Ren Ze looked astonished. "Temporarily break the seal?"
Su Shi'er explained, "This seal possesses the ability to repair itself. Before finding the true method to break it, every time it is damaged, the seal's power doubles."
"Th-then why is that? Is there no way to eradicate the seal completely in one stroke?" Ren Ze asked in confusion.
"Difficult! The two most crucial marks of this seal are rooted in a cultivator's Numinous Palace and dantian, nearly fused as one with both. Forcibly breaking them would not only fail to break the seal, but would instead damage these two vital acupoints."
"The former is where the Sea of Consciousness lies. The latter is where a cultivator's entire cultivation and strength reside."
Su Shi'er shook his head, his brows slightly furrowed, his expression exceptionally grave.
When he had rashly attempted it earlier, he had managed to break through several sealing chains at the Sea of Qi acupoint, but none had been the crucial seals. Over the past few days, those broken sealing chains had already begun silently taking shape again.
"Fused with the Numinous Palace and dantian... Bi Yun Xuan truly uses ruthless methods. Could it be that, from the very beginning, they never intended to let cultivators like us break the seal?"
Ren Ze clenched both fists, seeming like a deflated balloon as he spoke.
With a dispirited expression, he added, "Now that even Fellow Daoist Su is helpless, and we have gone so long without obtaining Bi Yun Xuan's special spiritual liquid, it seems our lives are in grave danger!"
Hearing this, Su Shi'er shook his head. "Not necessarily. I just said that this seal can be temporarily broken by certain means."
Without waiting for Ren Ze to ask further, he continued explaining, "Although breaking the seal will increase its