Just as Xiao Yan was preparing to reverse Xiao Xuan's state with his time power, the voice of the Plane Spirit suddenly echoed in his mind.
"You're planning to revive your ancestor using your time power? I advise you not to waste your energy. Doing so will only exhaust all the time power you've worked so hard to acquire."
"Oh? You're still alive? I thought the Tower of Soul Refinement had already burned you to ashes," Xiao Yan replied, slightly amused. Shaking his head, he added, "As long as I can bring Ancestor back, it's worth using up all my time power."
After all, with his strength, opening a spatial passage to another plane wasn't hard. Even if his time power ran dry, he could simply return and gather more.
"I understand your reasoning. But your ancestor has been dead for far too long. Even if you burn through all your current power, it's still not enough to return him to the state you want," the Plane Spirit said calmly. "To truly wield time power like that, you'll need a force that can constantly replenish itself."
"If that's the case, I'll just go back into the time turbulence and absorb more," Xiao Yan said, not thinking much of it.
"That's too troublesome," the Plane Spirit replied. "I actually have a method that will allow you to never worry about running out of time power again. As long as you can provide energy, you'll be able to continuously generate time power. That way, reviving your ancestor will be easy."
"You have a method?" Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked with interest.
"Condense a Time Ancestral Symbol," the Plane Spirit said with a smile.
"Condense an Ancestral Symbol?" Xiao Yan paused. He had once artificially created a Heavenly Flame, but that was only possible due to his deep understanding of flames. As for Ancestral Symbols, he had only recently started to grasp them. Though he could now wield their power freely, he was far from the mastery he had over Heavenly Flames.
As he gained deeper control over the Ancestral Symbols, he had developed a better understanding of their power. However, to condense one himself still seemed nearly impossible. After all, Ancestral Symbols were forged from the very laws of heaven and earth. Even the Symbol Ancestor, the greatest of all Symbol Masters, had never managed to create one. So how could he, a latecomer, possibly succeed?
"You should be somewhat familiar with our world's Symbol Master system by now, right?" the Plane Spirit suddenly asked an unrelated question.
"Yeah." Though he was puzzled by the question, Xiao Yan nodded. While the Symbol Master system differed from the Alchemist path, he had studied forging techniques recently and thus had a decent understanding of the profession. From his view, most Symbol Masters on the Tianxuan Continent were wasting their forging talent with frivolous pursuits.
"Then you should also know that the most crucial step in becoming a Symbol Master is condensing a Natal Symbol Mark. Beyond the basic techniques, there are higher forms like the Natal Spirit Symbol and Natal Heaven Symbol. In truth, the so-called Eight Ancestral Symbols are themselves a type of Natal Symbol Mark."
"You mean the Ancestral Symbols were originally formed through cultivation? But didn't you say they were born from the world itself?" Xiao Yan asked, puzzled.
"They were," the Plane Spirit explained, "But think of it like this: if you imagine our world as a person, then the Ancestral Symbols are the Natal Symbols it cultivated during its growth. However, these were not formed by spiritual power, but by unique energies. That's what makes them so powerful."
"Originally, even if you had reached the Ancestral Realm, you wouldn't have been able to do this. But you now possess my power and are the master of this plane. You control the power of the entire realm, which gives you the qualification to attempt condensing a new Ancestral Symbol," the Plane Spirit said. "Of course, another reason I'm urging you to do this is because of this space."
"To condense an Ancestral Symbol, you need the corresponding energy. Your current store of time power alone wouldn't be enough. But this space is quite unique. It's filled with trace amounts of time energy. As its master, you should be able to gather that power and fuse it with your own to create an Ancestral Symbol."
"If you can successfully condense the Time Ancestral Symbol, reversing your ancestor's state will be a piece of cake."
"In that case, there's no time to waste. I'll start condensing the Time Ancestral Symbol right now!" Xiao Yan took a deep breath and immediately sat cross-legged. But just as he was about to begin, the Plane Spirit interjected again.
"Condensing a symbol requires spiritual power—what your world calls soul power. Using your physical body for this will have a high failure rate."
"In that case…" Xiao Yan paused to consider, then changed his hand seal. A faintly glowing, illusory figure emerged beside him—it was his long-unused soul clone.
As soon as the soul clone appeared, spatial ripples spread around them, and he was soon transported into a very unique pocket space.
This small space had only become accessible after he refined the Heavenly Tomb Spirit. Xiao Yan had named it the "Grave of the Heavenly Tomb." The time flow inside the Heavenly Tomb was already much slower than the outside world, but within this subspace, time was even slower still.
Condensing an Ancestral Symbol would clearly take considerable time. So Xiao Yan sent his soul clone into the Grave of the Heavenly Tomb to complete the task. Since their minds were linked, he would immediately sense it once the symbol was successfully formed—then he could begin reviving Xiao Xuan.
The only drawback was that until the Time Ancestral Symbol was completed, he couldn't use the soul clone's power. But Xiao Yan didn't mind. He still had his origin spirit clone, and with his current Dou Di strength, he was unmatched on the Dou Qi Continent. He hardly needed soul power for anything.
"Now all I can do is wait…" Xiao Yan murmured softly. Exiting the Heavenly Tomb, he looked in the direction of the Hun Clan, and his eyes glinted with an unfamiliar light.
Now that he had a little time on his hands, it was finally time to settle the grudges of his previous life…
(End of Chapter)
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