Ye Chendong continued, "Master, what comes after the Body-Tempering Realm in physical cultivation?"
Chen Hao said, "After the Body-Tempering Realm come the Meridian Opening Realm, Golden Body Realm, Divine Treasury Realm, Heavenly Dharma Form, Chaos Battle Body, and Indestructible Battle Body. The Indestructible Battle Body corresponds to the Mahayana Stage."
An Indestructible Battle Body. Undying and imperishable. Wu Tian's eyes lit up. His family's cultivation methods emphasized raw power, so physical cultivation held a natural appeal for him. "Master, if physical cultivation is so powerful, why does it seem like hardly anyone practiced it in the Primordial Era?"
Chen Hao glanced at him and explained calmly, "It wasn't that no one practiced it. Rather, body cultivation places extraordinarily harsh demands on innate constitution, talent, temperament, and perseverance. Not even one person in ten thousand qualifies."
"And body cultivation has a fatal weakness—before reaching the Heavenly Dharma Form realm, a Body-Tempering Cultivator is weaker than a qi cultivator of the same realm in every respect."
"In a fight between people of the same realm, a Body-Tempering Cultivator will inevitably be suppressed by a qi cultivator. That is the fundamental reason countless people abandon body cultivation. Unless someone is a body-cultivation prodigy of the sort rarely seen in all of history, no one dares take this difficult path."
"They're weaker than qi cultivators all the way until the Heavenly Dharma Form? Even when their bodies can settle things with a single punch, they're still weaker?" Wu Tian was straightforward by nature and said whatever came to mind.
Chen Hao gave him a calm glance. "Qi cultivators can fly using their qi as early as Foundation Establishment. A Body-Tempering Cultivator, however, can only take to the air once they reach the Heavenly Dharma Form realm."
Wu Tian scratched his head. However little he