The Dawn of the New World Chapter 1487

After rummaging through the remains of over a dozen broken treasures hidden underneath the corpse dust, Hao Xuan finally had some good luck and found one thing that wasn't broken.

A small, unassuming black ring with two gold bands decorating the edges.

"Huh? This is a storage ring?" Hao Xuan could tell it wasn't just an ordinary piece of jewelry.

Ryuk came closer to get a better look, "I thought most humans carried artifacts like this. Why is it so odd?"

"Because there are fragments of another storage ring in that dust pile. Why would he have two? These things are already hard to come by in the abyss."

"I don't know," Ryuk washed his hands of the matter rather quickly, "Maybe the boy knows," he said pointing at Nae Shin's corpse.

"Hmm? No, he's already dead," Hao Xuan emotionlessly commented, "His heart stopped beating a while ago."

"Uh, no he's not. I don't know how your beating organs work but he is still tethered to these planes. He even has a powerful connection to the river."

"Him? A powerful connection? Like the disturbance you were talking about earlier?" Hao Xuan made his way over out of curiosity if nothing else.

"Mhm. But it is strange," Ryuk realized the oddity of the situation, "I was sure he did not have one before but now I can feel it without even trying to- What? You don't think so?" he questioned upon seeing Hao Xuan looking around with a furrowed brow.

"No I- I don't know about any of that. The blade...their Ancestral Blade is missing, did you take it?"

Nae Shin was stabbed with the Ancestral Blade and it was still halfway in his chest last anyone saw but...now it was nowhere to be found.

Hao Xuan rifled through the scene of the fight thinking it could have been thrown aside in the chaos but there were no traces of it.

"Huh...I can't find it anywhere..."

"Did it vanish? Or maybe it was recalled back to their clan?" Ryuk wondered, "If it was an important treasure wouldn't most humans want it back?"

"Of course they would but I would still feel it if something like that happened- everyone would. It would create a fair bit of commotion."

"Then what could it be?"

"There is only thing it COULD be now that we have eliminated the rest," he turned towards Nae Shin, bending down to check for a pulse.

"Still warm, blood pumping but no sound of a heartbeat. He is even breathing...it's shallow but still there."

He checked Nae Shin's gaping wounds and they were already closed.

'!!!'

"He healed faster than me...from a life-threatening injury. I think I might have an idea where the Ancestral blade might be..." he muttered while placing a hand over his chest.

Tendrils of golden threads seeped into Nae Shin's body, entering through the chest. Hao Xuan could see everything as if he was there in person.

These threads created from his concentrated soul power easily penetrated the faint barriers that were naturally constructed within every cultivator. But the moment he entered the thoracic cavity, a sharp and powerful aura pushed out the tendrils with such force that it also sent Hao Xuan flying into the air for several meters.

He flipped a couple of times and landed on his feet without any issues.

"Woah~ what was that?!" Ryuk ran over upon seeing the sudden turn of events.

"Nothing, I was just confirming something," Hao Xuan said while shaking his hand back and forth since it was beginning to turn white from the influx of foreign energy.

Under normal circumstances, the foreign energy would try to overpower the body's internal energy reserves and wreak havoc wherever it went. But Hao Xuan's meridians were already destroyed beyond repair, leaving behind an empty void that sucked everything inside.

This meant that he would not be able to cultivate spiritual energy within his body but there was an upside of it too. Any foreign energy that invaded his body would also be absorbed into the void before it could do any real damage.

"Huh. A silver lining, who would have thought?" he joked upon sensing the foreign energy dissipate within.

"What what? I don't understand, what is happening?" Ryun came prancing over annoyingly, "Why did you go flying just now? Is this some sort of human custom? What about the boy? And the blade? Where did it go? Huh? HUH?!"

"Shush!" Hao Xuan hissed through gritted teeth, "The ancestral blade is inside his body protecting his heart. It's also the reason he is recovering so fast."

"Really?? It can do that?? How? Why?"

"It's an 'Ancestral Blade', meaning it has been passed down through his family for generations. It is not only a 'symbol' of power but after being infused by the spiritual energy of countless powerful cultivators it has evolved into something different."

*Sigh*

"It's a living weapon capable of so much more. This...is probably the reason for the disturbance you are sensing. He has become one with the blade now, his fate will be unlike any others that walked on this path before him."