Dozens of miles south of Heian-kyo, Wondrous Form, Qiu Feibai, and the others were gazing toward the city.
There, countless currents of vital energy, spiritual power, and oni-god power shrouded the place, encompassing everything like a kaleidoscope.
And now, as China and Japan exchanged martial force, an aggressive power was gradually gathering atop the eastern mountain.
Wondrous Form held a palm-sized, simply fashioned mirror in his hand, turning it over and over.
Whenever his fingers brushed across it, a stream of Wondrous Form True Qi flowed into it, then emerged carrying a trace of aura, gathering into a ball in his palm.
This mirror was the Sun Spirit Mirror they had seized from the Light Corps.
Its fundamental power was not like a Chinese magical treasure, equivalent to a cultivator who cultivated passively.
Instead, it was more like a conceptual divine artifact.
What made it a divine artifact was not the mirror itself, but the concept of light contained within it.
Just like the Yuan Sha Gourd and Dragon-Born Staff that Ling Qing had previously refined.
What mattered most was not the gourd or the wooden staff, but the authority contained within them.
This Sun Spirit Mirror was the same, and moreover, the authority it contained still had an owner.
Without its owner's permission, even if someone else obtained this divine artifact, they would be unable to wield its power.
If they encountered even one of its owner's avatars, the owner could easily reclaim that authority.
Fortunately, from the moment he had acquired it, Wondrous Form had used a forbidden art to seal it, cutting off its connection with its owner.
So he did not need to fear having its authority taken back.
This thing truly deserved to be called the treasure that guarded one of the Navy's three great