Great Tyrannical Deity - Chapter 2
Hearing his son’s answer, Shi Xingwan nodded and smiled. ‘What could my child have gone through after he was stabbed?’ He thought to himself. He’ll never know that his son was now a bodybuilding fanatic from another world.
He then stood up and asked Shi Li, “Alright my child. Since you want to get stronger, do you remember the realms of cultivation that you have to pass through?”
Shi Li tried to recall certain information but after a while, he sighed and answered sadly, “Unfortunately, your son has forgot the so called realms except for the first one, which I remember as the Muscular Refinement realm.”
Shi Xingwan smiled wryly and said, “I knew you would forget the realms. You have been indulging in women for far too long. Let me tell you about the realms then.
The realms of cultivation are the Muscular Refinement realm, Qi Creation realm and the Fan realm respectively in that order.
The Muscular Refinement realm is the first realm you go through in which you refine your muscles to accommodate the qi that you’ll create in the second realm. We call this space where you accommodate qi, the Qi Base. The bigger your qi base, the more qi you can store. This realm has a total of nine stages.
The second realm is the Qi Creation realm. In this realm, you absorb qi from the surroundings and transform it into life qi. This life qi will then be stored inside the qi base to be refined and compressed. This realm also has nine stages like the first realm. Your father here is at the Ninth Stage of this realm so you could probably guess how much life qi I’ve accumulated through the years.
The last realm is the Fan realm. After you compress the life qi into a gaseous strand of true qi, your qi base expands into a qi gate within the body. There are a total of three gates that can be unlocked within the Fan realm. The Fan realm consists of twelve stages that can be split into four parts: Xia, Zhong, Shang, and Zui.
Some say that there’s an even higher realm than the Fan realm but my brain can only store so much.”
After his father explained the realms, Shi Li was in a daze. He never though that there would be so many realms to pass through to become someone strong in this world. It was just three realms, but to him it felt like a thousand.
After committing it to memory, he asked his father, “Father, I’m currently at Muscular Refinement Stage 2. How do I pass through the stages of Muscular Refinement?” This question has been in his mind for a while now since he didn’t have any idea of how cultivation works.”
Shi Xingwan thought about it for a while and answered, “Muscular Refinement could be said to be the easiest…or the hardest realm one has to pass through. Normally, to pass through stages, you must break the limits of your body and gain the strength of another human within you.
This strength is what we call ren. The amount of ren you exert through combat will show what stage you’re currently at. A normal human has a strength of 1 ren. A Stage 1 Muscle Refinement cultivator has a strength of 2 ren. A Stage 2 has 3 ren, Stage 3 has 4 ren and so on until you reach Stage 9 gain the strength of 10 ren.”
He continued, “But that’s the easy method of passing through this realm. Just gaining an additional ren per stage is not enough for some people so they pass through the realm through the hard method, using a cultivation technique.”
“A good cultivation technique will easily let you beat other people within the same stage as you, but as always, there’s a price. You must work twice as hard to gain that strength. It could give someone an extra 2 ren every stage or even 10 ren. It depends on what technique you use.”
Shi Xingwan stopped for a while and looked at his son. His son was truly serious about becoming stronger. ‘What will he choose?’ He wondered.
He then asked Shi Li, “So what will you choose my child? The easy method or the hard method?”
With a firm gaze, Shi Li answered, “I want it hard!”
Hearing his son’s answer, Shi Xingwan said happily, “That’s my child! Your father here had the strength of 30 ren when he was at the peak of Muscular Refinement. I had the power to defeat early Qi Creation cultivators with just a punch. Do you want to be like me or become even stronger than me?”
A firm decision in mind, Shi Li answered, “I want to be stronger than you!”
Shi Xingwan chuckled and told Shi Li, “Well then. Let’s go to the technique room and find a suitable cultivation technique for you.”