Many Treasures.
Metal qi was cold and forbidding; white light unfurled and curled.
High above, Xuan knelt before an enormous divine figure of precious gold. Glazed, gold-lacquered array robes billowed around the figure like clouds, while myriad manifestations of hidden metal transformed around his body.
It was Kuying, the Attendant Envoy of hidden metal!
He raised his head slightly. Thunderfire flowed through his mismatched eyes, red flecking black and copper mingling with gold, as he gazed with utmost reverence at that immense Golden Mountain.
The Golden Mountain stood at the center of the grotto-heaven, resembling both a tower and a treasury. Countless treasures revolved around it like a river of stars.
At that moment, a broken, golden sword tip slowly emerged from among those secret treasures.
The sword tip seemed condensed from boundless autumn radiance. Sounds of slaughter surged and echoed within it, revealing manifold manifestations of Geng Metal: an autumn moon in a frost-filled sky, vicious baleful forces of metal and stone. Within it lay endless true principles of metal virtue.
[Yize] had broken, splitting into nineteen pieces.
Nine fragments had been sent beneath Green Pond for the [Upholding Reform] True Lord, who was preparing to change positions, to refine. Many Treasures had acquired one, while the remainder had scattered into the Great Void, awaiting those destined to find them.
Tai Zhen had taken none.
The present lord of Geng Metal possessed tremendous spirit and disdained his predecessors' path, even when it came to an immortal artifact... If it broke, it broke. He had the boldness to cast off the old order.
Beneath countless rays of hidden metal light, this sword tip gradually changed. It swiftly gained life and took human form: a general clad in black-and-gold armor, his face like gold and bronze, a long blade hanging at