"What? You've reached origin sequence level five?!"
Qin Siyang was thrilled to hear Qian Wendao's news.
"How many [primordial starshine] did you use to advance? Did you get new skills afterward, or did your old skills get stronger? Can you beat Ander now?"
Listening to Qin Siyang's nonstop questions, Qian Wendao said, "One at a time."
He had Qin Siyang sit down, then poured him a cup of water.
"I only just broke through myself. I obtained a total of 157 [primordial starshine] before finally reaching origin sequence level five."
"157?" Confusion immediately crossed Qin Siyang's face at the number. "The earlier breakthroughs all took round numbers like ten or fifty. What's with that number?"
"I was puzzled at first too. Then I did some calculations and came up with a theory."
Qian Wendao took a sip of water and slowly explained, "The disc carapace I used as the secondary offering in my god-worship ritual was worth 196 points. In other words, I can obtain a maximum of 196 [primordial starshine]. 157 is exactly the number that just reaches eighty percent of that maximum."
"You mean..."
"Breaking through from origin sequence level four to origin sequence level five doesn't require a fixed number of [primordial starshine]. Instead, you have to obtain eighty percent of your own maximum. So people who used disc carapace worth different numbers of points as secondary offerings in their god-worship rituals face different levels of difficulty in reaching origin sequence level five."
Qin Siyang asked, "So if obtaining eighty percent of your maximum [primordial starshine] lets you reach origin sequence level five, suppose I used disc carapace worth sixty-three points as the secondary offering in my god-worship ritual. After getting fifty [primordial starshine] and reaching origin sequence level four, I'd only need one more [primordial starshine]