Chapter 296 — The Form of Spirit-Transformed Blades
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The men of the Ministry of Works rebuilt the Fangzhou Supervisory Workshop from the ground up. Shen Mu had redesigned the great furnace as well, and the workshop emerged wholly renewed, with many mechanical giants added for forging. Once the great furnace was lit and the mechanical giants set to work, the workshop immediately bustled with activity.
Shan Youxin and the others busied themselves with adjustments, while Shen Mu circulated the Mystic Body Three Cores cultivation method, his vital essence surging vigorously. Others in the Six Harmonies realm first cultivated a primordial weapon, and only when the Six Harmonies realm reached perfection would they cultivate a Primordial Spirit—and even then it was incomplete, requiring advancement to the Heaven-Man realm before it could manifest in form and roam the void. He, however, had cultivated the Primordial Spirit first, and only then cultivated the primordial weapon.
His Primordial Spirit was still very weak, far from the stage of manifestation. If the Primordial Spirit could manifest and appear behind him, that would be the Heaven-Man realm.
Between the Six Harmonies and the Heaven-Man, however, lay the Seven Stars realm. He had only just entered the Six Harmonies; that step was still far off.
That his Primordial Spirit could roam the four directions was merely a stroke of fortune. It was when he encountered a master like Xu Shenghua that his heart and spirit were stirred, leading to his enlightenment by the river, and he had brought Ling Yuxiu along to roam the four directions together.
According to the orthodox order of cultivation, he still needed first to gestate a primordial weapon within the Six-Realms Spirit Treasury.
As the Mystic Body Three Cores cultivation method circulated, Shen Mu immediately felt his vital essence penetrate the spirit embryo, the Five Luminaries, and the Six Harmonies. His hun-po merged with the spirit embryo once more, his vital essence condensed, and his Primordial Spirit formed again, breathing in and out the creative power of heaven and earth. His cultivation speed was now much faster than before.
"Could it be that others cultivate in the same way I do? But from what the crown prince said, it seems not..."
He could not help but feel some doubt. From what Ling Yushu had said, it was impossible for others to cultivate a Primordial Spirit at this stage.
Once the Primordial Spirit was cultivated, cultivation speed was very fast. Without it, one could only proceed step by step.
He set this doubt aside for the moment and focused wholeheartedly on circulating the Mystic Body Three Cores cultivation method, stirring his own vital essence and mobilizing his qi and blood. Within the Six-Realms Spirit Treasury, streams of vital essence gathered and flew continuously toward its center, where a primordial weapon was slowly taking shape.
When the Six-Realms Spirit Treasury gestates a primordial weapon, the weapon's form is often the one that best suits one's own cultivation method. This kind of primordial weapon differs from others—it shares breath and fate with its owner, a weapon that grows alongside the cultivator.
The formation of the primordial weapon required no conscious design or creation on his part; it took shape naturally along with his cultivation.
At present, his primordial weapon's form was still being constructed. Its specific shape could not yet be discerned—only a mass of light was visible, with his vital essence flying in from all directions of the Six-Realms Spirit Treasury to converge upon that radiance.
Within the vital essence, various runes and sigils could be faintly seen, profoundly mysterious. Yet to Shen Mu, these runes and sigils were precisely his arts and methods, merely expressed in the form of runes.
Ling Yuxiu's Nine Dragons weapon and Si Yunxiang's Thousand Threads also bore such runic sigils. When forging a primordial weapon, these sigils needed to be branded upon it as well.