Chapter 49: Nah, I’m Going To Do What I Want
Even if he possessed Limit Affinities for five different Primary Elements, there was simply no way the Crown Prince could advance so many levels in a meagre few years. In fact, it was less likely for him to accomplish this feat with so many Primary Element Affinities, for the difficulty of cultivating exponentially increased when you had to gather Magicules to support five Primary Elements.
In essence, a Multi-Elemental Mage had only two paths, one of which would waste all potential.
The First Path: prioritize one of the Primary Elements, neglecting all the others you had an Affinity for.
This choice, although superficial and not much different from if you were a single Element Mage, guaranteed that you’d breeze through cultivation realms.
You could also still take advantage of the increased connection with heaven-and-earth that came along with possessing multiple Primary Elemental Affinities. Subsequently, your breakthroughs in the future would experience no bottlenecks up to a certain point; this was the biggest benefit of having a deeper connection with heaven-and-earth.
Then there was the Second Path—also the most difficult Path—which was to forget about improved cultivation speed and instead cultivate all your Primary Elements at once.
Those who took this path were few and far between, but they were also the most powerful within the same Realm.
Naturally, they also had deep connections with heaven-and-earth, sometimes even deeper than those who followed the First Path.
To summarize things, if a deeper connection with heaven-and-earth meant higher upper limits for cultivation realms, then the First Path enabled one to reach that limit faster. On the other hand, those of the Second Path had even higher upper limits, but would reach them way slower than their First Path counterparts.
So then, which was the correct Path to take?