When choosing a Rule to comprehend and break through with, ascending to the Upper Three Ranks, its influence was immense.
This influence not only determined a cultivator's strength during the Third-Rank Saint stage, but was also a fundamental deciding factor. To a certain extent, it even determined the cultivator's overall strength and combat power during the Second-Rank Dao Master stage.
The stakes were crucial, so no cultivator qualified to challenge the Upper Three Ranks would casually choose the Rule they intended to comprehend and break through with.
At the Quasi-Saint stage, how much one's essence, energy, and spirit surpassed their limits had little effect on the advancement of future cultivation realms. What mattered most was one's comprehension of Rules.
However, to comprehend powerful Rules, one had to raise one's comprehension and essence, energy, and spirit beyond their limits to a sufficiently high level. Thus, to a certain extent, comprehension and essence, energy, and spirit were also extremely important at this stage, even playing a decisive role.
If he had sufficient essence, energy, spirit, and comprehension—not much, just all of them reaching above 300 points—Song Ankang's current progress in comprehension would absolutely soar, at an unimaginable speed.
Without Enlightenment Pills, Song Ankang's progress slowed again. Seeing that he would not be able to obtain Enlightenment Pills for quite some time, Song Ankang gave it some thought and began using other auxiliary Saint Pills and Saint Medicine.
Although the effects of these Saint Pills and Saint Medicine were far inferior to the combination of Enlightenment Pills and the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique, they could still match a fraction of its effect and greatly increase Song Ankang's cultivation progress.
With Song Ankang's current power and wealth, obtaining other auxiliary Saint Pills and Saint Medicine was not difficult. In just a few months, he acquired