Jiang Ding beckoned with a hand.
Not far away, a jet-black poisonous blade the size of an arm flew over and landed in his hand. On the other side was a somewhat damaged Bixi Bronze Statue.
"There's enough Black Tortoise Divine Gold."
Jiang Ding carefully examined the damaged Bixi Bronze Statue.
He repeatedly scanned its material and confirmed that it had indeed been forged with Inheritance Divine Gold from the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace. It possessed powerful energy-conducting properties, which put his mind at ease.
These energy-conducting properties encompassed spiritual power, spiritual qi, lightning, the five elements, and more—everything under the sun.
When used for defense, it could disperse incoming Sword Qi and force into the void, minimizing the damage suffered by a cultivator.
When used for offense, it could also gather spiritual qi and spiritual power to strike in an extremely short time. Between moves, its response speed to spiritual sense and the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was a tiny fraction faster than that of other cultivators, while its attacks were also more powerful.
Do not underestimate that mere sliver of response time.
It was precisely because of this property that Black Tortoise Divine Gold bore the name of an Immortal Cult's Inheritance Divine Gold!
If this property were exploited to the utmost, a single sword strike could take an enemy's head before they even had time to react.
Or even if they reacted, if their mobilization of spiritual power and the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was just a little slower, they would be unable to bring forth their full strength. They could only fight a formidable foe with fifty or eighty percent of their power, greatly increasing the chance of instant death.
Within the spiritual sense of high-level cultivators, that tiny sliver of time