The way the ancestral guidance stele was created meant that Lin Jianjia had been able to comprehend over a thousand transformations of the sword art within three days. That was indeed impressive. Based on that pace, she would have a minor level of accomplishment in the art when she broke past ten thousand swordbarriers and would be able to execute it soon after.

Tianming’s method of lockpicking wouldn’t be able to replicate it. He knew he wasn’t likely to be able to obtain the sword art if he used normal methods—he didn’t understand the Temporal Dao and hadn’t prepared for it at all.

Thus, his plan was to first skip to the...