TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 949: Chapter 396 Three Challenges of the Immortal Path_2 Chapter 949: Chapter 396 Three Challenges of the Immortal Path_2 But is this really the case?

Just look at Lu Yuan to know the answer.

He cultivated the Fortune Dao, a Burning Life Method that, although it consumes the cultivator’s lifespan extremely quickly, with life passing more than ten times faster than a normal cultivator.

However, as a return for the price paid in lifespan, Lu Yuan’s cultivation speed was also seven to eight times, or even eight to nine times faster than that of a normal cultivator.

Even though the return he gained still wasn’t as much as the life he spent.

Yet, looking purely at the rate of his rapid progress, his cultivation speed was indeed considerable.

Even so, with such a swift speed, it took Lu Yuan from his seventh year in the Hongdao to the fifth year in Shenwu before he succeeded in Gathering One Qi.

In between, he spent eight years, officially entering the Immortal Sect.

If calculated according to an eightfold increase in cultivation speed, it equates to sixty-four years for an ordinary person.

The reason it took so long was mainly because Gathering One Qi is a checkpoint between mortals and immortals, the first gate for a mortal on the path to the Immortal Realm.

Hence, the amount of time and effort a cultivator needs to spend to break through this state is unimaginably vast.

Take Martial Arts as an example.

A martial artist begins to touch upon the profound spiritual concepts as they start from the secondary realm, attempting to refine their spirit.

This is the first challenge of Martial Arts.

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Once they cross this hurdle, they advance from third-rate fighters to notable experts of the secondary level in Jianghu, making a name for themselves.

Latterly, upon reaching the pinnacle of first-rate martial arts, they must undertake a second breakthrough, refining the body and Divine Soul to reach the Innate Realm.

This is the second challenge of Martial Arts.

Crossing this hurdle, martial artists have started to break through the limits of mortals, and can now live up to one hundred and fifty years.

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However, limited by various deficiencies and insufficiencies of Martial Arts, the refinement of the body and soul during the breakthrough of an Inborn Grandmaster is actually quite limited.

If it’s said that an Immortal Dao cultivator’s breakthrough in Gathering One Qi is incomplete, requiring a state of Gathering Two Qi to supplement and perfect it.

Then, the Martial Arts Xiantian is the incomplete of the incomplete, with a gap far wider than the Immortal Dao cultivator’s refinement at the One Qi Boundary.

This can be seen from examples where one can live for two hundred years while the other only one hundred fifty, or newly magical-power-wielding Immortal Dao cultivators who can rival Martial Arts Xiantians, among others.

Therefore, beyond the Martial Arts Xiantian realm, there’s the accumulation from the second state to the first, and then upon reaching the third state, another refinement of body and Divine Soul is performed.

This is the third challenge of Martial Arts.

In this way, Martial Arts Grandmasters in the refinement of the body and soul, can barely compare to Immortal Dao cultivators at the One Qi Boundary.

Therefore, when reaching the boundary of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, the lifespan increases correspondingly to two hundred years.

Looking at the three challenges of Martial Arts, the energy and effort a martial artist needs to invest to climb from the lowest to the highest Grandmaster level is unimaginably immense.

On the Immortal Dao cultivators’ side, though it’s somewhat better compared to martial artists, it’s still no easy feat.

For an Immortal Dao cultivator to accomplish accumulation from nothing, and to endure the hardship over time, ultimately achieving the transformation of body and soul to Gather One Qi, also requires a significant investment.

In the ancient Immortal Cultivation World, there were countless examples of ascetics who labored their entire lives, succeeding in Immortal Dao only at the age of fifty-sixty or seventy-eighty and finally transforming from mortal to immortal.

Lu Yuan took sixty-four years to complete this accumulation process, which is rather ordinary.

After all, he had measured his innate talent, and it was only medium; he couldn’t compare to those with higher aptitude or the exceptionally talented of the Immortal Species.

But it was significantly better than the lower aptitude with no hope in the Immortal Dao.

At the very least, in the history of the Nine Provinces’ Immortal Cultivation World, there have been examples of individuals of medium aptitude reaching immortality, though not many, they still exist.

In ancient times, it was not rare to see one or two such instances per thousand years.

Not to mention, with Lu Yuan’s unlimited lifespan, the impact of innate talent on cultivation speed was almost nil for him, so he cared even less about it.

As long as he had the qualification to practice cultivation, he could persist with time and eventually achieve immortality.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry.

Thus, after breaking through Gathering One Qi in the fifth year of Shenwu, Lu Yuan spent another six years, all the way until the eleventh year of Shenwu, to complete the breakthrough of Gathering Two Qi.

When converted to the timeline of an ordinary person, it was nearly forty-eight years or fifty years, to be more exact.

The time was less than for breaking through Gathering One Qi, for a simple reason.

Because Gathering Two Qi is merely a supplement to Gathering One Qi, not a major boundary, it naturally took less time.

Therefore, from the time Lu Yuan began cultivating the Taiping Dao Book, all the way through breaking through Gathering One Qi and Two Qi, it totaled fourteen years, which equates to one hundred twelve years for a common person with medium aptitude.

However, Lu Yuan’s calculations were based on his eightfold cultivation speed, and under normal circumstances, it might even be higher, sometimes requiring a ninefold speed.

Thus, considering these fluctuations and taking into account the age at which ordinary people come into contact with Immortal Dao, an average cultivator would be around one hundred twenty to one hundred forty years old.

Yep, it would be around the time when a medium-aptitude cultivator in Gathering One Qi has just passed two-thirds of their lifespan when they could break through to Gathering Two Qi.

The subsequent breakthrough from Gathering Two Qi to Gathering Three Qi, however, belongs to an important transition within the Five Qi Towards Origin Great Boundary.

The accumulation of time required to break through this challenge could rival that of breaking through Gathering One Qi, and may even be more difficult.

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