After taking a moment to grasp the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao Saint Fruit Position, Yuan Yan fell into thought, considering what he should do next.
After some reflection, he made up his mind. He would send a wisp of divine consciousness back to Yingzhou Immortal Island to tell Yuan Jie and the others to proceed as planned and explain the differences and mysteries of Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals and Sages. His true body would remain in the Inner Chaos to cultivate.
He had his reasons for staying in the Inner Chaos.
First, in a very short time, he had broken through from the peak of the Twelfth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal to the Fourth-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal. The leap in cultivation was enormous!
Yet he did not want to incur a greater karmic debt to the Primordial World. He had neither absorbed vast amounts of its Innate Spiritual Qi and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence nor drawn upon the Heavenly Dao Saint Fruit Position to absorb immense Heavenly Dao power and replenish himself. As a result, his Origin Power was severely depleted.
He needed considerable time to fill that void. Only then would he truly be a Mid-Stage Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
As for his current state?
The shortfall did not affect his combat strength. He could exert just as much power now as he would after replenishing himself, but he could not sustain it for as long!
With his current Origin Power, if he fought an opponent of equal strength without drawing Heavenly Dao power through the Heavenly Dao Saint Position, relying only on himself and absorbing no Chaos Qi during the battle to replace what he spent, he would likely exhaust all his Origin Power in less than a few thousand years.
Of course, if