[Your share of the Origin had not vanished. It had merely taken another form, becoming a thread connecting the Origin and the True Spirit.]
[For someone else—according to Xing Yao, for instance—after breaking through to the Life Path stage, the Origin within her body had fallen from thirty-two percent to twenty-five percent, a full seven percent less.]
[Before entering secluded cultivation to break through, you had only just exceeded thirty percent, still some distance from thirty-one percent. Thus, this "thread" of yours had consumed only around twenty percent of your Origin.]
[Setting aside the fact that your entire breakthrough process had gone far too smoothly, the quality of your Immortal Essence was likely three times Xing Yao's, perhaps even more. That was already an utterly terrifying comparison. One had to know that between cultivators of the same realm, even a difference of twenty or thirty percent in Immortal Essence quality would produce a clear advantage in the power displayed when casting divine abilities of the same depth.]
[A near threefold gap in Immortal Essence quality was not as simple as one-to-three, either. According to theoretical books on the subject that you had read, when using the same divine ability at the same realm, the former could expend one part of strength to unleash three parts of power, while the latter would need to spend three parts of strength merely to bring out one part of might!]
[You did not know whether Xing Yao's foundation was shallow or not, but the painstaking tempering of Immortal Essence you had done before was finally showing results. It seemed to be telling you that your efforts had not gone to waste, and that all those treasures and pills had not been consumed for nothing...]
[After secretly rejoicing for a while, you calmed your emotions.