Above the gray fog

Lao Wang disappeared with Cersei.

Lin Shan and Jiu Qi returned to the villa area.

After this battle, Lin Shan roughly knew his own strength.

Two qualitative changes could not suppress him. If he wanted to threaten him, at least four qualitative changes would have to attack at the same time, or bring some special spiritual tools.

There was still a month before the gathering of the Yiqi Alliance, and Lin Shan planned to try to break the ban first.

Breaking the ban was not the same as qualitative change. To break the ban, one must reach the peak of sequence five, but qualitative change did not have this requirement.

But one thing was the same, not everyone could complete the qualitative change, and not everyone could break the ban.

These were two different paths, which could be taken at the same time or only one.

Qualitative change required the combination of characteristics, while breaking the ban only required pure talent.

The strength of the peak qualitative change of sequence 5 was roughly equivalent to breaking the second ban.

As for breaking the third ban, it was another level. Breaking the third ban was called the level closest to God, and there must be a reason for it.

Lin Shan has been trying to fuse characteristics but has not made any progress recently, so he thought of changing his path first, breaking the ban first and then considering qualitative change. Anyway, both paths can lead to the final road.

Breaking the ban is different from digesting magic potions. There is no way to break through directly with the source essence. You can only use the source essence to transform into pure spirituality and store it in the body.

If the body is compared to a bottle of water and the spirituality is compared to water, then the process of breaking the ban is to fill the bottle with water first, and then continue to fill the bottle with water without overflowing.

At this time, the body can no longer absorb spirituality naturally, and can only use external objects to help break through.

In simple terms, it is to keep absorbing, and if there is no explosion, then it will definitely break the ban.

If it explodes... that only means that breaking the ban also has risks.

Lin Shan has a stock of 60 billion units of source essence. At present, he is not short of resources. After upgrading both the biological body and the strange body to the peak of sequence 5, he spent more than 15 billion, which is half more than expected.

The remaining 45 billion units of source essence will not be used for other purposes. Lin Shan plans to use all of them to improve his strength.

Lin Shan sat cross-legged, and the endless source of essence was madly transformed into pure spirituality and poured into his body.

Every time a little more entered, there would be a more bloating pain.

After consuming about 1.5 billion units of source, Lin Shan finally saw the effect when he felt that he was about to burst.

Invisibly, the total amount of spirituality in his body, which was already full, increased by a little.

In other words, the bottle of water became a little bigger.

But at this time, the bottle seemed to be sealed, and no drop of water could squeeze in.

The bright golden light ball quickly condensed in Lin Shan's hand.

There was white lightning wandering on the light ball. Lin Shan madly injected spirituality into the light ball. The volume of the light ball did not change, but the energy contained in it became more and more uncontrollable.

Lin Shan injected all the spirituality transformed from the source into the light ball, leaving only the amount of spirituality that could be preserved by natural absorption in his body.

The light ball slowly disintegrated and turned into tiny spiritual fragments that kept flying.

1.5 billion units of source essence seemed to be wasted.

In fact, it has achieved the desired effect.

Lin Shan roughly understood how to break the ban. He used to think that he just needed to keep eating, but now he understands that he would choke if he kept eating, and he must keep eating repeatedly to truly break the ban.

No wonder it is said that breaking the ban consumes spiritual resources abnormally. Just a little improvement has consumed 1.5 billion units of source essence. If converted into actual extraordinary resources, the amount is also outrageous.

To break the ban, he needs to expand the "bottle" little by little, and only when it is large enough will it reach the line of breaking the ban.

Just like a person running, one meter away from the finish line, this finish line is the limit of breaking the realm, but this person can only stop one meter before the finish line. If he wants to go forward, every centimeter of breakthrough requires external force. When he pushes 100 times and touches the finish line, he has broken the ban and can continue to run forward until he reaches the next finish line, which is the line of breaking the second ban.

Lin Shan now needs 1.5 billion units of source matter to push forward one centimeter. How many times to push to break the ban depends on where the end point is.

He doesn't have a specific data, so he can only keep trying.

Lin Shan continues to burn source matter to transform into spirituality.

The second time.

The third time.

The fifth time.

He consumed 7.5 billion units of source matter and pushed it 5 times in total, and the total amount increased by "five strands", which did not improve his strength at all.

No wonder qualitative change is common, but breaking the ban is rare. Let alone talent, who can bear this kind of consumption.

He kept trying to break the ban, and his soul felt swollen. Lin Shan was worried about sequelae, so he shifted his target to enter the characteristic space to promote qualitative change.

A month passed quickly.

The progress of qualitative change remained unchanged, and the swelling caused by breaking the ban 5 times disappeared.

It was the once-in-three-month Yiqi League gathering again, and Lin Shan planned to ask about participating in the civilization game.

Lin Shan in the real world gradually became sluggish, and his consciousness had left his body.

Eden Square.

Lin Shan was the first to arrive again.

Unexpectedly, Eden Square was unusually lively today, with far more people than the last time he set up a stall.

Lin Shan looked around and found several stalls near him.

What happened? Did he set up a stall once and set off a street stall craze?

Ji Xian and the others hadn't arrived yet, so Lin Shan walked towards the stall closest to him.

The stall owner was a humanoid creature with black hair and pale skin, who looked like a pure human creature, if you could ignore the two sharp fangs in his mouth.

There were already two people selecting goods in front of the stall. When the stall owner saw Lin Shan coming, he just glanced at him and whispered, "Pick whatever you want."

Lin Shan nodded slightly and pretended to pick up the goods. In fact, he was penniless now, and even if he saw a treasure he liked, he might not be able to afford it.

The items sold in the storefront were all extraordinary materials, and there was nothing valuable.

Lin Shan also saw the stones that Lao Wang gave him to make sequence 5 weapons on the stall. Only a small part of the stones Lao Wang gave him were sold, which was enough to prove that weapons were not popular among the extraordinary.

At the front of the stall were paper cards with red-nosed clowns painted on them.

This thing was the same as the crystal cards used by the human circle and the federation, which were low-cost storage tools.

Lin Shan checked the items in the cards one by one.

The first card contained a bunch of insect eggs.

The second card contained a large eyeball, which exuded a frightening aura.

"This eyeball?"

"This is the eyeball of a starry sky beast, priced at 5 points, no bargaining?"

"Starry sky beast?" Lin Shan wanted to ask what a starry sky beast was, as he seemed to have heard of this term before.

"A giant beast in the starry sky." The stall owner replied indifferently.

Seeing that he didn't want to learn more, Lin Shan continued to check the cards behind, which were all insect eggs, bird eggs and the like. He found a pattern: the more things were in the back, the less valuable they were.

Lin Shan pulled out the first card, "The eggs inside..."

"These are eggs taken from the Zerg secondary hive. They can be cultivated to have neural connections and be controlled. They can be cultivated to the level of Sequence 6 at most. The price is ten points."

"Zerg secondary hive... This sounds very sci-fi." Lin Shan thought to himself and put down the card with a smile, "It's too expensive. I can't afford it."

The buyer next to him also agreed. This thing can only be cultivated to the level of Sequence 6 at most. It is still a bit useless for them.