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**Chapter 1220: The Broken Gemstone, The Scourge Scepter**

The gemstone felt warm to the touch, emitting a purple glow that flowed like water along Lin Muyu's palm, up his arm, across his shoulder, and quickly spread over his entire body. The warmth made Lin Muyu feel as if he were bathing in a hot spring, extremely comfortable.

Lin Muyu suddenly had a thought, "If I take this back, could it continuously produce Shuojin essence?"

Shuojin essence is extremely magical, significantly enhancing the soul's defense, making the soul not only safer but also stronger, greatly boosting the combat power of the human race.

Lin Muyu felt a surge of excitement and immediately wanted to take the purple gemstone back. However, the purple gemstone didn't budge, no matter how much force Lin Muyu applied.

Lin Muyu frowned. With his physical strength, he couldn't move this small gemstone, which was quite laughable.

After several attempts, the purple gemstone remained unmoved.

Lin Muyu began to exert more force, letting out a low growl.

His whole body glowed, breaking through the purple constraints. Unknowingly, he had used the [Gathering Power] spell. The power of all his summoned creatures continuously converged, and Lin Muyu's strength began to increase significantly. His strength quickly broke through the limits of the True God realm, reaching the God King realm.

Then it continued to rise, becoming stronger and stronger.

God King fifth rank, sixth rank, seventh rank...

At this point, Lin Muyu stopped, not continuing further.

He knew there was no need to continue; the gemstone didn't react at all.

Even if he raised his realm to the limit, God King ninth rank, risking his soul's self-destruction again, he still couldn't move it. This gemstone seemed to have taken root here, and its foundation was incredibly solid, far beyond his strength level.

Lin Muyu felt like an ant trying to shake a tree. The purple gemstone's light flickered, as if mocking him.

Lin Muyu felt a bit helpless; this thing seemed to be unattainable.

Looking at the purple gemstone, with its hazy purple light and noble aura, Lin Muyu's eyes suddenly widened, "Why does it look familiar?"

He saw the edge of the gemstone; it was clearly a broken gemstone, smaller than Zhen'er's fist. Except for the broken part, the outer edge was still intact, with sharp and distinct angles. The edges seemed to be deliberately polished, with hundreds or thousands of different angled facets, smooth and beautiful. Lin Muyu felt he had seen such facets somewhere before.

He reached out and touched the edge of the gemstone, a flash of inspiration in his mind, finally realizing what it was.

The Monarch's Scepter!

The weapon he had obtained in a small world, an extremely mysterious weapon.

[Monarch's Scepter (Incomplete): Legendary weapon, all attributes +500000.]

Lin Muyu hadn't used this weapon much, only for a short period.

It was unusable at low levels and unnecessary at high levels, making it quite awkward.

The Monarch's Scepter originally had a large gemstone embedded in it, but the gemstone was lost, so the scepter became incomplete.

Lin Muyu had studied the Monarch's Scepter, feeling it should be a very powerful weapon, even in its incomplete state, it was still legendary.

If it were a complete Monarch's Scepter, it would be even stronger.

He had studied the Monarch's Scepter and found facets on the gemstone's setting that were very similar to the purple gemstone.

Lin Muyu took out the Monarch's Scepter from his storage space and compared it. Then he aligned the gemstone setting of the Monarch's Scepter with the purple gemstone.

When the two made contact, they seemed to fit perfectly, and the purple gemstone emitted a buzzing sound, radiating brilliant light.

Lin Muyu's vision suddenly changed, finding himself in an unfamiliar starry sky.

This feeling was like the demonstration screen seen when awakening a skill.

At this moment, he became a third party observer.

In the starry sky, a fierce battle was raging.

Countless skeletons charged forward, engaging in a fierce battle with the enemy.

The battlefield spanned the vast starry sky, stretching for billions of kilometers.

The number of skeletons was uncountable, and they came in various types.

Lin Muyu saw familiar skeleton warriors, skeleton mages, and archers.

He saw skeleton generals and bone dragons.

He saw death knights and lich generals.

He also saw some skeletons he had never seen before.

Some skeletons had bone wings on their backs, emitting a holy light.

There were also skeleton knights riding unicorn warhorses, covered in thunder.

These skeletons all had halos under their feet, extremely powerful.

But the enemies they were fighting were shrouded in a mist, making them indistinguishable. The skeletons fought fearlessly, and the battle was intense.

At this moment, someone wielding a scepter appeared, the Monarch's Scepter, with a large gemstone on it.

Gold, silver, purple, white, and gray.

Five colors of light radiated from the gemstone, illuminating the starry sky.

The person holding the scepter cast a spell.

The skeletons' combat power surged, and the enemies were defeated one after another.

Corpses floated like dust in the starry sky...

At this moment, a long spear shot from the distant starry sky, hitting the gemstone on the scepter with astonishing force.

The gemstone shattered into pieces, and the scene abruptly ended.

Lin Muyu woke up, realizing that the scene just now showed the reason for the gemstone's fragmentation.

The purple gemstone before him was only one-fifth of the complete gemstone.

The long spear that shattered the gemstone made Lin Muyu feel uneasy.

He clearly saw that the spear was covered in runes.

In fact, the spear was composed entirely of runes.

And these runes were the runes of the great world.

"It was the runes of the great world that shattered the gemstone..."

"But even the runes of the great world could only shatter the gemstone, not destroy it."

"This gemstone is on the same level as the runes of the great world."

"Then the Monarch's Scepter that can hold it must also be a treasure of that level."

Lin Muyu's thoughts raced, quickly understanding the situation.

He hadn't expected that the incomplete weapon he obtained in a small world was of such a high level.

Lin Muyu looked at the Monarch's Scepter in his hand, which was now radiating brilliant light, completely transformed.

It was as if a layer of false skin had peeled off, revealing its true form.

The scepter displayed exquisite patterns, looking noble from any angle.

The patterns seemed naturally formed, and the entire scepter exuded an awe-inspiring pressure.

These patterns looked like a scythe...

The purple gemstone was now embedded in the scepter, and when Lin Muyu retracted the scepter, he also retracted the purple gemstone.

At this moment, he had a thought and used the detection spell again.

[Unknown treasure...]

The detection spell gave a different answer, surprising Lin Muyu, who wondered why.

Previously, the detection spell had clearly given an answer, but now it was different.

After some thought, Lin Muyu guessed there was only one possibility: the previous answer was given by the Monarch's Scepter itself.

The Monarch's Scepter had actively deceived the detection spell.

At this level of treasure, it would be abnormal if it didn't have self-awareness.

Lin Muyu communicated with the Monarch's Scepter through his soul consciousness and indeed sensed an awareness inside.

But this awareness seemed to be in a deep sleep, with little feedback.

Only a bit of information let Lin Muyu know the weapon's true name.

The Monarch's Scepter was just a pseudonym; its real name was: The Scourge Scepter!