"Master!"
"Heavens! There's a ninth-tier opportunity here that can cleanse the meridians and marrow!"
The Sun Sword Heir suddenly cried out.
No one around him paid him any attention.
In fact, unlike the Sun Sword Heir, who could not stop talking, the others—especially the Supremes—had read all the jade slips at once. That included the slips Divine Lords Xuan Huo and Xuan Shui, and Divine Lord Tianyin, had submitted directly through the highest-grade communication talismans. They already knew the whole story.
"The Heavenly Craft Spiritual Treasure Creation Spring..."
Taiyin Supreme murmured to herself.
As the current Supreme of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, she knew more.
"In years past, the Spirit Treasure Celestial River flowed through the Spiritual Treasure Realm. Like a jade belt, it ran from Radiant Treasure Lake at the upper realm mountain gate, through the many middle worlds and lesser worlds under the Spiritual Treasure Realm's control. It wound through the stars like a dragon of treasure-light, completing one circuit every million years before returning to Radiant Treasure Lake."
"The Spirit Treasure Celestial River had an exceptionally powerful nurturing effect on newly forged treasures. Even a newly made near-immortal treasure would rise an entire grade if nurtured in its waters for a million years. It was one of the Spiritual Treasure Realm's ultimate foundations."
"Toward the end of the great calamity, the river was shattered and vanished without a trace."
"I never expected to find a remnant of it today."
"The Spiritual Treasure Realm hid this remnant deep within time and space. Even we would have struggled to notice it without opportunity and luck."
"Even with the luck to find the remnant of the Spirit Treasure Celestial River, it would be difficult to wash away the endless resentment within it—the resentment of near-immortals," the Taiyin Sword Lord