Ocean Embracing a Hundred Rivers, Tyrant Blade Li San!

Night fell, and the bright moon hung high.

At that moment, Jiang Ning had no hesitation in his heart.

He looked at his panel.

[Source Energy]: 191387

With a thought, his source energy points began to plummet.

In the space of a breath, they fell by a full ten thousand.

[Source Energy]: 181387

He closed his eyes.

A blast of air erupted around him, like a volcano spewing forth, a mountain torrent bursting its banks, a tsunami sweeping through.

The violent currents gathering around him tore up one patch of earth after another.

Trees and rocks caught in them were instantly ground to dust.

Meanwhile, Jiang Ning was immersed in the sword art's breakthrough.

Time passed.

The currents around him grew fiercer still.

As they gathered, they turned the dozen-odd yards surrounding him into a forbidden zone for life.

Their fury was enough to tear apart any living thing that entered.

Suddenly—

It was as though someone had pressed pause.

Everything around him stopped short.

Then the gathered currents seemed to lose the force sustaining them and rapidly dispersed.

In mere moments,

they receded like a tide, leaving only devastation behind.

[Skill]: Two Forms Hard-Soft Sword (seventh limit break 33/8000) (trait: Ocean Embracing a Hundred Rivers (pale blue))

[Ocean Embracing a Hundred Rivers (pale blue)]: Like the sea, it receives a hundred rivers.

"Like the sea, it receives a hundred rivers?"

Jiang Ning murmured the words on the panel, pondering them.

After a moment's thought,

he closed his eyes to sense the changes in himself, then opened them again.

"The upper limit of what my body can hold must have increased."

He reached that conclusion.

Then he practiced the sword art again.

[Two Forms Hard-Soft Sword experience +57]

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After one run-through,