Lin Mu glanced around the chamber and checked the other pedestals.
The Cursed Blade of the Wilderness had six barriers. The Seven Grudge Armor had six. The Soul Reversal Mirror had eight. Even the strange wooden box that seemed capable of triggering an emergency destruction formation had fewer direct barriers than the Cestus.
'Does this mean this is the most dangerous object here?' Lin Mu could not be certain.
The number of barriers might have reflected the peculiar nature of the weapon rather than raw destructive power. Still, twelve was excessive. He had searched through the sect archives for information concerning the Justice Crushing Cestus after discovering Taegong's intentions.
The results had been frustratingly sparse. There were references to a forbidden artifact, several mentions buried in old disciplinary records, and a handful of incomplete entries that seemed deliberately vague.
