Innate

Innate is the 6th stage of cultivation and is the first step of the Innate Great Realm.
== Name ==
先天 This is the Innate of Houtian/Innate. Houtian is the lower level where you're ‘still a mortal'. Generally in Houtian a martial artist is still training in the physical body. Once you reach Innate you become ‘reborn' with a completely transformed body. Your cultivation would probably shift to focus on something other than the physical body.
==Entering Innate==
To enter Innate, you need to have at least a bronze-class spirit root. Spirit roots below that grade cannot condense and handle the powerful Innate spiritual qi.
==Heavenly Tribulation==
From this stage onwards, every cultivator will encounter a Heavenly Tribulation while attempting to advance to Innate and above.
==Summary==
When a cultivator reaches the Innate Realm, the spiritual qi starts to gradually transform from a gaseous state to a liquid state. In the future, the spiritual qi would no longer be called spiritual qi, but spiritual yuan.
Spiritual qi and spiritual yuan were qualitatively different. They were simply not on the same level. It could be said that only after undergoing the heavenly tribulation one cultivator could be count as a true Innate expert. With the Spiritual Yuan, each wave of hands of a Innate cultivator could draw on natural energy.
In the Innate Realm, the mental realm and personal comprehension were more important than the cultivation speed. Only once a cultivator could perfectly control natural energy could release the strongest possible attacks. Just having the cultivation base rise without that comprehension would have no meaning.
==New Abilities==
Unassisted Flight: Innate cultivators can fly and step into the sky without using any cultivation or battle techniques.
Increased Lifespan: Innate cultivators can live for 1000 years.
== Houtian ==
After advancing to Meridian Opening, that medicinal energy would slowly release, allowing them to cultivate at an extremely rapid pace. They should be able to quickly reach the late Meridian Opening realm. It wouldn't be long before they would touch the Xiantian barrier.
The Xiantian realm involved transforming Houtian qi to Xiantian qi. Once you reached the late Meridian Opening realm, you would be able to sense another kind of spiritual qi. That was Xiantian qi.
Heaven and earth's spiritual qi was split between Houtian and Xiantian. Houtian spiritual qi was the most ordinary spiritual qi of the world.
But Xiantian spiritual qi was hidden within Houtian spiritual qi, and like a fish in water, it needed to be deliberately caught. 
Xiantian spiritual qi was the spiritual qi that had been present when the world was first born. At the late Meridian Opening realm, you would be able to sense that spiritual qi and gradually form a connection. To put it frankly, it was almost like fishing. You had to come up with a way to lure the fish into your body.
Once you drew that Xiantian spiritual qi into your body, it would baptize your physical body, transforming your Houtian qi into Xiantian power. Then you would be a true Xiantian expert.
This was a true milestone. Once a person reached the Xiantian realm, once they were nourished by that Xiantian spiritual qi, their body would completely transform. A person's longevity would multiply by ten times, and they would also age slower.
That was why Xiantian experts might look to be in their thirties but actually be centuries old. When a person reached the Xiantian realm, then while their Xiantian power had yet to decline, they would generally keep the same appearance.
But once their longevity began to reach its end, and if they couldn't break through, then even a Xiantian expert would age a great deal.
Once a person reached the Xiantian realm, it was essentially impossible to deduce their age by looking at them. Some people might look very old but only be a few centuries old because their talent was too low, and so they only reached the Xiantian realm in their sixties or seventies.
Furthermore, once you reached the Xiantian realm, there were countless youngsters. That was why most female cultivators treated the Xiantian realm as their final target.
In the Xiantian realm, a person's longevity would be around one thousand years. Furthermore, during the first eight hundred years, your appearance wouldn't change much. What beauty could resist that temptation? The most terrifying thing to them was to slowly watch as they powerlessly aged to an old and withered state.
== Characters ==
==Trivia==
* In the Central Plains, which is the centre of the cultivation world in the Martial Heaven Continent, only Innate cultivators and above are considered as cultivators. Cultivators at the Houtian Realm are considered as mere mortals and aren't even qualified to enter sects as a disciple, they can only become servants.
* "We can't rush it for now. As cultivators, we can't do that before reaching the Innate realm. Otherwise, it'd be difficult for us to ever reach Innate."Chapter 246, Chen telling Chu Yao that it is better to reach Innate before making love
*Once a cultivator has reached the Xiantian realm, they will lose interest in reproductive activities, but that can be solved by eating the horn and the 'bird' of the Yellow-Horn Pervert Ape, which will make even Xiantian experts plow their 'farmland' as much as they like.
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