Compared to the Dao Power required for ordinary Dao Pattern inscription at the Dao Entry level, Lu Ye's consumption was undoubtedly far greater. He had to inscribe that Dao Pattern within every Dao Bone throughout his body. Compared to ordinary cultivators, his Dao Power expenditure had increased by almost a geometric multiple.
Fortunately, his reserves of Dao Power were abundant enough to sustain it.
Time passed, and the Base Elements of Divine Edge filled the insides of one Dao Bone after another.
Finally, at a certain moment, as the last Base Element was completed, it connected to the very first Base Element Lu Ye had inscribed!
The entire Divine Edge Dao Pattern formed a perfect closed loop within the Dao Bones inside his body.
In that instant, Lu Ye felt as though his entire being had changed.
Merging Dao!
He had succeeded!
There was no extraordinary phenomenon. It happened so silently. The moment the Dao Pattern had been successfully inscribed was the moment a cultivator truly stepped from Dao Entry into the Merging Dao realm.
Lu Ye did not rise. He remained seated where he was.
The pain of ten thousand ants gnawing at his bones seemed to linger, enough to make him shudder whenever he recalled it, but it was ultimately only an illusion.
After briefly examining his reserves of Dao Power, Lu Ye could not help clicking his tongue.
This step forward in cultivation had cost him more than two hundred thousand Dao Power. What a terrifying expenditure.
One had to know that the upper limit of Dao Power reserves within an ordinary Dao Entry cultivator was only a thousand. In other words, a normal Dao Entry cultivator would consume, at most, that much Dao Power when advancing to Merging Dao.
Compared to Lu Ye's consumption, it did