Momentum

Momentum is something that has been touched upon by various people, such as Yrial and Karunthel. Zac has felt it as well on occasion. Cultivation is a continuous struggle, and to relax or let up is to mentally give in. Unless you keep up the struggle you'll find it gets harder and harder to progress, to "get going" again. It's both a mental demon kind of thing and a physiological kind of thing.

Speed of progress is also a type of achievement. It's not like you'll get an epic class to choose from if it takes you a century to reach peak F-Grade

A newly integrated world is like a pressure cooker, people will rise quickly or fall quickly but generally it's a balancing act between momentum and wanting to improve foundation when you're at a bottleneck.

## The importance of maintaining Momentum

Cultivation might not be a sprint, but it is not a marathon either. You need to maintain momentum and keep pushing forward. The second you stop it will be much harder to start running again. **Chapter 475**

Spending centuries on one’s Dao in the E-grade was only something you did if you were completely out of options, since doing so would rob you of your momentum. **Book 8, Chapter 26**

"You are in your prime, spending your days here would be a waste of your potential and momentum. Look at me and the other old goats who you took in. Our momentum is all but gone, and reaching Hegemony the normal way is nigh-impossible.” **Chapter 681**

"If you started with a low-quality Core you might exhaust all your momentum perfecting it over millennia, if you ever reached perfection at all. After all, the main goal of the D-Grade was to elevate one’s core to the point that it could withstand the formation of an inner world of the C-Grade." **Chapter 698**

## Freezing Momentum

Leandra suppressed Kenzie's momentum to allow her the time to strengthen her foundations without losing Momentum. **Chapter 665**

"The only detriment to rushing through levels to gain the class quests and attributes, then slowing down to work on your Dao and cultivation path was that some lost their momentum while working on their Dao, but elite cultivators had enough discipline for that to not become a real issue." **Chapter 685**

## Gathering and reigniting Momentum

“He must have been pushed to the brink, but that led him to a fortuitous encounter. He found that the Mystic Realm we are heading toward was actually two opposing Dao realms that had fused together and survived. He has somehow managed to merge with the resulting anomaly, and has slowly gathered momentum to form the steps,” the man said. **Chapter 697** *referring to approaching B Grade.*

**[The Creator wanted Zachary Atwood to feel the curse of helplessness, of loss. To instil emotion powerful enough to shock his momentum awake. Emotion is the bridge between Dao and Man. I shared the events because you needed to feel the same.]** Chapter 665

Having come to a decision, Zac could somewhat feel how something had shifted inside him. It almost felt like his heart had sped up and adrenaline coursed through his body, but he knew it was something else. It was momentum, just like when he decided to risk his life for Kaldor’s remnant or when he chose to immediately break through to the E-grade upon returning from the Tower of Eternity. **Chapter 868**

## Momentum as viewed by Multiverse Heartlands forces

In the grand scheme of things, a few years, decades, millennia even, doesn't matter. If you rush headlong toward the future, you might miss some clues along the way. As long as we progress one way or another and don't dally too long at every grade, we will retain our momentum. **Chapter 961**

## Case Study

Sap Trang is a case study in momentum, gaining it and losing it.

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