Only by swallowing all forms of Spiritual Energy can one ascend to the Twelfth Layer of the Great Dao.
Just as fish cannot live without water, Qi Cultivation Cultivators need Spiritual Energy to fortify their Cultivation Furnaces and expand their Primordial Inner Mansions.
Without the nourishment of Spiritual Qi, one's own Merit will not advance even an inch.
For a Cultivator, this is as unbearable as a mortal starving from lack of food.
This is why so many Tribulation Cultivators harvest the blood and essence of mortals to brew wine and make meat.
They have very few channels to obtain Spiritual Materials and Resources. All of the renowned deep mountains, great marshes, and clustered peaks across the Nanzhan Continent have been claimed by the Dharma Lineages, and they would never dare to trespass.
In the end, they can only resort to preying on mortals, who are as plentiful and inexhaustible as weeds.
