[Just as you imagined being able to charge into the Life Path Quasi-Emperor realm as soon as possible, the Origin within your Origin Crystal began to recede like the tide, surging toward some part of your body at an even faster rate.
This vortex was like the hole in a punctured balloon, greedily devouring the Origin you had painstakingly refined, as though it meant to suck you completely dry.]
[With an Imperial Spirit, you reacted quickly enough and soon found the target. To your surprise, the source continuously drawing away the Origin from your Origin Crystal was the beautiful Phoenix Divine Mark on your back!
The Phoenix Divine Mark had clearly long since been completely refined by you, yet it now showed signs of losing control. This was utterly abnormal. Still, you remained calm. Using your final shred of control over the Phoenix Divine Mark, you managed, through the Phoenix Primordial Spirit that had given no response at all, to slow the Phoenix Divine Mark's absorption of your Origin Crystal's Origin...]
[Seven days later, the Origin in your Origin Crystal had fallen from nearly twenty-two percent to below twenty percent. Those two percent alone could not be replenished even by refining a Sixth-Ring Dao Grade cultivation Pill. Yet compared to yourself seven days earlier, you were far calmer now.
The Phoenix Divine Mark's primordial spirit was no longer completely unresponsive. It found chances during this period to respond to you several times. Like a drowning person gulping down a few breaths of air, it urgently and stumblingly told you the source of this commotion.]
[The extraction of the Origin from your Origin Crystal was not a bad thing. On the contrary, it was a good thing. It seemed even you had forgotten that when your cultivation realm neared the Emperor