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After his reflections, Jiang Xuan let out a long breath and turned his gaze back to his Mindflow Furnace.

There, a wooden sword wrapped in vines floated in midair.

In truth, the trace amount of curse aura leaking from the cursed crow had not been enough to forge a complete Sword of the Mind.

By all reasonable standards, he would have needed to completely kill that corrupted spirit deer and use it as material to finish the forging.

But first, Jiang Xuan had stared directly at the source of all this corruption—the drop of Eerie blood.

Though he had only observed it through the Heavenheart Mirror for a brief moment, that drop of blood stood far above the power of this place. That single glimpse had allowed Jiang Xuan to comprehend countless mysteries.

Second, the sword before Jiang Xuan was not merely the Withered Sword.

The sword's foundation was the "Spring Rejuvenation Sword" Jiang Xuan had forged in the past.

"Withering and flourishing are two sides of the same coin... It can make others wither while allowing oneself to flourish."

That understanding had transformed Jiang Xuan's Spring Rejuvenation Sword into the Wither-and-Bloom Sword.

After striking an enemy, when operated normally, this sword could heal another's wounds. When operated in reverse, it would forcibly drain the enemy's vitality, making them wither, fade, and decline. The extracted vitality would then nourish the Wither-and-Bloom Sword itself, causing it to grow ever more powerful.

"It's got a bit of that demonic sword flavor now... But who cares? Power itself has no distinction between good and evil. It only depends on who wields it."

"Damn it! We can't hold them back—"

While Jiang Xuan was intently observing, analyzing, and beginning to forge the Wither-and-Bloom Sword, the circumstances of Luo Jing, Liang Si, Zheng Ce,