Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 502 The Forging of the Sword Embryo
From Lanque Mountain, an invisible sword light shot into the sky, tearing through the clouds. At that moment, brilliant sunlight shone directly upon this immortal city that was perpetually shrouded in mist.

At the same time, as if summoned by some force, all the swords near Lanque Mountain spontaneously hummed, and for a moment the clear sound of swords echoed in all directions.

Noticing this change, Jiang Chen turned his gaze to the outside world from inside the Cloud Palace.

With his divine sense spreading outwards, he instantly locked onto the source of all the strange phenomena: a flying sword, or more accurately, a sword embryo, about three feet long, made of crystal, radiating a faint golden halo. It had a sword but no tip, and strange patterns naturally formed on its surface, full of spirituality.

"With innate spirituality and a clear and transparent nature, Rat Prodigy has truly not disappointed me. Not only did he successfully refine Spiritual Gold with Great Evolution True Gold as the core, but he also forged it into the embryo of a flying sword."

"With the inherent power of this sword, as long as the appropriate magical restrictions are imprinted on it in the future, it will be easy for it to become a third-tier flying sword."

Having discerned the true nature of the sword embryo, Jiang Chen smiled.

Although he hadn't actually started refining it yet, he could already feel the connection between the sword and his divine soul power. This sword wasn't a flying sword in the ordinary sense; it was more like a divine soul treasure. However, unlike the divine soul treasures of the Soul Suppressing Hall, which were mainly for defense and support, this sword was better at killing, even though it hadn't been sharpened yet.

At this moment, upon touching Jiang Chen's divine soul power, the newly formed sword embryo actually began to actively absorb this power.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen's face showed a look of surprise.

"Such spirituality is truly abundant. Very well, since you want it, I'll give it to you. Let's see how much you can absorb."

With a single thought, powerful spiritual energy poured out of Jiang Chen's body like a tidal wave.

Sensing this powerful divine soul force, the sword embryo hummed and began to greedily absorb this power. As it absorbed more and more power, the radiance on its body began to grow brighter and brighter.

Time passed, and after an unknown amount of time, just as Jiang Chen's spiritual power was about to be exhausted, the newly formed sword embryo finally ate its fill, emitting a satisfied spiritual aura.

"Finally, I'm full. An ordinary Purple Mansion probably wouldn't be able to hold on."

Sensing the change in the sword embryo, Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, the newborn sword embryo transformed into sword light and instantly arrived in front of Jiang Chen.

"Does this count as spontaneously recognizing a master?"

His gaze fell upon the sword light swirling around him, and Jiang Chen's eyes flickered.

At this moment, the sharpness of the newly formed sword embryo has been completely concealed, and there is no trace of killing intent left. However, this is only a superficial appearance. If anyone dares to approach without authorization, it will immediately trigger a backlash.

"come over!"

Jiang Chen spread out his palms and released his thoughts.

The sword light receded in the next instant, and a sword embryo about an inch long appeared in his hand, its body flowing with a watery radiance, extremely docile.

"Distinguishing between good and evil?"

As his consciousness merged with the sword embryo, Jiang Chen gained a clear understanding of the sword embryo's abilities.

Although this sword embryo has not yet become a true flying sword, it has already developed some divine abilities. It is naturally spiritual and can sense good and evil. Within a certain distance, it can sense any bad thoughts that someone may have towards it immediately.

This kind of perception goes straight to the essence of the mind, and cannot be concealed by ordinary means. "The human heart is unpredictable, and this is indeed a good ability. Now that this sword embryo has recognized me as its master, I can sense the malice around me through this sword embryo."

With his mind and the sword embryo merging, Jiang Chen suddenly saw a world unlike any other.

However, Jiang Chen withdrew this feeling after only a moment. Good and evil are hard to determine, but in this Lan Yun City, no one, or rather no one dared to have any evil thoughts towards him, after all, he was strong enough.

"It is said that Dao artifacts possess spirits, like living beings, and cannot be refined by ordinary means. If a cultivator wants to wield a Dao artifact, he must either gain the approval of the artifact's spirit or have enough strength to suppress it."

"From this perspective, my sword embryo does have some characteristics of a Dao artifact. As a treasure of the soul, the Soul Suppressing Hall does not have this appearance. This should be due to the special metal, Spirit Bright Gold."

"Of course, although it has some characteristics, the sword embryo is still far from a true Dao artifact."

As his thoughts raced, Jiang Chen pondered the extraordinary nature of the sword embryo and its future. Now that the sword embryo was forged, it needed to be nurtured and its sharpness tempered. Only then could it transform into a true flying sword.

As Jiang Chen's mind continued to merge with the sword embryo, and as the sword embryo's spirituality continued to radiate, the metal fragments that Jiang Chen had put away and returned to silence actually began to react on their own.

With a crackling sound, lightning flashed, and a dormant power was gradually reviving within the metal fragments. Jiang Chen noticed this change immediately.

"This is···"

With a wave of his sleeve, Jiang Chen took out the metal fragments he had obtained from the fox demon.

As the metal fragments were removed from the storage bag and came into further contact with the aura of the sword embryo, their reaction intensified. In an instant, thunderous sounds erupted, and streaks of lightning, like silver snakes, burst forth from the fragments, illuminating the entire hall.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen frowned slightly and immediately sealed off the anomaly.

"The fox spirit used a blood sacrifice to break the outermost seal on this metal fragment, and now it's starting to revive on its own?"

With his powerful soul, Jiang Chen ignored the imposing thunder and attempted to find the source of the metal fragments' mutation.

These lightning powers, though seemingly terrifying, are actually quite scattered and can only injure cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage. What's truly peculiar is that this power seems to connect with heaven and earth, which is why Jiang Chen truly values ​​it.

As Jiang Chen's divine soul power crossed the lightning and truly touched the inside of the metal fragment, he immediately made a different discovery.

"Spirituality? Has a dormant spirituality awakened within this metal fragment?"

With his keen senses, Jiang Chen detected a spirituality deep within the metal fragments. This spirituality was severely damaged, as if it had suffered a major blow and been worn down by time, and was now on the verge of extinction.

"So that's how it is. The treasure has a spirit. It was about to perish, and after sensing the sword embryo full of spirituality, this spirituality was almost instinctively revived. It longed to continue and wanted to devour the sword embryo or merge into the sword."

Upon touching upon spirituality, Jiang Chen suddenly gained a clear understanding.

There is great terror between life and death, and all living beings yearn for life and fear death. This is true even for magical artifacts that have developed spirituality. Of course, compared to humans, the spirituality of artifacts is much weaker and is more like an instinctive reaction.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? If...

Jiang Chen's gaze shifted between the sword blank and the metal fragments as he fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)