After Abel finished the first cycle of his cultivation, he did not notice that a small part, a tiny and insignificant part of the celestial qi that he used was lost to the environment due to the problem with his dantian, it was just that the loss was so small that easily it became concentrated spiritual qi joining the environment.
Thus, realizing that he was experiencing that cultivation sensation again, Abel quickly began to circulate the heavenly qi faster and faster, as he already had experience in this due to his previous cultivation and that he had all the heavenly qi he wanted from his scope, his cultivation went quite quickly and smoothly, rapidly approaching the 1st level of refinement of the body.
"Wow, if I did just a little conversion, by the time I get to the first level of refinement of the body, I will have used more spiritual qi than I used with the divine rank manual, it is quite strange."
Abel soon noticed this fact, which made him quite curious about it as well, he thought about it for a moment before coming to a conclusion.
"It seems that previously I did not exploit the full potential of the refinement levels, as at that time I only tried to become a martial disciple as soon as possible, I did not strive to reach the limit of spiritual qi for each level, I barely felt that I could cross, I did, *sigh*, to think that losing my cultivation would be a blessing in disguise."
Actually, what Abel did at the time was what most cultivators did, since sometimes they would level up as soon as possible without exploiting their full potential, although at first glance that made them superior to their peers since they reached Higher stages much earlier, actually, it was pretty counterproductive.
In the first instance, because when doing so, their bases were quite weak, so, in the future, when they tried to cross higher stages, it would be very difficult and even impossible for them, in the second instance, it is that their power at the same level would be much lower. that someone who reached the limit of his level and climbed to the next that way.
This thought gave Abel quite a daring idea, was it the same limit that an ancient rank technique had at each level as a divine rank technique?
This thought did not come without a basis, after all, at first he read that the amount of spiritual qi that needed to progress was much greater than the divine rank technique he practiced, so it was not entirely unreasonable to think that the "limit" per level was different.
"Although it could be dangerous, since the celestial qi is much more dangerous than the spiritual qi, without risk there is no gain, at this time, it could already reach the first level of refinement of the body, so trying it is worthwhile."
With this thought, Abel ignored the feeling he had to progress to the first level of refinement as he concentrated on circulating and gathering more and more celestial qi in his meridians, if he felt that these were already full, he used the technique in the manual to compress force the celestial qi and allow it to enter even more into them.
This was extremely dangerous, since any mistake, far from destroying his meridians and turning him into a cripple, would most likely end up exploding if he did not control the process correctly using his mental energy.
Luckily for Abel, he had an abundant reserve of mental energy that came from his soul force, which, due to his time in that place in total darkness, made it much greater and resistant.
Thus, Abel continued this tortuous and dangerous procedure, until he could no longer retain celestial qi along his meridians, and his advance became imminent.
Remembering his previous experience at this level, Abel decided to draw out a greater amount of celestial qi just in case something like what he experienced before happened again.
"That's it, my body is saturated to the maximum, I can't store more celestial qi in my meridians either, 1st level of refinement of the body, here I come!"
Preparing for the worst, Abel began his official advancement once again to the 1st level of the cultivation path, with his previous experience, Abel circulated his heavenly qi faster and faster, only, unlike before, he did not have to strain. for breaking the barrier, before the monstrous amount of celestial qi, it gave like a paper to a tidal wave, breaking it instantly.
Just like the previous time, once this barrier was "broken", the feeling of being full to nothing else disappeared, and the hunger in his body reappeared, greedily absorbing the celestial qi that Abel had previously prepared. .
Although this time, unlike the previous one, he did not lose control of the circulation of his heavenly qi, although his body continued to absorb huge amounts of it, it was at this moment that pain began to appear through his body.
"So this time it won't be any different, huh, well, at least this time I'm ready."
Abel felt how little by little the pain began to increase throughout his body, especially in his eyes and extremities.
Although perhaps because he had already gone through this experience or because he was mentally prepared, the pain was not like before, that he could barely bear it, and even ended up fainting, now, despite the fact that it still hurt like hell, Abel did not feel it as unbearable as before.
His body remained with that pain for about 15 minutes, which was when little by little it began to diminish, leaving Abel somewhat exhausted, but still able to move.
"*Sigh*, it was lucky that I prepared myself in case it happened again, otherwise, I don't know what would have happened, after all, I'm not absorbing the spiritual qi from the environment like before, but extracting the celestial qi from the seal."
Although somewhat exhausted from the experience, Abel still got up and examined his body, comparing it to his strength in his previous advance.
In the end, after a thorough examination, he could only conclude the following:
"There is no comparison."
His current strength could easily crush his self from 1 year ago when he had just reached the 1st level of refinement as well, this consideration was obviously made without counting the double sword technique that he learned later.
"So this is the secret huh, although my deduction about the "limits" was given thanks to the novels that I read in my previous life, it still amazes me the great difference between the two, as I am now, I could well face with a cultivator at the initial levels of martial disciple, it really is a great improvement."
Although the difference between the 9th level of refinement and the 1st level of martial disciple seemed to be only one level, they were actually worlds apart, each stage of cultivation was divided into minor, intermediate and higher realms, with the 1st, 2nd and highest realms being the case. 3rd level of a stage the minor kingdom; the 4th, 5th and 6th level an intermediate realm and the 7th, 8th and 9th level a higher realm, so basically going from the 3rd to the 4th level of body refinement is to go up from a lower realm to an intermediate realm and with it a considerable increase in power, and even more to climb from one stage to another.
This is why it was surprising that even though he was only at the 1st level of body refinement he could fight someone in the minor realm of the martial disciple, truly outstanding.
"Although I must not become complacent for this, only in Kunlun there are many geniuses who surpass me, not counting only Daniel and Fillia, also no matter how much battle power I have, it is only enough for a cultivator in late martial soldier to come to send me with San Pedro, so avoiding showing too much of my strength is the best course of action."
Obviously, the standard of his battle power was relative to the cultivators of this lower realm, in Kunlun, his power would be above average, but it would not be outstanding like Daniel or Fillia.
Thinking of this, the joy at his recent power and advancement cooled, whereupon, stretching a bit, he began to think about the cons of his cultivation method.
"First of all, forget about the pills to improve my cultivation, I can't use them, especially since they use spiritual qi."
"Also, not only those, but the ones that improve strength and even those that help break through bottlenecks in cultivation, are totally useless to me."
These pills were created from medicines and herbs with abundant spiritual qi, so the result was obviously for cultivators who use spiritual qi.
In Abel's case, he needed herbal pills made with celestial qi, which is already far-fetched in itself, not only because the only people who could create such pills were peak alchemists, but because only the cultivators in the medium growing stage would need them.
"Forget even the mid-stage cultivators need it, just finding such a herb would be extremely rare and its price astronomical, not to mention that, in this lower realm, I don't think there are even such pills or herbs."
"So at least for the part of the pills and alchemists, I don't need them at all."
Having come to that conclusion, Abel could only sigh dejectedly, after all, he had hoped to become an alchemist in the beginning to support his cultivation, but now it seemed that it could no longer be the case.
"In addition I will also need a cultivation manual to improve my physique, at the moment I do not think I have problems, since I experienced spiritual cleansing 2 times, so my physical body itself is powerful, but if I want to improve it more I will need a technique strengthening."
Although it was not immediately necessary, Abel in the not too distant future would have to find one, that is at least if he wanted to continue advancing on his cultivation path.
"*Sigh*, it seems my cultivation path got much more complicated and thorny."