Mage Stages

In Quanzhi Fashi, a human being can use an Awakening Stone to guide them to awaken a Magic Element within their psyche. Once they awaken their first Magic Element they become a Mage. Becoming a Mage is a very tedious lifelong commitment that will constantly push the person to their physical, mental and spiritual limits. It is to be noted that Magic Society varies between countries, the primary reason that most people's first awakening is Elemental magic attributes to the education system. Magic High Schools are financial by a major family with monopoly in Awakening Stones. 
However, it is not realistic to provide millions of High School with high quality Awakening Stones that have higher chance of awakening specific elements for commoners. Instead they provide the High Schools with the lowest quality Stones which has a lot of impurities, then adding to the fact that Humans are also filled with impurities within themselves made awakening magic types extremely unpredictable. Understandable as China has a larger population than other countries and they cannot afford to provide each Mage with more resources. Mo Fan himself had to go out and wrestle his magic training resources from monsters frequently 
== Novice Tier Mage ==
Star Dust: 7 Stars -> 1 Star Path
A person is considered Novice Tier Mage once they awaken their 1st Element and possess a Stardust of a Magic Element.
Although exceptions do occur, it is most common for common people in China to awaken their first Element at the age of 16 randomly from the 7 Elemental Magics. They are Lightning (Chief), Fire, Ice, Wind, Earth, Water and Light Elements. This is because the Awakening Stones used in Schools are the poorest quality and have a lot of impurities. Some Awakening Stones might be an Element Awakening Stone with a lot of impurities from other Elements. Very rich families or other countries can afford to use Pure Awakening Stones to greatly increase their chance of awakening an Element of their choosing. Despite of this, there will always be a chance that the person awaken an Element they didn't want because awakening stones react with the balance of elements residing within the body of the one who wants to awaken, which can affect the result one sided-ly. 
A Novice Mage's spiritual consciousness will have 1 Stardust, inside their stardust they will have 7 stars. A Mage must go through a meditative training known more commonly as Cultivation in order to control their stars. Once a Novice Mage succeeds in connecting the 7 stars inside their Stardust into a Star Path, they will be able to cast a Novice Magic.
As a Novice Mage's cultivation level increases, their Novice Magic can advance through 3 levels naturally. It was mentioned and hinted throughout the series that each Level of magic is twice as strong as previous level. Once a mage reached Level 3, they can not advance to level 4 naturally. Instead the mage will be able to perform Breakthroughs to advance their Element into Star Cloud, also known as a Star Nebula.
However, cultivation itself is a semi-complicated process. Cultivation involves creating residue energy and feeding it directly to their element(s) with the base rate being 1 level every year. There are 3 ways to increase the rate of progress. 
The first and most simple one is with the use of soul vessels, objects that carry the souls of other creatures and multiplies the cultivation of the mage wielding them by a relative amount (highest recorded factor is 8). 
The second and most powerful method is by using consumables, either directly or cultivating in temples that actively pump said consumables, they can either increase the rate of cultivation or directly promote a level/tier (the highest recorded rate is 320 times), this is the only known method of breaking through into super tier. 
The third and most useful one is through battle. As it has been said in the novel, cultivation and experience are needed for rapid increases. This is because in addition to accepting magical energies, element(s) in the spiritual universe also accept soul energy and ideas from the wielder themselves. These energies and ideas can be created from large scale experiences and ordeals that the mage has gone through (the highest maintained factor recorded, with the use of some rough calculation, is a factor of 5.) 
Once a Mage's Stardust successfully breakthrough into Star Cloud, they are consider a Mid-Tier mage.
== Mid-Tier Mage ==
Star Cloud -> 49 Stars -> 7 Star Paths -> 1 Star Map -> Cast Mid-Tier magic. Awakens 2nd Element
The benefits of becoming a Mid-Tier Mage is great. Even the weakest Star Cloud has far more Magic energy than the most powerful Stardust can ever provide the mage. In addition, having a Star Cloud will allow the Mage to gain control of his stars more easily.
It was shown that mages who had just reached mid-tier and higher tiers are in fact not much different from expert mages in their respective lower tier with extra stamina. This is because the level of cultivation and training between breaking into a higher tier and actually deploying a spell from the higher tier in combat is not much different from that of awakening and casting a spell from novice tier (excluding magical equipment). This was shown when Mo Fan (who was still mid tier at the time) easily defeated a new high tier mage that wanted to show off.
This is important as an extremely skilled Mid-Tier Mage can achieve Instant formation of a Star Path. This is crucial in casting Mid-Tier Magic more quickly as a Star Map is created by joining 7 Star Paths into 1, being able to form Star Paths instantaneously means the Mid-Tier Mage can forgo formation of Stars to Star Paths and jump straight to joining the Star Paths into the Star Map. This can sometimes means life and death in fights against the much more powerful warrior level monsters.
In addition, everyone except Mo Fan and a few other rare cases, gets to awaken their 2nd Element. It is to be noted that all Elements' cultivation is independent from each other. Meaning a mage can have their 1st Element be at Mid-Tier Level 3 but his 2nd Element still unable to connect 7 stars together.
Breakthrough becomes significantly harder for Mid-Tier. Very few instance, mages have been able to advance their Star Clouds into Star River without any external help. Even Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue who are consider prodigal Mages of their generations requires help from a very expensive item called Star River Veins to get their Star Clouds to breakthrough into Star River.
It was revealed at this point that in addition to Magic Levels, Elements have different grades. (See below for details) Although still relatively rare at this stage. Due to how expensive or dangerous it is to obtain items to raise Elements to higher grades. Even with strong financial backings of a powerful family, they will be hesitant to invest that amount of wealth to the mage as many people stay Mid-Tier Mage all their lives and Family Leaders will rather spend that amount on Mages who has already reached High Tier.
