Leaving aside Xuan Sheng, who had found the Azure Dragon Sea-Churning Sword and begun his own path of the Dao.
After Ling Qing returned to Jade House Cave, he entered secluded cultivation once more.
Ever since he had slain Xuan Sheng and obtained the Chaos Mystic Embryo, he had been struck by a realization.
When his Immortal-Ending Sword Qi had surged into the qi mystic embryo, the vital forces within had tangled together, giving rise to all manner of transformations.
It was like the creation of heaven and earth.
Yet he could clearly sense that Xuan Sheng's Chaos Mystic Embryo did not possess the foundation needed to open up a world.
Still, the insight of a world on the cusp of being born, of heaven and earth poised to emerge in splendor, had been etched into Ling Qing's heart.
Seizing upon that insight, Ling Qing selected one sword artifact from among the mystic embryos he had already created.
After examining it and discovering obvious flaws, he dismantled it and created it anew.
Once he saw that it was not entirely without imperfections, yet he could no longer find any with his present abilities, he held the sword artifact in hand and guided it with a sword finger, drawing upon the principles born within the mystic embryo and linking them to the principles of the Great Dao.
The Wildness Template used to refine this sword artifact was the Azurewater Mystic Whale.
Above the sword light, a one-horned giant whale roamed the void, its body covered in sparks born from the collision of true Dao and false Dao.
The circumstances of tribulation for spirit treasures refined through Wildness Talismans were generally much the same after they gave birth to mystic embryos.
Like the Azure Dragon of old, so long as the Azurewater