Atop the mountain, Shi Caiming withdrew his palm from the spot over Li Fei's Dantian.
"The consciousness of the eighth-grade Tianshui Azure Soul Beast has completely merged into the Tianshui Soul Bone. If I erase its consciousness, the Tianshui Soul Bone may run completely wild and damage your Dao Foundation, so I only sealed its consciousness and cut off the Tianshui Soul Bone's continuous absorption of your 'essence, energy, and spirit.'"
Shi Caiming said to Li Fei, "However, part of the Tianshui Soul Bone has already merged into your Dao Foundation. There's no way to cut off its absorption of energy from your body unless we sever the Dao Foundation's absorption from the outside entirely."
Even after an Implant grew to the Qi Transformation Stage, it still needed to continuously absorb energy, and that energy was supplied by the human body.
Thus, even without fighting, martial artists had to consume energy-providing pills or special foods to keep the Implants inside them alive.
This would continue until the Dao Foundation was completely established and the Five Elements formed a self-sustaining cycle capable of absorbing the Five Elements' qi from the outside world.
In other words, below the Martial Dao Master level, a martial artist's supplies were extremely important.
Without sufficient supplies, a Dao Foundation-stage martial artist could not fight continuously for several days. If his internal force was exhausted, he could not even recover promptly without food or pills.
Part of the Tianshui Soul Bone inside Li Fei had already merged into his Dao Foundation, so whenever the Dao Foundation absorbed energy, that part of the Tianshui Soul Bone would absorb it as well.
If the energy supply were cut off, Li Fei's other four Implants would die before the Tianshui Soul Bone, because the Tianshui Soul Bone was far more