The Legend of Min Hong

Chapter 193: Weapon Spirits Explained

"Little Bing is still refining the slaughter and murderous aura she had manage to accumulate from last month's battle"

"It was only because of the nature of Little Lin's material and core that she was able to refine them much quicker"

Old Man Li explained as Min Hong finally got the name of Little Wu's weapon spirit

"Furthermore, you would also be able to comprehend the Slaughter Dao with the help of Little Lin after she had comprehended it to the Intent Level" Old Man Li added

"Is that why her runes are taking a red tinge?" Min Hong asked

"Yes, when all her runes completely turn blood red, then she would have reached the Ninth Plane Intent Level of the Slaughter Dao"

"But once you start comprehending the Slaughter Dao with your interactions with her, the blood red runes will gradually return to normal the higher you reach in the Intent Plane of the Slaughter Dao" Old Man Li answered

"So, it would be like absorbing all the slaughter aura from her, right?"

"But wouldn't that mean she would lose the Dao, herself?"

Min Hong wanted to fully understand the logic behind it, because if it was what he was thinking it is, then he wouldn't mind having another extra helping hand that would help him comprehend Daos

"You cannot take something that has been etched into the deepest core of someone's soul Moreover, you should be more worried about the process required to absorb the Dao from her"

Old Man Li mystified and refused to go into the details of the second part of his last statement then he turned to Little Lin and answered her question;

"As for you it is not something completely unheard of in fact back in the ancient times, it was very common"

"Warriors who had undergone many life and death experiences with their weapon end up developing a special bond with them"

"Since they started off as an ordinary weapon, the more their master refines and sharpen them with his Qi, the weapon would then develop sentience which takes its Tier up another level"

"hen with the more Qi they absorb and battle they undergo, the weapons would then possess self-consciousness"

"Put in simpler terms, a new born babe would have sentience, but it would take a lot of time of self-discovery before they are self-conscious"

"At that time, the weapon consciousness would then take on the appearance of how ever if feels for its master; some have taken the form of a teenager even though they are hundreds of thousands of years older, probably because they had a master-student bond between themselves"

"I have also seen weapons that take the appearance of a mother, probably because the weapon dotes on its user the same way a mother would or probably because its master's mother had passed away in the past and it was hoping to fill in that void" Old Man Li explained

"So, Little Lin took a little girl's appearance because you both have a master-student relationship?"

Min Hong asked as both Little Lin and Old Man Li descended into a brief moment of silence before he finally spoke out;

"She took that appearance because she wanted to fill the spot of my dead daughter"

Old Man Li replied with a deep but painful sigh as Min Hong realized he had unknowingly asked a question he shouldn't have asked

After Old Man Li made that statement, they all descended into another awkward silence as Little Wu finally intervened to push off the cloud of awkwardness looming over their heads;

"Furthermore, after they have taken an appearance, they would then turn the weapon from which they originated from into their temporary body in a case where the master wishes to forge a body for the weapon soul" Little Wu continued

"But won't that mean the master then has no weapon anymore?" Min Hong asked with a curious frown etched on his face

"Not at all in fact that is an even better outcome for both parties"

"There's a difference between having a sentient or self-conscious weapon and actually having a living one"

"A weapon would only be ranked by Tiers since they can't cultivate on their own and would be limited by the potential of their masters"

"But living weapons who have human or beast bodies of their own can cultivate separately and eventually surpass their masters"

"There was once a living weapon with one of the Elder-gods of our time which actually surpassed its master who was in the god realm and achieved autarchy first"

"It was after then that its master was also able to use its influence to achieve autarchy" Old Man Li explained further

"Whoa! That is so incredible!" Min Hong was so ecstatic that he began to look at Little Lin with shining eyes which caused her blush to intensify another notch

"But once a weapon spirit has taken an appearance, they can never change it again"

"That is why it will only take a weapon who truly loves its master to actually sacrifice that once in a lifetime opportunity to be whatever they can be for their master"

"Furthermore, they would still retain the properties of the weapon from which they were born"

"In the case of a spirit born from a sword, just a chop of his or her finger would be a thousand times sharper than if they were still in weapon form, because now, they can greatly and precisely control their strength in human form"

"In the terms of a spirit born out of an hammer, a punch from his or her fists would be strong enough to smash a mountain into the ground "

"In Little Lin's case; she is a staff spirit, and a staff has the properties of every other weapon"

"They can be as nimble as a sword, as forceful as a hammer, as piercing as a spear or as agile as a whip"

"Thus, she practically embodies every good qualities of every weapon asides from the fact that she is not sharp, which means every of your opponent would be greatly wary of you, because I would rather have myself stabbed to death than be actually beaten to death" Old Man Li revealed