"..." Su Yu said nothing, but he already understood what Sheng Ge meant.
Clearly, it was very difficult for others to advance their realms.
To shatter the "bottle" and re-condense it into a new, larger "bottle"—the hardship involved was easy to imagine.
Sheng Ge slowly said, "Under normal circumstances, cultivators need a thousand years of arduous cultivation to advance from the beginning of cultivation to the Planetary-level, and that is assuming they have sufficient resources and talent.
"I can also instantly raise cultivators to the Planetary-level. However, their bodies need to be reforged and reconstructed, and their mental fortitude needs high-intensity tempering. Su Yu, neither bodily reconstruction nor mental tempering can be omitted."
"Mental fortitude needs tempering too?" Su Yu asked.
Su Yu was very familiar with "bodily reconstruction," because he had been experiencing it all along. However, he was not very familiar with "mental tempering."
"That's right," Sheng Ge replied. "Mental tempering is extremely important.
"For example, if there is a six-year-old child by your side and you want him to have combat power, 'bodily reconstruction' is equivalent to giving him a gun, while mental tempering is equivalent to teaching him how to use that gun. Otherwise, even if he gets the 'gun,' he will be unable to use it."
Su Yu scratched his head. "But I never went through the 'mental tempering' stage. Don't I still have the strength of the Star-level now?"
"You're different." Sheng Ge said irritably, "The underlying logic of your cultivation is completely different from that of proper cultivators. Yours is the 'bestowed' type, while proper cultivators cultivate themselves.
"Besides, your Civilization Binding cultivation technique is far too exclusive. It is destined to be usable by you alone."
"Uh, true." Su Yu nodded.
Sheng Ge was right. Although his Civilization Binding cultivation technique was