Inside the Exclusive Room, Su Xiao held a scroll and a medal as he pondered. He had gathered all the requirements to advance his swordsmanship to the grandmaster level, but there was one more thing to consider: just how high would the cost of improving it become after it reached the grandmaster level?
After the previous trial challenge, Su Xiao realized that Sword Master and Sword Grandmaster were abilities on completely different levels. Su Xiao had suppressed the trial mirror image of Silsia in every attribute, not to mention all kinds of abilities.
Even so, during their first exchange, Silsia had beaten Su Xiao so badly that he could not fight back at all. If he had not used various abilities to cover his shortcomings, and grown accustomed to Silsia's attack patterns after multiple battles, he would never have defeated her.
If it had been a battle to the death, Su Xiao would already have been dead—killed by Silsia, who possessed only one grandmaster-level ability.
This showed just how outrageous the gap between Master Level and grandmaster-level abilities was. More importantly, grandmaster-level abilities already had a high lower limit at the initial stage. Silsia's close-combat grandmaster Lv.10 had completely overwhelmed Su Xiao's Sword Master Lv.MAX, clearly demonstrating the difference between them.
Su Xiao tossed the medal in his hand. The Proof of Glory flying through the air suddenly shattered.
Proof of Glory consumed. Grandmaster's Power consumed (complete). Sword Master rank upgrade in progress...
Su Xiao's pupils gradually widened as a massive amount of fragmented knowledge surged into his mind. It was all related to swordsmanship techniques, insights, secret arts, and more.
No one knew how much time passed. Su Xiao's eyes regained their clarity, and he stood up and walked toward the adjacent room.
This was the room