Cultivators
There are ten cultivation realms with ten minor stages of a realm. The ten minor stages are divided by four groups.
early 0-4,
mid 5-6,
late 7-8,
peak 9-10
Spiritual Qi Condensation Realm
Qi Condensation is the start of a cultivation journey. Without a cultivation path, you are considered as mortal. For humans, Qi Condensation is the entry realm to cultivate. First, you need to feel the Spiritual Qi, which is everywhere on the Spiritual Earth. The next step is to gather into your blood veins. If the Qi Condensation stage is higher, you gather faster Spiritual Qi. Each realm has minor stages divided by early 0-4, mid 5-6, late 7-8, peak 9-10.
Estimated lifespan: 200 years
Spiritual Qi Tempering Realm
Spiritual Qi Tempering is a stage where you gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the body from the inside out. This is all for laying the foundation to the next realm, the Foundation Establishment Realm. It’s named as Spiritual Qi Tempering because it stabilizes the unruly Qi which you gather at Qi Condensation Realm.
Estimated lifespan: 300 years
There are three principal methods used to enter the Spiritual Qi Tempering Realm:
1. The proper method which involves using a large amount of Qi to refine the body on one’s own. This is the hardest method.
2. The more common method in Sects that have them is to have a Nascent Soul cultivator use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
3. Eating pills
Foundation Establishment Realm
After gathering a sufficient amount of Spiritual Qi in the Qi Tempering Realm, the cultivator works to cycle that spiritual Qi through their entire body. In doing so, the spiritual Qi washes the body clean and refines it so that it becomes more suited for cultivation. The bones and veins are evolving. After the evolution, you can gather Qi faster. The colours of the world are clearer and the body is studier. This is called “forming/building a foundation” or the Foundation Establishment Realm. This is the true first step on the path of cultivation, with the Qi Tempering realm being nothing more than the preliminary steps toward it. At this Realm, the cultivator needs to face a tribulation. Clouds would gather and the lightning would try to kill the cultivator.
Estimated lifespan: 400 years
There are four principal methods used to enter the Foundation Establishment Realm:
1. Surviving the tribulation without help
2. The more common method in Sects that have them is to have a Nascent Soul cultivator use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
3. Eating pills and surviving the tribulation
4. Magical treasure which helps you to defend against the tribulation
If the cultivator cannot defend the tribulation, he dies painfully. However, upon successfully condensing the Foundation Establishment Realm, one’s lifespan dramatically increases, and proportionally, the strength of the physical body.
Core Formation Realm
The Core Formation Realm is about to create a core. The cultivator must gather the spiritual Qi to form a core while he needs to face a tribulation where clouds gather and hit the cultivator with a more powerful lightning than the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Estimated lifespan: 500 years
There are four principal methods used to enter the Core Formation Realm:
1. Surviving the tribulation without help
2. The more common method in Sects that have them is to have a Nascent Soul cultivator use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
3. Eating pills and surviving the tribulation
4. Magical treasure which helps you to defend against the tribulation
If the cultivator cannot defend the tribulation, he dies painfully. However, upon successfully condensing the Core Formation Realm, one’s lifespan dramatically increases, and proportionally, the strength of the physical body.
Nascent Soul Realm
In this realm, cultivators reform their core into a Nascent Soul. By undergoing this transformation, the cultivators have to pass a lightning tribulation. If one fails the tribulation, the Nascent Soul scatters, as does one’s mind or soul. Lucky ones live on as mad lunatics, while the unfortunate ones die. However, upon successfully condensing the Nascent Soul, one’s lifespan dramatically increases, and proportionally, the strength of the physical body. Most cultivators of this stage are renowned grand elders of sects. These cultivators rarely involve themselves in trivial sect affairs, and most immerse themselves into further cultivation or adventures. Very few vagrant Nascent Soul cultivators exist, as most powers attempt to rope in such powerful figures with equally powerful incentives. During wars or skirmishes, battles between Nascent Soul cultivators are deadly. One of the more powerful abilities of Nascent Soul cultivators is the ability to escape death should their physical body perish. Not only is the Nascent Soul fast and nimble, it can enter another suitable body, should the original body perish.
