"No, this treasure is one of the most valuable items even in the God Realm."
Xiao Wenbing frowned deeply and asked, "It's neither this nor that. Have the gods gone mad and lost this treasure?"
Volume 4, Chapter 186: Toys
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Of course not. The real reason is that this two-section sword was a failed creation. During its forging process, some mistakes occurred for some unknown reason, resulting in a slight mutation.
"Tell me about it..."
"The Soul-Seizing Blade is called a treasure because it can refine the enemy's soul into its own energy. However, while refining the enemy's soul, this two-section blade will also absorb a portion of its master's soul."
Xiao Wenbing shivered and asked, "So what?"
"It's nothing serious, except that if you use it too often, the owner of the knife will develop Alzheimer's disease," Mirror God suddenly interjected from the side.
"Is...is that so?" Xiao Wenbing, his face grim, took out the Two-Broken Blade from the Heavenly Void Ring, tossed it into the scattered treasures without even glancing at it.
"You don't want it anymore?" Baby God explained regretfully, "Although the Two-Broken Blade will have some impact on its owner, it is very beneficial to improving one's own strength. Moreover, it will not completely lose its mind; at most, it will just become a little dumber."
"Thank you, but I'm still young and can cultivate at my own pace." Xiao Wenbing's face showed a kind smile, but judging from his tone, he was determined not to refuse.
"Alright, let's look at the others." The Mirror God's illusory body swayed and floated forward.
"What is this thing?" Xiao Wenbing asked as he approached the small cannon, something that had left a deep impression on him.
"This is a super energy cannon. It can gather all kinds of energy, whether it is divine power, immortal power, spiritual power, ghost power, demonic power, or even solar energy, electronic energy, quark energy, positive and negative space energy, etc. It can absorb and gather them all. Moreover, the energy is enormous. Once fired, even the entire Tianding Star can be completely decomposed, leaving only half a residue."
"Ah, what a treasure!" Xiao Wenbing said sincerely, "With this in hand, it's truly worth more than any divine artifact."
He was about to put it into his Heavenly Void Ring when he suddenly remembered something, stopped what he was doing, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the quality of this super energy cannon?"
"There is a minor flaw."
“I knew it. Good stuff wouldn’t be placed here,” Xiao Wenbing concluded definitively, then asked, “What’s the defect?”
"Its aiming and firing have some problems."
"A crosshair? You mean, this thing can't be aimed?"
"Yes, but it can be aimed at by the user."
"Visual inspection, hmm. That's a good idea. My eyesight is excellent; visual inspection should suffice. So, what's wrong with the launch port?"
"Launch randomly from various openings."
"What?"
Xiao Wenbing was taken aback. He picked up the energy cannon and examined it carefully. This energy cannon was different from ordinary small steel cannons. Not only did it have a large hole in front of it, but it also had dozens of irregular small holes around its body.
Xiao Wenbing, his face pale, pointed to the small holes all around and asked, "Don't tell me these small holes are all launch ports."
"Exactly, they are all launch ports."
"You mean randomly launching from any of the openings?"
"Yes, but despite this little quirk, the power of the energy cannon is still unstoppable."
Xiao Wenbing nodded. Yes, the energy cannon's power was undeniable, but the problem was, where would the user stand during firing? There were small openings everywhere—front, back, left, right, top, and bottom—more than thirty in total.
In other words, there's a one-in-thirty chance of hitting the target, but there's also a one-in-thirty chance... suicide, a glorious death that guarantees not even a trace of remains.
Xiao Wenbing smiled and discarded the powerful energy cannon without a second thought. No matter how good the weapon was, his own life was the most important thing.
After taking two more steps, Xiao Wenbing came to a large, round sphere. He looked at it from the left and right, but still couldn't figure out what it was.
"What's this?"
"The High God has excellent eyesight." The Precious God did not hold back its praise. Just by looking at the three items that Xiao Wenbing asked about, each one more advanced than the last, it felt deeply impressed by the High God's discerning eye.
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, this treasure is the only magical artifact among all the items here that has no side effects."
"Ah..." Xiao Wenbing was almost moved to tears. He had finally found a treasure in the garbage dump.
"This is a cauldron for refining medicine. It is said to be able to refine the greatest medicine in the world. As you can see, this cauldron is still being refined."
Xiao Wenbing stared intently and saw that a faint, almost invisible wisp of smoke was rising from the cauldron. So it really was being refined. He asked curiously, "What kind of medicine is this?"
"have no idea."
"Oh, then how do you know you can concoct the greatest medicine?"
"Because of time," Baby God said seriously.
"time?"
"Yes, in the realm of gods, the longer it takes to refine medicine, the more precious the medicine becomes."
"Really? Does this cauldron take a long time to refine medicine?"
"It's very long."
"How long is it?"
