"What's the difference between the various body-tempering methods?"
In the courtyard, Shen Yi took his usual stroll to help digest his meal.
"What isn't there? There's the Vajra Sect's qi-tempering method, food-accumulation body tempering, essence-and-blood body tempering..."
Butcher Zhang knew a great deal about this. He rattled off examples with ease. "But generally speaking, once you reach the Jade Liquid Realm, there are very few martial arts like that. Most are Initial Realm techniques."
"Why?" Shen Yi didn't quite understand.
He found the technique pretty good. It cultivated both inner breath and the body—wasn't that enough to crush others at the same realm?
"Because of lifespan."
Butcher Zhang shrugged. "Before reaching the Jade Liquid Realm, people live to around a hundred at most. But breaking through to Jade Liquid adds a hundred years to your life, and reaching perfection adds another hundred. A body-tempering method might give you strength comparable to someone in the Jade Liquid Realm, but without the nourishment of heaven-and-earth energy for your internal organs, it won't extend your lifespan."
"If you cultivate both, this kind of slow, time-consuming work becomes a bit of a white elephant. You're better off learning a few more movement techniques, punches, or palm arts."
His words jolted Shen Yi awake. He nodded thoughtfully.
Perhaps it was because of his previous experience deducing martial arts.
For him, the demonic lifespan required by the Golden Sun Eight Treasures Profound Body was far less than what other Jade Liquid Realm martial arts demanded.
In truth, it would take him more than forty years to cultivate it to perfection. No matter how talented others were, they would need just as long without the aid of medicinal power.
But other martial arts were different.
He was simply slower; everyone else was pretty fast.
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