(I went to Beijing and will probably be back tomorrow. Taking a day off.)
For Soul Masters, a century of arduous cultivation could not compare to a single moment of enlightenment. What enlightenment elevated was not their cultivation, but the realm of their spiritual force. And an increase in that realm was especially important not only for Mental Attribute Soul Masters like Huo Yuhao, but even for ordinary Soul Masters.
Ten thousand years later, Soul Masters' research into spiritual force had reached an extraordinarily profound level. They divided spiritual force into six major realms, from lowest to highest: the spirit origin realm, spirit connection realm, spirit sea realm, spirit abyss realm, spirit domain realm, and the legendary divine origin realm.
Simply put, everyone was born with spiritual cultivation at the spirit origin realm. The meaning of this realm was that the primal origin began, and all things were renewed. It was the most fundamental spiritual level.
Without sufficient spiritual cultivation, even someone whose cultivation had reached a bottleneck could not break through. Yet the Soul Masters of the present had no such concept, nor did they have methods or equipment specifically designed to train spiritual force. As a result, they had far fewer powerful experts than there would be ten thousand years later.
For example, a Soul Master with level eighty-nine Soul Douluo cultivation who wished to advance to Titled Douluo had to condense a soul core. To do that, they had to master the method of merging their spiritual force and soul power into one, and their spiritual force had to withstand the same immense expenditure as their soul power.
The reason so many Soul Masters remained trapped before the threshold of Titled Douluo even after reaching the limits of Soul Douluo cultivation was that the level and total