Chapter 432: A True Artifact

Time passed year after year, in addition to Gu Nansheng's daily routine meditation and cultivation, it was to explore the fusion of Frost Sorrow and Skadi's Eye, the higher the level of the artifact, the longer it would take to refine or fuse, at the beginning, with the powerful cultivation of the Lich King, it took more than ten years of hard work to refine Frost Sorrow, and this time Frost Sorrow was fused by itself, and it would only take longer. 【Reading.com】

But fortunately, Gu Nansheng has the Fountain of Life, he smears a little Fountain of Life on the Frost Sorrow Sword every other month, the essence of the Fountain of Life is the spiritual origin, and the sword soul is also based on the existence of the spirit, so the effect of the Fountain of Life in nourishing the sword soul is very significant, the sword soul is strong, and the degree of frost sorrow absorbing cold and ice energy will naturally be accelerated.

Over the years, Gu Nansheng has used up nearly one-third of the fountain of life in the magic bottle in order to refine the sword soul of frost sorrow, and on this day, he put a small vial of life fountain on the sword blade of dripping frost sorrow little by little as usual, however, unlike usual, this time the fountain of life did not freeze, but rolled on the sword body with a faint boiling tendency.

Gu Nansheng looked at the rolling green water droplets and felt strange in his heart, and was about to open the Eye of Sargeras to observe it with his senses, when a trace of ice-blue flame suddenly jumped out of the surface of the frost's sorrow, and the flame turned into a light curtain, wrapping the fountain of life and slowly burning.

What was very strange was that the flame not only did not have the slightest burning feeling, but instead exuded a biting cold air, and even Gu Nansheng felt a little unbearable.

The droplets of the Fountain of Life quickly disappeared into invisibility in the flames, but instead of disappearing, the cold flames spun on their own, and became more and more rapid, driving the surrounding ice elementals to spin together, and after a few moments, the restless energy and flames gradually formed an ice-blue vortex on the surface of Frost Sorrow.

Immediately after, a wisp of purple mist rose from the whirlpool, condensing into a dreamlike light cluster in mid-air, which rose and contracted, beating like a heart.

Gu Nansheng stared at the ball of light, and after a moment he hesitated and stretched out his hand, after his fingers touched the light cluster, a circle of energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye rippled like water lines, and the light ball actually disappeared into Gu Nansheng's palm and disappeared.

Gu Nansheng was slightly startled, but he didn't take any action to resist, but let the light cluster turn into a cold current and flow along his arm towards his spiritual sea, Gu Nansheng closed his eyes slightly, completely opened the spiritual sea, and felt something with his heart, he knew that the light that had not entered his body just now was the sword soul of frost sorrow.

After a while, the light cluster slowly emerged from the center of Gu Nansheng's eyebrows, broke away from Gu Nansheng's body, and re-entered the frost sorrow, with a dragon-like roar, the frost sorrow bounced suddenly, and the entire sword body trembled.

A tongue of ice-blue fire suddenly jumped out, and Frost Sorrow burst into flames, and as soon as the flame appeared, the wooden table under Frost Sorrow immediately turned into a shattered blue ice crystal.

A flash of surprise flashed in Gu Nansheng's eyes, and he reached out without hesitation to grab the frost sorrow, and the feeling of blood connection suddenly spread throughout his body.

He knew that Frostmourn had finally absorbed the Eye of Skadi and transformed it into a true artifact, the first artifact that truly belonged to him

Gu Nansheng indulged in the sorrow of the frost, and was surprised that the attributes of the sorrow of the frost had disappeared, and even the system prompt was gone. What's going on? Why did Frost Sorrow suddenly lose all of its attributes?

After Gu Nansheng equipped the Frost Sorrow, he was shocked to see that the attributes of his body had dropped greatly, and the original additional attributes of the Frost Sorrow had clearly been deducted

Akasha also showed this, her face changed greatly, and she said in horror: "Master, how can this be" Gu Nansheng is about to have a decisive battle with Deathwing, if there is any oolong incident at this time because of the failure to upgrade Frost Sorrow, then this duel does not need to be fought at all.

Gu Nansheng's expression was shocked, he also didn't know what was going on, but what made him feel a little relieved was that he could feel more powerful energy fluctuations than before from Frost Sorrow, and it was certain that the upgrade of Frost Sorrow was definitely successful.

But why did the attributes not only not rise but disappeared completely, is it really as the ancient proverb says, the ultimate of the artifact is to return to the basics?

"Artifact ......" Gu Nansheng chewed these two words, and fell into thought, he had only seen two pieces of equipment that were truly worthy of being called an artifact - the soul of the dragon and the eye of Sargeras, if the spirit that had been refined could also be called an artifact, then the spirit of Akmund (purple limit) could also be added.

