Tribulation Moon!
Fang Yiyun took a scroll from his Storage Bag and handed it to Lin Bai.
"Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body!"
Lin Bai accepted the scroll and opened it. Inside were five illustrations. In each, a figure sat cross-legged, and Lin Bai could vaguely see meridians surging through the figure's body.
Beside each illustration was a passage of text recording the mental formula and the essentials of cultivation.
Seeing Lin Bai absorbed in reading, Fang Yiyun slowly began to explain, "Body refinement is different from qi cultivation!"
"Qi cultivation means condensing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into the body, letting it settle in the dantian and transform into a divine pill. Though this power manifests in the martial artist himself, it actually comes from heaven and earth!"
"Body refinement, on the other hand, means developing a martial artist's physical power to its utmost limit. Even if one day he lost all spiritual power, his physical strength could still split the heavens and shatter the earth, roaming freely through the ages!"
"Qi cultivation emphasizes the character 'to practice'; body refinement also emphasizes the character 'to temper.'"
"Only, these two characters are different!"
"Qi cultivation is easy, but body refinement is extremely difficult! Thus, the 'tempering' of body refinement is the tempering of flames—forging the physical body into the utmost pinnacle of heaven and earth from within the flames!"
Fang Yiyun explained this calmly.
"A martial artist's spiritual power can split the heavens and shatter the earth, transcending the mortal world, but the physical body is ultimately too weak!"
"Body refiners, however, possess tough bodies and ferocious strength. Of course, the suffering a body refiner must endure is a hundred times greater than that of qi cultivation. That is also why so few martial artists refine their bodies in