Once a “core” has reached sufficient density, it can be forcefully molded to form a “Nascent Soul”. A cultivator reaches the Nascent Soul stage upon successful formation of a Nascent Soul. Progression through the Nascent Soul Realm involves absorbing spiritual energy to refine the Nascent Soul. Like the previous realms, there are 3 groups: Early, Middle and Late Nascent Soul Cultivators.
One ability of this Realm is to separate Nascent Soul from a cultivator’s mortal body. It reduces its dependency on the Mortal body. It is possible to possess another body should it be given to them or they forcefully take over a new body. However, doing so will weaken the Nascent Soul, and future growth is still limited.
We consider cultivators at this stage ancestors or grand elders within sects, and can live up to a thousand years at most. More should they use special methods. Nascent Soul cultivators form the basis and majority of strength within a middle level sect. Loss of Nascent Soul ancestors can cause the extinction of a sect. A single ancestor can single-handedly wipe out an enemy sect. War between sects or factions with Nascent Soul cultivators rarely results in battle between cultivators of this stage.
Nascent Soul cultivators are mostly motivated by self-interest. They will not involve themselves in conflict unless there are rewards.
Estimated lifespan: 1 600 years
Ascension Soul Realm
This is the peak cultivation in the spiritual earth realm. Ascension Soul realm is the farthest you can cultivate. You can’t break through the next realm because of the limitations of the world. You can also wait and stay in this world. Humans and giants are not blessed with immortality and die at old age.
In the Ascension Soul realm, you can fly freely. Their next new ability is to isolate a range within 1 km with a barrier. You can’t eavesdrop and see through barriers. You also create an Avatar from yourself, which only humans and giants can do. Ascension Soul realm cultivators are legends that rarely appear. Even the elves said that there are no Ascension Soul Realm cultivators anymore. They got extinct during the wars or are hiding for some unknown reason.
Estimated lifespan: 3 000 years
There are a few hints that the cultivation path goes farther. Old established sects should have more information about this topic. For me it's irrelevant as it would take hundreds of years to be at their Realm. What interests me more is the magical path.
The Magus Path
The magical path is an equal path for the races, dwarfs, elfs, and dragons. The demons tried to corrupt these races and integrate them in their demon cultivation path. They had success in corrupting the dragons. Dragons got a punishment and are extinct on the paper, because they sided with the demons for more power. However, it is not sure if they are clearly extinct. Rumors are still there that they roam the world. Humans, giants were jealous because they had no power to defend themself. For this reason, they created their own path, the cultivation path, as the book mentioned before.They couldn’t use the spiritual Qi to cast magic. It was impossible for them. In history, there was not a single human or giant that achieved it. They have researched magus cultivation since they were born in this world. The information about the magus path is not complete since there are only a few of them on the continent of Lothian. Elfs tried to erase the knowledge about them.
They call themselves magus. Humans call them magus cultivators. The naming of the realms is also very different, but they are equally strong as a human cultivator. Instead of using the spiritual Qi for enhancing the body and soul, elfs manipulate the Qi to cast magic. In close combat, they have not a chance against cultivators. Dwarfs, however, use this Qi to enhance their items. The elfs were not as good as the dwarfs in Qi blacksmithing. There is no information about their relationship with each other. In their early realms, they need to channel the Spiritual Qi, which takes a lot of time to cast them.
Their cultivation realms are called:
Beginner Magus Realm = Spiritual Qi Condensation Realm
Apprentice Magus Realm = Spiritual Qi Tempering Realm
Senior Magus Realm = Foundation Establishment Realm
Master Magus Realm = Core Formation Realm
Grandmaster Magus Realm = Nascent Soul Realm
Archmaster Magus Realm = Ascension Soul Realm
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There are ten magus realms with ten minor stages of a realm. The ten minor stages are divided into four groups.
early 0-4,
mid 5-6,
late 7-8,
peak 9-10
Beginner Magus Realm
Every elf can manipulate the spiritual Qi from birth. A beginner magus can feel and the spiritual Qi which is omnipresent. The next step is to manipulate the spiritual Qi. In this realm, they can’t cast anything though. They can move spiritual Qi particles and store them inside their body and are a newbie at conceptualizing the creation of magic power.
method to progress to beginner magus
1. They need to learn and perform Beginner Magus spells
Apprentice Magus Realm
If they are able to feel,see and manipulate spiritual Qi, they learn complicated spells to cast them. It’s kinda complicated, like the formations that humans create. They are apprentice magus when they can cast an apprentice spell.
