Several decades passed.
Jiang Ding opened his eyes. Divine light blazed within them, and a flash of the Great Sun's destructive radiance vanished as quickly as it appeared.
He had recovered to his peak. His magic power was full, at the pinnacle of early Void Refining. He expected to break through to mid Void Refining in another hundred years.
"In a hundred years, I can set out on a campaign."
"The Ancient God Domain is a fine place. I'll get to meet many interesting beings..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
With a beckoning hand, he drew a pair of Crystal Dream Butterfly Wings into his grasp. His divine sense and sword intent poured into them, scanning and examining them carefully. He soon determined how to smelt them into his sword.
It was not difficult.
Like Jiang Ding, the Crystal Dream Butterfly Wings were only at the early Void Refining level, but they had the potential to reach quasi-ninth rank. Their innate standing was extraordinarily high, and their future achievements would be dazzling. For now, though, they were still weak.
"Once I smelt these Crystal Dream Butterfly Wings into it, the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword will become an eighth-rank sword embryo. It'll even be among the finest of the eighth rank, just a hair's breadth from a quasi-ninth-rank sword embryo."
"I can raise it to a quasi-ninth-rank sword embryo myself. I only need to fight bloody battles and keep improving. That won't be difficult."
Jiang Ding calculated for a moment, then spoke.
A sword embryo represented nothing more than a flying sword's potential.
If he achieved a breakthrough of his own, such as mastering a stronger rule, he could likewise drive the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword's potential through a qualitative transformation into the quasi-ninth rank, or even the ninth rank. Smelting external materials