Metal shards fluttered in midair, and the feeling of stagnation was quickly swept away. Amidst the sharp, hissing whistles of piercing air, Kou Chu stared dumbly from the side.
"That works too?!"
The Shadow Ghost cursed in a low voice. As a deeply miserable artifact spirit, it felt some empathy: "Only because the artifact spirit here had a simple consciousness, and after being destroyed by you and rebuilt, all its resistance was wiped away. Why don't you try this method on Xingtian?"
Get lost!
Yu Ci cursed back very politely. He would have to be courting death to apply this method to Xingtian.
Throughout the world, manipulating artifacts was done in one of a few ways: either through object-manipulation techniques to hoist them from afar; or via ritual refining to make mind and artifact one; or else by negotiating and reasoning with the artifact spirit, conveying a command for it to execute.
The first was the clumsiest, with the poorest flexibility; the second was the most widespread, with the strongest practicality; the third was the rarest, solely because the standard was too high. How many magical tools and treasures with artifact spirits were there in total under heaven? Moreover, those objects that had birthed self-awareness could no longer be regarded as "objects," but rather as complete, thinking living beings. Who could truly achieve absolute obedience?
Yu Ci had already seen four artifact spirits in this lifetime. Needless to mention Xuanhuang and Xingtian, as for the latter two, the Shadow Ghost had been forcefully shoved into a demon's skull by him, while the one before his eyes was merely a fragment of consciousness, entirely incomplete. Because of this, he was able to achieve control over both.
Yet it was merely control. What use could this possibly be?
The Shadow Ghost speculated: