I created an extraordinary era

Chapter 686 Bottlenecks and the Upper Limit of Life Levels
"The orifice?"

Xia Yuan was stunned when he saw the notification on the panel.

Without much thought, he immediately checked Nangong Hong's status.

For Xia Yuan, who possesses a true soul, as long as he is willing to investigate, Nangong Hong has no secrets from him whatsoever.

"This is... an energy channel?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Xia Yuan's eyes.

At this moment, the formation of the thirty-six main acupoints in Nangong Hong's body is exactly the same as the one in his body.

However, it differs from Nangong Hong's nascent and singular energy pathways.

Within Xia Yuan's body exist twelve more complex and vast energy circulation systems.

Each one is like a surging galaxy, composed of countless more subtle and mysterious acupoints that are both independent and interconnected.

In Xia Yuan's perception, these twelve star rivers were like a vast, nascent universe.

"So these star systems are called the Aperture Palace?"

Xia Yuan stroked his chin and muttered to himself.

"The source of power lies in the acupoints and palaces."

"This acupoint belongs to the physical body's spiritual treasure."

"So, different acupoints should correspond to different divine treasures."

By now, he had pretty much figured it out!

This "aperture palace" system most likely corresponds to different potential spiritual treasures within the human body.

Each time one is activated, there will be a huge increase in that direction.

For example, Nangong Hong.

The power source he opened was for amplifying physical strength.

However, in Xia Yuan's view, this increase was secondary.

The greatest benefit of awakening the acupoints is that it can raise the upper limit of life essence, which is the most fundamental transformation!
The origin of life, like a container for life, determines its growth potential, recovery ability, lifespan, and even the heights it can ultimately reach.

Ordinary cultivation mostly involves constantly filling and expanding this "container".

The Awakening Palace, on the other hand, directly improves the material and capacity limits of this "container" from the level of rules!
In layman's terms, it means the upper limit is greater.

As for the increase in physical strength, it is merely an external manifestation of the strengthening of the life essence.

"If that's the case, then the Unity Realm is the watershed!"

A flash of understanding crossed Xia Yuan's eyes.

Before reaching the Unity Realm, the main focus of cultivation for extraordinary individuals is building a foundation, constantly enriching their Qi and blood and strengthening their physical body.

There are no bottlenecks in this process.

If there is a bottleneck, then you are stuck and unable to make progress.

However, from the Extraordinary Era to the present, Xia Yuan has never heard of anyone being unable to make progress.

Even someone with the worst talent can continuously improve their strength as long as they cultivate step by step.

It's simply a matter of how fast or slow the speed of improvement is.

to be honest.

Even if you only have the initial stage of Ming Jin in martial arts, as long as you keep practicing, you can keep improving until you reach the Guiyi realm.

Of course, this process may take a very long time.

Theoretically speaking, it would take at least five hundred years for someone who has just entered the Ming Jin realm to cultivate to the peak of the Transcendent Realm.

The lifespan of those in the Transcendent Realm is only two hundred years.

What limits their breakthroughs is not the bottleneck, but time.

But once you reach the Unity Realm, the situation is completely different.

If the upper limit of life essence is not high enough, then there is no way to continue to improve it.

This is fundamentally different from before the Unity Realm.

"No wonder there's such a big difference in lifespan increase between the Unity Realm and the True Spirit Realm!"

Xia Yuan originally thought it was unreasonable that the Transcendent Realm only had a lifespan of two hundred years and the Unity Realm only had a lifespan of three hundred years.

But as his path to transcendence became more complete, he gradually began to understand many things.

Before awakening the vital energy center and raising the upper limit of life essence, the increase in lifespan is very small.

Two hundred years in the Transcendent Realm, three hundred years in the Return to One Realm.

It may seem like only a hundred years have passed, but this is already the limit that the origin of life can reach without undergoing a "qualitative change" to strengthen it.

Xia Yuan's thinking became completely clear, like the sun breaking through the clouds.

The stage of returning to oneness is one of exploration and accumulation.

Those who are extraordinary awaken their inner palaces in this realm.

With each additional acupoint awakened, the origin of life becomes stronger and the potential becomes deeper.

Breaking through to the True Spirit Realm means completely integrating these unearthed potentials, thereby completing a leap in the level of life!

Xia Yuan had another guess.

The reason why the Returning to One Realm only has a lifespan of three hundred years is probably due to the limitations imposed on life by the rules of the universe.

These three hundred years have been like an invisible filtering mechanism!
We select those geniuses who truly have potential, perseverance, and opportunity, and who can continuously awaken their inner potential and elevate the upper limit of their life essence.

This gives them the opportunity to strive for even higher levels.

As for those who are unable to awaken their Qi Palace or whose awakening speed is too slow, they will be helplessly stopped in the face of this three-hundred-year limit, and eventually their lifespan will be exhausted.

Survival of the fittest; the strong will always be strong.

Such is the rule of the universe.

"It seems I've been underestimating the difficulty of breaking through to the True Spirit Realm."

Xia Yuan rubbed his temples.

He used to think that as long as he cultivated step by step to the peak of the Unity Realm, he should be able to break through smoothly.

After all, it has always been like this.

The cultivation before the True Spirit Realm is more like an accumulation of quantity, a process of constantly pouring water into a "container".

