> developed what we now call “magic state cultivation.”

Somehow I can't help but read that phrase as a translated Wuxia [0] thing.

"It was then that the Non-Observing Sage secluded himself in the clan datacenter to focus on magic state cultivation. Half a year later, he emerged having mastered Rosen-Bridge Crossing Under Plum Blossoms."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia