"Oh? What idea? Could this thing possibly have another use? It's not as if I haven't tried. After all, I've only seen something this extraordinary once in all my years. But this thing changes its appearance every few days—you know that too, my young friend. When carving rune patterns, the slightest deviation leads a thousand miles astray. Once its shape changes, the consequences could be anything. At best, it becomes ineffective; at worst, the spell fails or backfires and injures its user. How do you plan to solve that? Besides, if this thing had been obtained ten or twenty thousand years ago, it might still have been wielded, but now, hehe..." Taihua Jun smiled as though he wanted to say something but held back. Wasn't he basically saying that I couldn't exactly swing a stone lion around and smash Sword-Testing Lord to death?
I patted the half-soft, half-hard lump of mud and casually pinched its rune patterns. Sure enough, I could shape runes onto it however I pleased. Of course, if I looked closely, I could still see a process of mending so fine that the naked eye could barely detect it. This thing should have had an ultimate form. For example, if it were placed in a vacuum, it would certainly return to its truest shape.
"What will it return to in the end?" I asked.
"I haven't tried that either. In any case, when this thing was first shaped, it was quite decent, but after some time, it changed form. Who could stand using something like that?" Taihua Jun said with a bitter smile.
Seeing that Taihua Jun genuinely didn't know, I began considering its properties. Of course, I should also find somewhere to experiment.
"You may use this bamboo forest as you please. In any case, many