A Gift from the Plane, Seeing Mu En Again

A gift from the plane itself.

This gift had not come because the first Level 10 Soul Tool had appeared, but because the first Life-Bound Soul Tool had been born.

The age of Soul Tools could be traced back to ancient times.

It might even stretch back to the era when the Dragon God ruled this plane.

Huang Jinxu had even suspected that the gap in Soul Tool history was connected to the Dragon Race and the Beast Race.

The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, the Sea God's Heart that Tang San had obtained ten thousand years ago, was itself a Soul Tool—quite possibly one above Level 10.

Level 11, or even Level 12, was not impossible.

Thus, the plane's gift had not been for the creation of a Level 10 Soul Tool, but for the birth of a Life-Bound Soul Tool.

According to his research, the path Kong Deming had devised—creating a Reverse-Refined Martial Soul from which a Life-Bound Soul Tool could emerge—was a path toward forging Divine Artifacts.

That was why the Rules had bestowed a gift.

The materials he had used were already of the highest caliber. Into them, he had incorporated Soul Tool research, the methods of forging Divine Artifacts, and his mastery of the Rules.

With this gift added, the tool had far surpassed a Level 10 Soul Tool the moment it took shape.

By Huang Jinxu's estimate, it fell into the realm of a half-step Level 11 Soul Tool.

It had also been granted three traits outright.

The first was Body-Shattering. Once he struck a target, the Stellar Power contained within his Life-Bound Soul Tool would erupt, shattering the enemy's body from within.

The second was Space-Shifting. It contained a measure of spatial Rules, allowing the Long Spear to redirect the force of an attack