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On the peak of a towering mountain, beside a cliff, Lufan sat on a stone, facing the sea of clouds, slowly exhaling a breath as silver light flickered around him.
It had been five days since he ambushed the Robbers to lead them away. After that night, it took Lufan two full days to completely shake off his pursuers. He had spent the last five days on this cliff.
He realized he had overestimated himself; under the siege of a group of Second-Rank Martial Practitioners, he had almost no ability to fight back. Only when he estimated that Duanmu Xue and the others had likely returned to Qingyang City did he manage to escape using the terrain of the mountains and forests with Lingbo Weibu.
This battle made Lufan aware that his strength was still too weak. With insufficient foundational power, relying solely on tactics and ambushes could not last long. Once the enemy was on guard, the effectiveness would be greatly reduced.
Thus, he hid on this peak for three days, almost completely refining the Shadow Leopard Meat in his backpack. Finally, he broke through the Iron Cloth Technique to the Silver Skin Realm.
After breaking through to the Silver Skin Realm, Lufan's strength and defense increased significantly. He estimated that in terms of pure strength, he was already comparable to an ordinary Martial Cultivator at the Refining Meat Realm. As for defense, he believed he could withstand a direct blow from a Fourth Rank Bone Refinement Realm expert.
If he were to face the Black-hearted Tiger's punch again now, Lufan was confident that he could emerge unscathed; the defense of Super Iron Shirt was that formidable!
However, despite his significant increase in strength, Lufan helplessly discovered that there were still many problems he had to face.
First, he realized that he had reached his limit in the Refining the Skin realm. In other words, it was impossible for him to break through to the Golden Skin Realm in a short time.
In theory, the Nine Levels of Realm in martial arts have no limits; as long as one can endure it, they can be strengthened indefinitely.
However, while theory has no limits, humans do have limits. Due to factors like talent, everyone has their own boundaries. This is why there are distinctions between strong and weak Martial Cultivators in the world, and breaking through one's limits is not an easy feat.
Those who can continuously break their own limits are almost all true geniuses—leaders of their era. Lufan knew clearly that in terms of cultivation aptitude, he was not considered a genius.
The Silver Skin Realm is currently Lufan's maximum achievable limit; this means that for now, he cannot continue cultivating Iron Cloth Technique.
To continue increasing his strength, Lufan only had one option: to break through to the Refining Meat Realm.
But wanting to break through to the Refining Meat Realm brought about a second problem: resources.
Lufan realized that the resources required for his cultivation were truly terrifying. Just look at his current situation; he was only at the Refining Skin Realm, and to break through to the Silver Skin Realm, he had already consumed most of a Shadow Leopard. He had just barely gathered enough energy, but if he wanted to cultivate to the higher First Rank of the Refining Meat Realm, how many resources would he need then? Would he require fifth-level, sixth-level, or even higher-level Primordial Beasts?
He couldn't bear to think further. The Fourth-Level Primordial Beast, Shadow Leopard, was already quite precious, and he had been lucky to kill one this time. In the future, such luck might not come again.
Just like Martial Cultivators, every time a Primordial Beast increased in level, the difficulty of hunting them multiplied many times over, and their value increased geometrically. This was simply beyond what he could bear.
He calculated that to break through to the Refining Meat Realm, he would need at least ten times the resources he currently possessed!
That was roughly equivalent to ten Shadow Leopards. He feared that searching through all of Qingyang City would not yield ten Fourth-Level Primordial Beasts.
With this calculation, Lufan's face turned pale; it was essentially a bottomless pit. The combined efforts of an entire city could not support his cultivation alone—how could he manage?
As for Herb and Primordial Medicine, there was no point in even thinking about them. The value of Herb and Primordial Medicine did not come from the small amount of Primordial Energy they contained but from the various special effects produced after being transformed by Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, such as healing wounds, calming souls, and enhancing talents.
If he were to consume Herb, Lufan might as well chew on tree bark directly.
At that moment, Lufan realized how naive his previous thoughts had been. He had believed that he could obtain enough resources through his own means and smoothly continue his cultivation. Now it seemed that he was still too young.
Even his earlier idea of showcasing his immense potential to join a powerful faction for resource acquisition might not be feasible. There were so many geniuses in this world; why would anyone expend so many resources to nurture just him? The same resources could support several other geniuses.
This left Lufan feeling a headache.
But that wasn't all; there was another dilemma.
With the successful cultivation of Silver Skin, Lufan keenly sensed that the pressure from the world around him had begun to destabilize. Although it continued to increase at a constant rate, it gave him a feeling of impending collapse.
Heaven's Will felt like a knife; Lufan knew that his continuous growth as a virus had finally begun to touch the limits of the world's immune system. He had a sense that when he broke through to the Refining Meat Realm, the world would likely undergo a system upgrade as well, possibly delivering a harsh blow to him. Whether he could withstand it remained uncertain.
In other words, Lufan could not continuously widen the gap between himself and the world's pressure. Whenever his strength grew to a certain level, the corresponding immune system of the world would also undergo an upgrade adjustment. It seemed that this standard aligned with the Nine Levels of Realm in martial arts.
Thinking of this, Lufan felt that this pattern seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before. As he pondered carefully, he suddenly realized.
Isn't this the legendary Heavenly Tribulation?
This is definitely Heavenly Tribulation, and it's an upgraded version with continuous challenges! Lufan could be certain now, because he had already experienced a Heavenly Tribulation before.
The difference lies in the fact that after the legendary Heavenly Tribulation, one either ascends to the heavens or significantly increases their cultivation. However, Lufan's Heavenly Tribulation was like a shackle imposed on him by heaven and earth!
From his previous experience, he knew that after each Heavenly Tribulation, his strength would be sealed by at least seventy percent. This meant that no matter how strong he became after breaking through, as long as he survived the Heavenly Tribulation, his power would be suppressed to only thirty percent of its potential. This was also why his defensive capabilities were much higher than his offensive power.
How can one even play like this? What a joke! At this moment, Lufan really wanted to give a middle finger to the heavens.
However, no matter how much he complained, he still had to move forward; after all, his life was still his own.
But as the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. Faced with these three almost unsolvable dilemmas, Lufan's face was filled with distress, and he couldn't come up with any solutions.
After thinking left and right, Lufan couldn't think of any good solutions. In the end, he decided to let it go; when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally straighten out. For now, he was still alive, and as long as he was alive, there was always hope.
So he shifted his focus to another matter. During his battle with Black-hearted Tiger earlier, there was something that had caught his attention: the so-called Secret Technique that Black-hearted Tiger mentioned.
PS: Some friends said the pacing was too slow, so I revised the outline and will add another chapter tomorrow.
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