Chapter 1032 The Worst Weapon

The heavy, ancient metal gate was slowly pushed open, the deafening sound of its movement seeming to echo from the depths of ancient time itself. As the gate opened, the scene inside the sacrificial hall came into Hao Ren’s view.

There were no hideous and terrifying “monsters” inside, nor a dozen saints charging out in a frenzy, yet what was in the hall was more dangerous than all of that combined—

A massive rune array was still in operation within the sacrificial hall, countless glittering and mysterious symbols moving slowly across the floor and in mid-air. The vast energy filling it was almost ready to explode at any moment. At the energy focal point of the rune array, a jet-black sword was suspended in the air. Its material seemed as dark and profound as the universe itself, and its blade was “studded” with glittering points of light like stars.

The black sword floated weightlessly under the support of the rune array, like a rift leading to the depths of the universe. Several meters above the sword, a massive mass of dark energy was developing and growing. It was as black as ink, shaped like a black water ball with countless ripples on its surface. It was already more than ten meters wide and still growing. This liquid-like thing twisted and surged, changing shape, its movement resembling a heart, as if something terrifying was about to emerge from this heart. It pulsed powerfully—thump, thump…

“…Terminal, call the warship, we might need some technical support.”

“Nolan is already online and is using hyperspace transposition to transfer her to this space, but this may cause instability in the Corpus…”

“What we have in front of us is already the most unstable thing in this world—get her in here now!”

“Hyperspace transposition in progress, warship entering in five minutes,” the surface of the data terminal rippled with blue light, various symbols and lines sliding rapidly across its shell. “But the warship’s main guns can’t solve this kind of problem. A rash attack could cause the balance to collapse, and the energy in this hall will be released.”

“But we at least need the power of the Tortoise Rock, whether it’s the warship’s shield or destructive weapons, it’s better than what we have on hand,” Hao Ren said quickly. At the same time, the magical reaction in the sacrificial hall continued. A feeling like slight pinpricks spread across everyone’s skin, and Hao Ren noticed tiny sparks jumping between his hairs. At the same time, he began to hear some garbled noise, a sound that seemed to ring directly in his brain, and even covering his ears had no effect. “Everyone, put on your life-support collars! Electromagnetic and radiation barriers can alleviate the effects of the energy field!”

Everyone on the scene immediately put on the life-support collars they carried with them—after following Hao Ren to run around and challenge various extreme environments, these collars had become everyday items for everyone in the family. Hao Ren took out several spare collars from his dimensional pocket and quickly fastened them around the necks of Claude, Bai Huo, and Tutanin.

These life-support collars were not specifically designed to block mental interference, but their protective functions against strong electromagnetic and radiation environments in space had a certain mental barrier effect. Moreover, the energy entrenched in the hall was not a true mental attack, but a powerful energy field that could affect the minds of personnel within its range. Therefore, after the life-support collars were activated, everyone’s condition was immediately alleviated, and the hallucinations quickly faded.

Bai Huo subconsciously touched the collar that had been suddenly fastened around her neck. She had no time to ask what it was, but she knew that this metal ring helped her block the terrifying atmosphere in the hall. She looked in shock at the black sword floating not far away. “What is that thing!?”

“A weapon, the worst, most troublesome weapon in this universe!” Hao Ren said quickly while having the data terminal check the surrounding energy readings. “I originally hoped to recover this terrible thing in a more stable situation, but your saints not only activated it, but also extracted energy from it! They have no idea what they’re extracting!”

“Crackle…”

The black energy ball suspended above the sword suddenly emitted an unsettling burst, and purplish-black electric arcs leaked from the energy ball, bouncing around in the air. All the metal objects in the hall suddenly broke free of gravity’s pull, slowly floating into the air, and, under the pull of some invisible force, drifted towards the mass of energy. Metal sacrificial objects, enchanted swords, silver utensils, and candlesticks all floated upward and were reduced to powder in mid-air, ruthlessly swallowed by the mass of energy—even if these sacrificial objects possessed incredibly powerful forces, even if those enchanted swords might have severely wounded powerful “gods” like Odin and Zeus during the Twilight of the Gods thousands of years ago, in front of that powerful energy, they were as fragile as sand!

Between the black energy mass and the Godslayer Sword, strands of shadowy lines were already visible to the naked eye.

“Its reaction speed is accelerating!” the data terminal shouted. “This unit has detected a catalytic reaction… something here is catalyzing the entire charging process! It must be something we just brought in!”

“Something is stimulating that sword?” Hao Ren was shocked. “Quickly find the source!”

The data terminal quickly processed all the data it could collect, and countless dazzling data and symbols were refreshed and moved around it. Finally, it suddenly rushed to Vivian. “Vivian is the catalyst!”

All eyes immediately focused on Vivian, who was stunned for a moment before suddenly reacting: “This sword’s mission is to kill gods…”

Before she could finish speaking, she had exploded into a large swarm of bats, rushing out of the hall like a whirlwind.

Hao Ren immediately looked at his right hand. “Could the divine blood in my body also have the same effect?”

The data terminal quickly recalculated the data. “…The reaction speed has returned to normal. It seems that the divine blood you carry is not enough to activate this sword. It only responds to the more primitive divine blood carried by Vivian. But the progress of the reaction that has already been advanced cannot be reversed. The balance will be broken in thirty minutes.”

At this time, Vivian’s voice came through the communicator: “I’m in the corridor outside the hall now, what’s the situation there?”

“The good news is that it has stabilized again, the bad news is that we only have thirty minutes to stop this thing from blowing up the Spirit World Clock Tower.”

“Correction, it’s blowing up the entire Corpus,” the data terminal suddenly interjected into the communication channel. It opened a new set of holographic projections, showing the Spirit World Clock Tower and the connections between the various floating temples in the Corpus space. A huge energy field was forming between all these buildings, pulsing at a certain frequency, like a heart. “This unit needs to correct one point: the black thing in mid-air is not extracted from the Godslayer Sword. The saints did not extract anything from that sword.”

Hao Ren was stunned. “Not the power of the sword? What is it then?”

“The source of that energy is the Spirit World Clock Tower itself—the ‘power of mystery’ that Claude mentioned earlier,” the data terminal let out a loud whistle. “But it’s been contaminated, the source of the contamination is the Godslayer Sword, and now this contamination is spreading to the entire space. This sword is an unprecedented ‘virus carrier’. It not only erodes the will of the demon hunters—it is polluting the entire Corpus’s ancient energy system.”

Almost at the same time as the data terminal finished speaking, Izhaks suddenly frowned. “Lanina just sent a message saying that the frontline soldiers are reporting that the energy nodes that were destroyed earlier are being re-lit one after another. The runestones in those nodes must have been destroyed, but their energy cores are starting up out of thin air.”

Tutanin was still a little unclear about the situation, but he was very familiar with the energy nodes. “The runestones were just things we set up later. Those energy nodes could originally operate on their own. It’s just that in the past few thousand years, they have never actively activated, so we had to use external force to start them.”

“In other words…” Hao Ren looked at the Godslayer Sword. “Because of this sword, all the relics of the Corpus are truly awakening.”

Lily’s forehead was sweating. “And they were contaminated as soon as they woke up… No wonder the Temple of the Creation Goddess was broken by a bunch of mortals!”

Bai Huo’s gaze wandered around the sacrificial hall. Even in this situation, she remained calm and suddenly asked a question: “Where are the saints?”