Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 68 Folding Knife
The three-meter-long sword is broad, thick, and ancient in style.

At that moment, a secret inscription suddenly lit up on the back of its three-finger-wide blade!
Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred of the tens of thousands of secret inscriptions on the back of the blade lit up one after another, from the back of the blade near the guard all the way to the tip, forming an arc like a constellation.

Xia Fa was still unclear about what was happening, but suddenly, he saw that the huge and heavy horse-slaying sword... began to shrink rapidly!
Dark light erupted from the blade in interwoven rings, flickering like breathing. In the blink of an eye, the blade shrank from three meters long to the size of a palm!
At first glance, it looks like a horse-slaying sword has been transformed into a folding knife.

After a brief moment of astonishment, a strange look appeared on Xia Fa's face, and he couldn't help but examine the folding knife.

The blade, resembling shark teeth, is covered with exquisite feather patterns.

There is a cavity near the guard on the back of the blade, and there is an iron bead inside the cavity.

The handle is made of ebony with growth rings, and there is a ring at the end that a finger can just fit through.

"This……"

To be honest, when Xia Fa first got this horse-slaying sword, he even considered getting it a scabbard so he could carry it on his back.

After all, he couldn't just casually carry a three-meter-long sword, nor would it be convenient to sling it around his waist. In crowded places, a slight turn of his head could probably sweep down a large number of people.

But now, this great sword has been transformed into a palm-sized folding knife, which is so convenient!
What's even more ingenious is that anyone could feel the extremely powerful and terrifying force emanating from this horse-slaying sword. Even a novice Fungus-level superhuman could tell at a glance that it must be an extremely powerful sealed artifact.

However, when the horse-slaying sword is transformed into a folding sword, at first glance it looks no different from an ordinary folding sword, except that it is more exquisite, like a masterpiece made by a master swordsmith.

Xia Fa couldn't resist playing with it, threading his fingers through the clasp and giving it a gentle turn.

He twirled the folding knife around his index finger, and the steel ball inside the hollow part of the blade made a soft, pleasant tinkling sound.

"good……"

Xia Fa pulled his hand back, gripping the folding knife firmly in his hand.

He could feel that as long as he poured that burning sensation into it, the folding knife would swell up again and transform into that huge, heavy horse-slaying sword.

It must be said that sometimes, this ability can even have the effect of a surprise attack.

After the horse-slaying sword was transformed into a folding sword, the blade no longer vibrated, as if it had been sealed. However, Xia Fa could still feel a faint sense of intimacy emanating from the hilt.

Although Xia Fa still doesn't understand what he is, or to put it more politely, what kind of "being" he is.
But he also guessed that the reason why the sword was so close to him was probably related to his true identity.

Casually toying with his folding knife, Xia Fa turned around, looked up, and gazed at the mithril gate that seemed to come from ancient times.

The towering Mithril Gate, reaching a height of a thousand meters, exudes a profound sense of antiquity, as if it had stood there since the birth of the world. The seemingly chaotic inscriptions carved upon it instilled a sense of dread in Xia Fa.

Not to mention the outer god who was bound at the door and had already been beheaded...

What lies behind this ancient mithril door?

The moment curiosity welled up in his heart, Xia Fa couldn't help but shiver.

Because, deep down, his spiritual intuition had a very strong premonition of danger regarding his sudden curiosity!
It was as if this was something he couldn't possibly understand in his current state!

In fact, Xia Fa had thought before that since that unknown being in the form of heavy armored cavalry had killed the Outer God worshipped by these giant jaw beasts, why not simply go inside this ancient mithril gate and take a look?
But now it seems that... there are secrets hidden behind this that are far beyond his imagination.

"Oh right, and those physical entities..."

In truth, the instant he saw the beheaded Outer God and the ancient mithril gate, he thought of the entities that had suddenly gathered in this eerie realm. Were they... here to enter this gate? Or for some other purpose?
And were they scared away by that unknown entity that resembled a heavily armored cavalryman?
According to Xia Fa's personal experience, that unknown being resembling a heavily armored cavalryman was stronger than most physical entities.

At least, when the entities cast their gazes at him, he wouldn't immediately be on the verge of losing control.

Since he hadn't seen any of those physical entities in the city yet, Xia Fa thought for a moment and decided to leave it alone for the time being.

So next...

His gaze began to turn to those strange houses and building complexes.

The black rain continued to fall steadily, but the city was still ablaze.

This appears to be a conflict of ranks, and the flames ignited by the unknown being in the form of heavy armored cavalry are clearly not something that the black rain sent down by the beheaded Outer God could extinguish.

The flames will likely not cease until the city is completely reduced to ashes and all the carcasses of the giant jaw beasts turn to dust.

"I just hope the giant jaw beasts eat at the table... otherwise I'll have to make my own table and chairs, and I don't even know if they'll work..." Xia Fa thought, half complaining and half hoping.

Since almost all the houses near the palace complex had been destroyed by that halberd strike, he had no choice but to choose houses further away.

Just as he was about to take a step, the folding knife in his palm suddenly trembled inexplicably, and the sharp tip cut his index finger.

A stinging sensation came, but Xia Fa showed no expression, only watching a drop of bright red blood fall from his fingertip.

He had a strange trust in the sealed artifact, believing it wouldn't harm him. Therefore, he wanted to know even more what the sealed artifact was trying to do.

As his blood droplet fell, it instantly turned the color of obsidian, and then, like a needle falling into a lake, it pierced through the ground beneath his feet and fell straight to the ground.

A muffled hum came from underground, as if a massive ritual array was unfolding around his drop of blood.

Xia Fa had a vague feeling that... even if he left this strange realm, he could always teleport back through that ritual array!
He suddenly understood the purpose of this sealed artifact.

"Are you trying to tell me that once I become stronger, I can actually come back here and explore that mithril door?"

Upon hearing this question, the sealed object seemed to truly understand, and the steel ball inside the hollow cavity of the blade swayed up and down twice, as if nodding in response.

Xia Fa smiled slightly. He really wanted to know what was behind this ancient mithril door, but he was too weak to even get close.

In fact, if it weren't for the strange electric current within his body, he would have already lost control and turned into a monster the moment he saw the Outer God.

The ironclad rule of the transcendent realm—that one must not look directly at a god—takes effect from the moment a demigod reveals his mythical creature form, let alone an Outer God.

Even the body of a decapitated Outer God can easily cause a whale-level superhuman who looks directly at Him to lose control!
"Wait a minute..."

This little incident wouldn't have affected anything, and Xia Fa was preparing to continue looking for a set of tables and chairs.

Suddenly, he raised an eyebrow and looked with considerable surprise toward the palace complex, which had long since become an empty plaza.

There it was...

(End of this chapter)