Qu Jianlei was breaking through and forcibly absorbing vast amounts of spiritual energy, so how could that cause spiritual energy to leak outward?
Rapid absorption of spiritual energy, a whale-like suction like a vortex, would itself cause a certain degree of fluctuation in spiritual energy.
The key was that there was also a large fragment of the World Core, which was part of the resources he had prepared for advancing.
The World Core was not easy to absorb, but before the overwhelming momentum of breaking into the Out-of-Body Realm, that did not count for much.
The crux of the problem was that the World Core contained not only energy but also rules. It was not pure spiritual energy, and it also needed to be converted.
The conversion was completed by the corresponding rules, so it did not require any conversion array or the like, but fluctuations and chaos would arise when energy was converted.
So although Qu Jianlei was absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy, there was no way he could manage the energy fluctuations not far away.
If he forcibly tried to manage them... it was not impossible to attempt, but then he could forget about breaking through.
Simply put: the faster he absorbed energy, the more violently the surrounding energy churned, and the stronger the overflow became.
In fact, everyone had thought of this problem right from the beginning, when they designed the seclusion site.
Qu Jianlei had said at the time that if the Shielding Array was designed too solidly, the internal energy turbulence might directly impact him.
The True Venerables approved of his view. They had all lived so long—how could they not understand something like this? So they did not deliberately strengthen the shielding.
But before long, everyone put the matter to the back