Chapter 1290 - 1390: The Difficulties of Body Refinement

Of course, this kind of thing can't be said to be bad, after all, directly bombarding any danger with spiritual power is quite excellent.

After all, this can make the enemy unable to react in time.

Even if the enemy reacts, if they don't have enough defense, they will be directly killed by that spiritual power.

Moreover, the most important thing is to achieve a perfect ratio and perfect complement between the body and spiritual power, only then can one's strength be maximized.

However, although this is said, achieving the maximum ratio is also quite difficult. It's not that you can achieve the maximum ratio just because you want to, it is an exceedingly challenging process.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for the physical fitness to achieve perfect harmony with spiritual power.

Because exercising the body is an extremely lengthy process. For instance, Ye Tianfan's spiritual power has now reached the Thousand Source Realm, and it only took him five to six years, but if Ye Tianfan wants his physical fitness to also reach the Thousand Source Realm, then it would take at least a hundred years.

Just like the Big White Beard on Penglai Immortal Island, it took him thousands of years to bring his body to the Thousand Source Realm, even nearly breaking through to the Hundred Meridian Realm.

Roughly calculated, it takes at least more than five thousand years. Of course, the reason Big White Beard took that long is that his realm was locked, and he could only train his physical fitness with low-quality spiritual power, and Big White Beard didn't have a Body Refining Technique, so he could only slowly polish it with spiritual power, which is why it took so long.

If Ye Tianfan were to transform his physique to match Big White Beard with a complete Body Refining Technique, it wouldn't take as long as Big White Beard.

It would only take merely a thousand years, or even less than a thousand years, to elevate his physical prowess and physical strength to the same realm as Big White Beard.

However, if Ye Tianfan wished to promote his spiritual power to the Hundred Meridian Realm, it would be exceedingly simple. Given Ye Tianfan's current pace and opportunities, it might not even take twenty years to become a prominent figure in the Hundred Meridian Realm.

So this illustrates the disparity in cultivation speed between physical strength and spiritual power.

Therefore, to become a true powerhouse requires a long time, but if one wants to become a powerhouse quickly, then one only needs to enhance their mental state and spiritual power.

Even though the Dali Sect claims to focus on cultivating physical strength, in reality, they primarily aim for profit, with physical training being secondary. They merely spend more hours a day on physical training than others.

If physical training were truly their main focus, then the Dali Sect would still be in its infancy, with no formidable fighters within the entire sect, let alone entering the ranks of the four major sects.

While the Dali Sect has body techniques, these techniques are quite crude. If people from the Dali Sect trained in this manner, it would take them three to five thousand years to become true powerhouses. Even with another three to five thousand years, only a few true powerhouses might emerge.

But exchanging three to five thousand years for one or two genuine powerhouses is far less favorable than the Taichu Sect, which produces a true powerhouse in only a couple of thousand years. Although this true powerhouse may not have strong physical power, their body strength is sufficient to support their spiritual power capacity.

Moreover, looking across the entire cultivation world, no one truly competes in close combat; it's primarily about bombarding each other with Immortal Techniques.

Whoever has more and higher quality spiritual power will win in battle, and those with less and lower quality spiritual power will be easily defeated.

This has led to the belief in the cultivation world that training in body techniques is a frustrating and unrewarding endeavor.

And indeed, in the cultivation world, training in body techniques for decades or even centuries results in combat power that is surpassed by spiritual and mental cultivation in just a few or a dozen years. This is unbalanced for anyone.

Although those who practice body refinement will become very powerful later, as the body keeps up, it can carry more spiritual power, making cultivation easier. Of course, the mental state must also improve. However, this later stage is very distant, and those with poorer aptitude might never reach it before dying of old age.

After all, cultivators also have a lifespan limitation. The stronger they are, the higher the quality of spiritual power, the longer their lifespans. Conversely, lower quality spiritual power signifies lesser strength, thus reducing their lifespan.

To spend this limited lifespan on endlessly consuming time to train the body is also a restriction. The body might not even be properly trained before lifespan ends. Even if longevity is extended by training spiritual power as life approaches its limit, aging has already occurred, impacting the efficiency of body refinement.

This so-called aging means becoming elderly; if strength is increased again, extending life, but a body already aged will double the effort for half the result when training. Moreover, an aged body must use additional spiritual power to restore youthfulness, consuming much time in the process.

Restoring youthfulness involves using spiritual power to fix the aging of the body, renewing it. But such time consumption, combined with simultaneous body refinement and muscle polishing, while also needing to cultivate spiritual power to extend life, leaves no time for anything else, and time may even become insufficient.

This leads to a lack of time, forcing perennial effort to maintain longevity, persistently on the path of cultivation.

There's not even time to cultivate the mental state, leading eventually to a descent into madness.

Thus, this is partially why cultivators do not primarily focus on cultivating physical strength.

If the entire cultivation world truly wanted to prioritize body training, after thousands of years of development, Body Refining Techniques would be as numerous and detailed as spiritual power cultivation techniques.

Never underestimate the wisdom of cultivators; the Ye Family's Body Refinement Techniques passed down by Ye Tianfan have only a few hundred to a thousand years of legacy at most.

The cultivation world possesses legacies of hundreds or thousands of years, with countless individuals supplementing these techniques, making them more perfect, undoubtedly greater than the world Ye Tianfan came from.