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Synopsis:
In a series of misfortune and fortune, Tian Long found the Death Book while he led his life in captivity and misery.
Using the Death Book, he not only managed to free himself but also found a ticket to the cultivation world he first thought to be nothing but a fantasy.
Having no more attachments towards Earth, he decides to live to the best of his life in the new cultivation world, becoming strong while following his heart, exerting effort on whatever he thinks is right!
Follow his adventures and journey to become the Divine Emperor of Death in the cultivating world!
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Jump to Chapter 1 if you're a new reader!
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Warning! Spoilers Ahead!!
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Read at your own risk... xD
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Mortal Currency:
1 Copper Coin
1 Silver Coin = 100 Copper Coins
1 Gold Coin = 100 Silver Coins
1 Platinum Coin = 100 Gold Coins
1 Purple Coin = 100 Platinum Coins
Mortal Cultivation Currency :
Spirit Stone Shape : Transparent colourless stone
Low-Level Spirit Stone - thumb sized stone
Mid-Level Spirit Stone - finger sized stone
High-Level Spirit Stone - palm sized stone
Peak-Level Spirit Stone - head sized stone
Spirit Stone Vein Fragment Shape : Colourless triangular shaped crystal fragment
Same size as above
Spirit Stone Vein Core/Source : Colourless diamond shaped crystal
Low-Level - head sized
Mid-Level - arm sized
High-Level - human sized stone
Peak-Level - 15 ft sized stone
Value
1 Low-Level Spirit Stone = 100,000+ Purple Coins
1 Low-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragment = 10,000+ Low-Level Spirit Stones
1 Low-Level Spirit Stone Vein Core = 1,000,000+ Low-Level Spirit Stones
1 Mid-Level Spirit Stone = 1,000+ Low-Level Spirit Stones
1 Mid-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragment = 10,000+ Mid-Level Spirit Stones
1 Mid-Level Spirit Stone Vein Core = 1,000,000+ Mid-Level Spirit Stones
1 High-Level Spirit Stone = 1,000+ Mid-Level Spirit Stones
1 High-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragment = 10,000+ High-Level Spirit Stones
1 High-Level Spirit Stone Vein Core = 1,000,000+ High-Level Spirit Stones
1 Peak-Level Spirit Stone = 1,000+ High-Level Spirit Stones
1 Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragment = 10,000+ Peak-Level Spirit Stones
1 Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Core = 1,000,000+ Peak-Level Spirit Stones
( + :- Means that its marketplace value can vary higher depending upon availability and demand)
(Production Capacity of a single Spirit Stone Mine
With one Vein Core/Source, it can support upto to ten Vein Fragments at the same time, producing upto 100,000 Spirit Stones per year. A Vein Fragment is produced each decade, and any more than ten would become inactive.)
(Vein Core is also called as Vein Source due to its ability to produce Spirit Stones in the presence of Vein Fragments. They produce Vein Fragments first before producing Spirit Stones)
Immortal Currency:
1 Low-Level Immortal Crystal = 1 Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Core
1 Mid-Level Immortal Crystal = 1,000 Low-Level Immortal Crystals
1 High-Level Immortal Crystal = 1,000 Mid-Level Immortal Crystals
1 Peak-Level Immortal Crystal = 1,000 High-Level Immortal Crystals
1 Low-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Fragment = 10,000 LL IC/ 10 ML IC
1 Mid-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Fragment = 10,000 ML IC/ 10 HL IC
1 High-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Fragment = 10,000 HL IC/ 10 PL IC
1 Peak-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Fragment = 10,000 PL IC
1 Low-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Core = 1,000,000 LL IC/ 1,000 ML IC/ 1 HL IC
1 Low-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Core = 1,000,000 LL IC/ 1,000 ML IC/ 1 HL IC
1 Mid-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Core = 1,000,000 ML IC/ 1,000 HL IC/ 1 PL IC
1 High-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Core = 1,000,000 HL IC/ 1,000 PL IC
1 Peak-Level Immortal Crystal Vein Core = 1,000,000 PL IC
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Mortal Cultivation (Humans)
First Step: Three systems of cultivation
Body Tempering Cultivation : (Low-Mid-High-Peak)
A Cultivation System unique to the Humans.
This Cultivation System increases physical fitness and lifespan tremendously compared to the other Cultivation Systems of the Humans.
