Ever since the Divine Ability Scattering Beans into Soldiers had first been created, its primary purpose had been to tie down enemies, then fight alongside its user's true body.
Without the strength of the true body, even more than a hundred battle soldiers could pose only a limited threat to opponents of the same realm.
Now that Scattering Beans into Soldiers was in Chen Fei's hands, a single battle soldier posed an enormous threat to an opponent of the same realm. With a few more, it became an outright crushing victory.
Combined with See God Unending and the God Slaying Sword, Scattering Beans into Soldiers produced utterly explosive results.
Chen Fei circulated his essence power, and another fifteen battle soldiers appeared before beginning to merge into his body.
Chen Fei's aura began to climb, stopping only after it reached a certain point.
Chen Fei sensed a barrier that prevented him from growing any stronger.
He carefully examined his body's condition. To break through this barrier, merging with a few more battle soldiers would probably be nowhere near enough.
"The barrier to the Dao Integration Realm? Or the Rule Body?"
A thought flashed through Chen Fei's mind, but whichever it was, breaking through it would be tremendously difficult for him as he was now.
To condense a Rule Body, he needed not only to control rule granules, but also to allow enough time for them to permeate his essence, qi, spirit, and soul, letting them adapt to the presence of the rule granules.
This was a gradual, imperceptible process. For other cultivators at the peak of the Sun Moon Realm, the journey from controlling the rule granules within their Divine Abilities to condensing a Rule Body normally took over ten years, or even several decades.
And that was with their cultivation