Heaven, Earth, Me 4 (GL)

Chapter 746. Unification Realm Half-Step.

A few months later, about one year before the summit, Yasenia was cross-legged in her cultivation room, practicing her Spiritual Path.

Thanks to what happened during the creation of her Body Path technique, she received a boost to her cultivation, which pushed her to be close to the half-step.

Hence, after working hard, she finally reached the limits of the ninth level of the Unification Realm.

The progress was quick, and the only thing left was to understand how to break through.

For the Half-step of the Unification Realm, what a cultivator needed to do was spiritualize their dantian. It was the preparation step for the next realm.

Moving energy around her body and feeling the saturation and inability to improve her strength further, Yasenia began attacking the bottleneck while meditating about it.

'Spiritualize the Dantian... The Dantian is the organ that creates, absorbs, stores, transforms, and releases the energy around the body via meridians. It is an organ three fingers-width below the navel. For women, it is very close to the position of the uterus.'

Yasenia placed the fingers horizontally right below her belly button and pressed them; she could feel the pressure deeply, moving her inner organs gently and pushing against the uterus and Dantian. 'Hm... How can I move the Dantian into my soul? The theory says that you need to try to materialize the soul and surround it, creating channels to connect the physical meridians with the soul's Dantian.'

'This step is something that only happens in the Spiritual Path. Even the Soul Path doesn't do something like this.'

Yasenia pondered. 'But why? Shouldn't the Soul Path also do this?' It was a common question for those who studied both paths. 'From what I read, Soul Cultivators don't move the Dantian because they need nourishment for their relatively weaker bodies, and having a physical dantian helps. Then, Body Cultivators don't focus on the soul as much, so a similar situation occurs. Only Spiritual Cultivators, who are all-rounders, chose to do this step so that there is a tighter connection between soul and body.'

Yasenia accepted the explanation, even if it appeared a bit loose. After all, wouldn't the other two paths also benefit from connecting the soul and body?

However, after revising the information once more in-depth, she realized that she had forgotten one thing. 'Balance. All things between Heaven and Earth need to be balanced so that there aren't problems. Even if both the other methods are extreme paths that focus on one thing only, they need their bodies to stay balanced so that they don't crumble. The Dantian is a perfect anchor for that. Meanwhile, spiritual cultivators always keep a good balance between everything, so instead of an anchor, they need a connection.'

Yasenia nodded, convinced.

Having caught the essence of this step, she restarted her efforts while using the index, middle, and ring fingers of both hands to press on the Dantian. 'Let's start slowly. I've already informed my dears so that I can take my time.'

First, she cut off all her senses toward the outside and even made her spiritual sense disappear.

After closing her eyes, her other senses started to sharpen. Then, using her energy, she cut off her sense of hearing for outside sounds and her sense of taste, she dimmed her skin's sense of touch, and she also closed her sense of smell.

Her body slowly lost connection with the outside, leaving only herself in her mind.

This was the main reason why cultivators needed a safe space to practice. Now, even a mortal would be able to sneak up on Yasenia. Still, the dragoness was calm, her heart beating at a constant rhythm.