Chapter 596 - 358: Chaos Bell Hammer, Su Yu’s Children
Chapter 596: Chapter 358: Chaos Bell Hammer, Su Yu’s Children
"Could this possibly be an Innate Spiritual Treasure?"
But just as this thought arose in his mind, Fang Hong’s voice sounded:
"This hammer is a treasure I fortuitously obtained when I was a True Immortal, and the Little All Heaven Star Array was derived from it."
Su Yu’s eyes never left the Xuanyu Hammer, casually asking:
"Do you know what kind of treasure this hammer is?"
Fang Hong was silent for a moment, seemingly rummaging through dusty fragments of memory:
"I suspect it’s an Innate Spiritual Treasure."
His tone carried a hint of certainty, mixed with helplessness:
"But even after I attained Golden Immortal, I couldn’t uncover the true nature of this treasure. Yet, the treasure is extraordinarily mystical. When I was a True Immortal, I often meditated upon its form and patterns with my Primordial Spirit, and it helped me comprehend the mysteries of celestial movements, improving my cultivation. Even as a Golden Immortal, contemplating this treasure in my spare time allowed me to further my path."
Hearing this, Su Yu raised an eyebrow, a gleam suddenly appearing in his eyes.
"Oh, is that so?"
His heart was greatly shaken, realizing that a treasure capable of enlightening even a Golden Immortal is far from ordinary.
He was well aware of the essential difference between Innate and Acquired Spiritual Treasures. No matter how powerful an Acquired Spiritual Treasure might be, it is ultimately forged by human hands; understanding the method and refining its form allows one to harness its power.
An Innate Spiritual Treasure, however, is nurtured by the Great Dao, born innately with its own spirituality.
An inferior Innate Spiritual Treasure, without the recognition of its Artifact Spirit, cannot fully unleash its power even with immense cultivation, and forcibly activating it may result in backfire. Only by gaining the spirit’s recognition, when treasure and person become one, can its true earth-shaking power be revealed.
Of course, for those truly standing at the pinnacle, like a Daluo Golden Immortal, whose path has reached an unimaginable height, most Innate Spiritual Treasures would willingly bow and recognize them as their master.
Yet this hammer before us... Fang Hong, a dignified Golden Immortal, couldn’t make it recognize him as its master or even glimpse its true form, which leaves only two possibilities.
Either the laws controlled are in conflict, such as someone specializing in Fire Element Law encountering a Water Element Innate Spiritual Treasure, Life Law clashing with Slaughter or Death Law, or Creation Law meeting Destruction Law, and the like.
The other possibility is that the treasure’s grade is unimaginably high, neither inferior nor typical medium-grade, potentially being an upper-grade treasure that would even make a Daluo Golden Immortal regard it with great reverence, possibly a supreme treasure of legend that is said to stabilize a sect’s destiny.
As for the grade of this Xuanyu Hammer at this moment...
Su Yu exhaled lightly, without hesitation reaching out to grasp the Xuanyu Hammer upon the jade table.
Just as his fingertips were about to touch the handle of the hammer...
"Buzz!!!"
In the depths of his consciousness, the Chaos Pearl suspended at the center of his sea of consciousness suddenly trembled. An immense, formless ripple silently spread out from the Chaos Pearl, scanning his entire sea of consciousness in an instant, sweeping away all dust and distractions, leaving his Primordial Spirit clear and luminous.
This formless ripple, originating from the essence of chaos, didn’t stop; it swiftly spread down along the connection between Su Yu’s Primordial Spirit and body, flowing through his limbs and bones, ultimately perfectly merging with his outstretched fingertips.
"Clang!"
A crisp, bell-like resonance, akin to the first sound in the dawn of creation, exploded in his soul without warning.
On the jade table, the long-silent Xuanyu Hammer suddenly burst forth with blinding Xuanyu divine light, and the chaotic runes that originally swirled slowly on the hammer’s body came to life.
They moved like countless swimming chaos dragons, writhing madly, amalgamating and evolving, weaving a vast and unfathomable chaotic star map, radiating an ancient aura that caused the entire shattered Grotto Heaven to tremble.
A visible ripple of Xuanyu chaos spread from the hammer, with the space around it undulating like water, annihilating the floating fragments of laws and dust instantly.
Simultaneously, a vast and majestic torrent of information, laden with eons of accumulated knowledge, bypassed all obstructions and was directly imprinted into his Primordial Spirit.
"Hiss!"
Su Yu’s eyes widened, pupils constricted to the utmost, his face filled with shock and disbelief.
Even with the Chaos Pearl and a true body of Chaotic Demon God, having weathered countless great storms, he was overwhelmed by the tidal wave of information.
"How could it be this?"
He murmured to himself, voice shaking with incredulity:
"How is this possible?"
The torrent of information was crystal clear; what he held was not an independent hammer.
It was a bell hammer.
It was the core hammer used to strike the bell, resonating across the heavens and universe.
And the name of that bell was one known far and wide, called...
"Chaos Bell!"
This name resounds through eternity alongside the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner as one of the three major Innate Treasures formed at the time of creation by the lotus stamen of the Chaos Green Lotus.
It possesses the power to suppress the chaotic world, distort the spacetime of the heavens, evolve the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao, and manifest the powers of earth, fire, wind, and water, can confine time, suppress space, rebound any treasure attack, and ignore any divine techniques and magic damage.
It also goes by a more widely known name—the Donghuang Bell.
It was the companion treasure of East Emperor Taiyi, the ruler of the ancient Celestial Court of the demon race, used in the ancient Celestial Court to stabilize the nine heavens and ten directions, and the highest symbol of its dominion.
This seemingly inconspicuous hammer turned out to be the bell hammer of the Chaos Bell, one of the three major Innate Treasures, the lost core component of the supreme treasure long lost across millions of years.
"This treasure..."
Su Yu felt his throat dry, a chaotic fire seemed to burn within his chest, an intense surge of emotion rushing to his head.