Qi Condensation: have someone slip a bit of their qi inside your body, and awaken your element. No added bonuses besides strength increase, and being able to use that element slightly, but you can use techniques at this tier to increase usage of it, to rank up you need to apply your element in certain ways, determines your future cultivation path, cultivation method can also influence that, 10 stages

Core Forming: You think of everything in your life, focus on the memories important to you, and use your qi to make a core that is based on your true personality, as well as the color of your element, as well as your alignment being its shade. If you're more inclined to do good, it'll be lighter, if you're more inclined to do evil, it'll be darker. It's also the center of your cultivation, if it gets shattered, you lose it all as well as the memories you used to form it, unless you've reached Nascent Soul, 150 year lifespan as well as minor resistance to diseases, and aging more slowly, 8 stages

Nascent Soul: Can't be attempted without a trusted one near. You shatter your core, and with someone's help, spread it everywhere in your body. In this level, you gain regeneration of lost body parts, and higher control of your elements. 300y lifespan and 6 stages

Body Tempering: 10 Stages, focusing on tempering your body, later because this tempering is on a whole nother level. No benefits besides body strength

Reformation: You use the shattered core, as well as your current qi, and reform your core, this time smaller and in a lot of varied shapes depending on the person, instead of the normal circle. 1000y lifespan, and 2 stages

Mortal Return: You achieve this level by truly appreciating the mundane things in life, comprehending your first ever law and clearing your mind, 4500y, can go higher by preservation in some sort of way,

Law comprehension: all about comprehending laws, 10 stages, you need to comprehend 1 law for each one, 50k lifespan, knowing life laws= 80k

Immortal: Gaining 600k lifespan, can only be killed by actually having your body and soul fully destroyed, no stages, only way to get stronger is by comprehending new laws or ascending

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While this is mostly Xianxialand, the only idiots are the 'Protagonists' and those affected by them, don't come in here expecting young masters, unless we get a pov change to one of em, or the mc's with the 'protagonists'