One month later.
Meng Nan emerged from seclusion.
The verification was basically complete.
"Advancing through the 'Upper Method' gives roughly three times the cultivation speed of advancing through the 'Middle Method.'"
This was the result Meng Nan had personally tested.
In his eleventh life, the future Meng Nan had advanced to Qi Refinement through the 'Middle Method.' If he cultivated normally through meditation, without Spirit Sand or pills, day and night without rest, it would take roughly sixteen years to cultivate one year's worth of mana.
But now, having advanced to Qi Refinement through the 'Upper Method,' he could do it in five years at his current speed.
And that was without using the Qingyang Heart Flame.
If he used the Qingyang Heart Flame to aid his cultivation, the speed ought to increase further.
"Bone Structure: one."
"Sixteen years with the 'Middle Method.'"
"Five years with the 'Upper Method.'"
"If my Bone Structure were higher, and I advanced through the 'Upper Method,' perhaps I could cultivate one year's worth of mana in less than a year."
Those were the true seeds of immortality, the heaven-favored prodigies!
Meng Nan and the others were merely there to make up the numbers.
They could work themselves to death cultivating Qi Refinement through the 'Upper Method,' only to perhaps still fall short of those with high Bone Structure who advanced through the 'Lower Method' or the 'Middle Method.'
"But at least I've caught up a little."
Meng Nan was thoroughly satisfied.
Five years of diligent cultivation for one year's worth of mana—this was in a state of "bare cultivation."
With Spirit Sand and pills to support him, so long as he was willing to invest, he could cultivate even faster.
Take the future Meng Nan of this life, for instance. Ninety-three years after advancing