"Boss, you're finally awake!" Ban Sai had been sitting nearby. Seeing Lu Sheng wake up, he hurried over with a broad smile.
"Boss, we had you to thank again for turning the tide. Otherwise, the entire Research Institute would really have been finished."
"Really? I don't remember." Lu Sheng shook his head. He only remembered hypnotizing himself before charging out headfirst. Everything after that was a blank.
"Boss, if I may ask, have you reached the human limit now?" Although Ban Sai had already calculated Lu Sheng's approximate destructive power from his earlier display, he could not help asking in person.
"Mm. I've reached it. Now I'm stuck. I don't know how to break through." Lu Sheng sighed.
At his level, the nature of any cultivation art was essentially the same.
The human limit was a natural limit shared by all humanoid lifeforms. It did not apply only to the Human Race. Humanoid species, and the many races born and propagated on planets, all possessed this limit.
Lu Sheng sat up from the bed, and the chains around him automatically came undone.
He ran both hands through his hair and stood up.
"So this is already the end?"
Ban Sai shook his head. "No, there's still more beyond this. I've calculated it carefully. This shouldn't be the end."
"Then do you have a way?" Lu Sheng turned to look at him.
"...Not for now." Ban Sai said helplessly. "This is the dual limit of body and soul. The soul can only contain so much soul power. Any more will completely dissipate and be wasted—unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you undergo ritual transformation and turn into another race," Ban Sai said quietly.
"We'll discuss that later." Lu Sheng waved a hand, ending the conversation.
"Now, tell me about the Research Institute's situation.