Chapter 491 - 313: The Divine Crystal’s Treachery! The Sword Seed Silently Breaks the Conundrum

He tried to use his Spiritual Power to touch and strip away that wisp of grayish-black aura.

However, the moment he did, the entire Divine Soul Crystal began to tremble violently.

The golden Energy, like flesh stripped from its skeleton, started to rapidly dissipate and evaporate.

’It can’t be stripped away?’

Han Feng immediately stopped.

He discovered that the wisp of grayish-black aura had already fused completely with the crystal’s origin.

If he tried to forcibly remove it, the entire crystal would crumble.

The dissipating golden Energy drifted through the Sword Tomb Space, but it didn’t vanish.

Instead, it was bound by the Power of Rules inherent to the space, transforming into the purest form of ownerless Energy.

With a thought, Han Feng summoned the black [Broken Star] Short Sword before him.

HUMMM!

The blade of [Broken Star] let out a joyful hum. Its [Soul Absorption] Trait activated passively, and like a great whale drinking the sea, it devoured all the scattered golden Energy.

The Spiritual light cluster at the sword’s core visibly grew a size larger, radiating a sense of satisfaction.

Han Feng immediately used his [Eye of Insight] to carefully inspect the Flying Sword. Only after confirming it hadn’t been tainted by anything unusual did he breathe a sigh of relief.

’It seems the Sword Tomb Space and the [Soul Absorption] Trait can ’filter’ this Energy, leaving only the pure part behind.’

But he would never dare to absorb it himself.

’Are you kidding me? Anything related to the Weaver is so cursed I wouldn’t even want to touch it.’

This power was too bizarre.

Outside, even the upgraded [Eye of Insight] couldn’t detect the slightest hint of it, as if it were shielded by an invisible layer of the Power of Rules.

It only revealed its true form after entering this isolated Sword Tomb Space.

’And who knows if this is even the full extent of it.’

Han Feng was certain that all the Divine Soul Crystals produced from that cave carried some kind of higher-level Power of Law.

It was precisely this power that prevented even a Tier Five Celestial Being Realm expert like Ye Daoyuan from detecting the anomaly through the Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism.

At this thought, Han Feng once again felt the terror of the Weaver.

Although the world’s rules prevented it from descending in its true form, this ability to interfere with the laws of this world from across a dimensional gap was already beyond the comprehension of this world’s top experts.

He had read countless novels in his past life. Anyone who could toy with Laws was always a major powerhouse, without exception.

Going up against such an existence was enough to make one’s scalp tingle with fear.

"Good thing I’m just a Little Kalami right now," Han Feng comforted himself.

’It probably won’t even notice me.’

After all, who would waste their time staring at a bacterium on the ground all day to see what it’s doing?

Whatever big move the Children of the Mist were making, it definitely wasn’t aimed at him.

But based on his understanding of those lunatics, they certainly weren’t up to any good.

’What is their goal?’

Han Feng forced himself to calm down and began to analyze the situation.

’If these Divine Soul Crystals are distributed on a massive scale, what will happen?’

The most direct result would be that large numbers of Tier Four Divine Containment Realm Grandmasters would emerge in Blue Star’s major Fortress Cities.

After all, the biggest hurdle in advancing from Tier Three to Tier Four was the transformation of one’s Spiritual Power.

And these crystals happened to provide that crucial missing piece.

On the surface, a massive power boost for the Fortress Cities would seem to bring nothing but harm to the Children of the Mist, who were dedicated to causing destruction.

Unless... the emergence of these new experts was somehow beneficial to the Children of the Mist themselves!

A term from Star Sea Technology’s top-secret files instantly flashed through Han Feng’s mind—Thought Steel Seal.

Members of the Children of the Mist would subconsciously worship and believe in the Weaver, incapable of having any rebellious thoughts.

If this guess was true, then one could predict that, over time, most of Blue Star’s experts would unwittingly become believers in the Weaver!

When that happened, although everyone would still retain their own identities, deep in their souls, they would all have become peripheral members of the Children of the Mist.

What an insidious and vicious scheme! A perfect example of subduing an enemy without a fight!

Of course, all of this was still just Han Feng’s speculation.

He desperately wanted to rush out and inform Chen Beixuan and Ye Daoyuan of this terrifying discovery.

But the moment the thought appeared, he ruthlessly extinguished it.

’No!’

’This conflict involves beings on too high a level.’

’If I jump out now, even if the Weaver can’t be bothered with me, the Children of the Mist will definitely see me as their number one enemy.’

Most importantly, he had no proof.

’No one else can see that grayish-black aura, so how could I prove it?’

’Am I supposed to expose my biggest secret—the Sword Tomb Space?’

’Not only would few people believe me, but I might even be labeled a conspiracy theorist by those with ulterior motives, putting myself in grave danger.’

A wise man does not stand under a crumbling wall.

He absolutely could not be the one to step forward in this matter.

"When it comes down to it, I’m still not strong enough..."

A powerful sense of urgency surged through Han Feng’s heart once more. What he lacked most right now was Time.

The only way to break this deadlock was to gain the power to flip the entire table before all the conspiracies came to a head.

Once he was strong enough to slap the Weaver to death with a single palm, he wouldn’t care about any plots or schemes; he could just obliterate them all with one slash of his sword.

He turned his gaze back to the golden Divine Soul Crystal in his palm.

Simply crushing it and feeding it to [Broken Star] was too much of a waste.

He still had several thousand of them. If he fed them all to it, he was afraid [Broken Star] would burst.

He had to find a way to maximize the value of these things.

Suddenly, a new ability he had just acquired flashed through his mind.

[Sword Seed Dao Transmission]!

The core of this ability was the need for a High Tier Spiritual Material that matched the Dao being transmitted to act as a medium.