Chapter 1311 - 1311: The Origin of the Treasures

As for the foundations of the Star Sea, people often divide them into five eras for a simple explanation.

At the very beginning, Heaven and Earth were a mass of chaos, and within that chaos there were naturally chaotic beings, such as the Pangu clan or the Chaos Beast Race, and so on.

After the efforts of the Pangu clan, it then turned into the Primordial Era.

The Primordial Era could be said to be the most complicated of times, because back then all races stood side by side, and countless Ancestor Level experts at the Peak emerged.

Through the tireless efforts of these mighty beings, the foundation of the Human Race was gradually laid.

Thus it stepped into the Ancient Times; at that time, the other races were almost in decline, the Human Race rose swiftly, and countless tribal wars of conquest erupted.

After several hundred, even thousands of years of continuous struggle, the later Dynasty Era and the present age came to be.

Liu Zixuan did not know whether the owner of this tower was from the Primordial Era or the Ancient Times, because in many historical records there was not much clear distinction between the two.

Yet in those days, the powerful beings that appeared and the treasures they created were not few, but those that have been passed down to this day are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Of course, those that remain are often the strongest—such as the Xuanyuan Sword, such as the Blazing Dragon Eye, the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles, and so on.

But as for why such treasures were created in the first place, Liu Zixuan only knew bits and pieces, not the whole truth.

In later generations, the legend of the Blazing Dragon Eye said that Shennong hunted down a Roasted Dragon, embedded its twin eyes into his own, thus allowing him to discern all things; more often, he used them for medicinal purposes.

As for the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles, that is, the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles, it was even more so—likewise a treasure Shennong used to practice medicine and heal the sick.

Of course, these two items, even during the Ancient Times, also possessed extremely powerful offensive might!

So he understood their uses, but why they had been created, he did not understand in the slightest.

He shook his head and asked, "Please enlighten me!"

"No need to be so polite. Since I let you obtain these two supreme treasures, it's enough to show that you are fated with him, and the fact that I allowed you to step onto this eighteenth floor also means I've never treated you as an outsider."

The beauty smiled and said, "To be honest, whether it's the Blazing Dragon Eye or the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles, when they were first created, they were nowhere near as grand as what later generations recorded."

"Then why exactly were they created?" Liu Zixuan asked.

The beauty turned around, her slender jade-like finger slowly circling over the tabletop; in an instant, a pot of wine and two small dishes appeared before them.

"You don't mind having a drink with me, do you?"

"Of course I don't mind." Liu Zixuan casually picked up the wine pot and poured two cups.

The beauty raised her cup and took a light sip. "The first time my husband and I traveled through the Northern Wilderness, we happened to encounter an adult Roasted Dragon. Back then I merely remarked that the Roasted Dragon's eyes were beautiful, and my husband swung his sword and captured it for me, keeping it like a pet."

Hearing this, Liu Zixuan sucked in a sharp breath.

Just how powerful must her husband have been, to casually capture a Primordial Roasted Dragon! One must know that it was an adult Roasted Dragon, and moreover a creature of the Primordial Era; its strength was probably comparable to a Unity Realm powerhouse.

And he captured it, only to keep it as a pet!

The beauty set down her cup and continued, "Not long after that, the scene you just saw in the Illusion Realm occurred. At that time my husband made almost the same choice as you—he too despised the pedantic ways within the tribe, and he took me and slaughtered our way out."

Liu Zixuan suddenly understood; no wonder the beauty had created such an Illusion Realm—it turned out to be something she had truly experienced herself.

"That day, the two of us fought side by side, cutting down countless experts. He was like a War God, shielding me behind him, swinging his sword to slay all who wanted to hurt me. You can imagine it—thousands of masters besieging just the two of us; what kind of scene would that be!"

Liu Zixuan could indeed picture that scene. No matter how strong one's strength, two fists cannot beat four hands; in that kind of situation, the final outcome could probably be summed up with just one word—tragic.

The beauty's expression stirred as she spoke, and she sighed softly. "It was then that we were saved by a powerhouse of the Star Race, but by that point he was already gravely wounded. It was only that obsession with protecting me that kept him from collapsing."

"And afterwards?" Liu Zixuan couldn't help asking.

"Afterwards, we met Shennong, and the price to save my husband's life was to kill the Roasted Dragon. The payment we offered Shennong was the Roasted Dragon's eyes. I killed the Roasted Dragon with my own hands, and I personally dug out its eyes. Even though I liked them immensely, for the sake of my husband, I did not hesitate in the slightest!"

Liu Zixuan drained a mouthful of wine. "I didn't expect that behind the origin of this Blazing Dragon Eye, there was such a story!"

"Yes. From then on, Shennong possessed a pair of Blazing Dragon Eyes unmatched from ancient times to the present." The beauty spoke with a hint of sorrow.

"And your husband…"

"Although he survived, most of his Cultivation was scattered. In the end, when the Star Race and the Spirit Race went to war, he died in battle on the Battlefield of Zhulu." As the beauty raised her cup, two teardrops happened to fall into it.

Her lips moved slightly, and she drank it down as if it were Forgetfulness Water that could never truly make one forget.

Picking up a couple of bites from the small dishes, she went on, "As for the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles, I was the one who found them for him back then. At that time, they weren't needles but thirteen pillars as thick as a thumb. When he went to the battlefield, with half his Cultivation dissipated, his danger naturally increased, so I passed my Array Technique to him. Those thirteen pillars were the Array Base for the strongest Array I created for him."

"Those thirteen pillars were taken from a Chaos Stone; not only did they contain extremely Profound Power of the Five Elements, they also had a healing effect on Martial Artists. After the Battle of Zhulu, my husband died on the battlefield, his corpse not even preserved. The sect sent these back to me."

Hearing this, Liu Zixuan scratched his head and asked, "That should count as your husband's only memento. How did it end up in Shennong's hands?"

"You could call it a kind of exchange."

The beauty smiled bitterly. "Shennong had a special Cultivation Technique. As long as the person who died had reached the Unity Realm and their Dantian was not shattered, he could condense the dead person's soul into their Dantian, forming an Elixir Pearl."

As she spoke, the beauty took out a crystal-clear pearl. "This is it. I didn't have much with which to repay him back then, so I gave him those thirteen pillars. By a stroke of fate, he refined them into the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles."

Liu Zixuan did not take the pearl, merely looked at it from a distance. By this account, the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles were not her husband's only memento; this pearl was.

This pearl was her husband. To have him accompany her in this form was far better than coldly staring at a few icy needles.

"That is the origin of the Ancient Thirteen Spirit Needles and the Blazing Dragon Eye." The beauty spread her hands with a smile. "Do you have anything else you want to ask? I'm in a very good mood today; I can tell you everything, including the matter of that little fox in your Relic Mini World."