"We have found references to these types of forbidden spell runes in ancient texts. Actually, it was a legend passed down from older generations."
The AI assistant's voice came from the blue screen as several ancient murals were displayed.
"According to the story, in the primordial era, when the primordial laws started taking shape, one of the strongest devil gods, the Heavenly Asura God, merged his consciousness into the primordial law and ascended to the primordial god rank."
"But after the devil god ascended, his powerful physical body gave birth to three gods. The first is the Asura God of Death, who was born from the darkness core of the Heavenly Asura God and commanded ultimate control over death."
On the blue screen, a hooded figure holding a scythe was displayed. It looked like a grim reaper with bony hands and a skeletal face.
"The second one is the Asura of War, who was born from the metal core of the Heavenly Asura God. This one boasted the strongest physical body, unrivaled in the primordial era, and was known for his short temper."
The mural on the screen now showed a muscular demon with two horns and a furious expression on its face.
"The last one is the Asura God of Void. He was born from the space core of the Asura God and was the most sinister one among the three. It is said that he had even captured and refined three hundred elemental gods into his body, giving birth to an almost perfect planet inside his core where he was the law and he was the one and only god."
With the explanation, the screen now showed the mural of an asura with two horns and a sinister smile sitting leisurely on a large throne.
"But even though all three were extremely overpowered, they did not get along well with one another and eventually fought among themselves to the point that the Heavenly Asura God, who had ascended to the primordial god rank, had to once again descend to the world and forcefully absorb the three cores back into himself."
"When this happened, the wills of the three Asura Gods were dispersed into the world and condensed into natural runes all across the galaxy. Over the generations, several prodigies had received the recognition of the Asura Gods and inherited their skills, but there is no known case of a person inheriting all three runes at once. Even among the ones who inherited the runes, only a handful of them managed to survive due to severe depletion of life force and soul power when the runes were carved into the body."
"Even if the person survived, it is too difficult to comprehend the technique engraved in the runes. Due to all these factors, we only have very little information regarding the techniques the three forbidden runes contain. After compiling all the fragmented data, we can conclude that, one is a powerful body forging technique, another is a space mini world creation spell, and the last one is a technique capable of bringing the dead back to life."
Leon listened to the whole narration and rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"What about the three new cores of space, darkness and metal that suddenly appeared in my sea of consciousness? What about my Hell Fire Crow bloodline? Why did it fall back to the dormant stage even though my previous cultivation base is still there? And why did my earrings and forearm guard suddenly become my life bound forbidden artifacts without me doing anything?"
Hearing the question, Jasmine nodded towards the blue screen. Understanding her gesture, the AI assistant began answering him.
"Your newly acquired cores, the space, metal and darkness cores appeared due to the Asura runes that appeared on your body. The reason for the forearm guard and the earrings suddenly becoming your life bond weapons is not clear. But judging from how the original runes etched on the two artifacts transformed into primordial runes, we have arrived at a bizarre conclusion which is only a speculation."
"According to this theory, you have actually died on the battlefield due to life force depletion and severe soul injuries. But when the rune of the Asura of Death was engraved on your body, his forbidden spell might have activated due to some coincidence and brought you back to life. During this time, fragments of your soul were inside your two earrings and the forearm guard since you were using the three just before your soul actually exploded and you died."
"Thus, when the Asura's spell brought you back to life, it directly brought the runes on the three weapons back to life as well, and they became your life bond weapons. As for the reason why your Hell Fire Crow bloodline fell back to the dormant stage even though you did not lose your previous cultivation, the reason is simple. You have cultivated your bloodline with fire and water essence separately instead of using hell fire, which is the blend between water and fire elements. This caused your bloodline to be crippled. When you were brought back to life, all the flaws in your body were rectified, which included your Hell Fire Crow bloodline."
"As for the reason why the level of your cores is at the lowest single layer level, and the reason why your soul power and life force are severely depleted, the answer is the six forbidden spells bonded to you. As you know, even if you bind the lowest forbidden spell to your body, you will face severe backlash. But your body contains six of the most powerful ones. It is a miracle that you are still alive."
After the AI assistant stopped speaking, Jasmine seemed to have thought about something and said, "Oh, right. Master said that all six forbidden spells in your body have reached an equilibrium with each other where they restrict and control each other. If this equilibrium breaks, the consequences might be disastrous. So if you do not want to die, don't even think of breaking through to the next major realm without comprehending all six techniques to perfection."
"6 forbidden spells, a dormant bloodline, 3 single layer elemental cores, vital core and spirit core are also at the single layer level, i might us well stop cultivating and enjoy the rest of my life, cultivation is simply hopeless with all these debuffs.", Leon rubbed his temples with a speechless expression.
Forbidden spells or artifacts are those spells or weapons that have power beyond the natural limit of their grade. For example, an iron grade forbidden weapon or spell might have destructive strength at the first heaven of silver grade, which is ten times stronger than the tenth heaven of iron grade, the natural limit of iron grade.
Due to the overwhelming power of these spells, they cannot be activated by constructing the runes with spirit power. Instead, you have to use the blood of beasts with high spirit aptitude and spirit cores mixed in a definite proportion along with other natural treasures to make the rune ink for the spells.
Once the ink is ready, a rune smith will carve the spell rune into a specially tempered metal surface and invoke the runes with the intent of the runes the runesmith has comprehended. If the process is successful, the rune will be activated and the artifact will become a forbidden tier weapon.
Now that the forbidden weapon is born, there are two options. One is to use the weapon until you break through to the next realm by continuously recharging the runes with intent power, and switch to a better weapon once your realm increases above the tier of the weapon.
The second option is to absorb the forbidden weapon into one's body by nurturing the runes on the weapon with soul power and life force. This will bring the forbidden artifact to life, and from then on it can grow alongside the cultivator like an actual living creature. But only a few opt for this, since doing so will severely damage your soul and life force, which is hard to recover even with the aid of high level natural treasures.
Instead of damaging there foundation, most will simply switched to a new forbidden weapon with a higher grade spell once they break through to a higher realm. This would cost you some money, but at least your potential and talent will remain safe.