Mo Fan upon advancing to Mid-Tier noted that his reflexes and his awareness to his surrounding gains a noticeable improvement.
Most Mid-Tier Mage can easily fire 100 Novice magic at once but not more than 12 Mid-Tier Magic in a row. However, exceptions do exist. Mo Fan has also stated that 1/16th of his magical stamina was not enough to cast mid tier magic (It has been specifically stated that elements in the spiritual universe have separate stamina levels, thus they have to be trained separately, though it is unknown if object he used to increase his stamina could only affect one element or multiple elements at a time) and due to Devil Element, he has slightly increased healing factor and magic regeneration rate than most people. (Mo Fan's increased magic regeneration is said to be approximately 1.12 times faster than normal people)
Talent Holder of Gigantic Stardust was said to have Stardust that is twice as big as other people. Once his Stardust advanced to higher grades, the double size and increased density of the magic energies caused him to have x 2 (Stardust), x 8 (Star Cloud), x 32 (Star River) and x 128 (Star Ocean) magic energy reserves than other people can cast far more higher level spells within a short time as long as his skill is up to standard.
Talent Holder of Greatly increased Magic regeneration is also able to cast far more spells in a row since his increased regeneration rate is close to 2000 times. On theory as long as he doesn't cast more than 1000 highest level spells he can use at the present within an hour, he will never run out of magic energy!
It is to be noted that a Star River Vein does not guarantee a Mage success in breakthrough to Star River but to most people breakthrough to High Tier is impossible without one. A Star River Vein cost at least 120 million RMB or over 18 million USD. (Mo Fan himself failed at breakthrough with one of his Elements and a fellow national team mage who is without a doubt a very talented mage also failed at breakthrough to High Tier 3 times)
== High-Tier Mage ==
Star River -> 343 stars -> 49 Star Paths -> 7 Star Maps -> 1 Constellation -> Cast High Tier Magic. Awakens 3rd Element
Just like a Stardust cannot measure up to a Star Cloud in terms of the amount of magic energy, a Star River offers magic energy so much that a Star Cloud cannot compare. In addition, Mo Fan notes that upon reaching High Tier Mage, not just his reflexes and alertness to surroundings has improved, his physical abilities has increased as well. One event shows clearly the significant difference in athletic abilities of a High Tier Mage is when an ordinary fisherman tries to lead a group of High Tier Mages, the fisherman could barely keep up with their walking pace. He was exhausted and the High Tier Mages had not even broke a sweat. It was also shown that all these physical bonuses combined allows a high tier mage to easily dodge the attacks of a few slave class creatures and kill normal humans with a single neck chop.
A High Tier Mage benefits even more from magic control, awakening their 3rd Element. At this point, a High Tier Mage can start exploring different styled or ways of using magic to fit their style. As a result, two mages with same Element can fight rather differently. At this point, it is very common to see people with higher Grade Elements and as more people stay at lower tiers all their lives, the same goes for many High Tier Mages.
It was also shown that some high tier mages could create an element sphere. An element sphere is where a mage uses their magic subconsciously to change the concentrations of magic around them in regards to the elements they use. This in turn increases the effectiveness of their magic and decreases the effectiveness of others. But this often requires a soul grade element or similar.
This is why the difference between High-Tier Mages are even wider as a result of the possible vast gap in cultivation between High-Tier Mages. It is entirely possible for a High-Tier mage to be so skilled that they can single-handed take on a dozen or two High Tier Mages and win!
The biggest reason why this is often called Natural limit of Mages is because to achieve Super Tier Mages, it was stated on multiple occasions that it is impossible to breakthrough Star River without external help and they requires priceless Artifacts that can astonish the world to do so or cultivate in unique places. Those unique places are often holy places that is out of bounds to other people.
A Mage can use the extremely rare Star Ocean Vein to greatly increase their chances of raising one High Tier Level 3 element to Super Tier Level 0. However, every mage can only use Star Ocean Vein once in their lifetime. The Star Ocean Vein is so rare that being paid a fraction of a Star Ocean Vein for a super difficult Hunter Mission warrants people guessing that their employer might be a Forbidden Curse Mage. 
Although it is still possible to buy entry into Super Tier, that will not make the Mage a real Super Tier Mage. There is a vast difference between a Mage who only know how to cast magic taught in textbooks or by others and those who creates their own Super Tier magic.
== Super-Tier Mage ==
Star Ocean: 2401 Stars -> 343 Star Paths -> 49 Star Maps -> 7 Constellations -> 1 Star Palace -> Cast Super Tier Magic: Awakens 4th Element
The path to become a Super Tier Mage is extremely tedious and rigorous without exception, but the benefits of becoming one is simply so much that it vastly outweighs the difficulties. Not only they can awaken their 4th Element, gain unprecedented skill and control over their Stars. A Super Tier mage was described explicitly as no longer needing to spend half a year to connect 7 stars but can instantly form a Star Path. Upon listening to this, Mo Fan was able to immediately cast a Novice Tier Magic of a newly awakened Element barely 5 minutes after awakening it. 
The High Tier's Star River offers its mages abilities to explore new ways to use their magic cannot hope to compare to the possibility offered by a Star Ocean. At higher level of the Super Tier Mage's cultivation, it is a common trend to see the same Super Tier mage have the same level and tier magic take multiple different forms.
A Super Tier Mage's athletic abilities are also describe as comparable to an average Warrior Level Monster or can at least keep up with a Warrior Level monster. This was made very clear when Mo Fan ran down a street with barely any use of magic was able to keep a Warrior Level monster from catching him.
