pappabearbooks #285 - The road is boundless, the road of refining the void and merging with the Tao!
#285 - The road is boundless, the road of refining the void and merging with the Tao!
Now that the Allied Shinobi Forces are still present, it means that among the trinity of the Sage of Six Paths,
the Sage of Six Paths directly killed by Luo Fu is not from the current timeline,
but rather the Sage of Six Paths from the future, or the Sage of Six Paths from Luo Fu's world.
However, in this world, Luo Fu can't find any trace of the Sage of Six Paths' existence.
In that case, the Sage of Six Paths in this world must be another Sage of Six Paths, hiding in other parallel worlds or timelines.
As for whether the two Sages of Six Paths will take advantage of this opportunity to return to their own worlds, Luo Fu has no worries at all.
Being defeated in the high-dimensional time domain is not something that can be recovered from so easily.
Being able to escape with their lives after being defeated in the high-dimensional domain is enough to prove how powerful the pseudo-high-dimensional lifeform, the Sage of Six Paths, truly is.
Currently, for Luo Fu, defeating the Sage of Six Paths doesn't mean that this world has lost its value.
On the contrary, after this battle between Luo Fu and the Sage of Six Paths, their life and death have been destined. The Sage of Six Paths is bound to lose, while Luo Fu still needs to completely replace the chakra of the Divine Tree with his own Inner Core cultivation system.
And this world, without the Sage of Six Paths causing trouble and with so many shinobi, is simply Luo Fu's perfect testing ground.
Seeing Luo Fu appear and the Sage of Six Paths disappear,
the members of the Allied Shinobi Forces were immediately crestfallen.
After all, they firmly believed the previous claims that Luo Fu was a demon who wanted to destroy the world, claims that they had placed their faith in the Sage of Six Paths for.
Immediately, Tobirama Senju stood in front of Hashirama Senju and said in a heavy tone, "We have already failed. Even the Sage of Six Paths… We have no reason to continue fighting."
Hashirama Senju wore a rare, serious expression and said, "No, Tobirama, you're wrong. Even if the Sage of Six Paths is defeated, that's still not a reason for us to give up. It's like how no one had ever built a village before. At that time, even Father thought my idea was a fantasy. But facts proved that I was right."
"But now even the Sage of Six Paths has failed, brother. Do you think you're more powerful than the Sage of Six Paths?" Tobirama Senju said angrily.
Smiling calmly, Hashirama Senju said, "I know I will fail, but my ninja way absolutely does not allow me to back down like this."
Just as his voice fell, Hashirama Senju suddenly noticed that his younger brother, Tobirama Senju's, expression seemed to have suddenly become a little strange.
A flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind, and Hashirama Senju instantly reacted. But the next moment he turned around, he was already firmly restrained in place by an irresistible force, unable to move at all. Even the chakra in his body seemed to have solidified.
"You…" Hashirama Senju stared at Luo Fu, who had appeared beside him at some point.
Luo Fu gently raised a finger, signaling Hashirama Senju to be quiet.
At the same time, Hashirama Senju also suddenly realized that he had lost the ability to speak, as if the lower half of his face had been invisibly erased, and he couldn't even feel the existence of half of his face.
It was fortunate that Hashirama Senju still knew he could breathe, otherwise he would have really suspected that he had lost half of his face!
"Are you going to continue fighting me for the will of Hagoromo Otsutsuki?" Luo Fu looked at Hashirama Senju meaningfully and said, "To that end, are you willing to sacrifice the entire Hidden Leaf Village? Including your close friend Madara Uchiha."
Hearing that Luo Fu was actually using the village to threaten him, Hashirama Senju's eyes widened instantly. Unfortunately, his ability to speak had been completely blocked by Luo Fu, and he couldn't even feel the lower half of his face, so how could he refute?
Seeing this, Tobirama Senju mustered his courage and said with a stiff head, "Your Excellency, you have already won. Do you really want to completely destroy the entire ninja world?"
Tobirama Senju was not afraid of death. After all, he himself was someone who had died once. Back then, in order for Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others to escape, Tobirama Senju, as the Second Hokage, personally acted as bait, helping Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, and the others to lure away the pursuers.
