In just a few days, Chen Fei's main cultivation art had risen another level, leaping from barely qualifying as an eighth-order supreme-grade art to one of the finest at that grade.
His proficiency in the art fell from around fifty percent of the beginner level to twenty percent.
The Nine Heavens Forbidden Art was born purely for destruction. The race that had created it had long since vanished into the river of history of the Void Return Realm.
As the saying went, what was too rigid broke easily. Something too extreme could destroy an opponent, but sometimes it could destroy its wielder as well.
The Nine Heavens Forbidden Art had nine layers of activation. Each additional layer increased combat strength by ten percent, while consumption rose by several tens of percent.
With the Nine Heavens Forbidden Art cultivated to its peak and fully unleashed, one could instantly erupt with nearly twice their usual combat strength. It was a terrifying state, though its consumption was equally terrifying.
After just a few moves, the body would be empty. One careless mistake could even exhaust one's source entirely.
Many eighth-order supreme-grade arts had similar life-risking states that could increase combat strength by several tens of percent, but those that offered a ninety-percent increase were exceedingly rare.
However, the Nine Heavens Forbidden Art was not without flaws. Its immense consumption was one, though that hardly counted as a true flaw. Its real flaw was that activating five layers would inevitably cause one's cultivation to fall by one minor stage afterward.
One could cultivate back to that stage later, but would have to undergo another heavenly tribulation. For some unknown reason, the tribulation's power would also increase substantially.
Activating seven layers would inevitably cause one's cultivation to fall by two minor stages afterward. Those stages