"Is this thing really an Innate Spirit Treasure?"
After studying it for a long while, Ye Lin voiced the question weighing most heavily on his mind.
At that, all four fell silent.
How did one tell an Innate Spirit Treasure apart from anything else?
None of them seemed to have learned.
"I've seen an Innate Spirit Treasure, but I don't really know how to identify one."
Blade Fanatic shook his head.
He had seen an Innate Spirit Treasure before.
Blade Saint Heaven Severance—their master—owned one: the sword he often wore at his waist.
But seeing one was not the same as knowing how to identify one.
After all, he had encountered far too few Innate Spirit Treasures.
Treasures coveted even by Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saints were exceedingly rare.
"I can't tell either."
Sword Demon shook his head.
He was at a loss too.
"I... I reckon you ought to test it. Something made after the fact feels different from something innate."
Iron Hammer scratched his head and offered his opinion.
Ye Lin and the other two exchanged glances.
That could work.
Who would have thought the simpleminded Iron Hammer would give them an idea?
"Let's try."
"Then we're trying it?"
"Let's try."
Holding the Hourglass of Time, Ye Lin slowly raised his arm.
In the sunlight, the Hourglass of Time glittered in his hand.
Ye Lin slowly poured his Sword Dao Law into it.
He held nothing back, pouring in the sacred power unique to a Quasi-Saint.
In an instant, the Hourglass of Time burst with light that shone ten thousand feet.
Mysterious, profound laws of time spread through the void.
Under Ye Lin's control, the sand inside began to rise.
The sand at the bottom was flowing upward.
Then something wondrous happened.
In the distance, the crystal ground that had