Some book friend: Since it's a modern soul, why not dataize and generalize the differences between different levels? Even the most talented person needs reason to level up.
Answer: 1. It can be data-driven.
But the additional explanation of rationality in the book has already been disliked by some readers.
So when I updated yesterday, I explained it at the end of chapter 59, but it was not a data-driven explanation because I was too lazy to calculate the details.
Since you asked, I'll calculate it properly.
Two: I explicitly responded to a book friend in the comments who believed that breaking through was unreasonable, stating that besides cultivation, martial techniques also rely on secret transmission. The level of secret transmission varies among low-level cultivators, which is the core of breaking through.
But high-level cultivators live longer and possess all the necessary secret transmissions, which makes the power gap smaller and breaking through more difficult. This is a normal manifestation under the premise of reasonability.
Alright, I have answered your questions, now let's start calculating!
Given that Wang Xianzhou's cultivation is at the stage of refining qi, considering his persona as a martial arts master and his cultivation level at the peak of refining qi, after converting his cultivation into martial arts strength, the base strength of Wang Xianzhou is 10 (This is the ceiling for refining qi. Otherwise, he would not have been selected as a wandering member of the Daoist Alliance through martial arts competitions).
Wang Xianzhou has attempted to lay the foundation for his foundation cultivation four times without success. However, this process of rapidly striving for foundation cultivation has gradually elevated his spiritual power to stand out among cultivators at the refining qi stage.
Corresponding to the strength, it is 10 \* 1.1 \* 1.1 \* 1.1 \* 1.1 = 14.641.
Including Wang's secret transmission martial arts, customized magical artifacts, high-grade foundation cultivation realm talisman, it would be:
14.641 * 2 (Wang's secret transmission martial arts) * 1.5 (customized magical artifacts) * 1.25 (high-quality talismans) = 54.90375
Note that the subsequent multipliers decrease in proportion, taking into account the marginal effect of the influencing factors.
In some traditional novels of practicing Daoism, the multipliers ignore the marginal effect and blindly accumulate, and I can output thousands of times, which I do not agree with.
Considering the fantastical background of fantasy novels, then, that style of writing is not wrong, and my style is not wrong either; everyone is not wrong. It's just that creativity is very subjective, and I choose to consider the issue of marginal effects.
Wang Xianzhou has joined the Red Lantern Sect and learned one of the ten Red Lantern Sect's secret transmission martial arts.
Afterward, he joined the Daoist Alliance and learned the Daoist Alliance's secret transmission martial arts as well as the top-level killing techniques in the Refining Qi realm of the Daoist Alliance, such as "Shocking God Spear."
(The Daoist Alliance, as a peak force, the cultivators under its banner have relatively higher limits at different stages—note that having higher limits does not mean that everyone within it can achieve a level that touches the ceiling.)
54.90375 \* 1.125 \* 1.0625 \* 1.03125 = 67.678
By rough calculation, Wang Xianzhou's strength has reached sixty-eight.
The cultivation base for Qi-Nurturing cultivators is from 0 to 1.
The cultivation base for refining qi cultivators is from 1 to 10.
The cultivation base for foundation cultivation cultivators is from 10 to 100.
Take the lower middle value of the foundation cultivation cultivator's cultivation base, which is 30.
(In the data-driven range of 10 to 100, those with the lowest level of foundation cultivation in the early stage are 10, but this does not mean that they are as high as refined qi advanced cultivators.)
A very simple logic is that not many can cultivate to the foundation stage, so most of them have a stronger foundation of more than 10 points.
And foundation cultivators are usually not that weak; thus, they often have a crushing advantage over most refining qi cultivators.
Given a conversion rate of 75% for cultivation to martial arts strength, the foundation cultivation cultivator's martial arts strength base is 22.5.
Refining qi mortally wounds foundation cultivation, it's definitely that the weaker foundation cultivation (I give an example without using the weakest, the only thing weakened is its conversion rate, but I also gave 75%).
A slightly weaker foundation cultivator has secret transmissions but not particularly good ones, joins a major sect but has to start from doing manual labor and cannot immediately obtain the sect's foundation cultivation secret techniques. Even if the magical artifacts and spirit tools are quite good, there are also talismans, and then a lifesaving skill is added to the mix.
22.5 \* 1.75 (Secret transmission) \* 1.263 (Major sect secret transmission) \* 1.188 (Magical tools and spirit tools) \* 1.094 (High-quality talismans) \* 1.047 (Saving skill) = 67.6713
Under the condition that I find a not-so-weak foundation cultivation cultivator, Wang Xianzhou's final number is still higher than this foundation cultivation cultivator.
In the world view of this book, such foundation cultivation cultivators are definitely not few. Taking Wu Jinyan as an example, if he were to lay the foundation for his cultivation, he would definitely not have such a high final martial arts strength number.
Even if Wu Jinyan reaches the peak state, after killing a foundation cultivation cultivator, it would be as easy as killing a chicken for Wang Xianzhou.
Lower-level cultivators have shorter lifespans and many have not joined a major sect. Their own cultivation techniques may have gaps.
After laying the foundation, they need to catch up on their education, which is also a process where the major sect further exploits these newly foundational cultivators.
Of course, exploitation is also a form of value (I'm just explaining the idea, but it doesn't mean that I fully agree with this concept. However, regardless of whether I fully agree or not, many things are happening).
In summary, Wang Xianzhou's talent in martial arts battles, his status as a member of the Daoist Alliance, his inner disciple of Red Lantern Sect, and his journey in cultivation have allowed him to reach a certain peak in his refining qi realm.
Therefore, when encountering some foundation cultivators, he can indeed achieve cross-level killing within the power system setting of this book.