At this point, it was shown very obviously that the gap between each level is astronomical. Even at same level of 3, two different Super Tier Mages can have a difference as wide as a High Tier level 3 Mage with Novice level 1 Mage.
Every Super Tier Mage is considered worth an army of thousand Mages. However, this only applies to those with experience fighting at Super Tier level with their last Super Tier level combat taking place less than 1 year ago. Many Super Tier Mages' actual combat abilities are not up to standard.
Mo Fan notes both life and actual combat experience is just as crucial for Mages as the power level. After stepping into the Super Tier realm of power, he discovers that there are many Super Tier Mages who stopped being active in combat scenes and choose power play behind scenes. In this case, Mo Fan states he is confident in taking them down especially if they only have 1 element reaching Super Tier. This is not an indication that these Mages are fools or incompetent. They simply choose to have an easier life behind scenes and allow their combat skills and senses to become dull.
Super Tier Magic 
It was revealed that completing a Star Palace and casting the basic given Super Tier Magic are just the Entry level of Super Tier Magic. Two Super Tier Mages after experimenting can have two completely different Star Palaces even though they have the same Element and some of the more powerful Super Tier Spells can be more taxing than forming 10 Star Palaces. 
However, there are some mages that have transcendental powers at Super Tier. Transcendental powers allow a mage to release Super Tier magic without the use of star palaces, as they release energy directly from their bodies. Most super tier mages only achieve Transcendental powers by absorbing large quantities of individual elements and raising their Super tier elements to level 2 (Mo Fan has transcendental Shadow magic at Super tier level 1). However, each mage has different transcendental power for example, Zhu Meng has a Super Tier Lightning Spear and armor which grants him extraordinary combat abilities both offensively and defensively. It isn't a surprise as he is in charge of safety and is frequently in the front lines dunking out with Monarchs. (A highly skilled Super Tier Mage is stated to need at least 5 to 7 seconds to finish a Star Palace) 
It has recently been revealed that the origin of transcendental powers are the mages themselves. Although mages have awakened elements in their spiritual universe, they rely on the elements outside themselves to power the magic. This in turn forces them to follow the rules of magic through the use of star dusts, star maps etc. At high tier, mages start to awaken small amounts of innate element within themselves, which in turn gives the mage subconsciously more control over their magic. At super tier, mages gain more innate element, at which point their magic is modified and tailor made to the mage themselves. When they reach the level of forbidden curse, the mage becomes a near infinite spring of magical energy, which allows them to ignore the rules of the magical elements around them and cast magic as they see fit up to a certain degree. 
== Forbidden Curse Mage ==
Star Universe: 16807 Stars -> 2401 Star Paths -> 343 Star Maps -> 49 Constellations -> 7 Star Palaces -> 1 Star Manifestation.: Awakens 5th element 
168070 Stars -> 24010 Star Paths -> 3430 Star Maps -> 490 constellations -> 70 Star Palaces -> 10 Star Manifestation -> 1 Star temple/Forbidden Curse (minimum) 
To be considered a Mage who has reached the realm of Forbidden Curse. Successful formation of a Star Universe.
Most Forbidden Curse Mages have a separate Title as a form of honor.
Forbidden Curse Mage Caesar's Title is Silver Ashes. 
Forbidden Curse Mage Su Lu is: Dragon Master. 
Forbidden Curse Mage in Mu Family is Ice Emperor
Strongest Mage ever to exist in history of Mankind Title is: Quan Zhi Fa Shi or the Full Time Working Mage.
Although the exact details on how a person becomes a forbidden curse mage are unknown, the gap between breaking into forbidden curse magic and actually releasing a forbidden curse is so large that it can be considered a tier of its own. People in this gap are known as half forbidden curse mages. 
Mages who steps into High and Super Tier are known to began developing an origin within themselves. Typically blossoms during Super Tier. Mages whose Magic Origins blossoms are known as Extraordinary Super Tier Mages. But this is nothing compared to Mages whose Magic Origins reaching their Prime at Forbidden Curse Level. This origin is the Forbidden Curse Mages' trump card and the reason why they are able to ignore all standard rules of magic. Hence the Magic Origins are sometimes call Mastery of Control. Being able to wield magic with such control that is impossible for any lesser mages to understand. 
It was stated that a Half Forbidden Curse Mage can ignore the rules of Star paths, Star Maps, Constellation and Star Palaces to wield Magic power of 5 different Elements at the same time are much stronger than super tier mages. As it has been shown on multiple occasions that entire mobs of super tier mages couldn't deal much damage to supreme monarchs and even the best super tier mages have difficulty against great monarchs, while on separate occasions, the half forbidden curse mage Wentai managed to get within an inch of a supreme monarchs heart while another half forbidden curse mage managed to defeat a supreme monarch at the cost of her life.
It has been explicitly stated by a Forbidden Curse Mage that on average they need 10 Mages to beat an equivalent level monster. Albeit Minion needs 10 Novices, Warriors needs 10 Mid-Tier, Commander needs 10 High Tier, Monarchs needs 10 Super Tier and Emperors needs 10 Forbidden Curse Mages to contend with.
Half Forbidden Curse Mages are mages who has stepped into the realm of Forbidden Curse but has not been able to cast a Forbidden Curse. Not all Forbidden Curse Mages can cast a Forbidden Curse on their own. Su Lu had hundreds of Super Tier Mages and recently revealed a Forbidden Curse Mage to help him complete his Forbidden Curse to capture the Black Dragon and in another situation, over 3,000 additional mages were required to properly guide down a curse. But in addition to this, other sources of energy are required, mainly in the form of elemental diamonds to provide the energy necessary for the initial connection to the source of the curse. 
