golden light suddenly arose, bit by bit, wrapping tightly around the Avici Sword fragment like chains, binding it so firmly that neither wind nor rain could penetrate...
Chen Heng shook his head slightly and thought no further about it.
When it had first appeared in the world, it had not been whole either, possessing only sixty percent of its form and substance.
Two months earlier, what Zhou