Chapter 339 - 216: Explanation
Chapter 339: Chapter 216: Explanation
Li Yuan Ba had been a disciple under Elder Jian for a year now, and throughout this year, he had hardly ever left Ten Thousand Sword Peak.
The main reason was that he needed to switch his main cultivation technique, which for a cultivator meant shattering the Spirit Lake within the body and cultivating anew.
Luckily, both “Ten Thousand Sword Cultivation Technique” and “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique” belong to the realm of Sword Cultivation Techniques, and even though he was recultivating, he could still maintain his Foundation Establishment Stage without falling back to the Qi Refinement Realm.
If he had chosen to recultivate a Magic Cultivation technique or some other non-sword cultivation technique, he would have needed to start over from the Qi Refinement Realm, which would have taken much longer.
A cultivator’s time is precious. While cultivators have a lifespan of over a hundred years in the Qi Refinement Realm and can live up to two hundred years in the Foundation Establishment Stage, the time available for cultivation is always tight.
One can cultivate at most for one hundred and fifty years in the Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment stages combined, if one doesn’t break through to the Golden Core Stage, there’s no chance for further progress.
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The reason it’s said to be one hundred and fifty years is that after reaching the age of one hundred and fifty, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s body begins to age, and if they can maintain their level of cultivation without decline, that’s already an accomplishment, it’s essentially impossible to make another breakthrough.
Li Yuan Ba was gifted with a Heavenly Spirit Root, and also because his Qi Refinement foundations were extremely solid, he was able to switch to cultivating the top-level sword cultivation technique “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique” successfully within a year.