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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread
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No according to Niki they just had a lot and I mean a lot of intercourse. Also again it applies to all Martial Artists even real cultivators as a restriction placed on by the heavens until you get strong enough to remove it
On the one hand, it makes sense, on the other, it doesn't. Because in the end, MAs have a much longer life expectancy than mortals. It doesn't make sense for IE to feed on life force if in the end MAs end up living longer.
My theory is that it's purely biological. You see, MAs undergo Rebirth when they enter a new "Great Realm", and Rebirth reshapes practically the entire body; perhaps this new individual's biology is already programmed with a trade-off: Investing in longevity (maintaining and repairing the body) could mean fewer resources available for reproduction (producing lots of offspring). In other words, the new bodies of the MAs already "know" that they don't need to rush to continue the lineage, because they have time.
And this may be the reason why MAs live longer than cultivators, as cultivators don't go through Rebirth (at least not in the initial realms, and at least MC hasn't so far) their bodies don't undergo a complete change in their biology, they just have their bodies (soul and mind too?) strengthened, which increases their lifespan, but not drastically, even though they are superior to MAs in almost every other aspect.
Edit: Unfortunately, the difficulty of early-stage cultivators to reproduce cannot be explained as anything other than "the will of the Heavens", at least not in my eyes.
Huh, wait if I'm remembering correctly Tang Wei said the opposite about Inner Energy in the meeting with him, no? Here's the quote:
I guess he could be talking about shortening the potential amount if you decide to cultivate but it's kinda vague. Inner Energy I'm guessing is tied to everyone possesing trace amounts of qi, maybe Tang Wei taught them to spiritually cripple themselves for pure martial power?
Yes, I think it's along those lines. Maybe IE is a poison for the soul and/or mind, and maybe this is why TW says that IE cripples the individual for real cultivation, because in the novels cultivation places enormous importance on the soul. I think this is the fundamental difference between MAs and cultivators, cultivators undergo strengthening and evolution on a fundamental and complete level, while MAs only strengthen their own bodies. This would explain why MAs don't have a fourth "Great Realm", since the fourth "Great Realm" of cultivators is Nascent Soul, clearly the focus is on the soul.
Fertility issues is cause of the same reason as real cultivators. The heavens.
Lifespans real reason is that originally CF lives for 5k years but Niki realized that would mean the further Mortal Realms after CF would live too long so he downgraded CF to 500
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What's interesting to me that in the vision Tang Wei shows of how he got here, he again reiterates that those with IE "destroy" their bodies, and not strengthen them. They don't have and won't ever get meridians and a dantian anyway as a consequence of living on a barren world, so I don't think he's talking about crippling themselves to cultivation.
To be honest, what's interesting is that he did this so that they would give him more qi to consume when MAs multiply enough over the years. My question is how? He did say that there is no qi in this world at all, and it required a million mortals to create just a dozen qi stones (which are not the regular ones but more like the first one you get when you wake up), so how does increasing IE and going through rebirths increase the potential qi output from someone? Without his blood in your veins you cannot access IE and go through rebirths so I'm guessing MAs are literally forcing the power out of Tang Wei's still divine blood (as he says himself when arriving on Poma world, that his body is still divine) to get IE and the more the purity the easier it is. Maybe that is why Shangtians cannot grow anymore, because they squeezed out all of the power from the blood and converted it all to IE. I theorize that the process of forcing it out of your blood is what makes it destructive to the body, it's not real enlightenment, more taking steroids.
To be honest, what's interesting is that he did this so that they would give him more qi to consume when MAs multiply enough over the years. My question is how? He did say that there is no qi in this world at all, and it required a million mortals to create just a dozen qi stones (which are not the regular ones but more like the first one you get when you wake up), so how does increasing IE and going through rebirths increase the potential qi output from someone? Without his blood in your veins you cannot access IE and go through rebirths so I'm guessing MAs are literally forcing the power out of Tang Wei's still divine blood (as he says himself when arriving on Poma world, that his body is still divine) to get IE and the more the purity the easier it is. Maybe that is why Shangtians cannot grow anymore, because they squeezed out all of the power from the blood and converted it all to IE. I theorize that the process of forcing it out of your blood is what makes it destructive to the body, it's not real enlightenment, more taking steroids.
"IE = a mixed, contaminated version of Qi produced by destroying the body's potential and drawing its vitality"
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