Nurturing a spirit

As this was going on, up on the platform a different transformation was taking place. The pearl produced by the spirit of the variant ancestral dragon vein was in Chief Justice Lai Ning's hands.

He clenched it with his tiny hands and the pearl was ground to dust and in its place, two objects appeared. One of them was a dark golden-colored robe and the other was a golden liquid that kept morphing into different shapes until it finally settled into an eagle.

The eagle seemed lifelike as it preened its feathers and looked around with deep interest. If one didn't see the process in which it was created, one would assume it was a live golden eagle.

"For obvious reasons, you can't put on your new robes yet, so just hang on to it until tomorrow," Chief Justice Lai Ning said as he handed Yang Qing the dark golden robes.