There were not actually many ways to accelerate the condensation of Great Dao Stones. At least, the five manuals Chen Fei had bought all ultimately pointed to methods that came at the cost of depleting his own source essence.
At the Realm Lord Realm, source essence still consisted of essence, qi, spirit, and soul. But what allowed a Realm Lord's essence, qi, spirit, and soul to accelerate the condensation of Great Dao Stones was, fundamentally, the Great Dao particles contained within them.
To put it bluntly, it was rather like tearing down the east wall to patch up the west.
Once the principle was laid bare, these methods of accelerating Great Dao Stone condensation seemed like chicken ribs-too meager to savor, yet a pity to throw away.
Great Dao Stones were so valuable precisely because they could help Realm Lords improve their cultivation. Yet now, to condense them, one had to do the reverse, depleting the Great Dao particles within one's own essence, qi, spirit, and soul to speed up their formation.
Of course, if it truly were that crude and simple, neither the manuals Chen Fei had bought nor the Great Dao Stone Generation technique Zhu Shiyu had given him could have become proper manuals. They would have been utterly worthless.
These manuals slowly consumed the Great Dao particles within the body, striving to let the depleted particles be replenished through cultivation.
In effect, a Realm Lord treated himself as a renewable energy source, continually depleting himself, then replenishing the lost Great Dao particles with world vital energy before continuing to accelerate the condensation of Great Dao Stones.
Thus, the true essence of these manuals lay in how to consume less of oneself and accelerate Great Dao Stone condensation without damaging one's source essence.
From the moment he saw