Cultivation

ANNOUNCEMENT: The next two chapters would be informative ones. If you want to understand my cultivation system better I suggest to read them as i would not explain about them very often.

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Zhao Yun kept on reading and finally came to an understanding of cultivators. The nine realms of all three systems can be as follows

Stage 1:

Qi tempering stage: Cultivator tempers his 108 meridians. 12 meridians form a set and each meridian of set is to be tempered simultaneously. There would be 9 tempering levels. When all the meridians are crystal clear and free from impurities, would the stage be considered having reached perfection.

Body Tempering Realm: Human Body have 108 accupoints. After birth, these accupoints are blocked. A Body Cultivator clears these accupoints to temper his body. To clear these accupoints one has to purify them using Qi or another sources such as herbs or beast blood. To reach perfection, the hidden Heart accupoint is to be cleared. It is extremely difficult to find and similarly needs lots of energy to be purified. This accupoint forms a space of its own called the heart world. This space is similar to the dantian and sea of consciousness where it stores all the body essence cultivated by the cultivator.

Soul tempering realm: The Sea of consciousness is compressed to form nine identical droplets in the presence4 of external soul pressure. To reach perfection these nine drops are combined to form a single drop which is further compressed to the former size.

Stage 2:

Qi Foundation realm: A Cultivator form a Qi pillar which is then connects one set of meridians to the dantian. There would be a total of nine Qi pillars. Only when all nine Qi pillars are connected would the Qi flow from meridians into the dantian. once the dantian is filled with gaseous Qi, liquefy it. Then it is considered completion. To push it to perfection one has to liquefy all the Qi present as well as to fill the dantian to the brim.

Body Foundation: Bones, Blood, Skin, Flesh Along with Five organs (heart, lungs, liver, kidney and spleen) forms the foundation of a body. To build a solid foundation, one has to purify and temper these compositions along with the nerves that connect them. The stages are:

Bone forging stage, blood condensation stage, flesh forging stage, skin strengthening stage, Heart of Fire, Liver of Wood, kidneys of Water, Lungs of Meta, Spleen of Earth. here in the first four stages, bones, blood, flesh and skin are strengthened to their utmost limit using various pills whereas the organs are strengthen using Qi of five elements which can be gained from herbs and treasures. For reaching perfection in this stage, everything is to be connected to heart world using tempered nerves.

Soul Foundation: In this stage an immortal platform is to be created with nine stares using the soul droplet formed. For perfection ten stairs are required. Tenth stair needs a pure soul crystal to be formed.

Stage 3:

Core formation: In this realm the liquefied Qi is further condensed to form a core. For majority, their Qi being golden in colour, gives the core golden colour hence in common tongue, it is also known as golden core. The core is then added with more Qi to form Nine layers upon it. Thus nine stages of core realm. For perfection one needs to integrate all nine layers into one, thus forming a perfect core.

Essence core formation: for body cultivators, instead of Qi, essence energy is cultivated. This essence energy is then gathered at heart world. Here it forms a core. Condition for levelling up is same as Qi core.

Soul core formation: Soul energy is gathered to form a solid entity in the form of a core. This core rests on the immortal platform. Condition for levelling up and perfection is same.

Stage 4:

QI Avatar Formation: When the core is formed, it starts nurturing an avatar formed from Qi. This Avatar in Avatar formation realm comes out after cracking the core. One can compare it to a being, born after cracking an egg shell. This Avatar resembles the soul hence often called nascent soul or martial soul of a cultivator. It has a divine ring around it which denotes the first stage of Avatar formation realm. This Avatar contains all the energy and Qi a cultivator harness. While in combat, one makes use of this Avatar to harness QI, in crucial times, this Avatar can itself makes it move which would be at least 10 times stronger than other times but, in this process the level may drop back as after using up all its energy, the avatar would form a core around itself by drawing out all the Qi and Blood from the cultivator. Some may die, others would be temporarily crippled. To nurture back the avatar, 10 times more effort and magical treasures would be needed. The more number of ring around the Avatar, the more stronger the level. 9 rings are needed to reach completion and for perfection a tenth ring would be required.

Body Avatar: the essence core is shattered to form an essence body. Bone, Blood, flesh, skin and the five organs forms one by one which pertains to the level. For perfection an identical body of the cultivator formed with his essence is formed. This Body Avatar, if not destroyed can bring back the soul of the cultivator, if not destroyed and revive if after death. After that, the cultivator won't be able to practise body refinement. This is only applicable for this realm.

Soul Avatar: similarly, soul core breaks to form a nascent soul of the cultivator this nascent soul is illusionary and to level up is to condense it to form a solid entity. A perfectly solid entity is perfection this nascent soul can leave the body. Only with soul perception stronger than itself can it be detected. It can survive independently.

