That such a simple question could keep Li Xiaoya stumped for days had come as a surprise to him. In those three or four days, he had actually worked out the entire cultivation method. It was nothing more than a basic method for driving the circulation of blood throughout the body.
At first, Li Xiaoya had not wanted to make things so difficult. He would understand the principle first, succeed, and then delve deeper. Like a baby learning to walk, he naturally had to learn to crawl before walking, and finally running...
Over the past few days, Li Xiaoya had tried all sorts of ways to drive the blood through his body, but none had worked. His most successful attempt had involved controlling it through sensation, yet that had still ended in failure...
After days of racking his brains, Li Xiaoya approached the problem from the perspective of blood circulation, starting with the fundamentals: why did a person's heart beat faster when they were nervous? How did blood enter the heart and then leave it? And what benefits did that bring...?
In fact...
Cultivators were always talking about contemplation, personal insight, Dao enlightenment, and the like. In truth, this was a process of asking oneself questions and answering them. Finding the truest answer through that process meant unraveling the source of the Dao, thereby understanding it, using it, resolving it, controlling it, and conquering it...
Li Xiaoya's contemplation of this cultivation method followed the same pattern: ceaseless questions, and a search for the truest answers...
After several days of continuous contemplation and questioning himself, he had proposed one approach after another, testing whether each could achieve complete success. This was the basic means by which cultivators pursued the Heavenly Dao. In truth, only an Immortal Cultivator's mind could make such