Marquis Dongling's Residence.
Beside the ancient pine by the lake.
It was morning, and sunlight spilled across the lake like golden radiance.
As a gentle breeze passed, shimmering ripples spread over the water.
[Skills]: Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword+ (Perfection 100000/100000)
The conditions for a breakthrough have been met. That more or less confirms my earlier guess. Though the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword is a high-grade technique, the Source Points it requires should still fall within a reasonable range. The thought crossed Jiang Ning's mind as he looked at the skills section of the panel.
Then his gaze moved to the Source Points field.
[Source Points]: 173.1
Then let's make the breakthrough! The thought flashed through his mind.
With that, he willed it.
In an instant.
His Source Points rapidly dwindled. A full hundred points poured into the fathomless breakthrough progress of the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.
There was no earth-shaking roar, no violent eruption of energy. Every change took place within his sea of consciousness.
Deep within it, countless principles of the sword converged, forming innumerable pathways. He saw a gleaming sword, blazing with incandescent white light, begin to take shape in his sea of consciousness.
As his understanding of sword principles deepened and flashes of insight surged like a tide, the "Heart Sword" within his sea of consciousness grew more solid and real.
Every strand of insight into the sword that flowed toward it made the sword in his mind more substantial, its flickering light more intensely white.
A long while later.
When that incandescent radiance reached its peak, endless, dazzling sword light filled every part of his mind, every corner of his sea of consciousness.
It was everywhere, all-pervading, leaving nowhere to hide.
Beneath that endless