Before seeing the Five Element Ring, Shang Xia had no idea Yi Sangtian and Yun Hu would actually transform the Abyssal Blade to another type of weapon altogether!2

When Shang Xia first met with the 2 of them and asked about modifying his weapon to better suit him, they recommended a series of changes that seemed pretty reasonable to him. They wanted to transform the weapon according to the special properties of his Five Element Dipper Qi.0

In order to do so, Shang Xia would have to merge his fate dipper essence into the spirituality of the weapon0

They weren’t talking about his Five Element Dipper Qi, or his source energy. They wanted him to fuse a strand of his fate dipper into it. In Shang Xia’s case, that would mean that he would have to use one of the fate dipper essences he had already refined.0

Splitting off a fate dipper essence would mean that Shang Xia’s cultivation would be affected. It could even affect his foundations!0

However, Shang Xia listened to the Grandmaster Blacksmiths’ explanation and he not only agreed with their idea, but decided to split off 5 strands of fate dipper essences to be merged with the spirituality of the divine weapon.0

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