Why were body cultivators and soul cultivators so rare in the cultivation world? Besides the greater cultivation resources they consumed, the tremendous pain they had to endure during training was another important reason.
Cultivating beneath a waterfall was simply asking for suffering. Liu Changxu had lost count of how many times the waterfall had swept him away or injured him. Fortunately, he had blood bodhi fruit to help him; otherwise, this would have been self-mutilation rather than cultivation.
After more than three months of arduous training, propelled by the potent medicinal effects of the Blood Bodhi, Liu Changxu brought his Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art to the third-layer peak.
Liu Changxu could now stand at the edge of the waterfall where the flow was weaker, withstanding impacts of more than nine thousand jin of force. However, he still could not endure tens of thousands of jin. It seemed he would only be able to hold his ground beneath the waterfall after achieving body foundation establishment.
After bringing the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art to the third-layer peak and consolidating his cultivation, Liu Changxu prepared to consume a second-tier lower-grade Blood Bodhi to achieve body foundation establishment.
The reason the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art ranked as an upper-grade profound-tier body-refining technique was that those who practiced it could consume second-tier spirit fruits and spirit medicinal herbs.
The spiritual energy contained in second-tier spirit fruits and medicinal herbs was simply too immense. Qi refinement cultivators could not withstand such potent medicinal power. Rather than improving their cultivation, it was likely to damage their meridians or even kill them.
Body cultivators practicing the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art, however, could rely on the powerful medicinal effects of second-tier lower-grade Blood Bodhi to raise their physical strength to the level of a second-tier demon beast, thereby achieving