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"All right. Ten thousand years had passed; the terrain had changed too much." Zhen Chanzi sounded somewhat frustrated. "It should have been beneath the cliff face."
Wang Qi stood at the bottom of a river valley. Ten thousand years of flowing water had eroded the land, sinking the riverbed and forming this neither shallow nor deep valley. Yet, for some reason, the rock behind Wang Qi had retained its shape despite the constant washing of the current.
Zhen Chanzi guided Wang Qi. "Put your hand on that rock."
The moment Wang Qi pressed his right palm against the glowing boulder, a strange change occurred. The radiance on the bluestone began to flow and gather. In the end, layer upon layer of azure light condensed in Wang Qi's hand, taking the shape of a sword.
Deprived of the protection of that azure light, the rock shattered and collapsed like an eggshell.
"This is... a sudden loss of spiritual energy causing the material's energy level to drop, breaking its molecular and chemical bonds all at once?" Wang Qi curiously patted a fragment of rock. The stone, its physical properties completely altered, could no longer withstand even the slightest force and instantly crumbled into powder.
In this world, spiritual energy was the exponent of energy. Once spiritual energy was lost, the energy contained within matter would decline along with it. That was also why places with thin spiritual energy were often barren mountains and treacherous waters.
Wang Qi examined the longsword in his hand again. The artifact was three chi long and roughly three cun wide, a perfectly