Martial artists cultivated in a somewhat unusual way. They stimulated their own strength to cultivate inner qi.
Therefore, when cultivating inner qi, even Innate Inner Qi still inflicted a certain degree of harm upon the martial artist's body.
Only upon reaching the Martial King Realm did such harm cease, and only after stepping into the Martial Emperor Realm did it begin to be repaired.
To some extent, before entering the Martial King Realm, martial artists were continually consuming their body's potential, even certain special powers within their bodies—their fundamental source power.
Therefore, the later one reached the Martial King Realm, the greater the harm a martial artist suffered in this regard.
Even in the Martial King Realm, although that harm stopped, the longer one remained there, the more those wounds to the body became permanently fixed.
After all, the Martial King Realm tempered the cultivated Innate Inner Qi. Under such circumstances, it was equivalent to solidifying the wounds suffered by the body's foundation and fixing those injuries in place.
Thus, after entering the Martial Emperor Realm, one could use the state of beginning to transform spiritual qi to restore the fundamental losses and injuries the body had suffered earlier.
Yet this merely increased the rate of recovery. The slower the recovery, the more it delayed one's cultivation progress.
Therefore, advancing to the Martial Emperor Realm later was by no means a good thing for a martial artist.
Although Wang Shihao did not understand this, he knew in his heart that the sooner one entered the Martial Emperor Realm, the higher one could cultivate.
Moreover, advancing to the Martial Emperor Realm while still relatively young could increase one's chances of stepping into the Saint Realm and becoming a Martial Saint.
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