"have no idea."
"Don't know? Then when will it end?"
"I don't know either."
"Huh? How come you don't know anything about this?"
"Because this furnace was already being forged here before I even became a spirit, and millions of years after I became a god, it still hadn't been successfully forged. So I don't know when it started or when it will finish," the Precious God said solemnly.
Xiao Wenbing opened his mouth. The time it takes for a divine artifact to become spiritual is calculated in billions of years. So, how much time has it taken for this guy to go from becoming a spirit to becoming a god, and up to now?
Good heavens, what on earth is being refined in there...?
"Alright. My dear god, do you have anything more normal here?" Xiao Wenbing finally couldn't hold back anymore. After asking for so long, he still couldn't find anything truly useful.
"This..." The Treasure God looked troubled. It wasn't that it was hiding anything, but rather that this place was essentially a junkyard. If there were anything good, would the gods just casually throw it away?
These things are all treasures that are close to divine artifacts. Some of them are so powerful that even a first-grade divine artifact cannot match them. The materials and time required to forge them are absolutely enormous, and even a god would not be able to ignore them.
The reason they were discarded was because they had irreparable flaws. The gods had no choice but to discard them. There was nothing perfect among them.
Xiao Wenbing glanced at its expression and immediately understood.
He sighed. He casually tossed the cauldron, which had been forged for who knows how many years, into the Heavenly Void Ring. Since this was the only divine artifact without any side effects, it was always good to take one, rather than returning empty-handed from a treasure trove and feeling resentful.
"My dear god, didn't you say there was another finished artifact? Where is it? Take us to see it, okay?"
"You've already seen this."
"Oh?" Even the Mirror God was puzzled this time.
Baby God pointed to the ground and said, "That truly finished divine artifact is actually my true form. This Myriad Treasures Hall."
"Wanbaotang?" Xiao Wenbing asked in surprise, "Didn't you say this place was the gods' garbage... no, the gods' half-finished products dumping ground? How did it become a divine artifact?"
Baby God gave a wry smile and said, "Actually, my original purpose in being refined was not to store semi-finished products and substandard products. This place... was originally used to store the power of chaos."
"The power of chaos?" Xiao Wenbing and Mirror God simultaneously thought of the dark passage they had come through, where a dense amount of chaotic power was stored.
“That’s right, that’s it.” Clearly seeing through their thoughts, Baby God said, “I was originally created by the creator god who created this world. His purpose was to create the power of chaos.”
"What? The Creator God created the power of chaos?" the Mirror God roared. "That's impossible! The Creator God's power is creation, while the power of chaos represents destruction. These are two completely opposite forces that can never be combined."
Baby God shook his head slightly and said, "This is just our opinion, but the Creator God is different. In his view, since he can create everything, he can even create death. Therefore, he built this artifact."
The Mirror God was speechless for a moment, then asked, "And then?"
"I don't know," Baby God shook his head.
"Hmm?" Xiao Wenbing and the Mirror God exchanged a glance. If even it didn't know, then no one else would know.
"For some reason, the Creator God changed his mind. After storing some of the chaotic power, he designated this place as the garbage dump of the gods, and then descended to this realm."
"Hehe...this origin is really complicated." Xiao Wenbing casually asked, "Are the gods still throwing things here?"
"Yes, more things are coming."
"How often?"
"It's hard to say. The creation of divine artifacts is far more difficult than that of immortal artifacts and magical artifacts. It often takes hundreds of millions of years to refine them. I have spent countless years here, but I have only managed to gather thousands of failed finished products."
“Thousands of items?” Xiao Wenbing asked doubtfully. “That can’t be right. The Jade Cauldron Sect has been established for hundreds of thousands of years. There must have been more than just thousands of items taken out of here.”
"Those are all toys, things I made to play with when I was bored."
"Ah, I forgot, those are toys." Xiao Wenbing slapped his forehead and asked, "Aren't you lonely here all by yourself?"
"I'm used to it."
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The God spoke calmly, seemingly unaware of anything amiss. Xiao Wenbing shook his head with a wry smile. Gods' thinking was indeed different from humans; if it were him, alone in one place for so long, he would probably have gone mad long ago.
"Sigh, I really want to see what the realm of gods looks like. I wonder what these gods are doing. If only they could throw something down right now," Xiao Wenbing muttered as he looked up.
"If a god resides here for ten million years, there is a high probability that he will see the passage to the divine realm."
"Ten million years?" Xiao Wenbing's face paled, and he asked, "Why?"
"Since the last time a divine artifact was dropped was eight million years ago, if everything goes smoothly, then within ten million years, a piece of junk should be produced."
Xiao Wenbing gave a wry smile. Now he understood. It would take about 20 million years for a divine artifact to fall down. It seemed that this junkyard was indeed an extraordinary place.