His terrifying talent had made Jiang Xuan's cultivation exceptionally smooth over the past three days, and every cultivation method he practiced had advanced by leaps and bounds.
Not until the third day, when he branded the depths of the Duality Dust Sword's spiritual core with an imprint of his own mind and confirmed that the sword belonged wholly to him—and when no more spiritually endowed books could be found in the Scripture Repository to sustain his activation of "Mindflow · Utmost Sincerity"—did he step out of the Scripture Repository, ready to handle a few trivial matters.
"Yiyi, let's go!"
"Buzz!"
At Jiang Xuan's command, the Duality Dust Sword immediately let out a delighted, clear chime within his mind.
Treasure Artifacts possessed spirits. Though they did not possess true human intellect, they had a pure spirituality much like that of an infant.
Having noticed this, Jiang Xuan gave it the name "Yiyi."
At the same time, Jiang Xuan had no fear that the flying sword would betray him.
After countless tens of thousands of years of development in the cultivation world, Cultivators' control over Treasure Artifacts had long reached the finest detail. Life-Bound Treasures in particular were nearly one with their owners, extensions of a Cultivator's Dao.
Thus, legends existed only of Treasure Artifacts abandoning everything to cover their masters' retreat; the possibility of them actively betraying their owners was virtually nonexistent.
As for passive betrayal—for example, being tainted by demonic nature, or controlled by outside forces and made to reveal their owner's secrets—
"Rather than worrying about Yiyi being controlled, I should worry about myself... Right now, and even until the Golden Core, my resistance to such corruption won't measure up to Yiyi's!"
"Still, with the Eternal World Golden Bell and Yiyi here, even Dao Foundation Cultivators won't be able