Xiao thought calmly.
'Using Soul Essence, a Spiritual Realm cultivator can control a person's soul or corrupt their soul, and they can even use it to destroy a person's soul. I mean anyone who is below their realm.'
He continued.
'So for a Spiritual Realm cultivator, Soul Essence is their main weapon and their greatest ability. And even without using their Soul Essence, they can still beat the crap out of any Qi Sea Realm cultivator. Huh, this is just the second step of the Mortal Boundary, and the power difference between those realms has already become this wide and vast.'
Xiao thought.
'But to reach the Spiritual Realm, other than having to create a Mental Space, there is also the requirement to have your Dao Heart reach a certain level of understanding, becoming stronger and more stable for you to gain access to your Soul Essence.'
Xiao was slightly confused by this.
'Does it mean that there are levels to the Dao Heart? And only after tempering my Dao Heart to that level, in this case let's say becoming closer to my true self, since there was no clear explanation of the Dao Heart's levels. Even though, from what I know from my aunt and sisters, there are no clear levels of the Dao Heart like there are for cultivation realms.'
From his understanding and knowledge, the Dao Heart was an illusory thing, not something solid and tangible. Even in this world, this was the case, as there was no clear and definite way to measure how powerful or advanced a Dao Heart was. And if there had been a clear power system for it, then he would have already known about it from his aunt and sisters.
So this possibility was out of the question. But even if there was no clear power system for it, there were still other ways to judge how powerful a person's Dao Heart was, which in this case was the requirement to access Soul Essence.
Unless a person's Dao Heart was on par with, or had reached a level where they could be considered almost true to themselves, or their true self, there was no other way.
Thinking so, Xiao quickly summarized how he could reach the Spiritual Realm and the ways he could accelerate both his cultivation and the process of reaching the Spiritual Realm.
'Just because I cannot modify the cultivation system as I wish to become more unique and powerful doesn't mean that I can't push each cultivation realm to its extreme and make my foundation much stronger than anyone else's. I believe that the more solid and firmer the foundation, the more powerful and brighter my future will be. What talent and resources? As long as my foundation is as solid as Mount Tai and my Dao Heart as vast as the Heaven, everything else is an illusion. As long as I have an extremely solid foundation and a stable and unmovable Dao Heart that can withstand anything, opportunities can be created.'
With that said, Xiao thought calmly.
'After the Awakening Ceremony and after I become a cultivator, reaching the Qi Sea Realm, I need to ask my aunt or sisters for help to speed up the process of gathering Qi into my Sea of Qi.'
Because in the Qi Sea Realm, to cultivate in this realm, he didn't need to do anything other than gather Qi and increase the size of his Sea of Qi while progressing through the minor stages. So Xiao felt that speeding up this process wouldn't harm his cultivation in any way. Instead, he could use this time to make his process of refining Qi even purer. As a result, his power in the Qi Sea Realm might become stronger than others.
'Even though I don't know if this will be the case, let's see what it can do.'
Also, other than that, Xiao had an idea about how to make his Dao Heart stronger and more stable.
'I think I can use this to train and temper my Dao Heart, making it even stronger and helping it reach the required level. Being true to myself, huh? My true self. Well, let's see what I can do.'
He continued.
'Other than that, I will have to visit the library again to gain the information that is not important for now, things that can be put off until after the Awakening Ceremony. Well, by that time I will be a cultivator, so maybe reading and processing all of that information won't take as much time as it does right now. And also, with the help of Divine Sense, I will be able to read those techniques, scriptures, and mantras much faster than before. So yeah, with those things in motion, I am more or less done with my current plan. After achieving most of my objectives, I can continue to strategize and plan for the future after that.'
Xiao knew that not everything would go according to his plan. But as long as he could achieve most of those things, that was more than enough.
Thinking so, he continued to read the book, which contained information about cultivation.
Xiao continued from the point where he had previously stopped before. The information about how to cultivate in the Spiritual Realm, progress through its minor stages, and its lifespan. Xiao had a rough guess about how to cultivate and progress in the Spiritual Realm.
'I think it might be related to condensing Soul Rings and even tempering the Dao Heart.'
He thought. At the same time, he was curious about the lifespan limit of the Spiritual Realm.
'It might be much more than what the Qi Sea Realm gives to a cultivator.'
With a calm expression, Xiao began to read the information in the book.
«"After breaking through into the Spiritual Realm, to cultivate and advance through this realm, cultivators have to progress through its minor stages just like the previous realm. The Spiritual Realm is divided into three minor stages: First Ring, Second Ring, and Third Ring. And how does one progress through this realm? It is simple by condensing Soul Rings. After reaching the Spiritual Realm by condensing their first Soul Ring inside the Mental Space using Soul Essence and tempering their Dao Heart to a state of being true to themselves, a cultivator reaches the first minor stage of the Spiritual Realm, which is the First Ring."»
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