Insufficient balance

  This is not a particularly large space, with the same walls and floor, but what's clearly different from all previous areas is that there are countless floating particles in the air here that emit a pale green glow. Ling Chen tried to grab one with his hand, only to find that these particles had no physical form, but rather seemed like glowing air. It was also these particles that made the light here especially bright.

  There is no sign of life here, and it seems that there has never been any living being. At first glance, this appears to be a large hall, empty and spacious, with only a small stone pedestal in the center, less than half a meter high. When Ling Chen looked at the pedestal, a flash of light seemed to reflect back from the middle of the pedestal.

  Where is this?

  There was no luxurious treasure, no living creature, not even a special existence could be found. All that could be seen was an empty great hall and the stone pedestal in the middle of the hall, which was completely different from what Ling Chen had imagined.

  The place guarded by the ancient divine beast can't be just these things!

  After a brief silence, he stepped forward and walked towards the stone platform in the center.

  Hiss......

  It seemed that something had been guessed underfoot, and Ling Chen's footsteps stopped suddenly. He looked down at the ground below, which was uneven and rough. On the surface of the earth he trod on, a hilt shape faintly appeared.

  This is...

  Ling Chen immediately squatted down, brushed aside the surrounding gravel, and suddenly a complete hilt shape appeared before his eyes. The hilt was pitch black in color, with extremely complex blood-red patterns faintly visible on its surface. The entire hilt was over thirty centimeters long, and its thickness far surpassed that of ordinary hilts, with a shape that was roughly rectangular. When Ling Chen stepped on it, more than half of it had sunk into the ground, so he hadn't noticed it when he swept his gaze over the area earlier.

  Is it a hidden sword here?

  Ling Chen's heartbeat suddenly accelerated... A sword that could be hidden in this place was, without a doubt, no ordinary sword. He stretched out his hand to grasp the hilt of the sword and lifted it casually... Following which, his face stiffened.

  Under his pull, the hilt of the sword didn't budge at all, as if it had been embedded in the ground.

  Ling Chen slightly furrowed his brow, adjusted his posture, grasped the hilt with both hands, and then gritted his teeth, using all his strength to pull upwards.

  "Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm……"

  Under his full strength, the black hilt finally left the ground, but it only hovered in the air for a short two seconds. Just as he picked it up for two seconds, Ling Chen was unable to hold on to it again. The hilt "thudded" back onto the ground, and then smashed into the hard earth, creating a deep depression.

  It didn't feel like picking up a small sword hilt, but rather pulling a massive boulder.

  "It's so heavy... How can anyone possibly wield a sword this heavy?" Ling Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead. As he lifted the hilt, he saw clearly that it wasn't a sword at all, but just a hilt without even a hint of a blade. Although its shape was larger than an ordinary hilt, it was only thirty-odd centimeters long and several centimeters thick - how could an object of this size be so heavy? What on earth was it made of?

  Moreover, why is there only one hilt here. If there's a hilt, there should be a blade too... Is it a sword with a broken blade?

  Ling Chen crouched down again and focused his attention on its attributes.

  The Fragment of the Asura King Sword: Ten thousand years ago, the "Red Mystic Sword Emperor" who was famous throughout the world fell into the Asura path due to his obsession and transformed into an Asura. The Red Mystic Sword he held also transformed into the Asura King Sword after being bathed in countless blood. After transforming into an Asura, the Red Mystic Sword Emperor lost his original nature and from then on took killing as his only purpose for survival, slaughtering countless lives and causing great chaos throughout the world. In the end, he was punished by heaven and was judged by the Sacred Beast Taixu Longshen and the three goddesses of Fate, Order, and Freedom. He ultimately died at the hands of the three goddesses. The three goddesses wanted to completely destroy the Asura King Sword but were unable to do so, so they broke it into five pieces and scattered them in five different directions, letting them never be reunited again.

  Ling Chen: "......"

  Xiu... Luo... Wang... Jian...

  Is this hilt one of the five shattered fragments of the Shura King Sword broken by the Three Goddesses?

  Chi Xuan Jian Emperor was who, he didn't know. Asura was what kind of concept, it was also vague, only knowing that Asura represented arrogance, ruthlessness and bloodlust. However, Chi Xuan Jian Emperor, who had transformed into Asura back then, actually needed a Shengmie beast and three goddesses to join forces and collectively punish...

  What kind of strength is that!!

  The Red Mystic Sword Emperor has undoubtedly become a distant legend... or perhaps, time has passed for tens of thousands of years, and the Forgotten Continent may not even have anyone who has heard his name. But... Ling Chen placed his hand on the heavy hilt of this sword... The sword used by the Red Mystic Sword Emperor is undoubtedly also powerful to an extremely terrifying degree!

