According to Li Xingkong's current Qi Refining Technique, he can be considered to be close to the mastery level. The core indicator of Qi Refining Technique is the speed of energy absorption.
The purpose of Qi Refining is to increase one's energy absorption rate; naturally, the more proficient one is in Qi Refining Technique, the faster the absorption rate will be.
Taking the Sun and Moon Qi Refining Technique as an example, beginners may need direct sunlight to effectively absorb solar energy and convert it into Magic Power. However, after achieving a certain level of proficiency, they can extend their cultivation time and even cultivate on cloudy or rainy days.
Once you reach a high level of proficiency, you can absorb light energy as long as it's daytime and there's visibility, and even at night, you can absorb some energy under moonlight.
Once it reaches its peak, it is no longer dependent on sunlight. Even if there is no light at all and one cannot see, as long as one is within the sun's suitable area, one can absorb the energy emitted by the sun.
In other words, he no longer needs to practice the Sun and Moon Qi Refining Technique in a sunny place. He can absorb the surrounding energy at any time, whether indoors or outdoors, above or below ground.
Sunlight is only one type of solar energy; besides light, the energy emitted by the sun also has many other properties.
Within the protection of the planet's magnetic field, much of the violent energy has been filtered out, and the energy that can enter the planet is considered quite mild.
Li Xingkong can't be considered a genius; he's just following in the footsteps of those who came before him.
In his spare time, Li Xingkong had also read many netizens' fantasies about cultivating immortality.
One question left a deep impression on him:
Why is it that ancient cultivation worlds are always better than modern ones? Shouldn't there be innovation and renewal?
Li Xingkong had actually thought about this question before. In the cultivation world described by many people, the more ancient something is, the stronger it is, which is really somewhat unreasonable.
But now Li Xingkong has the answer.
It's very simple; the ultimate reason is simply the differences between people.
Some people were researching nuclear weapons 100 years ago, while others are still calculating what 0.5 * 0.8 equals.
Let's assume there are two equally talented individuals, both at the level of Einstein, one born 10,000 years ago and the other born 10,000 years later.
Both are scientific geniuses, but one has been researching in his field for a full ten thousand years, while the other has only just been born.
The accumulated technology over so many years is far more than just a little bit.
It's true that times are progressing, but that progress is a median, meaning it's progress for most people.
Cultivation and technological development have something in common: they are irrelevant to most people, and how fast they progress truly depends on the progress of a few people at the forefront of the industry.
When it comes to innovation, no one understands this pattern better than the person who discovered it, let alone the speed of research.
In the world of cultivation, the concept of time is extended.
That will only make the fast faster, and the slow ones will truly fall behind step by step, and after a few hundred years they will find it difficult to catch up.
However, these were just reflections Li Xingkong. For him now, it was more practical to be down-to-earth.
After conducting a comprehensive assessment of his cultivation level, Li Xingkong arrived at the courtyard where he grew vegetables.
Now his yard is full of Bone-Tempering Grass, which looks like a golden yellow field from a distance, and it is quite beautiful. Fortunately, there are not many people in the village, and even fewer people come and go from his side, otherwise, some people would inevitably come up to ask for a few handfuls of vegetables.
For ordinary people, this thing is now considered a completely metal object. Let alone scissors, even Li Xingkong would have to condense his Magic Power into a blade to harvest the leaves he wanted to eat.
For an ordinary person to pick this thing, they'd either have to pull it out completely, or they'd have to melt it down in a blast furnace.
Although the Bone-Tempering Grass is not considered a high-grade spiritual plant, given its current condition, it is no longer usable by ordinary people.
If an ordinary person eats this stuff, there's only one outcome: at best, they'll have excessive heavy metal levels; at worst, they'll die from swallowing gold.
No wonder even immortals only need two young attendants to guard their medicine gardens; they don't have to worry about anyone stealing or robbing them.
If they could handle these spiritual plants, instead of stealing them, they could simply ask for them.
Li Xingkong now has enough seeds to expand the planting scale, but he still hasn't released them.
Releasing this thing now wouldn't be a good thing for him.
Materials that can promote Bone Tempering, while not much to him, are top-tier materials that countries around the world would fight over on Earth Star.
Let alone using it to make weapons, it would be more than capable of being used as aerospace material to make rockets.
If discovered by the government, this thing will undoubtedly be strictly controlled immediately.
Forget about going abroad, finding this stuff among ordinary people is harder than finding addictive drugs.
Therefore, at this stage, it's best to focus on your own development and quietly build your business to achieve great things.
Once I've Greater Completion of Qi Refining and learned a few spells, and have sufficient martial power, I'll have the right to speak.
The trip to the Prisoner Continent taught Li Xingkong too many lessons, the most crucial of which was that he understood a saying: truth only exists within the range of cannons.
No matter what you do, you can't succeed without a foundation of military force.
Therefore, although Li Xingkong did intend to scatter the seeds of the Bone-Tempering Grass and let them develop freely, he decided to wait until he Greater Completion of Qi Refining before making any plans, considering his own strength.
At the current pace, Greater Completion of Qi Refining is not far off.
Having picked enough Bone-Tempering Grass for today's consumption, Li Xingkong subconsciously walked into the prefabricated steel house where he was developing seeds.
His body had developed a kind of inertia from the day-to-day research, and when he picked up the seeds again, he subconsciously stopped.
The research on the Bone-Tempering Grass has now come to an end, and there is no longer any need for me to study the seeds here.
In other words, he now has half a day free and can do something else.
This left Li Xingkong, who was used to being constantly busy, feeling somewhat lost. Suddenly having extra time left him unsure of what to do with it.
After tidying up my things, I thought about what to do next, and decided to clean up this place first.
I'm aware that I can't create Spiritual Qi yet. My current abilities aren't up to par. Half a day of cultivation is enough. Cultivation requires moderation; one can't be too lazy, but one also can't become too obsessed.
After much deliberation, Li Xingkong finally turned back to magic.
Right now, I only know a few spells: Shotgun Spell, Explosive Reactive Armor, and Rejuvenation Technique.
As a cultivator, my methods are rather rudimentary.
It's time to expand our capabilities.