[Besides, there are still a hundred years until the holy war they've set for the future. If there were only ten or twenty years left, they would still advise you not to lose contact and to focus on improving your strength... but that's not the case now.]
Yun Shou: "..."
I was reminded of an event I had experienced before called the "100-Day Sprint".
"A hundred years, that's too long." You looked at the "leave approved" notification on Kuangyuan's screen, shook your head slightly, and without taking Kuangyuan with you, soared into the sky alone.
【You should test it out, test another effect of your supernatural power.】
[The Supreme Hall has always believed your supernatural power is called "Essential Blessing," but in reality, it's called "Essential Reward and Punishment"!]
The 1% of your own essence that you consume can not only increase the essence of others by 1%, but also reduce their essence by 1%!
[Moreover, it's a subtractive weakening; if you nerf him a hundred times, even a True King of the Fifth Realm will be reduced to nothing!]
[For every 1% decrease in essence, strength, vitality, comprehension, and even cultivation speed will decrease accordingly!]
You're actually quite curious: what happens when a living being's essence is reduced to zero? Does it instantly become a corpse, or does all its energy dissipate, leaving only an empty shell devoid of any vitality or nourishment?
Or perhaps it simply vanished into nothingness, leaving not a trace of its existence?
Your previous guess was based on evidence, because both essential rewards and punishments, and returning to one's true nature, do not adhere to the law of conservation of energy.
It's true that people of high spiritual potential need more energy to improve their cultivation.
However, after you allocate points, their various stats increase by 1% out of thin air without any change in the external environment. The only cost is that the supernatural power consumes 1% of your essence!
Therefore, when you choose to remove the essence of an object, what manifests in it is not that it "loses a portion of its strength," but rather that it "suddenly and unexpectedly becomes weaker!"
"But it has to be able to hold out until then, and none of the three great demon kings can currently do that."
[You've experimented with this over the past hundred years in this lifetime; the essence of reward and punishment can only be used on living beings, it has no effect on corpses.]
Based on the standard one-fold essence, however many times it increases, the various strength values of the creature will increase by that many times.
However, lifespan and comprehension will be diminished to varying degrees; a 10x increase in essence will only increase lifespan by a little over three times and comprehension by a little over two times.
However, correspondingly, even if you reduce the essence to zero, at the theoretical minimum value of 0.01 times, although the target's combat power will be weakened to one percent, their lifespan will still be one-tenth, and their comprehension will still be about one-fifth.
"Judging from the current state of the three Demon Kings in the Azure Domain, the youngest, the Barbarian Demon King, became king nearly two thousand years ago. At that time, he was already several hundred years old, so he is now over two thousand years old."
This means its lifespan would have to be over 20,000 years to survive at 0.01 times its original size, but it clearly doesn't have that long a lifespan.
"A weekly nature penalty can reduce a species' nature to zero in just two years. We could experiment with this on a juvenile of any species that originally had a lifespan of 20 years or more, but that would be too wasteful. We'll experiment with that later."
Now, you want to kill the king!
[You didn't bring the two Great Human Kings with you. While using the "Secret Technique of Luck" would allow them to quickly defeat a Demon King, this ability can only be used once a week.]
[If this happens even once, the fall of a demon king or a monster king will inevitably arouse the vigilance and ambition of another race, potentially leading to another instance of demons and monsters attacking the human race together.]
Even if it doesn't, it will still cause earth-shattering chaos, and a true king-level war may break out again before your return-to-true-life cooldown is over.
After all, it has been a very, very long time since a True King has fallen in the Azure Domain; by "fallen," I mean killed in battle.
Over the past 30,000 years, Demon Kings, Monster Kings, Human Kings... have all basically died of old age, because their vitality is too strong. Even with a difference of six or seven times, it is difficult to kill them in a short time.
[Over the years, the Thorn Demon King is the only demon king whose additional awakened abilities after reaching the fifth realm do not provide any numerical bonuses. It is the weakest of the demon kings and is most likely to be killed by the Lord of Destiny of both the human and demon races before its destiny is exhausted.]
[But it was focused on breaking free from racial constraints and would not appear on the battlefield during the Holy War, thus avoiding becoming the exception of the past 30,000 years.]
[A true king who had never died in tens of thousands of years suddenly perished in battle. Given the understanding of humanity among the higher-ups of various races, it's safe to assume that humanity paid an unimaginable price!]
This cost will inevitably cause the True King some damage, and it will be a massive loss that is difficult to recover from in a short period of time.
[Therefore, another race would take advantage of the situation and invade.]
[Moreover, the target of this attack will be the human race: because Wang Yun's side is already severely weakened and will be difficult to recover for decades, there's no rush to deal with them; we must quickly seize the opportunity to severely weaken the human race as well.]
[You're still thinking that once the second week's return to truth events refresh, and you've completely crushed the demon and monster races, the sea race will probably jump out again...]
[If the sea creatures jump out early, that would be disastrous... You really don't want to play this nerve-wracking game anymore.]
[You must ensure that the two most threatening demon kings of the demon race naturally "fall" before the situation escalates.]
[It looks like it has absolutely no relation to humans!]
The specific steps are actually very simple and safe!
In the blink of an eye, you broke through the zone of icy air, the zone of fierce winds, and the zone of lightning.
[Entering the Fourth Heavenly Zone: The Yang Transformation Zone!]
The "Yang-Tou" zone has extremely wide intervals, ranging from 300,000 to 6 million li above the ground.
[In the void, you can't help but marvel at the magnificent scene before you.]
Beneath your feet lies an ocean of plasma, but now you stand on a sea of blazing sun.
Yes, what you see suspended in the air are rows of blazing suns!
The "Sun-Piercing Belt" refers to this area where countless suns have been "projected" upon it!
However, these suns are not physical entities. Theoretically speaking, they are all illusory suns projected from the enormous sun above all living beings in the Yuantian Realm!
At the time, this "virtual" was only created in comparison; they actually possessed physical form!
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