Jiang Yunfeng gave a broad explanation of all this, then laid out specific requirements for Fang Qianyuan to meet in each area of study.
First, he wanted Fang Qianyuan and his Spirit Creature to become proficient in Divine Abilities such as Skywalking and Size Manipulation.
Most Earth Rank Experts quickly learned these abilities after advancing, but merely learning them was clearly not enough if they wished to grow stronger.
Next, Fang Qianyuan needed to practice foundational cultivation methods such as the Spirit Tempering Art and Body Tempering Art.
The Spirit Tempering Art and Body Tempering Art were both cultivation methods practiced after advancing to Earth Rank. The former tempered the primordial spirit, while the latter refined the flesh, both serving to consolidate one's foundations.
Following the gradual progression of ancient cultivation through qi refinement, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation, one refined the body. Only once the body had grown sufficiently strong could one open the mind's domain, further temper the primordial spirit, and awaken divine sense!
For Earth Rank Experts, the primordial spirit and True Spirit were far more important sources of power than the physical body.
Through this cultivation, they would acquire, one by one, the various extraordinary gifts that Human Rank Spirit Tamers regarded as supernatural talents: immense strength, steel tendons and iron bones, regeneration, abundant origin energy, and more.
Every Earth Rank Expert was a powerful individual who possessed multiple extraordinary gifts and had developed them to an extremely high level.
Even without a Spirit Creature, an Earth Rank Expert's own strength was beyond anything a Human Rank Spirit Tamer could match.
Put plainly, Spirit Creatures were ultimately tools, mediums through which Divine Abilities and spells were cast. A Spirit Tamer's strength began with the tamer himself.
Only after that came the study of Earth Rank Divine