Unity of Human and Tool

【Not being eager to seize treasure means there’s something wrong with your attitude!】

【You hesitated for exactly 0.1 seconds before scooping up everything on the ground with lightning speed.】

【Unfortunately, before you could celebrate for even a second, you and the already-fleeing Know-It-All were launched straight into the air.】

【The attacks were focused mainly on you. Know-It-All was merely caught in the aftermath, howling in midair.】

【“Ow!! My God! Ancestors above! I didn’t steal any treasure! I was just passing by and watching the excitement! I wanted to see this legendary scene so I could brag about it to my buddies later! Don’t hit me!!”】

【In less than a second, you felt yourself endure several waves of impact.】

【“Wolverine” was healing itself at full speed.】

【Strangely enough, you hadn’t suffered any fatal injuries.】

【That was because the ones attacking you were all aliens.】

【Besides, you had picked up the Female Heavenly Emperor’s relics, and those objects were indestructible. They had absorbed a considerable portion of the impact for you.】

【When you crashed heavily into the ground again, you discovered that only two of the treasures you had just picked up remained clenched tightly in your hands.】

【One was the red cloth. The other was the jade slip whose first page bore the words “Sever the Three Souls.”】

【Everything else had been blasted away and fallen into the hands of powerful cultivators from all sides, triggering another round of fierce competition.】

【But the objects in your hands were just as tempting, and someone came after you.】

【It was none other than Granny Duobao.】

【And she wasn’t alone. Many renowned cultivators from Firelight Star had followed her, all of them at least at the Absolute Dominion Realm.】

【You weren’t wearing any disguise this time, so Granny Duobao recognized you at a glance.】

【“You?”】

【There was a short length of rope attached to one end of the red cloth. You slipped it over your neck, stuffed the jade slip into your storage pouch, then spread your hands.】

【“Surprised? Didn’t see that coming?”】

【Several cultivators who had chased after you alongside Granny Duobao attempted to attack.】

【But Granny Duobao blocked them with her snake-headed staff.】

【Although Granny Duobao was tiny, she was the only one among these renowned cultivators who could fly.】

【Of course, that was because she had concealed a flying spirit treasure beneath her voluminous robes.】

【Granny Duobao looked you up and down.】

【“Just now, for some unknown reason, all the Female Heavenly Emperor’s relics flew toward this boy. Although the relics are extraordinary, they are not magical artifacts or spirit treasures in essence, and have no artifact spirits. In theory, they shouldn’t have behaved this way…”】

【One of them spoke anxiously.】

【“Granny! We should hurry and reclaim the Female Heavenly Emperor’s relics! Let the Three Great Sects fight over the Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Weapon. We’ll take the jade slip this kid just obtained! It must contain the Female Heavenly Emperor’s supreme immortal art—something powerful enough to surpass the Heaven-Through Realm!”】

【From his conversations with Know-It-All, you had already learned that the Heaven-Through Realm was not the end of cultivation in the True World.】

【Above the Heaven-Through Realm lay an endless immortal path.】

【Granny Duobao’s gaze swept over you repeatedly, but she couldn’t discern anything unusual and eventually gave up.】

【Five or six Absolute Dominion Realm cultivators surrounded you. Apart from Granny Duobao, the rest were all aliens.】

【You snorted coldly and clenched both fists. The bones of your palms thrust out from beneath your flesh, giving a respectful nod to Wolverine.】

【The others saw through your cultivation level and regarded you with disdain.】

【In the True World, the difference between realms was like the difference between heaven and earth.】

【And now, they also had the advantage in numbers.】

【The experts of the Three Great Sects were busy fighting over the most important treasure, the Profound Fire Mirror, and had no attention to spare for what was happening here.】

【All around you, the flashing light and thunderous explosions of Absolute Dominion and Heaven-Through Realm experts clashing filled the air.】

【The earth shattered, white clouds dispersed, and lightning and thunder raged without end.】

【Your battle with the group of Absolute Dominion Realm cultivators began as well.】

【Know-It-All watched from a distance, shaking his head.】

【“Humans really are stubborn. Don’t they know there’s a fundamental difference between the Core Formation Realm and the Absolute Dominion Realm? Absolute Dominion cultivators have already grasped divine abilities!”】

【Know-It-All was still as sly as ever. Taking advantage of you being surrounded, he turned and attempted to slip away.】

【But he had barely taken a few steps when he suddenly heard several screams.】

【Know-It-All turned around, only to discover that the ones screaming were not you, but the several alien Absolute Dominion Realm cultivators surrounding you!】

【“What’s going on?”】

【After taking a closer look, Know-It-All understood.】

【Every attack those alien cultivators launched at you—whether spells, killing techniques, the might of spirit treasures, their divine patterns, or even their divine abilities and wondrous arts—】

【was reflected back at them without exception!】

【To be precise, it wasn’t you who had reflected them. It was the red cloth wrapped around your body!】

【Know-It-All cried out in alarm.】

【“As expected of a Female Heavenly Emperor’s relic! This is bad. This kid might actually escape! I’d better get out of here!”】

【You had also discovered the red cloth’s wondrous ability.】

【The power it was displaying reminded you of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card: Magic Cylinder!】

【Whatever damage the enemy dealt, it reflected right back at them!】

【Unfortunately, the red cloth was small and could cover only a section of your chest and upper abdomen.】

【In theory, as long as they attacked your back, these people still had a chance to kill you and destroy your soul.】

【But you had another trump card.】

【Remember the fourth-grade spell, “Arsenal Revelation”?】

【Once the mastery of “Arsenal Revelation” reached the pinnacle, the cultivator would gain the ability to become one with an artifact.】

【After merging with it, the artifact’s power would increase dramatically, while control over it would become as natural and precise as moving one’s own limbs.】

【During your years aboard the starship, combined with the more than ten years you spent cultivating bitterly, you had already raised your mastery of “Arsenal Revelation” to the pinnacle through the “proficiency” system.】

【With your current cultivation, using this technique while merging with such an extraordinary Female Heavenly Emperor’s relic consumed an enormous amount of energy, nearly draining all your vitality. In the Core Formation Realm, true qi had advanced into vitality.】

【But you succeeded.】

【Your entire body vanished, merging into the red cloth.】

【You felt nothing unusual. You simply no longer had your physical human form. In its place was the red cloth.】

【Controlling the red cloth felt as natural as controlling your own body.】

【“Hahaha! Come on! Let’s see what you can do to me now!”】

【The crowd watched as the red cloth floated in midair, striking a human pose, planting its hands on its hips, and throwing its head back in laughter.】

【The several Absolute Dominion Realm cultivators who had been planning to attack your rear were completely dumbfounded by this move.】

【“Damn it! How does this guy still have tricks like that? How are we supposed to take the relic now?”】

【“Where did this human come from? What bizarre spell is he cultivating? Is it from some other planet? Does Firelight Star even have someone like him?”】

【“Granny! You’re the most knowledgeable when it comes to artifacts. Do you have any way to break this technique?”】

【Granny Duobao did not make a move.】

【She wasn’t actually a cultivator skilled in combat.】

【She had only been waiting for an opportunity to pick up the scraps.】

【After observing you for a while, she discovered a terrifying fact.】

【Compared to thirty years ago, you had actually advanced from the mid-Qi Transformation Realm to the early Core Formation Realm!】

【What kind of cultivation speed was that?】

In her mind, only the monstrous geniuses from those first-tier stars—those backed by powerful families and terrifying legacies—could possibly accomplish such a feat!

“Could it be…”