[The "Death Gate," as the name suggests, requires near-death experiences to break through; it's a perfect breakthrough.]

However, Bei Chenguang left behind some Life Extinguishing Pills, which can disguise one's life force and allow one to feign death once.

"It would be best if this hurdle were truly a near-death experience!" Bei Chenguang said. "Only in this way will the breakthrough be more effective, allowing for faster, more perfect, and flawless progress in the fifth realm of Extreme Martial Arts!"

"But that's just too dangerous; only those with exceptionally strong willpower can increase their chances of surviving."

Even if a martial artist cultivates to the point of opening the seventh level, capable of fighting a supreme being, they only have a one in a thousand chance of surviving a death situation.

"One in a thousand?" You smiled calmly.

In the blink of an eye, you've tested the future 300,000 times, each time self-harming to the point of near death.

[The first two hundred thousand times were basically moments of sudden loss of consciousness, followed by moments of awakening where the user found themselves back to the sixth realm of strength, their previous life completely dead.]

[In the final future, you awaken nineteen minutes after your life force has been extinguished, having already broken through the barrier of death.]

Thus, this successful future was brought back to reality.

[In 4190, you began to study the ultimate martial arts.]

[Due to the incompetence of the Qingyu people and the simplicity of the system, the King of the Century in the Zunyuan system still uses the grading system set by Beichenguang: "Entry-level," "Minor Success," "Major Success," and "Perfection."]

The five realms of the ultimate martial arts path are called "Martial King," and their classifications are "Immortal," "Immortal," "Undying," and "Eternal."

The name sounds impressive, but in reality... it's just so-so.

[Having overcome a near-death experience through one's own strength, achieving "immortality" in the next five realms will become considerably easier.]

[Because it avoided a theoretically fatal ordeal, it is called immortal.]

[Immortality means that the physical body of a supreme martial arts king has been cultivated to its limit, and will not decay even after tens of thousands of years.]

[Immortal refers to its life force reaching an insane level; even if it is crippled and only a fragment of its body remains, it can regenerate rapidly, making it virtually indestructible.]

[The "eternal" aspect refers to the fact that the Supreme Martial King has taken his abilities to a new level, achieving a lifespan of 30,000 years. For mortals who are reborn every hundred years, his 300-fold lifespan truly seems eternal, with no end in sight.]

[Call Xu Ling'er every three days, then use the Descent skill three times to increase her comprehension by hundreds of times.]

[In 4200 years, your leveling speed will be far slower than your speed of comprehending the ultimate martial arts path.]

In the fifth realm of the Ultimate Martial Arts system, the primary goal is to hone one's physical body to achieve immortality and indestructibility.

The resources themselves aren't very useful. It's not that resources are useless, but rather that the amount of useful resources is too small. Often, it takes thousands or tens of thousands of years to produce even a small quantity, which is simply not enough to meet your needs!

[This isn't the Venerable Yuan System; you can't just pile up Yuan Qi on top of it.]

"This Hagi Guang used 66 times the essence to consume all the Extreme Martial Medicine during his reconstruction."

[In 4215, the essence of Beichen light was 266 times greater.]

His Dao Seal has long since recovered from its shock, and he is now rebuilding his ninth system once again.

[Given its extremely high level of complexity, the system requires unique resources that are unavailable in the Qingyu region, and the reserves from the confiscated property of the mythical families are insufficient. Therefore, Bei Chenguang recklessly plunged into the Yuan Tian battlefield.]

He changed his appearance, and no one would have imagined that the God of Slaughter, who originally needed 8,000 years to heal his Dao wounds, would be reborn and return to slaughter his way back in just 80 years.

[Year 4230.]

This year, Xu Ling'er completed her journey of "Zun Yuan Zhi Dao" (a path to venerating the origin).

Her true nature is now 1300 times stronger, and her comprehension is 16 times that of an ordinary person.

[According to your calculations, even the final 0.99 to 1 meter hurdle in the Dao of Venerable Origin can be understood and overcome with 10 times the comprehension over time. However, the path ahead will become increasingly difficult, and even condensing the Dao Seal will be challenging for someone with 20 times the comprehension.]

[Her comprehension has now surpassed that limit, and she has also undergone a long period of seclusion to overcome a major bottleneck. Therefore, in two hundred years, she has crossed the final, most difficult section, from 0.8 meters to 1 meter.]

She ascended to the throne of the century.

Although the cost is 1300 times higher and the required resources are also 1300 times greater, what Beichen Guang brought back before is sufficient.

The reason is simple: the Yuan Qi resources that Bei Chen Guang brought back were enough for dozens of people with twice the aptitude to cultivate from scratch to the peak of the True King realm.

[A True King with eight times the potential at the beginner level and a True King with one time the potential at the minor completion level both have a combat power of eight thorns.]

[If we consider the upgrade from True King Beginner to True King Minor Mastery, the required resource is 1 point.]

[A True King with eight times the aptitude will reach 8 points upon reaching the Lesser Mastery stage, and their combat power will increase from eight thorns to sixty-four thorns.]

However, to increase combat power from eight thorns to sixty-four thorns, and to upgrade a True King of double aptitude from Lesser Completion to Greater Completion, requires thousands of resources!

[Anyone can easily figure out that if someone's physical abilities and overall condition were to double, how could their food intake simply increase from one bowl to two?]

"It seems that Lady Qi cannot understand this."

Yun Shou said casually.

But it's okay, she won't blame him, because she can neither see this content nor hear the above sentence, and she can't even comment on it.

You can't even give a thumbs up or stomp your foot.

Therefore, to double one's strength in terms of advancing to a higher realm, the resources required are ten times, or even more, the total resources needed to cultivate from zero to this level!

[But high-quality characters truly require only a few times the resources for several times the combat power!]

[Therefore—the cost of Xu Ling'er's advancement to True King with 1300 times her essence is the same as the cost of a True King with one times her essence advancing from the beginner level to the minor master level.]

In 4240, Bei Chenguang returned to the Fifth Realm. After all, it was a system he had already cultivated once. If he were to cultivate it again after his previous life was wiped out, the speed would be truly astounding.

This year, you will have walked the path of ultimate martial arts 1000 meters and fully comprehended it.

[However, your level has only just reached the Lesser Completion of the Fifth Realm. With the two systems working together, your stats are approximately 20. However, your vitality is terrifyingly strong, your physical body is incredibly robust, and you possess many amazing abilities that you never had before.]

[The Sacred Body has evolved to have an 80-minute precognitive time, but other functions remain unchanged. It seems it will only be further enhanced when it reaches the second level of the sixth realm.]

[The improvement to the essential divine power is slight. Now, each use consumes a maximum of 25% of the essence, and can increase or decrease the essence of each person by a maximum of 5%. The individual cap remains unchanged, only the total amount has increased again.]