"Snow shadows stirred the soul and reflected a pure pact" - Spitting out the sun and swallowing rosy clouds, ghostly souls consigned to the pine wind

At the sight of Kou Xueyi drawing forth her glittering, icy Calyx Staff against the wind, the Shangqing Sect Master, who had been watching quietly below the platform without betraying any emotion, suddenly looked astonished and blurted out:

"The Sacred Azure Jade Spirit Staff?"

Standing beside him, Qingming saw his surprise and asked:

"Master, may I ask what this Sacred Azure Jade Spirit Staff is...?"

"Ah, nephew, you do not know. The origins of this Sacred Azure Jade Spirit Staff are extraordinary indeed. I once read an ancient scripture containing many strange tales. One passage said that if a pure plum tree could grow upon the ice cliffs of an eternal, towering frozen peak, the coldest ice qi between heaven and earth would resonate with the purest, most numinous plum soul. After several thousand years, they could produce such an unparalleled immortal weapon, which the passage called the Sacred Azure Jade Spirit Staff. This staff has another remarkable quality: its form and power respond to the cultivation of its wielder. Seeing that Fairy Kou's staff has only taken the shape of a calyx, I fear..."

Here, Ling Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, gazed intently at the figure gliding through her attacks on the platform, and continued:

"I imagine she has possessed this staff for only eight hundred years or so?"

"Indeed, True Person, your discerning eye is excellent! And as far as I know, a weapon formed through the communion of such supremely cold, yin ice essence with the most vigorously living plum soul in the world has another name: Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Slaying."

The speaker was Zhang Sheng, Celestial Master Zhang, leader of the Celestial Master Order, standing nearby. Watching the woman whose flowing steps seemed those of an immortal, he murmured thoughtfully:

"Strike death with yang, strike yin with