Qi Refining's Limit, Judging Merit and Fault

Inside the cultivation chamber, Five-Element Spiritual Qi swirled like colored smoke.

Chu Bai sat cross-legged at the heart of the array. Sensing the utterly changed rhythm of Spell Power within him, he felt a storm surge through his heart.

"Subtlety... I really broke past the limits of Perfected Level."

He slowly opened his eyes. Five-colored light flashed through his pupils, then gave way to an almost icy clarity.

As his experience grew, Chu Bai was no longer the green young man from a poor family he had once been.

He knew that under the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty's ironclad rules of cultivation, Perfected Level was the limit for Qi Refining Realm cultivation methods.

Only superior methods of the Foundation Establishment Realm and above, or immensely powerful Earth Tier Spell Arts, had higher levels of mastery.

In theory, the Divine Sense and physical strength of Qi Refining Realm cultivators could not withstand the profound changes beyond Perfected Level.

Yet he had truly raised the basic Origin Return Formula to Subtlety.

"It's the power of my Fate Destiny..."

Chu Bai drew a deep breath and silently called it to mind.

[Acquired Fate Pattern: Relentless Toil, Relentless Effort]

[The Heavenly Dao rewards diligence. Any Spell Arts practiced day after day will yield results, bypassing bottlenecks until success comes as naturally as water flowing into a channel.]

"I understand."

Chu Bai's eyes flickered as everything suddenly became clear. "'Bypassing bottlenecks' doesn't just mean overcoming the barriers between major realms. It also means breaking through the ceilings that exist for every art in this world.

As long as I practice hard every day and keep accumulating progress, my Fate Destiny will turn every drop of sweat into brute force that breaks my shackles."

Even if a cultivation method had an inherent upper limit,