This is simply a monstrous being.

"Sigh, the results are quite good, my hard work wasn't in vain!"

Su Yue sighed.

With the 5-card increase just now, it's a total of 61 cards of Qi Blood.

Not great, but not too bad either.

Not too bad?

You kid, you want too much, like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, it's maddening!

Pan Yizheng sighed inwardly.

The youth these days are simply prodigious.

"Pan Dagu, at 100 cards, can I move up to a Second Grade Realm?

"What's the difference between Second Grade and First Grade?"

Su Yue asked again.

Theoretically, this is all taught at Wuda.

After all, most students who pass the entrance exam for the Big Four universities have just barely exceeded the 19-card threshold.

Each year, more college entrance exam students hover around 17 or 18 cards.

Su Yue's situation is severely beyond the norm.

"Under normal circumstances, 100 cards indeed allow a breakthrough to Second Grade.

"But in the First Grade Realm, you can press the pressure ring and wait until 200 cards to breakthrough. Some who strive for excellence usually find ways to press the pressure ring."

"Lower-Grade Martial Artists are referred to as low-level martial artists, in this stage, the main goal is foundation building.

"The differences between Second Grade and First Grade mainly lie in three aspects: speed of pressure ring rotations, Qi Blood capacity limit, and Qi Blood strength.

"The faster the pressure ring rotation speed, the faster a martial artist absorbs Spiritual Qi, thus speeding up cultivation.

"If you don't choose to press the pressure ring, then in the First Grade Realm, the limit is just 100 cards. At this point, you must breakthrough to Second Grade to unlock a new Qi Blood upper limit, or else you can't cultivate further.

"Qi Blood strength, that's easy to understand, Second Grade recovers faster, stores higher levels, and can practice stronger battle techniques."

Pan Yizheng explained.

"Faster speed, stronger power, higher limit, any sensible person will find a way to breakthrough, who would still press the pressure ring?"

Su Yue was momentarily stunned.

"Lower three grades are the foundation building stage, if you don't press the pressure ring, your limit will be very low.

"By the peak of Third Grade, martial artists who've pressed the pressure ring will have a foundation twice as strong. By Fourth Grade and above, you can never be a match for those in the same realm who press the ring.

"Let me put it this way, any martial artist with a dream of becoming a Grandmaster will press the pressure ring.

"And those who only need grades will directly breakthrough.

"But even though it's said like this... In recent years, more and more martial artists have chosen to give up pressing the ring, including quite a few who are highly talented.

"Compared to the skeletal figure, foundational impact on a Grandmaster is actually smaller.

"Even among us Grandmasters, many haven't pressed the ring, it's purely up to your own choice.

"Pressing the ring reportedly leads to the path beyond the Eighth Grade, it's too distant from us, and now many have given up on pressing the ring."

Pan Yizheng thought for a moment and suddenly added with a face full of melancholy:

"Pressing the ring is actually a lonely and painful path of no return.

"If you start pressing the ring from First Grade, you'll need to double the effort in every grade thereafter.

"But anytime you abandon this along the way, all previous efforts go to waste. After abandonment, apart from being slightly stronger than those of the same realm, there's virtually no benefit, being invincible in the same realm really means nothing.

"Once you've decided to press the ring, you have to start from First Grade and press all the way to the Eighth Grade.

"This is Marshal Yuan Longhan's warning.

"Actually, I'm a failed example.

"Up until the Fourth Grade, I was pressing the ring continuously.

"But by the peak of Fourth Grade, I couldn't hold on and chose to give up.

"After I became a Grandmaster, martial artists who hadn't pressed the ring were not much different from me.

"I can say, all the double effort before Fourth Grade came to nothing, to be honest, I regretted it deeply.

"Had I not wasted enormous time in the first four grades, my cultivation speed might have been much faster, after all... time waits for no one."

Pan Yizheng advised sincerely.

Hearing this, Su Yue nodded gravely.

Pressing the pressure ring.

Though entirely different from bone washing, it felt somewhat familiar.

Pressing the ring requires twice the effort of others, but it yields two benefits:

1. Being very strong in the same realm.

2. The elusive Eighth-Grade foundation.

But reaching the Eighth Grade is exceedingly difficult, for most martial artists, it's nothing but a dream.

Being strongest in the same realm is meaningless.

After all, if others can't beat you at the same level, they can directly break through, overpowering you with higher grades.

What's more cruel, this is a lonely road of no regret.

Before reaching the Eighth Grade, in any stage where you can't persist, previous efforts go to waste.

Pan Yizheng was right.

In the First and Second Grade realms, the Qi Blood needed for breakthroughs isn't so much, many people might try to press the ring.

But by Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or even Sixth Grade Grandmaster Realm?

By then, do you still have the time and energy to put in twice the effort of others?

Time waits for no one.

According to what Su Yue understands, martial artists who can breakthrough to Grandmaster are among the lucky ones out of tens of thousands.

Even at the Fifth Grade, it's unknown how many people are stuck, with no hope of breakthrough for life.

Double effort?

That's simply a joke.

"Su Yue, your situation is different from others, first cultivate to 100 cards, don't rush to press the ring or breakthrough.

"This is a road of no return, if you choose to breakthrough, you lose the qualification to press the ring for life... Remember, there will be no chance for life.

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