But just as Sikong Jing reached the Extreme Prison Stage, the storm of heaven and earth spiritual energy abruptly came to a halt.
His breakthrough ended there.
Before the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, Sikong Jing murmured, "At the Extreme Prison Stage, it is no longer enough to absorb more heaven and earth spiritual energy to keep breaking through. If I continue absorbing, I will cross over Extreme Prison and ascend to the divine path."
As before, the Extreme Prison Stage was a realm wedged between the Extreme Heaven Stage and the divine path—one could cultivate it, or skip it.
The spirit shadow itself required the tempering of an ultimate hell, and the body's meridians required equally terrifying tempering. Otherwise, if one broke through too fiercely by accident, it would be easy to leap over the Extreme Prison Stage and charge straight into the divine path.
That was absolutely unacceptable...
A divine path that had not undergone the tempering of the Extreme Prison Stage was pure trash.
Although those at the divine path, even the Divine Lord Stage, could turn back and cultivate Extreme Prison afterward, like that demon-cat woman, the results would be greatly diminished.
In other words...
Although Sikong Jing's humanoid spirit shadow had been tempered by the sinister yin spirit energy, his body had yet to be tempered. Thus, he had only just entered Extreme Prison for now. If he wanted to continue breaking through, every dantian and meridian throughout his body had to keep pace as well.
"Ultimate hell means that the spirit shadow, meridians, and everything else must be pushed to their limits before one can break through into the divine path."
At this point, Sikong Jing's gaze slowly turned toward the people of the Dark Sea Divine Wind faction before him. As if only now