Guarding the River of Time
Chapter 567 - 557: Wu Di? Invincible! The Man Destined to Be Unrivaled!
After pondering for a long time, the man’s pupils finally regained focus, and he remembered his name.
"Wu... Wu Di."
"My name is Wu Di."
After repeating it again, he finally confirmed his name.
He hadn’t communicated with anyone for such a long time, and it had been so long since he mentioned his name to anyone, that he had almost forgotten it.
In his mind, all he had were memories of "forging", and other memories were from so long ago that he didn’t bother to keep them, as he thought they held no significance.
Hearing this name, Su Mu was taken aback for a moment.
Wu Di?
Invincible?!
What an "invincible" name.
...
"If there’s nothing else, I’ll get back to work."
Wu Di withdrew his gaze and walked towards the forging platform. After the "failure" with the Dragonbone Spear, he didn’t pause for a moment and prepared to start the next round of forging.
He didn’t seem to care about Su Mu’s background or why Su Mu had come to this place; his eyes were only on "forging".
When Su Mu turned around, he saw Wu Di was already immersed in forging again.
Seeing this, Su Mu didn’t disturb him and instead walked towards the stone temple ahead.
This stone temple was square in appearance, with no other design, just blocks of hard stones piled up together. Its only feature was that it was massive!
This stone temple took up a full fifth of this flat ground, measuring over two thousand square meters.
Walking into the stone temple, the view immediately opened up, with walls enclosing all four directions, each wall adorned with three oil lamps.
Twelve special oil lamps illuminated the entire interior of the temple.
The first thing to catch Su Mu’s eyes was the weapons hanging on the stone walls.
Inside the stone temple, there were no other furnishings, not even simple meditation cushions or tables, only a stone pillar standing in the center.
The stone pillar stood one meter high, with a bright Treasure Pearl embedded at the top, shimmering with silvery light.
Su Mu sensed the "Power of Space" emanating from the Treasure Pearl, indicating that its interior was a self-contained space. Considering Wu Di’s constant retrieval of various precious materials from inside the house, it was clear that this Treasure Pearl was his storage space.
Immediately, he withdrew the investigation of his Divine Sense, avoiding tampering with it.
Being open enough to allow others into his abode proved that Wu Di had no hidden motives, and Su Mu was not the kind to invade others’ secrets.
Su Mu simply wanted to admire and see what Wu Di considered "successful creations" to be like.
Looking up at the stone walls ahead, he didn’t even need to inspect closely; just one glance filled Su Mu with awe.
Every Magical Treasure hanging on the stone walls was dazzling to Su Mu!
For instance, the golden longsword before him, emitting a faint Immortal Light. The hilt was made of White Jade, carved with intricate patterns, each containing several Micro Arrays. The blade was a rich gold, simple yet exuding faint Immortal Charm, with candlelight reflections on the blade resembling Dragon Scale patterns, faintly discernible...
From Su Mu’s perspective, he surprisingly couldn’t find any faults with this longsword. Its only shortcoming might be that it wasn’t strong enough, but that couldn’t be considered a fault; its strength was already at the Sacrificial Dao Level.
Stating bluntly, aside from this point, you couldn’t find faults in any other aspect, from any angle.
Comparable to this longsword, there were eight hundred and eighty-eight treasures on this wall alone!
Every piece had reached perfection, at least in Su Mu’s eyes, near perfection, with no discernible flaws.
Su Mu glanced around; the four stone walls together held a total of two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Magical Treasures.
In the center of the wall facing Su Mu, one position was conspicuously empty, with no Magical Treasure there.
If you included this empty space, it would make three thousand items in total.
......
Su Mu inspected the area closely, feeling increasingly delighted with what he saw, although the strength of these Magical Treasures was not outstanding.
Because the most powerful among them, a long spear, only reached the Slaying Dao Level.
Su Mu had already reached the Immortal Realm, but even so... he only possessed a dozen or so Supreme Treasures at the "Slaying Dao" level, and those were accumulated over many years.
What thrilled Su Mu the most was that these "Unity Level" and "Slaying Dao Level" Magical Treasures were crafted by human hands!
This was truly terrifying!
Putting the "Slaying Dao Level" aside, just considering the "Unity Level" as an example.
Magical Treasures at the "Unity Level" already transcended the domain of "Magic" and ascended to the higher domain of "Dao".
To be precise, treasures of this level should be called "Dao Artifacts", not "Magical Artifacts".
"Dao Artifacts" represent the initial rudimentary forms of the "Essence of Dao" and the "Truth of Dao", and cannot be confined within the boundary of "Artifacts".
For instance, a few years ago, Su Mu acquired a "Dao Artifact" named the "Inference Origin Furnace", which reached the "Unity Level".
As for why this "Furnace Cauldron" was called "Inference Origin Furnace", he found out from an Ancient Text.
Because Nannan liked reading books, sometimes when Su Mu was patrolling the river and cleaning up river debris, he would find some well-preserved books and bring them home.
Thus, he discovered from an Ancient Text he previously found that the "Furnace Cauldron" he found while patrolling the river years ago was exactly what was described as the "Inference Origin Furnace".
From the Ancient Texts, he learned that this "Inference Origin Furnace" was formed from the World Origin of three thousand Great Worlds. After millions of years of transformation, it was finally forged by "Celestial Fire" for nine thousand nine hundred years in a cavern called the "Ancient Celestial Fire Cave". 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
When he learned the origins of this "Inference Origin Furnace", Su Mu was also extremely shocked, finding it hard to associate the seemingly ordinary red furnace before him with the "Inference Origin Furnace".
He even tried it several times on the river but found its power wasn’t as earth-shattering as described in the Ancient Texts...
However, the aura it emitted was indeed on the "Unity Level", though he didn’t know what went wrong....
Could it be his control issues?
But that wasn’t important.
What was important was that "Dao Artifacts" were basically naturally formed!
That is to say, they were born from the power of heaven and earth, combined with specific conditions, and nurtured by nature over a long period.
"Dao Artifacts" are essentially a part of the evolution of "heaven and earth", containing some "truths of Dao".
So, in summary.....
"Dao Artifacts"...they absolutely aren’t made by human hands!