It has been revealed that Half and Full Forbidden Curse Mages can fire Super Tier Magic without following the standard rules. However, most of them had to follow Magic Rules to use Forbidden Curse Level magic by combining at least 7 Star Palaces into a Star Manifestation or as translated in Wiki as Star Universe. (At least a total of 16807 stars) It was revealed by the Author while it is possible to reach the point where the Forbidden Curse Mage can create a Star Universe without following the magic rules, less than 5 Mages in history of mankind has succeeded. A Magic created from Star Universe shows unprecedented power evident when Mo Fan's Devil Element had been able to overwhelm Magic at Full Tier higher than him, Mo Fan can only gain an edge over a Forbidden Curse Mage's Star Universe with Devil Element and Combination Magic.
A Forbidden Curse requires at least 10 Star Universes to act as guiding Beacons for the Curse to descend.
(Mo Fan has been using the Totem Mysterious Snake as a gauge to measure the strength of any monarchs he comes in contact with. Seeing this Supreme Monarch made Mo Fan realized he needs to re-examine his views on Monarchs as previously, he thought the Sphinx was stronger than the Mountain Corpses, but the Mountain Corpse proved him wrong when it actually fought the Sphinx while he once thought the Mysterious Snake and the Conqueror Great Turtle are the most upper Echelons of Supreme Monarchs, however this Supreme Monarch and the magic surpassing Super Tier used by the Half-Forbidden Curse proves to him truth is far from that... in the end, Mo Fan only learn that he has been one of the countless ignorant mages who doesn't know what he's talking about) 
There was statement from a mage who said that he is not sure if they can call the power wield by Forbidden Curse Mages: Magic.
Forbidden Curse Mages are also implied to be able to destroy a true immortal object that can restore itself within seconds from total disintegration.
In recent Chapters it was revealed that while Forbidden Curse Magic has unparalleled immediate destructive power or special effect. This resulted in the formation of the International Convention of Forbidden Curses. Mages who have been publicly acknowledged as having achieved Forbidden Curse Level are under extremely strict supervision. It is stated that all known Forbidden Curse Mages are not only under strict supervision 24/7, for their "protection" and their families have to move into allocated places and come under the same kind of "protect". Furthermore they must always this disclose their location to the appropriate authorities and always keep them informed of their travel plans. Furthermore, all Forbidden Curse mages aren't allowed to discuss or disclose the nature of Forbidden Curses except with other Full Forbidden Curse mages.
This is because once a Forbidden Curse Magic has been cast, it will cause all traces of life to vanish from an extremely wide area and won't be able to sustain natural life for decades. However, there is in fact no official range of a Forbidden Curse, one can have a 12 nautical mile radius while in another case, as a city was shown to suffer a total of 4 forbidden curses plus numerous attacks from an emperor but didn't loose its ability to maintain life due to proper measures being taken. According to Nine Spectral Empress, one of the 8 Strongest Supreme Monarch in China and the only Undead who retained all of her human intelligence, states that even Undeads are disgusted by a place that was caught by a Forbidden Curse's blast. Again, this is not the case for all Forbidden Curses. 
It is to be noted that though all Mages who achieved Forbidden Curse Level are considered gods among humans, there are astronomical gap in power and capabilities between Forbidden Curse Mages.
One example is an Ice Forbidden Curse Mage backed by thousands of Super Tier Mages couldn't do anything to an Emperor Level monster while the Emperor monster was in extreme disadvantageous situation (He was an Undead standing in holy grounds imbued with beyond Super Tier level Undead killing Holy Aura magic which severely hinders his abilities while damaging the monster)
The said Ice Forbidden Curse Mage couldn't stop the Emperor monster from slaughtering Super Tier Mages, not only that, he had his strongest Ice magic shattered in an instant by the Emperor, the Mage himself was captured and kept levitating beside the Emperor monster like a trophy as a show of power and a form of psychological warfare. 
Yet another Forbidden Curse Mage was able to provide a far more decent challenge to the same Emperor monster while covering the retreat of the demoralized army of Super Tier Mages.
The same applies to Half Forbidden Curse mages, where one half forbidden curse mage was killed by a relatively weak supreme monarch and another was able to instantly kill the strongest supreme monarch ever shown.
Furthermore, forbidden cursed magic appears to have gravitational force barrier that can trap all creatures and matter in a certain area in order to prevent enemies escaping from it, the gravitational pull also appears to be large enough to pull almost all super tier mage and monarch.In addition, the gravitational affected area seems to be blurred,unclear like it is another dimension.
== Magic Potency and Element Grades ==
Cultivation does not directly increase potency of magic, making a mage's Stardust/cloud/river/ocean more powerful only increases the amount of magic energy in their power source, improve their control over their stars, star paths, maps, constellations and Palace. Raising their magic level and tiers is the only means to increase potency by accessing high levels or higher tier magic.
Potency of magic from lower tiers and levels does not increases with cultivation or training. Later two instances more or less confirms the power scaling
A Novice Magic that was strengthened to 5 times stronger was stated to be Half as powerful as a Mid-Tier magic. (Novice Magic was scaled from Level 4 with 2.5 times boost). Something similar was said about high tier, where a level 4 mid tier attack with a boost of 5 was comparable to high tier.
A Super Tier Mage said that a Mid-Tier magic is 10 times stronger than Novice Tier Magic, while a High Tier is 10 times stronger than Mid-Tier and a Super Tier Magic is 10 times stronger than High Tier.
The quickest and most efficient way to raise the power of existing magic is to upgrade your Element's Grade. Presently there are 4 known Element Grades.
