Five years later, inside the great hall.
Li Ping sat cross-legged, his expression solemn.
In the air before him, a pale golden halo over ten feet across flickered incessantly. From time to time, he sent a hand seal into it, making the halo contract and expand as though something were gestating within.
Clang!
After a clear, low ring, the pale golden halo suddenly burst apart, revealing the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine within.
Li Ping flicked a finger. The Dragon-Slaying Guillotine immediately turned into a streak of golden light and whistled around him at high speed before finally stopping before him. He caught it in one hand.
He lowered his head and carefully examined the treasure in his hand.
A slender gray line now ran through the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, extending from its head all the way to its handle. Along the back of the blade, more than a dozen blood-colored scales radiating an astonishing aura were embedded in a row, seamlessly integrated with it.
These two changes truly gave the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine a more murderous, bloodthirsty air.
The treasure's appearance had changed this way entirely because of that piece of void spirit heavenly gold.
Wei Yiling had traveled to Great Zhou and collected the other materials Li Ping needed to reforge the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine along the way.
Only then had Li Ping spent several years carefully refining that piece of void spirit heavenly gold into the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine.
In addition, he had used the dozen or so fourth-tier late-stage Blood Flood Dragon scales he had obtained by chance on Northern Mang Mountain as refining materials, further enhancing the treasure's power.
The Dragon-Slaying Guillotine now possessed not only an edge capable of cutting through anything, but also the ability to break all five elements spells. Its offensive power was pushed to the limit, while