Back at the residence, I felt I was one step closer to success.
By using these methods that did not involve the Wu Sect's foundation, he could still fish in troubled waters amidst the current chaos.
Continuing to observe the changes in his Sword Seed, it had grown to just under an inch, far from fully formed. The later the stage, the more immense the resources required to compensate, and he had also discovered that the Flying Sword could continue to be upgraded even after being formed, by continuously compressing the density of the Five Elements Qi within it. If someday he could condense the ephemeral Essence Qi Sword into a solid sword, that would truly be a great achievement, but how long that would take was anybody's guess.
His short-term goal was to condense the Flying Sword into a three-foot Essence Qi Sword; the medium-term goal was to compress that to a one-foot sword, and the long-term goal was to allow the Flying Sword to take solid form.
