"An aura more active than yours?"
An Jing was rather curious. "Fuxie, aside from being incomplete, you could almost be said to have come fully alive—though you only truly awakened after seeing the Ancestral Dragon, as things stand now, apart from your unrecovered strength, your consciousness is already that of the complete Heavenly Sword."
"How could one of your fragments be even more active than your main body?"
"Strange as it may sound, that is simply how it is for us Dao Soldiers."
Faced with An Jing's curiosity, Fuxie answered somewhat helplessly, "Dao Soldiers differ from humans. Once we are forged, our path is difficult to alter. Without external aid, advancement is also exceedingly difficult. We are practically forever fixed at the very instant our 'wielder' died."
"But conversely, even if shattered, we are difficult to kill. So long as our origin is not worn away, our existence itself is part of heaven and earth. Thus, our lifespans are nearly limitless, making us ideal for guarding sects."
"Take the Haotian Mirror. Even after being shattered, it could still be worshipped and repaired by later generations of disciples. But the Haotian Mirror of today is 'Ming Guang,' no longer precisely the same mirror as the 'Vast Light Soars the Heavens' of old. Because of this, the Haotian Mirror has gained an entirely new path... Yet by the same token, if the Shangxuan Sect wished to repair the Haotian Mirror, using its fragments mixed with a great many precious materials to reshape its Spirit Soul, then before the main body of your Mingjing Sect's Haotian Mirror recovered, its fragments might well recover into Dao Soldiers first."
"I see." An Jing understood. "You mean that some force in the Dahuang Realm used your fragment as the primary material to forge a new Dao