In this shop, there are quite a few immortals like Li Xingkong who only look and don't buy.
After all, not all immortals have ways to make money, and not all immortals have to participate in battles. Many immortals are just bored and come out for a stroll, so the shopkeepers naturally can't drive them away.
No matter what, they are immortals, beings standing at the pinnacle of the entire Primordial World. They simply lack the currency used for communication among immortals, not that they have nothing at all.
Who doesn't have some resources? Small worlds, inner spaces, even the Primordial Universe in the Cosmic Sea —every immortal has some of them, more or less.
Even Li Xingkong has a small world connected to the Primordial Universe.
But when placed at the level of immortals, these things are simply not enough.
They couldn't provide him with resources that could be used for trade among immortals.
Li Xingkong spent a long time looking around the shop, examining almost every item inside.
There aren't many offensive immortal artifacts; most are functional.
Defense, escape, precognition, extending sensory abilities, enhancing Divine Sense...
Li Xingkong looked at it from beginning to end and didn't see many purely killing immortal artifacts.
Even the Heaven-Opening Sword we just saw is only a rather special slaughtering knife.
Li Xingkong overheard the idle chatter of the other cultivators nearby. This sword had been hanging there for tens of thousands of years, and no one had ever paid it any attention.
Becoming an immortal grants one the power to destroy a single universe, rendering this sword useless; yet, cultivators who need this sword cannot enter the Great Unity of Heaven and Earth Market and thus cannot obtain this immortal artifact because they have not become immortals.
It's truly tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw it away.
As for the defensive artifacts among immortals, they don't protect against physical or spiritual attacks; they're more like a fuse.
When an individual is attacked by a concept, and their conceptual body can no longer withstand the attack and is about to be shattered, these defensive immortal artifacts will preemptively "cut off the path," diverting the incoming conceptual attack and thus saving the host.
Conceptual attacks vary from person to person; each immortal has a different way of attacking and their methods are different, so relying solely on defense is definitely not enough.
Therefore, in addition to defense, precognitive magical artifacts have also become mainstream.
Some analyze the opponent's concept when the opponent makes a move, some begin to deduce and predict before making a move, and some even travel through time to obtain information about the opponent through future vision.
All sorts of magical artifacts pursue the same goal: to discover the opponent's attack methods and trump cards.
Nearly a month has passed since I left the market.
From the functions and focuses of these immortal artifacts, Li Xingkong could see that the key to battles between immortals lay in analysis.
Whoever analyzes and understands their opponent's strengths and weaknesses first will have a sure chance of victory.
If that's the case, then Li Xingkong actually has a slight advantage, because he has a natal immortal artifact. If the system overclocks and accesses Li Xingkong's computing power, it can achieve a similar effect. In addition to Li Xingkong's own computing power, fighting against Li Xingkong is equivalent to fighting two people at the same time.
Back in the small world, Li Xingkong looked around. There wasn't much to prepare. Xiao Chongshan was still in seclusion, and Guapi had already become one with the creatures of the small world. Li Xingkong just went to see it and found that it was already quite happy and didn't want to leave.
But this is a good thing; after all, life is about being happy.
"Aren't you going to make any more preparations?"
Li Xingkong and the system left the small world and stood on the flying island.
The system confirmed it again.
"What's there to prepare? Besides you, is there anything else I can bring?"
Li Xingkong, on the other hand, is quite optimistic.
"Oh right, I almost forgot."
He reached out and grasped at the air, and a sword emerged from his hand.
"Do you think Laojun's sword would still be of any use to me now?"
This sword was a gift from Laojun when Li Xingkong had just ascended to immortality, but Li Xingkong, Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, was a complete shut-in and had never seen a storm, so naturally he had no chance to use it.
"How would I know? I've never seen immortals fight."
The system was completely bewildered. It only began to understand immortals after Li Xingkong became an immortal, and its understanding of them wasn't much better than Li Xingkong's.
"Alright, I guess I've gotten used to asking. Tsk, but if this sword came from Laojun's hand, it should at least have some use."
"Never mind, just take it with you."
He shattered the sword, and it once again merged into Li Xingkong's body. Then, Li Xingkong raised his hand to form a hand seal and activated the Moonlight Record according to the time of the Era of Chaos.
Time stood still for a moment, and then began to slowly reverse. Before becoming an immortal, the reversal of time in the Moonlight Record was just a matter of a moment for Li Xingkong, but after becoming an immortal, Li Xingkong could clearly sense that the environment around him was gradually being restored.
All the particles are flowing backwards; everything around us is reversing.
If he wanted, he could freely select any period of the reversal to analyze, but Li Xingkong's current interest lay elsewhere. He skipped all of that and accelerated the circulation of his Immortal Power.
The world changes in an instant, the sun and moon rise and fall, and heaven and earth turn upside down.
After Li Xingkong stopped performing the magic spells, the environment around him had changed drastically.
There was indeed still sea beneath my feet, but the color of this sea was somewhat off.
The entire Limsa Lominsa blood red.
The waves surged, and with them came the stench of blood, causing Li Xingkong to cover his nose.
The changes in this place are simply too drastic.
Just as Li Xingkong was observing his surroundings, several streaks of light flew over from the distant horizon. Upon closer inspection, Li Xingkong saw that among these streaks of light were several disciples of the Jade Void Palace.
"That person, come with us immediately, the Nether River is about to awaken."
Just as Li Xingkong was thinking of saying a few words, he saw the streak of light pass by without stopping and fly towards the horizon. However, one of them hurriedly left a message for Li Xingkong.
" The Nether River?"
Seeing how anxious they were, Li Xingkong didn't hesitate and walked in the direction they had left.
These people were clearly not at the Immortal level, only at the Nascent Soul stage, and Li Xingkong quickly caught up with them.
Who is this Nether River?
Seeing that Li Xingkong had caught up so quickly, the group had no doubts and changed their flight formation to let Li Xingkong join them.
"Brother, you come to this place and you don't even know about the Nether River?"
A cultivator flying beside Li Xingkong was clearly a little surprised by Li Xingkong's question.
"I've only been on the battlefield for a few breaths when I happened to run into you."
"Just arrived? FrogFun, you've come at a good time!"
Upon hearing Li Xingkong's words, the man clicked his tongue in surprise.
"The Nether River is our front line in the battle against the Demon Clan. Most of the time, the Nether River is just an ordinary Blood River, but when a certain number of cultivators perish in it, the entire river awakens and then devours all living beings within its flow range."
"This is very bad. The Nether River is showing signs of awakening. We must leave immediately."
"Is there no one who can stand against him?"
Judging from the magical Spiritual Qi emanating from them, as well as their speed and Magic Power during flight, each of them was a top-tier Nascent Soul cultivator.