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For humans, the initial stages of Dou Qi cultivation are especially difficult. Many spend ten, or even twenty years, at the Dou Disciple stage.
This is because this stage mainly focuses on expanding the meridians and strengthening the body, laying the foundation for condensing Dou Qi vortices within the body and becoming a Dou Practitioner.
Since the body's meridians are most fragile and malleable during this age, this cultivation process must be gradual and cannot involve any external force. Otherwise, as the Dou Qi within the body gradually strengthens, the meridians will eventually be unable to withstand the increasingly powerful Dou Qi impacts, leading to meridian rupture and death.
However, once someone becomes a true Dou Practitioner, their cultivation speed will greatly increase. Before becoming a Dou Practitioner, it might take a year, or even two or three years, to increase one stage of Dou Disciple. But after entering the Dou Practitioner stage, it is normal to continuously improve several stars within a year.
Amon is not human, and his growth curve is somewhat different.
Ink Feather Butterflies lay their eggs in prepared corpses and then leave; they have no habit of caring for their offspring.
Therefore, Ink Feather Butterfly larvae need to grow as quickly as possible to become true Magical Beasts and gain the power to protect themselves.
Their fastest growth stage is before they become Tier 1 Magical Beasts, which is equivalent to the human Dou Disciple stage.
The Worm of Spirit race, mutated from Ink Feather Butterfly larvae, also inherited this characteristic.
Before Xiao Yan's Dou Qi was absorbed by Yao Chen, he practiced Qi at the age of four and possessed nine stages of Dou Disciple at the age of ten, making him the most talented person in the Xiao family in the past century, averaging eight months to improve one stage of Dou Disciple.
Even after he started cultivating again, and with the Foundation Establishment Elixir formulated by Yao Chen for him, it still took him nearly a year to improve from the third stage of Dou Disciple to the eighth stage.
But Amon's avatar, with a sufficient supply of nutrients, only needs three days to improve Dou Disciple from the first stage to the second stage!
Low-level Magical Beasts do not have more specific small-stage divisions; they are only broadly divided into Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3... This is because, under normal circumstances, the small improvements within the large stages of low-level Magical Beasts do not have the obvious star-by-star markers like humans. Their body structures are different from humans.
But Amon is different; he is an anomaly.
He has clear markers, which are the rings on his body. Amon's main body is a translucent worm with twelve rings and starlight-like colors.
Each time he gains a small improvement within a large stage, one of the rings on his body will be filled. Only when all twelve are filled can he launch an impact on the next large stage.
Each large stage has nine small stages based on human body structure and cultivation performance.
Amon has his own set of rules. Before he transforms into a humanoid at Tier 7, each large stage has twelve small stages.
Except for the main body, which cannot directly improve its level by aggregating avatars, Amon's avatars can be split and aggregated at will, like plasticine.
Amon's smallest unit is a Worm of Spirit with the first stage of Dou Disciple, which simultaneously possesses a corresponding soul and a corresponding body. It cannot be split further at this level.
Due to the Worm of Spirit's special growth curve, Amon keeps his avatars at the first stage of Dou Disciple. When they reach the second stage of Dou Disciple, they split to form two Worms of Spirit with the first stage of Dou Disciple...
Stepping into Tier 1 and becoming a true Magical Beast can certainly improve the efficiency of absorbing energy, but it is still not as efficient as the sum of the energy absorbed by all the first-stage Dou Disciple Worms of Spirit after splitting.
And avatars can be aggregated to form stronger avatars. Once needed, they can merge into a single entity. Therefore, maintaining a dispersed state is the most suitable cultivation method for his avatars...
However, the development potential of Amons formed through this Convergence will be affected to a certain extent, so he specifically retained a few pure avatars.
They do not split, do not participate in battles, and have only one task: to cultivate. They cultivate step by step while maintaining the purity of their souls and solidifying their foundations.
Dou Qi cultivation emphasizes foundation. Only with a solid foundation can one encounter fewer bottlenecks in the future and strive for higher realms. Therefore, the foundation of the main body must not be damaged.
After the main body dies, consciousness will be reborn on a clone. To avoid the situation where the will wants to return after the main body dies but finds only a group of polluted avatars with exhausted cultivation potential, he needs to leave a few backup plans.
Leaving a few avatars with pure souls and solid foundations can make it much easier to make a comeback after suffering setbacks.
Although even if all the avatars have been polluted, he can still obtain pure avatars again through continuous splitting and Convergence, the pure avatars obtained in this way will be the smallest unit, the first stage of Dou Disciple avatars, and he will have to start cultivating from scratch, which is too much of a waste of time.
Beside a secluded pool surrounded by cliffs on three sides, a waterfall cascades down like a silver river, the rushing water tumbling and crashing against the rocks, splashing countless crystal-clear water droplets like transparent pearls.
