The Eight Bewitched Followers

Li Ying was struck speechless when he saw the mild spite in everyone's gazes towards him, and he had no choice but to continue on. "How else could it be stopped? The weapons' power began to wane and the number of cultivators who knew how to craft Sword Embryos decreased over time—it's only natural the ability to use them would decline. The spirit weapons back in those days all had an extremely high amount of spirituality, the kind of spirituality that would allow them to grow with their cultivator, but today's spirit tools seek only power and strength. Even if a present-day spirit tool does have spirituality, most of the time it's because of some kind of sealed demon or beast spirit and not the spirituality of the weapon itself. This kind of 'spirituality' can only be activated and used; it can't grow alongside the cultivator!"