Paragon of Sin

[Item]: (1 Unit) Essence of War.

[Exchange Rate]: 3 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier & Commander.

[Description]: Uniquely refined essence capable of morphing in structure and shape in accordance to a Soldier's Will. Suitable for armament creation. Grade of Material is dependent on Soldier's Will.

[Item]: (10 Unit) Essence of War.

[Exchange Rate]: 25 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier & Commander.

[Item]: (High-Grade) Martial Divinity Sphere.

[Exchange Rate]: 100 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A high-grade physique-refining treasure that can be used to establish a Martial Physique. An incredibly well-balanced physique in form and function. If successful in refinement, guaranteed success of 4th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in 5th Rune Seed Ascension.

[Item]: (High-Grade) Yang Divinity Sphere.

[Exchange Rate]: 120 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A high-grade physique-refining treasure that can be used to establish a Yang Physique. An explosive physique with heightened rejuvenation abilities of stamina and innate physical energies. Elevates Dual Cultivation effectiveness. If successful in refinement, guaranteed success of 4th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in 5th Rune Seed Ascension.

[Item]: (High-Grade) Yin Divinity Sphere.

[Exchange Rate]: 120 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A high-grade physique-refining treasure that can be used to establish a Yin Physique. Elevates Dual Cultivation effectiveness. If successful in refinement, guaranteed success of 4th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in 5th Rune Seed Ascension. WARNING: Must have Primal Yin intact.

[Item]: (Peak-Grade) Warring Martial Divinity Sphere.

[Exchange Rate]: 1,200 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A top-tier physique-refining treasure refined by a Seed of War and a Martial Divinity Sphere to establish an exalted Martial Physique of War. Despite its well-balanced nature, its physical attributes provided are all extremely high-level. If successful in refining, guaranteed success of 7th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in 8th Rune Seed Ascension.

WARNING: Requires two or more Ethereal Intent at the Awakened Intent Stage to have a CHANCE at successful refinement.

[Item]: (Artificial) Seed of War.

[Exchange Rate]: 1,500 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier & Commander.

[Description]: A uniquely refined Seed of Law. When refined into one's Sea of Consciousness, can elevate a Soldier's comprehension towards the Dao of War and World Heart Intent, including temporarily heightening their soul sensitivity towards the Mystic Dao.

WARNING(1): Refining more than three can induce Cultivation Deviation. Use at your own risk.

WARNING(2): This item CANNOT be used to nurture a Law.

[Item]: War File of the Battlefield.

[Exchange Rate]: 1 War Soul.

[Availability]: Soldier & Commander.

[Description]: Contains information about a Soldier, including their merits and abilities registered by the Nexus Battlefield.

[Item]: (High-Earth) Dawnbreaker Swordlight Method.

[Exchange Rate]: 900 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A cultivation method that exquisitely fuses Sword & Light energies to generate Dawnbreaker Swordlight Quintessence, suitable for any Sword Cultivator that has comprehended Awakened Sword Intent and White Primary Light. If cultivated to a high-level, a cultivator can establish a (High-Level) Dawnbreaker Physique using the Dawnbreaker Swordlight Quintessence and their starforce.

If successful in refinement, guaranteed success of 6th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in 7th Rune Seed Ascension.

[Item]: (Peak-Earth) Warring Soul, Triumphant World Method.

[Exchange Rate]: 8,000 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier.

[Description]: A cultivation method that involves merging a Seed of War into one's Spirit of Cultivation, transforming its essential nature into a War Soul. EXACT DETAILS UNKNOWN.

Sub-Method: A War Soul's Star Core can refine a (Peak-Level) World War Physique.

If successful in refinement, guaranteed success of 9th Rune Seed Ascension. Increased Chances in World Rune Seed Ascension.

WARNING: Refinement of Seed of War may cause extreme Cultivation Deviation, leading to loss of life and destruction of soul. Do not cultivate if you've Ascended the Mortal Dao. Cultivate with caution.

The Soldier List. Wei Wuyin was fully awed. There were exactly eighty-one items listed in this, ranging from Essence of War, War Files, a locator to track allied Soldiers of War, to refinement treasures to entire Cultivation Methods! How could he not be awed? Astonished? Absolutely gobsmacked!

Furthermore, this was just the Soldier of War list. The Commanders of War, those who were leaders in the Nexus Battlefield, had an entirely separate list that was far more impressive. He had over 50,000 War Souls, but some of the things on the Commander's list were outrageous.

