The moment Qin Fengming saw Saintly Venerable Shiyou suddenly unleash such a terrifying attack, his eyes narrowed. In a flash, he thought of a possibility.
Back then, at He Yang Palace, Blood Charm Holy Lord had just broken free. Although his body had been weak, he had still been able to fight Ju Yang's divine sense incarnation to a standstill. What he had relied on was the essence energy of his true body.
Now, seeing the monstrous attack Saintly Venerable Shiyou had unleashed, imbued with such terrifying power, Qin Fengming felt fear surge in his heart.
If his guess was correct, Saintly Venerable Shiyou's attack had likewise been unleashed only by burning his own essence energy—a divine ability containing extraordinarily terrifying power.
Clearly, facing that soul-form existence of a great power from the True Ghost Realm who had crossed realms to arrive here, Saintly Venerable Shiyou had also sensed the danger.
Just now, Saintly Venerable Shiyou had merely watched the two Yellow Springs Palace cultivators cast their techniques without making a move. Presumably, he had already begun secretly stimulating his own potential and burning his essence energy, all to unleash this attack.
Damaging one's own essence energy was no simple matter.
It meant sacrificing one's own origin. A cultivator's origin was the most precious thing they possessed—the purest essence within their Core Nascent.
If one's essence energy was damaged, it meant the cultivator had suffered an extremely severe injury. It would take hundreds or even thousands of years to recover. If anything went wrong, death was entirely possible.
Therefore, no matter the circumstances, burning one's own essence energy to increase one's battle strength was something cultivators were unwilling to do.
If the method was used improperly, the opponent might not even need to act; the cultivator could destroy their own