Mortal Grade Element: This is the base form of everyone's Elements. They have no increase in power. On a very rare occasion where a Super Tier Mage has a very good foundation in their magic cultivation and good luck, their newly awakened Element will receive Added Effects. Unlike Potency increase, this added effect can be just a bonus to spells cast from this element. Normally you can only obtain added Effect by upgrading your Element grade to Spirit, Soul and Heaven Grade.
Spirit Grade Element: With exception of Mu Ning Xue, everyone else so far have to spend a lot of money or risk their lives to obtain an item/spirit to raise their Element to Spirit Grade. The benefits of Spirit grade is vast and can make a Mid-Tier Mage almost invincible in their level. A Spirit Grade Element means spells cast from this Element gains a 2~3 times increase in potency. They will gain added effects to their Element such as increase area of effect of the blue flame on Fire Element or an increase in projectile count for lightning element etc. These additional effects have shown to persist even when combated with another spirit species. Spirit species also offer a large amount of protection from damage from the same element, this was shown when Mo fan suffered a flame attack, that was known to take out entire scores of monsters, only to suffer burns, the spirit species also allowed him to survive being drowned in lava.
Soul Grade Element: A Soul grade Element is much more potent than a spirit grade, their increased potency usually ranges from 4~6 times. In addition, it is common for a Soul Grade Element to have an added Effect from the spells cast from this Element. It was implied that when one possess a Spirit Grade and Soul Grade Elemental Spirit in their Element, they can stack their Added Effects. This means it is possible for a Mage with Soul Grade Element to cast spells with 4 to 6 times increase power and have 2 additional effects attached to them. Soul Grade Elements can also benefit from Domain effect. Which is to bring the specific element in the surrounding under the Mage's control. This will allow the mage to cast spells of that particular element at higher speed and with greater power. But this also weakens the concentration of other elements present, weakening all other elements including the other elements available to the wielder. But it is possible for multiple domains to be present at one locations, all the domain elements will be weaker but still stronger compared to normal soul grade elements. If more than 1 mage uses domain abilities in the same element(s), the bonus power bonus will only go to the stronger mage.
Domain abilities work by creating a field of increased elemental concentration of the element of the soul species while decreasing the concentration of other traditional elements. For soul cores this can yield up to a 50% in increased power and decrease the power of other elemental magic by up to 20%. However Mu ning xue and the rain master are an exception, since they have natural souls species that evolved from natural spirit species, their elemental domains can suppress any other domain of the same element and can weaken other elemental magic by up to 40%.
Heaven Grade Element: More has been revealed about Heaven Grade Element recently in the Chapter named: Heavenly Type. It turns out that Heaven Grade is exceptionally rare simply because of the degree of purity required in the special spirit or item. Every Spirit or Soul Elements bound to have other elements mixed into it. For example, there might be fire inside Lightning Spirit or Soul, Wind inside Ice spirit because there is virtually no such thing as a place with pure element. It's power is still a mystery but Mo Fan states that at Super Tier where everyone has at least 1 or 2 Soul Grade Elements, obtaining a Heaven Grade Element for a new Super Tier Mage like him will make him invincible when facing any other Super Tier Mages who has not reached Super Tier level 3 in all their Elements. It was recently stated that a Heaven Grade Element is several times stronger than Soul Grade. Putting it likely between 3 to 5 times stronger than Soul Grade. Which is between 12 (4x3) to 30 (6x5) times stronger than Mortal Grade. It was explicitly stated by the author that even with the weakest Heaven Grade, the increase in power alone would be sufficient for a Mid-Tier Heaven Grade to overcome a High-Tier Soul Grade Mage or a High Tier Heaven Grade to overcome a Super Tier Soul Grade.
Heaven Grade Element possess a higher level kind of Domain ability called Forbidden Domain Rule. This will grant the mage more than just increased control and power over the element. One example was given as "Forbidden Domain Rule: Ban formation of Star Palaces" This will effectively render the Mage's opponents incapable of using Super Tier Magic and confirms that with the necessary tools and Domain Rules, a Mid or High Tier Mage with Heaven Grade Element can defeat a fully maxed out Super Tier Mage.
In the latest chapters, it has been revealed that the Magic Governments are going to reveal new Element Grade categorization by dividing every Grade from Spirit onward into multiple sub-grades. In addition to the Mortal, Spirit, Soul and Heaven Grades there will be Fake, Demi, Small and Large. Meaning there will be
Fake Spirit, Demi Spirit, Small Spirit and Large Spirit Grade.
Fake Soul, Demi Soul, Small Soul and Large Soul Grade
Fake Heaven, Demi Heaven, Small Heaven and Large Heaven Grade
== Magic Potency and Magic Level 4 & above ==
While Level 3 is the highest possible natural progression, it is actually possible to raise magic above level 3. However, you need to empower every stars for each Tier with Soul Cores. As each level is twice as strong as the previous level, it is very advantageous in extended battles reason being level 4 and above magic was stated to cost the same amount of magic energy as the level 3 variant. 
* Level 4: Requires Soul Cores of Minion level monsters
* Level 5: Requires Soul Cores of Warrior level monsters
* Level 6: Requires Soul Cores of Commander level monsters
* Level 7: Requires Soul cores of Monarch Level monsters
* Level 8: Theoretically possible, but there are not enough Emperor level monsters currently.
* Novice: Empower 7 Stars with the Soul Cores (Use monster level according to Magic Level)
* Mid Tier: Empower 49 Stars with Soul Cores (Use monster level according to Magic Level)
* High Tier: Empower 343 Stars with Soul Cores (Use monster level according to Magic level)
* Super Tier: Empower 2401 Stars with Soul Cores (Use monster level according to Magic level)
This was stated to be an extremely inefficient and costly method to get stronger as it was stated to cost about 28 Million RMB just to raise Novice Magic to Level 4. If you want to get an Element to Super Tier Level 6 you need to kill at least 2401 Commander level monsters to get the Soul Cores to empower all stars.
