Of course, they were ultimately not ordinary people. Although their hearts were immensely shocked, they quickly calmed down again.

"You all are quite good. Stability of heart and mind is a mature blacksmith's quality. Otherwise, just a slight instability during the forging process can lead to big trouble."

The mentor looked at the few who quickly recovered their composure, nodded with satisfaction, and said lightly: "The advantages of this weapon indeed overturn history, but what about its drawbacks?"

The expressions of everyone changed abruptly as they thought of it.

This Ash Artifact has many advantages.

But it also has one fatal flaw.

The essence of this Demon Weapon is an Ember Artifact Spirit. The embers must regularly root into the ground, becoming an Earth-bound Spirit, slowly recovering the Soul Body, and then the weapon must be extracted again.

However, the higher the level of the ghost, the more difficult it is to extract and root.

Otherwise, the ancestors and elders in the tomb would not only extract during the Red Sun period.

It requires cultivators of the same realm to expend a large amount of Heart Power and pay a price to extract it, which greatly increases the likelihood of entering a cycle of exhaustion of Essence, Qi, and Spirit!

"This means that by wielding this Demon Weapon, regularly rooting and extracting, you begin to have periodic weaknesses."

A mentor sighed softly, glanced around, and said coldly:

"Every time you root the Demon Weapon, the process is as follows: First, you cannot move because the Demon Weapon has already rooted into the Earth-bound Spirit. Your position is fixed, and everyone will search for the treasure as if following a treasure map, vying for the Demon Weapon."

"Glaring fiercely, guarding you, waiting for you to extract the Demon Weapon and enter a period of weakness..."

"Then, you have to face the siege and scramble of everyone."

Everyone fell silent.

That scene was already foreseen.

A group of people waiting for you to fall into weakness, secretly tracking, dividing, and consuming!

"Mentor!"

Suddenly, a student asked: "The periodic weakness brought by the Demon Weapon can be spent in the safety of the family."

This mentor nodded and replied:

"You can! But you must consider when fighting outside, every use of the Demon Weapon will exhaust the soul power of the ghost; energy does not come from nowhere."

"Cultivators are skilled in prolonged battles, each one hard to kill. You might reach halfway through the battle, and the Ember Spirit is already weak and transparent. You must root down, otherwise, the Artifact Spirit will disappear."

"Of course, if you immediately root the Demon Weapon on the battlefield, the Artifact Spirit can quickly recover through the earth vein, but what do you do after winning the battle? After you finish fighting and are just exhausted, you can't extract the Demon Weapon, the Earth-bound Spirit, so you have to wait in place. Won't others come to besiege you? To seize the treasure?"

"Furthermore, if the opponent sees you rooting the Earth-bound Spirit and immediately turns away, what then?"

Everyone pondered, yes, the changes in battle are not that simple.

Normally, if the enemy runs, they naturally chase.

However, when the Demon Weapon is rooted, how do they chase the enemy? Abandon the weapon to pursue?

The weapon being restricted causes the person to be restricted in place as well.

Moreover, the enemy can even kite you, as you can only wield the weapon within the area of the Earth-bound Spirit.

Furthermore, they can leave and call others to come and attack you, and you can't escape unless you abandon your Demon Weapon.

Everyone had an epiphany.

This Demon Weapon has various merits, yet the side effects are equally significant.

The periodic weakness of the weapon commander, regularly rooting the earth vein to recover soul power, is too fatal for a powerhouse!

Practically a living target.

Or the Demon Weapon naturally forms a war vortex, cursing its owner to a miserable fate.

But such drawbacks, merely the fact of being an [Eternal Demon Soldier], are enough to overshadow everything.

Today's Divine Weapons might have no flaws, but their usage cycle is too short, no matter how cautious you are, they will be damaged from the battles time after time.

Everyone remained silent, absorbed in thought.

Compared to regular Divine Weapons, the merits and drawbacks of this Demon Weapon are too prominent!

