"Yes!"
Lu Mingyu nodded, then said as he strolled along, "Once you've learned everything I just described, you'll naturally have the complete Bitter Sea System."
"But the Bitter Sea System does have its drawbacks."
"What drawbacks?"
"After cultivating the Original True Understanding, Bitter Sea cultivators can no longer seal themselves away."
"Look at the self-sealing arts throughout the world. Almost all of them weaken a cultivator's vitality, allowing them to enter a state like an animal in hibernation."
"That works with other cultivation methods, but not with the Original True Understanding."
"Once you cultivate the Original True Understanding, the divine power in your body keeps flowing, and your strength keeps growing."
"Even if that growth is tiny, it still breaks the seal."
"One of the clearest reasons Teacher and Zhang Bairen developed the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System was to make it impossible for Emperor Realm cultivators everywhere to seal themselves away."
"Then the forbidden grounds would soon cease to exist."
Looking at Lu Mingyu beside him, Chen Feng said softly, "So you don't have much time left either, do you?"
"If I don't break through or rely on external means, I have sixty thousand years left at most."
"An Immortal King Realm cultivator can live up to ninety thousand years. My constitution is unusual, so perhaps I can add another twenty thousand."
"I've already been in this world for around sixty thousand years. Saying I have sixty thousand left is an optimistic estimate."
"What if you used external means to extend your life?"
Chen Feng asked out of curiosity.
Lu Mingyu smiled faintly. "I won't rely too heavily on external means to extend my life."
"Why?"
"Because a Bitter Sea cultivator like me needs several times as many life-extending treasures as other cultivators."
"If I started consuming them without