"Bowl, ditch, creek, river, lake, great river, hundred rivers, flowing into the sea, boundless sea."
The Daoist silently recited the sequence once, then said, "My master taught me this. These are the sizes of a cultivator's Qi Sea at each rank. Ninth Rank corresponds to a bowl-sized Qi Sea, which severely limits the spells you can cast!"
"At most, you can use some low-level talisman spells and divination techniques, along with drawing low-grade ordinary talismans."
"Once your Qi Sea is as large as a ditch, you can use some low- and intermediate-level spells!"
"And even certain special Magic Treasures!"
"Take Fugui's Ten Thousand Taels of Gold, for instance. It's a Magic Treasure that launches instantaneous ranged attacks. Every counting rod it fires requires a large amount of source energy, also known as qi!"
"As for Shen Lang playing his Bone Flute, aside from the Bone Flute itself being a Magic Treasure, he needs a cultivation level of at least Seventh Rank to use that kind of soul-attacking Magic Treasure!"
"That shows how important the size of your Qi Sea is!"
"And now you've actually skipped straight past the ditch stage and reached a creek-sized Qi Sea. That means you're already a Seventh Rank cultivator, on the same level as Shen Lang!"
"Next, besides continuing to cultivate the Soul Cultivator's origin method, you'll need to find other combat techniques, footwork techniques, and so on to improve your overall fighting strength."
"But the most urgent thing right now..."
"Before Shen Lang and the others knock on your door to take you to the Demon-Quelling Office, you should hurry and cultivate the third level of the Soul Cultivation Art, merging these three segments of golden bone into your body!"
"Okay!"
Ye Qianfan immediately took out the four segments of Golden Bone.
Devouring Golden