Chapter 040: Look Down Upon

Wang Bo held the demonic pearl in his hand, carefully observing it.

Ever since he heard of the demon pearl's existence, Wang Bo had wanted to know what exactly this demon pearl was. Now that the demon pearl had fallen into his hands, Wang Bo naturally wanted to observe it carefully.

First, the demon pearl was very small, about two to three times the size of an ordinary marble.

Placed in the hand, it is not even as large as the palm.

Secondly, the demonic pearl emitted a glimmering radiance, a light that was utterly sacred, not the least bit evil.

But for some reason, this thing is called a demonic pearl.

Moreover, the shape of this thing seems very familiar.

Wang Bo was puzzled. After thinking for a moment, he decided to use his X-ray vision to see what exactly was inside this demonic pearl.

For a moment, Wang Bo's gaze became brilliant, emitting a faint glow.

His gaze pierced through the outer skin of the demonic pearl and quickly saw its interior, but what surprised Wang Bo was that the scene inside the demonic pearl was completely beyond his expectations.

For within the demon pearl, he actually saw a noble shrine maiden, ceaselessly battling all manner of demons and monsters.

The demonic pearl, the noble shrine maiden, monsters and demons—ceaseless battle.

Combined with this familiar form, Wang Bo suddenly realized: bullshit demon pearl.

This thing is simply not the Demon Pearl.

This damn thing is... the Shikon Jewel!!!

This object originates from the world of Inuyasha. Legend has it that several hundred years ago, there was a highly skilled shrine maiden named Midoriko, who possessed the ability to extract souls for purification and the power to vanquish demons.

The demons feared Midoriko, so to deal with her, they gathered a great number of their kind, including monsters, dragons, earth spiders, and other demons, and fought Midoriko for seven days and seven nights.

In this seven-day, seven-night battle, Cuizi's spiritual power and physical strength were nearly exhausted, and even her soul was about to be taken by the demons.

However, in the end, Midoriko used her last strength to seize the demons' souls, meld them into her own soul, and then release them from her body. Thus, both Midoriko and the demons perished, leaving behind only a crystal of souls—this is... the Shikon Jewel!

The Shikon Jewel is formed from the union of Midoriko's soul and the souls of many demons. Because it merges the spiritual power and demonic energy of both sides, anyone who obtains the Shikon Jewel can gain immense power.

However, the Shikon Jewel is not a lifeless object.

Because it was formed from the union of the souls of demons and the soul of the priestess Midoriko, from the moment of its birth, the priestess's soul and the demons' souls have been ceaselessly struggling within the Shikon Jewel.

Even now, it has not ceased.

By the way, the Shikon Jewel can become good or evil depending on its possessor. If it falls into the hands of an evil person, its power becomes evil; if it falls into the hands of a good person, its power becomes good.

However, Wang Bo remembered that the Shikon Jewel should be in the hands of Kagome, the heroine of the Inuyasha world.

Yet now, the Shikon Jewel has appeared in the world of Di Renjie.

Needless to say, this is definitely the fault of the multiverse collision.

According to his duty, Wang Bo should now contact his cheat artifact and have it send the Shikon Jewel back to its original world.

But Wang Bo had long since decided to spend his life in this world.

So as for duties and such, Wang Bo had long since cast them to the winds.

He simply would not contact the external divine artifact.

Even Lian Nishang herself, Wang Bo couldn't be bothered with, let alone a mere Shikon Jewel.

Without a doubt, the Shikon Jewel is indeed formidable; if it were to fall into the wrong hands, the consequences would be unthinkable.

But ever since Wang Bo awakened his Spartan bloodline and his strength greatly increased, he declared that no matter how powerful the demons created by the Shikon Jewel might be, they could never be his match.

Therefore, in this world, he was still invincible.

Wang Bo held the Shikon Jewel in his hand and fiddled with it a few times. He had heard that the Shikon Jewel possessed the power to bewitch people's hearts, but the original Shikon Jewel did not seem to have such power.

Could it be that it underwent a slight mutation after crossing over?

This kind of thing is not impossible; after all, the world of Di Renjie and the world of Inuyasha are completely different—one is a martial arts world, the other a world overrun by demons. It stands to reason that the Shikon Jewel would undergo mutation after crossing over.

Wang Bo observed the Shikon Jewel closely and found it to be quite docile, showing no mutation in his hand.

It neither bewitched his mind nor bestowed upon him formidable power.

It was just like an ordinary bead.

If Wang Bo hadn't used his clairvoyance to see inside the Shikon Jewel and witnessed Midoriko and the demons still locked in endless battle, he wouldn't have recognized it as the Shikon Jewel.

Wang Bo played with it for a while longer, and after confirming that the Shikon Jewel would not affect him, he casually tossed it into his four-dimensional pocket, turned over in bed, and slowly fell asleep.

Tonight's battle was quite exhausting too.

From start to finish, the battle seemed like a one-sided crush, but don't forget, in the middle Wang Bo was stabbed once. If not for the awakening of his Spartan bloodline, who would win and who would lose is truly uncertain.

Of course, Wang Bo didn't think he would lose either.

After all, he not only had the Ripple breathing technique to strengthen himself, but also the Horse Talisman to heal his body.

Even if the Spartan bloodline remained dormant, even if Wang Bo truly couldn't win, he could still retreat calmly.

It was just that Wang Bo was very lucky. After being stabbed, his Spartan bloodline awakened, and his strength instantly multiplied several times, easily overwhelming Gu Xingwen, who possessed the Shikon Jewel.

Of course, this is not to say that Gu Xingwen was not powerful.

It can only be said that Gu Xingwen did not fully unleash the power of the Shikon Jewel. After all, he was neither a demon nor capable of using spiritual power. Although he ultimately shed his human form and evolved into an aberration, the time was ultimately too short for him to completely master the Jewel's power.

That is why he was crushed by Wang Bo.

Wang Bo believed that if Gu Xingwen were given enough time to fully master the power of the Shikon Jewel, he might be able to put up some resistance against his fists.

This was not arrogance on Wang Bo's part, but confidence.

Though the Shikon Jewel is powerful, Wang Bo believes that the power of the Spartan bloodline is in no way inferior.

It may even surpass the Shikon Jewel.

Therefore, even if Gu Xingwen truly mastered the power of the Shikon Jewel, Wang Bo could still handle it with ease using the power of the Spartan bloodline and Superman's steel body.

He could even defeat his opponent.

It was precisely out of this confidence that Wang Bo looked down upon the power of the Shikon Jewel, for with the strength of Superman and the bloodline power of Sparta fused into one, he was already immensely powerful.

In Wang Bo's eyes, a mere Shikon Jewel was nothing at all.