Shi Tiexin exchanged thoughts with You Dongli about body tempering, and You Dongli nodded repeatedly as he listened.
"Everyone cultivates, cultivates and cultivates again, only to discover afterward just how many mistakes their former selves had made."
"Perhaps they had been playful and lazy, perhaps reckless in their youth, perhaps lacking guidance, perhaps lacking resources, perhaps merely copying blindly without knowing how to adapt, practicing Martial Arts that had not suited them best. For all sorts of reasons, the road of cultivation had been laid with potholes everywhere, never quite perfect. No matter how much regret they held in their hearts, once a realm had passed, it had passed; with the changing of time and circumstances, it could no longer be altered."
"It was rather regrettable, really. Those who became immortals early lacked neither talent nor brilliance, yet they could only use their own mistakes to blaze a trail for the cultivation world. If there truly were a chance to start over, these seniors would probably be the ones most eager to cultivate anew."
You Dongli sighed. "Ah, if only there were such a thing as regret medicine in this world."
Shi Tiexin's imagination ran wild. "In that case, the best way to cultivate would instead be to first cultivate mental arts. Knowledge is power. With mental arts, there is no question of regret or no regret; it is never too late to learn and research, and there is no need for regret medicine."
"After attaining profound mastery in mental arts, gaining extremely deep knowledge of biology, medicine, energy, and the mind, and accumulating enough powerful resources and connections, one could then begin body tempering and cultivate essence qi. Wouldn't that be the optimal method?"
You Dongli nodded. "Yes. Theoretically, that truly would be the optimal method, one that did