Qi Condensation:

At this realm the initial foundation of one's cultivation path is created, with there being 9 stages of Qi Condensation, with each increased stage resulting in a new spiritual source being formed at nine separate points on one's body, one in each hand, one in each foot, one at the base of the spine, one in the lungs, one in the stomach, one in the heart and the final one in one's dantian.

Foundation Establishment:

To enter into the Foundation Establishment stage one must combine their nine spiritual sources into one within their dantian, and then place an object into the centre of their spiritual source within their dantian, fusing it into themselves and making it into the basis of their immortal foundation. This object can be anything from a grain of sand to a fragment of a spiritual treasure sword, however usually those natural immortal objects of legend make for a better foundational object to be used to lay one's foundation down and achieve Foundation Establishment, with there being general tiers for the objects one can place into their dantian, those being Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Void, Samsara and Omega . The actual realm of Foundation Establishment is split into 4 separate stages, Early, Middle, Late, and the Great Circle of Foundation Establishment, with the Great Circle realm also being referred to as being half step into the next realm.

Core Formation:

To enter the Core Formation stage, after one has built up the immortal essence within their dantian to a peak, having nourished their immortal foundation to allow them to reach the Great Circle of the Foundation Establishment, one has to collapse their foundation in on itself, and take that explosion of spiritual energy within one's dantian and form it into a core based off of the object that the person used as the basis of their foundation as well as the energy formed from the technique they used to build up immortal essence within one's dantian to nourish their foundation object. If one is able to successfully enter Core Formation their core will look unique, with each individual's core's colour and appearance being based off of once again the object that the person used as the basis of their foundation as well as the energy formed from the technique they used to build up immortal essence within one's dantian to nourish their foundation object, however cores will always have a certain number of lines, from either 1 line which is the minimum, to the most recorded in history, that being 9 lines. The higher the amount of lines the higher the quality of the core that one has formed, with these lines being referred to as Dao lines, with a One Dao Core being the lowest quality one line core and a Nine Dao Core being the highest quality Nine Dao Core. Core Formation is like Foundation Establishment split into 4 stages, Early, Middle, Late and Great Circle.

Nascent Soul:

To enter the Nascent Soul realm, using the core formed from the immortal foundation that one has nourished and slowly grown in power, one has to explode this core, like with one's immortal foundation at the peak of Foundation Establishment, and then take the energy formed from this explosion and fuse this energy into their soul and thus stabilise this energy while forming a corporeal form for your soul, which will reside in the dantian and is referred to as a Nascent Soul, and after the formation of one's Nascent Soul and its subsequent settling into their dantian this signifies their entry into the Nascent Soul Realm. On the forehead of one's nascent soul there are 1-9 lines depending on the amount of lines on one's core, with the colour of one's nascent soul being the same as their core. The higher the amount of lines on one's core, the harder it is for one to enter the Nascent Soul realm successfully, with failure resulting in death. The Nascent Soul realm, similar to the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation realms, is split into 4 realms, Early, Middle, Late and Great Circle.

Primordial:

After one attains the Great Circle of the Nascent Soul realm they must explode their dantian and then after this explosion fuse their Nascent Soul and the fragments of their dantian throughout their body, allowing one to breakthrough to the Primordial realm, with a perfect fusion of body and soul. There are nine separate levels to the Primordial Realm, with each level being a life or death trial one must overcome to reach the next level, with the cultivator needing to explode their body, soul and essence, and then reforming a new and improved body after each shattering. From the fifth level onwards it is possible for one to breakthrough to the Great Sea realm, however the more shatterings one undergoes the better one's foundation and chances of achieving immortal ascension will be. The more stable one's foundation was before the Primordial Realm, the harder it is to undergo the shattering process, however one's fighting prowess increases by a far larger margin with each respective shattering the greater one's foundation was before reaching the Primordial Realm, with cultivators who maintained an unbelievable foundation from the Foundation Establishment realm, laying a divine object into their dantian and then subsequently forming their core and nascent soul sometimes even being able to fight beyond realms within even the Primordial Realm, with such geniuses who can fight beyond their realm being incredibly rare within the Primordial Realm.

Great Sea:

To reach the Great Sea realm, the last realm before one can undergo immortal ascension and the realm Tian Y'Li reached, one has to have undergone at least five primordial shatterings in the Primordial Realm, and even then it is incredibly difficult to attain the Great Sea realm, but in one's body where the dantian was prior to the Primordial Realm, one must establish an inner world, and based on one's foundation and the amount of shatterings they undergo in the Primordial Realm the size of the inner world one forms will vary from anywhere between 10 miles to up to almost an infinite size, with the largest ever recorded inner world formed at the Great Sea realm as far as Tian Y'Li knows being 978 miles in circumference, formed by the immortal Lao Zi when he entered the Great Sea realm, with Tian Y'Li himself having formed a 300 mile wide inner world, with is a bit better than the average which is normally anywhere from 200-250 miles. To cultivate in the Great Sea realm one must fill up their inner world with natural energy which they convert into liquefied divine essence, with this realm being split into 4 realms again, Early, Middle, Late and Great Circle, with the Early stage being achieved once one has filled up their world by a third, the Middle stage being achieved once one has filled up their world by two thirds, and the Late stage being achieved once the last third of the inner world is filled up forming a full and complete sea. To achieve the Great Circle one has to solidify their filled inner world, forming a solid Great Sea, with some referring to this stage as the False Immortal step, due to the massive increase in power it provides. This is the level that Tian Y'Li reached within the Great Sea realm on Earth.

Immortal Ascension:

To achieve Immortal Ascension one has to catalyse their entire solidified inner world and fully explode it, along with their entire body, similar to the process of the Primordial Shatterings of the Primordial Realm, however this time the explosion of a fully solidified inner sea within one's inner world causes the world's Qi to also flow into the body as one forms it again, with the amount of Qi one draws in being determined by how wide one's inner world was prior to undergoing Immortal Ascension. During the process of rebuilding one's mortal body into an immortal body all the Qi they draw in can be channeled into the body to form Immortal Meridians, and only during the process of Immortal Ascension can Immortal Meridians be formed, with the amount one is able to form directly affecting not only one's combat power after achieving the Immortal Ascension realm, but also what realm one will be able to reach beyond the Immortal realm, with the talent of one who can form more Immortal Meridians being exponentially greater than the talent of those who form fewer. The most meridians ever formed by someone who underwent Immortal Ascension on Earth, according to Tian Y'Li, was 999, once more by Immortal Lao Zi, however there are legends of someone who in the distant past of the Sui Xi Nong Divine Continent was able to form over 1000 Immortal Meridians and was unrivalled beneath the heavens, being the first person to have ventured into the void and left Earth to explore the rest of the universe, with only this person's name having been left behind, his name being Unfettered. If one actually undergoes Immortal Ascension successfully and is able to fashion the surrounding world's Qi into Immortal Meridians successfully, however many Immortal Meridians they have they are considered to have reached the peak of Immortal Ascension, and once one has achieved Immortal Ascension to breakthrough to the next stage they need to form a Dao Seed based off of their comprehensions and encounters on their path to Immortal Ascension, where their dantian and inner world were, and then channel all their Immortal Meridians into that spot as well, using the Immortal Meridians as a foundation and planting this Dao Seed. After this is done this signifies a breakthrough from the Immortal Ascension realm.