"Boom!"
Long Chen faced the chilling killing intent, causing him to tremble slightly.
"Such a terrifying desire to kill!"
Long Chen and the others were shocked. What kind of weapon could it be that hungrier for killing?
As everyone entered the front of the main hall, tens of thousands of sharp swords were displayed. These swords were top-grade Heavenly Saint divine weapons, but they had already decayed and rusted, almost weathered.
"What's going on?"
Seeing this, Guo Ran was both shocked and furious. As a forger, he could accept weapons shattering and annihilating on the battlefield, but he could not accept peerless divine weapons rotting and rusting in the treasury. This was the greatest humiliation to these divine weapons.
With Guo Ran's furious roar, the decayed divine weapons trembled simultaneously, and the terrifying aura of slaughter instantly subsided considerably.
At this moment, Lu Chengkong sensed the change in the aura inside the hall and walked in. When he saw the veins bulging on Guo Ran's forehead, he was startled.
"Dean, what are you doing? To let these peerless divine weapons rust and rot—do you realize this is the greatest desecration of them? Guo Ran was so angry he was grinding his teeth to pieces; he felt deeply sorry for these divine weapons.
Lu Chengkong hurriedly explained, "Please calm down. We have no other choice. These divine weapons were all Demon-Slaying Swords left behind by the academy's seniors."
These Demon-Slaying Swords were crafted to slay monsters, and their artifact spirits were born to slaughter them. Later, when the world closed, our small world had no monsters left for them to slay.
So, they begin to gradually degenerate and decay. We see this and feel anxious, but there's nothing we can do. "
If our academy can produce these divine weapons, does that mean we can't repair them? At worst, they could seal the artifact spirits and let them go to sleep, right? We can't let them rot or rust, right? Guo Ran picked up a long sword, and when the scabbard was in his hand, it scattered into sand. The sword was dull, and many runes in various places had become full of holes.
"To survive, they devour their own runes. It's like a person about to starve to death, forced to devour their own arms and legs. For a proud divine weapon, this is a tremendous humiliation and, above all, an unforgivable desecration." Gripping the sword hilt, Guo Ran's eyes turned red.
As a master of artifact forging, he could feel the feelings of these spirit artifacts. It was like the Dragon Blood Legion willing to die on the battlefield for family, brothers, justice, and justice, without regret.
But they could not accept being left idle, dying of old age in a cage. These divine weapons had slain countless monsters and forged endless glory, yet now they had fallen to such a state. Guo Ran was so angry he was about to cry.
Long Chen knew Guo Ran was upset. He patted Guo Ran on the shoulder, telling him to calm down and speak properly. Yelling at the director was too rude.
"It's a bit embarrassing, but these longswords have been sitting idle here for too long. By the time someone notices the problem, it's already too late." Lu Chengkong said with a face full of shame:
"Don't laugh at me. The First Branch Institute suffered disaster, and after sealing myself, after some time passed and the crisis disappeared, then ..." At this point, Lu Chengkong really couldn't continue.
"The crisis has temporarily passed, and then internal strife has begun to fight for power!" Long Chen said.
Lu Chengkong nodded and said, "Back then, to cover everyone entering the small world, the dean at that time fought off endless monsters alone and ultimately sacrificed himself."
Later, the academy was leaderless and acted independently. As you said, the internal strife lasted a long time. When things finally stabilized, many strong figures died in that gray history.
To make matters worse, the top craftsmen of the Artifact Academy also joined the conflict, and the result was ... Too many people died, and many techniques were left uninherited.
But the ancient scriptures and scrolls that the Sutra Pavilion dared to cast were already very few people could read, so... Sigh! "
At the end, Lu Chengkong let out a long sigh: "The academy system has become corrupt. Those who hold various important positions are mostly lacking virtue and ability, and there are no truly talented or learned people. Of course, this includes myself as the dean."
This led to a group of incompetent people leading the entire academy, while talented people, if they grew too quickly without connections or support, would be extinguished as soon as they shone brightly.
Lingxiao Academy is not without talent, but with talented people. Without connections, they will fade away. Moreover, once talented people reach that height, they fall into a huge dye vat, constantly scheming and scheming, and even the best talent will be drowned out. Hearing
Lu Chengkong say this, Bai Shishi couldn't help but smile wryly: "Long Chen executed so many high-level officials before, and I thought his methods were a bit too cruel. Looking back now, I really let them off too easily. We should have saved them and killed them a few more times." A
bunch of useless people have seriously hindered the academy's development. If it weren't for Lingxiao Academy opening a small world, or if another faction had opened it, everyone in the First Branch would have died without a single corpse.
Clearly, Bai Shishi hadn't thought that far ahead, and the reason Long Chen was willing to halt the academy's development and use thunderous means to execute these people was precisely to steer the academy's atmosphere onto the right path.
Seeing Long Chen and the others' grim expressions, Lu Chengkong also looked guilty. With things escalating to this point, he, as the dean, couldn't escape responsibility.
"There's no point in dwelling on these things anymore. The spirit of these divine weapons isn't completely dead yet. Guo Ran, see if there's any chance to save it."
Try transferring them out, and if possible, directly transfer them to the Dragonblood Warriors' weapons. With their support, killing monsters in the future will be unstoppable. Long Chen said.
Guo Ran sensed the spirit fluctuations within the weapon, his expression softened slightly, and he said,
"It's possible, but I need to find their original blueprints and know what their original runes are, so I can guide and transition them."
"No problem. Any blueprint made by the academy is in the Forging Pavilion, and all kinds of immortal materials and divine ores are available." Hearing Guo Ran's words, Lu Chengkong hurriedly said.
"Immortal materials and divine mines, everything you could want?" Are you telling the truth? Guo Ran was instantly excited when he heard this.
"It's true, because in this small world, there is no war, so there is almost no need to forge weapons, resulting in the crafting tradition consisting only of theoretical courses without practical operation.
So, the immortal gold and divine materials and various ores left behind back then were left untouched. Even forging Human Emperor divine weapons was no problem. The key point was, the academy had declined and no longer had artifact builders of that caliber. "Lu Chengkong said.
"Human Emperor-level divine material?"
At that moment, Guo Ran and Xia Chen's eyes lit up as they swallowed hard.