Su Che rode a streak of escaping light, shooting westward like a meteor.
As he stroked the Four Absolutes Banners, a small voice spoke beside him.
"Greetings, Young Master."
A pale-faced child stood cautiously at his side, dressed in a beautiful green silk shirt with two topknots in his hair.
"You are...?"
"Reporting to Young Master, this servant is the artifact spirit within the Four Absolutes Banners. My name is Jue'er."
Su Che looked at the tiny child beside him and silently marveled at the craftsmanship.
He did not understand much about artifact refinement, but from the fundamental principles of the Nine Heavenly Human Arts, he knew that magical artifacts, much like divine abilities, served as a buffer amid the clash of laws between cultivators and heaven and earth.
To use an example from his previous life, magical artifacts were probably like the lever in the principle of leverage, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
As accessories of cultivators, magical artifacts generally bore a cultivator's deep imprint, so very few developed Numinous Obscurity.
Only a handful of extraordinarily special artifacts could surpass this stage and nurture a primordial spirit.
Reaching that stage often required tempering through a Heavenly Tribulation.
Then, after such artifacts guarded by primordial spirits underwent continual cultivation, they would eventually draw down a form-shaping Heavenly Tribulation. Once they passed that trial, the primordial spirit could be molded into physical form.
The Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden of old was one example, and these Four Absolutes Banners were another.
No wonder the Beimang Ghost Ancestor had lent the Four Absolutes Banners to him so generously.
Not only had these Four Absolutes Banners developed a primordial spirit, they had even passed the form-shaping Heavenly Tribulation. They belonged to the most exceptional class of treasures in this world.
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