Body Tempering Realm
Layers: 1st to 9th
Description: The foundation of cultivation where the cultivator strengthens their physical body. This stage focuses on enhancing physical attributes like strength, speed, and endurance. Qi is refined and channeled to reinforce muscles, bones, and organs.
Qi Condensation Realm
Layers: 1st to 9th
Description: The first true step into the world of cultivation. Cultivators begin to gather and refine Qi in their dantian, forming the basis for future cultivation. This stage is critical for building a strong foundation.
Foundation Establishment Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: Cultivators solidify their Qi foundation, ensuring that their cultivation base is stable. The dantian is strengthened, and the body is further refined. This stage is crucial for future breakthroughs and is often where many cultivators encounter bottlenecks.
Core Formation Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: At this stage, the cultivator condenses their refined Qi into a core within their dantian. This core acts as a powerful reservoir of energy, allowing the cultivator to perform more advanced techniques and gain greater control over their Qi.
Nascent Soul Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: The cultivator forms a Nascent Soul, a miniature version of themselves that resides within their core. The Nascent Soul is a significant leap in power, allowing the cultivator to use more profound abilities and greatly extend their lifespan.
Soul Formation Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: The Nascent Soul is fully integrated into the cultivator's being, and their soul is refined and strengthened. At this stage, the cultivator's soul and mind are far more potent, enabling them to control greater powers and resist mental attacks.
Spirit Severing Realm
Layers: 1st to 3rd Severing
Description: This stage involves severing emotional and worldly attachments to refine the soul further. Each severing represents a significant breakthrough in power and understanding of the world.
Void Refinement Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: Cultivators in this stage refine their connection with the void, allowing them to manipulate space and time to some extent. They gain the ability to travel vast distances instantly and possess powers that seem otherworldly to those in lower realms.
Integration Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: The cultivator begins to integrate their physical, spiritual, and soul energies into a unified whole. This stage is marked by profound understanding and control over both internal and external forces.
Tribulation Transcendence Realm
Layers: 1st to 9th Tribulation
Description: Cultivators must face heavenly tribulations as they seek to ascend to the next realm. Each tribulation is a test of their power, resolve, and understanding of the Dao. Surviving these tribulations grants immense power and marks the cultivator as a true powerhouse.
Immortal Ascension Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: This stage is the threshold between mortality and immortality. Cultivators who reach this stage gain incredible powers, near-immortality, and the ability to transcend the mortal world entirely.
Eternal Sovereign Realm
Layers: Early, Middle, Late
Description: The final stage of cultivation. Cultivators at this level are near-godlike beings with control over vast laws of the universe. They can create, destroy, and reshape reality itself. Only a few in the history of the Azure Sky Realm have reached this stage.