Huo Lingzi looked at the changes in Shen Luo's expression and knew that Shen Luo had understood, but then he poured a bucket of cold water on him.
"Don't be too happy too soon. The spirit body in this Yansui Fire Crystal has only begun to have spiritual awareness and has not yet truly formed. As for whether it can finally break through that boundary and form a real spirit, it depends on luck." Huo Lingzi said.
"Even if there is a slight chance, it is enough to make people happy." Shen Luo looked at the Yansui Fire Crystal, like a landowner looking at the hen that laid golden eggs, his face full of kindness.
"Then do we still need to refine the sword?" Huo Lingzi asked.
“No, no…” Shen Luo shook his head repeatedly.
To refine the sword, you can just use some thousand-year-old fire unicorn wood or something like that. Sword spirits are something you can only encounter by chance, right
"Since you don't want to refine the sword anymore, I have a way to help you try to cultivate the Yansui Fire Spirit." Huo Lingzi said.
"Please give me some advice, fellow Daoist." Shen Luo asked immediately.
Huo Lingzi glanced at him and slowly said, "The Yansui Fire Crystal has been nurtured for ten thousand years. It already has enough energy. What it lacks is a little spiritual enlightenment. You have to help it accomplish this."
"How to do it?" Shen Luo frowned.
"Communicate with it." said Huo Lingzi.
"How to communicate? Do you want me to talk to it, or exchange thoughts with it? But it doesn't have the ability to communicate now, right?" Shen Luo asked in surprise.
"If it really has this ability, does it still need your enlightenment? What I mean is, you need to spend one hour every seven days to condense a drop of your heart's blood, and then infuse your spiritual thoughts into it, and then integrate it into the Yansui Fire Crystal through the Pure Yang Flying Sword's Sun True Fire." Huo Lingzi continued.
"Can it be done like this?" Shen Luo asked doubtfully.
"The three-foot-thick ice did not form overnight. This is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two. It may take you decades, or even hundreds of years to succeed." Huo Lingzi said.
"If it's just one drop of heart blood every seven days, then it's fine. Then how can it be considered a success?" Shen Luo continued to ask.
"When the day comes that you can feel its response, you will be close to success. Although this method is slow and may not always succeed, as long as it succeeds, these generated spirits will have a strong bond with you, and when you refine them into sword spirits, there will be no resistance or backlash." Huo Lingzi said.
"These? Them? Fellow Daoist Huo, are you saying that there will be more than one Yansui Fire Spirit?" Shen Luo asked in surprise.
"The shape of the Yansui Fire Crystal also depends on God's will. This piece is shaped like a lotus platform, with a total of fifteen petals. It is very likely that there will be as many as fifteen fire spirits produced. But it is not ruled out that only one will be born in the end. It all depends on your luck." Huo Lingzi said slowly.
"Even if there is only one, it's good." Shen Luo nodded happily when he heard that.
Having said that, he was about to try it.
"Okay, you give it a try. I'll assist you and help you control this Yansui Fire Crystal. It's still very unstable now." Huo Lingzi thought for a while and said.
"Thank you very much."
Shen Luo clasped his fists and thanked him, then closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and began to concentrate his mind on gathering the blood in his heart.