At this moment, Wen Tiansheng slowly smiled, directly laying bare the Merman Clan's greatest concern while once again revealing a deeper secret of heaven and earth.
Qin Jiuge's heart jolted violently upon hearing this. He abruptly raised his head and could not help looking at the other man.
This was truly somewhat different from everything he had understood until now.
Sensing Qin Jiuge's thoughts, Wen Tiansheng remembered that he was his old friend's junior and did not intend to put on airs. Instead, he kindly explained his doubts. "The so-called Half-step Great Emperor Realm—once one reaches this stage, one has absorbed that half-strand of primordial energy.
"As for that half-strand of primordial energy, one either obtains it by fortune favored by the heavens, gathering the essence of heaven and earth by sheer luck; or one can only rely on the peak of the Quasi Emperor Realm, using quantitative change to trigger qualitative change, before finally condensing it.
"Yet half is half, after all. To nurture it into a complete strand requires no less effort than starting from the beginning—indeed, perhaps even more.
"Moreover, time waits for no one. The Half-step Great Emperor Realm simply cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the Great Emperor Realm.
"Therefore, any Half-step Great Emperor Realm expert in this world basically only chooses to enter seclusion, refining that condensed half-strand of primordial energy to perfection in the shortest possible time, thus completely breaking through into the true Great Emperor Realm.
"That is why, beneath heaven and earth, apart from the Great Emperor Realm, only the Quasi Emperor Realm remains.
"And the Merman Clan at my side may have stayed in the Silent Realm for too long. Coupled with having no Great Emperor Realm expert to guide them, that fellow developed ambitions of rising up