Traditional theories of Spiritual Energy cultivation held that a Transcendent's Mind Index was best maintained between 80 and 120.
Too low a Mind Index was certainly bad; fear could make one collapse.
But if the Mind Index was too high, humans could also lose control in their fury.
Once the Mind Index exceeded 200, the body's cells would be affected by violent Spiritual Energy, their mitochondria would run madly, unleashing overloaded power and making Cultivation Deviation—or even Human Spontaneous Combustion—highly likely.
The "God Transformation Capsules" developed by Monster Civilization actually made use of this principle, instantly increasing the mass-energy conversion efficiency of an ordinary person's mitochondria tenfold or even a hundredfold. By burning their lives, they granted ordinary people strength temporarily comparable to that of Transcendents.
Though the consequences of taking a God Transformation Capsule were extremely horrific.
Even if Human Spontaneous Combustion did not occur, their blood would often boil, steaming them alive from the inside out.
Yet the power of "burning one's life and approaching the Critical Point" was simply too immense. Even Transcendents had no choice but to take it seriously, or even become addicted to it.
As far as Meng Chao knew, many universities and research institutes were currently exploring methods of "approaching the threshold of Cultivation Deviation and stimulating the human body's limits to the greatest extent."
The Limit Stream of his previous life had been one of the foremost in this field.
By exploiting the Limit Stream's innate advantages, using methods such as meditation, Gene Serum, and extreme pain stimulation, it raised the Mind Index to around 200, entering a state of Quasi-Cultivation Deviation in a trance and greatly enhancing mitochondrial mass-energy conversion efficiency.
Then, through the expansion and pulsation of 1,024 branch meridians, it rapidly broke down and expelled the heat and waste