This only doubles your Novice Magic's strength while spending about 15-30 million can get a Mage a cheap Spirit Grade Element which gives up to 2~3 times increased strength from all spells.
Assuming the mage is a Mid-Tier Mage, they only need about 15-30 million to upgrade an Element's grade which grants Novice and Mid-Tier Magic a 2 -3 times power boost.
The same mage will need approx. 196 million to get novice and mid-tier magic to level 4 which is a 2 times power boost.
As for level 5 and above, each level of soul cores grade is worth about 5 times compared to the last one, so a single Warrior level soul core will go for about 15-25 Million RMB on the open market and Commander level Souls will go for 100-300 Million, the cost is higher of commander souls because commander souls (with warrior and monarch equivalents) can be used to promote evolving warrior summoning creatures to demi-commander, but the type of soul used has to be quite specific, which can lead to some commander soul prices to be highly inflated.
Despite costing an insane amount of money, the idea becomes more reasonable when compared to soul grade elements, where a single one can cost between 300 and 500 million while only offering a 1.33x-3x boost compared to spirit grade. The soul grade elements with domain abilities go for 600 to 800 million, but the domain ability only offers up to 50% more power compared to a normal soul core, depending on the situation.
== Magic Potency via Magic ==
There is a type of Element that seems to be exclusive to Greece known as Bless Element. Mages who possess this Element can provide either a temporary increase in power between 1.2 to 1.5 times to magic. In addition high level Bless Mages can provide a permanent buff that gives 1.5 to 2.5 times increase in potency to a selected Element. However, mages are required to cultivate extensively as they will lose this buff rapidly the minute they receive the blessing. Some mages who did not hold on to the blessing with their cultivation may lose the buff completely and stay at 1.0 times while those who succeed can retain up to 1.5 times increase to the potency of their selected Element. It has been said that the goddess of the Parthenon is capable of blessing not just 1 element but all elements of a mage by a factor of 2-3 without it degrading. 
What makes the bless element so dangerous is that the bonus provided by bless is independent of other multiplications, so those who receive a high level blessing with spirit elements will have a 3x-4.5x boost and those with soul elements will have a 6x-9x boost
However, it has lately been revealed that the blessing element's permanent blessings only works once per person, even if that person were to receive a blessing in all their elements while only having a permanent blessing in only 1 element. 
But the Blessing Element isn't the only element that can give permanent blessings.
== Power increase via Element ==
Devil Element was researched by the Chinese Military in secret and caused deaths of many mages. It is extremely powerful but carries great risk. In exchange for greatly increasing offensive power for a short time, the Element will need to burn a large amount of soul energy from its user. As a result, many mages who obtained this element had their soul burned out by the price of using this powerful and dangerous Element.
The increase in power is at least 1 tier higher than your current maxed but the actual scale could be higher as the current user of this Element was able to break a Super Tier Level 3 magic with ease when he is High Tier. However, it was mentioned that despite the advantages granted by this Element, it will not be suffice to challenge Forbidden Curse Mages even when the user reach Super Tier.
It has been revealed that the Devil Element research at one point was sanctioned by the Commander in Chief of the Chinese army who is also the Forbidden Curse Mage secretly supporting Mo Fan. However, he shut the project down after it caused many mages' death and the Mages who forced Mo Fan to accept the curse of Devil Element was researching it in secret. At that time, the Commander-In-Chief was extremely busy as the Emperor of the Sea (strongest Emperor monster known to mankind) started moving and he was the one who charged the Professor in Mingzhu University to ask Mo Fan to find and revive the Totem Beasts to their former strength as humanity's magic alone is nowhere enough to stop the Sea Emperor's attack. 
He is also the reason why Mo Fan has not been ripped into pieces by Beyond Super Tier Mages and Forbidden Curse Mages despite making powerful enemies. Mo Fan is nothing compared to these families who can kill him unceremoniously from the shadows with absolutely no way of finding evidence who did it. However, in doing so, they will provoke one of the most powerful (individually and politically) Forbidden Curse Mage known to mankind who has control over 60% of China's army including 40% of the country's Super Tier Mage population. The reason for him having control of almost all Super Tier Mages is simple. You need a Forbidden Curse to control thousands upon thousands of Super Tier Mages in the scenario where they go out of control.
It has been stated by the Author that there are differences between Devil Mo Fan facing Emperor monsters and Forbidden Curse Mages.
Against Emperors, Mo Fan falls short in both power and skill equally.
Against Forbidden Curse Level Mages, Mo Fan is overwhelmed more in skill than power. While Devil Element allows Mo Fan to copy Star Universe magic, it was because he added combination magic into the Star Universe spell that lets him gain an edge over a Forbidden Curse Mage.
