For an ordinary cultivator, the limit of one’s extermination origins was related to the strength of their physique.2

Only with a powerful physique would one be able to withstand the huge amount of power contained in their extermination origins, and that was an extremely logical explanation.0

With the same line of reasoning, the purer one’s extermination origins, the more obvious the effects were when it nourished one’s physique. It worked both ways.

Shang Xia’s physique was stronger than cultivators of the same level before he entered the Martial Extermination Realm. However, that only reached a certain extent and there was still a limit to how much stronger it could be. After breaking through to the Four Constellation Realm by refining 4 extermination origins at once, that was no longer the case. His physical body reached...