The birth of the Demon-Pointing Sword was not entirely dependent on the empathy of the Demon Race, but in the late stages of the war, when faced with the myriad techniques and elusive Demon Generals and Demon Kings, empathy immediately became an essential trump card.

The Demon Empathy Network was designed, created, and forcibly implemented by the Demon Emperor himself. It has been in use for over a million years and has long become an ingrained nature of every Demon Race member. Even the Demon Emperor himself is fused with this network, so even if the Demon Race knows that their empathy network is being exploited, they are helpless.

Because the Demon Race cannot live without this network.

Similarly, the Celestial Divine Sword cannot do without the Demon-Pointing Sword. In the late stages of the war, especially when the Demon Emperor himself was on the battlefield, repeatedly breaking the balance of the battlefield with unparalleled demonic attacks, even the Celestial Divine Sword had to bring out all its trump cards to contend equally with its opponents.

During the Celestial-Demon War, the Demon-Pointing Sword achieved remarkable feats, relying on Wang Jiu’s proficient use of it. Even the Demon Emperor was occasionally caught off guard and struck, showcasing its immense value.

Therefore, after its revival, Wang Jiu quickly began to recreate the Demon-Pointing Sword.

However, until the protoform of the Demon-Pointing Sword was completed, and with it, the initial exploration of the Xiangzhou Continent was accomplished, Wang Jiu himself did not realize there was a significant problem within.

In the Jiuzhou Era, the core part of the Demon-Pointing Sword came from a high-ranking Demon Race member that Wang Jiu had slain during his time as a human, while the rest of the Heavenly and Earthly Treasures served as mere supplements. Later, the Celestial Divine Sword delved deep into the battlefield, slaughtering countless Demons, and the Demon-Pointing Sword grew sharper.

But by the Xiangzhou Era, the Sword World had been nearly destroyed by the Demon Emperor, and the remaining Demons had long since perished. So where did the forging materials for the Demon-Pointing Sword come from?

This question had never crossed Wang Jiu’s mind. When he initially forged the Demon-Pointing Sword, he merely extracted the blueprint of the Demon-Pointing Sword from his memory, and everything fell into place seamlessly. It wasn’t until just now that Wang Jiu suddenly realized that this process was actually missing a crucial step!

Regarding the Demon Race issue, the Celestial Divine Sword had always been meticulous. Throughout the Celestial-Demon War, everyone, including the Jiu Immortal Venerables, made mistakes, even low-level mistakes. Only the Celestial Divine Sword made only a negligible number of forced errors; its rigor was almost like the Heavenly Way, born to slay demons, a fact beyond any False Words.

Yet this exceedingly meticulous Celestial Divine Sword ignored the flaw in the Demon-Pointing Sword!

And upon realizing his oversight, Wang Jiu also became aware of the problem with the Demon-Pointing Sword.

This oversight was certainly not just an oversight; it concealed a deeper reason.

So why did the never-failing Celestial Divine Sword commit such a grave error after awakening, and remain unaware for such a long period?

What was different between then and now? Would these differences have an impact?

Based on simple logical deduction, Wang Jiu quickly found the answer.

The problem lay in his memory.

Although differences in other areas are more apparent, such as the strength of the Sword World and the average Intelligence Index of those around him, none of these could account for the Celestial Divine Sword’s subjective errors. Only in memory was there a distinctly glaring difference between now and the past.

Most of the memories of the battle with the Demon Emperor had been lost.

In fact, this was the issue that had always made the Celestial Divine Sword uncomfortable. Its memory was impeccable, especially on significant issues where it would never miss a detail, yet memories of the Demon Emperor had mostly vanished.

Previously, Wang Jiu attributed this memory loss to injuries, but now it seems that the forgetfulness might not be forced forgetfulness but rather subjective forgetfulness.

That part of the memories had been consumed by him.

Memories can certainly be consumed.

Although, for ordinary people, memories are merely intangible, ethereal thoughts, for the Celestial Divine Sword and its opponent, the Great Demon God Emperor, thoughts are no longer just intangible, ethereal voids. The so-called "wish comes true," "thoughts and actions follow," are tangible divine abilities.

If placed in ancient times, their abilities would have made them bona fide Creators—able to create a world single-handedly, or even at the beginning of all chaos, split the heavens and earth, creating something out of nothing.

However, the divine technique of creation naturally comes with a cost: the Creator’s thoughts.

To create something, a Creator first needs to outline a blueprint of it in their mind, gradually refining it from framework to detail, until it is complete in their mind’s world, and materialized projection appears in reality. To outsiders, this is the supreme divine ability of creating something out of nothing, but to the Creator themselves, this is not conjuring something from nothing but an equivalent exchange after spending their own thoughts.

The more complex the object, the harder it is to construct it in the mind’s world, and the greater the consumption. Of course, for those with true divine creation abilities, this mental consumption is trivial. The real difficulty lies in the fact that some things are hard to exist in the Creator’s mind. It is not so much an inability as it is a failure to conceive.

The failure to conceive is partly limited by individual knowledge—things not experienced are difficult to imagine, or even deduce. Another part is limited by individual understanding; some existences differ too much from the Creator, making them hard to comprehend even when encountered, and the Demon Race is the most typical example.

This peculiar civilization, from the moment of its birth, possessed great incredibility. According to the usual rules of civilization, this bloodthirsty, self-destructive race should have vanished long before the Great Demon God Emperor’s birth—it shouldn’t have developed its own civilization at all. Furthermore, based on later collected Demon Race history, this civilization repeatedly encountered seemingly insurmountable challenges during its conquests across lands, yet the Demon Race always emerged victorious in the end.