Was it really so hard to admit you couldn't do it?
After enough attempts, a person had no choice but to yield. Keep pushing stubbornly, and they simply couldn't hold on.
That was what the Second Stage was like.
Some people could comprehend an Emperor Method Prototype in one stroke without relying on repeated transformations to lift them up.
Others could find no way to comprehend a method and could only keep transforming in the hope of succeeding, yet still fail in the end.
By his second transformation, Ye Fan had already glimpsed the outline of an Emperor Method Prototype. His performance was undoubtedly on par with Shi Hao's back then.
Shi Hao had entered the Ultimate Ancient Land and extracted Emperor Bone Bro's Immortal Emperor Scripture from the dark matter he refined. He then underwent his second transformation and comprehended an Emperor Method Prototype.
In the original storyline, this happened after roughly a hundred thousand years. With Meng Chuan's unexpected involvement this time, it happened tens of thousands of years earlier.
Ye Fan underwent his transformation during the hundred-thousand-year Blood Battle, and at the same time glimpsed the outline of an Emperor Method Prototype.
But the benefits of fighting Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors certainly could not compare to directly refining an Immortal Emperor Scripture, so it was only natural that Ye Fan was a little slower.
With one gaining time and the other losing it, the two were about even.
They truly were two peaks shining side by side on the Evolution Path.
After three transformations, Ruthless had also begun consciously working to comprehend an Emperor Method Prototype and enter the Third Stage, though her progress lagged slightly behind Ye Fan's.
That was why, despite having undergone one fewer transformation, Ye Fan was actually ahead of Ruthless.
Of course, that