What conditions would Qianyi need to successfully form a sword core?
After a day and a night of experiments and thought, amid all the possibilities he had deduced,
Su Ping reached a conclusion.
The contraction of the Sword Body inside Qianyi proved the need for a sword core.
Yet none of the many resources had worked, which pointed to one possibility!
Resource-type "resources" would not do!
Resources were all the energy-containing things on Blue Star that could be absorbed. They were a kind of "food" that both pet beasts and humans could use.
In the beginning, many plants had been resources. They had no self-awareness, intelligence, or souls.
Now, however, there were distinctions and differences between resources and pet beasts among the Plant Element.
Setting aside the reasons for this for now, there was the change itself to consider.
Plant Element resources gained souls, self-awareness, and intelligence, becoming pet beasts.
And if Qianyi wanted to incorporate a sword core, one that was not an extension of his own body and could only form after he used external help to create a Sword Body, how could a cold lump of metal that could not be fully absorbed possibly work?
Therefore, Qianyi's sword core could not be a dead object. It needed to be something "alive."
Yet precisely because a living thing was alive, it obviously could not merge with another pet beast, and Su Ping could not watch another pet beast's soul intrude upon and merge with Qianyi's self-awareness and intelligence.
Thus, the answer was already quite clear.
Su Ping thought for a moment, then turned his slightly bloodshot eyes toward Yin Luo beside him again.
"Master Yin, do we have any corpses of sword-shaped Tool Type pet beasts here?"
"Huh? Corpses of Tool Type pet beasts?"
Yin Luo blinked, not