The aura seeping from the body is nothing but a display of using the Body Tempering Cultivation.
First Stage: Copper Stage (Life-span: ~150)
When one enters this stage, their flesh gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increases the physical strength to varying degrees.
Aura: Reddish-brown
Second Stage: Bronze Stage (Life-span: ~300)
When one enters this stage, their flesh, meridians get tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increases the physical strength to varying degrees.
The meridians not only strengthens but is also capable of storing more energy and inducing enhanced circulation of energy.
Aura: Brown
Third Stage: Iron Stage (Life-span: ~500)
When one enters this stage, their flesh, meridians, bones get tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increases the physical strength to varying degrees.
The bones are fleshed out and strengthened, causing their density to harden to varying degrees.
Aura: Grey
Fourth Stage: Silver Stage (Life-span: ~750)
When one enters this stage, their flesh, meridians, bones, organs get tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increases the physical strength to varying degrees.
The tempered organs have their functions increased to a positive degree enormously.
Aura: Silver
Fifth Stage: Gold Stage (Life-span: ~1,000)
When one enters this stage, their flesh, meridians, bones, organs, bone marrow gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increases the physical strength to varying degrees.
The bone marrow is flushed out, cleared and tempered, causing all the impurities in the body to be removed to the point of nil, almost.
Aura: Gold
Sixth Stage : Martial Ascendance (Life-span: ~5,000)
When one enters this stage, their flesh, meridians, bones, organs, bone marrow gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increasing the physical strength to varying degrees.
The aura produced solidifies into martial energy. The solidifies aura becomes transparent and gives off a colour depending upon one's comprehension of the laws.
This process is further intensified by absorbing laws into the body.
Seventh Stage : Martial Master (Life-span: ~10,000)
When one enters this stage, their entire body gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increasing the physical strength to varying degrees.
The absorbed laws begin to condense in the body.
Eighth Stage : Martial Sage (Life-span: ~20,000)
When one enters this stage, their entire body gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increasing the physical strength to varying degrees.
The absorbed laws are condensed in the body, taking shape into etched runes.
Ninth Stage : Martial Overlord (Life-span: ~50,000)
When one enters this stage, their entire gets tempered and strengthens to the next level greatly increasing the physical strength to varying degrees. The inscriptions get absorbed into the body, making it give birth to an all-powerful crest that signifies their solidification of laws.
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Essence Gathering Cultivation : (Low-Mid-High-Peak)
A Cultivation System unique to the Humans.
This Cultivation System basically enables humans to cultivate heaven and earth energy.
First Stage: Meridian Refinement Stage (Life-span: ~100)
Cultivating the heaven and earth energy starts at this stage.
The cultivator takes in very small amounts of energy available in the atmosphere to temper the meridians, making it capable of storing energy.
Second Stage: Energy Condensation Stage (Life-span: ~150 )
After the meridians are refined, it becomes capable of absorbing and storing heaven and earth energy.
Third Stage: Revolving Core Stage (Life-span: ~300)
After storing enough energy in the meridians, the cultivator forms the revolving core by gathering all the energy stored into the dantian.
Fourth Stage: Body Transformation Stage (Life-span: ~500)
After the core has reached its peak capacity, the cultivator reconstructs the body with the heaven and energy, while also adapting it to the laws that one has trained in.
This is also the first stage which helps the cultivator to regrow the severed parts of their body because each of the cells in the body is imbued with heaven and earth energy.
Fifth Stage: Law Seed Stage (Life-span: ~800 )
Condensing one's comprehension of a law into a seed, and planting it in the revolving core.
Sixth Stage: Law Manifestation Stage (Life-span: ~3,000 )
The seed sprouts after absorbing the revolving core and manifests into a shape that denotes, or signifies growth of the laws which one trains in.
Seventh Stage: Law Dominion Stage (Life-span: ~6,000 )
Formation of Domain.
The manifestation previously is now capable of producing a domain that emanates various effects depending upon the laws which one trains within a range of the domain.
Eighth Stage: Law Sea Stage (Life-span: ~12,000)
Once the domain is at its necessary peak, the manifestation compresses and evolves the dantian into capable of holding an inner world.
An inner world is a sea of laws, birthed by the cultivator
Eighth Stage: Law Sea Stage (Life-span: ~12,000)
Once the domain is at its necessary peak, the domain compresses and evolves the dantian into capable of holding an inner world.
