• Standard body system
• Every 3rd rank, namely 3/6/9, is a subrealm and a large increase in power: Small Success, Large Success, Perfect
○ Each Rank has 9 subranks also split into 3 major growths, First, Second, Third Change
§ Ex: Third Change Qi Imbuing/Perfect Body Forging Expert. Second Change Qi Imbuing/Imperfect Body Forging Expert. The Subrealms of each Rank can also be referred to as Changes, so Neidan Forging would be Third Change Small Success Body Forging.
• Neidan instead dantian
nei=inner. Dan=pill\ball
" Use Your body as a cauldron and use your essence, spirit, and qi as medicinal ingredients. use Heaven as the heat to refine the medicine inside the body into a pill. "
• First level cultivators: Body Forging
1 ---Qi Forging--- Opening the senses to qi through meditation or medicine, can be inborn; Heightened senses, ability to detect and manipulate Heavenly Qi. Only realm that does not have subrealms, but instead has quality levels. Small/Large/Perfect are still used to describe how good your inborn talent is. Perfect is almost exclusively reserved for those who are born with this realm.
2 ---Meridian Opening--- Using heavenly qi to open the meridians and create a path to cultivation; Ability to pass energy through the body and make use of it.
Small Success 3 ---Neidan Forging--- Condensing Heavenly qi into the Neidan to create a foundation for cultivation; Ability to absorb and emanate heavenly qi and store it within the body.
4 ---Body Tempering--- Pressing qi into the cells of the body to awaken their spiritual power; Greatly increased physical strength and endurance, increased Neidan capacity to absorb, and body capacity to emit.
5 ---Blood Condensation--- Purifying the blood and vessels with qi to increase your capacity for physical power; Further increased strength and endurance, Increased neidan capacity
Large Success.
6 ---Tendon Forging--- Purifying and reinforcing the tendons; Greatly increased explosive power.
7 ---Bone Forging--- Reforging the bones in the body with spiritual power to strengthen them and allow Qi through the pores; Greatly increased strike resistance and weight bearing capacity
8 ---Marrow Forging--- Purification of the blood and body in preparation for the next realm; Greatly increased Heavenly Qi circulation, capacity, and manipulation, as well as physical endurance and strike resistance and healing speed
Perfect 9 ---Qi Imbuing--- Imbuing the entire body and meridians with Qi and developing the Neidan into a seed; Massive increase in Heavenly Qi capacity, Control, and emanation.Neidan must be transformed into a seed.
• Second Level Cultivators: Houtian
1 ---(Sapling) Awakening--- Imbuing the Neidan seed with Qi to begin its growth; The Neidan begins to expand and the bodily capacity for Heavenly Qi greatly increases
2 ---(Sapling) Foundation--- Encouraging the Neidan's roots to grow and secure the foundation of the inner world; Further increses capacity for Heavenly Qi and quality of Heavenly Qi
Small Success 3 ---Spirit Transformation--- Reinforcing the mortal spirit with Qi to prepare for the Mortal Rebirth stages; Strengthens the spirit and fortifies the spritual sea
4 ---First Mortal Rebirth--- Breaking down the mortal body into its smallest parts and rebuilding it with spiritual and heavenly Qi; Initial tempering of the inner organs and meridians with Spiritual and Heavenly Qi
5 ---Second Mortal Rebirth--- Secondary tempering
Large Success 6 ---Third Mortal Rebirth--- Final necessary breakdown before Xiantian realms. Tertiary Tempering. Massive increase in power.
7 ---Fourth Mortal Rebirth--- First enhancement realm, "Four Stage Rebirth"; Enhancement in quality and quantity of Heavenly Qi in the body, enhanced physical resistance and resilience. The physical body has been reborn into a Heavenly body and can now be entirely sustained with Heavenly Qi and Spiritual Qi.
8 ---Fifth Mortal Rebirth--- Second enhancement realm, "Five Stage Rebirth"
Perfect 9 ---Sixth Mortal Rebirth--- Third enhancement realm, "Six Stage Rebirth"
• Third Level Cultivators: Xiantian
1 ---Divine Sea--- Following Tribulation, Open the Neidan into a small pocket world, anchored by the roots that were reinforced in Sapling Foundation; Develop an inner world that can be used as a personal pocket dimension, capability of flight as you are now equal to the Worldly Dao (not the Heavenly Dao). Now capable of breaking through the Void from a Lower World to the Upper Realms.
2 ---World Seed--- Growing the seedling of the Neidan into a great tree capable of stabilizing a world; Increase the size of the inner world, seed the barren land with living plants and its own Heavenly Qi derived from the cultivator's spirit.
Small Success 3 ---Holy Lord--- Grow the World Tree even larger to accommodate even more space within the body after suffering Tribulation and imbuing the Tree with the Heavenly Dao; Further increase the size of the inner world. It is now capable of growing small sentient life. Imbue the inner world with heavenly Dao through suffering Tribulation. Now capable of breaking through the Void from a Great World into the Divine Realms.
4 ---Divine Lord--- Further growth of the World Tree and the beginning of a focus on the Spiritual Sea; Develop the Inner World into a Lower Realm (continent) Inner world now capable of growing Human-like life capable of developing the Inner World as mortals.
5 ---World King--- Minor growth of the World Tree, major focus on cultivation of the Spiritual Sea; Develop the Inner World into a Lower World. Inner world now capable of sustaining Body Transformation Martial Artists and Vicious beasts.
Large Success 6 ---Realm King--- Following another round of Tribulation, imbue even more Dao runes on the Tree and grow it with the remnant power; Developing the inner world into its own Great World. Inner World now capable of sustaining Small Success Houtian life.
• Fourth Level Cultivators: Xiantian/Empyrean
7 ---Empyrean--- Form more Neidan Seeds depending on cultivation, Inner World develops into a Realm, hosting multiple Worlds and World Trees within; Inner World now capable of sustaining all Houtian life. Lower Worlds can be extracted from the body to form a Pocket Realm at the cost of a great deal of Cultivation. Pocket Realms are unstable and will break down when the World Tree perishes.
8 ---Divinity--- Inner World expands into a true inner Universe, World Trees separate from their respective worlds and condense into a single Universe Tree that holds the core of the Universe down; Can go against the Heavenly Dao and create their own Minor Dao; Can create a Lower Realm; Lower Worlds can now be extracted from the Inner Universe at a much smaller cost and are True Worlds instead of minor Pocket Realms.
Perfect 9 ---Grand Divinity--- Universe Tree develops even further into a spiritual existence, no longer a physical tree that can be located but a spiritual one that permeates the entire Inner Universe; Can create a Major Dao after surviving Tribulation, can create a Major Realm within the Heavenly Dao; Can now extract Great Worlds from within along with their population. Inner Universe is now self-sustaining and will expand to replace this lost world in time.
Beyond ?? ---Beyond Divinity--- Can create a new Heavenly Dao and Divine World, then imbue that Divine World with its own rules outside the True Heavenly Dao.