After the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror's third refinement was complete, Benjamin did not immediately leave seclusion.
He sat cross-legged in the center of the refining chamber, sensing the radiant light slowly circulating from the small round mirror in his dantian as he began planning his next step.
Advance to the Void Refinement Realm.
After more than a thousand years of accumulation and nearly a thousand years of preparation, the time had finally come to put his plans into action.
Benjamin sank his consciousness into the Great Dao Library, summoned every text concerning the Void Refinement Realm, and began organizing them systematically.
The essence of the Void Refinement Realm was simple, in a way.
As long as one's three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit met the requirements, one could cultivate a specific technique and enter a special state.
In that state, a cultivator's life form would begin to change.
As the technique deepened, their life form would gradually be remade. Once the transformation was complete, cultivation in the Void Refinement Realm would be over, and they could prepare to enter the Dao-Integration Realm.
Thus, in its earliest days, Void Refinement cultivation did not actually increase combat power. In some ways, it even reduced it.
After all, when your body was being dismantled and reassembled, it would be strange if you could still wield your original strength.
Of course, after countless generations of cultivators had developed and optimized it, some current Void Refinement cultivation methods could greatly increase combat power while carrying out the transformation.
Yet the fundamental nature of the Void Refinement Realm remained unchanged. None of its inherent dangers would be any less severe.
The greatest danger was inner demons.
Benjamin turned a page of an ancient tome, his gaze falling on the three words "inner demon tribulation."
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