Blood-Scale Spear

The Blood-Scale Spear is an imitation Man-Tool obtained and used by the young Su Ming. Modeled on one of Wu Shan Tribe's three great Man-Tools, it can be stored inside its owner's body, called into the hand by will, and transformed into a large flying bird for attacks. It is one of Su Ming's first meaningful combat treasures, but its effectiveness remains tied to his blood qi, control, and comparatively low early cultivation.

History

A Wu Long imitation personalized by Mo Sang

Su Ming receives the spear through the aftermath of saving Bai Ling. Mo Sang explains that Lei Su of Wu Long Tribe specializes in making Man-Tools—not true examples, but imitations—and likely allowed Su Ming to take this one so that the weapon could help settle the debt surrounding the rescue. The spear copies the Blood-Scale Spear counted among Wu Shan Tribe's three great Man-Tools; the supplied evidence does not identify it as that celebrated original. (Chapter 43)

Mo Sang personalizes the imitation for Su Ming. He changes its manifested creature from a black dragon to a black eagle, then taps Su Ming's wrist and sends a cold sensation into his arm until a black line forms. This modification lets Su Ming keep the weapon inside his body and summon it merely by willing it to appear. Mo Sang is therefore the refiner and facilitator of Su Ming's bond, while Su Ming remains the weapon's recipient and combat wielder. (Chapter 43)

A young Berserker's reserve weapon

After reaching forty-nine blood veins, Su Ming judges that moonlight, his cultivation, and the Blood-Scale Spear together would make even a cultivator at the sixth level of Blood Condensation wary. His estimate treats the weapon as an important advantage, not a substitute for cultivation: he continues to measure possible opponents by their realms and avoids assuming the spear alone can overcome every gap. Later, with 160 blood veins and Nuanced Control, he explicitly counts the spear among the tools that might let him help Mo Sang and defend Dark Mountain Tribe. (Chapters 47, 71)

That purpose is realized during the crisis around Feng Zhen's city. Exhausted after concentrating his blood veins into a red line, Su Ming summons the spear and sends it forward in the form of a giant eagle. Its impact breaks an already cracked and dimmed defensive screen, scattering the snowy totem that sustains the barrier. The feat combines prior damage, Su Ming's remaining blood qi, and the Man-Tool's transformed charge; it does not show the spear breaking an intact formation without support. (Chapter 82)

Su Ming then throws the spear through a sea of flame at Ye Wang. Glowing red, it moves like crimson lightning and becomes a large red condor inside the blaze. This final documented use emphasizes speed, penetration, and ranged transformation. The change from Mo Sang's “black eagle” description to a red condor amid the flames is not explained as a new refinement or permanent evolution, so it is safest treated as the appearance of that attack rather than a confirmed second form. (Chapter 83)

Abilities and properties

• Internal storage and willing summons: After Mo Sang personalizes the spear, it is represented by a black line on Su Ming's arm and can be stored inside his body. Su Ming calls it into his hand through intent, avoiding the need to carry a visible polearm. (Chapters 43, 82)
• Avian manifestation: Mo Sang changes the imitation's original black-dragon projection into a black eagle. In combat the spear becomes a giant eagle and later a red condor-like form while passing through flame, allowing a bodily charge or thrown strike to expand into a larger attack. (Chapters 43, 82–83)
• Barrier breaking: Its eagle-shaped impact helps shatter Feng Zhen's failing light screen. The barrier is already cracked, extremely dim, and close to collapse, while Su Ming expends his remaining blood qi; the result cannot be isolated as the spear's power alone. (Chapter 82)
• Ranged penetration: Su Ming can throw the weapon as a red streak through intense flames toward a cultivator, with the avian form continuing along the attack path. The excerpt does not establish automatic return after a throw. (Chapter 83)
• Cultivation-dependent combat boost: Su Ming believes the spear can make a stronger Blood Condensation opponent wary and help him protect his tribe, but he simultaneously recognizes that his cultivation is low. Its demonstrated power depends on his blood qi and Nuanced Control rather than granting a fixed realm increase. (Chapters 47, 71–83)
• Imitation limits: Lei Su's work copies one of Wu Shan Tribe's three great Man-Tools but is explicitly not a true Man-Tool. No evidence assigns the original relic's full reputation or abilities to Su Ming's spear. (Chapter 43)

Ownership and custody