"What is qi refining into spirit?"
"Building upon essence refining into qi, one refines qi and spirit together, drawing qi into spirit to complete its condensation and ultimately form a sacred fetus."
Lin Fan murmured as though talking in his sleep. He was comprehending the Dao, creating a method, and pondering the next step along his path.
This process was far from simple. Not only did it consume tremendous amounts of time, it was fraught with danger. One wrong step could consign him to eternal damnation.
This was also why, throughout history, so few people had founded cultivation systems, and more than half had perished along the way.
The first realm is the qi sea, and the second is five qi returning to the origin. The next stage of my path should build upon the second realm, Lin Fan thought.
Moreover, gods dwelled within the five organs, precisely where qi and spirit gathered. If he used this as the basis of his research, perhaps something incredible would happen.
There had always been a saying in the cultivation world: besides their original life, living beings possessed five other lives, corresponding to the five elements of heaven and earth.
Generally speaking, if a living being's brow was pierced and their primordial spirit shattered, they were dead. There would be no surprises.
Yet there were exceptional cases in which a living being miraculously survived despite having been utterly slain.
This had to do with those five other lives!
For instance, some people could live a second lifetime, reverting from old age to youth and beginning an entirely new life, because one of those five lives took over.
Likewise, some corpses in the Netherworld developed a new primordial spirit within their flesh after long ages had passed. This was related to the same phenomenon.