But Luo Fu was different from shinobi. Tobirama Senju's death was, at most, the result of a scheme. In terms of the actual difference between the Hidden Leaf Village and the Hidden Cloud Village, the Hidden Leaf Village still had the advantage.
What about Luo Fu? He alone could even flatten the entire ninja world. Such an opponent, such an enemy, even for the sake of the village, Tobirama Senju did not want to completely antagonize Luo Fu.
Because the Hidden Leaf Village could not bear such a price. Even whether the ninja world could continue to exist depended on Luo Fu's intentions.
Under such circumstances, Tobirama Senju had to think countless times about every sentence he spoke to Luo Fu.
Luo Fu naturally knew Tobirama Senju's little thoughts.
However, he simply couldn't be bothered with such selfish calculations.
In front of a powerhouse with overwhelming strength like Luo Fu, so-called wisdom and schemes were completely meaningless.
If wisdom could defeat the enemy, then there would be no need for firearms to be invented.
His strength determined that even with earth-shattering wisdom, it would be impossible to resist him.
However, compared to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, the strongest reincarnations of Asura and Indra's chakra,
Luo Fu was more interested in Tobirama Senju.
Indeed, Tobirama Senju's reputation as a master of forbidden techniques was truly deafening. To some extent, although Tobirama Senju was a member of the Senju clan and possessed a large amount of chakra,
what truly gave Tobirama Senju such strength, allowing him to kill Izuna Uchiha, who had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, in the midst of chaos, was not the Senju bloodline, but his own wisdom and development of ninjutsu.
It could be said that more than 80% of the powerful ninjutsu in the ninja world were related to Tobirama Senju. Many of these ninjutsu even caused great turmoil in the ninja world.
The Impure World Reincarnation, the Flying Thunder God Technique, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, and a series of other techniques either allowed a certain shinobi to make a great name for themselves, such as the Flying Thunder God for Minato Namikaze, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique for Naruto Uzumaki, or almost wreaked havoc on the entire ninja world, such as the Impure World Reincarnation.
Compared to shinobi who relied on their bloodline, Tobirama Senju's wisdom was what impressed Luo Fu the most.
If not for the opportunity of the Shared Space, Luo Fu would have claimed that even as a member of the Uchiha clan, he would never dare to challenge Tobirama Senju, this master of forbidden technique development.
It was nothing like now, where the newly resurrected Tobirama Senju was acting so cautiously in front of Luo Fu.
"Is destroying the ninja world what the Sage of Six Paths told you, and the reason why you formed the Allied Shinobi Forces to attack me?" Luo Fu looked smilingly at Madara Uchiha, who was lying motionless to the side. Although the wound had stopped bleeding, he had lost more than 20% of his body tissue and looked extremely weak.
"Madara Uchiha, you don't seem to have told them about our previous conversation."
Relying on Izuna Uchiha, Madara Uchiha looked at Luo Fu and said, "I didn't tell everyone because I didn't believe you could win."
"So what about now?"
Lowering his eyes, Madara Uchiha said, "Now, I want to know more about how you plan to destroy chakra."
"Tobirama, you heard that," Hashirama Senju said impatiently, "This guy is indeed the demon the Sage of Six Paths said would destroy the ninja world."
"Wait, brother, don't be so anxious," Tobirama Senju quickly advised, "You have to understand that destroying the ninja world and destroying chakra are not the same thing."
Pausing slightly, ignoring the confused Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju looked at Luo Fu and said, "Your goal is to destroy chakra, not the ninja world? Can you give me a reason? Why?"
Luo Fu seemed to have noticed something, and after taking a deep look at Tobirama Senju, he said, "It seems that you have already discovered the abnormality of chakra."
His eyes flashed, and Tobirama Senju hesitated for a moment before nodding and saying, "That's right. In my previous research, I did discover that there was a problem with chakra."
"Tobirama, what are you talking about? How could there be a problem with chakra?" Hashirama Senju was already dissatisfied with Tobirama Senju's obstruction, and at this moment, he didn't know whether he was taking the opportunity to vent his anger or whether he truly believed in chakra.
"Brother," Tobirama Senju said helplessly, "You have died once. Haven't you noticed that your body was clearly very healthy? With your vitality and chakra reserves, it was impossible for you to die so early."
Hashirama Senju scratched the back of his head, and his expression instantly became dejected. He said, "I'm really sorry for dying so early."
