"You're courting death!"
The Gao Family's former Patriarch roared in fury, thrusting out his hand to unleash an attack.
For martial artists, the Martial King realm was already equivalent to the Qi Refining realm of a cultivator in the Qi Transformation Realm.
After cultivators reached the Qi Transformation Realm, they refined the innate inner qi within their bodies into spiritual qi unique to cultivators.
Only after all their innate inner qi had been refined into spiritual qi could they be considered true cultivators.
The Qi Transformation Realm was precisely this process: in the Qi Refining Realm, they began tempering their innate inner qi, and in the Qi Transformation Realm, they began transforming it into spiritual qi.
In the subsequent Qi Sea realm, they opened a qi sea within their dantian to store the spiritual qi they cultivated.
Moreover, a qi sea could only be opened using spiritual qi, so they had to complete that transformation before opening one.
Martial artists were not cultivators, but their cultivation processes were somewhat similar.
Martial Kings were equivalent to Qi Refining cultivators, and they, too, began tempering their innate inner qi. After entering the Martial Emperor realm, even if their innate inner qi had yet to transform into spiritual qi...
The innate inner qi within a Martial Emperor was still a cut above that of a Martial King.
Though inferior to spiritual qi, it existed in a state between innate inner qi and spiritual qi.
Of course, Martial Emperors like Gao Yangfeng, who had barely entered the Martial Emperor realm by relying on pills, had not brought their innate inner qi to this state. At most, its quantity had increased.
It had not yet begun transforming into spiritual qi. Compared to a Martial King's innate inner qi, its quality remained unchanged; only its quantity