"Take out your weapon," the Vice-Sect Leader instructed. Against her expectations, John had passed the initial training agendas she had in place, and had even exceeded them.
John followed the instructions, and his battle axe appeared in his hands.
He could choose between the battle axe or the scythe, but decided to use the axe. While his Divine Reaping Scythe was his most powerful and profound essence attack, he only had the first three stages to it. The last stage he had was for Core Formation attacks, and so it would soon become obsolete unless he found the additional stages somehow.
As such, John wanted to get as powerful with the battle axe as he could, as he had already started to infuse three Dao's into it. While he could infuse the Dao of Annihilation into his scythe attacks, as they would mesh incredibly well, the Dao of Power and the Dao of Destruction did not mesh well with a scythe.