59 Soul and Body. (2/2)

However, this wound was etched with a constant and chilling aura. It disregarded its placement, and with an unruly drive, it sucked up the man's cultivation like a parasite on steroids.

This wasn't even the end of it, as by some horrifying occurrence, the man found that his cultivation was sealed! This means that even if he had his cultivation, with his body rapidly deteriorating and him being unable to fix it, he would still die!

This would be the case even if he was at his peak strength, as his body is still as vital as his soul. Without a body he would die, without a soul, he would die.

Cultivation is the fuel that allows you to produce earth-shattering power. Yet there is a lot more to do with it then such a simple fact.

If you think about the soul and the body, you would see that one is what holds the other. The body holds the soul. This body also fuels the soul, and what fuels the body? Cultivation.

However, there is also another factor that many may forget. That is that, whether you like it or not, the more you cultivate, the more your soul evolves. It is unknown why this happens, but it allows you to perceive the world in more detail.

Or, the world's energy in more detail.

What would be blurry would now become sharp with a simple increase in cultivation, and this allows people to comprehend more and more. Nevertheless, it is only a helper, and the only people who actually benefit from it are those who can't perceive anymore at an agreeable pace with the details they can already see.

They would reach a bottleneck of course, but with that level of comprehension, they would just need to increase their cultivation!

Those who are comprehending to the bare minimum won't find this helpful, in fact, it may hinder them! It is like being unskilled in a job, and as you grow a slow rate, you keep getting pushed into harder and harder tasks that you cannot handle.

These cultivators are actually getting too much information, where the very information of what they trying to comprehend will be blurred with even more which they cannot even begin to understand.

Its similar to learning a subject, where you start by learning the very basics. If you don't understand these you won't move onto the more advanced areas. However, if you were to increase your cultivation without comprehending, advanced details will begin to show with the basics.

Imagine a whiteboard where someone is teaching and wrote down '5 + 2 = 7'

He is in the process of explaining it to elementary children, but in the middle, he jotters down an algebraic equation.

'2x + 1 = 9'

Of course, these kids have no clue what that means and they will become confused. They can't differentiate between what they need to learn and what they need to ignore.

This teacher then decides to no longer explain and sits down. He leaves it up to the children on deciding what they should learn, and this is a problem. Because, what should they learn if they can't differentiate between either? They don't know how adding works nor do they know what an algebraic equation even is.

Then, like a madman, that teacher thinks for a second and rises to jotter down calculus. Whilst doing all of this he leaves the children to stare at the board. A board that was beginning to get hoarded with more and more confusing concepts.

What on earth do I do? This was what would go through their mind, as they have no clue on where they start and where they finish. It would be a muddled mess of incoherency.

This is the same for cultivators, as those who gallop ahead would eventually find themselves having no goddamn clue on what they are even comprehending. The path would become muddy and they would verge into stagnation for the rest of their lives.

There is a reason why everyone isn't just born with the ability to perceive the world. They need to gradually go up, otherwise, you would just trip over yourself. Nevertheless, there will always be expections, like Su Min who was able to handle a large increase in cultivation through the mystical effects of the Ancient One bloodline. One that, without even trying, would increase your comprehension as you increase your cultivation.

For people who already understand where they are to a large extent, they would be able to handle more chunks at once. This would benefit them instead of hinder. However, for those who go up on the ladder without bothering, it would, so to say, bite them in the ass.

So, without the body, your soul would dry out. This is the case for cultivators at a certain level, though, higher? Well, that can be considered a different realm completely.

The boy, watching this from afar, froze.

”N-no...”