Because breaking through with this Heaven-Defying Dao secret method first required consuming an enormous quantity of pills and heaven and earth spiritual energy...
For many cultivators, this could be a tremendous problem, because ordinary cultivators simply could not withstand the infusion of so much spirit medicine and heaven and earth spiritual energy.
The enormous quantity of pills and heaven and earth spiritual energy mentioned in the Heaven-Defying Dao was enough to burst even a Body Integration Realm cultivator apart.
For most cultivators at the late-stage peak of the Void Refinement Stage, that was already more than ten times their limit. It would be strange if they did not explode.
They were very likely to have their physical bodies burst apart by the pills and heaven and earth spiritual energy before their breakthrough even succeeded.
But for Ye Han, this was no problem at all. He had the Purple Cauldron and the Purple Cauldron Space, and his physical body and meridians were exceptionally powerful. Not only could he withstand the impact of such astonishing medicinal power and heaven and earth spiritual energy, but he could also use the Purple Cauldron to replenish them in batches.
This was extremely important. For example, if Ye Han used up only half the energy from those pills and heaven and earth spiritual energy, he could immediately replenish it whenever he needed to. How could an ordinary cultivator possibly do that?
The second issue was the expenditure of lifespan. This breakthrough would not consume as much of his lifespan as Ye Han had imagined. The main issue was that, if Ye Han truly succeeded in breaking through with this cultivation technique, he would not gain the normal increase in lifespan...
What did that mean?
Under normal circumstances, whenever cultivators advanced a major or minor realm, their