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Xue Wei was puzzled, though. He had previously heard about peerless treasures with a soul, but this was the first time he had ever encountered one.

"So why are you so casual with me?" he finally asked after a bit of time. Xue Wei could sense that every villager within the village feared it more than anything else, but here he was having a casual conversation with it. He could not feel any hostility from the sword at all.

"It is simple," the sword went on, sighing. "I have been stuck in this hell-hole for thousands of years. I wish to go out. I wish to slice the heads off people. I need to eat souls to survive, but the souls I get here are weak and so unsatisfying."

"This village has been hidden from the surrounding world," the sword continued. "I am sure you came across a formation when you tried to enter this place, and that formation is meant to keep humans out."