Its playstyle, method of use, battle tactics...

All are entirely new.

...

On the other side.

Watching the students discussing from afar, the elderly dean nodded with gratification: "This generation of students' quality is still passable."

"This Ash Artifact, giving cultivators a new chapter in battle techniques, in all aspects, provided this Demon Weapon can be made universal."

He spoke to the other end of the Communication Token:

"Tomorrow, the Red Sun will arrive. The court has suddenly encountered a major event. Jian Xin has been summoned away, that Demon Cultivator 'Rice Disaster' has reached a dead end; I'm afraid he will seize the opportunity during the Red Sun to make a desperate attempt, assaulting cities and plundering resources. You could keep an eye on a few nearby cities."

Jian Xin was dispatched.

But it doesn't mean there are no smart people in this world.

The acts Gui Pu might take, many have already guessed.

A young, charming voice came from the other side:

"Teacher, that Demon Cultivator is in the Three Elements Realm, and also wields a Demon Weapon. Unless a few of the core disciples from the Combat Institute are dispatched, it will be hard to match."

Never assume Three Elements Realm cultivators are weak.

Four Viscera Realm already constitutes the high tier of a city.

The Three Elements Realm is more of a stationed Great Cultivator within a human "wall", an elder, a Great Tributor, primarily responsible for cultivation.

Such a presence stationed within walls to resist all kinds of disasters, how can it possibly be weak?

The Three Elements Realm is essentially the strongest limit walking in the human world.

The Two Phases rarely operate within the human world, people like Jian Xin only strike occasionally.

If it were not for Jiao Wuyu and Gui Pu being special, the typical hunt for a Three Elements Realm Demon Cultivator would be carried out by Three Elements Realm cultivators themselves.

This elderly man spoke calmly:

"I don't want you to capture him. We blacksmiths are neutral, and our clients do not distinguish between right and wrong; just send someone to have simple contact, see if you can reach out to the mysterious Divine Craftsman behind."

This elderly man indeed became interested.

His lifelong pursuit now is not resources, nor wealth, but a higher realm, the higher pinnacle of the forging path.

Now, such an interesting mysterious blacksmith team has emerged, naturally, stirring his desire for communication.

Of course.

He is a respectful person.

His reputation on Xinyi Continent was so great; if the other party wanted to see him, they could have easily contacted him.

The other party might not want to meet him yet, perhaps because the timing isn't right.

Or maybe, the technology is not mature enough, and they plan to forge another one, to completely stabilize their position before contacting him.

The woman's voice softly said:

"I see, if it's to get in touch with that mysterious forging team, this disciple is also very interested."

...

Gui Pu walked on the streets of Yunshan City.

This Yunshan City was precisely where the forging of the Mother and Child Rings took place.

On the streets, many cultivators wore exotic clothing. Although they were also Wine Rice, they had golden braids and wore Miao costumes.

But their arms and necks were full of copper rings, jingling as they moved.

The entire city seemed like a city of bells.

Now that the Red Sun was about to arrive, the atmosphere in the city was oppressive, and the people hurried on their way.

In the taverns and teahouses at street corners, whispers occasionally floated by.

Gui Pu, as a Three Elements Realm cultivator, had very sharp senses and could hear them discussing some alley, street... all had various ghostly and magical happenings, causing fear in discussions.

The entire city was shrouded in the shadow of death.

"Are we going to liberate this city?" The Sword Fairy was itching to act.

In her eyes, after descending the mountain, it was a chivalrous journey, robbing the rich to aid the poor.

Cutting down local aristocratic families, where the fall of one whale makes everything flourish.

Even if they couldn't kill their Three Elements Realm patriarchs, under the Scarecrow disaster, the family cultivators at the lower tiers would turn into hundreds of thousands of scarecrows, aiding the common people like babies, to protect them.

Entering the world, becoming local magnates, and when clansmen reap benefits, they must face vendettas from the world.