An inner world is a sea of laws, birthed by the cultivator
Ninth Stage: Law Rune Stage (Life-span: ~30,000)
The sea of laws in the inner world compresses and gives birth to a rune, which is capable of suppressing the inferior laws of its kind once the rune is conjured out.
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Soul Forging Cultivation : (Low-Mid-High-Peak)
A cultivation system that is capable of increasing the soul force and essence of humans.
Humans will only be able to cultivate their souls when they reach strong enough to sense their souls.
First Stage: Nascent Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: same as current lifespan provided by the other two cultivation systems)
The requirements are either Revolving Core Stage or Gold Stage. One is able to sense their Soul Sea when they reach the requirements.
The mysterious soul takes a nascent-like form, which gives the ability to use Soul Sense.
Second Stage: Infant Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: same as current lifespan provided by the other two cultivation systems)
The soul undergoes a change and grows into an infant form, giving birth to soul force.
Third Stage: Young Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: same as current lifespan provided by the other two cultivation systems)
The soul takes the shape of the cultivator.
The cultivator is able to summon their soul body out of the soul sea but lose control over their fleshy body.
When the soul body is summoned out, the cultivator is only able to control it because the soul essence enters the soul body from the soul sea.
Fourth Stage: Adult Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: same as current lifespan provided by the other two cultivation systems)
The cultivator becomes capable of controlling their fleshy body while still having their soul body outside, meaning that the soul essence increases to a quality that enhances the cultivator's control to manipulate both the soul body and fleshy body.
Fifth Stage: Elder Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: same as current lifespan provided by the other two cultivation systems)
The cultivator no longer needs to place the soul essence into the soul body to control it, so the cultivator no longer needs to worry about dying in case if the soul body dies while being outside.
In conclusion, one is able to have their soul body get destroyed without having to worry about dying in the process because their soul essence stays in the Soul Sea.
Sixth Stage : Mature Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: Adds ~500 years to the soul)
Where the soul body is able to independently exist without the help of the body, because it is able to host the Soul Sea and Soul Essence.
The soul sea is no longer bound to the body, so after the natural or artificial death of the fleshy body, the soul sea enters the soul body and with that, the cultivator is able to live temporarily in soul form even after natural death.
(A state of death but not since the soul is still alive. It is a case of 'The body had given out but the soul is still kicking alive')
Before this stage, if the fleshy body dies, the cultivator is still able to escape with the soul body but since there is no soul sea to host the soul body, the soul body experiences deterioration and eventually dies out within the cultivator's remaining life-span.
But in this stage, since the soul sea is safe with the soul body, the cultivator can reform a new fleshy body to host the soul body, until the soul of the cultivator dies out.
In the case of artificial death, the remaining life-span is added to the fleshy body.
In the case of natural death, if the cultivator is able to breakthrough the next stage in one of the three cultivation systems before the soul lifespan runs out, the cultivator gains additional life-span depending on the cultivation system the cultivator broke through.
Seventh Stage : Supreme Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: Adds 2000 years to soul)
The soul body materializes, not at all appearing transparent any more.
The soul sea expands which makes the cultivator to store more Soul Force that is equal to the storage capacity of Seventh Stage Essence Gathering Cultivators.
Eighth Stage : King Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: Adds 8,000 years to soul)
Etching the laws in one's soul sea causes one's soul force to experience a qualitative morph. The soul becomes capable of suppressing people with its higher quality or also said as a regal/kingly aura.
Becomes able to use Soul Domain.
Ninth Stage : Emperor Soul Stage (Soul Life-span: Adds 30,000 years to soul)
The laws etched in the soul sea turns into rune-like symbols and combines into the soul essence, making one's soul force experience a qualitative leap.
Soul Domain becomes ten times stronger.
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SECOND STEP
Immortal Cultivation (Human, Fey)
When a cultivator sheds their mortal skin using all three cultivations, they would become an immortal.
They would create an Immortal Vessel inside their body, which creates a seamless yet wide pathway between the lower dantian and the middle dantian where the source Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation laid.
It is a cultivation path that conjoins Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation while leaving the Soul Forging Cultivation for separate advancement.
The Immortal Vessel has four types of foundations, namely Cracked, Mortal, Earth and Heaven.
A Mortal Immortal Vessel is only obtainable after peaking all three cultivation systems and breaking through to become an Immortal. It's called a true or perfected Mortal Immortal Vessel.
