When cultivating in the one true and tested way, a cultivator would try to advance as soon as they were certain they'd maxed out their current limits. In this way, there would be no time wasted, spent away on dawdling rather than advancing.
Yet, when it came to our quite particular case, we'd already lingered on the fourth stage of flesh-qi balance for quite a while longer than we were originally planning to.
That's why, when we decided to give up on our attempts to refine our bodies even further and just go with the flow, advancing, the step that would usually be the greatest hardship of each rank…
