[Another month slipped quietly by amid the same daily monotony and concentration.]
[Accompanied by a faint mechanical hum and the ghostly blue glow of circulating cursed energy, the third fully independent cursed corpse, "Great Sage," slowly sat up on the workbench.]
[After the routine initial checks, much like servicing a precision instrument, this third unit proved just like the previous two: its core operated steadily, its logical processing ran without a hitch, and not the slightest unexpected issue arose.]
[In fact, if you calmly analyzed its short-term development at this moment, the fully independent cursed corpse project had truly reached the limits of your current technical capabilities.]
[First was production efficiency. Given the work of inscribing the core souls and handling the absolute rejection within the three-in-one system, no amount of proficiency could shorten the production time any further.]
[Second was combat capability. After successfully experimenting with adding cursed objects inside their bodies as external power sources, their upper limit of strength had also reached a peak that was difficult to surpass.]
[If you wanted them to undergo a genuine qualitative transformation beyond their current level of "extremely powerful Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers" and cross a higher threshold, you would first need to make deeper breakthroughs in other fields yourself before you could inscribe those new insights.]
[But taking a step back, this so-called "bottleneck" would absolutely be a jaw-dropping miracle in anyone else's eyes.]
[Under absolutely ideal conditions, disregarding all subsequent repairs for combat damage and routine maintenance, you could reliably produce around ten Great Sages a year if you pushed your current energy to its limits.]
[In other words, through your efforts alone, you could manufacture ten beings a year as though on an assembly line, each fearless in the face of death and far stronger than an