method to progress to apprentice magus
1. They need to feel, see and manipulate the spiritual Qi
2. They need to learn and perform Apprentice Magus spells
Senior Magus Realm
A senior magus is considered being a senior magus can use the spells of a senior magus. The higher the realm is the more complicated it gets to channel them.They have a more profound understanding of spell theory and its uses in combat.
method to progress to senior magus
1. Surviving the tribulation without help
2. They need to learn and perform Senior Magus spells
3. The more common method in sects that have them is to have a grandmaster magus use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
4. Eating pills and surviving the tribulation
5. Magical treasure which helps you to defend against the tribulation
Master Magus Realm
A master magus is considered to be a master magus if he performs master spells. They get a harsher tribulation than the realm before. If one can create a manacore without dying by the heavenly lightning tribulation, he or she can be considered as senior magus.
They are masters of techniques like instantaneous casting, which enables extremely rapid casting of prepared spells.
method to progress to master magus
1. creating a mana core
2. survive the tribulation
3. master of at least one elemental spirit, Qi
4. The more common method in sects that have them is to have a grandmaster magus use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
5. Eating pills and surviving the tribulation
6. Magical treasure which helps you to defend against the tribulation
Grandmaster Realm
A grandmaster magus can use at least two elemental spiritual Qi. They need to destroy their mana core to form a mana soul. They are a master of one spiritual Qi, elemental.
1. destroying the mana core into a mana soul
2. survive the tribulation
3. master of at least two elemental spirit Qi
4. The more common method in sects that have them is to have an archmaster magus use their own power to assist with the breakthrough.
5. Eating pills and surviving the tribulation
6. Magical treasure which helps you to defend against the tribulation
Archmaster Realm
There are several grandmasters on the continent of Gumuldur. The reason for that is that elfs are immortal. They can only die in battle or by poison. The second reason for that is they had not faced nearly complete eradication like other races. There are hints that this is not the latest realm. Legends are saying that there would be the entire world of Archmasters if they didn’t ascend to the Realm of gods. They have a superior knowledge of this, which other races didn’t even know.
They are masters of at least three spirit Qi elementals. The Spiritual earth pills are useless to take, they have no effect at this stage.
Demon cultivation
The knowledge about the demonic path is erased. Only the names of demonic cultivation have survived. The power levels are equal to the other cultivation paths. There are only hints that elfs burned the books about them. Every cultivation manual that existed was hunted down by elfs. There are no descriptions or inscriptions about them. Humans that cultivated their ways would not live long. The elfs created some kind of detection spells to locate them. It doesn’t matter where they would hide or how strong they were. They have no chance of escape.
Demon Officer
Demon Commander
Demon General
Demon Lord
Demon King
Demon Ascension Soul
Spiritual roots
Earth - strong in defense, can manipulate gravity, good for making formations
Water - slightly weaker defense than earth, very good healing and recovering abilities
Fire - Works good for alchemy and Blacksmithing have a strong attack power
Wind - Best option if you are planning to cultivate with weapons
Lighting - is an uncommon spiritual root, and it’s hard to learn. Strongest elemental destructive power. The downside of this is the Tribulations will be a lot harder to endure. Almost impossible. Almost all people die at the later cultivation stages.
There are also exotic spiritual roots
Demonic - If you have these rest in peace, you’ll be sentenced to death.
Necromancy - It’s a creation of demons. Evil beings have this knowledge by recreating it.
Longevity - Something that elves and dwarfs have. They are blessed to be Immortal but they have their own way of cultivation. They call it Magic.
Draconic - Dragons can transform into a humanoid form. They have a strong affiliate with all other spiritual roots. Which means they are blessed with fast cultivation progress in any cultivation manual and magus manuals.
Metal - spiritual roots of the golems
In this world, they are also spirit stones for cultivating or used as currency. Spirit stones have a rank system. The Qi inside it is getting dense when the spirit stone rank gets higher.
Economic system
Mortal spirit stone
Earth spirit stone- One earth spirit stone equals a thousand mortal spirit stones.
Heaven spirit stone - One heaven spirit stone equals ten thousand earth spirit stones.
Immortal spirit stone - One Immortal spirit stone equals ten thousand Heaven spirit stones.