If such a perfected Mortal Immortal Vessel is cracked, then they would lose their advantage in prowess and lose the ability to enter the next stage. Their cultivation ends in Immortal Foundation Stage as they have received a Cracked Immortal Vessel, which is incomplete and could only be mended using resources used to create Earth Immortal Vessel.
The Earth Immortal Vessel is capable of allowing immortals to enter the Immortal Emperor Stage and the Heaven Immortal Vessel is capable of allowing immortals to advance further.
Nonetheless, they would lose their advantage in prowess if their Immortal Vessels cracked.
First Stage : Immortal Stage (Life-span : 100,000 - 10,000,000 years)
Second Stage : Immortal King Stage (Life-span : 1,000,000 - 100,000,000 years)
Third Stage : Immortal Emperor Stage (Life-span : 10,000,000 - 1,000,000,000)
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Transcendent Cultivation (Human, Fey)
When a cultivator sheds their mortal skin using all three cultivations, they would become a transcendent.
They would create a Transcendent Wheel inside their body, near the middle dantian, which connects all three cultivations where the source of the Essence Gathering Cultivation, Body Tempering Cultivation and Soul Forging Cultivation laid.
Has significantly lesser lifespan than Immortal Cultivation System in the first two stages
It is a cultivation path that focuses on improving all three cultivations and hence, although slightly slower in advancement, still provides a better advantage against immortals who only improve their Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation while tending to forget their souls most of the time because of lack of resources.
(Types : retracted)
First Stage : Transcendent Stage (Life-span : ~1,000,000 years)
Second Stage : Monarch Stage (Life-span : ~ 10,000,000 years)
Third Stage : Sovereign Stage (Life-span : ~ 1,000,000,000 years)
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Magical Beasts Cultivation (Low-Mid-High-Peak)
Magical Beasts can't cultivate but can grow with time to their limits. They only have a single breakthrough in cultivation system that improves both their body and soul in the Mortal Realm. They can innately link with heaven and earth energy with their bloodline, and that helps them learn laws from their bloodline.
Magical Beasts are innately stronger than humans but they also have their specialty or uniqueness in the type they excel.
For example, some may specialize solely in offense and forgo their defense, vice-versa.
First Step: Mortal Realm
First Stage: Mortal Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~500)
Mortal Beast Stage Magical Beasts don't have sentience, and while they do have fixed yet vague thought process for certain matters like eating and mating, they mostly tend to act on their instincts.
Second Stage: Earth Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~1,000)
Earth Beast Stage Magical Beasts are beasts that have transcended mindlessness and possess the mind to act on their own.
Third Stage: Sky Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~2,000)
Magical Beasts become able to fly using their magical beast/heaven and earth energy. In this stage, they also gain sentience depending on the Species Rank.
Fourth Stage: Spirit Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~5,000)
Magical Beasts gain sentience (Mortal Rank)
Able to assume human/humanoid form (Does not apply to Mortal Rank Species)
Fifth Stage: Grand Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~10,000)
Sixth Stage : Saint Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~25,000)
Able to use unique species ability
Seventh Stage : Lord Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~50,000)
Able to use their bodily aura/not exactly domain to suppress against lesser species and lesser kin. Can intimidate humans with their aura as well.
Eighth Stage : King Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~100,000)
Ninth Stage : Emperor Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~200,000)
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SECOND STEP
Magical Beasts become capable of cultivation but are still limited by bloodline limitations.
First Stage : Immortal Beast Stage (Lifespan:~ 1,000,000)
Second Stage : Immortal King Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~100,000,000)
Third Stage : Immortal Emperor Beast Stage (Lifespan: ~100,000,000,000)
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Magical Beasts Species Rank (Determines growth)
Can consume heavenly treasures like spirit stones, other heavenly treasures or pills to increase species rank.
Can mutate into a higher-tier species or a variant. Some variants could be Divergents.
Mortal Rank (Anywhere between 1st to 5th Stage when a Magical Beast of this grade grows up to adult form.)
Earth Rank (2nd to 6th Stage)
Capable of assuming human form from the fourth stage
Sky Rank (3rd to 7th Stage)
Capable of assuming human form from the fourth stage
King Rank (4th to 8th Stage)
Capable of assuming human form from a few days after one is born.
