but you cultivate energy as well as cultivate a martial art. However you use a martial art to attack or defend. Some martial arts allow the user to attack with added benefits such as soul devouring techniques where they rip the soul out of someone but it isn't usually explained that it is a cultivation technique that allows the user to then convert said soul into energy. The greatest example of this as individually is the blood baby absorbs life force, he takes it in, then converts the energy into his own

anybody else feel like zhuo fan is gonna get shocked when he gets back to his clan... i mean he handed a skill to the mountain bandit disciple to train the 500 some odd people to be fucking ninjas (as he said she was to operate in the dark) and guard dude we saw last time was sucessful in his skill with 1 kid at least who was also enduring

as I'm reading this I'm thinking
Bc hell vally decided to attack windgaze city for the martial technique, zhuo fan killed the apprentice plotting against the family then killed the elders that attacked. Next he kills a hell valley elder bc he is killing someone he has a life-death contact with. Later, he kills the forest elder, regant elder, and cripples the hell vally elder because they attacked him first. Lastly, makes it look like he killed vicious king bc he unleashed bat, but how do you get rid of hundreds of bats when 10 can put up a fight with a radient expert without an AOE attack.
Tell me, at what point was he at fault for the life-death battles?

and that's not the only one he killed... whats with that reaction already

also to @Teppi... you cant honestly expect him to be nice to outsiders can you? he only used the girl BEFORE they made the life-death oath. He even went out of his way to kill the 7th elder after warning her that she would die if she went back to attempt to save her family. Her death chance was his opportunity to actually refine the gold dust as he needed QUICK advancement

i really gotta go back and read lit

at least she learned that he was pure from pissing in the cauldron (look at last frame in this and last chpt if you need explanation)

bro just got the shit smacked out of him after being dumbfounded by beauty

DEEZ NUTZ Ha GOT EEEM

so..... they made a life death pact... MC HAS to save her

wouldn't have gone in the first place. But if i go and the guy that can take on masters at low cultivation is crawling you think I'm gonna be a target???

honestly if i ran away it would have been a sure death running away (father was only high tier bone forger) in a place where there is high tier spirit beasts + bone forgers looking for ppl who could have stolen from them, plus zhou fan gave hope of defeating master. My chances of survival were already slim.
Answer being I'd still be mad, but I'd forgive as long as he helped me get stronger (not by a miniscule amount either)

if he pretending id do more than kick them

lol... New slave to the mix

given the card look it's deff yugioh reference which simplified magic the gathering

Fuckin rapebait (in US its still considered non-consensual until adulthood)... She just tryna trap him

MC at the peak died via self destruction and his soul was implanted into a fresh corpse. Bc the body had cultivated with such admiration towards the young miss the energy developed a heartworm or obsession that would cause the energy to go berserk (qi deviation). MC was then forced to insure young miss' safety. To ensure her continued safety the decided to go to her fiancé's house. On a side note we learn that the traitorous steward is not the Planner but merely someone who "switched sides"

RIP anyways bc erun is gunna quickly realize that without his intervention to the mages life his dad woulda been executed

that depends on view. Being all powerful means they can eliminate the threats that happen ie aggressors. and depending on the nation that supports them, they may allow for unification so long as the nations power doesn't threaten their authority. Based on the empires plot to watch steelguards gives us an idea they may be linked to this counsel as well

@IShyBoy... this is the first time I've seen a combat manga where a significant amount of ppl actually have scars like they should... i meant its not like people wouldn't EVER het harmed in the application of real world combat