Delaying, delaying, delaying, and finally… Bubai was still not ready to delve into his Foundation Establishnt thod yet.
If his life was a story, the readers would probably go wild, cursing the author for so much info dumping.
And the author would drop the excuse of world building.
Alas, this was reality for Bubai. He wasn't suffering from world-building disease. He just had to approach things step-by-step.
He now possessed a Foundation Establishnt thod, but how can he skip to foundation building when he still hasn't completed the late stage of Qi refinent!
He shouldn't put the cart before the horse.
Not only that, after a cursory glance at the Foundation Establishnt thod ingrained in his mory, Bubai had already discerned more in-depth insights into the late stage of Qi-refinent, knowledge that held paramount importance for the subsequent foundation establishnt phase.
These were details absent in both his basic Qi-refinent thod from the Cloud Sword Sect and even in the Woodland Spirit thod acquired from Manager Qin's relics.
Now, Bubai found himself in the process of organizing the fragnts he had gleaned so far, attempting to consolidate his half-baked comprehension into a coherent ntal frawork.
So, how does the later stages of Qi-refinent actually work?
In the mid-stage, the breakthrough to the fifth level occurred when half of the dantian had been transford from wisps into strands. Advancing to level six entailed completely filling the dantian with strands of Qi.
While this might sound easy, the process is usually a very ti-consuming grind for ordinary cultivators, who had to manually condense wisps of Qi into strands.
Bubai only managed to speed through these stages due to two factors.
First, the dual cultivation sessions dramatically hastened the Qi gathering process.
Second, the seed in his mysterious space automatically condensed Qi wisps into strands, providing him with a notable edge compared to other cultivators.
Relying on these two factors, his cultivation seed to be as easy as cream pie...
Yet, the transition from level six to level seven marked a shift in complexity. The focus was no longer solely on the accumulation or condensation of Qi.
Instead, it entailed the practical utilization of this foundation of Qi, introducing a new step to the growth process.
As per the basic Qi refinent thod, achieving level seven and formally advancing to the late stage of Qi-refinent necessitated the complete saturation of three out of the nine major ridians using the cultivator's Qi.
Every breakthrough in level corresponded to nurturing three ridians - three for level seven, six for level eight, and all nine for level nine.
The thod facilitated this process by providing nine circulation diagrams, each tailored for nurturing a specific ridian.
While this approach might seem straightforward in theory, the practical execution will naturally be... rather challenging.
The ridian network was an inherent part of a human's body, serving as a conduit for circulating Qi released from their dantian. However, this network wasn't watertight.
As a strand of Qi traversed through the network, natural dissipation occurred, leading to a loss of energy. Eventually, the Qi is either consud after performing a technique or naturally seeped out from the network, returning to the world.
The late stage of Qi-refinent aid to fix this inherent issue.
The idea was to infuse the ridian network with Qi to a point where it couldn't absorb any more. This way, when more Qi coursed through the network, it would no longer leak out due to the saturated pathways.
For low-level cultivators, the most ti-consuming yet fundantal thod to achieve this involved circulating their Qi through the network repeatedly, leaving behind residue energy with each passage of Qi.
The goal was to repeat this process over and over until the network pathways beca saturated, allowing Qi to circulate through with minimal to no loss. It was only then that Qi could achieve a complete circulation within the body and back into the dantian!
In fact, this process had already comnced during the mid-stage of Qi-refinent, occurring whenever a cultivator used their strands of Qi. However, the effects were not as prominent during this stage.
It wasn't until a cultivator's dantian was brimming with Qi, with nowhere else to expend them, that they were deed ready to concentrate on this saturation process.
During this stage, they will focus on nurturing their ridians with Qi, a process that often also nourished the different parts of the body, benefiting the overall physique of the cultivator.
Hence, this stage was appropriately labeled the Body Nourishnt Stage.
And this process was far from simple.
Allocating available Qi to a specific ridian in a targeted manner and leaving the strand sitting there to nourish a specific ridian was just not possible. This was not how Qi flow worked.
Qi is always flowing, never ceasing.
Low-level cultivators, like Qi-refiners, lacked complete control over their Qi flow.
For them, Qi flow operated as a natural process, guided by their breathing thod to achieve circulation in the ridian network.
While low-level cultivators could regulate their breathing to redirect the flow within the network, drastically altering the Qi flow's direction or controlling their Qi to stay in place was impossible.
This is why the circulation of Qi thus far had been a one-way process.
Either a Qi-refiner ran the breathing thod to gather Qi into their dantian, where they road around, waiting to be used.
Or, they used another breathing technique to release a strand of Qi from their dantian, regulating their breathing to channel the Qi to its corresponding location where it needs to be used.
This one-way nature of Qi circulation ant that cultivators couldn't channel all their Qi into a single ridian for exclusive nourishnt. Instead, they had to allow the Qi to flow through the entire circuit connected to that ridian repeatedly until saturation was achieved.
Unsurprisingly, this process resulted in substantial losses along the way and consud a significant amount of ti.
Of course, this process can be expedited by consuming treasures and pills.