Stage 5:

Xiantian Realm: This is one of the greatest Chasms of the mortal cultivation. More than 80% cultivators are stopped before entering this realm. All the levels before this can be considered under one realm- Houtian. All the realms after it are called Worldly Realms. While it itself is a realm of its own. From this one can understand its importance. Here cultivators absorb every bit of their cultivation, and form a Qi seed into their dantian. Their dantian also evolves to form a void of its own with the Qi seed as its core. Xiantian 9 levels are different from others. In the first level Qi from the meridians are absorbed into the dantian. In the second level, the meridians are sucked out with all of their own Qi and is absorbed into the dantian thus making them withered. In the third level, these withered meridians are then discarded in the form of impurities. Third, fourth and fifth realm are similar to first three, but here the Qi is from the Qi Pillars. Lastly, the final three levels takes up Qi from the Avatar and the core, which is formed when the Avatar loses all its Qi. All these Qi are simultaneously taken into the Dantian to form the Qi seed. Therefore there is no initial or middle stages in this realm. Either one does not enter or one directly reaches the peak of Xiantian. This is because when all the Qi is taken out from the body, a cultivator is at his weakest. To reach the perfection of this realm, only one condition is required, that is to reach the perfection of all the previous realms.

Xiantian is same for Body cultivation and soul cultivation as an essence seed and soul seed is formed in the heart world and the sea of consciousness.

Stage 6th:

King Realm: from here on, the talent of the body is useless. From now on what would matter would be perception and comprehension. Every world has its own rules. In martial King realm, the cultivators have to comprehend intents and then nourish their Qi seed/essence seed/ soul seed with these intent. Each intent have 9 levels with perfection being true essence of the intent. When the seed is nourished by the martial intent, it would sprout to form a sapling thus enabling the cultivator to enter the saint realm. After 9 levels of intent is comprehended, it forms Rule Force. Some geniuses comprehend more than one intent and integrate them to form a single complex intent. The stronger the intent, stronger would the cultivator be.

Stage 7th

Saint Realm: Similar to intents, Rule forces would have 9 levels too with perfection being the true essence of Rule force. The saplings would then be nourished to grow into a towering tree with the thickness of the trunk representing the level of Rule force. The roots of the tree would be the intents comprehended. The more intents integrated together, the more number of roots and thus the greater foundation and stability. Rule Forces evolve into laws.

Stage 8th

Emperor Realm: Laws similarly have 9 levels. The tree developed from martial/soul/essence seeds would then form branch/branches of laws. One can comprehend one single law and evolve it to the Divine law. When the divine law is comprehended, one would enter the semi divine realm and a fruit is formed. Some geniuses who have comprehended more than one law have the option to either integrate all these laws into one or form one fruit from each law.

Stage 9th

Semi Divinity realm: Divine laws have 9 levels too. With each level, the divine fruit/fruits would gain a ring. The perfection of divine rules is to comprehend true essence of the divine rule. When the person comprehends the entire divine rule, he is capable of controlling it thus gaining the qualification to enter True divinity. One has to consume the divine fruit to enter the next realm. Here those geniuses with more than one fruit would have to choose one of their divine fruits to consume, as only one fruit can be consumed. They can also delay their progress and integrate these fruits into one or to destroy these divine fruits. As if left alone, these fruits can be consumed by Martial saints who cannot enter semi divine, and thus with the help of these fruits, they have a chance to do so. This would in turn destroy their chances of advancing any further.

"Pheww" Zhao Yun released his breath. From this he learnt all he needed to learn about orthodox cultivation system. At the same time he also came to understand that there was something different about him he was a triple refiner as well as he could merge all those essence energy and divine into his mysterious genesis energy. He knew that although he was given almost everything he needed on his path of cultivation, but his path was probably the only path in existence. This meant that he was a trailblazer he has no guidance or rues which he had to follow. He had to create his own path

Zhao Yun was a little disappointed but at the same time he was excited too. From all the information he gained from the book, he had a clear understanding of his current strength.

Dual refiners can jump up to 6 stages and a realm. For example any person at or below stage 4 f his cultivation realm would be able to fight against peak stage single practitioners of the same realm. While stage 4 t 9 would be able to battle with single cultivators of level 1-6 of another realm respectively provided that they have techniques and weapons of similar strength.

Similarly, triple refiners could battle with 9 reams above them. He deduced that with the integration of his three energies, his battle power was probably 15 levels above his stage. This was an astounding feat in itself as the greatest battle power recorded in the book was 12 levels by a person having a divine weapon and technique perfectly suited to him. His battle power was still 3 levels higher than that person even without any technique and weapon. If he got his hands on a suitable technique and weapon then…

Zhao Yun licked his lips with excitement growing in his eyes. Although he was excited he was not complacent. This was because in the record it also mentioned that 12 levels was just the known value. There have been records of some legends who have self-created skills or some godly bloodlines, r other unorthodox path cultivators who are said to have possessed battle powers surpassing 15 levels with suitable technique and weapon. Although there was no proof abut such figures, Zhao Yun knowing about his own condition knew that this world is not what one sees. Anything can happen.

All in all he was satisfied with the knowledge he gained so far at least he would have some insights on how to breakthrough even if his path would be different, he can take some insights from the orthodox path. Also he can guide his friends and family. Thinking about how his parents and uncles would be able to cultivate further and increase their life span, he was incomparably happy.

Taking a deep breath he calmed down his racing heart. He knew that just gaining the knowledge was easy; implementing it would be extremely difficult.

He slowly closed the book after finishing it. He mentally bowed to the author and then took out the book of [Introduction to Herbs and Beasts].