The essence of cultivation is spiritual energy.
Therefore, Qi cultivation is the beginning of spiritual practice.
All human races, demon races, and monster races cannot escape the stage of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into their own spiritual energy.
There are ten levels of Qi Refining. The level one can reach depends solely on the total amount of spiritual energy refined within the cultivator's body.
This brings us to another concept: the dantian and qi palace of the human race, the demon essence of the demon race, and the demon core of the demon race.
Taking the human race as an example, after reaching the tenth level of Qi Refining, it becomes difficult to further increase the spiritual energy within the body, which will then be compressed to form a Qi Palace.
The Qi Palace is also the core of all human cultivators' later cultivation.
Assuming that condensing one's Qi Palace requires ten portions of spiritual energy, and that one's Qi Refining cultivation level increases by one level for each portion absorbed and refined.
Due to differences in innate constitution, the total amount of spiritual energy required for each person to condense their Qi Palace varies, resulting in different amounts of spiritual energy in each layer of the body for people with different innate constitutions.
Therefore, someone asked a question.
Is it possible that someone with a Celestial-grade Qi Refining level 1 has more spiritual energy than someone with a First-grade Qi Refining level 10?
Given differences in talent, this situation could indeed exist.
Only those with a fourth-grade or higher innate bone structure can be considered to have a predestined affinity with immortality; this does not mean that those with a first-grade innate bone structure cannot absorb spiritual energy.
It's just that his innate talent is too poor. Without external help, he might spend his entire life without ever reaching the tenth level of Qi Refining and getting involved in true cultivation...
In that case, wouldn't someone at the first level of Qi Refining be able to easily defeat someone at the tenth level of Qi Refining in certain situations?
That's not the case.
Because during the Qi Refining stage, spiritual energy cannot be directly used by cultivators to defend themselves, and the amount of spiritual energy in the body will not bring substantial improvement to the cultivator's combat power.
What truly leads to differences in combat power during the Qi Refining stage is the enhancement that spiritual energy brings to a cultivator's body with each level of cultivation advancement.
This enhancement is not as significant as the second stage of body refinement, but only increases some basic stats, such as strength, speed, focus, and reaction time...
Different talents result in different numerical values, but the differences are not significant.
Just like a certain game that Shen Yunhao encountered in the 21st century.
Each advancement in Qi Refining stage is like a hero leveling up in a game, resulting in a slight increase in combat power.
Upon reaching the body refinement stage, each increase in cultivation level is like acquiring a new piece of equipment in a game, greatly enhancing combat power to a level that is incomparable to what it was before...
Of course, in actual combat, many more complex factors need to be considered; this only addresses changes in physical strength.
Therefore, this also leads to the fact that low-level cultivators are not significantly different from ordinary people in terms of combat power.
The "mortals" mentioned here do not refer to ordinary people, but rather to martial arts masters like Shen Yunxiao.
Those masters who have been immersed in martial arts for many years naturally have their own unique ways to improve their physical strength. Although their upper limit is far less than that of spiritual energy cultivation, it is more than enough to deal with those novice cultivators who have not practiced martial arts.
This is not to belittle the path of immortality or to glorify the path of martial arts.
Rather, there is no conflict between the two.
Many cultivators, during the Qi Refining and Body Refining stages, also improve their combat power by practicing sword techniques and physical skills.
Until the Soul Refining stage, when the role of spiritual energy is fully realized and cultivators can perform feats beyond human capability, such as cleaving a cliff with a single sword strike, martial arts will gradually lose their effectiveness...
Does anyone really think that those who say "I have a sword that can split the heavens and the earth" are doing so because they are skilled in swordsmanship?
Therefore, breaking through the Soul Refining Realm is also known as transcending the mortal realm and entering the immortal realm. After entering the Soul Condensation Realm, mortals will completely lose their power to resist cultivators.
As for the later stage of refining emptiness, it goes without saying that with a wave of the hand, the enemy's ships and forts were reduced to ashes.
A cultivator at the Void Refinement stage can easily destroy a mortal dynasty...
This was all the information Shen Yunhao had obtained from this Guiyuan Breathing Technique.
What interested him most were the classifications of cultivation levels.
At least it will give him a basic understanding of someone's abilities.
Although it wouldn't be of much use to someone like him who couldn't cultivate immortality.
After learning all this, Shen Yunhao also realized something.
No wonder it's said that people with poor physical constitution won't have a future even if they practice martial arts.
Ultimately, in the path of martial arts, besides skills, personal physical fitness is also a very important factor.
Although those mortals below the fourth grade of aptitude have no hope of condensing their Qi Palace, the improvement that spiritual energy brings to their bodies is real and enough to surpass the years of hard training of ordinary people.
The potential for those with good physical constitution and those with poor physical constitution is completely different.
Therefore, someone with such poor aptitude as Shen Yunhao was truly cursed by fate, who simply refused to give him any food...
"Sigh...who can he blame but himself for this..."
Shen Yunhao sighed, staring at the Guiyuan Breathing Technique, his gaze becoming increasingly unfocused, with sparks seemingly glittering in his eyes.
It's like when I was a kid, I would see people chanting spells on TV and I couldn't help but chant along, hoping to achieve the same effect as the people on TV.
After looking at this "cultivation tutorial," Shen Yunhao knew that reality would most likely deliver another blow, but he still had the urge to give it a try.
"How about... death? It's free to try anyway..."
With that thought in mind, Shen Yunhao no longer hesitated. He locked the door and, following the instructions in the book, began to meditate on the couch.
...
To absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the most important prerequisite is... you need to sense the existence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The book describes this in some detail, but not in specifics.
Because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is normally invisible and intangible, everyone's perception of it is different.
Many people can't even sense it.
The book says that due to differences in talent, the time it takes for a cultivator to first sense spiritual energy can range from half an hour to several days, thus admonishing everyone that cultivation requires extremely strong patience.
Shen Yunhao initially thought that with his useless aptitude, he would likely not be able to sense anything at all, and if there was no sign of anything, he would immediately give up...
Unexpectedly, he actually sensed something...
Time flies, and before we knew it, it was evening.
In the quiet room, Shen Yunhao had been sitting in meditation for the entire afternoon.
Shen Yunhao was in a meditative state and had not opened his eyes, so he could not see the very faint white mist surrounding him.
Mist swirled around Shen Yunhao, resembling wisps of smoke...
Unfortunately, Shen Yunhao only had one tutorial and had to figure it out on his own, without anyone to guide him.
If there were truly a knowledgeable high-level cultivator here, they would recognize that this extremely faint white mist was not the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but rather... Shen Yunhao's own spiritual energy that had been refined!
There was indeed spiritual energy within him, and for some reason, it was manifesting outwards.
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