Item-spirit

Item spirit (器灵) of items, can sometimes communicate with humans
== Examples ==
*Xuantian Tower
*Evilmoon
== Selection ==
"Pick out fifteen thousand of the strongest souls and have them devour the other souls. Then they can be used to create Ancestral item-spirits."
To inject spirituality into an item like this after the forging process required the souls be very powerful. The stronger the souls were, the better. So like raising poison insects, he would have them slaughter each other until only the strongest remained.
This method was very cruel and was commonly used by the Corrupt path. A large reason the Evil Path was so powerful was because they used such evil cultivation techniques.
== Consciousness ==
True Ancestral items required their item-spirits to be nourished. This process required a large amount of time and effort. That was why when he had given instructions to Guo Ran to forge them, Long Chen had instructed him to make sure that the armor and weapons shared runes, so that they could share one item-spirit.
That was to save everyone's time. Other than Guo Ran's armor, everyone else's armor and weapon shared one item-spirit. 
Ancestral items are normally nourished by generations of people. Even for the first generation user, it normally requires half a year to a year to awaken the spirit. For some people to have succeeded in just a month is amazing speed.
The item-spirits of Ancestral items required a huge amount of Spiritual Strength to awaken.
Just like incubating an egg, it couldn't be rushed. It needed to be done one step at a time. But the day that everyone awakened their item-spirits would come sooner or later.
For an item-spirit to form a resonance with a master was an excellent sign. That meant that the item-spirit had already obtained a slight consciousness. After gaining its own mind, the item-spirit would need its master to continuously nourish it with their soul. This increased the item-spirit's loyalty and favorable impression. It made them feel dependant on their master. That was the only way to guarantee their loyalty.
Once both sides had reached a necessary level of trust between them, as the item-spirit grew stronger, the master would work together with the item-spirit to learn how to activate the item's runes. When the master attacked, the item-spirit would assist, multiplying their individual power.
From the time that an Ancestral item was forged to when it grew to its peak state, normally hundreds of years would have passed. At the very least, it would require a few decades.
For some of the Dragonblood warriors to have reached this point in just a month was shocking.
No matter what, having an item-spirit with consciousness alone would double the Ancestral item's power. That was the difference between having an item-spirit and not.
As their item-spirits grew stronger, the power of the Ancestral items would also grow. This was an excellent thing.
However, having two Ancestral items sharing one item-spirit would most definitely not be as strong as two Ancestral items with individual item-spirits. But there was no way around that. The Dragonblood Legion didn't have that much time or energy to waste.
Still, Guo Ran raises a dozen item spirits for his armor, which drains his spiritual energy.
== Divine items ==
Divine items possessed item-spirits that were essentially as intelligent as people. The stronger the item-spirit, the greater their dignity. They would be even more offended by an insult than a human expert.
The item-spirits of divine items felt a great aversion to being controlled by other people's souls.
Most experts were only capable of using a portion of a divine item's power because they were unable to gain the approval of the item-spirit. To obtain that approval required lowering the item-spirit's wariness and dislike toward you. That took a very long time. Another requirement was that the item-spirit had to approve of your talent. Only when a divine item thought you could grow into a supreme expert would it accept you.
The majority of experts in control of divine items were unable to win that approval and were only able to order their divine items to attack based on the control of contractual divine runes. That would make the divine item even more irritated, and it would use the minimum energy possible when attacking. 
However, when an expert was able to send thirty percent of their soul energy into a divine item to control it, it meant that the item-spirit had approved of that person.
It was just that for both Shen Bijun and the Pill Fairy, due to the limitations of their cultivation base, thirty percent was their limit. Any more and they wouldn't have enough soul energy to control their own bodies. If they were sneak attacked while focusing all their soul energy on their divine item, they would lose the ability to protect themselves.
Adhering thirty percent of one's soul to a divine item was equivalent to forming a mental connection with it. Not only could you control it, but the item-spirit would also work together with you to unleash the maximum possible amount of power.
==References==
Category:Items
Category:Terminology