Jiang Ding beckoned.
Not far away, a pitch-black poison blade the length of an arm flew into his hand. Beside it lay a somewhat damaged Bixi Bronze Statue.
"There's enough Black Tortoise Divine Gold."
Jiang Ding carefully examined the damaged Bixi Bronze Statue.
He scanned its material again and again, confirming that it had indeed been forged from the newly acquired Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace's legacy divine metal. Its energy-conducting properties were powerful. Reassured, he set it down.
Those properties covered magical power, spiritual energy, lightning, the Five Elements, and more. Nothing was excluded.
Used for defense, it could disperse incoming Sword Qi and force into the void, reducing the damage a cultivator suffered to the greatest extent possible.
Used for offense, it could gather spiritual energy and magical power in an extremely short time before striking. In the exchange of moves, its wielder's divine sense and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth responded a fraction faster than those of other cultivators, while each move carried greater power.
That fraction of a difference in response time might sound insignificant.
But it was precisely this property that had earned Black Tortoise Divine Gold its name as an Immortal Order legacy divine metal!
If pushed to its limit, a single sword stroke could take an opponent's head before they even reacted.
Or, even if they reacted, a slight delay in drawing on their magical power and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth could leave them fighting a powerful enemy with only half or eighty percent of their strength. Their chances of dying on the spot would soar.
In that sliver of time, a high-level cultivator's divine sense could accomplish far too much.
It was the difference between life and death,
between the triumph and destruction of the Great Dao.
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