Zhou Dechen had never seen such a spectacle of treasures. The scenes before his eyes were simply dazzling, stirring his desire.
"Is that... a soul treasure?"
Top-tier soul soldiers were still something he could see, but soul treasures were beyond Zhou Dechen's reach in the Xiu Zun Realm. Yet he recognized at a glance that a short sword before him was markedly different from the other soul soldiers.
Top-tier soul soldiers were forged from precious materials, but their weapon bodies contained no souls. A cultivator had to place a split soul within one to establish a soul connection and control it as effortlessly as moving his own arm and fingers.
Soul treasures were not only forged from even rarer materials, but also already contained artifact spirits. Usually, during forging, a Dao Zun would take something from their Inner World and refine it into the soul treasure's artifact spirit. A blade of grass, a tree, even a stone or some water would do.
Once an Inner World reached perfection, its Great Dao was complete. All things within it possessed intelligence, and formidable beings gradually emerged, even existences akin to the supreme sovereign of a world. If such a sovereign were taken as a soul treasure's artifact spirit, it would become a top-tier soul treasure, just like the Three-Legged Crow Cauldron Mu Bai used.
Aside from having a Dao Zun personally forge one and refine its artifact spirit, anyone seeking to obtain an existing soul treasure needed its artifact spirit's approval. They could either forcibly refine it with their soul or have the soul treasure's artifact spirit willingly serve them.
This short sword was an existing soul treasure, very likely refined by Zhou Qichang and set aside for the Spirit Taming Sect's Heir to the Sect.
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