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The Winged God Clan had created the mages' cultivation method for a simple, direct purpose: to produce a batch of servants with decent strength, without letting them grow stronger than their masters and become difficult to control. That was why they had devised Battle Qi cultivation and magic cultivation.
It was a crippled version of traditional cultivation methods.
The Winged Person Race had ruled over the humans of the Light Domain for an unknown number of years. Gradually, those two crude cultivation methods had developed into complete systems, with established lineages among the humans there. Generation after generation of human experts and prodigies had continued to refine and innovate, shaping them into something utterly unique.
Compared to Battle Qi, magic was harder to learn. Those who cultivated magic first needed to be born with a powerful soul. Otherwise, when they tried to sense their own Spiritual Force as beginners, it was extremely difficult to gain control of it.
Unlike the cultivators of the Nine Provinces, who focused mainly on cultivating themselves and relied on true qi and true essence as the basis for casting spells, humans in the Light Domain couldn't cultivate true essence. When casting spells, they had to use their divine sense to perceive the Heaven and Earth Laws, then invoke their resonance with those laws. This alone had barred countless people of lesser comprehension from becoming mages.
This made the way humans in the Nine Provinces cast spells worlds apart from theirs. Yet everything had its pros and cons. The constraints had given mages in the Light Domain a complete path and system for understanding and mastering the Heaven and Earth Laws, as well as a