"You…" Tobirama Senju sighed helplessly and said, "Forget it."
Too lazy to pay attention to his troublesome older brother Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju looked at Luo Fu and said, "Is the Sage of Six Paths trying to deceive us? Is it not the ninja world that you want to destroy, but… chakra? But how can chakra be destroyed? Almost everything in the ninja world now is built on chakra. Could it be that you just want to destroy chakra, and don't care at all about the destruction that will be caused in the process of destroying chakra?"
"For ordinary people, the only way to deal with a house whose foundation is crooked is to tear it down and rebuild it, isn't it?" Luo Fu said, changing to a way that was easier for people to understand.
Tobirama Senju was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Chakra does have big problems, but if we just destroy chakra like this, do you have other alternatives?"
"Huh." Hashirama Senju suddenly exclaimed in surprise and said, "Tobirama, you're not really planning to listen to this guy and destroy the ninja world, are you?"
"Brother, don't interrupt!" Tobirama Senju didn't even look at his brother, looking excited.
Compared to Luo Fu wanting to destroy chakra, Hashirama Senju was now intensely curious about how Luo Fu would construct a new alternative.
You must know that after Tobirama Senju discovered the problem with chakra, he had also thought about whether there was a way to replace chakra.
It's a pity that he was never able to solve this problem until his death.
After being resurrected, Tobirama Senju simply gave up on this idea completely.
After all, even the Sage of Six Paths, the ancestor of chakra, had met his end, hadn't he? In Tobirama Senju's eyes, this also meant that there was indeed no alternative to chakra.
Originally, Luo Fu wanted to completely replace the chakra system in this world with the inner alchemy method he created.
He had previously wondered how much resistance there would be to doing so, and how many people he would have to kill in order to get his way.
But now, Luo Fu didn't expect that before he even brought it up, Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage of Konoha, was already eager to abandon chakra.
Startled for a moment, Luo Fu came back to his senses and said, "I do have a way to solve chakra, and that's why the Sage of Six Paths didn't hesitate to form the Allied Shinobi Forces to target me."
After a slight pause, a halo of Buddha's light instantly appeared behind Luo Fu's head.
Perhaps it was because the Sage of Six Paths in this world had been severely injured.
The influence of chakra on the minds of ninjas had been reduced to the lowest level.
As the light of wisdom shone.
First and foremost, Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, Izuna Uchiha, and Madara Uchiha, who were bathed in it, instantly felt a clarity in their brains, and their minds seemed to have been swept away of dust in an instant, giving them a feeling of light born from the depths of their hearts.
In the clarity of their minds, a mysterious inheritance spontaneously arose in the minds of those who bathed in the light of wisdom, as if wisdom was innate.
Unsurprisingly, the first to recover from the illumination of the light of wisdom and the attraction of the inner alchemy method was none other than Tobirama Senju, the master of forbidden techniques in the ninja world.
As soon as he came back to his senses, Tobirama Senju said to Luo Fu in an excited tone, "Is this the method you said to replace chakra? This… this method called inner alchemy can really replace chakra, really allow people to achieve life evolution, and even allow people to live forever and not die?"
Nodding affirmatively, Luo Fu said, "Of course it can. I am a pioneer of the inner alchemy method, and the Sage of Six Paths has also been defeated by my inner alchemy method!"
Instantly accepting Luo Fu's statement subconsciously, Tobirama Senju suddenly had a thought and said, "That's not right, you said that the Sage of Six Paths was only defeated by you? Does that mean the Sage of Six Paths is still alive now?"
Looking at Tobirama Senju with a bit of surprise in his eyes, Luo Fu said, "I really couldn't kill Hagoromo Otsutsuki in one fell swoop. Hagoromo Otsutsuki under the Trinity is a pseudo-high-dimensional life state. Even if I kill him in time, the Trinity of Hagoromo Otsutsuki is itself a collection of the past, present, and future. What I killed was only one of the three, and I couldn't completely erase him in time."
When he was alive, he discovered that there was a problem with chakra.
But unfortunately, being in the ninja world, his vision was limited and he couldn't find a solution. Tobirama Senju had originally accepted that chakra should be like this.
