System Notification: Your Illusion Destruction Divine Sword has been upgraded, and is now LV3.
Upon seeing the system notification, Xiao Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
To upgrade the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword to LV3, he had spent a total of seven hours, costing him another three and a half months of life.
However, it was all worth it, because he had finally unlocked the first inner power effect of the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword—Phantom Traceless.
It was time to find a monster to practice on.
Although Wangliu River was filled with strangeness, and most areas were desolate, it wasn’t completely devoid of monsters—there were those forgotten creatures.
Not far into his walk, a ’Forgotten Mountain Bandit’ appeared in front of Xiao Jie.
Forgotten Mountain Bandit: Level 9. Life Value: 240.
This minor monster was just perfect for testing his blade.
He charged directly at the bandit, who also seemed to sense the threat and silently met him head-on.
Just as they were two to three meters apart, Xiao Jie swung his blade and simultaneously activated his body movement skill—Phantom Traceless!
Whoosh, Xiao Jie instantly disappeared on the spot, and at his original location, a replica of Hidden Moon Following Wind was swinging a long blade toward the bandit’s face. The bandit swung his blade as well, almost intending to clash blades, but their blades crossed without touching, the afterimage instantly vanished, and at the same time, Xiao Jie’s figure emerged behind the bandit.
With a painful scream, the bandit lost one-third of his blood volume in an instant. He frantically tried to turn around to counterattack, but Xiao Jie had already unleashed a series of blade strikes.
Illusion Destruction Nine Forms—swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, several consecutive chops killed the bandit in one go.
Pity, not even a hair dropped. The Forgotten Mountain Bandit merely sighed and then vanished.
Not bad, this move could be used for sneak attacks, chasing fleeing enemies, seizing the initiative, dodging attacks, or even preserving one’s life, all of which were quite powerful. The only drawback was the cooldown time.
It could only be used once every 10 seconds, which compared to cooldown-free body movement skills like Rolling and Hawk Roll, was not as convenient.
Without hesitation, Xiao Jie continued to practice his blade skills. At this moment, he was completely immersed in the pursuit of strength and the mastery of the blade technique.
He repeatedly practiced the Phantom Annihilation Blade Technique against the air and occasionally found a monster in Wangliu River to chop.
Several more hours passed—
System Notification: Your Illusion Destruction Divine Sword has been upgraded, and is now LV4.
With each level increase in blade skill, the Illusion Destruction Nine Forms’ attack fluidity and base damage bonus slightly increased.
What delighted Xiao Jie even more was that with the ascent of the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword levels, the effect of Phantom Traceless had changed—it now had a reduced cooldown of one second.
This slight change, though seemingly ordinary, greatly pleased him.
A decrease of one second on the cooldown per level meant that if he upgraded the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword to ten layers, the cooldown of Phantom Traceless could be reduced to three seconds.
Considering that the time shadow just happens to last for three seconds, this meant that if he could connect his skills perfectly and maintain control of the battle rhythm, it might even be possible to achieve an infinite shadow attack and infinite invisibility.
Of course, this was only under ideal conditions.
Normally, once the shadow is attacked, it would disappear, and he would reappear, but the enemy’s attack on the shadow would naturally give him the opportunity to strike.
After chopping, by the time the enemy reacts, the 3-second duration would mostly be up, and he could use Phantom Traceless again...
So calculating this way, as long as the opponent’s reactions weren’t particularly astonishing, he could essentially play the opponent like a fool.
Supreme Divine Skill was indeed worthy of its name.
With this, his confidence in addressing the threat from the World Association had grown.
Keep going, quickly master the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword to LV10, and then he can begin to instantly realize profound skills.
Xiao Jie looked at the Level 26 ’Forgotten Swordsman’ before him, yet his heart was calm.
Although this humanoid monster was a full 11 levels higher than him, Xiao Jie was not at all flustered.
By now, his Illusion Destruction Divine Sword had been raised to LV10, and the cooldown of Phantom Traceless was only three seconds.
With several days of continuous practice and battle, he had fully mastered the use of the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword, and fighting enemies above his level was no longer a novelty to him.
After a few exchanges with the swordsman, whose swordsmanship was superior and attacking fiercely, Xiao Jie could still narrowly dodge in critical moments thanks to the body movement effect of the Illusion Destruction Divine Sword.
Watching as the Forgotten Swordsman struck at him with a sword.
After an afterimage flashed by, the next second Xiao Jie appeared beside the Forgotten Swordsman, chopping down with his blade.
The Forgotten Swordsman, far tougher than the bandit, took a hit and immediately did a side flip to create distance, then turned and swept out a fierce Sword Qi with his sword.
Xiao Jie raised his blade to block, clang! Amidst the song of metal, he still lost 13 drops of blood.
The Forgotten Swordsman shook his long sword and thrust out consecutively.
Combat Skills—Life-stealing Continuous Stabbing!
Facing the fierce Combat Skills, Xiao Jie again used Phantom Trace, and just as the afterimage was pierced, he once more appeared behind the swordsman.
Silent Annihilation Blade—One Cut, Two Pieces!
The swordsman tried to parry, but the blade cut through the horizontally held treasure sword as if the two weren’t in the same space, solidly chopping the Forgotten Swordsman.
True damage sure feels great, directly scoring over a hundred damage.
One chop directly emptied the swordsman’s last fifth of blood volume, and he finished the execution in one move. The Forgotten Swordsman was instantly split in two, disappearing into the air.