Arcs of blue electricity surged over the massive blade, and balls of light that resembled stars slowly lit up in a profound pattern on the surface of the sword. They were like bright celestial bodies in a storm of lightning.

Bursts of Yin energy converged toward the blade to ignite the dazzling stars, and there were around 17 stars in total on the entire sword. However, each one of them was extremely slow to light up, and right as the fifth star was ignited, the surrounding Yin energy abruptly shuddered before completely fading.

"What a pity," Qin Ye sighed as he turned around. Looks like we still have a long way to go.

This was the mold for the second-generation forbidden art.

It had been crafted in the form of a claymore, and its production cost was in the tens of billions. It had only just been completed, yet only in theory was it able to contain a second-generation forbidden art. Unfortunately, during this first experiment, it was only able to gather Yin energy in five of its nodes.

Unless all 17 nodes could light up at once, the second-generation forbidden art couldn't be completed. Furthermore, the subsequent molds would potentially have to undergo massive changes in order to light up all 17 nodes, so at the very most, only a quarter of the project was complete.

No one was surprised by this, and...