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Human potential!
It would be completely exhausted upon reaching the limit of the Third Ring.
For wizards and warlocks, breaking through to the Fourth Ring inevitably required breaking their limits.
Usually, breaking the limit of just one attribute—mental power, magical power, or physique—was enough!
They could then use that limit-breaking attribute to forcibly raise the other two.
That could make up for their shortcomings, but the result was instability.
It was like the undead within the White-Bone Soul Venerable: they had to constantly consume energy to maintain their existence. The divine-grade material divine jade bone acted like a limit-breaking attribute, stabilizing otherwise unstable life.
But once the world entered the Age of Dharma Decline and the divine jade bone lost its extraordinary properties, those undead souls would be destroyed.
Yin Ming wanted to cultivate a body without flaws.
He wanted to become a perfectly evolved being, independent of heaven and earth.
After seeing Eternal Silence's Remains up close—its skeletal body withered and gaunt—he was more determined than ever.
A body that could not even hold its own Vital Essence steady, however powerful it might be, would become a cracked jar leaking water in the Age of Dharma Decline. It would struggle even to survive.
"From the First Ring to the Third Ring, mental power doesn't undergo a qualitative change. I can accumulate enough through Mental Runes, then achieve that change when I break through from the Third Ring to the Fourth."
"By the same principle, I can use the Heavenly Cycle Acupoints together with the cycle of the Inner Heaven and Earth to form the Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction. That would give me a foundation for breaking the limit of Qi Essence and magical power..."
"The First Transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art can also turn a quantitative increase