Destroying one self's cultivation is an extremely painful and disgraceful action that one would prefer death.
It was even more painful for Spirit Warriors that has high cultivation levels and they worked hard for decades to achieve what they are now.
Shen Li was a 94-year-old man who reached the 6-circle-realm more than twenty years ago but stuck in that realm since then.
To achieve the Exalt realm, he cut off his connections with the royal family and spent most of his time researching various cultivation techniques from all over the continent.
In the end, he had found a forbidden method of making a breakthrough by sacrificing life force and forcefully turning his normal cells into ether particles.
