Body Cultivation Realms 101, By Dong Zemin
These are my notes from elder Tian's lectures, if you found it useful some spirit stone is appreciated.
- Lead body(5 small realms):
This realm is the start of the body cultivation road. In this realm, you will harden your body and in each small realm, you would make your body purer and at the peak fifth realm, your body would have the hardness of pure lead.
The hardness is not as good as you might think but as this is the first step in body cultivation, it is necessary to be passed. The main advantage of this realm is that your body would be more accustomed to the heat as it can replicate a heavy metal and also because of its softness, you can use this in lower realms of Qi cultivation to your advantage and maneuver better than you have the capability of.
- Silver body(5 small realms):
In this realm, you will harden your body by about 20 times and as before, in each small realm, you would make your body create a purer silver until at the peak fifth realm your body would have twice the hardness that it had in the Lead body realm. As a result, in this realm you can state with confidence that your body is much harder than a normal human, some even call this realm the real start of body cultivation.
Apart from the additional hardness, you can handle even more heat and just like the hardness, you are three times more heat resistant. Although you can still use this realm to maneuver better as silver is still considered a soft metal but you will be losing much of the Lead body benefits in this realm so it is recommended to be more reliant on your Qi cultivation realm from now on.
- Copper body(5 small realms):
In this realm, you will harden your body to be harder by 360 percent and your body will be 15 percent more resistant to the heat. As it stands you might think that this realm doesn't add many benefits in terms of heat resistance but the main benefit of this realm lies elsewhere.
The main benefit of this realm is its high thermal conductivity, meaning you can effectively transfer heat and readily take up heat from your environment. This could be useful in a fight and a disaster at the same time because if enough heat is produced it can break your defenses.
- Iron body(5 small realms):
In this realm, you will harden your body about 3 times, and your body will be more resistant to heat for more than 40 percent. Same as anything else, the higher your realm you achieve, the harder is to improve so this 40 percent is a big improvement.
The thermal conductivity in this realm is much lower and you can say that you have better isolation from the heat of your surroundings.
- Titanium body(5 small realms):
In this realm, your body will harden by 4 times and would be more resistant to heat by about 10 percent.
One of the things that makes this realm hard to detect is that titanium and silver have the same color so before the fight, it might be a little hard to detect the opponent's body cultivation realm.
The thermal conductivity of titanium is 1/4 of iron and about 1/23 of copper and results in this realm being a realm that is the hardest realm so far to fight against with fire and the best one to 'play with fire'.
- Topaz body(5 small realms):
In this realm, you will harden yourself by about 120 percent. This realm is the first realm that changes your body from metals to a gemstone.
The thermal conductivity is nearly nonexistent and as long as you can activate the might of this body cultivation level, swimming in lava is feasible.
- Diamond body(5 small realms):
In this realm, you will harden your body 4 times more than before. This realm is known as the peak of mortal body cultivation and is the goal of many body cultivators.
This realm is known as the last realm before the transcendent realms.