So cultivators, born with a golden spoon, may even have their body nourishnt completed through krypton gold before even gathering their first wisp of Qi.
However, these cases were exceptionally rare, considering the staggering cost. Even for extraordinary cultivation clans, the investnt wasn't worth it unless the target was a heaven-defying genius.
As a result, most cultivators normally initiated this stage after filling their dantian with strands of Qi. Here, their dantian and Qi reserves would finally be stable enough to progress further.
To optimize their benefits, cultivators typically concentrated on one ridian network at a ti because nourishing a specific ridian network often brought about enhancents in that corresponding part of the body, which in turn augnted combat prowess, such as speed, toughness, strength, etc.
An example was Manager Qin, who seed to have saturated ridians related to his lower body, achieving heightened movent speeds.
Of course, in the end, the entire network had to be saturated to establish a complete circulation system with minimal and preferably no leakage.
Only then would cultivators be truly prepared to embark on the next phase - preparing to build a foundation!
Now, it was an opportune mont to delve into the nuts and bolts of the Body Nourishnt stage detailed in the Foundation Establishnt thod but conspicuously absent from the basic Qi-refinent version.
The basic Qi-refinent thod concluded at level nine, ceasing to expound further important information, and it only offered a single circulation route for nourishing each ridian.
However, how can it be possible for the complex human body to restrict itself to a solitary route?
Naturally, there were way more. That was where the Foundation Establishnt thod cos into play.
Unlike the basic technique, the Foundation Establishnt thod included not only new ridian network diagrams but also details about acupoints. These acupoints multiplied the available routes interconnected to each ridian, a fact omitted from the basic thod.
Bubai wasn't sure about the mysteries of these acupoints and their aforentioned routes. Honestly, they just make him dizzy.
But he at least understood that every Foundation Establishnt thod typically demanded the nourishnt of ridians through these previously unspecified routes. Only by nourishing certain acupoints and establishing certain circulation routes can the Foundation Establishnt thod play an effect!
Failure to nourish the correct circulation routes could result in the failure of Foundation Establishnt or, worse, there might not even be an opportunity for a breakthrough altogether!
The omission of this crucial information in the basic Qi-refinent thod could be attributed to the Cloud Sword Sect's thod of controlling disciples.
Bubai couldn't bla them. It was just how the world works.
This is why knowledge supplentation is so important. Bubai felt fortunate for decisively acquiring the Foundation Establishnt information in ti.
Of course, if the incorrect routes were nourished, it wasn't a dead end.
All roads will lead to Ro. Shallow knowledge won't ruin a cultivator's future, it will only result in unnecessary detours.
If he did it wrong, he just needed to expend extra resources and ti to nurture the correct ridians.
To play it safe, a cultivator could even take it to the extre...
It was theoretically possible to nourish the entire network in the body!
Needless to say, this is a very expensive endeavor. Additionally, many routes remained unclear until one acquired the corresponding circulation diagrams.
So, achieving this comprehensive saturation was considered impractical, unless soone possessed a special physique such as the Innate Impervious Body, ate a heaven-defying treasure, fortuitously inherited a complete ridian network circulation diagram along with sufficient resources, had a powerful backer, or perhaps... possessed a cheat.
Thanks to the lazy author, Bubai's golden finger proved to be a ga-changer once again...
The mysterious green Qi he possessed exhibited effects beyond those of regular Qi, particularly in nourishing his body!
This effect was specially noted when the Golden Core old geezer had mistakenly identified him as a mortal with the acquired physique of Unsullied body.
From Xiao Lan, Bubai learned it was a natural-born robust physique known for its natural strength and the benefits it exhibits when cultivating during the Body Nourishnt stage.
But Bubai was aware the true reason behind his current physique was his golden finger!
His mysterious green Qi was the main contributor to his body's overall strengthening, leading Bubai to even entertain the notion that he might have completed the Body Nourishnt stage!
Nevertheless, a careful assessnt revealed that this wasn't entirely true. Even at this point, his green Qi still continued to seep out, greedily absorbed by his body. This indicated that the upper limit of his saturation hadn't been reached.
Clearly, he still had long ways to go.
But this wasn't a bad thing. This extended duration of body nourishnt would result in a higher upper limit, allowing him to fortify his foundation further.
This was a good thing because a fortified body will naturally increase the likelihood of a successful breakthrough to the next realm.
And the benefits derived from his mysterious green Qi didn't end there.
Interestingly, each ti he utilized a strand of green Qi, Bubai strangely sensed its nourishnt perating a broader area beyond the network he circulated the green Qi in.
He even suspected it might extend throughout his entire body since he was able to dissolve a wisp of Qi within his dantian to clear his mind.
So, Bubai had reasons to doubt that his golden finger will grant him a nourishnt more comprehensive than others, perhaps even having the miraculous effect of upgrading his spiritual roots, an abnormal occurrence Bubai had never heard about thus far!
Alas, there was no way for him to verify this evolutionary power at the mont. Insufficient data and sample size.
But at least, his route forward was verified because he was now ard with the knowledge of his Foundation Establishnt thod, which was...
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