"You're courting death!"
The old Gao Family Patriarch roared angrily and raised a hand, unleashing an attack.
For martial artists, the Martial King Realm was already equivalent to the Qi Cultivation Realm within a cultivator's Qi Transformation Stage.
After cultivators reached the Qi Transformation Stage, they would refine the Innate Inner Qi within their bodies into the spiritual energy unique to cultivators.
Only after refining all the Innate Inner Qi in one's body into spiritual energy could one be considered a true cultivator.
The Qi Transformation Stage was precisely such a stage. The Qi Cultivation Realm began tempering the Innate Inner Qi within the body, while the Qi Transformation Realm began converting that Innate Inner Qi into spiritual energy.
The subsequent Sea of Qi Realm involved opening up a sea of qi within the dantian to store the spiritual energy gained through cultivation.
Moreover, a sea of qi could only be opened with spiritual energy. Only after spiritual energy had been completely transformed could one open a sea of qi.
Martial artists were not cultivators, but their paths of cultivation were somewhat similar.
The Martial King Realm was equivalent to the Qi Cultivation Realm, and the Innate Inner Qi within the body would also begin to be tempered. After entering the Martial Emperor Realm, even if the Innate Inner Qi within one's body had not yet been converted into spiritual energy—
The Innate Inner Qi within a Martial Emperor was still a notch stronger than that of a Martial King.
Though it fell short of spiritual energy, it existed in a state between Innate Inner Qi and spiritual energy.
Of course, Martial Emperors like Gao Yangfeng, who had barely entered the Martial Emperor Realm by relying on pills, did not possess Innate Inner Qi that had reached this level. At