Vegeta looked towards his grandfather and said "Grandfather what are these meridians i keep reading about?" "Meridians are the channels in which our qi circulate, the quality and quantity of meridians a person has determines their path of cultivation though this may not always be the case it is one of the determining factors of the speed and depth of your cultivation. A cultivator with thin and or clogged meridians had little chance to make breakthroughs in cultivation unless they meet some fortuitous encounter, and a cultivator with wide and or supple meridians will find cultvation much easier, dont get me wrong cultivation in and of itself is the act of going against heaven so innate talent isnt always the what comes out on top as there are many stories of cultivators who had sub par talents and still be came juggernauts because of their perserverance, what im trying to say Long'er is that while innate talent can get you in the door to stay inside you have to keep working hard." Said Fang Tianmeng Vegeta feeling a warmth in his heart responded quickly "yes" normally vegeta wouldnt respond in such a way but after years of living on earth his heart warmed from the cold murderous one it used to be add to that the fact that he spent 6 years living with this family and they have shown him nothing but love, even a stone face man like Vegeta would still feel something especially when these people are actually saiyans which is the one thing he is most proud of. "As i was saying, normal cultivators only have a set number of usually that number being 8 and a few special physiques being 9, some bloodline warriors are born with more usually bloodline warriors are born with 9 meridians the 9th meridians being a special one allowing for certain abilities to be performed by the cultivator, remember having more meridians doesnt mean you cultivate faster, infact it is the opposite, more meridians means that the qi takes longer to circulate, but there are benefits to more meridians as you can absorb larger amounts of qi and your qi pool in your dantian is usually bigger than a normal cultivators, which usually means that bloodline warriors usually have more qi during a fight between two people of the same level, now the reason our family was once a hegemon is we have an extra three meridians compared to a normal cultivator and thats not to mention if a once in a millenium genius is born with 9 regular meridians plus the extra three from the tail, while it is true that having the extra three meridians slows down our cultivation it also makes us pretty hard to kill since we usually have more qi than people of the same level." Vegeta felt his blood boiling with pride, this is what he wanted to hear, the saiyan race being dominant over all others. Also this talk of meridians was giving him an idea but it was to early for that as it was all speculation. Vegeta had one final question for his grandfather " Grandfather whats the difference between qi and blood qi?" "Thats an easy question and i was sure it would come up soon or you'd figure it out on your own, qi is the energy you refine from the heaven and earth that flows to your dantian right about your navel, this is not the only dantian in the body, the one where qi you refine is stored ia called the middle dantian, blood qi is also stored in a dantian, this dantian is where your diaphragm is and is called the lower dantian, blood qi is the internal force cultivated by body refiners, everyone is born with some qi in their blood while a body refiner is required to condense bloodqi through massice food intact and extensive physical training, but thats not to say there arent shortcuts such as heavenly treasures or medicinal pills to shorten the time required to refine their bodies and condense more bloodqi or even restore bloodqi. More exact differences being when qi is used you only waste the qi, when blood qi is used your stamina is drained, also blood qi is intertwined with bloodline abilities as to use bloodline abilities blood qi is required just as regular skills require qi, there are some skills that blood qi or qi can be used interchangably as not all body refiners have a bloodline." As Vegeta listened to this explaination he started to piece the puzzle together, the lowr dantian is where he used to gather his qi in his previous life, though he had no idea what a dantian or meridians was in his last life he had still used them before. "Long'er blood qi is called blood qi not because of its color but because when you lose blood you get tired to the point where you csn faint or die, and you use blood qi you use up your stamina and you become tired the more blood qi you use the more tired you become and if you over draw your blood qi you start to take blood qi directly from your life source which will kill you of depleted. Speaking of which that purple qi ball you created before collapsing was made using blood qi." When Vegeta heard that he was now 100 percent sure that the lower dantian and blood qi is what he had used in his previous life all of this explained so much to him that now he finally thinks he understands why saiyan are able to transform not only into great apes but super saiyans!