Structure of the new sect system -> chatper 13
Acolytes
Everybody gets accepted, even potential Elders start here.
Acolytes are possible disciples or elders of a sect.
Promotion
1. they need an examination of strength, age and registration
2. If they have 1.000 merit points, they get promoted to disciples
Disciples
If they successfully pass the examination. They need to do missions every month.
Promotion
1. If they have 20.000 merit points, they get promoted to Core Disciples
Core disciples
There are two ways to get promoted to Core Disciple. They need to do missions every two months.
1. If they have 50.000 merit points, they get promoted to Elder
2. The Council of Great Elders looks at his profile. The master of the intelligent force creates a profile. In addition, an independent group will observe the person and check if the information is correct.
Outer Elder
Outer Elders are not trustworthy enough to get an Elder position. Even if they are stronger than Guardian Elders. They need to do missions for two whole years to even get a promotion. They are slightly higher than Core Disciples from ranking, but if they have a conflict with Core Disciples, they will get banned from the sect. Core Disciples have proven their loyalty to the sect and are future Core Elders! They need to do missions every two months.
1. They need an examination of strength, age and registration
2. If they have 150.000 merit points, they get promoted
Elder
A normal Elder is not the strongest force. They can have Disciples but can’t promote Disciples to Core Disciples. They need to do missions every three months.
1. If they have 200.000 merit points, they get promoted to Core Elder
Core Elder
Are the strongest force of Elders which can be trusted. They have duties like teaching new Core Disciples they need to do missions every six months. They are urgently searching for personal Disciples and teach them personally their techniques.
1. If they have 400.000 merit points, they get promoted, if a spot of a Grand Elder is free.
Sect Master
The Sect Master can approve the advice from the Grand Elders. If the Sect Master wants a new rule, he needs approval from the council of the Grand Elders. His duties are diplomatic duties, finding new resources and he is the only one who can give merits.
Only a Sect Master can deploy a new Grand Elder. But he can’t kick a Grand Elder out of his position.
Guardian Elder
Guardian Elders guard the sect. They play only a minor role in the daily work of the sect. Mostly they are hidden watching the sect grow and don’t interfere at all. In war, they are on high alert and prepare for defenses or attacking strategies. They have a second duty as Guardian Elder. They choose a new sect master, if the old one dies or is retiring.
The council of the Grand Elders
There are several roles where each Grand Elder has one duty.
Master of War - Military advisor, preparing new strategies for defense and attacks, he has the right to give the Master of Formation duties.
Master of Formation - His duty is researching Attack Formations, Defense Formations at war. He is under the Master of War for better communications.
Master of Cultivation - He is planning out how to help the Disciples in all realms in Cultivation
Master of Magus - He is planning out how to help the Disciples in all realms in Magic
Master of Coin - keeps looking at the treasures and is the bookkeeper, he build the sect structure
Master of Sect Laws - Creating and announcing new Sect Laws
Master of the intelligent force - intelligence advisor and spymaster
Master of Alchemy - Master of the pills and brewing
Master of Blacksmithing - Creates weapons, armor, treasures
Master of Recruitment - Recruits new acolytes and outer Elders, teaching Disciples
Grand Elders need to report to the in front of all the council of Grand Elders.
Grand Elders can kick other Gand Elders if they do a terrible job.
All Grand Elders need to attend the council of the Grand Elders.
Extra for those who dont know what a sect is here is the definition:
Sect – an organization dedicated to the practice of cultivation and/or martial arts. Typically led by a Sect Leader or Patriarch. With the help of Sect Elders, they instruct Disciples in the proper methods of cultivation or training in the martial arts styles of the Sect. The Disciples live in the Sect, which provides for their daily needs. There is practically always a strict hierarchy amongst members of a Sect, and respect for the elder generations is demanded.
Lower Sects
Fallen Sects could be a lower sect. Lower sects are weak sects. They can also be newly founded. If the highest cultivator contains a Foundation Establishment or Senior Magus, I considered them to be a lower sect.
Middle Sects
Mid Sects are stronger than Lower Sects. They have made a name for themselves on the continent. But they are much weaker than peak sects. If the highest cultivator contains Nascent Soul or Grandmaster Magus, it means that the sect is mostly a mid sect.
Peak Sects
Peak sects are the peak of the Spiritual World. The strongest force is an Ascension Soul or an Archmaster Magus.