When Xiao Chen had once asked Wang Wu'er to repair the Dragon Slayer Sword, Wang Wu'er had mentioned an exceedingly rare spiritual material of heaven and earth: Five-Element Divine Ore.
All things beneath heaven could not escape yin and yang, the five elements, and the illusory cosmos.
Yin and yang were what turned one breath into the Three Pure Ones, and the Two Forms into the Four Symbols.
The power of the five elements could take tangible form as five wondrous forces: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Metal gave birth to water, water to wood, wood to fire, fire to earth, and earth to metal. As the five elements generated one another, they gave rise to all things between heaven and earth, to the countless facets of the mortal world.
The Dragon Slayer Sword was invincible because, when it had been forged, that Sword God had fused vast amounts of Five-Element Divine Ore—ore comparable to immortal gold—into it, granting the Dragon Slayer Sword an incomparably terrifying power of the five elements.
Wang Wu'er had once said that if Xiao Chen could find enough Five-Element Divine Ore, he was confident he could restore the Dragon Slayer Sword to more than eighty percent of its peak state.
Unfortunately, Five-Element Divine Ore was far too rare. It required supreme fortune to nurture it before it could come into being, and Great Xia had none at all.
The Dragon Slayer Sword was immensely important to Xiao Chen. Not only was it the sole item left to him by his deceased elders, it could also restrain the Dragon Race, cleave heaven, and slaughter earth. It had to be repaired.
Originally, Xiao Chen had planned to search for it slowly after reaching the Spirit Realm. Who would have thought that, by a twist of fate