Gu Xi drew his hand back, and fine golden threads fell onto the stone in his palm.
Just as the Red Equipment Guard—blacksmith had guessed, Gu Xi really had not known at first what he wanted to make his seal look like.
But things had already begun here, and Gu Xi could not possibly stop.
So Gu Xi simply used the yin energy he had obtained this time to influence the stone.
For that reason, certain elements within the yin energy gained during this advancement would have a certain effect on the stone's appearance.
And what Gu Xi wanted now was to preserve that influence and make it his own.
Under the effect of the golden threads, the changes on the upper half of the stone slowly stabilized as well.
By now, the threads had begun winding continuously around the stone. With every coil, they turned the stone's color into a solemn gold.
Very quickly, the black stone became a small golden seal about the length of a thumb.
The bottom of the golden seal was a square base about the size of a thumbnail. Its underside was flat, and no characters had yet been written there.
Looking up along the base, one would see a small golden mountain "floating" above it. Around the little mountain were clouds that grew thicker and thicker, and from time to time, tiny flood dragons so faint they were almost invisible would appear within the clouds.
If one counted carefully, they would discover there was simply no way to count how many flood dragons there were.
The only thing that could be seen was that the flood dragons' claws or mouths all held one or two strange entities in their grip.
At this point, the seal could be considered halfway complete. At the very