In the blink of an eye, ten months had passed, and late autumn had arrived once more.
Thanks to the Stance Training Xu Yue had taught him, the Yi Jin Duan Gu Pian he had exchanged for himself, and the exceptional cultivation environment of the Shedi Pagoda—
Meng Qi's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds. Not only had he long since completed Qi Accumulation, but he had also condensed eight of the acupoints related to the Eye Aperture. He only lacked the last one before he could Opened Eye Aperture and formally enter the Aperture Opening Stage.
In the original story, Meng Qi had three bottles of Lingzhi Qi Replenishing Pills specifically meant to save him from the painstaking grind of cultivation, yet by this point he had only condensed six acupoints related to the Eye Aperture.
Now, relying entirely on relentless hard work, he had forcibly made up for what the pills would have provided.
Moreover, his foundation was even more solid, the power of his techniques greater, and thanks to the Yi Jin Duan Gu Pian and Stance Training, his defensive strength exceeded that of his peers by several degrees.
Even without the Blood Saber Art or Divine Movement Hundred Changes, he could rely on the original Five Tiger Broken Door Saber, the increasingly proficient Eight Steps of Divine Movement, and the first move of Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber Art that he had already mastered—Severing Purity. Combined with a fourth-layer Golden Bell Shield stronger than those of others at the same level, his practical combat ability was far superior to what it had originally been.
That was only natural. Though the Blood Saber Art was bizarre and unpredictable, with Meng Qi's solid foundations at present, if he could not defeat someone with the Five Tiger Broken Door Saber,