Chapter 4

Yi Tian had been learning martial arts knowledge in the tribe for years, which included the classification of cultivation techniques.

The cultivation techniques in this world are divided into three ranks: Heaven, Earth, and Human.

Each rank is further subdivided into Upper, Middle, and Lower grades.

Human-grade cultivation techniques are the most common, and when cultivated to perfection, there is a chance to break through to the Human rank.

The difference between Upper, Middle, and Lower grade cultivation techniques lies in their cultivation speed, which varies from fast to slow.

For example, if a person with excellent talent cultivates a Lower-grade Human technique, it would take at least thirty to forty years to reach the peak of the ninth rank. If they cultivate a Middle-grade Human technique, it might take only twenty years, and if they cultivate an Upper-grade Human technique, it could take just a few years or a dozen years to achieve the same level, greatly increasing the chances of breaking through to the Human rank.

It is evident that the quality of cultivation techniques is crucial for every practitioner.

Of course, besides cultivation techniques, resources are also of great importance. With a large amount of cultivation resources, a martial artist's cultivation speed can be significantly accelerated.

Yi Tian carefully examined techniques such as the Mighty Ox Mountain Splitting Technique and the Fierce Tiger Wind Dominating Technique, finding it difficult to make a choice for a moment.

The Mighty Ox Mountain Splitting Technique and the Fierce Tiger Wind Dominating Technique focus on destructive power, cultivating powerful exotic true qi and greatly enhancing the physical body, resulting in extremely strong combat capabilities.

As for the Profound Wood True Technique, it does not have strong true qi but possesses a powerful life force and a strong affinity with trees, providing strong survival capabilities.

The Wind and Thunder Technique emphasizes movement. Once cultivated to perfection, true qi can transform into wind and thunder, making it extremely powerful in terms of speed and attack. However, its only drawback is that the physical body is not strong.

The Soaring Technique is the most unique among the techniques.

Cultivating the Soaring Technique can make a person as light as a feather, and when cultivated to the extreme, one can soar dozens of feet into the air.

Unfortunately, the Soaring Technique has many drawbacks.

Even when cultivated to the extreme, it can only slowly drift in the air, making one a large target, which is essentially courting death.

Yi Tian immediately rejected the Soaring Technique.

Even though the Soaring Technique allows a person to briefly fly and drift in the air, even ninth-rank martial artists cannot do this; only Human-rank strong individuals can walk in the air.

The last Lower-grade Human technique, the Blazing Fire Technique, was carefully examined by Yi Tian.

Although the Blazing Fire Technique is rated as a Lower-grade Human technique, its evaluation in the introduction is not low.

The Blazing Fire Technique has significant advantages, not only absorbing the elemental energy of heaven and earth for cultivation but also condensing solar fire energy during the day, making the cultivation speed faster. The abundance or scarcity of elemental energy does not make much difference for those cultivating the Blazing Fire Technique.

However, the Blazing Fire Technique has many drawbacks.

The true qi of the Blazing Fire Technique is extremely fierce, and a slight mistake can result in being burned by the Blazing Fire true qi, making it highly dangerous.

Additionally, the Blazing Fire true qi comprehensively refines the physical body, which means that most of the true qi is consumed in refining bones, flesh, meridians, and skin, making the cultivation speed of the Blazing Fire Technique extremely slow.

If the Blazing Fire true qi does not refine the body, once the cultivation level increases, the intense heat of the Blazing Fire true qi can burn the inadequately refined body to ashes.

Despite this, the Blazing Fire Technique is extremely powerful among techniques of the same rank.

After being refined by the Blazing Fire true qi, the physical strength of those who cultivate the Blazing Fire Technique is among the best, not inferior to those who cultivate top-tier body-refining techniques.

After some hesitation, Yi Tian decided to choose the Blazing Fire Technique as his cultivation method.

A slow cultivation speed is not a problem; with resources, it can be compensated for. However, if the foundation is not solid, even a fast cultivation speed will limit one's achievements.

As a person who has been reborn, Yi Tian has a more long-term perspective.

At this time, the young people in the tribe had all chosen their respective cultivation techniques.

