At the same time, however, power is power. This is a material world; you cannot attain immense power simply through what you call a sudden flash of enlightenment, a realization of the Dao, or a stroke of fate. Even with the so-called Martial Dao Sublimation, its essence is merely a qualitative change after the accumulation of power has reached its limit. Otherwise, if you were to let an Ordinary Person undergo Martial Dao Sublimation, at best they would only be the strongest among ordinary people, and someone in the Inner Qi Realm could still crush them with ease.
Yun Qingqing, Su Shiyan, Zhang Heng, and Ased possessed great fortunes—fortunes so immense they defied description. Yet they lacked the power to convert these fortunes into actual strength, at least for the time being. According to Hao Qi's estimation, and based on the calculations Lan Linger specifically ran for them using a supercomputer, all indicators showed that they needed to reach an Inner Qi Realm with a Divine Coverage Rate of fifty percent—the absolute limit achievable with mortal aptitude before Martial Dao Sublimation—before they could transform the fortunes obtained from the destruction and creation of the universe into their own strength.
To use Hao Qi as an analogy, it was only by that point that they would be qualified to turn their respective fortunes into genuine martial arts, much like Hao Qi's Hundred Styles and Self Style. Before then, they were fundamentally unequipped to wield the power cont…
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