'External force... external force...'
Chu Mu pursed his lips, Elder Li's words once again surfacing in his mind.
'Cultivation is, at its core, the process of absorbing external forces into oneself.'
Chu Mu didn't know if this principle applied to higher levels of the Extraordinary, but it certainly captured the essence of Qi and Blood Cultivation.
This slow, grinding, day-by-day effort also relied on external forces. It relied on medicinal baths every few days and the Essence Qi absorbed from the meat and vegetables he ate at every meal.
The human body itself ran on external forces. Without them, a person couldn't even exist.
And just as Elder Li had said, external forces were precious, but knowing how to better utilize them was even more important.
This was precisely where Chu Mu was pinning his hopes now, and he was making preparations for it.
His several trips into the mountains to gather herbs were for this very reason.
