A Lu's current method of attack was, in essence, to pay the price of self-harm in order to awaken the potential within his body, allowing him to unleash severalfold, even dozens of times, his usual power output in a short span of time.
But once immortal Dao cultivators reached the later stages, where was there any so-called potential left?
If one had not grasped every last bit of one's own potential, how could one have the nerve to claim success in cultivation?
So-called self-harm was merely the rapid consumption of one's essence, qi, and spirit.
Since it involved interference with oneself, Yu Chen, who had taken on Cihang Daoist's form to fight A Lu, could naturally stir the fluctuations of the Three Treasures within him with effortless ease.
In truth, once one's cultivation reached a certain level, desperate methods no longer meant simply squeezing the present dry, but instead shifted in other directions.
Taking A Lu himself as an example, there were many sources of power he could borrow. He could rely on the authority of the Sun Palace to pierce through time and space and borrow power from his past and future selves. He could also borrow power from the Earth Mother through his bloodline. Or, through his inheritance, he could mobilize more Highest Purity Dao qi.
Any one of these would have been more useful than burning his essence, qi, and spirit as he was doing now.
A Lu understood this perfectly well, yet he still chose to burn himself.
*The path I cultivate has been greatly influenced by Teacher Yu Chen. The Dao principles and laws within my Dao Fruit bear obvious traces of the Highest Purity Dao. Whether I pierce through Cosmic Light to borrow power from the past and future, or borrow power from the