Simply because the nine-press Thorny Road had always been regarded by the entire world as humanity's ultimate limit!
It was not that no one had ever attempted a tenth compression; it was just that no one had ever succeeded!
One senior who had completed nine compressions had pressed on and attempted a tenth, then left these words: "It is not that I will not, but that I truly cannot! Any further, and I will die! I will burst!"
Those words had spread far and wide.
From then on, the ten-press Thorny Road had become forbidden territory for cultivators!
And because nine was the pinnacle of numbers, cultivators had naturally assumed that this was heaven's ordained number, and the limit of humanity!
But all of this... Zuo Xiaoduo knew nothing about.
He simply kept his head down and compressed, compressed, compressed...
This truly proved the saying: ignorance really was bliss. But that saying only applied to Zuo Xiaoduo here.
Who else had fortune points to draw upon?
Even an unrivaled genius like Zuo Xiaonian would probably have long since become a heap of fragrant flesh if she had used Zuo Xiaoduo's method of compression.
By two in the afternoon, Zuo Xiaoduo had brought himself into peak condition and began his second journey down the Thorny Road.
This compression had barely begun before the pain he experienced shot straight up to the level of yesterday's final stage.
"Awooo, aaah, owww..."
Despite having experienced it once already, Zuo Xiaoduo still howled his lungs out inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, yet continued striving to compress his true essence. Faintly red sweat began seeping, drop by drop, through the skin all over his body.
This was a sign that a person's tolerance for pain had reached its limit.
But he simply kept writhing, convulsing, and