16 Why Is My Cultivation So Demanding? (1/2)
Back at his house, Jam restarted his Spirit Attracting Array and began cultivating. This time he was cultivating Space and Time energy from his Gravity Manipulation Technique. Cecily told Jam that the effects of studying several Daos would become apparent starting on the Saint Realm.
However, now that Jam needed to take missions and spar with his classmates, he would need to start cultivating all the techniques he had stockpiled to get some practice. By starting to cultivate these techniques now, he would be giving himself a good foundation for the Saint Realm, and he would also be gaining additional skills that he could use at the moment.
Jam cultivated his True Gravity Manipulation technique for a couple hours, before reaching Dao Contact with the Dao of Space and the Dao of Time. At this point it was safe to assume that Jam could reach Dao Contact with just about any Dao, even if he were given a couple hours. Jam kept cultivating, and once he was at the highest peak of the Palace Foundation Stage, he ran into a wall. No matter how much energy he attracted, his body started to reject all of it.
Since he couldn't progress in his cultivation, he began to cultivate his other techniques. He already knew he had to fulfill certain requirements every so often, to progress in cultivation, due to the runes embedded in his Dantian Space. Right now, Jam had to figure out what the requirements were for him.
During Cecily's lecture on the Mortal Realm, she had gone over the various requirements that people with runic Dantian Spaces might need to reach before attempting to breakthrough. This was relevant to their class as everyone that could enter the core disciples of the academy, unanimously had potential great enough to warrant runic Dantian Spaces.
The requirements were different for everyone, but usually they fell under the categories of having to either get more energy than the average, expand the Dantian Space more than the average, or reach the same level of Dao cultivation in several Daos.
As Jam began to cultivate the Thunderfire Cataclysm, he discovered he could continue to gather fire and thunder type energies, but couldn't break through yet. This meant that he needed to get more energy than the average, at the very least. If he didn't breakthrough by the time his body stopped being able to absorb energy, it would mean that he would also need to reach Dao Contact in other Daos; in which case, he would progress with the Dao of Fire and the Dao of Thunder.
How many other Daos? He didn't know as Divinity was outside the scope of what the academy had ever seen. Every single person recorded with the need to reach the same level of Dao Mastery with several Daos, has only needed to do so for three Daos at the very most. This clearly wasn't the case for Jam as he had reached Dao Contact with four Daos already; three if you discounted the Dao of Bows, which wouldn't help Jam in his cultivation.
Jam wouldn't know if he also needed to increase his Dantian Space to breakthrough, as that requirement would only become evident after he reached the Saint Realm.
Jam continued to cultivate his Thunderfire Cataclysm technique until he reached Dao Contact with the Dao of Fire and the Dao of Thunder. After Jam had entered Dao Contact for the Stellar Dao, he had found the trick to reaching Dao Contact faster for seemingly every other Dao he came into contact with, as the time it took for him to reach Dao Contact became less and less with each subsequent Dao Jam achieved Dao Contact with.
After reaching Dao Contact with the Dao of Thunder and the Dao of Fire, Jam noticed he could start constructing his Dao Palace. It turned out that Jam would need to reach the same level of Mastery in five Daos before being able to make a breakthrough. Cecily also told Jam that people with these requirements would have their cultivation restricted in the same stages.
Before the Rebirth Stage, Jam would need to advance five Daos to Dao Infusion. Before the Saint Realm, Jam would need to develop five incomplete Dao Domains. And before the Sage Realm, Jam would need to perfect five Dao Domains. Most insane of all, Jam would need to Master Five Daos if he wanted to challenge the Immortal Realm.
The difficulty of advancing in Dao cultivation was infinitely harder than normal cultivation. In normal cultivation, at least the cultivator could see his progress. In Dao Cultivation, a cultivator would be almost completely blind; one wouldn't know if they were about to break through to the next level, or if they were still in the beginning of their Dao Degree's level.
Moreover, the gaps in Dao cultivation were much larger than in energy cultivation. In energy cultivation as long as one's Dao cultivation was higher than their opponent, there was a chance for victory even with a lesser cultivation base, but the reverse was not the case.
Right now, just on the merit of having Dao Contact with the Stellar Dao, Jam would have a decent chance at killing Core Formation cultivators; this was the case even when considering, that Jam had never fought before.