Eternal Thief

The moment Ace saw the sealed soul within the Three-Eyed Devil’s inner soul world, he instantly realized that the former hadn’t destroyed the Weaponized Mystic Haven’s disciple completely.

Instead, the Three-Eyed Devil had sealed the disciple’s soul using its unique racial technique or some forbidden spell to perfectly maintain memories, behavioral patterns, and identity synchronization, almost like the Grand Mirror Phantom Scripture, but far more crudely.

Anyhow, now that seal meant nothing before the Mirror Embryo.

Ace’s eyes glinted coldly as the Mirror Embryo descended like a devouring moon, and both souls were captured simultaneously!

The Three-Eyed Devil’s soul convulsed violently before one mirror shard wrapped around it completely, and at the same time, another shard pierced into the sealed disciple’s soul before two mirror personas began forming simultaneously.

One reconstructed the complete Three-Eyed Devil identity while the other reconstructed the true Weaponized Mystic Haven disciple.

Thereafter, memories, aura, Qi resonance, cultivation fluctuations, and even subtle habits... everything was perfectly mirrored. Moments later, both consciousnesses perished completely.

Ace slowly exhaled as this was undoubtedly his smoothest infiltration yet, at least compared to the Lower Grave Strata; moreover, he had gained two identities at once.

Ace looked at the corpse collapsing before him, thoughtfully, as the Three-Eyed Devil’s disguise dissolved immediately after death, revealing its true appearance.

Ace waved his sleeve calmly, and darkness swallowed the corpse entirely. Thereafter, silver ripples surfaced across Ace’s body before his figure transformed rapidly.

Moments later, the burly abyssal winged demon named Kharon Veyth reappeared, and his Wizard Thief Robes transformed into void-black robes with a vertical slash of dark silver at the center; they settled naturally over his body, becoming the robes of the Weaponized Mystic Haven.

On the other hand, Ace glanced at the demonic sword lying on the ground, and a powerful sword intent flashed in his demonic eyes, probably even more powerful than the original Kharon Veyth.

”Come, Killing Slaughter!”

The Killing Slaughter was the name of the Demonic Sword, which was actually a Lower-Abyssal Grade-7 Spirit Weapon that Kharon Veyth had found in the ’Weaponized Mystic Abyss’, a mysterious secret realm under the Weaponized Mystic Heaven and rumored to be the origin of the Weaponized Mystic Heaven.

The Killing Slaughter, who seemed to appear like a listless sword with the Three-Eyed Devil, suddenly trembled and released a powerful hum filled with terrifying killing intent under Ace’s sword intent.

The demonic sword, which had actually developed a treasure spirit and hadn’t acknowledged Kharon Veyth completely, now showed utter submission in front of Ace.

It directly attached itself once more to his wrist perfectly, and Ace heard a respectful voice in his mind, ”Killing Slaughter greets great sword cultivator! Please grant me the owner to be your life sword!”

Ace’s eyes flickered with a hint of surprise, but he didn’t lose his composure as he already knew a sword cultivator with a powerful sword heart and primordial foundation; every sword would want to be his life sword.

Moreover, this demonic sword’s nature was evil, and it seemed to know Ace wasn’t the Kharon Veyth because the latter didn’t yet possess the sword heart. Despite that, I was willing to acknowledge Ace completely without hesitation.

From Kharon Veyth’s memoirs, the Weaponized Mystic Haven was like a King Sect of the Mortal Ascension Heaven, and their inheritance was all related to the laws of weapons, while their strongest power was the Sword Cultivators.

However, even among the top talents of the Weaponized Mystic Haven, there were few with Sword Hearts, and those with one were already acknowledged by powerful treasures.

Kharon Veyth was just average within the Weaponized Mystic Haven, and part of the outer circle, yet he had still managed to get the Killing Slaughter in a fortuitous encounter within the Weaponized Mystic Abyss, and was able to become one of the top members of the outer circle.

However, it was Kharon Veyth’s limit, so he wanted to try his luck by entering the Evernight Trial, but he would’ve never imagined becoming a target for the Three-Eyed Devil’s assassination just because the latter required an identity to enter the Evernight Trial.

But what goes around comes around eventually, and the Three-Eyed Devil became Ace’s target, which was quite ironic.

Ace looked at the Killing Slaughter, and without hesitation, released the aura of AVOS from his Sword Heart, making the Killing Slaughter tremble like a mouse that seemed to have encountered a tiger.

”First, you are not qualified to be my life sword, and second, you’d better behave from now on unless you want to get destroyed!” Ace coldly stated without mincing his words because he already knew the nature of this demonic sword.

It wasn’t upright or honest like AVOS, and just wanted to become his life sword to further grow. He didn’t need to investigate anything as well because just as the demonic sword could see through his sword heart, he could also see through the sword in front of him.

”Y-yes! Forgive my early transgression, my lord! I have no idea about the great one’s origin!”

The Killing Slaughter seemed to have sensed the terror of Ace’s true sword heart, and the demonic sword knew that even if Ace made it his life sword, it would be destroyed in the process because Ace’s Qi was simply too overbearing.

Ace then ignored the demonic sword as he knew it wouldn’t dare to play any tricks, and then he smiled faintly inwardly as he thought, ’The Three-Eyed Devil persona might be useful later as an assassin identity tied directly to the Evernight Council itself, and since I’m already going to the Undead Cradle with unknown circumstances, that identity is far too valuable to discard.’

After stabilizing the new mirror persona and getting familiar with it, Ace calmly took control of the flying vessel and headed toward the Evernight Gate once more.

Hours later, the colossal obsidian gate dominated the heavens once again as countless cultivators continued flooding toward it like moths charging into darkness.

Ace maintained the arrogant bearing of a Weaponized Mystic Haven disciple while approaching steadily.

This time, no one paid him special attention as the Weaponized Mystic Haven’s entourage seemed to have left with the Evernight Dukes and other big powers already, and now only those who were like Kharon Veyth were here to try their luck.

Eventually, he stepped through the Evernight Gate once again, and the familiar sensation returned instantly.

The world shattered and space twisted violently around him as absolute displacement consumed his senses.

Thereafter, that terrifying inspection power descended once more, as he still couldn’t get used to that ancient and absolute feeling it gave.

The first silver light swept through him, and the Grand Mirror Phantom Scripture activated subtly.

”Age requirement verified!”

The second abyssal-black light descended.

”Cultivation requirement verified!”

The third golden-red light pierced deeper than before, brushing against soul structures and hidden techniques.

Ace remained perfectly calm while the Mirror Embryo trembled faintly, and the inspection passed smoothly.

”Participant passes identity verification!”

Ace inwardly relaxed slightly, and then the voice spoke again indifferently...

”Disciple of the Weaponized Mystic Haven Kharon Veyth has been entered!”

The next moment, another ring materialized before him, but different from the crimson ring of the Long Hunter, it was pale blue...

”This ring is essential to the Evernight Trial.”

The ring slammed into his palm, and then, the space split apart violently once more, the world twisted, and Ace was finally thrown back into the Undead Cradle again!