179: Chapter 178 The Formed Heart Blade

That light was extremely faint, extremely weak—so weak it was almost invisible.

Yet, the very instant this faint light appeared, the phantom Dragon soul that was about to bite down on the Golden Sharpness True Intent suddenly froze.

It turned its head to look at the light.

Within those illusory Dragon eyes, a trace of something indescribable flashed—fear.

Yes, fear.

Could the remnant soul of a flood Dragon actually feel fear towards a faint light?

Jiang Hanzhou had no time to think it over.

The light slowly rose.

As the light dissipated, it revealed an object.

It was a blade.

A blade that was extremely illusory, extremely blurry, with only its outline barely visible.

The blade was about three feet long; intricate patterns were faintly visible on the hilt, and an elusive sharpness flowed along the edge.

It floated in the depths of the Sea of Consciousness, quietly burning with some indescribable light.

The Heart Blade.

The embryonic Heart Blade condensed by the Heart Furnace Artifact Forging Art.

Jiang Hanzhou had almost forgotten its existence.

After Cultivating this artifact forging secret technique obtained from Sandro, he had only condensed this illusory embryonic Heart Blade within his Sea of Consciousness.

With no further progress, he had temporarily shelved it and stopped Cultivating it.

But he had never imagined it would appear at this moment.

What he expected even less was—

The embryonic Heart Blade gave a gentle tremor.

That tremor was extremely light, extremely faint, as if it were merely ripples caused by a breeze blowing across the surface of a lake.

Yet, with just this tremor, the ten-zhang-long phantom Dragon soul instantly froze in place!

It trembled.

Its illusory Dragon body shuddered violently, and the fear in those Dragon eyes had become so intense it was almost tangible!

It wanted to flee!

But it could not escape at all.

The embryonic Heart Blade gave a gentle flash.

The next instant, it appeared before the phantom Dragon soul.

The blade slashed gently.

There was no blade aura, no sharpness, no fierce Qi whatsoever.

It was just a gentle slash.

The phantom Dragon soul shattered instantly!

It was not sliced apart, but disintegrated.

The fragmented pieces of the Dragon soul turned into countless dark golden specks of light, which were slowly absorbed by the embryonic Heart Blade.

With every fragment absorbed, the embryonic Heart Blade became one part more solid.

The blade body, which had originally been so illusory it was almost transparent, now began to become distinct.

Patterns began to emerge on the blade.

They were winding, Dragon-like patterns, identical to the dark golden patterns on the tiger soul saber, yet even more intricate and profound.

The light flowing within the patterns was no longer purely dark gold; instead, a faint layer of blood-red was added to the dark gold.

That was the color of Dragon blood.

While absorbing the Dragon soul fragments, the embryonic Heart Blade was also absorbing the Dragon Yuan power that was surging into the Sea of Consciousness along with the Divine Sense!

Those Dragon Yuan that had originally been coiled in the depths of the tiger soul saber seemed to have found a new home; they surged frantically along Jiang Hanzhou's Divine Sense into the Sea of Consciousness, pouring into the Heart Blade that was currently taking shape!

Jiang Hanzhou's Sea of Consciousness boiled at this moment!

Countless dark golden specks of light surged in like a tide, rotating and twining around the embryonic Heart Blade, and were finally absorbed by it.

Every time it absorbed a portion, the Heart Blade became one part more solid.

Every time it became one part more solid, the patterns on the blade became one part clearer.

He did not know how much time had passed.

Perhaps it was the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

Perhaps it was an hour.

Perhaps even longer.

That Heart Blade finally fully formed.

It floated in the depths of the Sea of Consciousness; the blade was about three feet three inches long and dark golden in its entirety, densely covered with winding, Dragon-like patterns, with faint blood-red light flowing within them.

At the hilt, the outline of a Dragon's head was faintly visible, its mouth wide open, biting onto the blade.

Along the edge, a cold glint flowed ceaselessly; that cold glint was extremely faint, yet just one glance at it made one's eyes sting.

The Heart Blade.

The truly formed Heart Blade.

It was no longer an illusory embryonic form, but a Heart Blade that could be truly utilized.

Jiang Hanzhou opened his eyes abruptly.

Two beams of dark golden light shot out from his eyes, leaving two deep holes in the wall of the quiet room!

He looked down at his hands.

His hands were as good as new, without any abnormalities.

But deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the Heart Blade floated quietly, connected to his mind and spirit.

He could sense its existence, sense its every gentle tremor, and sense the power contained within the blade—

That was forged with the Dragon soul as the bone, Dragon Yuan as the flesh and blood, and the Heart Furnace Artifact Forging Art as the furnace—

The Heart Blade.

It was not a physical entity, yet it surpassed a physical entity.

Using the heart as the furnace, the spirit as the fire, and the soul as the material.

Now that the Heart Blade was formed, whether he was forging artifacts or facing enemies in the future, he would have an unimaginable trump card.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

His Divine Sense probed into the tiger soul saber once again.

Deep within the blade, that pool of dormant Dragon Yuan still existed, but it had shrunk by more than half.

What had been absorbed by the Heart Blade was only a portion of it—about thirty percent.

The remaining seventy percent of the Dragon Yuan still slept deep within the blade, waiting for him to slowly refine it in the future.

But that trace of the Dragon soul's remnant will had completely disappeared.

It had been completely devoured by the Heart Blade.

Jiang Hanzhou opened his eyes, and a smile slowly curled at the corner of his mouth.

The smile was very faint.

Yet it contained indescribable joy.

This time, the gains were too great.

The Golden Sharpness True Intent had broken through to twenty percent.

The tiger soul saber had devoured Dragon Yuan, and its grade had advanced another step.

The Heart Blade was formed, with the Dragon soul as its bone.

Any one of these three Opportunities would be enough to make an ordinary Primal Form Realm Cultivator wild with joy.

Yet he, within a single day, had gathered them all.

He put the tiger soul saber into his sumeru pouch, stood up, pushed the door open, and walked out.