Outer Area, Martial Arts Practice Ground.
Late at night.
Under the moonlight, Li Chuan examined the Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone.
This Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone, worth two hundred Contribution Points, looked vastly different from an Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone.
An Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone looked like nothing more than a flat rock.
If one did not know its purpose, one would likely only take it for a strangely shaped stone.
But the Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone had already begun to display some peculiar features.
It was the same size as an Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone, but its surface seemed to be engraved with layer upon layer of patterns.
Looking at it with the naked eye gave one a dizzying, entranced sensation.
"Let's test its effects."
Li Chuan circulated his True Gang and pressed the Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone against the inside of his wrist.
The instant it touched him, an indescribable sensation spread through his mind.
"Seems... a little different?"
Compared with the delayed effects of the Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone, this Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone revealed its power from the very start.
Li Chuan drew the Moon-Hide Saber and, facing the bright moonlight, unleashed a strike of the River-Burning Blade Technique.
Afterward, Li Chuan felt as though something extra had appeared in his mind.
He seemed to have gained further insight into the perfected River-Burning Blade Technique.
[Practicing River-Burning Blade Technique, River-Burning Blade Technique proficiency +6]
Li Chuan's pupils contracted slightly.
It had actually added six points of proficiency!
An Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone could only add two points of proficiency.
Yet with this Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone, the very same slash could add six points of proficiency!
This meant that if he wanted to cultivate the River-Burning Blade Technique from Perfection to the Extreme Realm—
Although the proficiency gain had tripled.
The time he needed had instead become even