Most people chose the Mighty Ox Mountain Splitting Technique and the Fierce Tiger Wind Dominating Technique, a few chose the Wind and Thunder Technique, and no one chose the Profound Wood True Technique, the Soaring Technique, or the Blazing Fire Technique.

Yi Tian was the only one who chose the Blazing Fire Technique.

As a result, he did not need to wait. After reporting to the three elders, he took the Blazing Fire Technique and carefully read and pondered it.

Yi Tian's choice to cultivate the Blazing Fire Technique not only puzzled Yi Feng and others but also surprised the three elders. The other young people in the tribe were either puzzled, astonished, or mocked him.

Yi Tian ignored all of this, fully immersing himself in the Blazing Fire Technique.

The Blazing Fire Technique only had a dozen or so pages, containing the essence of the Blazing Fire Technique, the meridian route map for the technique, the breathing and cultivation methods, and some precautions.

Among these, the most important was the meridian route map for the Blazing Fire Technique.

There were three human meridian maps in total, and the Blazing Fire Technique's route ran through the dense meridians, appearing simple but weaving through thirty to forty acupoints, circulating throughout the body. Yi Tian seemed to see a red true qi flowing along the meridian route, moving at varying speeds, with a mysterious rhythm.

After a long time, Yi Tian put down the Blazing Fire Technique.

He finally understood why the three elders had said that even if the cultivation techniques were leaked, they would be useless. The true versions of martial arts techniques had such profound uses.

Without the true version of the technique, out of a hundred people who copied it, only a few would succeed, while the rest would either go astray or lose the technique's subtlety and power.

Of course, if Yi Tian cultivated the Blazing Fire Technique to perfection and understood all its mysteries, the Blazing Fire Technique he recorded would also be a true version.

In the following days, Yi Tian went to the ancestral temple at dawn every day to comprehend the mysteries of the Blazing Fire Technique and ponder the cultivation methods.

Yi Feng and others did the same.

Everyone was in a state of madness, eagerly comprehending the techniques and asking the three elders for guidance whenever they had questions.

Yi Tian also asked the three elders some questions, which were basic cultivation foundations. However, for Yi Tian, who had just started on the path of cultivation, these were like heavenly sounds, giving him a sense of sudden enlightenment.

It took five days for Yi Tian to thoroughly understand the Blazing Fire Technique.

Yi Tian decided to formally begin his cultivation.

On this midday, the sun was high in the sky, and the scorching rays shone down on the earth.

At this time, the large training ground was almost empty, and Yi Tian sat on a rock under the scorching sun, beginning to breathe and relax his mind, sensing the omnipresent fire elemental energy.

After several days, Yi Tian finally sensed the nearby fire elemental energy.

His mind was running the technique, imagining the absorption of the omnipresent fire elemental energy. Soon, warm currents entered his body through his breathing, disappearing in an instant.

This is the feeling!

Yi Tian captured the feeling and continued to cultivate.

Soon, his body felt warm, and the warm currents began to circulate according to the Blazing Fire Technique's route as he ran the technique.

When the warm currents completed one cycle, they had diminished to less than one percent of their original size, and the condensed Blazing Fire true qi immediately sank into his dantian.

Having achieved initial success, Yi Tian continued to cultivate with full dedication.

Gradually, Yi Tian suddenly felt that the surrounding fire elemental energy had become thin, with the effect being less than one-tenth of what it was before.

When he opened his eyes, it was already evening.

In his dantian, the Blazing Fire true qi he had cultivated was only a few strands, like small snakes, which were pitifully small compared to the dantian, which was as large as a pond.

He had just cultivated true qi and did not even qualify as a first-rank martial artist.

To become a first-rank martial artist, the true qi must fill the entire dantian.

A second-rank martial artist is when the dantian's true qi overflows and expands outward, forming the first dantian transformation.

From the first to the ninth rank, the dantian undergoes eight transformations. When breaking through to the Human rank, it is the final dantian transformation. After this, the dantian stabilizes, and only divine objects can continue to transform the dantian, making the foundation even more solid and powerful.