The Creator of the Art

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[Eight-Nine Mystical Art!]

In theory, there was no limit to the number of External Core manifestations it could absorb, nor to the number of transformations it could undergo.

The Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman had been constructed with enough precision to accommodate ten thousand First-Ring External Cores at once.

But Yin Ming's current physique could bear only nine First-Ring External Cores.

Once the Eight-Nine Mystical Art completed its First Transformation and remade his physique, the improvement gained through the Nourishment Chapter would let him bear new External Cores and undergo the First Transformation a second time.

If the Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman remained unchanged, the talents and physical improvements from that second transformation would be weaker than those from the first.

He would retain the original Mental Simulation Combination talent, but the rate at which nourishment improved his physique would not change.

A third time, a fifth time...

At some point, his potential would reach its limit: the abilities gained through transformation and the physical capacity consumed by the External Cores would reach a perfect balance.

After that, his remaining potential would steadily decline. If it could no longer bear a single Second-Ring External Core,

then the Eight-Nine Mystical Art would never break through to the Second Transformation.

So the best approach to cultivating the Eight-Nine Mystical Art was to break through to the highest realm possible.

By constructing a Second-Ring Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman and advancing the Eight-Nine Mystical Art to the Second Transformation, he would raise both his cultivation speed and his potential ceiling. He could also return to cultivating the First-Ring portion at any time.

The next-best approach: if he could not meet the conditions for a breakthrough but encountered a First-Ring talent he had to obtain, he should stop cultivating as close as possible to the