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Cultivation realms (12 stages) LN=lifespan

Qi gathering: Gather qi into your dantian and meridians, strengthening your body. LN=150

Foundation establishment: prepare your body for future cultivation realms and tempering it, laying the foundation for the future. LN= 200

Golden core: condense a core inside of your dantian. LN= 300

Nascent soul: a new soul is formed in your body. LN=700

Soul Fusion: Fuse the soul with the golden core, maturing it and making it stronger. LN=1,000

Body Integration: integrate with your soul. From now the user will be able to fly but tribulations come with every realm from now. LN=3,000

Lord: grow stronger, weapon intent is much easier to control. LN= 5,000

Venerable: gain perfect memory, your temperament will change and this is where strength truly starts. LN=25,000

Supreme: be able to shatter the void and traverse through it. LN=100,000

Saint: True meridians are unlocked, increases qi gain and strength by many folds. LN=300,000

King: grow a small domain inside of your dantian that harbors an inner world, increases qi gain and strengthens the body. LN= 400,000

Monarch: at this realm, the inner world will be many times bigger, you are now able to sacrifice the life inside to increase your own lifespan. LN=500,000

Emperor: gain the power of a domain, you can spread your influence in a dome like shape around you, at this realm it can only be the size of a town. In this domain you have full control, that is unless the opponent is stronger than you by a lot, but if he's not, he can use his own domain if he has one to counter yours. LN=1,000,000

Great Emperor: domain grows to the size of a state, consumes a lot more qi. Your body will be strengthened and you will improve by leaps and bounds. LN= 2,000,000

True Ruler: This is the final stage of named cultivation, after comes things like 'True Ruler grade 2' and once again you do the stages. At this realm you unlock Spiritual Energy, the power of the soul, you will be able to harness your own soul to deal extremely strong blows. LN=3,000,000

Why don't cultivators just cultivate and get to the next stage while hiding so they can become insanely powerful?

Tribulations, after body integration realm, new will have to face a heavenly tribulation when breaking through, it can be increasingly strong and even kill someone and their soul, so people who have a weak body do not try to breakthrough even though they can, because of this they hit a limit in strength after a while but they do it anyways.

What is spirit essence?

It is the extra qi that is expelled from the body after cultivating, this qi fuses with the qi outside and forms spirit essence. Normally it'll just dissapear after a while and nobody cares about it, but mc can collect it.

Where is the setting of the start of this story?

Lower realm, Holy plane, Xiao Shu Empire, Li Clan.

What are the strongest groups in this world?

The Deities, a group of individuals who have passed the realm of True Ruler. They control the world from behind the scenes.

Empires, ruled over by GreatEmperor level figures, these guys are powerhouses, usually have many countries and clans under them.

Kingdoms/Sects: usually ruled by Monarch or Emperor level figures, these are not to be messed with normally and have many clans under them.

How do techniques work?

By using qi or aword intent and manipulating it a certain way, one can achieve a certain effect they want, which is a technique. (E.x: sword burst, infuse all your qi into the tip of your blade and thrust forward, releasing the qi in a burst in front of you)

What is a qi weapon?

It's a weapon infused with the qi of the person who refined it. it holds the users qi and can release it when needed. The qi weapons go from lowest grade (earth) to the highest (primordial)

What is Weapon intent?

Weapon intent is the manifested aura of a weapon person exudes and controls, it can be used to attack or to defend, weapon intent can only be created once the person has mastery of their weapon and high understanding of it. Once formed, the person using it no longer needs to drain their qi, as weapon intent is stronger than qi.

What is Dao?

It is the laws of the world, there are countless daos for everything.

Dao heart

A dao heart is the center of one's beliefs and what they create from establishing a final goal. Breaking someone's dao heart is akin to breaking their will to finish this goal. Swearing on your dao heart will mean it will break if you do not uphold whatever your swearing.

What is a body constitution?

A special type of body that can grant a cultivator special benefits upon unlocking it. There is an uncountable number of body constitutions. Everyone has a body constitution, just some are better than others and some are ranked in the '10,000 body constitutions' which include the top 10,000 strongest. These body constitutions can be your body, heart, arms, legs, anything. (E.x: Hermes legs, Supreme body, Sword Heart)