Xu Taiping immediately asked Li Daoyan with great wariness:
"Senior, could the matter you wish to warn me about have something to do with my Divine Ability as a Life-Replenisher?"
Li Daoyan nodded and said:
"Although you Life-Replenishers can travel through the River of Time, to truly enter and leave freely, you actually need a divine weapon capable of cleaving it open."
As he spoke, he pointed at the Kunwu Sword hovering before Xu Taiping, then continued, "The Kunwu Sword is just such a divine weapon."
Understanding dawned in Xu Taiping's heart at these words.
"Senior, do you mean that as long as I bring the Kunwu Sword, I can enter and leave the River of Time freely?"
As he asked this, he seized the Kunwu Sword.
Judging by his previous two experiences, after breaking through to a new realm, he could be drawn into the River of Time at any moment, wherever he was.
Seeing this, Li Daoyan rolled his eyes at Xu Taiping and said:
"With your paltry cultivation, never mind relying on yourself-even using the Kunwu Sword's Divine Ability, you might not be able to enter and leave the River of Time freely."
Xu Taiping immediately sought Li Daoyan's guidance:
"Please enlighten me, Senior."
Li Daoyan, whose figure was growing ever more insubstantial, had never intended to keep Xu Taiping guessing. He immediately explained:
"Although you still cannot enter and leave the River of Time freely with the Kunwu Sword, as a Life-Replenisher, you generate a strand of the power of time within your body every time you break through to a new realm."
"Under normal circumstances, you cannot control this power unless you reach the Dao Integration Realm."
"But now you have the Kunwu Sword."
"And the Kunwu Sword is willing to acknowledge you as its