The simultaneous summoning limit of the Ten Shadows Shikigami was two. This was not some trial designed to temper the younger generation.
It was a helpless compromise based on the limits of human physiology.
An ordinary person's technique circuits, even those of so-called geniuses blessed with exceptional talent, were essentially nothing more than a slightly better-configured personal computer.
Special constitutions like the Six Eyes, on the other hand, were supercomputers with overflowing processing power.
The power of otherworldly ghosts and gods was too violent and immense. If multiple summoning channels were forcibly connected at once, the massive data stream would instantly burn out the caster's neural center.
Sorcerers with abnormally vast reserves of cursed energy, capable of enduring such a burden, had always been exceedingly rare throughout history.
To ensure that this powerful inherited technique could be passed down reliably, the Zenin Clan's ancestors—or the creator of this technique—had installed a safety lock into the underlying logic of the Ten Shadows.
Through various Binding Vows, they limited its output to the range of one or two shikigami that ordinary sorcerers could barely withstand.
They also restricted the order of exorcism, preventing novice sorcerers from immediately challenging high-difficulty Special Grade Shikigami and getting themselves killed.
It was a conservative strategy that sacrificed an individual's upper limit to ensure inheritance.
But Lu Ping's situation had broken free of that conventional framework.
The existence of Three Corpses Manipulation allowed his total cursed energy to gradually increase.
It was equivalent to violently expanding the motherboard of that personal computer.
Not only could it merge ten independent partitions into one massive pool of RAM, it could also break the safety lock established to protect sorcerers.
That meant he no longer needed to follow in the footsteps of the Zenin Clan's predecessors and exorcise shikigami one