He had always treated finding a body-refining cultivation method as an important task, and he had been searching for quite some time.
Nearly thirty years had passed since he first began, shortly after reaching foundation establishment.
Unfortunately, the results had been far from satisfactory. He still had not found a cultivation method that satisfied him.
They were either badly incomplete or far too ordinary.
He had no desire to cultivate them at all. At most, he skimmed through them for reference.
Incomplete methods harbored too many hidden dangers; their paths effectively led to dead ends. Liu Yu did not dare test them on himself.
Ordinary cultivation methods were too much like chicken ribs—hardly worth eating, yet a shame to discard. They would do next to nothing for his current strength. He would be better off spending that time studying the Cultivation Arts.
Their various shortcomings were difficult to sum up in a few words.
Thus, although Liu Yu already possessed several ordinary body-refining methods, he had restrained himself from cultivating them, hoping he might find something better.
After poring over countless texts, Liu Yu had developed his own understanding of the path of cultivation.
Body refining, qi refining, and spirit refining broadly corresponded to a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit.
However, the three were connected to some degree, rather than being entirely unrelated.
Improving one could also bring about passive improvements in the other two, though the gains were extremely small.
Looking toward the future, however, cultivating all three paths together would undoubtedly open a broad avenue to immortality.
According to his deductions, this approach should effectively improve the grade of his golden core and was feasible to some extent.
If he succeeded, it would greatly increase his potential on the immortal path.
Thus, so long as even the slightest