The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

"The blessing of the Great Storm God?" Feeling the cold yet persistent power unique to the Star God of Hunting, Tirnan no longer doubted Chen Li's identity.

“If I could, I would like to travel with you, but I don’t know what these friends think.” Tirnan hesitated.

As sea patrol knights who dared to assassinate the Great Lord of Annihilation despite knowing they would die, their courage and determination to fight injustice were beyond question.

Even if they transform into Blood Sin Spirits, they still do not forget their original intentions. After all, Blood Sin Spirits are the obsessions of those who walk the path of destiny, and they keep repeating the things they did in their previous lives!

However, faced with his companions who had already died once, Tirnan, who was obsessed with bringing them back to their side, was unable to accept this request for help across time and space on their behalf.

"Don't know? Then let me ask." Chen Li pulled out a card from somewhere.

"This is?"

"This is a card imbued with the power of miracles, possessing the ability to make any living being or object answer your question at least once. Now I'm handing it to you." Chen Li handed the Miracle Card, "Then I'll Ask You," to Tirnan.

Tiernan glanced at Chen Li, then at Huang Quan, and finally at the figures of his companions wandering on the Dead Sea. After a moment's pause, he took the Miracle Card and walked towards the Dead Sea.

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Chapter 174 Chen Li: If I were to resurrect a Star God, wouldn't Balance be blown up?

"I'll fight the Great Lord Huanlong? Oh, damn it, Tiernan, you're a genius! Damn it!"

"That's the opinion of the first companion I asked. After getting Chen Li's consent, I randomly selected a second companion to ask. The answer was: Zhu Luo is the Great Ruler of Annihilation, and Huan Long is also the Great Ruler of Annihilation. We can kill Zhu Luo... Oh, Tie Ernan, don't worry about how we killed him. We can kill Huan Long too! One life can kill two Great Rulers of Annihilation, why not do it?"

"In conclusion, on behalf of my comrades, I have decided to respond to your request for help. Let the Sea Rangers be great again! And I... will be here waiting for my comrades to return." Although Tiernan's voice was hoarse, his tone was very firm when he said these words.

"Chen Li? Chen Li? Tirnan agreed to help this time." Huang Quan, who had been calling Chen Li for a long time without getting a response, turned around and saw Chen Li clutching the Miracle Card to his heart, looking extremely distressed.

"Huh? Oh, then thank him for me." Chen Li said, looking at the Miracle Card [Then I Ask You] which only had one use left.

"So when do you plan to set off?" Huang Quan had never expected that this Dead Sea trip would end so quickly; it was an experience he had never had before.

“Sixty years later.”

"what?"

"You probably noticed it too, right? Although they all gave very definite answers when I asked those Blood Sin Spirits questions using this Miracle Card, they wandered aimlessly on the Dead Sea again after the Miracle Card ended. Even after Tirnan witnessed all this and decided to respond and ask for help, he still had some hesitation in his heart," Chen Li said after putting away the Miracle Card.

"Yeah." Huang Quan nodded.

Clearly, for Tirnan, witnessing his "comrades" who died fighting against the Great Lord of Annihilation perish again for fighting against the Great Lord of Annihilation was not the most perfect ending in his mind.

"Huang Quan, do you have your own things to do?" Chen Li suddenly asked.

"No." Huang Quan shook his head.

"So... are we going to stay here for a while?"

"Either is fine." Huang Quan didn't ask Chen Li why he said he wanted to stay here for a while, nor did he ask how long that period of time would be.

After becoming self-destructors due to the curse of nothingness, the only remaining goal of the Yellow Springs is to guard the path leading to the abyss of "nothingness," guide every life that does not wish to fall into "nothingness" back to its original world, and pursue nothingness.

"What should we do next? How do we get to the exact point in time a hundred years from now?" Tiernan asked Chen Li as he walked up to him.

“The hunters’ arrows can arrive first even if they are fired later, and they can also arrive later if they are fired first. It’s not impossible to gather countless blood spirits and then shoot an arrow that will reach the point of needing help a hundred years from now. The hunters’ will to die will not subside until the end of their lives, which is why the blood spirits of these sea rangers float on the Dead Sea. But do you really want them to attack in the form of blood spirits?” Chen Li asked Tiernan.

"What do you mean?"

"The hunting blessing on this longbow is the most inconspicuous thing about it." Chen Li temporarily took the Peace Longbow from Kikyo's hands instead of using projection.

Because this time Chen Li might need to use the Peace Longbow for a long time.

"What else is there besides that?" Tirnan asked curiously.

“And there’s Hell.” Chen Li threw the Peace Bow into the distance, and then with a loud bang, a huge building fell from the sky and appeared on the Dead Shore.

The eerie yet magnificent mansion's gates burst open with a roar, and countless demons of various shapes and sizes slowly emerged from within the cave.

Looking at the phantoms of these demons, Huang Quan subconsciously placed his hand on his long sword.

"Get out of the way," Chen Li casually shouted at the group of demons.

The demons, burdened with sin, paused for a moment before parting the path to the mansion, revealing the scene behind its gates to everyone.

Behind the mansion lay a hellish landscape, a gloomy sight that bore a striking resemblance to the Dead Sea.

"Welcome, everyone, to the Underworld," Chen Li said to the two people behind him.

"After this longbow kills a sinful person, it will bind their soul and place them in this hell, where they will suffer eternal torment to power the bow. At crucial moments, these evil spirits can be released to help the user fight enemies." Chen Li led Huang Quan and Tirnan into this hell.

This is actually the interior space of the Peace Longbow, only it has been visualized at this moment.

“Very good, this is very hunting. But do you mean to use this longbow to kill the Blood Demon?” Tirnan couldn’t help but ask.

