Since ancient times, names and implements had both rested in cultivators' hands.
A gentleman was adept at making use of things, but things were not his foundation.
All cultivators could nurture implements. The weapons carried by the strong could often grow alongside them, acquiring considerable power.
Take Jiang Wang's sword, for example. It had first been forged in Nanyao City, already showing the bearing of a famed weapon. But as he had grown all the way to this day, nurtured day and night by the light of his Supernatural Power and tempered through countless battles great and small, it was no longer what it had once been.
The Longing of old would likely have snapped at a touch in a Divine Presence battle. Today's Longing could withstand the Supernatural Power Sword Evolves Myriad Laws, and Jiang Wang wielded it against true demons!
The Longing of today was long no longer defined by the materials Lian Que had gathered in the beginning. Its foundation lay in the will and spirit of its sword master, condensed through remaining at his side day and night; in every moment it had experienced alongside Jiang Wang; in that past which continued to ascend.
But then again, if Jiang Wang lost Longing, he would still be an unparalleled prodigy and a marquis of Great Qi. If Longing left Jiang Wang, its divine radiance would fade with the passage of time, and it would gradually return to being an ordinary weapon. Only if another cultivator nurtured it anew could its edge be seen again.
And how could Jiang Wang's weapon be the only one like this?
Take "Pudu." In Huang Sheli's hands and in Huang Fu's hands, it was fundamentally different.
Even a True Lord's weapon, once it left that True Lord, would gradually be decayed by