The violent energy within his life seeds made them shine like stars within his body. Not only do they look like stars, but they also behave like stars in that they convert a lot of matter into energy for him to use.
In a way, the 512 life seeds are engines within him just like the engines within cars. So he is a car that possesses 512 engines. If all those engines can work together, one can imagine just how powerful a car he is.
In order to advance to the tenth transformation of the third mortal coil, he has to split those 512 life seeds into two.
To do this, his life seeds must have enough potential to split. If they don't have the potential to split, the process will never start.
As someone who used a top-grade rank 3 armament to build his man-made wonder and establish his foundation, he has to have the potential to advance to the tenth transformation of the third mortal coil.
If he doesn't have the potential to advance to the tenth transformation, no one in the world should have the potential to. It is not a matter of pride. It is simply a matter of fact.
So the requirement of potential is not a problem for him to meet. The problem he has to overcome is surviving the process of the transformation.
He has 512 life seeds within him, and all of them have to split at once because any imbalance in their overall state can cause a catastrophic explosion.
Lightning energy is already unstable on its own. It is very active and likes to move from areas of high potential to areas of low potential. So if he doesn't make sure that every life seed is on the same level of potential, electricity will flow within him and he will die.
But his situation is even more difficult than that because he somehow had the incredulous idea to add the wood element to his life seeds. If wood and lightning are not balanced within each and every life seed, then he can forget about balancing the potential across all 512 life seeds.
All he needs to die is for one life seed to have a problem. So each of the 512 life seeds is a potential source of problems for him.
This is why many people didn't think he would survive past the third transformation of the third mortal coil. But he has proven them wrong and managed to reach the ninth transformation.
He is even currently in the process of advancing to the tenth transformation. His life seeds have already begun to split, and his life is on the line.
There are many people that want him to die. The first person that came to his mind is the person running the betting pool on how long he will survive.
That person had offered him half of his winnings upfront in order to quit. But he had rejected the man, so the man will surely be glad if he dies since he will get nothing from the bet he made if that were to happen.
As he was thinking of this, his life flashed before his eyes. The experiences of the past ten years were the ones that lingered most in his mind.
He thought about the bet and the offer he rejected, he thought of Thor and his cheating ass, he thought about the appearance of the prodigy with the God Physique and her request to meet him, he thought about the success of his father in advancing to the third mortal coil, and then he thought about his mother's preparations to do the same and how much more difficult it will be for her.
As he thought of this, he gritted his teeth and said, "I have to survive. There is still so much I want to see and experience. There is still a bet of 10,000,000 energy stones waiting for me to win. I can't die now."
After saying this, he drank more life essence in order to sustain the immense stress on his body. The life essence entered his body and was quickly digested. The energy it contained helped to maintain his life for even longer.
Each of his life seeds is part of the foundation establishment of his life. They are his source of power and also the source of life for him. But right now, they are burdens to him, not helpers.
In their normal state, his life seeds invigorate him and keep him alive. But while evolving, they require a lot of energy from him. This transforms them from life-giving organs into voracious parasites.
This state of being a parasite is temporary, but it can be the end of him because without his life seeds, he is technically dying.
In nature, successful parasites know not to kill the host too soon, or they will die before they are able to reproduce and spread to other hosts. But his life seeds don't have that self-awareness.
His life seeds have no qualms about killing him. So not only is he dying because he doesn't have his life seeds to support him, but his life seeds are also pushing him closer to death in their quest to get the energy they need to split into two.
It is quite an irony. He doesn't have his life seeds, so he can't convert mana into the resources he needs to keep living. Yet, his life seeds require those resources from him in order to transform.
So he is at an impasse. It is also an impasse that won't last long. He has to find a way to find the resources he needs to help his life seeds transform outside his body, or he will die.
One way or the other, the impasse will be broken. In order to break the impasse by getting the external source of energy he needs and helping his life seeds to transform, he has to rely on things that he can easily digest without his life seeds.