Merely drawing upon the gathered power of the Heavenly Dao to distort time, making a single instant feel like ten thousand years, wasted an unknown amount of merit in the process.
Furthermore, continuously burning a massive amount of merit to enter an epiphany state could quickly resolve the doubts in his heart and make his cultivation realm advance by leaps and bounds, but this was undoubtedly a huge waste.
If he chose to cultivate slowly, occasionally burning a bit of merit only when encountering difficult problems to enter an epiphany state and resolve the doubts in his heart, perhaps he would only need one or two thousand epochs, consuming just a third or a quarter of the merit he was using now, to similarly break through to his current realm.
Even if he wanted to break through quickly and burned merit with a slightly higher frequency, perhaps he would only need a few hundred epochs, consuming just fifty or sixty percent of the merit he was using now, to similarly break through to his current realm.
Compared to wantonly and rapidly burning a massive amount of merit, slowly burning a bit of merit occasionally was far more cost-effective.
Therefore, if he had a choice, although he would still burn a massive amount of merit to rapidly fuse the Three Corpse Dao Bodies and prove the Dao to become a Hunyuan Grand Firmament Golden Immortal as soon as possible.
He still hoped to stop burning merit the exact instant the Three Corpse Dao Bodies were completely fused.
Even if doing so meant his Primordial Dao Fruit could no longer undergo another transformation and sublimation, and his Great Dao realm could not reach the Third-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
Of course, it would be different if merit descended from the heavens.