This disparity was why Li Ling could place martial arts grandmasters at the peak of their practice at 10 points and body cultivators of the Mortal Flesh at the peak of their practice at 100 points. If martial artists could develop True Qi from the start, they might be able to barely catch up to Mortal Flesh practitioners, but then that would be their limit.
After all, whether it was at the end of Mortal Flesh or even martial arts, there is a limit to how much the body can be tempered with just energy. Even if one practiced dual cultivation of body and qi, raising their qi to the second realm and gaining magic power, they couldn't use this obviously superior energy to temper their bodies further.
So how did body cultivators increase their physical strength further? Or did they just focus on the esoteric part of their practice, like the fire qi or the blood qi, evolving it into an aura?
