How long had it been since he reached the Qi Refining sixth layer?
A little over four months.
At his original pace of cultivation, breaking through to the Qi Refining seventh layer might have taken at least another year and a half to two years.
Now, having gained the aid of a predecessor out of the blue, that time had been greatly shortened.
If he could find a way to obtain a few Breakthrough Pills...
Song Yan even wanted to try breaking through to the Qi Refining seventh layer within half a year!
Given his current cultivation, it was possible.
A trace of complacency flitted through his heart, but he soon calmed his mind.
"If I disregarded everything else, accumulated spiritual power, and obtained another Breakthrough Pill, I could indeed break through quickly."
"But that would probably leave my foundations unstable. Better to take one solid step at a time and build a firm foundation."
He gathered his thoughts.
He summoned the Sword Case from the Two-Pole Bead and refined it once with Sword Qi.
The Yan Clan disciples of Sword-Casting Manor had previously considered this Sword Case useless mainly because Senior Yan Gui had forged it and the Joined Branches Flying Sword as a matching set of Law Artifacts.
The Flying Sword could be used alone, but the Sword Case was useless on its own.
On top of that, some supremely "filial" descendant had taken the Joined Branches Flying Sword out of it.
That was why the Sword Case had gathered dust all this time.
The Sword Case had no name. Even in Senior Yan Gui's memories, he had never named it.
For now, he would call it the Useless Sword Case.
The Useless Sword Case could hold only two Flying Swords.
It had probably originally been intended to