[Cultivation + martial arts + ordinary protagonist + dark fiction + jianghu + demons + human nature]
This is a continent where martial arts and immortal cultivation coexist: the Tianxuan Continent. The path to immortality is elusive, and spiritual roots are hard to come by. Only a tiny fraction of people are born with extraordinary talent and can transcend the mortal world to become cultivators. Most ordinary people choose to temper their bodies and become martial artists. Martial arts cultivation is divided into external training, internal training, and true qi!
External training strengthens the body. It is the most grueling path, but places the fewest demands on one’s innate talent.
Internal training has four stages: Ming, An, Hua, and Baodan. Practitioners can injure others with force and neutralize force with force.
Finally, true qi martial artists can draw energy from all things in heaven and earth and refine it into true qi. Once true qi enters the body, some is absorbed by the body while the rest is stored in the dantian. Each full circulation of true qi is one cycle, and 365 cycles amount to one year of cultivation.
