A Study of Similarities Between Chi and Magical Cultivation

Peter Parker: <A Study of Similarities Between Chi and Magical Cultivation>

Peter saw the shocked look on Daniel's face, jumped down from the hammock, and sat on the ground. "Uh, yeah. Mountain Spider gave me a lot of cultivation insights from the Immortal Weapons of the Spider Kingdom. I just practiced according to them..."

Daniel looked utterly incredulous. "And you actually managed it?"

"Of course not. A lot of what they wrote was stream-of-consciousness stuff and subjective personal experience. I spent a long time on it and still couldn't understand it, but I did figure out one thing: so-called chi is an immaterial energy that sustains life, and to cultivate chi, you have to sense it."

Daniel nodded. That was indeed the first step in cultivating chi. You could even say that getting started was the hardest part, and this was also the most important, crucial step: recognizing chi and sensing it.

So how had he done it without any training?

Seeming to realize what Daniel was confused about, Peter explained, "Earlier, for certain reasons, Strange had me learn magic. A normal mage has to go through three stages to learn magic, and the first stage is learning how to use your own life energy to cast spells."

"So I was thinking, since they're both manifestations of life energy, could I use spellcasting to draw out my life energy first, then circulate it using chi cultivation methods? That way, I could skip the step of sensing chi entirely."

Daniel found that difficult to put into words. Calling it a shortcut did not seem right, since magical cultivation was far from easy, and only a very small number of people had the talent for it. Peter was one of those few.

But saying it was not a shortcut did not seem