Essence and Qi

If so, they would shift from their original specialization in primal essence toward the mind and spirit. Yet their own accumulation in that area was insufficient, so the transformation of their martial will could only be left to evolve freely. As a result, the divinity born from it mostly concerned battle, protection, madness, strength, and the like.

By comparison, if they had taken the path of divine martial arts or spiritual martial arts from the start, their strengthened souls and elevated spirituality would have allowed them to comprehend the Dao of heaven, earth, nature, and all things, embracing everything through martial arts. Even if they ultimately sublimated divinity, they would have had far more choices, and far greater prospects of turning toward the divine path.

Yu Chen pondered silently, but he knew that this possibility was unlikely.

After all, this world still had the lineage of cultivators. The fact that they could refine Pure Yang Golden Pills showed that the cultivator lineage had once enjoyed a period of glory.

Whether divine martial arts or spiritual martial arts, neither could compare to cultivators in their study of the soul. Furthermore, divine and spiritual martial arts were weaker in combat during their early stages and lacked sufficient restraint against cultivators in their later stages. It was only natural that they would gradually be eliminated.

As for why divine and spiritual martial arts had vanished so thoroughly, that was not something Yu Chen cared about.

To him, the fact that this world had gone astray made it more suitable for researching the path of essence and qi.

If he could find a reasonable path of essence-and-qi cultivation for this world, it would surely be of great benefit to perfecting his own cultivation in the Earth Immortal Realm.

With that thought, Yu Chen watched