Following Qing He's requirements, she wanted the sword embryo to act on its own when she could not activate it herself.
The first combination Su Qing thought of was the Aerial Control Rune, Swiftness Rune, Intelligence Rune, and Combat Rune.
Flying swords through the air, seeking enemies on its own, flashing and darting in shifting patterns—fighting to its heart's content!
This was the Magic Sword Puppet he had envisioned for himself long ago.
Before Black Boy appeared, he had known that, with his Spiritual Root Aptitude, he would never wield a flying sword in combat like ordinary War Cultivators in this lifetime.
But while he could not wield a sword, a puppet could fly itself. Who said a magic sword had to be controlled by a cultivator? There was nothing wrong with a magic sword bombing things on its own!
Yet he had never put the idea into practice.
For one thing, magic sword embryos were too expensive.
For another, he had thought it all too simply!
The Aerial Control Rune was a Higher-rank rune, just like Biomimetic Runes.
The key was that this rune's inheritance had never spread to White Cloud Market Town!
Even the cleverest housewife could not cook without rice. Without the relevant inheritance, he could not even grind Proficiency.
Among the puppets generated by the panel, not one required an Aerial Control Rune, so he could not grind puppet Proficiency to raise his rune Proficiency in reverse, either.
Without the Aerial Control Rune, he naturally could not refine a Magic Sword Puppet.
As things stood, this Fire Spirit Sword Embryo alone weighed more than ten times as much as an ordinary magic sword. To make it rise into the air on its own, nothing below a Tier 2 Aerial Control Rune would suffice.
And the strength