"You tell them."
"You were there!"
"And you're the first person in the history of the Yellow Martial Sect to reach the Body Tempering Twelfth Level. I want to hear your judgment."
"All right!"
Li Yun didn't stand on ceremony.
"I hadn't thought about the possibility of a Heaven and Earth Restriction. I figured it was only Body Tempering: keep absorbing Spirit Qi and using it to temper the body, and eventually the flesh would grow stronger and closer to perfection."
"But when I was about to break through to the Body Tempering Twelfth Level, I realized that wasn't how it worked."
"Body Tempering has a limit, and that ceiling is determined by the Dimensional Coefficient."
"The Dimensional Coefficient represents the strength of our entire world. Its invisible ceiling determines the upper limit of the Martial Dao for everyone on Blue Star."
"That limit doesn't just govern how far we can cultivate. It governs our physical potential, too."
"The closer you get to that ceiling, the more keenly you sense the vastness of heaven and earth. The pressure of heaven and earth bears down on you, your own strength begins to run out, and all those forces become a tremendous barrier. You can barely take another step. It can even leave you despairing that no human could ever break through!"
Qiao Meng couldn't help asking, "But didn't you just break through?"
"I did, but not completely. You could say I still had enough strength left to push on."
"In fact, by my estimate, Blue Star's current Dimensional Coefficient can support the Body Tempering Thirteenth Layer. I've only reached the Body Tempering Twelfth Level, so I'm still below that ceiling."
"And since I'm below it, I could have reached this level all along. The resistance I faced came from my own