Zhou Tiege returned the Wood-Steel Dragon Pattern Spear to Zhou Tieyi with visible reluctance. He continued, "If you want this weapon to grow, the first step is to establish a bond with it and awaken its spirituality. Before that, any modifications to the weapon will only damage its perfect spirit."
Zhou Tieyi recalled the records in the *Jianbing Zhumo Lu* (Record of the Weapon-Supervisor Executing Demons), but he did not remember any such method. How could such an important matter be missing from the family archives? "How do I awaken its spirituality?"
Seeing his younger brother looking for a shortcut, Zhou Tiege laughed. "It’s like a ten-month pregnancy—there is no shortcut. I held my own spear and slept with it for a year; the spirituality awakened on its own."
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