Chapter 82

There is a Chinese idiom called "divine weapons and sharp tools," where "divine weapons" refers to their extraordinary nature.

Divine weapons have transcended the realm of ordinary weapons. Generally, divine weapons can cut through ordinary weapons as easily as slicing through tofu; some powerful divine weapons are so potent that describing their might as "overwhelming" is no exaggeration.

In the City of Original Sin, Jiang Wei had heard of the existence of divine weapons; however, it was said that the entire city possessed only one divine weapon, which was in the hands of the Pavilion Master.

To this day, Jiang Wei has never seen a divine weapon with his own eyes; but soon, he will obtain one, which fills him with great anticipation.

"The Master is skilled with swords, so the divine weapon left for the named disciple is a sword!" The sword-type divine weapon also complements the "Flowing Water Sword Manual."

"A sword-type divine weapon?" Although Jiang Wei would prefer a spear-type divine weapon, he has no choice at the moment, "A sword-type divine weapon it is, then. I'll just have to study sword techniques for a few days..."

When Jiang Wei first entered the Ghost Realm, he chose a long spear as his weapon not for any other reason but because long spears were cheap. So, although his current weapon is a long spear, he doesn't have a strong sense of attachment to it—after all, it's just convenient to use for now.

If Jiang Wei were to obtain a divine sword and a set of sword techniques, he might very well switch to using a sword.

"Take it!"

As he spoke, the water sprite conjured a crystal-clear sword out of thin air. The long sword was as calm as water, but as soon as Jiang Wei touched the blade, ripples spread out.

"This sword is called the Flowing Water Sword!" the water sprite said.

"Flowing Water Sword..." Jiang Wei realized that this KONGLI Ghost Lord really loved water!

Thinking this, Jiang Wei stored the Flowing Water Sword in his storage ring. Jiang Wei used his mental power to activate the storage ring, and as soon as the Flowing Water Sword touched it, it disappeared.

"Truly amazing!" The principles and methods of the storage ring were completely beyond Jiang Wei's understanding.

Such a divine sword, if carried by Jiang Wei, would certainly take up a lot of space, but when placed in the storage ring, it occupied no space at all and had no weight whatsoever. In Jiang Wei's understanding, this was simply not scientific!

It might not be scientific, but it was indeed realized. Not to mention just one divine sword, even a million or ten million could be stored without any difficulty.

"The Ghost Realm is much larger than I imagined!"

With such thoughts, Jiang Wei was sent out of the Immortal Mansion and reappeared at its entrance. At the same time, Jiang Wei understood that the enormous soul stone in front of him was actually the Immortal Mansion!

This soul stone, which Jiang Wei couldn't even fathom its size, had been refined into the Immortal Mansion...

"What a great and powerful being must the Immortal Ghost Lord be?" Jiang Wei, being so weak, could not even imagine the might of the Immortal Ghost Lord.

Just as Jiang Wei was marveling, a sudden change occurred. The soul stone in front of Jiang Wei kept shrinking, shrinking, shrinking... tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold; in an instant, the soul stone, which was once immeasurably vast, had shrunk to the size of an egg.

"Uh..." Jiang Wei stared blankly at the rapidly shrinking soul stone and the kilometer-wide hollow it left behind.

"Whoosh—" Before Jiang Wei could react, the soul stone turned into a streak of light, breaking through the soil and flying off to an unknown destination.

The Immortal Mansion is gone...

Jiang Wei didn't understand why the Immortal Mansion had to leave: "Is it afraid that I might reveal its location after I leave? Or does it want to find more successors in different places, creating a widespread effect?..."

But no matter what, after this near-death experience, Jiang Wei's gains were substantial. Three great cultivation manuals, a storage ring, and the divine Flowing Water Sword; any one of these could cause a massive storm in the City of Original Sin!

"I should go back!" Jiang Wei had no reason to stay underground any longer; and with a kilometer-wide hollow suddenly appearing, it might collapse at any time, so it was best for Jiang Wei to leave early, "But before I go, there's one thing I must do!"

Muttering to himself, the divine Flowing Water Sword appeared in Jiang Wei's hand, and the long spear on his back was put back into his backpack.

"Let's see how sharp this divine sword really is!"

As for how to test it? Naturally, by using the divine sword to dig and drill holes.

Poor Flowing Water Sword, this noble divine weapon, on its first appearance, was directly used as a shovel to dig soil... If it had a sword spirit, it would surely be so angry that it would kill Jiang Wei!

"Hey, not bad, quite handy!" After this test, Jiang Wei found that the Flowing Water Sword was clearly much better at digging soil than the long spear! The reason was simple—Flowing Water Sword was too sharp!

Jiang Wei thrust the sword into the soil and almost felt no resistance at all.

...

Half a month later, Jiang Wei finally returned to the surface from underground.

"Phew, finally out!" When Jiang Wei returned to the surface, he was completely disheveled, his soul very "dirty," "Damn, working for half a month, it's not something even ghosts can do!"

During these half a month, Jiang Wei suffered a lot, which is why he ended up in such a sorry state. But despite the hardships, the gains...

"Hehehehe..." Thinking about the gains of the past half month, Jiang Wei couldn't help but grin.

Before entering the Immortal Mansion, Jiang Wei was still agonizing over the soul stones scattered everywhere—how to take them away! But with the storage ring... Jiang Wei fully demonstrated the traditional virtue of diligence and hard work, tirelessly digging the soul stone vein to the bottom!

It was really to the bottom!

Taking the original location of the Immortal Mansion as the center, Jiang Wei dug circle by circle outward; until today, when he couldn't find a single soul stone, he reluctantly returned to the surface.

While mining, Jiang Wei discovered that this soul stone vein seemed to grow centered around the Immortal Mansion. The closer to the Immortal Mansion, the larger and denser the soul stones; the farther from the Immortal Mansion, the smaller and sparser the soul stones.

Near the area where the Immortal Mansion was located, Jiang Wei even dug up several house-sized soul stones.

What Jiang Wei didn't know was that the soul stone vein formed here entirely because of the existence of the Immortal Mansion. The Immortal Mansion constantly drew energy from the outside, causing a large amount of energy to surge from all directions, making the "spiritual energy" around the Immortal Mansion abnormally dense. After thousands or tens of thousands of years of evolution, a soul stone vein appeared here. If this soul stone vein were discovered by other ghosts a few thousand years later, the number and quality of the soul stones would far surpass the current state.

At this moment, almost all the soul stones had been collected by Jiang Wei.

"Is this storage ring specifically for me to store these soul stones?" Without the storage ring, Jiang Wei would have been unable to take out so many soul stones, and even if he wanted to use them in the future, it would have been a huge problem—because if Jiang Wei carried large soul stones out from here, he would easily be discovered by other ghosts.

But now, this concern is gone—the entire soul stone vein is already in the storage ring; one corner of the storage ring is already piled with soul stones of various sizes.

The value of these soul stones... Jiang Wei couldn't even estimate!

Standing on the ground of the Ghost Realm, looking up at the long-missed moon, Jiang Wei felt a surge of confidence.

Cultivation manuals, weapons, and wealth—each of these is extremely difficult to obtain in the Ghost Realm; but Jiang Wei already has them all! Jiang Wei only needs to convert these into his own strength, and in time, the Ghost Realm will give birth to another great being!

Jiang Wei's foundation has been laid, and the next step is to build a house on it!

"Ghost Realm, I'm coming!"

The Jiang Wei of today is no longer the naive little ghost who first entered the Ghost Realm a few months ago; his heart is filled with confidence.