"Senior Brother Chen is right. Especially if he cultivates two manuals at once, he'll need several times the resources and effort. That makes attaining Astral Force even more impossible," Xiong Tiansheng added from the side.
Generally, Martial Masters cultivated only one Internal Cultivation Manual for Embracing Elixir Force-that is, only one strand of True Qi. This allowed them to pour all their resources and effort into tempering that strand until it became supremely pure and dense, ultimately transforming into astral qi and bringing them to Astral Force.
Cultivating a second strand of True Qi meant having to refine that second strand into astral qi as well, which demanded far greater effort and resources. Most people exhausted more than half their lives tempering a single strand, let alone two.
"Yes. Zhao Feng cultivates two strands of True Qi only to raise his strength as much as possible within the Pill Embracement realm, because he knows he has no hope of attaining Astral Force. He isn't Mu Xingze. Mu Xingze cultivates two strands out of ambition, whereas Zhao Feng does it more out of helplessness." Xiao Li nodded.
Everyone nodded in agreement. Zhao Feng knew his Root Bone was poor and that he could not break through to Astral Force, so he could only improve his strength as much as possible within the bounds of Embracing Elixir Force. That was why he cultivated two strands of True Qi, a completely different matter from Mu Xingze's ambition to cultivate two strands of True Essence.
He may shine brightly now, but as time passes, he's bound to end up like a flower that blooms for only a night. In the end, he'll be nothing more than an ordinary Pill Embracement elder, the people from the Eight Extremes Gate thought.
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