Realms In The Firmament
chapter-1079

"For example, if you give two dan beads, and of each of which will provide one hundred years of cultivation to a Human Origin Stage cultivator, you kill him in a self-explosion. The spiritual energy in the dan bead has a certain amount. Dan bead would not absorb more energy, or reduce the energy inside it. It is a good thing that your body can endure it, but if you can't, you die. It is a waste of time and also the valuable dan bead."

"So those talented men who have been taking dan beads since they were kids when the superior cultivators in their clans keep supporting them may look powerful, however, there are hidden dangers inside themselves. If the troubles burst out, they will die immediately!"

"Besides, you are not definitely going to be improved after taking some dan beads... There are limitations."

"The world is never perfect. Dan is also defective. If there is no limitation of dan beads, anybody can become invincble as long as they get enough dan beads. Isn't it?" Ye Xiao said.

"I know that. I am just confused," Han Bingxue said.

"I understand. I know what you are confused about." Ye Xiao smiled, "The perfect timing when you take the dan beads depends on your own status. In the right time, take the right dan bead, when you are in a right status. That will make it work most harmoniously.

"For example, when you just reach level one of Dao Origin Stage, Heaven Climbing Dan will boost your cultivation capability. You will be greatly improved by it. It wouldn't be difficult for you to handle the energy from the dan bead. The only thing you do is to wait until your body fully digested the efficacy.

"However, if you are on the top of level one of Dao Origin Stage, Heaven Climbing Dan will be of its least effect on you because you are in a bottleneck! Your cultivation capability will be limited to a certain level. The efficacy of the dan bead will be wasted. However, sometimes, such dan beads will help you break through to a new level. It is just such a rare chance. It mostly only happens to the main character of a legendary story, not to any normal people!

"In a dan-maker's perspective, a man in the top of the first level needs Mai Connecting Dan. It has the specialty of level breaking and gives the man a bigger chance to break the limitation. A bigger chance is the most important thing. It is the most important effect of the dan beads which help to break levels! However, it mainly depends on the cultivator himself whether he could break through or not. He had to be in a higher level mindset and comprehension to make sure the breakthrough happens.

"If not, it would be meaningless for the cultivator to break through a level by only taking some special dan beads. The unbalance of the cultivator would cause a reverse impact and lead to a severe consequence. The cultivator might be seriously injured or just die in self-explosion! It's not a joke!

"Besides, dan beads can be useful for cultivators. Some of them improve cultivation power, some of them recover spiritual qi, some can provide a bigger chance for the cultivator to break through, yet sometimes, they also kill.

"Don't question this. Think deeper and you will find that you cultivation can be improved by taking dan beads, but your mindset can never. It means you will have a significant shortage. The shortage can only be fixed by endless practical fights, trials, survivals, experiences of life and death… These can enhance your mindset and make it comparable to your cultivation level.

"During the improvement, most of the cultivators died. It should usually take them dozens of years to cultivate, yet because the dan bead pushed them to the new level, they had to experience all that should happen in dozens of years within one year. Otherwise, they will die… Think about it, experiencing the life and death situations of dozens of years within one year… How big could their chances to survive be?"

Ye Xiao sounded distressed, "To improve the cultivation level is a shortcut indeed, but it can't be misused."

"A young man can never be as experienced as an eighty-year-old man, no matter how mature he seems to be!"

Ye Xiao stared at Han Bingxue. "An eighty years old man has truly experienced a lot of things, a lot of betrayals, ups and downs… Otherwise, how does he become so old in his heart? Only time can give him the improvement. Nobody can get it easily!"

"I guess you know how cruel the experience could be, don't you?"

Han Bingxue was lost in thoughts for a while and took a cold breath in.

"For me, I believe in only the power I got from hard work. The dan beads' most prominent use is to assist me in the battle. When I am exhausted, I will take one. It cures my wounds and extends my life. I think I won't talk much about the old days…" Ye Xiao said.

"Most importantly, no matter what kind of dan beads, even dan beads in the supreme level have potential hazards. However, dan beads in a higher level have smaller hazards.

"No matter in what level, even dan beads in the supreme level have dan poison. Medication is a double-edged sword. It's just a saying! The poison in the dan beads is difficult to detoxify. Even bone ablution couldn't clean it! When one digests the dan bead, they also digest the poison at the same time. It became a part of the body afterward!

"The more we take dan beads, the more poison there is inside us."

"As far as I am concerned, only the thunder trials that happen when one is ascending to the upper realm can clean the poison from inside one's body!

"If we don't expel the poison, when it becomes a big amount, it will burst in impact someday.

"When it bursts, there is nothing we can do.

"Dan is medicine. Medicine is a double-edged sword. The dan poison in dan beads is terrible!

"This is the reason why none of the real influential figures in history became super powerful figures by having dan beads, even though the dan-making technique is so popular in the world and dan-makers are so respected by all the powerful forces.

"Only by experiencing everything by oneself, by enhancing one's mindset and use the mindset to sense the world, use the sensation to upgrade one's cultivation level, would one be able to keep gradually moving up! This is the only way to strengthen one's foundation to become stronger.

"The stronger people have a smaller limitation on taking dan beads. You have reached level nine of Dao Origin Stage, and your mindset is stronger than it should be… In other words, your cultivation level doesn't fit your high-grade mindset."

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