The golden lotus's primary purpose was not attack, but defense and recovery. Xiao Yan had infused it with the power of the life spirit flame and the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, then refined the seeds of natural treasures containing Primordial Spirit Qi into lotus seeds and placed them at its original center. This gave it a unique function: simply sitting on it allowed him to replenish his Primordial Spirit Qi continuously, sparing him the trouble of stopping to restore his Origin Spirit from time to time.
However, what pleased Xiao Yan most was the golden seal. Strictly speaking, this alone qualified as a true Primordial Spirit Artifact, because he had used no other materials to refine it. It was formed purely from Primordial Spirit Qi and other gathered energies. It possessed no other attributes; its sole purpose was to suppress enemies.
The Origin Spirit itself could not use any Dou Techniques. However, he had learned from the Ancestral Stone that some weapons on the Heavenly Profound Continent came with their own skills. The powerful experts who refined them imprinted martial arts into the weapons themselves, and activating those imprints would unleash the corresponding skills. Xiao Yan had used this very method to imprint several Dou Techniques onto the golden seal.
The Dou Technique he chose to imprint was the Emperor Seal Art, which he had not used in a long time. It was not that Xiao Yan did not want to imprint something on the level of the Demon Fury Nine Arts, but after doing so, he discovered that their power was too terrifying and might destroy the weapon outright. He could only settle for the next best option and choose the considerably weaker Emperor Seal Art.
Originally, the Emperor Seal Art was merely a High-grade Earth-tier Dou Technique,