For ordinary people, successfully stepping into the [Four Body Tempering Realms] was more or less the beginning of gaining Extraordinary Power in life.
From then on, they would have the chance to take control of their own lives.
Stepping into the [Qi Nourishing Realm], meanwhile, meant finally transforming from an ordinary person in the simple sense into a higher-class individual who wielded the basic Extraordinary Power known as [True Qi].
Depending on the nature of one's [True Qi Nature], one would automatically possess various basic abilities, including but not limited to igniting fires from afar, controlling water currents, and being impervious to blades and spears... One could easily crush an army made up of thousands upon thousands of ordinary people, barely qualifying as someone beyond mortal limits.
At the [Divine Ability Realm], the most basic extraordinary energy of cultivators—[True Qi]—would automatically advance into a higher-grade energy—[True Essence]—as one's realm continued to rise.
If [True Qi] was ordinary gasoline, then [True Essence] was, at the very least, highly concentrated nuclear fuel. The gap between them was absolute!!
Yet it was precisely with True Essence serving as the activation fuel that the greatest reliance of [Divine Ability Realm cultivators], the Special Ability known as [Divine Ability], could have a chance to be unleashed.
Without that, relying on mere True Qi to release a true [Divine Ability] would be an extremely troublesome matter for cultivators!!
Thus, at this moment, the first thing Ling Wuyuan, a cultivator advancing from the [Enlightened Intent Realm] to the [Divine Ability Realm], had to face was the sublimation and transformation of the energy within his body—from True Qi to True Essence...
Normally, this was by no means something that could be completed in a short time.
At best, it would take several days.
At worst, it would take