đź“– Chapter 1057 - My Past Masters!
The sky… was a dark void. Countless bolts of lightning streak across it at all times, crossing and crisscrossing as the terrifying rumbling of thunder caused the world to tremble.
And the ground… was the same!
No dirt, no mountains, not even any vegetation. Only an endless void everywhere!
Be it above or below, the only things in the world were endless void and unceasing lightning. It was as if there was a bottomless abyss surrounding everything.
But I… still called that place a tomb. The only thing my stupid third master did that was smart was agree with me on this.
And so, although my third master was very stupid, I still reluctantly lent him my power. However, he didn’t know the reason I thought that place was a tomb. It’s because I was buried there. Or rather, to be more precise… I was born there!
I don’t remember exactly when I first gained consciousness, but at some point, I became aware of my surroundings. There were some other beings like me, born from the void in that tomb, but as soon as I was born, all of them trembled.
Maybe it was because they were afraid.
But they shouldn’t have been afraid. After all… food has no need for emotions. The meaning of their existence was probably to sate my hunger.
When you are hungry, you have to eat. This is something my fourth master used to say often. Every time I think about it, I feel that his words make a lot of sense.
That’s why although the others are tough, hard, and uncomfortable to eat, I finally developed a method to enjoy eating them. I ground them up into crumbs and savored them slowly.
My eighth master didn’t like me doing that. He tried to stop me many times, so I just went and ate him, too.
Sigh, I’m old, so I often get caught up thinking about irrelevant things. Let’s get back on track and talk about my favorite food.
My favorite food is actually souls. They taste so delicious that I sometimes forget to sleep when I’m immersed in devouring a soul. Even if I’m not hungry, eating souls is still so enjoyable.
In the countless years since I was born, I remember that my food would sometimes fight back, not wanting to be eaten by me. Every time I encountered such food, I would be very happy… According to my seventh master, it wasn’t happiness, but bloodthirst and savagery that I felt.
And that was because I liked to torture them to my heart’s content. I would watch them struggle and fall into despair again and again until their entire bodies were covered in a sweet, sweet fragrance that I love. After that, I would bite them all over their bodies and relish in their wails before they died.
But unfortunately, before I met my thirteenth master, I didn’t meet anyone who could survive more than three days. Thinking about it now, I really miss my thirteenth master. It’s too bad that I accidentally sucked her dry back then.
But it doesn’t matter. Since I could suck her dry, it means that she wasn’t the master I have been waiting for.
I don’t remember exactly when it started, maybe even the moment I was born, but there seems to be a voice in my head telling me to wait for someone. I don’t know who it is I should be waiting for, I just know that this… should be my fate.
However, it isn’t in my personality to wait. One day, when I devoured almost all the food in the tomb, I wanted to leave there and find new food in the outside world… To be exact, I wanted to find new food that would fight back. But I won’t say that directly. If anyone asked, I’d tell them that the reason I left the tomb was in order to find my master.
A master whose name I don’t know.
Thus, I extended my aura to allow the countless wills from outside to sense me. Just like that, one day… someone came into the tomb.
It was an old man who seemed to be on the verge of death. I didn’t like him because he was a lunatic. As for the reason I thought he was a lunatic… when he first saw me, he was shocked still and had a look of fear on his face. Then, he suddenly grabbed me and looked up to the sky, laughing so hard that tears fell from his eyes. His body trembled as he laughed, as if he was extremely excited, and he even yelled out some inexplicable words.
“I finally found it. I, Tu Ling, have suffered unending torment and injustice in my life to make it this far. Now, I’ll repay you a hundred, no a thousand times more. I…”
He annoyed me, so I swallowed that lunatic in one gulp.
And so, my first master was gone.
Sometimes, I think that the reason why I ended up devouring my other masters is because my first master was so delicious. His soul was much, much more delicious than the food in the tomb.
In any case, I quickly lured another person into the tomb. This time, it was a young girl with a sweet-smelling body. I liked her a lot. I planned to let her bring me out of the tomb, but when she saw me, she actually showed a shocked expression and ran away…
Feeling humiliated, I devoured her as well.
Looking back on it now, I was too impatient at that time. I shouldn’t have swallowed my first and second masters so quickly. After that, nobody came into the tomb for a long, long time. Without food, I was hungry, so very hungry…
Finally, when I felt like I was about to faint from hunger, the next person arrived. He was a middle-aged man, and his body was full of resentment and a gloomy chill. He was surrounded by an aura of death, and when he saw me, he was completely stunned. His expression became one of ecstasy, and also one of madness. Thus, I came to think of him as an idiot. I was hungry, so I was about to swallow him up, but that was when he suddenly spoke.
“No wonder this tomb-like Abyssal Void is listed as one of the Three Great Forbidden Lands. There was actually a Forbidden Weapon here!”
That was the first time I heard the word “tomb”, and I instantly fell in love with it. Maybe it was because of that, or maybe it was because I was worried about starving to death if I continued to wait… in any case, I reluctantly allowed that stupid third master to bring me out of the abyss!
Indeed, I was… a Forbidden Weapon born from the Abyssal Void, one of the universe’s Three Great Forbidden Lands!
I was a pitch-black saber that looks like a dragon’s fang!
And after I was brought out of the Abyssal Void by my stupid third master, my life… began to change. My master was a bloodthirsty killer, but after helping him kill and devour countless others, I felt that he was a little weak. Thus, in order to better assist him, I made a request.
“Every day, use me to slaughter ten million living things!”
But the next day, my stupid third master failed to fulfill my request, so I devoured him.
Soon, my fourth master appeared. I remember him because he liked to eat, and he would eat anything. I originally thought that we would get along quite happily, but one day, while we were relaxing, he suddenly wanted to eat me. As soon as he tried it, though, I instinctively devoured him, and so I regretfully lost my fourth master.
But it didn’t matter. The thing I lack the least is new masters. Indeed, after that, I found a fifth master, then a sixth, then a seventh… all the way until the 7,546th master.
They came in all shapes and sizes and from many different races, but in the end, they were all devoured by me without exception. Thus, I became known by another name.
Ominous Resentment Blade!
Apparently, because I devoured all my masters and killed to many living things, the endless resentment of innumerable peoples had gathered on my body. And so, everyone quickly adopted this name for me.
But I don’t like this name. I’m just a little saber who wants to find my destined master. Since they haven’t come to find me, I had to go look for them. The previous masters all deceived me and led me astray, so I swallowed them. All of this is just showing my respect for my true master.
I am innocent.
That’s exactly what I told my new master when she asked me a few years ago.
My new master is a girl, a very beautiful girl in a palace dress. When she first walked over, the fragrance coming from her body was sweet, so sweet.
Whenever I look at her, I think that she must be very delicious.