Darius first began cultivating his Qi over his body. The thin Spirit Energy in the atmosphere was galvanized under his mental power connecting to his Spirit Root to extend its tendrils to bring it over.
Now the process of cultivation, at least in the early stages, was simple. A person who was unawakened would receive a cultivation technique that would detail how they could use their Spirit Root to connect with the energy in the air and absorb it.
Then, based on two things, their Mind/Intellect stat and their Spirit Root's quality, they would use a varying amount of time to achieve this in two steps.
What affected the two steps the most was the Mind stat. In the first step, it was comprehension ability, as in how quickly you could understand the theories and directions in the cultivation technique and then actually connect with your Spirit Root.
