The spirit roots within An Jing began to resonate with spirit qi and lethal qi, greedily absorbing the purified metal qi and transforming it for his own use. Strengthened by mystical qi, An Jing completed a full heavenly cycle through his spirit roots and found that his control over sword lethal qi and metal lethal qi grew far more precise and fluid.0

As soon as the gray lethal qi reached his dantian, An Jing followed Yvelbane's instructions, condensing lethal qi with the spirit qi from the souljades to form a seal seed. Minuscule threads of spirit and lethal qi were drawn out and woven into a tiny, highly intricate structure inside his dantian, which served as the core for all future seals.0

It functioned like a toolkit, rather than a system. When needed, An Jing could extract specific parts to form seals, producing formation-like structures in his body.0

At the heart of An Jing's dantian sat an intricate, silver-gray octahedral...0