== Element Combinations ==
Mo Fan has been working with a Magic researcher to discover ways to combine Elements to increase their effectiveness, unfortunately at higher Grades such as Soul Grades... Elements are said to gain soul hence sentience and is difficult to combine properly. While combining lower grades are pointless. However, it is to be noted that not everyone can achieve Forbidden Curse which is the only means to achieve power greater than Super Tier and once the Element Combination research is successful, it will become another means to achieve power greater than Super Tier. But the elemental combinations aren't limited to Mo Fan, those with a significant understanding of their powers can combine their elements in tandem. However it is also possible for mages to create combinations when assisted with magical equipment. It is to be noted that many high level Super Tier Mages uses combination of magic to create advanced Super Tier Magic and the phenomenon where multiple Elements gathers and cover the sky, that is often observed when a Half-Forbidden Curse or higher level mages can be considered Magic Combination. This is a mean to surpass Super Tier magic however, it is still inferior to Forbidden Curse
Most Notable examples of successful combination magic
* Mo Fan's Compression Bomb. (Fire + Void Element) Using Mid-Tier Fire and Mid-Tier Void element power, Mo Fan created an unexpectedly powerful Attack that rivals Super Tier in terms of destructive might. By the time Mo Fan achieves Super Tier, it is estimated to be so strong that only half forbidden curse and above entities can take this attack unfazed
* Mo Fan's Omnidirectional Void Arrow Rain. (Void + Chaos) Despite not having the destructive might of Compression Bomb, this is without a doubt a magic with great strategic value in battle. The most recent sighting of this Spell proves that Mo Fan is capable of killing a Monarch with relative ease (As the Monarch was being chased down the Forest like a pathetic whipped dog) despite the two spells involved in creating this combination are High Tier.
* Mo Fan's Lightning-Fire Domain Combo. By combining his Soul Grades Lightning and Fire Elements, a famous High Tier Veteran who was able to toy and easily defeat a dozen Young High Tier Mages without using his true power. The Team of novice High Tier Mages included Mo Fan himself, Mu Ningxue, Ai Jiang Tu and Zhao Manyan etc National Team members. But the same High Tier Veteran was forced to use his true power and still lost in a single power struggle against Mo Fan when he successfully used Lightning-Fire Domain Combination against him.
* Zhang Kong's Yun Yun Funeral. (Fire + Earth) high level earth magic is used to turn clouds to oil and high level fire magic is used to ignite it. The attack made a command level creature retreat.
* Zhang Xiao Hou's Flood Waves. (novice tier Earth level 1, 2 and 3) Xiao Hou's magical equipment allowed him to combine all his novice tier earth magic to effectively turn the ground in a specific area into liquid.
* Dog God's Hell Summoning. (Summoning, Curse, Undead) It has been revealed that elements that summon other creatures can be combined directly to give one creature that embodies all these elements.
* Hell Hurricane. (Zhang Xiou Hou and Bai Hongfei (high tier fire and mid tier wind)). This move involves Bai Hongfei creating a massive flame source and Zhang xiou hou absorbing it all with his mid tier tornado's and subsequently send them all across the battlefield. 
=== Magic Combination Research completion (Hope of World Methods/Art of World's Hope) ===
The so-called Combination Magic are result of a magic cast or fired out and having another spell launched into it for devastating effect. However, this process requires a lot of skill and there will always be varying degrees of the involved spells cancelling or rejecting each other resulting in diminished effect.
On Chapter 2334 of the Novel, true Magic Combination has been completed. With Mo Fan as the tester, he has successfully created a brand new magic with Magic Combination. Using a Staff, Mo Fan was able to merge Ignite and Lightning Seal as Flaming Lightning Seal magic. Not only the spell is more than twice as powerful on the first try, the Novice Combination Magic: Flaming Lightning Seal inherited both Ignite and Lightning Seal's effects. Burning + Paralysis + Armor Piercing effect
In addition, the power/damage can further be increased with practice and there might be more unknown special effects other than Burning, Paralysis and Armor Piercing effect in Flame Lightning Seal. Furthermore, different Elemental combination of different spells can have different effects unknown to mankind. Though it also give a possibility of increasing the power of Forbidden Curse level magic and Forbidden Curses, the ones who benefits the most are lower level mages, especially those who cannot afford Spirit, Soul and Heavenly grade Spirits. As these people are doomed to have fixed amount of magic power in their spells, they are suddenly given an affordable and easily mass-produced option of increasing the clout of their magic spells by more than twice!
It is stated that once this Magic Research is completed, they will have new techniques for Mages to create True Combination Magic without the help of tools effectively raising the monster killing power of all Mages Mid-Tier and above across the world by more than twice. It was also stated that given practice and experimenting, mages can greatly enhance the increase in power of their combination magic, meaning more than 2x is just the lower ends of the spectrum for Combination Magic's increase in power over their individual counterparts
The Combination Magic is a true savior to everyone. It gives a significant boost in the magic power levels of all Mid-Tier and above mages. Even the Forbidden Curse Mage Silver Ashes saw the true benefits of the Combination Magic. Forbidden Curse Mages who has completely mastered their craft commands powers incomparable to any lesser mages however it is extremely difficult for the Forbidden Curse Mages to get any stronger. Combination Magic once taught to everyone will also give all Forbidden Curse Mages a massive increase in their power levels.
== Power Scaling for Fun (Mostly in terms of offensive capabilities) ==
Base on the statements in the Novel, it has been established that Each level is twice as strong as previous and Each Tier is roughly 10 times stronger than level 3 of previous tier.
Base on a conversation with the Author of Quanzhi Fashi, there are a few things to take note. The scale mostly applies to Fire, Lightning Element and to a smaller extend Ice. Other Elements before reaching Mid-Tier does not have actual combat capabilities. Summon, Curse, Poison, Plant and Undead Elements are dependent on other factors.
Void/Space Element along with mind and curse are wildcards, as cultivation in these elements only increases the techniques that can be used, rather than the power behind them. Where its Novice Spells can be just as powerful if not more powerful than Mid-Tier Magic at Spiritual Attainment Level 5 and it is said that Novice Void Magic can be just as strong as High Tier level 6 at Spiritual Attainment Level 9. The scaling applies only up to High Tier.
