At last, Abel had become a Junior Knight. He looked strangely at the place where his Qi Vein had disappeared from his body, where a fist-sized, pale-golden Qi Core as brilliant as a diamond had appeared. The problem was that the Qi Core described by Knight Bennett and Knight Marshall when they explained it to Abel differed greatly from this one.
According to the two knights, a Junior Knight's Qi Core was a walnut-sized sphere of liquid water. But if Abel's Qi Core were taken out, it could be sold directly as a gemstone.
After a Junior Knight developed a Qi Core, he could construct Qi Cores within his body. The initial body could form five Qi Veins. Each time one was completed, the knight's level would rise by one. Upon reaching level ten, when the fifth Qi Vein was successfully formed, he would become a quasi-Intermediate Knight.
An Intermediate Knight would then begin constructing Qi Veins in his limbs and head. Once the Qi Vein in his left hand was successfully formed, for example, he could use it to transmit fighting spirit into his weapon. This was the weapon-enhancement ability that only Intermediate Knights and above possessed.
At this stage, an Intermediate Knight was already extremely powerful. Infusing a weapon with fighting spirit could make it sharper and also make it easier to drive one's fighting spirit into an opponent's body.
The characteristic of fighting spirit was exclusivity. When a person's fighting spirit remained within his own body, it could strengthen him. But if it entered someone else's body, it became a disaster. Its terrifying corrosive power and violent destructive force could instantly destroy all the tissues within the opponent's body. There was only one way to deal with it: expel the fighting spirit from the body. This could