The Heavenly Demon Art, when cultivated normally, was formless and invisible, with endless methods emerging one after another. It emphasized using one art to evolve ten thousand arts.
Reverse Cultivation, however, returned ten thousand arts to one.
The more skills and abilities one cultivated, and the higher their levels, the more one could use a fixed ritual after cultivation to temporarily convert all of one's skills into one or more designated skills.
Though he did not understand the principle, after some experimentation, Chen Yu gradually gained Insight. He vaguely felt that in the early stages, he could transfer power; in the middle stages, skills; in the later stages, Star Lord's Blessing and divine abilities. Once he reached mastery, he could probably transfer anything.
The conversion had limits and diminishing returns, but pushing a skill beyond Perfection was not a problem.
And as his Reverse Cultivation deepened, the Insight and abilities he could convert would surely grow stronger.
Once he understood this, Chen Yu finally understood why Teacher Zhao had told him that skills had Perfection, but beyond Perfection lay a limit.
That limit could no longer be reached through a single kind of power. It required the fusion of various cultivation arts, combined with techniques and spells.
In that case, he would have to pursue both quantity and quality in the future. He would have to greedily use every possible method to improve himself and gain even more power.
"The Dao of Heaven diminishes excess to replenish deficiency; the Dao of Man does not—it takes from the deficient to serve the excessive."
Having realized this, Chen Yu continued his cultivation.
He used every moment before each death for Reverse Cultivation, memorizing formula after formula and turning them into strength.
Though his physical body changed every time, his Primordial Spirit could