An Open and Aboveboard Reveal

Elder Zi's words left Chen Yang silent.

Elder Zi was widely experienced. With a single glance, he had seen the flaw in the Fantasy System.

Daoist Yanhuang had created the Fantasy System, and Chen Yang had refined it. It truly resembled the cultivation methods of a fantasy novel: in just tens of thousands of years, a cultivator could reach a lofty level. Cultivation also brought formidable killing power.

But all of that came at the cost of lifespan and breakthroughs through bottlenecks that were otherwise hard to overcome. In the Daoist Sect, for example, those who cultivated the Shrouding Heaven System opened a Life Fountain and burned their lifespan at every moment. That burning lifespan gave them tremendous strength in battle.

Shi Hao was one such cultivator. The lifespan within him burned constantly, and it burned still faster when he fought. It was as though he were using a secret art every waking moment.

One of the core principles of the Fantasy System was to trade lifespan for terrifying killing power. It was like perpetually using an art that burned away one's life to obtain fearsome cultivation. Yet those who cultivated the Fantasy System could also draw vitality from the Primordial World's spiritual energy and resources to replenish what they had lost.

Cultivating the Fantasy System meant living between life and death. Its practitioners wrestled with death at every moment and grasped the great terror that lay between the two. Only then could they accelerate their breakthroughs.

Such a cultivation method was exceedingly cruel. That was why Elder Zi called the Fantasy System a path that strayed too far to the edge of the blade.

Elder Zi sighed over it but did not try to stop Chen Yang. After all, Chen Yang had people cultivate this method for the sake