In truth, although Jian Hui and the twelve masters he had frozen in the Sword Sect's ice cellar had long since lost all signs of life, the special effect of the "Return to Heaven Ice Art" had preserved a portion of their internal energy within their bodies.
After the first battle of the Sword Sect, Ye Weiming had deliberately entered the ice cellar to inspect the thirteen corpses, so he was absolutely certain of this.
It was precisely because the internal energy of these thirteen supreme sword masters remained that Ye Weiming had not been in a hurry to use Xiong Ba Version's "Internal Skill Insights."
After absorbing the internal energy of those thirteen masters, Ye Weiming was confident that he could regain enough strength to protect himself.
As for the rest, with the tenfold reconstruction bonus from the "Method of Martial Dao Reincarnation," why would he need to worry about recovering his cultivation too slowly?
And the facts proved that even though the residual internal energy in these thirteen masters was less than half of what they had possessed at their peak, it was still leagues beyond that of Japan's shoddy Top Ten Qi Ninjas.
After draining every last bit of residual internal energy from those masters, Ye Weiming had raised all of his martial arts other than his two main combat internal skills, "Blazing Sun Sacred Qi" and "Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Divine Skill," to somewhere between Level 8 and Level 9. This naturally included the equally peerless "Azure Dragon Divine Skill"!
Originally, Ye Weiming had considered sacrificing a few internal skills that were not very powerful in order to first restore the "Divine Illumination Scripture" to its complete Level 10 state and regain his ability to revive on the spot after death.
But after hesitating for a