The above three things, Gu Nansheng can only wield a small part of their power with all his efforts, especially Akmund's spirit is now completely useless, Akmund's spirit is refined by the Lich King, although the refining is not thorough, it will definitely not have so much power, and it can only be waved out because of Gu Nansheng's own problems.

These three things have two things in common: one is that equipping them will not increase any of the hero's attributes, and the other is that equipping them will not conflict with other equipment (heroes can only use up to six pieces of equipment at the same time, and any more will generate energy conflicts, which is a rule set by the Titans).

Gu Nansheng's gaze fell on Frost Sorrow, could it have also become this type of equipment?

He immediately asked for the evil scythe from Akasha, equipped with the Ash Bringer, the Ghoul King's armband, Aghanim's scepter, the hand of the fire demon Ragnaros, the Blade of Destruction and the evil scythe, after seeing the existing attributes, he picked up the frost sorrow and used the lightless shield, and the three white arcs of light jumped out calmly, and sure enough, there was no energy conflict.

Gu Nansheng gradually understood what the real artifact was.

The list of attributes and the "system" prompt are all rules - the rules made by the "system", such as the evil scythe, the ghoul king's armband and other so-called "artifacts" are all equipment that can only exist by relying on the consciousness of the titan and the "system", to put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of data symbols inside the "system", and the "system" can create these equipment at will, for the final test trialists to exchange for honor points, but the "system" cannot create real artifacts.

This universe is like a huge online game, every intelligent life is a player in it, and the "system" formulates data-based attributes for each person and each piece of equipment in order to distinguish the strength of players and equipment, and the existence that can be separated from or to a certain extent separated from these data-based attributes can be called gods.

Titans are the creators of the "system", of course they can be completely independent of the "system", that is to say, their strength and weakness are not described by attributes at all, even if Gu Nansheng is now given 100 million attribute points by the system in the final test, he can't beat Sargeras and Amansel, it's like players can never beat GM.

As for people like the Lich King, Deathwing, Akmund, Kilgardan, etc., they are not Titans and cannot completely break away from the "system", but they have both spiritual origin and strong strength, can exist independently of the Titan's consciousness, and can challenge the rules set by the Titans to a certain extent, so they can be called "god-level powerhouses".

As for the seventh-order powerhouses such as Malfurion, Cenarius, and Antonidas, they are even worse, they have no spiritual origin, they cannot exist without the consciousness of the Titans, and they will never be able to advance to the god level.

Artifacts are also equipment that can exist independently of the "system", and they do not need to use the data given by the "system" to define strength and weakness, nor do they need to follow the rules set by the "system" to equip a maximum of six items.

Realizing this, Gu Nansheng finally made up his mind, his current strength has actually been divided into two parts, one part is the strength of the "system" data, and the other part is the strength that exists independently of the "system", and only this part of the independent strength is the power common to all universes, and it is also the only reliance for him to destroy the Titan.

After thinking of this, Gu Nansheng couldn't help but sigh, the gap between him and the real Titan was too big, and if he wanted to cultivate this strength enough to kill Amansel, he didn't know how to do it.

He subconsciously touched his right eye, which was where the Eye of Sargeras was, if he could truly master the power of the Eye of Sargeras, it would probably only be a matter of minutes to kill Deathwing.

Akasha was still worried in her heart, and when she saw Gu Nansheng gradually calming down, she asked, "Master, what happened?" ”

Gu Nansheng told Akasha everything he guessed about him, Akasha was shocked at first, and then showed a look of surprise, "Congratulations to the master, with this real artifact, presumably the master's strength has increased by more than a little bit, and the victory over Deathwing is more certain." ”

Gu Nansheng smiled bitterly after hearing this, "Don't forget that the Death Wing also has an artifact, and the Dragon Soul is a treasure refined by the five-line divine dragon with essence blood, and now that it is broken, I am afraid it will not lose much of the sorrow of the frost." Deathwing must have mastered the full power of the Dragon's Soul for a long time, and I didn't expect the two Dragon's Soul Fragments in my hand to achieve the same effect. This Frost Sorrow Awakening only brought me on a par with Deathwing in the artifact......"

Akasha's face was disappointed when she heard this, and the flame of hope that had just been ignited was extinguished, and she naturally felt uncomfortable in her heart, "Is there really no other way?" ”

Gu Nansheng sighed and shook his head slightly, although he had always been very confident in his strength, he also knew that the victory rate of this duel was slim. The gap between the demigod level and the god level is too big, even if Deathwing ranks last among the god-level powerhouses, it is far from being comparable to Gu Nansheng.

"I only hope that Deathwing's strength won't reach its peak in a short time after it is resurrected......," Gu Nansheng took a deep breath and muttered.

[Dedication]