In the human cultivation system, there was a critical threshold that needed to be reached at every step in order to properly ascend.

Qi Drawing cultivators opened their Dan Sea, Blood Boiling cultivators lit their heart lamps, Yang Opening cultivators casted their palaces, Light Shaking cultivators formed their Lotus Platforms, Spirit Burning cultivators built their Divine Palaces, and Thought Manifestation cultivators opened their Yin-Yangs. Ultimate Emperor Realm cultivators, then, would need to receive the Heavenly Temple in order to comprehend matters related to life and death and reach the pinnacle.

Of course, this was a highly simplified version of what was happening.

Put plainly, reaching the Ultimate Emperor Realm required a thoroughfare for the will of the Heavens. As such, there was the need to construct a “reception hall” of sorts within an individual’s body that would join their will to that of the Heavens.

Why was it necessary to reach this realm in order to comprehend Method Power? Because, at least for humans, it was only possible to receive the will of the Heavens at the Ultimate Emperor Realm.

As such, the Ultimate Emperor Realm was the base for controlling Method Power. Su Chen had only managed to bypass that limitation out of sheer luck.

And Receiving Heaven inherently contained a conversion of death to life. The process...