The Scales are based on how many times more powerful are the spells compared to Novice Level 1. This can only apply to spells up to Elementary Super Tier Magic as more advanced Spells and Monsters are too diverse to have an accurate scale to fit everyone of the same grade into one class. There are extremely powerful Warrior Monsters who are as smart or smarter than humans but dies like humans when hit by any magic while there are Minion monsters who can take 2 hits from Mid-Tier Magic before it dies.
==== Novice-Tier ====
* Level 1: 1
* Level 2: 2 x Novice level 1
* Level 3: 4
* Level 4: 8
* Level 5: 16
* Level 6: 32
* Level 7: 64*
* Level 8: 128**
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=== Mid-Tier ===
* Level 1: 40 x Novice Level 1
* Level 2: 80
* Level 3: 160
* Level 4: 320
* Level 5: 640
* Level 6: 1280
* Level 7: 2560*
* Level 8: 5120**
=== High Tier ===
* Level 1: 1600 x Novice level 1
* Level 2: 3200
* Level 3: 6400
* Level 4: 12,800
* Level 5: 25,600
* Level 6: 51,200
* Level 7: 102,400*
* Level 8: 204,800**
=== Super Tier Elementary level spells (Those taught in Textbooks level) ===
* Level 1: 64,000 x Novice level 1
* Level 2: 128,000
* Level 3: 256,000
* Level 4: 512,000
* Level 5: 1,024,000
* Level 6: 2,024,000
* Level 7: 4,048,000**
* Level 8: 8,096,000**
*Can be achieved on theory but extremely difficult as you need to hunt extremely high level monsters. Note: Hunting Monarch level Monsters are dangerous even for a Forbidden Curse Mage.
**Can be achieved on theory by people with Mutated Star Talent.
The greatest difference between Textbook magic and personal magic is Textbook magic are spells that can be taught in the safety of protected human cities. They are not exceptionally strong being very simple, however they are also very reliable and accessible. Personal Magic are the first step to advancing in Super Tier to eventually achieve Beyond Super Tier and hopefully reach the realm of Forbidden Curse Level. However, it usually need personal life and death experiences for a Mage's psyche to birth personal magic that truly belongs to the mage. Though some of the more advanced Countries tries to create training grounds for their mages to gain Personal magic in safety, the results fell short a great deal. Still, being able to produce very strong mages in safety before sending them to fight monsters is very advantageous for the country.
Having less people to share the limited magic resources and larger safe places to train mages is the main reason why countries in the west tend to have more High Tier and Super Tier Mages but equal numbers of Mages above Super Tier as in the east.
Statement of Forbidden Curse's Immediate impact or result equivalent to minimum more than 100 times more powerful than Super Tier Magic. However this is highly unsubstantial as it is mentioned by ignorant lesser Mages who doesn't know what they're talking about. Forbidden Curse Mages and Emperor level monsters did not endorse this saying.
Magic spells can gain additional clout with numbers. Through planning and practice, a group of mages can create large scale magic array to greatly increase the clout of their spells to inflict damage on monsters they normally can't hurt.
There is some confusion over the matter, as Mo Fan with the use of the Devil Element when his highest cultivation was high tier was capable of restraining and fighting off respectively, the 2 strongest supreme monarchs he had seen at the time while one half forbidden mage was killed by one of the aforementioned supreme monarch and another had died at the hands of a much weaker supreme monarch. Later on, an emperor's armor was unscratched by a creature that was summoned by a six man assisted forbidden curse, while the very same armor was cracked by a superimposed array of super tier and high tier wind magic and heavily degraded by beyond super tier blessing magic.
It is to be noted that Emperors are extremely proud and often view anyone less than Half-Forbidden Curse not worth their time. It was highly possible that the Emperor lowered his guard against the Super Tier mage and he was there to suicide. It has been confirmed that Devil Mo Fan is significantly stronger than Super Tier Mages since he reached High Tier and the raw power difference will continue to increase. However, Devil Element's benefits are temporary and raw power are no substitute for the truly strongest such as Emperors and Forbidden Curse mages who had both power and skill.
Perhaps the biggest Advantage of the Devil Element is Mo Fan's survivability is far greater than average mages who are no more than humans and will die if a Command or higher level monster were to successfully catch them off guard... hell if a monster sits on a Forbidden Curse Mage, the mage will be crushed to death regardless of how much magical power and skill they possess
It is stated that Mo Fan has come into realization that he needs to reexamine how he gauge a Monarch and above Class monster as he found his perspective and way of gauging a Monarch level monster extremely wrong. Mo Fan is currently re-evaluating his perspective and way of gauging Monarchs and above monsters and all his former opinions should be ignored until he come into a superior, more accurate conclusion of assessing Monarchs and above monsters
The Immediate Impact of a Forbidden Curse Spell descending on the mortal realm is said to be at least 100 times stronger than Super TIer level 3 regardless of the Forbidden Curse's nature. But it has been revealed that some forbidden curses need time to get up to speed and can be destroyed without causing much damage if any opponent is quick enough.
Unfortunately all powers beyond Super Tier are powered by the fabled Star Bethels which have far wider diversity in terms of their special effects such as simply giving all people who comes within its radius effect, a telepathic warning and mental suggestion to avoid a hole on the ground and have no clear way of scaling by this standards.
One thing is for sure, spells created by Star Bethels even if it is a Half-Forbidden Curse Mage who cast it without putting any effort in giving the spell any defenses against dispelling attempts is impossible for any Super Tier Level 3 Mage to dispel or destroy.
Or to put it simple. Gap becomes greater as Mages goes up the tiers.
People have to note that mages are humans and every mage is diversely different in their growth, strengths and weaknesses. Their strength can greatly fluctuate.
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