As long as a person was in a passive position, it was difficult to seize the initiative.
Chu Fei used a real case to illustrate that principle.
The Resurrection Golden Body finally yielded before the hope of rebirth and Chu Fei's methods.
The method was simple: first, build a "knockoff" Essence Refining Immortal Returning Array powered by Spirit Stones.
Compared to Immortal Crystals, Spirit Stones were much cheaper. One Immortal Crystal could fetch three to five million Spirit Stones at auction!
Yet the gap in energy content between the two was definitely less than tenfold. Even considering that Immortal Crystals had a higher Energy Level, the difference was at most a hundredfold.
A hundredfold difference in energy, yet a millionfold difference in price. One could imagine the cost of using Immortal Crystals to power the Essence Refining Immortal Returning Array.
Even if Tribulation Transcending Stage experts could refine Immortal Crystals themselves, the overall cost was no less than five hundred thousand Spirit Stones apiece. That was because refining things like Immortal Crystals and God Crystals required True God-level experts to bleed themselves!
A little blood loss delayed cultivation. Too much blood loss damaged one's foundation.
And regardless of how much blood they gave, they needed substantial cultivation time to replenish it. During that time, they might need to eat well—spiritual pills and wondrous medicines—live comfortably in a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, improve their cultivation environment with auxiliary formations, and so on.
In short, Immortal Crystals and God Crystals were things that True God-level experts produced by cutting themselves. Their supply was tiny and demand was enormous, so their prices soared into the heavens.
Because Immortal Crystals were so costly and scarce, the three major sects had always been tightfisted with them. Naturally, the past Essence Refining Immortal Returning Arrays had left