Divine sparks had to be used one grade above one's realm.
In other words, those in the Divine General Realm used second-grade ones, those in the Divine Command Realm used third-grade ones, and those in the Divine Spirit Realm had to use fourth-grade ones!
He Pingsheng had yet to break through to the Divine Spirit Realm, but he now needed to fuse fourth-grade divine sparks.
Fourth-grade divine sparks likewise had no distinction in attributes. They were all divine sparks in their most primal form.
That was hardly a problem. After all, He Pingsheng had no shortage of divine sparks now.
He could simply take some out and fuse them into fourth-grade ones.
Yet the first thing He Pingsheng did after leaving his Daoist grounds was neither fuse divine sparks nor find somewhere to break through. Instead, he walked straight out of the He Family grounds and went over to Old Diao's outer hall by the entrance.
"Young master, you've come out of seclusion?" Old Diao sprang out of the chair he had been lying in and hurried over to He Pingsheng with quick little steps. "You were in seclusion for quite a while this time. It's been... fifty or sixty yuan, hasn't it?"
He Pingsheng nodded. "Yes... about fifty-nine yuan!"
"Old Diao... cut the chatter!"
"Hurry up!"
"Bring out your tea and let me have some!"
"After spending so long in seclusion in one stretch, I feel like I've rusted all over... I don't know why, but I just want a few mouthfuls of that Bitter Unevenness of yours!"
That was indeed how He Pingsheng felt.
Whether in the Divine Realm or the Immortal Realm, cultivation posed the same problem: prolonged seclusion could easily cause the body to rust.
Once the body rusted, further breakthroughs became impossible.
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