After discussing their strategy with Fu Xiang and the other, Zhang Yu withdrew his aura and returned, then sat upright in the main hall.
No matter how well a strategy was laid, it ultimately needed power capable of deciding victory or defeat to support it.
It could be said that everything rested upon this.
Thus, what he needed to do next was temper his swordsmanship and reach the path above the sword as swiftly as possible. Once this sword path was achieved, it would be time for him to truly make his move.
By his estimate, it would not take too long. He had been studying this path in depth all along, and the path above the sword already possessed a solid foundation. It was merely a matter of pushing upward; there were no barriers requiring a breakthrough along the way.
In this, he also used the Mystic Chaos Cicada to help speed up his progress. He had employed such methods in cultivation before, and this supreme treasure was in truth of enormous help to him.
Yet he also considered that the five had possessed the Clear Firmament Ark for so long; the assistance they had received was surely even greater. But there was one point: because both sides faced the same changes in the Dao of Origin Void, even if there was a gap, it would not be so vast as to be unbridgeable. If it truly were so, the five would not have left the other great powers behind. This was also indirect proof.
After turning this matter over in his mind, he thought that, before formally entering seclusion, certain matters long in preparation could first be set in motion.
For instance, replacing the Clear Vault Aura with the Mystic Chaos Cicada could begin now.
In fact, as