The same old saying goes: entering the world, picking up the butcher's knife, one is bound to die by the knife.

Gui Pu walked along the street, his sight easily pierced through the scenes in each household.

Seeing some poorly clad commoners, mostly women, all worshipping a benevolent statue:

"Thank you, merciful Mother of Non-Life."

"Please protect us in peace."

...

Various noisy chants of worship flooded into his mind.

Gui Pu frowned slightly: "It's the No-Life Sect; I didn't expect this Demon Sect to resurrect in this city."

"No-Life Sect?"

The Sword Fairy also felt that the city's atmosphere was somewhat eerie.

The nearby cities don't worship the Rice Flower Goddess, liberating the city, what are they absurdly worshipping?

Gui Pu explained: "The No-Life Sect, also called the Sanye Sect or Fusheng Sect, is a very ancient sect that frequently changes its face and is difficult to eradicate."

The Sword Fairy was startled, as if recalling something: "Sanye Sect, lucky clover?"

"You know?" Gui Pu paused in surprise.

The Sword Fairy realized that she might have encountered Sanye Sect adherents.

While hunting ghosts with Zhang Huaping, they encountered a pregnant woman who used her child's heart blood to tattoo clovers on her belly.

It's said that with each sacrificed infant, a clover blooms on the belly, and the next child would have improved aptitude.

By consecutively sacrificing two or three infants, tattooing several clovers, their next child would undoubtedly have extraordinarily high cultivation potential.

Thus, ordinary families could produce learned individuals.

This evil technique is exactly what some families desired.

Because they didn't know the aptitude of the child in their womb, they dared not gamble!

It's highly possible that they exhausted all efforts, grudgingly supporting a child in study for over a decade, only for the child to achieve nothing!

Rather than wasting effort, flushing half a lifetime away, it was better to use this evil technique, conceiving for three to four years, ensuring at least one "Tsinghua or Peking University" scholar.

"The poor have their ways of living."

Gui Pu said calmly, "But this No-Life Sect happens to target these parents' hope for their children's success."

"Their doctrine is that life is all suffering, better not to live."

"Ordinary children are born to suffer, better not to raise them, but rather to strangle them at birth, accumulating their wisdom for the next child."

"And you think it's just a clover tattoo? Their inheritance is well-matched."

"Their No-life Goddess possesses the divine technique to accelerate pregnancies; just by worshipping her statue, you can give birth within a month, even a week, quickly accumulating the number of pregnancies, tattooing the belly with a full array of lucky clovers from infant heart blood."

The Sword Fairy revealed a look of awe, "And they have the divine technique for accelerated birth."

This is the true power of a Great Demon Cultivator and demonic sect forces.

Every time the Red Sun arrives, these demons and cultists come out.

With such actions, they probably aim to raise a batch of Demon Cultivator seeds.

Because although the children raised this way have high aptitude and comprehension, they are very extreme and innately demonic, suitable for becoming Demon Cultivators.

After all, the Demon Path is too difficult these days, finding no Demon Cultivator seeds... the Court establishes schools everywhere, guiding people to goodness, reading, teaching them to become righteous people, and even those who achieve the Three Flowers will still have a bottom line, forming the Immortal Path prosperous era, rather than chaos.

They need to nurture new blood for Demon Cultivators, so they must resort to this method.

"They worship this Mother of Non-Life, how about we create something similar? I can make many people among my citizens worship."

The Sword Fairy suddenly said, "I've even thought of the slogan: 'With the Rice Flower Goddess, the blue sky appears, bountiful harvests, peace for all under heaven.'"

Gui Pu: "..."

What's she planning? Is she going to rebel?

The No-Life Sect has that kind of power; what do we have?

Relying solely on me?

Gui Pu couldn't be bothered to pay her more attention and continued exploring various places for information, preparing to attack this city.

"Feels like something is not quite right." His expression turned solemn.

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