Dugu Bo closed his eyes and sensed for a moment. When he opened them again, his gaze was brighter than before, as though he had detected something through his Spiritual Power.
He tried guiding it with his mind, and the small Jade Scale sword slowly rose from the jade box, hovering above the table. Its tip trembled slightly, as though it was still unaccustomed to being controlled.
A moment later, it began flying straight ahead, its speed fluctuating between fast and slow. After traveling a little over a zhang, it lost its direction and veered into the wall with a soft impact, leaving a deep scratch behind. This showed just how sharp the flying sword was. That alone was enough to make it a divine weapon, let alone its other functions.
Dugu Bo immediately withdrew his focus. The Jade Scale Sword stopped in midair, then slowly flew back to his side.
Dugu Bo adjusted his breathing and activated Jade Scale once more.
This time, its trajectory was far more stable. Though it still occasionally veered while turning, it no longer went out of control.
After trying several times, he gradually found the rhythm for controlling the flying sword. He then tested its poison absorption and poison fusion functions.
He injected a strand of green poison into the Sword Body, and a pale green pattern emerged along the blade's ridge;
then he injected a strand of purple poison, causing the pattern's color to change accordingly. He tried fusing the two poisonous energies at the sword tip, and a ring of fine faint light appeared around Jade Scale's tip.
He nodded in satisfaction and tested its size-changing ability. The Sword Body shrank from three cun to just over one cun long, then returned to its normal size. He then enlarged it to