Merin will find that the years of struggle and the verge of advancing to stage 4.
He will be defeated by someone of a lower realm than him.
Merin will then understand the true way of cultivation.
To never be defeated again by someone from the lower realm.
He will start his cultivation from scratch.
And born again in a new world.
Merin's conscious clone will ascend to the upper realm of the Saint Continent.
In there, he will become a miner, and the connection with the main body will be completely cut off.
And he will become his own individual, not a clone of the main body anymore.