On the cliff wall on the other side of the pool, vines and branches grow densely. A tree growing diagonally upwards is rooted in the cliff, its long, curved roots hanging down, reaching all the way to the pool.
Behind the tree, there is a half-hidden cave, which is not too deep and faces east. When the sun rises in the morning, sunlight can directly reach the innermost part of the cave.
A huge ape, three meters tall with snow-white fur, leaned against the stone wall of the cave, half-lying on the ground, its chest rising and falling constantly, making a snorting sound.
The Worms of Spirit used to fill the Snowstorm Demonic Ape's wounds have been removed, and it has become scarred again, but the wounds are slowly healing. With the Demonic Beast's strong vitality, this degree of injury is not fatal.
On a rock some distance away from the Snowstorm Demonic Ape, a worm with twelve rings is coiled up.
It coiled its body, its head held high, slightly tilted upwards.
Faint gray air currents rotated around its body, and these air currents continuously seeped into its body, but the speed was very slow.
This is Amon's main body, currently Tier 1, 1-Star. In terms of cultivation alone, it is the most basic existence among Magical Beasts.
Around the slender worm are many Tier 1 and Tier 2 medicinal herbs. These medicinal herbs are diverse and have different effects.
For humans, medicinal herbs cannot be eaten randomly, because although the energy in them is not as violent as that in Magical Cores, it also contains many impurities. It needs to be processed and refined into elixirs that are easier for the human body to absorb, so as to maximize their effects.
For Magical Beasts, medicinal herbs also cannot be eaten randomly. Different medicinal herbs are suitable for different Magical Beasts. Swallowing medicinal herbs that are not compatible with one's constitution will, at best, prevent the impurities from being expelled from the body, affecting cultivation and breakthroughs, and at worst, directly lead to death.
Only those Magical Beasts with powerful bloodline power, stronger digestive abilities, and a wider range of diets can directly swallow most common medicinal herbs.
Amon finished his cultivation, stretched his body, and was very dissatisfied with his current speed.
The Soul Clan's millennium plan is about to enter its final stage, and the tide of the times is rolling in. If he continues at this pace, he will not be able to participate in the future turmoil.
He felt it was necessary to try various methods to speed up his cultivation.
There are three main steps in Dou Qi cultivation:
First, guiding and gathering the free-floating energy between heaven and earth; second, purifying and refining this energy; and third, absorbing and refining it, integrating it into one's own body.
The factors that affect the speed of Dou Qi cultivation are also mainly divided into three:
First, the speed of guiding and gathering energy; second, the speed of purifying and refining energy; and third, the conversion rate during absorption and refinement.
For Magical Beasts, the main methods of assisting cultivation are: devouring Magical Cores, medicinal herbs, and finding treasure lands with abundant energy.
These are all measures targeting the first step of the three steps of Dou Qi cultivation, saving the time of guiding and gathering the energy of heaven and earth, and are also the simplest and most effective measures.
The third step is difficult to change. Without great opportunities such as bloodline advancement and transformation, it will basically not change... Amon plans to start with the first and second steps.
His current development has fallen into stagnation. The main body's cultivation is improving very slowly, so Amon's overall size is also limited.
Under these circumstances, Amon began to make structural adjustments to the composition of the Amons.
Before, in order to develop as quickly as possible and gain the power to protect himself, he used "Soul Devour" to devour the souls of other creatures, forcibly increasing the soul power of many avatars. The spirits of these avatars have already been polluted, their foundations have been damaged, and their potential has been exhausted.
Amon has now initially gained a foothold, and these avatars are useless. Continuing to exist will only affect the stability of the "Council of Amons" and will only occupy the quota of the overall size. Therefore, he began to gradually eliminate them and replace them with naturally grown, pure avatars.
This is also beneficial for Amon to control the "Council of Amons". When the "Council of Amons" tends to be unified with the main body's will, he can further increase the overall size of the Amons, bringing it closer to the upper limit of "one hundred times that of the main body".
The soul of a pure clone is enhanced simultaneously with the increase in Dou Qi cultivation.
When those polluted Amons have been basically replaced, Amon's main body stretched its demonic claws towards these pure avatars.
He used the ability of "Soul Devour" to devour the souls of the avatars!
Because the will possessed by a pure clone is Amon's own will, using this ability to devour the soul of a clone will not cause him to be polluted or make his soul mottled!
The enhancement of the soul allows Amon to guide the free-floating energy of heaven and earth at a faster speed, thereby increasing the speed of cultivation.
In addition, the corpses of those pure Worm of Spirit avatars whose souls have been devoured can also be regarded as a kind of medicinal herb.
They have grown naturally, have not swallowed any drugs, and have no impurities in their bodies, so they can be absorbed by the main body without bringing any negative effects!
For the main body, these Worm of Spirit corpses are approximately equivalent to energy crystals. Cultivating after eating them can eliminate the step of "guiding and gathering the energy of heaven and earth".
Amon's cultivation speed has greatly increased!
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