Subduing Qi Gathering Outer Appearance

Chen Chuan arrived at the separate Meditation Room on the upper floor of the villa. After settling in, he brewed himself a cup of hot tea and began carefully studying the cultivation method he had exchanged for.

The method was highly detailed, with annotations and supplements from the Old Era, as well as a reference index at the end. Because he had paid the corresponding Platform Coins, he could access and read in full any referenced materials available on the platform.

It seemed Platform Coins were indeed quite valuable.

He spent an afternoon roughly reading through the entire cultivation method. He did not skip over any of the cited materials either, turning through them one by one. That took considerably longer. The reading alone took two days, but it gave him a more thorough understanding of how cultivation should proceed.

The method before him had clearly been refined by an expert. It combined ancient and modern Cultivation Methods extremely well, discarding much unnecessary elaboration and sectarian terminology. Everything was explained in the clearest, simplest language, yet with remarkable precision and thoroughness. One understood it as soon as one read it.

To cultivate to the Longevity Observation Realm, the first priority was naturally accumulating energy, along with possessing a sufficiently strong body and mind. Without those, one could not bear greater power.

The Two Great Styles he had cultivated before could be said to have laid the groundwork for this. Once the Two Great Styles had been connected, his Mutated Tissue underwent two successive transformations, further expanding an already immensely powerful foundation.

Although this also made advancement more difficult, and reaching certain realms might prove harder for him than for ordinary Fighters, he could accept that.

According to the method, after breaking through a realm, a Fighter first had to consolidate