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The five innate paths: qi, elixir, talisman, artifact, and formation.

Earlier, in order to integrate the Druid inheritance, Ling Qing had chosen the combination of the Talisman Path and Talisman Water techniques.

His purpose had been to make it easier to transform the Druid inheritance and the Spirit Restraint and Transformation Method.

But that purpose was gone now, and he had already mastered every detail of the Talisman Path by heart.

There was no need to continue choosing it this time.

Originally, he had sought out this instance dungeon in order to comprehend the Artifact Path.

However, the Artifact Path consumed an enormous amount of resources and cultivation.

Without resources, one simply could not forge anything worthwhile—there would not even be materials for practice.

Unfortunately, his Tiger Skin Pouch contained his entire fortune, but he had been reincarnated, so he had not brought it with him.

Without good materials, he could not refine good magic treasures, and without those, he would have no solid foundation.

Without a solid foundation, how could he speak of cultivation?

Thus, the Artifact Path was not a good choice.

The Elixir Path was much the same; for the same reasons as the Artifact Path, it was only marginally better.

As for the Formation Path...

Tsk, tsk. It was even worse than the Elixir and Artifact Paths.

Not only did it require comprehending a vast number of formations, greatly prolonging the time needed for Foundation Establishment, it also required enough treasures to match the cultivation demanded by those formations.

That left only the Qi Path.

The Qi Path was the method of qi refiners.

Its fundamental principle of cultivation could be summed up in one sentence: "Refine a single breath within."

As long as one continuously tempered the primal qi within one's body, success would come