The seer explained by saying, "Dragons are innately blessed and don’t need to become divine beings to have extraordinary talent."
"It is humans that need to become divine beings before they can raise the limit of their talent. And that’s only because talent stops being relevant when they become divine beings."
Loki’s brows furrowed when he heard this. As someone with a large energy well, which serves as the greatest part of his power, he didn’t like the idea that talent would become irrelevant at rank 6.
So he said, "How and why does talent become irrelevant as a divine being?"
The seer said, "When a rank 5 cultivator advances to rank 6, their Power Core, which used to be their Energy Well, and their Mental World will fuse to become their Cave Heaven. The outcome of this fusion will also determine the grade of the Life Fire."
"The higher the grade of the Life Fire, the longer the lifespan they will get, the longer the divine being can live, and the more difficult they will be to kill. So the size and power of the Power Core are very important to the power of a divine being."
"However, after the Life Fire has been ignited and the Cave Heaven has been formed, the size of the Power Core will become irrelevant because it will stop existing. Since divine veins possess infinite Life Energy, the size of the Energy Well and the speed of energy recovery will also be irrelevant even if they exist."
Loki sighed in relief when he heard that he hadn’t increased the size of his Energy Well in vain. But there was still something he didn’t understand about how to increase talents that he wanted to ask.
He said, "Didn’t you say that talents can be increased after becoming divine beings? How can it be done if talent becomes irrelevant at rank 6 and above?"
The seer struggled for a bit before saying, "When a divine being runs out of lifespan and reincarnates, the talent of their Energy Well will increase because of the supply of infinite Life Energy from their Cave Heaven. They will even be able to break the limit of 90 units of talent without trying."
"But this is not a good thing when they become divine beings again because their new Energy Well will fuse with their Cave Heaven when they ascend and dilute their Life Fire. This dilution of their Life Fire will make their Life Fire weaker and make it easier for them to run out of lifespan."
When Loki heard this, he said, "So the more they reincarnate, the higher their talent will be, but the worse their Life Fire will become?"
The seer nodded and said, "Exactly so. After a while, their Life Fire will refuse to reignite when they try to become divine beings. So they will fail the process of ascension, and their souls will disappear forever, never to reincarnate."
This made Loki say, "Wow. I didn’t expect that."
Then he said, "Speaking of the process of ascension, what does it entail exactly?"
The seer replied in a wooden voice like a robot, "With a Divine Metac connected to you as your Life Ability, you call to the Divine Position. The Divine Position will answer and will pull you up."
"If you’re not interrupted on your way up and if you don’t fail to transform your existence, you will become a divine being. From that moment on, you will have a Life Fire, which you can use to gain more lifespan by burning special resources."
In response, Loki raised an eyebrow and said, "Divine beings have to burn special resources for lifespan? I thought the extra lifespan was automatic."
The tiny ego shook its head as it said in reply, "Extra lifespan isn’t free. You have to sacrifice something to gain lifespan."
"Divine beings gain extra lifespan by sacrificing special resources to their Life Fire. The higher the grade of the Life Fire, the higher its efficiency in converting resources to Lifespan."
"The maximum efficiency of conversion of the Life Fire is 50%. The lowest is 1%. Life fire that cannot reach 1% in conversion efficiency will fail to ignite and will lead to a failure in ascension. The consequence of such a failure is the destruction of the soul."
After mulling over what the seer had said for a few seconds, Loki asked, "Does that mean that divine beings can have infinite lifespans as long as they have something to sacrifice?"
The seer said, "Infinite lifespan is indeed possible. However, it is very difficult to achieve because, aside from using lifespan to continue living, divine beings also use lifespans to fight. So the more a divine being fights, the faster their lifespan will run out."
Loki’s eyes widened when he heard this. He said, "What the hell? What do you mean they use lifespan to fight?"
The reply was, "Lifespan is the single most important resource to divine beings. They need to spend their lifespan to heal their injuries and to fight. So a divine being with a low lifespan will be easy to kill."
"For fighting, some lifespan is needed to use Divine Metacs to fight. Each activation of a Divine Metac will consume some lifespan. So even if one wins a fight with another divine being, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they won’t lose out."
"If they lose too much lifespan to make the fight not worth it, they will become easier to kill by another person. This is why divine beings rarely fight each other."
When Loki heard this answer, he looked at the seer with a strange gaze and said, "How do you know so much about divine beings? I don’t think this information is something most rank 5 beings should know."
The seer has a pained look of struggle on his face again. Then he said, "I used to be a divine being."
His words made Loki instinctively step back from him warily.
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