Lin Yue's voice continued, carrying a note of seriousness. "If you can't even master the lowest-grade Yellow Tier Low-level Cultivation Method, do you think you'd be able to learn a Mysterious Tier or Earth Tier Cultivation Method if I presented one right now? I can tell you with complete confidence: if you try to learn a Mysterious Tier Cultivation Method directly, even if you're a demigod, you might not be able to grasp the basics. Its circulation routes are ten times more complicated than those of a Yellow Tier method, and it requires a hundred times more Soul Power. Forcing yourself to cultivate it will only cause a backlash from conflicting routes. At best, your Soul Power will become chaotic; at worst, your body will explode!"
"Your body will explode?" Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect abruptly looked up, his eyes full of shock. He remembered his own experience years ago. After breaking through to Soul Douluo, he had tried to skip the foundational hammer techniques and go straight to the Clear Sky Sect's advanced hammer technique, "Clear Sky True Body." The attempt had thrown his Soul Power into disarray. He'd been bedridden for three months and had nearly lost the use of his right hand. Hearing Lin Yue's words, he suddenly understood. "So cultivating techniques has thresholds that can't be skipped, just like learning Soul Skills and absorbing Soul Rings. I was too impatient."
Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect nodded slightly and snapped his folding fan shut. "Your Excellency Lin Yue is right. It's like a Level 10 Soul Master trying to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. That's not cultivation—it's suicide. Cultivation must proceed one step at a time. Training in our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda begins with the basics of