But from Luo Fu, he obtained not only the wonderful use of chakra, but even the inner alchemy method, which was much more powerful than chakra in terms of upper limit. Even though he had only had a preliminary contact with it, and hadn't even officially embarked on the cultivation of inner alchemy.
Tobirama Senju still chose to abandon chakra without hesitation and chose to support Luo Fu's inner alchemy method.
The reason is very simple. For smart people like Tobirama Senju.
He knew the drawbacks of chakra all too well.
It was just that he couldn't find a solution when he was alive, and his vision was limited, so he could only helplessly accept this kind of energy.
But in any other situation where there was any hope, Tobirama Senju, who knew the problem with chakra, would not choose this energy system that was obviously more harmful than beneficial.
It was just that Hashirama Senju was still immersed in the perception of the inner alchemy method.
Otherwise, if he were awake at this moment and saw his younger brother's performance of a 180-degree turn in attitude in an instant, Hashirama Senju would probably hate that he didn't have such an embarrassing younger brother from the beginning.
Knowing from Luo Fu that the Sage of Six Paths could not have an impact on the ninja world in a short period of time.
Even if all the ninjas in the entire ninja world abandoned chakra and embarked on the path of inner alchemy, the Sage of Six Paths would not come out to interfere.
Tobirama Senju breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but he also knew that the ninja world could not always rely on Luo Fu.
Now that Luo Fu had defeated the Sage of Six Paths, he had already won a rare time for development for the ninja world.
Don't look down on Tobirama Senju just because he is the Second Hokage of Konoha, but in fact, his Second Hokage has more say than Hashirama Senju, the founder of Konoha Village.
At the very least, at this moment, with Tobirama Senju's order.
Konoha's side in the Allied Shinobi Forces unhesitatingly chose to withdraw from the Allied Shinobi Forces, and even didn't care about what the Sage of Six Paths said about Luo Fu becoming a demon who would destroy the ninja world.
Since Tobirama Senju knew about the inner alchemy method, and also knew that there was still the huge threat of the Sage of Six Paths.
After leading Konoha to withdraw from the Allied Shinobi Forces, before the Konoha ninjas returned to the village in a mighty manner, the cultivation of the inner alchemy method spread throughout the ninjas in the entire village.
Of course, the emergence of any new system cannot be completed overnight.
It's just like the current inner alchemy method compared to chakra.
Even with the presence of old seniors from the village and clan such as Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Izuna Uchiha.
The old ninja clans such as the Hyuga clan, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, etc., could not easily give up their power built on the chakra system.
In the end, Tobirama Senju still used both soft and hard tactics to make the Konoha ninjas completely abandon the chakra system before officially returning to the village.
Tobirama Senju's approach was very simple, which was to let these clan ninjas truly feel the power and authority of the inner alchemy method.
The reason why these clan ninjas were still reluctant to give up the chakra system after knowing the problem with the chakra system, and even knowing that the chakra system was harmful and useless.
But for the sake of their own clan, the various advantages built on the chakra system, they could not give up chakra.
What ultimately prompted them to make this helpless choice was not Tobirama Senju's forced order as Hokage.
After all, although the Hokage's status is respected, and no one dares to disobey him in Konoha, that is only on the surface. Ninjas are not stupid, especially the clan ninjas who have been passed down for thousands of years, and they are very clear about what is called ostensible compliance.
What really caused their attitude to change drastically was that Tobirama Senju, the master of forbidden techniques, proved with his own experience after embarking on the inner alchemy method that with the emergence of the inner alchemy method, chakra was destined to decline.
It's like, the Hyuga clan is reluctant to give up chakra because of the Byakugan, the bloodline limit inherited by the clan.
And the inner alchemy method, although it is mixed with the three pulses and seven chakras, and appears to be neither fish nor fowl.
But the inner alchemy method is also a combination of Luo Fu's Xiantian Yi Qi inheritance from the Under One Person world. In the world of Outcasts, Observation is a huge system that encompasses everything.
Not only are there various pupil techniques with special effects, but even the worldview and outlook on life at the spiritual level are also part of Observation.
The inner alchemy method naturally perfectly inherited this point.
In other words, in the hands of those who have achieved something in the inner alchemy method, even if they can't do some abilities like the Byakugan, there are methods in the inner alchemy system that can achieve similar effects, whether it is clairvoyance or original observation, etc.
