For more than a hundred years, Qin Fengming had remained seated in meditation, cultivating the Chiyou True Demon Art. First, he refined the Profound Clear Stone to consolidate the third layer. Afterward, he circulated the fourth-layer cultivation method and charged at the bottleneck.
The most important aspect of cultivating the third layer of the Chiyou True Demon Art was tempering the physical body, making the cultivator's flesh incomparably solid.
Although this process required the Profound Clear Stone to reinforce the body bit by bit, it was not dangerous. As long as one had the Profound Clear Stone, one could break through and consolidate the realm after spending a certain amount of time.
However, reaching the fourth layer of the Chiyou True Demon Art was absolutely not something that could be accomplished safely merely by strengthening the physical body with the Profound Clear Stone.
That was because once the fourth-layer bottleneck was broken through, the cultivator would suffer the agony of the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Body. Without a physical body powerful beyond imagination, merely being struck by the backlash when breaking through the fourth layer of the Chiyou True Demon Art would cause the body to shatter and the soul to collapse.
The Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Body did not truly mean that Demonic Beasts were running rampant through the body. Rather, it was the power of the Chiyou True Demon Art's backlash invading the physical body. Qin Fengming did not know the specifics either; even Saintly Venerable Shiyou had never experienced it.
Saintly Venerable Shiyou had cultivated the Chiyou True Demon Art, but had not followed the true cultivation method completely.
There was no other reason. Even Saintly Venerable Shiyou had failed to find the Profound Clear Stone and the Frostwind Thunder Crystal. Without these two materials, even if