Okay, alien? Sci-fi setting maybe? He files that away.
“Cultivators cultivate… themselves? Like, you refine spiritual energy, both your own and the ambient energy from the environment, into a golden core in your lower dantian, and you cultivate to immortality, and you can do like, spiritual techniques and shit. A lot of people’s goal is to eventually Ascend to the Heavenly Courts, but I’m not aiming for that because it sounds kind of boring, I’m fine with just being an immortal master.” He concentrates and manages to force enough spiritual energy into a leaf on the ground to twirl it into the air before he overshoots and it explodes into an unpleasant wet mist. “Sorry, I’m not actually good at that one, more my shixiong’s specialty, but it’s a more harmless demonstration than like, a sword glare. Cultivators generally also train in martial skills, and sending bolts of destructive energy from a sword is one of the most basic. But I’d rather not bring the roof down on us.”
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“Cultivators cultivate… themselves? Like, you refine spiritual energy, both your own and the ambient energy from the environment, into a golden core in your lower dantian, and you cultivate to immortality, and you can do like, spiritual techniques and shit. A lot of people’s goal is to eventually Ascend to the Heavenly Courts, but I’m not aiming for that because it sounds kind of boring, I’m fine with just being an immortal master.” He concentrates and manages to force enough spiritual energy into a leaf on the ground to twirl it into the air before he overshoots and it explodes into an unpleasant wet mist. “Sorry, I’m not actually good at that one, more my shixiong’s specialty, but it’s a more harmless demonstration than like, a sword glare. Cultivators generally also train in martial skills, and sending bolts of destructive energy from a sword is one of the most basic. But I’d rather not bring the roof down on us.”