Transforming Ancestor into Spirit

"...Mm. Looks like it really did succeed."

Xiao Xuan looked at Xiao Yan, who was holding the stone tablet in both hands, and could not help nodding in satisfaction.

Then he leaned slightly forward and glanced at the simple, ancient stone tablet in Xiao Yan's hands. Countless inscriptions, so fine they were almost impossible to see clearly, formed the tablet's unique patterns and veins. At the center of the tablet, four ancient characters were engraved.

Heavenly Tomb Stone Tablet.

"Heavenly Tomb Stone Tablet? Not a bad name. Taking the Heavenly Tomb as a tablet does fit the name it has carried for these ten thousand years."

Xiao Xuan nodded, the smile in his voice only growing.

"The name doesn't really matter... It's just, Ancestor, now that I've refined the Heavenly Tomb, what about you..."

Xiao Yan hesitated a little. After all, earlier Xiao Xuan himself had been impatiently urging him to refine the Heavenly Tomb as quickly as possible into a Spiritual Tool that belonged to him. But he had not thought that Xiao Xuan was also currently inside the Heavenly Tomb. Now that he had refined the Heavenly Tomb into a Spiritual Tool, what was Xiao Xuan supposed to do?

"No matter. Rather, with me here, I can instead let your strength take another step forward."

In response to Xiao Yan's worries, Xiao Xuan waved his hand without the slightest concern, then explained, "You and I are connected by blood. I am merely a remnant soul, and I cannot leave the Heavenly Tomb. It is entirely thanks to the special nature of the Heavenly Tomb that I have been able to settle here. Even if I left the Heavenly Tomb, my remnant soul would soon disperse, let alone be of any help to you."

"But now that you have