While there are sea patrol knights wherever there is injustice, those who advocate violence to combat violence and praise decisive killing are clearly not pushovers.

Or rather, the Sea Patrol Rangers are a rather extreme group of people in this universe.

For them, if the souls of these wicked people burdened with sin could earn even a single credit to help others, or even themselves, it would be worthwhile.

"How could that be? Do you really think I'm such a despicable person?" Chen Li looked at Tie Ernan in surprise.

Bloodstained spirits are the obsessions of those on the Path of Fate, or in other words, they are like Path of Fate sufferers with depression, especially Tirnan in front of us.

Anyone who has experienced depression knows that although there are many ways to treat depression, improper use may make a person with depression even more depressed.

To put it simply, if Chen Li kills all the Blood Sin Spirits and takes them into this space within the Peaceful Longbow in order to take this group of people to fight the Great Lord of Annihilation, Huanlong, a hundred years later, then what's the difference between him and parents who throw away their child's cat, which they've raised for a year, just to save money to buy medication for their child's depression?

How abstract must Chen Li's thought process be to come up with this method?

"What I mean is that you can bring your companions into this underworld, let them wash away their impurities in this pool, and at least let these sea patrol heroes who mustered the courage to fight against the Great Lord of Annihilation for justice look like human beings." After leading Huang Quan and Tie Ernan into Hell, Chen Li pointed to a huge pool that almost blocked the entrance to the underworld and said.

“What is this pool?” Tirnan asked.

"The Pool of Rebirth. One of the wonders of hell in the underworld. A means of punishing evil souls. The deeper the sins of the souls that enter the Peace Longbow, the more pain they will suffer while soaking in this pool. It is one of the places where the Peace Longbow draws energy from suffering," Chen Li answered Tiernan's question.

The Peace Longbow's energy source is obtained by tormenting evil spirits, so this underworld is full of hellish wonders of tormenting evil spirits.

"Moreover, this Rebirth Pool has an effect: after throwing evil souls that have been tortured beyond recognition in other punishments into the pool, it can slowly restore the soul to its original form, make the soul regain consciousness, and reset the other party's tolerance for pain, so as to continue to torture these evil souls and make it easier for them to continue to provide pain energy."

"In other words... throwing the Blood Sin Spirits in might help them regain their original appearance. And since the patrolling knights usually do good and punish evil, it won't hurt too much after they go in; it'll be like a hot spring at most. Brother Tiernan, would you like to go in and soak for a bit?" Chen Li asked.

“I don’t need to. So what we need to do now is to bring them into this pool and let them soak?” Tirnan shook his head, rejecting Chen Li’s suggestion.

"More or less. However, this Rebirth Pool has a drawback: the function of restoring a soul to its original state and regaining its consciousness is not free. It requires the energy generated by the torment of the evil soul to maintain it... probably due to budget constraints."

After all, it's not a one-star rare item, so how could there be so many freebies to get it for free?

This makes sense.

"As you can see, there are less than 100 evil spirits inside this Peace Longbow right now, providing limited pain points. I estimate it would take 100 years to purify all those blood-stained spirits outside, which are practically a sea of ​​them, into something resembling human beings..."

These hellish wonders were not meant for "restoration" but for destruction; restoring the soul to its original state was merely a bonus function, hence their inefficiency.

“100 years…it doesn’t matter, time means nothing to me.” Tirnan shook his head.

“I can help him,” Huang Quan said.

"Thank you both for being so helpful. Oh, by the way, these next 100 years might be a bit boring, so... how about we watch some ads?" Chen Li took out two WeChat Moments devices.

"Advertisement? What advertisement?"

"Resurrection Card Advertisement. Collect 10 different fragments to designate a player to participate in the revival competition. Win the revival competition and you can be resurrected for free!"

"how is this possible?"

"never heard of that."

Both Huang Quan and Tirnan found the existence of this strange object unbelievable.

"Why don't you give it a try? Although the last fragment is hard to get, you have 100 years. While the Blood Sin Spirits are soaking in the hot springs, you can watch some ads to pass the time."

"And...maybe your companions might even be resurrected. Tirnan, you must also have some incredible companions you'd like to see, right?" Chen Li tempted.

"If...if this is true, the Sea Patrol Knight will always remember your kindness." After glancing at the advertisement link on his WeChat Moments, Tiernan looked at Chen Li with a strange expression.

Standing to the side, Huang Quan glanced helplessly at Chen Li, because she sensed that after learning about the existence of the resurrection card, Tirnan's obsession was subtly changing again.

There's no point in performing rituals to help the deceased!

If a companion could be resurrected, who would choose to perform a ritual to help them pass on to the afterlife?

However, Huang Quan didn't care about this change.

Helping someone to the end—isn't that just advertising? Go ahead and watch.

"Thanking me is fine. If someone is truly resurrected, you can tell them it was I, Chen Li, who helped them. But when they tell others how they were resurrected, they should say it was Hanabi who did it!" Chen Li quickly said.

"Why? And who is Hanabi?"

"It is possible to resurrect so many rangers at once and bring such chaos to the entire universe. I am afraid that the Balance Star God will personally come and beat me. And Hanabi is one of my best friends, dear relatives and friends... She is willing to help me bear the price." Chen Li said while touching his chin.

A group of sea patrol rangers might not have much of an impact, but what if they resurrected some strange things? Like... a star god?

Wouldn't that disrupt the balance?

"To be honest, it doesn't sound like it... and isn't it a bit inappropriate to shift the blame to someone else?" Huang Quan hesitated before speaking.

"Hanabi is a masked fool."

"That's alright then." Huang Quan nodded in relief.

If it's the Masked Fool, then it's only what she deserves.