The world of Arterus is a world constantly at war, where gathering qi is the main way people gain power and unique bloodlines determine how far someone can strive and how long they can survive.
Nobles got access to bloodlines through selective breeding and they hold the most power across the world however there are rare cases where people are born and the feats they achieve in their lives give birth to their own bloodlines, some focus on knowledge while others focus on strength, no two bloodlines are the same.
Cultivation within the world of Arterus is as follows (Using Arthur as an Example):
Arthur's power could be split into two different types, making him a dual cultivator. On one side he constantly funnelled his Qi onto his body, skin, bones, blood and all to enhance them, making them harder to damage as well as other massive gains for his health.
The second application for his Qi was to expand his control over the Qi that lies dormant in the world. For example, manipulating it to explode at any given time, to cause lightning to strike your target at will, fire to erupt out of the ground, heal people's wounds and so on.
Unique Cultivation methods for both types of Cultivation exist in the world of Arterus, for example Originally Arthur used a serpent method for Cultivating which heightened his agility and control over natural poisons, it also allowed him to use unique techniques that would him to create poisonous clouds that would appear out of no where and kill his opponents.
Realms within the Cultivation apply to both types, for example you couldn't progress to the Grand master realm in External Qi until your Internal Qi was ready to move up to the next realm with it. There are 6 commonly known Realms for cultivating in this world, they are as follows:
Mortal
Cultivator
Master
Grand Master
Immortal
Sage
Each of the realms allows the user to learn more powerful techniques and store more powerful Qi from the world around them. Each realm has requirements for the cultivator to pass before they can move on to the next realm, as stated these are the commonly known realms, there maybe more...
Arthur slept on the plane, his rough clothes stood out among the first class passengers, in truth Arthur would prefer to be in business class however his potential new employer payed for his return from the front lines.
As the plane began its descent, a female stewardess walked up to Arthur and began tapping his arm, after two taps, the woman went to shake Arthur. On instinct his arm shot up and grabbed the woman by the throat, slowly increasing the pressure on it until it was about to pop.
Seeing the scene in front of her a female passenger screamed which awoke Arthur from his daze. Looking at the woman he was holding by the throat, Arthur let go instantly, grabbed his bag and disappeared into the departing crowd that flooded out of the landed plane.
'It seems that I can't control it in my sleep anymore, it is growing stronger than I predicted. The only choice I have is to accept it's power and reign it in myself, if that is even possible. I can pass that off as issues coming back from war for now however people will begin to suspect that is not the case if it goes on'
Approaching the exit of the airport , Arthur looked at the taxi drivers holding signs, a thin man in cheap clothes was holding a sign with 'Arthur Dumas' on it. As Arthur got closer to the man, people looked at him in shock, they began gossiping about the potential survivor of the Dumas massacre, 16 years ago.
Throwing his bag to the taxi driver, Arthur ignored the people's muttering and followed the driver to his car. The journey to the Maxim Corporation was a short one, however the journey was filled with an unnatural silence as Arthur used this time to pull Qi into his body using nothing but the power of his mind.
However little did Arthur know what would happen next, he was instantly surrounded by flames as the car he was in exploded, the taxi driver was nothing but a charred body in front of him.
Arthur survived the blast but he could barely move, seemingly out of no where a man in dark grey robes approached Arthur and said" End of the line Calamity, your days of murdering my countrymen are over."
The man then lifted out his right hand that had fire swirling around it and slammed it into Arthur's head, killing him out right. A flash of bright white light surrounded Arthur's spirit as it left his body, the light shot into the air....