The bandits of Liangshan Stronghold were also filled with shock.
They looked up at the black tiger phantom slowly fading in the sky, momentarily at a loss for words.
Inside the room.
Qin Shujian opened his eyes, a wisp of black light flickering within them.
A faint air of authority permeated his surroundings.
Then.
Qin Shujian turned his attention back to the status panel.
The entry for the Black Tiger Saber Technique had changed.
"Dao Entry!"
The Black Tiger Saber Technique, previously at the Heaven-Man Unity level, had transformed to the Dao Entry level. The words "Mortal Tier, Middle Grade" that had followed it had completely disappeared.
It was as though, upon reaching Dao Entry.
The Black Tiger Saber Technique had broken free of the constraints of grades and undergone some sort of transformation.
But when his attention shifted downward to the Life Source entry, Qin Shujian's face immediately darkened.
Life Source: 3129
He had previously possessed over thirteen thousand points of Life Source.
Now, only a little over three thousand remained.
That meant raising the Black Tiger Saber Technique by a single level had consumed a full ten thousand points of Life Source.
"Hiss!" Even Qin Shujian could not help drawing a sharp breath, a dull ache tugging at his heart.
Ten thousand points of Life Source.
That was enough to raise two cultivation methods from the first level straight to the peak of the tenth.
But what was done was done.
Qin Shujian could only accept it.
Still—
Recalling what he had seen when the Black Tiger Saber Technique advanced to Dao Entry.
Qin Shujian opened his hand and swept it straight forward.
Buzz!
The air trembled, as though struck by something.
Immediately afterward, the wooden table ten feet away silently split in two down the