Even the bloodline limit of the Hyuga clan is like this, let alone the clans such as the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, which have no bloodline limit and only have secret techniques passed down.
In those secret technique clans, the secret techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation and have been perfected by countless predecessors, there are also methods in the inner alchemy method that can easily achieve the same effect.
However, these methods didn't form a complete system of techniques.
Even so, after seeing these systems, the secret technique families could imagine that once the Inner Alchemy method system grew strong, they, the families guarding Chakra and secret techniques, would decline even faster than the families with bloodline limits.
In this situation, they had to either switch to the Inner Alchemy method system, taking the lead and developing their own family secret techniques within the Inner Alchemy method system, or stick to the old rules and face a destined decline.
These guys weren't stupid; in fact, they were much smarter than many ninjas, so they naturally knew what to choose.
Under this inevitable trend, the Konoha ninjas who had withdrawn from the Allied Shinobi Forces had not yet officially returned to the village when more than 80% of the ninjas chose to abandon Chakra and switch to the Inner Alchemy method system.
Although the Inner Alchemy method system had countless benefits, it wasn't without its drawbacks.
The most dangerous and crucial point was that the entry process of the Inner Alchemy method required absorbing natural energy and then matching the natural energy in the body with spiritual energy and physical energy to form the so-called Innate Qi.
During this process, if there were Chakra seeds in the body, and if one was careless and fused physical energy and spiritual energy into Chakra, then most ninjas would only have one ending: death.
Still on the way back to the village, some ninjas who only saw the benefits of the Inner Alchemy method and didn't truly experience its drawbacks, eager for quick success but unable to calm their minds, became the earliest sacrifices on the path of Inner Alchemy.
Among the Konoha ninjas who returned to the village, as they were about to reach Konoha Village, dozens of lifelike stone statues had appeared in the team.
These stone statues were all ninjas who had failed in the Inner Alchemy method system and were eventually petrified.
Although this was also the ninja world, it was not Luo Fu's world after all. Luo Fu didn't intend to be the BUFF for everyone to practice Inner Alchemy, like he was in his own world, showering everyone with the light of wisdom every day.
After teaching the Inner Alchemy method to the Konoha ninjas, Luo Fu followed suit and taught this system to the Cloud Village, Rock Village, Sand Village, and Mist Village, and he didn't even let go of the ninja villages in the small countries in the cracks.
With Konoha Village as an example, whether it was the four major ninja villages or other ninja villages, unless they wanted to be completely trampled underfoot by Konoha, they had no other choice.
They could only start a new competition on the new system of Inner Alchemy, just like Konoha Village.
On this new track, they could have a truly fair competition.
In order to spread the Inner Alchemy method, Luo Fu could be said to have completely overturned the table of the Sage of Six Paths.
Luo Fu knew very well the envy, jealousy, and hatred that the four major ninja villages had for Konoha.
Who made Konoha's birth so blessed?
In Konoha Village, whether it was the environment of the Land of Fire or the endless stream of geniuses, the four major ninjas would feel like they had eaten lemons every time they mentioned it.
From Luo Fu's mouth, they truly learned the truth.
It turned out that both the Senju and the Uchiha were descendants of the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and even the Hyuga clan was a descendant of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's younger brother, Hamura Otsutsuki.
Not to mention that Konoha also had so many families with bloodline limits and secret techniques. The latter was not mentioned for the time being, but almost 80% of the former were related to the Sage of Six Paths.
When many ninjas from other countries learned of this news, they even suspected that Konoha was the hometown of the Sage of Six Paths.
Under this circumstance, after witnessing the failure of the Sage of Six Paths and Luo Fu's victory.
In addition, with the hatred for Konoha, the four major ninja villages and many small ninja villages completely turned to the Inner Alchemy method system with an attitude that was countless times more diligent than Konoha.
With such efforts, it was naturally not without gains. Not to mention anything else, when they returned to the village, the teams of the four major ninja villages had at least dozens or hundreds of stone statues, and although the number of ninjas who turned into stone statues in the teams of those small ninja villages was not as large as that of the five major ninja villages, judging from the proportion, the sacrifice of the small ninja villages was truly to the extent of damaging their foundations.
Some small ninja villages even had situations where none of the ninjas at the Chunin level or above returned to the village alive, and all of them were carried back as stone statues.