(Spoiler: It's like a parlor trick which Magical Beasts came to know after a certain event long ago in cultivation world)
Emperor Rank (5th to 9th Stage)
Capable of assuming human form from starting stage.
Immortal Rank (6th Stage to Immortal Emperor Beast Stage)
Every Emperor Rank species is capable of entering Immortal Rank upon entering the Immortal Beast Stage.
Their bloodline quality could limit their advancement up to Immortal Beast Stage, Immortal King Beast Stage and Immortal Emperor Beast Stage. Any further advancement, they need to mutate to a higher-ranked species.
Depending on conception stage of the parents, they could be born as a Sixth Stage Magical Beast or even an Immortal Beast.
The descendants of the Paragon Magical Beasts in this rank (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Turtle, Hydra, Phoenix, Wolf, and Fox) are considered Saint Beasts.
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Magical Beast Bloodline Tier (Determines Battle Prowess)
Normal Tier:
Normal Magical Beasts of its species.
At least able to battle against same level opponents.
King-Tier:
Born King/Queen depending on the gender.
Have control over normal Magical Beasts of the same species, however, it is not absolute.
At least able to battle opponents of two levels higher in the same stage. If the stage varies, then it depends.
In Immortal Beast Stage and above, gives a prowess that's three levels higher.
Emperor-Tier:
Born Emperor/Empress depending on the gender.
Has control over normal Magical Beasts of the same species, and it is absolute.
Also has control over King-Tier Magical Beasts of the same species, however, it is not absolute.
At least able to battle opponents of one stage higher regardless of the stage in the First Step.
In Immortal Beast Stage and above, gives a prowess that's six levels higher.
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Treasure/Item Grades: Grade measures the quality of the said object/living thing.
For example, a battle technique which is graded Low-Level Mortal Grade will be comparable to the power of Low-Level and Mid-Level First Stage Cultivators depending on the circumstances.
Mortal Grade :
Low: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the First Stage
Mid: High-Level and Peak-Level of the First Stage
High: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Second Stage
Peak : High-Level and Peak-Level of the Second Stage
Earth Grade :
Low: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Third Stage
Mid: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Third Stage
High: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Fourth Stage
Peak: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Fourth Stage
Sky Grade :
Low: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Fifth Stage
Mid: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Fifth Stage
High: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Sixth Stage
Peak: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Sixth Stage
King Grade :
Low: Low-Level of the Seventh Stage
Mid: Mid-Level of the Seventh Stage
High: High-Level of the Seventh Stage
Peak: Peak-Level of the Seventh Stage
Emperor Grade :
Low: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Eighth Stage
Mid: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Eighth Stage
High: Low-Level and Mid-Level of the Ninth Stage
Peak: High-Level and Peak-Level of the Ninth Stage
Immortal/Transcendent Grade :
Low: Level One to Level Three of the Immortal Stage
Mid: Level Four to Level Six of the Immortal Stage
High: Level Seven to Level Nine of the Immortal Stage
Peak: Level Nine+ of the Immortal Stage
Immortal King/ Monarch Grade :
Low: Level One to Level Three of the Immortal King Stage
Mid: Level Four to Level Six of the Immortal King Stage
High: Level Seven to Level Nine of the Immortal King Stage
Peak: Level Nine+ of the Immortal King Stage
Immortal Emperor/ Sovereign Grade :
Low: Level One to Level Three of the Immortal Emperor Stage
Mid: Level Four to Level Six of the Immortal Emperor Stage
High: Level Seven to Level Nine of the Immortal Emperor Stage
Peak: Level Nine+ of the Immortal Emperor Stage
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Cultivation Technique/Manuals/Methods Grades/Pill Grades/Herb Grades/Battle Technique Grades/Sects Grades/Clan Grades/Empire Grades/Organization Grades/Family Grades/Treasures include Weapons, Artifacts, Types of equipment and many more: (Low-Mid-High-Peak)
Mortal Grade
Earth Grade
Sky Grade
King Grade
Emperor Grade
Immortal/Transcendent Grade
Immortal King/ Monarch Grade
Immortal Emperor/ Sovereign Grade
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Here's a link to the Excel Sheet of the Cultivation System, Grade, Power Levels of DEoD. Perhaps you can understand more with this...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXj9XnXpPi6Yc1WHQBuy_dfSWcsuP0DxK76AE10o0go/edit?usp=sharing
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