The process of cultivating the fourth step was nowhere near as complicated as the hive's instruction made it out to be.
In the end, no matter what exactly each step was all about, it could be boiled down to just absorbing more mana into oneself and developing better, more efficient ways of managing it.
That, however, only held true for the very first few moments of Theo's cultivation, the short time he needed to regain all the mana that he had lost, filling up his structure to its absolute limit.
Thankfully, the next part wasn't all that hard either. After all, in essence, it was pretty much the same as what Theo did back when cultivating the third step and developing his dantian.
Reaching the full potential of his current cultivation was easy. But when it came to going beyond that…