Chapter 1289 - 1389: Differences in Physical Fitness

In fact, after encountering this unknown Elder a few times, Ye Tianfan already knew.

In terms of physical combat, especially close combat, he had actually lost.

In other words, Ye Tianfan's physical strength was simply no match for this unknown Elder.

Because Ye Tianfan's advantage that allows him to fight across levels is having a stronger body than others at the same level.

However, now his physical strength could not surpass this unknown Elder.

Ye Tianfan could determine that this Elder was definitely a Body Cultivator, and a very powerful one, which likely meant the Elder's sect was the Dali Sect.

After all, only the Dali Sect specializes in body refinement to surpass Ye Tianfan in body techniques.

After all, not all sects practice body cultivation; at most, they exercise the body a little, because in this cultivation world, Spiritual Power is still predominant.

With sufficient Spiritual Power, one has enough deterrence power to make their strength very formidable.

While the body is the foundation of cultivation, generally speaking, the body is enough to withstand the current level of Spiritual Power, it's just a question of more or less, so generally speaking, not many people exclusively practice body refinement.

Usually, using the Spiritual Power one cultivates to nourish their body is already sufficient, and some people, because they train their bodies, find their Spiritual Power unable to keep up with their strength, which is also a significant issue.

So for these reasons, many people are reluctant to train their bodies.

But Ye Tianfan is different; he has a specialized Body Refining Technique since in his original world, the body was revered, unlike in this new world.

Of course, Ye Tianhan in the previous world had trained his body for a long time but still could not compare to the random training here.

After all, here they use Spiritual Power to nourish their bodies, whereas, in their previous world, it was just using vigor to nourish the body, these two situations are not the same at all.

If graded by energy level, vigor is not even worthy to carry the shoes for Spiritual Power, let alone carry them, and the amount of Spiritual Power Ye Tianfan refines in one minute is more than the vigor he cultivated in one or two decades in the original world.

So although Ye Tianfan cultivated his physical quality for one or two decades in his previous world, it cannot compare to just slightly cultivating for two days in this world.

But most importantly, the disparity in energy level is too great, although the energy level difference is high, in Ye Tianfan's previous world, there was an invaluable thing, which was the Body Refining Technique, although that technique used vigor to train.

However, after Ye Tianfan came to this world, he could completely use Spiritual Power to replace the vigor, and after Ye Tianfan's experiments, the effect was very good, and using Spiritual Power as a replacement did not conflict with this cultivation technique, and even provided an additional boost.

And most importantly, after Ye Tianfan cultivated for a period here, he found his physical quality was much stronger than before, and the rate of improvement was also much higher.

But even so, Ye Tianfan, due to the short training time, cannot compare to those who exclusively practice body refinement for decades.

After all, cultivating the body is something that requires careful honing, Ye Tianfan, although he has a very sophisticated cultivation technique, even more mature than the body refining techniques in this cultivation world, Ye Tianfan's cultivation time is still too short, only a few years.

Body Refining Techniques are unlike cultivation techniques for Spiritual Power, which can have many times differences in speed; no matter how fast your speed, you still need to carefully hone your flesh, if polished too quickly, it could damage your body, in very serious cases, it could cause permanent damage.

So it is not that the faster the body is trained, the better, because the body needs careful polishing, each muscle must be painstakingly honed.

Although breaking one muscle is not a big deal, if you are not careful and break ten muscles, a hundred muscles, if all break, then it will cause damage to your body, if serious, it could cause your muscle to necrotize permanently, one or two is no problem, but if there are more? It might even cause the whole arm's muscles to necrotize, permanently at that.

By then, you would need to cut away those necrotic muscles to heal them.

The repaired muscles would be like those that haven't been trained, very immature, so you would have to train them all over again, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, better to be cautious and meticulously hone from the start.

If you accidentally cause all the muscles of your arm to necrotize the first time, the second time you might not necessarily hone them accurately either.

It might have to be tried a third time, a fourth time, and once it happens too many times, you will become vexed, and then you will give up honing your body, as a person's energy is limited, spending too much on the body will slow down your Spiritual Power cultivation, leading to falling behind in every step, so generally speaking, not many people are willing to painstakingly hone their bodies, they'll just let Spiritual Power passively nourish their bodies.

Therefore, this creates the entire cultivation world where physical quality is relatively weak, but Spiritual Power does not match their physical strength.

Of course, this discrepancy is only in Ye Tianfan's view, in the entire cultivation world this is very normal, after all, from our perspective, a person who can destroy the heavens and earth but can be stabbed to death by a mediocre Magical Treasure, isn't that quite ironic?

What seems normal to Ye Tianfan is that a person who can destroy the heavens and earth should also have armor-like physical strength, impenetrable by swords and spears, this was normal, since in Ye Tianfan's prior world, that's how it was, one's strength directly correlates with their physical quality, as battles relied on physical prowess.

It could also be said that in Ye Tianfan's previous world, physical quality was greater than vigor, with vigor being an auxiliary energy, for no matter how strong your vigor, it could not compete with even a small bronze metal bullet.

So generally, battles were based on physical quality, using techniques as a means to fight enemies.

But in this world's cultivation realm, it is completely the opposite, physical quality and techniques are less important, as long as there is enough Spiritual Power, any enemy can be directly overwhelmed.