After all, the rules were clear: Skills acquired from Essence Instances couldn't be improved through personal growth or by imbuing them with Worldly Essence. Even his Silver Eclipse Skill, despite having a discrepancy between its Grade and Stage, couldn't be upgraded. The only option to get a better Silver Eclipse Skill was to "refresh" it, by paying a hefty amount of Worldly Essence to roll for a new, random Divine Skill.
The same applied here.
Not to mention that feeling the Internal Force within him, Damon understood that this energy did have many of the mystical properties it was alleged to have in mythology, but it had some also taken away from it.
In myth, one cultivated martial arts using their body's vital energy gained from eating - and even sometimes from killing or fiddling with corpses - then turned that energy into a condensed form that is mixed with all energy that makes up your existence, your Qi.