For small ninja villages, such a sacrifice was almost equivalent to the destruction of the village.
Such a brutal mortality rate still made countless ninjas flock to it.
Some crazy ninja villages even used the villagers of their own villages to conduct research on the new system of Inner Alchemy.
Watching all of this happen indifferently, Luo Fu can only rejoice now that although he established the Inner Alchemy method system, it can allow ordinary people to reach achievements comparable to or even surpassing the members of the true Otsutsuki clan through their own efforts and cultivation.
After all, the ninja world does not have procedures such as heavenly tribulations.
Otherwise, based on the crazy practices of these ninjas, I am afraid that few of them would be able to reach the end of the Inner Alchemy method system.
Of course, the Inner Alchemy method is actually a system without an end.
Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit, Refining Spirit into Emptiness, and Refining Emptiness into Dao. Although it seems that there is no way forward after reaching the realm of Refining Emptiness into Dao.
But in fact, Refining Emptiness into Dao itself is endless.
The Great Dao is boundless, and the realm of Refining Emptiness into Dao is also endless.
It can only be said that Refining Emptiness into Dao is equivalent to reaching the limit of the Inner Alchemy method. If you want to go further, you can only seek the path of dimensional ascension, advancing from a low-dimensional life to a high-dimensional life.
As time passed, the Inner Alchemy method that Luo Fu spread and popularized during this so-called Fourth Ninja World War, after paying the price of nearly half of the ninjas in the entire ninja world sacrificing, someone finally pushed open the door to the next stage after Refining Essence into Qi.
Yes.
The stage of Refining Essence into Qi alone eliminated more than half of the ninjas in the ninja world. This elimination rate is already very high.
You must know that the cultivation of Inner Alchemy is different from ordinary exams. It doesn't matter if you fail an exam, but once there is a mistake in the cultivation of Inner Alchemy, there is no chance to regret it, and you can only watch yourself turn into a stone statue under the erosion of natural energy.
However, turning into a stone statue is not absolute. Just like the Sage Mode of the Three Great Sacred Grounds, if the cultivation fails, the inheritance of Mount Myoboku will turn people into stone statues, and the failure of the Sage Mode of Ryuchi Cave will turn people into snakes, and so on.
Because Luo Fu's Inner Alchemy method is completely different from the Sage Mode of the Three Great Sacred Grounds, this also leads to the fact that in the event of failure, most people will turn into stone statues, and only a very few will end in different ways.
The first person to advance from the Refining Essence into Qi stage to the Refining Qi into Spirit stage was actually Tobirama Senju, who was admired by Luo Fu.
At the same time, Tobirama Senju also discovered some problems in the cultivation of Inner Alchemy that Luo Fu had not mentioned.
Once a ninja who is eroded by natural energy, or petrified due to the conflict between natural energy and Chakra, reaches the Refining Qi into Spirit stage, they will no longer be in danger of being eroded by natural energy.
The reason is very simple. The erosion of natural energy is essentially caused by the conflict with Chakra.
And once advancing from Refining Essence into Qi to Refining Qi into Spirit, the Chakra seeds inherited from generation to generation in the body will no longer exist, as if they were refined in the process of Refining Essence into Qi.
And without the seeds of Chakra, it also means that it is impossible to extract Chakra anymore. In this way, there is naturally no trouble of Chakra conflicting with natural energy. After all, even Chakra is gone, natural energy can't even be incompatible with the human body itself, right?
At this stage, it is also equivalent to embarking on a fast track in the cultivation of Inner Alchemy.
The Refining Qi into Spirit stage is also when Inner Alchemy cultivators truly begin to master extraordinary power.
In the Refining Essence into Qi stage, it is more like a period of laying a good foundation and preparing for Inner Alchemy, and it can even be described as foundation building.
Foundation building is a foundation that will not have Chakra interference.
But because of this, in this stage, Inner Alchemy practitioners cannot master supernatural powers. Except for taijutsu, ninjutsu that manipulates elements, genjutsu that interferes with the spirit, etc., cannot be used.
But once reaching the Refining Qi into Spirit stage, Inner Alchemy cultivators are like undergoing an essential transformation.
With a little modification, they can transfer their former ninjutsu to the Innate Qi of Inner Alchemy.