Refining Another Broken Sword

Buzz!

As he plunged headlong into a deeper layer, that boundless void of vast Black Mountain appeared before his eyes once more.

"Only a year or two since I last came in, and there seem to be quite a few more corrupted ones around Black Tower's mountain. Not bad!"

A savage smile curled his lips. His figure swept up a storm of black ash as he charged toward the nearest sounds of battle.

Before long, the corrupted ones' screams rose and fell.

Li Qingyun's Jade Pure Essence welcomed a long-awaited burst of rapid growth.

"This time, no matter what, I need to raise the Jade Pure root body's cultivation to a level comparable to a Seventh Fruit Saint Venerable. Best if it reaches the eighth fruit. Then the coming assault on Limò Prefectural Temple will be all the more secure..."

The moment he arrived, the corrupted ones in this layer of Black Mountain void suffered calamity. Wails filled the air as they fell one after another.

After an hour or so, the remaining corrupted ones in the Black Mountain region between Black Tower and the broken sword scattered like a frightened flock, fleeing deeper into the Black Mountain layer.

Only then did Li Qingyun ascend the mountain where Black Tower stood and inspect the progress of refining the tower artifact.

After two years of cleansing by Jade Pure runes, roughly one-seventh of the runes had truly fused into the tower body. In other words, the refinement progress had advanced by about one-seventh.

Some of the black Binding Patterns atop Black Tower had also silently dispersed and peeled away.

Li Qingyun stepped forward and reached out to touch the black Binding Patterns on the tower wall.

He had already thoroughly comprehended the mysteries of the Binding Patterns, so he naturally wanted