  Shura King Sword, it's extremely likely to be a heavenly artifact, or even a divine artifact... Just its name alone exudes an aura of dominance and intimidation.

  "Cheers!!"

  With a surge of strength in both hands, it was finally lifted again, and at the moment it entered his hand, it was put into his backpack.

  This is one of the five fragments of the Shura King Sword... If, by any chance, there comes a day when all five fragments are collected... Wouldn't it be possible to reforge the Shura King Sword?

  Requires the power of a sacred beast and three goddesses to wield... The Shura King Sword has an irresistible attraction to Ling Chen. Even if he knows that this sword is definitely not a benevolent sword, but a malevolent sword stained with countless blood and evil.

  Having successfully stored the fragments of the Asura King's sword in his backpack, Ling Chen continued to move forward. Previously, he had clearly seen that there seemed to be something at the central position of the stone platform, and its reflected light still flashed before his eyes.

  There was no deliberately suppressed footsteps in this overly quiet space, and Ling Chen stopped in front of the stone platform. This was a smooth stone platform that had existed for an unknown amount of time in this space, but strangely, there was not a speck of dust on it, shining like a mirror. Only in the middle position was placed a standing black circular ring.

  This ring is...

  Ling Chen did not rashly reach out to touch it, but instead bent down to observe it from a closer distance. Only then did he discover that this was not a standard ring. Its size was two sizes larger than the iron cuff on his hand. One end was one centimeter thick, and from the thickest part, it gradually became thinner towards both sides until it reached the opposite position of the thickest part, where it had become an almost invisible thin line. At first glance, it seemed as if there was a gap in it.

  It looks like a new moon at the beginning of the month, a black new moon.

  Ling Chen's gaze shifted to the side... This ring has a width of about 2 cm, and at its thickest point, there are three identical holes lined up horizontally, with more holes on either side that taper off towards the thinner areas... Ling Chen counted them: from thickest to thinnest, there were six holes on each side, plus the three horizontal ones at the thickest point... a total of fifteen holes.

  Hole?

  This made Ling Chen think of the Moon God Chain. The surface of the Moon God Chain was covered with holes, and this cross-section presented a black crescent-shaped ring that could also be worn as a bracelet. However, Ling Chen only thought about it casually, and he certainly wouldn't think that this was really the Moon God Chain. The village chief had said that the strongest Moon God Chain to appear on the Forgotten Continent had seven embeddable holes, which meant that seven was already the limit... How could the fifteen holes of this black crescent possibly have anything to do with the Moon God Chain?

  But being able to stay in this space, it must be something extraordinary.

  What is this after all...

  Her eyes narrowed and she lowered her head to look at its attributes:

  ？？？？：？？？？

  The information transmitted in his mind made Ling Chen stunned. This black new moon was clearly in front of him, but he couldn't see any attributes at all.

  What's going on?

  Does it have the attribute of hidden information that can only be viewed by its holder?

  At this moment, Ling Chen stretched out his hand and reached for the black crescent-shaped ring. His fingers made contact with the edge of the ring in a slow motion.

  At the moment when Ling Chen's hand touched the residual moon ring, a pitch-black light suddenly released from the residual moon ring, just like night falling suddenly, instantly covering the light in front of Ling Chen... and the entire space around him. Ling Chen's pupils suddenly enlarged, as if the world had suddenly switched, and the originally bright world in front of him turned into complete darkness. This was a darkness without any impurities, without a single thread of light disturbance, an extremely terrifying blackness. From childhood to adulthood, he had experienced countless darkness, countless days without sunlight, but never knew that black could be so profound, so thorough.

  What's going on?

  What happened!?!

  The ring of the crescent moon that had been touched by his fingers disappeared, and following the tactile sensation of his right hand, he felt it float up on its own, then quickly pass through his palm, tightly binding itself to his right wrist...

  "Ding... Your Moon Goddess Chain 'Iron Handcuff' has been completely destroyed by an unknown force and has vanished."

  "Ding... Your Energy Crystal 'Primary Strike Crystal' has been completely destroyed and disappeared due to an unknown force."

  "Ding... Your Energy Crystal 'Primary Power Crystal' has been completely destroyed by an unknown force and has vanished."

  Ling Chen: "!!!!!!"

  What's going on? Who can tell me what happened?

  Ling Chen's left hand swiftly grasped his right wrist, and the iron cuff that had originally been embedded with two energy crystals had indeed vanished. On his right wrist at this moment was another ring-shaped object... its shape was unmistakably that of a new moon-shaped black ring!

  "Ahhhhhhh!!!"

  At the same time, a pain like being cut by thousands of knives at once came from the depths of his consciousness, causing his whole body to stiffen suddenly, and he let out an extremely painful scream...