Whether by coincidence or not, the next two lotus seeds Xu Taiping shelled both contained treasures he had planted himself.
One was the Rusty Lion Sword.
The other was the broken Po Jun Sword.
Of these two treasures, the Rusty Lion Sword had been raised to the level of an Immortal Weapon after more than fifty years of nurturing within the Earth Fruit.
Beyond that, it had not changed much.
He could not call it disappointing, but there were no surprises either.
It was more or less what Xu Taiping had expected.
The second treasure, the broken Po Jun Sword, left Xu Taiping slightly disappointed.
When Xu Taiping had buried the broken Po Jun Sword, he had thought that even if it could not be restored, its blade could at least be reforged.
Yet after breaking open the lotus seed, Xu Taiping saw only a very crude sword embryo.
"Having its sword embryo reshaped is still something."
Comforting himself with these words, Xu Taiping prepared to put the Po Jun Sword away.
He planned to find someone knowledgeable about swords to examine this sword embryo later and determine its Rank.
But Fairy Lingyue stopped him.
"Taiping, the Po Jun Sword was, after all, an Immortal Sword on the level of an acquired Divine Weapon. Even if it was broken, after nurturing it for all these years, the Earth Fruit could not possibly have given you nothing but an ordinary sword embryo."
Xu Taiping considered this carefully and found Fairy Lingyue's words reasonable. He took the sword embryo back out of the Iron Gourd, preparing to sense it with his mind.
For any treasure nurtured by the Earth Fruit, Xu Taiping needed only to connect with it mentally to learn its Rank and divine powers.
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