Once, I wanted to be a good person

So, Fang Ze spent a good half an hour, only managing to penetrate tens of thousands of cells invisible to the naked eye, and even so, he felt a bit dizzy from the exertion.

However, feeling the connection established between himself and those tens of thousands of cells, even if it was just a tiny bit of epidermis, Fang Ze felt a surge of pride: he wasn't afraid of slow progress; with [High-Interest Loan], he could complete it instantly. He just needed to verify whether his approach was correct!

With this in mind… Four hours later, exhausted to the point of collapse, with his clothes drenched in sweat, Fang Ze finally managed to completely control a square centimeter of epidermis on the little toe of his left foot.

But, looking at such a minuscule part, less than one-millionth of his body, Fang Ze's face was drained of all hope.

In that moment, he suddenly understood why the ancestors of the Human Race, after so many years of cultivation and the emergence of many prodigies, ultimately chose the path of destroying the physical body and remolding it.

Surely, someone must have thought of this approach of preserving the flesh and slowly penetrating it throughout history! But… thinking of it didn't mean it was doable!

Using the Power of Laws to penetrate and control each cell was simply too difficult!

The human body has between 40 trillion to 60 trillion cells. The piece of foot skin Fang Ze painstakingly penetrated for four hours had less than five million cells, which was only 1/8,000,000 of the total number of human cells.

Based on this calculation, Fang Ze would need to go without eating or drinking for 32 million hours, 1.33 million days, or over 3,600 years to complete this level of cultivation!

Even if he had started cultivating back in the Qin Dynasty and continued until his present life, Fang Ze wouldn't be able to finish!

Thinking this, Fang Ze couldn't help but feel utterly bewildered.

Could it be… that he had chosen the wrong cultivation path?

Had he stepped into an Extraordinary Trap?

Was the correct path really one of first destruction, then remodeling? Break to establish?

....

Meanwhile.

As Fang Ze's cultivation hit a roadblock.

Hei Yu had already started spreading the word about Sima Jin's capture.

Tonight, in the Provincial Government, Fang Ze was undoubtedly the protagonist. The seven noble families applied pressure, but unexpectedly, they chose the weakest Jia Family. Subsequently, he dueled a Mortality-Shedding stage, capturing Sima Jin.

The spectacular events were simply overwhelming.

As the high-level members of the Eastern Administrative Region, everyone was aware or had heard of the Sima Family's Bloodline situation. Therefore, everyone could understand the craziness of the Sima Family's actions.

But who could have expected that the Sima Family was crazy, yet Fang Ze was even crazier!

While the Sima Family sent people to "invite" Fang Ze as a guest, Fang Ze directly took down a Mortality-Shedding stage member and captured a Young Master. He practically rubbed the Sima Family's face in the dirt.

Now, everyone was curious to see how the situation would unfold.

As a result, without needing special notice from Fang Ze, all the major families had fully informed the Sima Family about tonight's events, eager to see what crazy actions the mad Sima Family would take after losing a Mortality-Shedding stage member and a Young Master.

Surely, a Demigod wouldn't descend directly, right? That would indeed blow things out of proportion.

Besides the curiosity about the future developments, the major families also gained a new understanding of Fang Ze: this guy was definitely not someone to mess with. If provoked, he would really tear things apart and fight you to the end without any reservations!

This approach, differing completely from the style of the Eastern Administrative Region's high-level members, made the Provincial Government's council members and the noble families quite uneasy.

The strong fear the crafty, and the crafty fear those fearing nothing. No one wanted to clash with someone as reckless as Fang Ze over trivial matters.

So, the nobles who initially had objections about Fang Ze's choices tonight, at least on the surface, decided to let it slide for the time being....

...

Although Fang Ze was not fully aware of these political dynamics, he had a sense of it, or perhaps this was the effect he had intended to achieve.

In the Sima Family's time of weakness, only showing a tough stance could win development opportunities.

A single strong punch to avoid a hundred weak blows.

Only by delivering a painful blow to the enemy once, deterring other surrounding predators, could Fang Ze secure a precious period of peaceful development.

Therefore, Fang Ze also cherished this development period greatly and was doing everything he could to improve his strength, aiming to reach the highest Mortality-Shedding stage he could.

After all, it was only after reaching the Mortality-Shedding stage that he realized: only Mortality-Shedding stage was the true core strength of humanity, the backbone of the Federation.

However, sadly, he hadn't reached the point where he needed to worry about the Mortality-Shedding stage because the immediate problem was… he couldn't even break through the Yang Transformation stage right now.

"High-Interest Loan, use my previous cultivation method and borrow the effect of full-body cultivation! Deadline: permanent!"

After reciting it, Fang Ze looked at the astronomical figure of 20 billion Lini resources that appeared in front of him and hastily chose to cancel it.

With his chin in his hand, reflecting on his cultivation steps, he mumbled,

"Theoretically, this cultivation method shouldn't be wrong? It shouldn't be like this. This is too strange…."