Current Cultivation Level:
1. Tempering Body: Divided into nine ranks.
In this level, cultivators use Spiritual Qi to temper their physical body, both externally, like the skin, and internally, like the internal organs and meridians.
2. Qi Gathering: Divided into nine ranks.
In this level, cultivators, after successfully tempering their body and meridians, start gathering Spiritual Qi directly into their meridians, which were previously too fragile for this. During this cultivation stage, cultivators circulate their Spiritual Qi through their meridians to strengthen them and increase the amount of gaseous Spiritual Qi in their body, making it more condensed and pure.
3. Innate: Divided into nine stages.
To enter this level, the cultivator must transform their Spiritual Qi from a gaseous state to a liquid state and then circulate it through their meridians to continue tempering. During this state, the strength of cultivators soars because, thanks to the liquid Spiritual Qi, their attacks become more lethal and powerful.
4. Spiritual Sea: Divided into four ranks | early / mid / late / perfection |
After reaching the peak of Innate, cultivators can form a Spiritual Sea in their body, specifically in a place called the lower dantian, located one and a half to three inches below the navel. The Spiritual Sea is divided into three categories after the breakthrough, which indicate the cultivator's talent: pool, lake, and ocean, depending on the size of their Spiritual Sea. It is impossible to change this category unless one breaks their own cultivation and starts over.
To progress through the ranks from early to mid, it depends on the purity of your Spiritual Qi within your Spiritual Sea. At the early rank, the color of the Spiritual Qi will be red, then green, then blue, and finally purple when it reaches perfection.
5. Purple Mansion: Divided into four ranks | early / mid / late / perfection |
In this realm, cultivators open their inner house at the level of their middle dantian, located at the solar plexus. To break through to this realm, the cultivator must use their purple Spiritual Sea, then bring it to their middle dantian and start shaping their inner house, hence the name Purple Mansion. The quality of the inner house is directly related to the size and purity of the Spiritual Sea, which is why it is said that the size of the Spiritual Sea directly impacts the future cultivation path.
To break through to this level, constructing a single room in one's inner house is sufficient. Then, to move to the mid-level, three rooms are needed, at the late level seven rooms, and at the perfection level fifteen rooms. Of course, they can still build more rooms in their inner house, and the more rooms they build, the more powerful they will be in the future. It is said that the record on the Celestial Cloud continent is 64 rooms, a record unbeaten for tens of thousands of years.
It should also be noted that the limit on the number of rooms that can be created in the Purple Mansion is directly related to talent, luck, the Spiritual Sea, physical and soul cultivation, the resources used, and the understanding of artistic conceptions.
Additionally, the more rooms you have in your Purple Mansion, the more Spiritual Qi you can retain.
6. Spiritual Palace: Divided into four ranks | early / mid / late / perfection |
During this realm, cultivators open their Spiritual Palace located in the upper dantian, situated between the eyebrows. After their breakthrough, they obtain a special and unique skill. The power and grade of these skills depend on the talent and power of the cultivator.
When the cultivator opens their palace, it will resemble a copper palace. At the mid-rank, it will resemble an iron palace, then a jade palace, and finally a gold palace.
7. Golden Core: Divided into four ranks | early / mid / late / perfection |
In this realm, the cultivator must cultivate their Golden Core, located where the heart is. It is very dangerous to break through to this realm as it requires destroying one's own heart before creating a Golden Core, which is impossible for ordinary people. However, when one reaches the peak of the Spiritual Palace, their spiritual sense reaches an exceptional level, and the cultivator can still think and circulate their Spiritual Qi for a long time.
Despite this, the breakthrough remains very dangerous and represents a real chasm that few cultivators can cross.
At the early stage of the Golden Core, the color is golden-gray, then at the mid-rank, it becomes pale gold, at the late rank, it becomes bright gold, and finally, at the peak rank, it becomes golden violet.
There is also a difference in the quality of Golden Cores, which are ranked yellow, black, earth, and sky, and this cannot be changed after the breakthrough.
8. Nirvana: Divided into seven ranks.
To break through to this rank, the cultivator must self-destruct in one go, leaving only their Golden Core with a trace of their spiritual sense. Then, using their understanding of artistic conceptions and laws, they must reconstruct their body with spiritual energy. This stage is just as dangerous as that of the Golden Core.
After the breakthrough, the cultivator must at least understand one law, then they must tattoo their entire body with spiritual glyphs.
At rank 1, they start with their legs, then their arms, then continue with their internal organs. After that, they continue with their three dantians, and finally, they finish with their Golden Core.
9. Nascent Soul ... (To be continued in the future)
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Physical Cultivation:
1. Iron Physique
2. Copper Physique
3. Bronze Physique
4. Silver Physique
5. Jade Body
6. Golden Physique
7. Platinum Body
8. Diamond Body
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Soul Cultivation (This has nothing to do with Nascent Soul cultivation):
1. A soul equivalent to 1 man (ordinary human)
2. A soul equivalent to 3 men
3. A soul equivalent to 10 men
4. A soul equivalent to 100 men
5. A soul equivalent to 1000 men
6. A soul equivalent to 10,000 men
7. Spiritual Soul
8. Transcendent Soul
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Talent Level:
1. Yellow
2. Profound
3. Earth
4. Sky
5. King
6. Star
7. Saint
8. Emperor
9. Origin
10. Immortal
11. Dao
Special Body Level:
1. Spiritual
2. Celestial
3. King
4. Star
5. Saint
6. Emperor
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Understanding Level:
1. Semi-Artistic Conception
2. Artistic Conception (divided into nine ranks)
3. Law
Sword Understanding Rank (the same for all weapons):
1. Semi-Sword Intent
2. Sword Intent (initial, small achievement, great achievement, peak, perfection)
3. Harmony Between Man and Sword
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**A/N:** For now, I will stop here as the chapter is becoming a bit too long. I wrote this glossary for those who feel lost in the novel. I decided not to do an information dump chapter in the novel, but I changed my mind, and in a few chapters, I will do a semi-information dump chapter on spiritual cultivation.
It should be noted that most of the information in this chapter has not yet been shown in the novel.
For those who have questions about the power leveling I have given or any additions they would like to make, you can comment on this paragraph.
This glossary may change in the coming weeks or months.
Also, I will not release any other chapters today besides this one. I don't know why, but when I try to enter Inkstone with my PC, it gives me a 404 error, whereas I can enter with my phone. If anyone has a solution, please let me know.