1. Body Refining Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Strengthening the physical body.
- Details: Cultivators temper their muscles, bones, and organs to increase physical endurance, strength, and durability. The body is prepared to handle the pressure of future Qi cultivation.
2. Qi Condensation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Accumulating and refining Qi.
- Details: The cultivator begins absorbing spiritual energy and condensing it into their dantian, establishing a steady flow of Qi within the body. This is the foundation for all future cultivation.
3. Foundation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Stabilizing and solidifying cultivation.
- Details: Cultivators create a stable base that supports future breakthroughs. The foundation must be strong and balanced to handle advanced realms without suffering internal collapse.
4. Core Formation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Forming the golden core.
- Details: The accumulated Qi is condensed and purified into a solid golden core in the dantian. The core acts as a powerhouse that supplies pure energy to the cultivator, increasing strength and control over Qi.
5. Qi Consciousness Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Opening the sea of Qi.
- Details: The cultivator's sea of Qi is opened and expanded. This grants access to greater reserves of Qi and enhances the cultivator's ability to manipulate Qi more efficiently, allowing them to store vast amounts of energy.
6. Forging Soul Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Strengthening the soul to materialize it.
- Details: The soul is tempered and strengthened to the point where it can take on a tangible form. This process prepares the soul for the next stage of cultivation, allowing it to resist external influences.
7. Nascent Soul Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Materializing the soul.
- Details: The cultivator's soul condenses into a nascent form... a small, spiritual replica of themselves. This nascent soul is a powerful entity that can act independently of the physical body, gaining autonomy in the spiritual world.
8. Soul Formation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Surpassing the boundaries of the physical body.
- Details: The soul detaches from the limitations of the physical body, existing independently in the spiritual realm. The cultivator gains greater spiritual powers and mobility outside their mortal shell.
9. Soul Tribulation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Surpassing the mortal limits through tribulation.
- Details: The soul undergoes a divine tribulation that tests its strength. Upon surviving this ordeal, the soul transcends mortal limitations, gaining a new level of spiritual purity and power.
10. Grand Tribulation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Shedding the mortal body's limits through tribulation.
- Details: The cultivator's physical body undergoes a grand tribulation, forcing it to break free from the confines of mortality. The body is reborn into a stronger, more durable form, capable of handling immense spiritual and physical power.
11. Body Integration Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Cultivating and strengthening the body for higher breakthroughs.
- Details: The body is further strengthened and refined to prepare for future breakthroughs, fortifying it against the strain of divine and celestial energies. The cultivator reaches a perfect balance between body and soul.
12. Void Amalgamation Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Merging with the void and the essence of space.
- Details: The cultivator begins to harmonize with the void and the energy of space. This allows them to transcend physical and spatial constraints, manipulating the very fabric of space-time to move through different realms or dimensions.
13. Soul Ascension Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Merging the soul with the body, transcending mortal boundaries.
- Details: The soul reunites with the physical body, but now elevated beyond mortal constraints. This process allows the cultivator to ascend into a higher realm of existence, where they can surpass the limitations of mortality. Ascension to the divine realm is possible after this stage.
14. Dao Integration Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Integrating the Dao into the body and soul.
- Details: The cultivator merges their understanding of the Dao... the universal laws governing existence... into their very being. Their soul and body are imbued with the Dao, allowing them to control and manipulate reality according to the specific Dao they follow.
15. Mahayana Realm (9 Minor Realms)
- Focus: Achieving true ascension.
- Details: The cultivator achieves a state of enlightenment and transcendence, becoming a nearly immortal, god-like being. They gain mastery over life, death, creation, and destruction, existing beyond the physical, spiritual, and cosmic planes.
More Realms will be added as the story progresses...