[Challenger Prompt: Killed "Tyrant Sword"...]
After the Challenger Prompt, Jiang Cheng's and Xia Sheng's secondary Life Souls both rose by two levels.
Their Primary Life Soul, Pain Touch, remained unchanged because it could not grow through hunting.
Besides the Evolution Points, the nearly dead Tyrant Sword also yielded 230,000 Sacrificial Power Returns.
That was not all.
Some materials from Tyrant Sword could also be listed in the Trading House, bringing in at least another hundred thousand or so Sacrificial Power.
Under normal circumstances, a Hunting Level above 100 was enough to wipe out an entire Player Legion effortlessly.
The rewards for the kill were equally generous, earning Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng a fortune.
Alongside their delight, they still felt some regret.
They could not obtain the Rule Inscription on Tyrant Sword. They would have wanted even a derivative imprint.
With the properties of the Divine Artifact Rule, their Pain Life Soul would undergo a qualitative leap in strength.
From then on, besides drawing on their own pain, they could also draw on all kinds of painful emotions from their enemies.
For instance, when they had just used Pain Touch on Tyrant Sword, Tyrant Sword had suffered immense agony throughout the process. That, too, was pain energy they could absorb.
But they needed the Divine Artifact Rule first.
As for why the Divine Artifact Rule Derivative Mark on Tyrant Sword could not be stripped away, Guide's answer was that doing so would be meaningless anyway. This derivative rule was nowhere near strong enough to be made into a Life Soul.
Even if they kept it, the source of the Divine Artifact Rule's brand was in the Divine Artifact Clan's hands, and the connection could be severed at any moment.
It was like the War Brands on the Against