For example, they offered a genuine Seed of War! Supposedly, its over twenty times more effective than an artificial Seed of War and can guarantee success of a War Soul cultivation transition, even if they were Ascended Beings. This was outright allowing someone to redefine their cultivation path!

However, his paltry 50,000 was absolutely pathetic with the Commander's list. Despite offering eighty-one items as well, having absolutely spectacular items, and a few repeats of the Soldier's list, those that attracted Wei Wuyin's attention had reached beyond 100,000 War Souls or further. There was even one that required 5,000,000 War Souls!!!

It had no name, and its description was just a single sentence:

[Item]: --

[Exchange Rate]: 5,000,000 War Souls.

[Availability]: Soldier & Commander.

[Description]: Heavenly War Spirit.

There were methods titled (Low-Heaven). He didn't know what they were because the War Spirit spoke in Mysticism, the Language of the Mystic Dao. He could only make out a few things, such as the title and some words.

He was immediately vexed.

Since becoming an Alchemist with an Alchemic Soul, when had he ever been starved for wealth? Only now did he realize how poor he was in the grand scheme of things. While these things weren't capable of being exchanged for essence stones, it felt the same.

Still, there were a few items that intrigued him. For example, the Divinity Spheres. They were refinement treasures for physiques and could lead to a successful Ascension, and they had a wide variety of them, including the nine elements, Battle-type Divinity Spheres, Slaughter-type Divinity Spheres, and Life-type Divinity Spheres.

Most of the eighty-one spots were taken by these Divinity Spheres. Considering the majority of Soldiers of Wars were Star Core Phase cultivators, this was quite appropriate. That being said, he had absolutely no idea what 4th, 5th, 8th, or World Rune meant. Were they like Mortal States? Were they forms of Mystic Intent? What did it indicate? Furthermore, were these like the six Mystic Runes he had in his World Sea? Or was he wrong about their existence?!

Once again, cultivation baffles. Once again, he was reminded of why cultivation was difficult. Despite talking to Wu Yu and Wang Yutian, a genuine Worldly Saint, neither of them mentioned a goddamn thing about these runes or even an Astral Idol.

He wasn't exactly certain if Wu Yu had even reached that level. He did ascend with the King of Everlore's help, but their resources were all mortal-graded, and he was distracted in his issues with lifespan and his own ascension. In all likelihood, Wu Yu or the rest might have never fully refined their physiques to the maximum limit of the Mortal Dao.

Actually, if he thought more about it, Wu Yu failed his Third Ascension to the Demi-Mortal Lord Phase, so his physique was definitely inadequate. Considering he was tooting himself as the strongest Ascended amongst the four, this was indicative of all their issues. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Wu Yu might seem strong, but he might be a fly to the truly nurtured and cultivated beings of the Azure-Prime Galactic Zone.

His expression abruptly changed. He wondered when the King of Everlore abruptly left, leaving for a greater world, and even left his entire entourage behind, was it because they were far beneath his desired standard? Perhaps they were of very little help when he entered the Azure-Prime Galactic Region. Perhaps they knew and deliberately didn't follow. Perhaps…

It would be difficult to obtain an answer to this question unless he talked to them personally. They might not have known, abandoned due to their flaws that the King of Everlore didn't wish to solve, or couldn't solve.

This list had spurred on far too many questions. He had leapt past his limits, being exposed to aspects of cultivation far exceeding his current ability, yet he only kept having more and more questions. This entire Nexus Battlefield was a VERY large question.

He deeply sighed again, feeling tiny. Extremely tiny. He felt his Astral Souls pulsate with comforting intent, knowing his pains. Just two decades ago, they were ignorant of many things in cultivation and then were viciously pushed into the greater world, facing the Heavenly Daos, becoming an Inheritor of Sin, and trying to survive Calamities of Hell. Most cultivators of his age or cultivation base weren't remotely exposed to such trials and tribulations.

"The most frustrating thing?" Wei Wuyin spiritually communicated with them all. But they already knew what he wanted to say, because they were all looking for it too. Something, anything, just a clue he was closer to the Realm of Sages and what it is. A cultivation stage? A cultivation realm? A unique title granted by something?

Wallowing in the bleakness of that reality, he heard the voice of the little girl once again.

"Soldier of War, have you decided?"