Lin Baichuan swept his gaze across the system panel, yet his heart was filled with endless sighs.
More than half a year of bitter cultivation had indeed brought his cultivation and strength to the stage he had anticipated before entering seclusion, but the price had been far from small.
Not only had he exhausted everything he obtained within the Legacy Cave Mansion, but the many resources he had accumulated himself had also been completely devoured and refined. Most importantly, his accumulated merit had bottomed out once more, leaving only 1,280 cauldrons.
The reason for such enormous consumption, even using up a vast amount of merit,
was mainly because of the Immortal Golden Body.
He had underestimated the difficulty of advancing the Immortal Golden Body. He had originally thought that the mass of Yin-Yang Profound Yellow Origin Qi would be enough to push his Immortal Golden Body another step forward. Even if it could not reach the Immortal Emperor Realm level, it should not have been far off.
Yet the result was that such a massive mass of Yin-Yang Profound Yellow Origin Qi had only increased its proficiency by less than 3%. He had forcibly raised all the remaining proficiency with merit.
The losses were simply too great.
The same was true for the advancement of his martial cultivation realm. The many resources on him had only supported his breakthrough to the mid-stage Immortal General Realm. After that, he had also used merit to raise himself to the peak of the Immortal General Realm.
There was also the cultivation of the four great arts, the iteration of his own Primordial Immortal Dao, and so on.
Those had also consumed quite a bit of merit.
That was with him doing his utmost to restrain himself. Otherwise, even the final 1,280 cauldrons of