Starting with the consumables of the Demonic Sect, one can barely achieve immortality.

Although it may seem strange to describe a corpse puppet being stabbed to death, that is the truth.

Yan Cheng himself had killed several ghoul puppets.

The only way to render these creatures incapacitated is to completely destroy their internal organs and meridians.

At least in this era, the corpse puppets do not have the ability to repair themselves.

The giant halberd guard before them had clearly lost its life due to severe damage.

However, this also caused the person who made the move to leave the magic sword behind, freezing the guy through the chilling aura emanating from the Yin Magic Sword.

Therefore, it is clear that the vitality of the Palace Guard is much stronger than that of the corpse puppets that Yan Cheng has seen before.

For the cultivator who pierced through the halberd guard, a broken magic sword wouldn't be used for long anyway, so leaving it there was fine.

But... is the truth really that simple?

At this moment, Deng Jian and Pei Yi had caught up, their eyes filled with terror as they looked at the giant's body.

Deng Jian quickly turned his gaze away and fixed it on Yan Cheng's broken sword.

His intuition as a swordsman made him realize the value of this sword in an instant; it was at least one of the top spiritual swords!

"It's a pity it broke."

Seeing Yan Cheng staring blankly at the broken sword, the two assumed he was disappointed because the sword had broken.

Yan Cheng noticed their reactions and became even more certain of one thing:

"Just as I expected."

The runes on this broken sword are invisible to others.

Indeed, the moment he pulled the broken sword out, his attention was immediately drawn to the shimmering, undulating runes on its blade.

Runes that can only be seen by cultivators of the Upper Realm!

Because the sword was damaged, the runes it contained were also incomplete, but this did not prevent the Hidden Immortal Mirror from activating its deduction ability, transferring the incomplete incantation contained in the runes into Yan Cheng's mind:

"The Broken Sword of Qingping"!

A concise and powerful passage appeared in the mirror, introducing Yan Cheng to the life of a swordsman from the North.

During the Zhou Dynasty, there was a young man from a well-off family who dreamed of leaving his desolate and old town and joined the army against his parents' wishes.

The young man had a fortuitous encounter in the army, became a cultivator, and saw a weapon called "sword" for the first time on the defeated soldiers of the Strait of Hormuz.

From then on, he became fascinated.

Swords are not a traditional weapon in the North. Throughout history, there have been few people who have become famous for their swords, let alone the sword cultivators who sprang up like mushrooms after rain in the South at that time.

However, he heard that the Great Zhou royal family possessed twenty-four magical swords forged in imitation of ancient immortal swords.

So he began to climb step by step.

For the Zhou dynasty, which was controlled by the Nascent Soul True Lord, the twenty-four magic swords were merely collectibles, and it would be perfectly acceptable to use them to reward meritorious officials.

However, when this young man truly came into the sights of the empire's rulers, his identity as a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Upper Yin realm was exposed, and not a single member of the royal family was willing to nod and bestow the magic sword upon him.

Since he couldn't get what he wanted through legitimate means, the boy decided to take a risk.

Yan Cheng couldn't understand how a Foundation Establishment cultivator, no matter how skilled, could snatch the magic sword from the Zhou Dynasty, which had a True Monarch overseeing it and whose number of True Persons had long been in the double digits.

But then I thought, higher-level cultivators always have to save face. Would they really risk attacking a lower-level cultivator just for a Foundation Establishment level magic sword?

Even the Taiyin Immortal Sect wouldn't do this without a profit motive.

Those who stood in front of the boy at that time should have been young disciples of the Zhou dynasty who were also at the Foundation Establishment stage.

At the Foundation Establishment level, the young man, who had not yet obtained a suitable weapon, was already invincible.

Later, the people of the North called the young man who stormed out of the Great Zhou capital in the dead of night with his sword and defeated the thirteen princes of the royal family the Qingping Sword Immortal.

He was one of the few in that era who was widely recognized as having exceptional skill in swordsmanship.

There is no sword-making tradition in the North, but Qingping comprehends the mysteries of Yin from the runes on the sword, which is known as "Qingping's Broken Sword Chapter".

The complete and deduced version of the Hidden Immortal Mirror is the ancient immortal dynasty's legacy, the "Eight-Leaf Floating Duckweed Sword Scripture".

The sword manual studied by the cultivators of Shangyin during the prosperous era of the Immortal Dynasty!

Yan Cheng simply couldn't believe that such a being could be so easily found on the broken sword on the chest of a giant's corpse in front of the Biyue Palace.

With the miraculous blessing of [Hidden Radiance], he, at the peak of Qi Refining, was able to quickly master the techniques of any Qi Refining level.

However, the sword manual before him was full of profound and exquisite words, which he could not comprehend.

It must be a legacy whose upper limit far exceeds the Qi Refining or even Foundation Establishment levels!

Even if this is a magical sword, the inheritance it carries is excessively precious...

Yan Cheng immediately had a thought:

"This Qingping Sword Immortal left her sword here; could it be another hook?"

In a moment of reflection, he overturned his own idea:

"No, judging solely from what the sword immortal obtained that day, it was indeed only a sword technique at the Foundation Establishment level."

"For him, there was no need to deliberately scheme against fellow Foundation Establishment cultivators."

"But if he later realizes that the rest of the Sword Manual's legacy might lie within the other twenty-three broken swords, and then manages to collect the replicas, the rewards would be terrifying..."

Yan Cheng couldn't help but feel fortunate to have the Hidden Immortal Mirror to assist him. Not only did he not have to spend ages trying to comprehend the runes on his own, but he also managed to complete the entire Sword Scripture simply by relying on the "Qingping Broken Sword Chapter".

Thinking about it this way, Qingping Sword Immortal, who didn't have any cheat codes like me back then, was able to comprehend the sword inheritance as a rogue cultivator and make a name for himself as a sword immortal in the Northern Territory. He was indeed an unparalleled genius.

"The Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Hall of Longevity are now merely consuming the legacy of their predecessors to achieve Dao. Compared to them, they can hardly be described as holding positions without doing any work..."

Thinking of this, Yan Cheng couldn't help but panic:

Such a genius once broke into the Moon-Shielding Palace...

"Could he have already emptied the entire treasure trove inside?"

Seeing his uncertain expression, Deng Jian and Pei Yi dared not ask.

Just then, the giant kneeling on one knee suddenly moved.

Yan Cheng instantly formed a hand seal.

In the next instant, the giant grabbed the halberd at his feet with unimaginable speed and instantly pierced through the void where Yan Cheng had been standing!

The black halberd's powerful gust of wind directly sent Deng Jian and Pei Yi, whose cultivation levels were low, flying away, and the flying frost condensed by the "Frosty Snow Body" was completely shattered.

Yan Cheng looked at the palace guards in front of him as if he had expected it.

But the giant, freed from the suppression of the magic sword and regaining his life, had a red light in his eyes, which was eerie, fierce, and unlike anything in the human world.

Something was wrong. He suddenly realized that someone was controlling this guy from behind the scenes.

The combat power of a corpse puppet that attacks solely on instinct is completely different from that of a corpse puppet that moves freely under the control of a high-level cultivator's divine sense!

The next instant, the giant swung his halberd once more, slashing down at his head with unparalleled speed!