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It's not enough for a martial artist to just have a sense of Qi, but also to draw Qi into his body and store it in his dantian. Only then would he be able to officially step into the ranks of martial artists and become a member of the unpopular group." It would take more than a year for a talented person to go from sensing Qi to absorbing it into their body.

After a martial practitioner entered the unranked realm, they had to begin tempering their body, also known as the Body Refinement Realm. This realm consumed a lot of energy, so a martial practitioner's appetite was astonishing, making up for their consumption.

After reaching the peak of body transformation, a martial artist would begin to open up their meridians. At this time, a good cultivation method was extremely important.

Just opening the meridians was a difficult task for most martial artists. Those who did not have a sect or a sect and did not have a good inner force skill would find it difficult to open a single meridian in their entire life. Even if they managed to open one by chance, it would harm their body and make them unable to live for a long time.

A good cultivation method was very important to martial artists, directly affecting their future achievements. The reason Shaolin was able to become a martial arts superpower was because Shaolin had many good foundation building methods, so it was impossible for Shaolin to have many masters.

After the warrior had opened up a meridian, the martial art had entered a new world. The strength of the martial art had greatly increased, and the inner breath could travel in the meridian channels and could also injure people with inner strength. With more than ten unranked warriors, it was difficult to compete with them.

There were a total of 20 meridians in the human body, and each of these 20 meridians was more difficult to open than the last. Some people would spend their entire life and find it difficult to open them all, but this trial stopped countless martial artists.

There are twelve of them, namely hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, hand Jueyin Heart Meridian, hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, hand Shaoyang Small Intestine Meridian, foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, foot Shaoyang Chest Meridian, foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian.

The other eight meridians were the eight extraordinary meridians. They were the Ren Meridian, Du Meridian, Chong Meridian, Belt Meridian, Yin Heel Meridian, Yang Heel Meridian, Yin Meridian, and Yang Meridian.

A person who had broken through from the twelfth rank would become a second-rate expert in the martial arts world. He would become the head of a small sect, the head of a gang, but he would also be able to fight against dozens of third-rate martial artists. And those with extraordinary talent would need at least ten years or eight years to fully open all twelve meridians.

After clearing the Twelve Meridians, one would have to consider the Eight Meridians. This Eight Meridians was even more difficult to open than the Twelve Meridians, and the slightest carelessness could lead to one's death. These inner force methods, which involved the Eight Meridians, were not passed down by the famous sects.

Among the eight extraordinary meridians, the hardest to open were the Ren Meridian and Du Meridian. The Ren Meridian was in the center of the body, the Du Meridian was in the center of the back. In these two days, the Qi channels ran through the entire body.

Even with a superior mental cultivation method, some people would find it difficult to fully open all eight extraordinary meridians in their entire lifetime. They would be stuck at the meridians of Ren and Du, unable to step into the First Class of the Jianghu and become famous masters in the martial arts world.

After these 20 meridians connected to the internal organs of a person, the internal energy in the body could be circulated in a small cycle, and the internal energy constantly increased. This way, one would be able to step into the best state in the martial arts world, be able to release one's internal energy outside the body, and be able to injure someone a few feet away.

People in the martial world had heard of their reputations. Those with extraordinary talent would have had to spend decades of hard work to open the two meridians.

Even when Shaolin saw the Divine Monk Shaolin using all his strength to assist and his own talent was at its peak, he was still able to open the Ren and Du meridians at the age of 30 and step into the first-rate realm. Although Shaolin's inner force was renowned throughout the world, because of the difficulty of its early stages of cultivation, the first-rate experts of the Shaolin were mostly of the later generation.

And for those in their thirties to be able to step into the first-rate realm, they were ranked among the top few in Shaolin's several hundred years of history. Currently, only Yang Tian was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the younger generation in the martial arts world.

Therefore, most of the first class martial artists were not young, and there weren't too many of them. There were only dozens of top martial artists in the world, and even if they were counted in the dark, there were probably no more than a hundred. Most of them were from various big sects, and there were only a few unaffiliated martial artists.

One had to know that in the ancient times, there were 70 ancient times, so people who could live to 70 years old were very few. However, once they stepped into the first-rate realm, their body's internal organs would get the true temperature, which would extend their lifespan by 70 or 80 years without any problem.

After opening all 20 meridians, one would have to open all the remaining acupoints in the body. One had to know that the human body had 52 single acupoints, 300 double acupoints, and 50 extraordinary blood, making a total of 720 acupoints.

Although the twenty meridians contained most of the acupoints, but there was still a small portion that was not in the twenty meridians, it was extremely fragile, and even the best mental cultivation method would find it very difficult to contain these acupoints, and opening them at the same time would take a lot of time and effort, if one was careless for even a little bit, it would destroy the acupoints, although it would not result in death, it would still harm the body, causing one's lifespan to be greatly reduced.

In addition, when fighting with others and leaving behind hidden injuries, there were some top tier masters that did not live long and did not die, and some people even had trouble surviving to the age of 60. One of the reasons was because when they opened their acupoints, they damaged their acupoints, causing their bodies to lose energy and lifespan to drop.

Once all of his acupoints were opened, his zhen qi would be able to circulate around his entire body. All of his qi and blood would be very vigorous, and the zhen qi would be very strong, making it very difficult for ordinary swords to enter his body. This meant that he would be able to step into the higher realm.

These super experts were so powerful that even the major sects did not have them. Even the Martial Holy Lands like Shaolin only had a few people who did not know about them. It was because of this that some of the super experts had died, but many of the martial arts world's people did not know about it.

In the past, only Zhang Sanfeng was known in the martial arts world. However, ever since the competition between the Daoist Priest and Zhang Sanfeng, the martial artist had witnessed the power of the Daoist Priest.

However, since Wu Lin was so powerful, there were many capable people who were talented. It was possible that there were also experts hiding within. This was not something that ordinary martial artists would know. Therefore, on the surface, only Zhang Sanfeng and Daoist Hundred Bones were among the top experts in the martial arts world.

To advance from a super-class expert to a top-level expert was to transform one's dantian's true qi from a gaseous state into a fog-like state.

First, one had to purify the zhen qi inside one's body and not be able to cultivate such pure Qi through non-top tier techniques. Second, one's dantian's Qi had to be extremely vigorous, and one could not attempt to condense it into fog unless they had a full sixty percent skill. Otherwise, when the zhen qi was compressed into fog, they would be powerless to continue, causing the zhen qi in their dantian to dissipate.

It was extremely difficult for a martial artist to condense true essence into fog. From ancient times until now, countless martial artists had failed at condensing true essence into fog, resulting in their death.