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"Fuse with exotic beast soul crystals first, then practice China's martial arts?"

Jian Shang frowned as he asked. No matter how he turned it over in his mind, something felt wrong!

"Yes!" Di Wushuang explained as though it were obvious. "Fusing with an exotic beast soul crystal makes your power go berserk. If another kind of power exists inside your body, they can easily clash. At best, you suffer cultivation deviation; at worst, your body explodes and you die. If you practice China's martial arts first, you can't fuse with a soul crystal whose power exceeds your own cultivation, much less merge the powers of two civilizations! Fuse with the exotic beast soul crystal first, then practice China's martial arts, and the two powers will merge on their own. But your cultivation will take twice the effort for half the results..."

"That's putting the cart before the horse!"

Jian Shang understood what Di Wushuang meant, but he did not agree.

China's Divine Land was the source of a thousand sects and ten thousand arts. Its power was closest to that of heaven and earth, which was why cultivators could use spirit stones directly upon reaching the Loose Immortal Realm, while the powerhouses of other civilizations could still only use them indirectly. That was the difference.

China's martial arts should accommodate exotic beast soul crystals, not the other way around. Abandoning China's martial arts to focus on exotic beast power—what was that, if not putting the cart before the horse?

This, too, was an insight Jian Shang had gained after half a month of arduous cultivation!

Di Wushuang shook her head ruefully and asked, "You're clearly only at the seventh layer of the Innate Realm. How did you manage to fuse with the Mad Lion King, a sixth-grade Beast King, and