Raising a Holy Spirit

Sword Lake in the Southern Region of the Eastern Wasteland.

The bright moon hung high like a silver platter, its cool light illuminating the shimmering lake. Zhou Tong and his companions sat quietly in a small boat, the sky ablaze with light, the blue sky and the bright moon reflected in the river.

The moonlight is like water, and tomorrow will come.

"Clang!!"

Suddenly, sword lights appeared on the vast blue lake, a powerful sword intent that was invincible and almost capable of severing one's soul.

Strands of sword marks appeared in the Void the Great, enough to shatter even the most powerful beings.

"The sword intent has been revived!!" Ye Fan and the others nearby had their pupils shrink.

They couldn't help but recall the same scene of revival of Myriad Daos back in the Mysterious Scholar Mansion.

"I wonder what Little Tyrant is up to. How exactly did he revive the great path of the sages?" Pang Bo muttered to himself.

"Zhou Tong is very mysterious. He has many methods that we have never seen before!" Ye Fan exclaimed in amazement.

Faced with these terrifying sword lights, Ye Fan and Pang Bo were not alarmed at all. They knew that Zhou Tong was right in front of them and would definitely not let the sword lights fall on this small boat.

Sure enough, Zhou Tong casually summoned his Sacred Spirit Sword, and instantly the sword seemed to attract countless sword lights, with sword energies slashing down, each sword containing extremely mysterious changes.

The Sacred Spirit Sword clanged and rang out, like the roar of a dragon or the cry of a phoenix, emitting a series of resounding sounds.

"Are they really two saints who cultivate the sword path fighting here? Why can I only sense one kind of sword intent? My Divine Mark Purple Gold has only recorded one kind of sword imprint?" Zhou Tong looked at the sky, his eyes deep, reflecting a vast and unparalleled sword intent.

"No... this is the entanglement and evolution of two sword intents, which eventually merged into one. It's somewhat similar to the Innate Supreme Treasure Technique of the Chaotic Ancient Era!" Zhou Tong silently compared them in his mind and was surprised to find that something similar to the birth of the Innate Supreme Treasure Technique seemed to have occurred in this Sword Lake.

"If I'm not mistaken, and if no one interferes, perhaps hundreds of thousands, even millions of years later, a Holy Spirit will be born here—a Sword Dao Holy Spirit!" Nine-colored divine light suddenly emanated from Zhou Tong's brow, and then—

"Om-long!"

With a hum, the Sacred Spirit Sword revived the Dragon-Pattern Phoenix Blood, transforming into a brilliant light that disappeared into the lake.

The next instant, a red and black light suddenly returned from the lake and entered Zhou Tong's Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

Then, the sword energy that filled the sky vanished into thin air, and everything disappeared.

"Little Tyrant, what did you bring out of the lake?" Pang Bo's expression changed slightly, revealing a look of disbelief.

"It's nothing, it should be the relics of the two saints from the legendary great battle!" Zhou Tong casually brushed Pang Bo off, then closed his eyes and focused his gaze on his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

Suddenly, an extra object appeared in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings: something resembling Nine Aperture Stone Man, except it was transparent and covered in azure ice.

Blue Jade Ice Marrow!

This piece of ice was none other than a top-grade refining material: Blue Jade Ice Marrow.

Blue Jade King is also one of the Nine Heavens Divine Jade series, and Blue Jade Ice Marrow is the most essential part of Blue Jade King. If Blue Jade King is a peerless material for refining Heirloom Sacred Weapon, then Blue Jade Ice Marrow is a top-tier material sufficient to refine Quasi-Emperor Artifact, on par with Chaos Stone.

This piece of Blue Jade Ice Marrow is clearly in human form, about 1.9 meters tall, with eyes, mouth, ears, and nose positioned similarly to a normal person.

It is entirely ice-blue, like a piece of transparent blue ice.

The only difference lies in the heart of this azure humanoid ice figure. There, a fist-sized area is a blood-red patch, with streaks of blood spreading outward from that patch and permeating the entire body.

"I never expected that Holy Spirit would actually appear beneath this Sword Lake, and a Jade Spirit at that!" Zhou Tong was somewhat shocked. He never expected that a Holy Spirit would actually be born beneath this Sword Lake.

"I didn't expect it to be Jade Spirit. I thought it was Sword Spirit!"

Holy Spirit come in many kinds, the most common being Stone Man. Whether it's the Nine Aperture Stone Man that Zhou Tong cut in the Holy City or the Stone Emperor in the Undying Mountain, they are all Stone Man.

But besides the stone golems, there are other types, such as fire spirits, Gold Spirit, and Ice Spirit Holy Spirit. In the cosmic starry sky, there is a fire spirit named Cang Yan, and two hundred thousand years ago, an Imperial Fire Spirit was killed by the Ruthless Great Emperor.

Such things as Jade Spirit are not uncommon. Among the Qinling Great Dragon, there was a Holy Spirit who was about to attain enlightenment. In fact, it was Jade Spirit, and its subordinates were all Jade Person, jade Kirin, jade dragons and the like.

Zhou Tong carefully moved the Jade Spirit to the most densely packed part of the Source Heaven Divine Array within the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, to continue nurturing this Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is both fragile and extremely strong.

It is considered fragile because it takes a very long time to develop, a full million years. Once it is destroyed along the way, it has no future.

But its strength also stems from the Holy Spirit's remarkable adaptability to his environment.

Just like the Nine Aperture Stone Man in the Holy City, even after being moved from its place of origin to another, it can still absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and the Sun and Moon Essence to continue to nurture the Holy Spirit.

In fact, the so-called destruction of the Holy Spirit is actually the destruction of the Holy Spirit's form and embryo.

As long as the Holy Spirit does not leave on its own initiative and the embryo is not destroyed, it can passively move to another place to continue its gestation; just like the Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit in the original work, whose gestation location was changed from the Undying Mountain to another place, and it was still born perfectly.

And that holy Holy Spirit in Jade Pool, even before it was born, was already able to run around everywhere on its own.

The same applies to the Jade Spirit that Zhou Tong obtained. Its birth place changed from beneath Sword Lake to Zhou Tong's Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, but it still doesn't affect it!

As soon as the Holy Spirit was placed, wisps of cold air could be seen emanating from the jade Jade Spirit's body, dyeing a small area of Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings an icy blue.

"Huh? This change..." Zhou Tong was startled. He could feel that his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings seemed to be undergoing subtle and mysterious changes.

The feeling was similar to when setting up Array Patterns inside the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, a sense of Virtual to Real. It was as if the power of the Holy Spirit was influencing a large area of Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, gradually making that area Virtual to Real.

Zhou Tong could even sense that the essence within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings was much stronger than before, and wisps of divine light, the Great Dao, and rules were gathering towards the place where Jade Spirit was, gradually descending.