Rest and Recuperation

"After countless improvements, its power was still less than satisfactory."

Baili Qingfeng scratched his hair.

It was jet-black and smooth.

A moment later, he clenched his empty hand. As he made this motion, the forces of yin and yang and heaven and earth represented by his qi and spirit collided violently within him. Refining Vacuity to Attain Reality erupted with a vast amount of lightning aura in an instant. The lightning aura was rapidly drawn together and condensed into true qi, which he fired out by substituting his finger for a sword.

"Zzt!"

It was as though a streak of lightning had sliced through the void.

Thirty meters away, a wall made entirely of refined steel instantly developed a shallow hole.

The Myriad Treasures Vault had been built from the painstaking efforts of countless people across the Aurora Empire, specifically to accumulate and store precious materials. Its walls were so sturdy that even digging with a Chen Gold weapon might not be enough to break through them.

But that was not the point. The point was...

Baili Qingfeng looked at the hole, less than a centimeter deep, and sighed from the bottom of his heart at how difficult the path of improvement was.

"Attaching true qi to the Peerless Sword to form sword qi for assassination is fairly fierce. In other words, with true qi attached, I can split open High-Quality Radiant Gold Armor with ease. But at a distance of thirty meters, its killing power has already become extremely weak. It can only pierce light and medium Radiant Gold Armor. Beyond a hundred meters, even heavy Chen Gold Armor can withstand my sword qi without injury. Beyond two hundred meters, I can only just deal with those wearing ordinary light Chen Gold Armor... Three hundred meters... any set of