The way to become a second-ranked cultivator, which would be a third-ranked human in the old empire, is to go through the [Purification] breakthrough.

It takes roughly a century to go through it, and eight hundred years of cultivation to reach it.

This way the transformation becomes complete.

Even for the Long-Lived Race, it was a difficult task to achieve. Even for me, who am cultivating for enough time to have only two hundred more years before achieving it, the [Purification] stage may be too distant a dream to dream about.

I may lose my memories and sanity before, as time corrodes what I am able to remember.

But what matters is the truth that Alvin isn’t going through it.

This aggressive transformation isn’t the gentle and peaceful [Purification] stage, were one becomes light and happy as the years pass.

I don’t know what this is.

I don’t even know if he will survive.

His soul is also going through something. It’s showing layers upon layers of emotions I cannot recognize. They feel… weird.

If this soul damage continues to grow, he will have to reincarnate. Even if his soul is immortal, reincarnating would cleanse him of his memories and it wouldn’t be different from dying.

Such an amazingly talented boy, with such an amazing collection of talents. And he may lose them all.

It’s the course.

Curse it.