Given enough time, even with the worst talent, perseverance will eventually lead to success, filling the vessel and reaching the peak of the current level.

But breaking through to the True Spirit Realm should be different!

If one cannot awaken the Qi Palace, then it is probably impossible to break through to the True Spirit Realm.

This is a bottleneck, an insurmountable barrier at the level of life!
To break through to the True Spirit Realm, it's not as simple as just filling the "container"; the "container" itself needs to undergo a qualitative leap!
Awakening the Acupoint Palace is probably the only way to improve the material of the "container" and give it the potential for "qualitative change"!

"But just how many acupoints do you need to awaken to break through to the True Spirit Realm?" "Is it enough to awaken just one acupoint, or do you need to awaken at least twelve acupoints like me?"

To date, without a point of comparison, Xia Yuan still doesn't know whether the twelve acupoints he has awakened are too many or too few.

However, Xia Yuan felt that since he had been able to cultivate to the peak of the True Spirit Realm.

That's at least not bad.

It has definitely reached above the average level.

Otherwise, if the potential is insufficient, there is simply no way to break through.

Of course, it's also possible that the character's stats are so high that they can ignore the limitations of life and forcibly add points to improve them.

However, Xia Yuan felt that this was unlikely.

If he's really that amazing, then why is he stuck at the peak of the mortal realm and unable to break through?
Therefore, his potential should be considered quite good.

As for whether it can be considered top-tier, we'll have to wait until everyone else has cultivated to the True Spirit Realm to see!

Anyway, Xia Yuan felt that since he had awakened twelve acupoints, everyone else must have awakened nine or ten, right?

If you haven't even awakened all ten acupoints, then your talent is probably quite poor.

"Nangong Hong couldn't possibly be worse than me, right?"

Xia Yuan stroked his chin, becoming increasingly expectant.

Awakening just one acupoint provides a thousand source points.

It's almost equivalent to all the source points a top genius can provide when breaking through to the Unity Realm.

That's absolutely outrageous.

If 10,000 people each awaken ten acupoints, that would amount to 100 million source points.

Of course, Xia Yuan was only thinking about it.

Opening acupoints is far more difficult than most people imagine.

Even for Nangong Hong, it took him sixteen years to open up more than forty acupoints and awaken one acupoint palace.

At this rate, even with sufficient resources, it would take him 160 years to open up ten acupoints.

By then, Nangong Hong will be almost 250 years old!
If Nangong Hong is like this, others will only be slower.

And this is assuming everything goes smoothly, theoretically speaking.

The reality is likely to be much more complex and difficult than Xia Yuan imagined.

Because the further you progress, the more difficult it becomes to open up the acupoints.

Only by continuously improving one's martial arts, laws, spirit, and cultivation can one open up more acupoints.

Most importantly, opening many acupoints does not necessarily mean that one can awaken the acupoint palace.

If the acupoints corresponding to the acupoints in the acupoint palace cannot be found, then opening more acupoints will be useless.

With a sigh, Xia Yuan stopped thinking about it.

In any case, the cultivation path before the True Spirit Realm is now clear.

As for how many acupoints need to be awakened to break through to the True Spirit Realm, and how many acupoints others can awaken.

Time will tell him the answer.

"It seems that the path taken by the Vientiane Sky Road was the right one!"

In order to awaken his Aperture Palace, Nangong Hong borrowed nearly nine thousand Source Crystals at once.

Although we didn't use them all in the end, we still used about six thousand of them.

Such a massive amount of resources is simply unaffordable for the average person.

The Wanxian Sky Road has been a huge help to those geniuses.

After all, the core area has been infused with millions of source crystals, and the concentration of source energy there is no less than that of using source crystals for cultivation.

Without giving it any further thought, Xia Yuan looked at the panel again.

Name: Xia Yuan

【Life: 72/10000】

[Status: Mortal Realm Perfection (Three Elements United) (Cannot be upgraded)]

【law:
Wind: Stage 1 (1/100)

Fire: Stage 1 (1/100)

Water: Stage 1 (1/100)

Wood: Stage 1 (1/100)

Earth: Stage 1 (1/100)

Yin and Yang: Beginner (can invest in the source point for further deduction and comprehension)

【Martial Arts (All Laws Return to One): Subtlety (100/100) (Reached the current limit, unable to evolve further)】

[Extraordinary Martial Arts: Azure Wave Sword Technique (Mastery), Wildfire (Mastery) (Can be used with Source Points for deduction and comprehension)]

[Source: 436852]

[Source Point Contribution Ranking (193542)]

[Nangong Hong: 2755]

[Ji Xuan: 1466]

"As expected, geniuses are still the most cost-effective."

“Nangong Hong alone provided him with nearly three thousand source points.”

Seeing Nangong Hong far ahead on the Source Point Contribution Ranking, Xia Yuan felt a surge of joy.

This efficiency is far greater than training ordinary extraordinary individuals!
It's a pity that there are too few high-quality workers like Nangong Hong.

If everyone were like him, Xia Yuan's source points would be at least five times higher.

"Teacher, what's making you so happy?"

Just then, Hua Changfeng walked in from outside.

Seeing the excited expression on Xia Yuan's face, he was full of curiosity.

"I made a thousand yuan on my investment!"

"Go and buy some monster meat. We'll have a good meal today."

"???"

Hua Changfeng looked completely bewildered.

(End of this chapter)