Cultivation

The power to advance one's state of being through the development of one's own personal energy. Sub-power of Thrivation. 
==Also Called==
* Archetype:Cultivator/Cultivator Physiology
* Cultivated Self-Development/Improvement
* Self Cultivation
==Capabilities==
The user can cultivate anything to self-improve themselves in any specific ways to permanently strengthen their form (Body, Mind, Spirit and/or Soul) over time. Users can cultivate things from their energies like chi/psi/mantra or aura, magic, etc. any other kind of thing they need such as knowledge, creativity or so on, all for the sole purpose for them to advance themselves to higher degrees for the betterment. This can be accomplished in a wide variety of ways, such as martial arts training, grasping the Dao, having a perception-altering realization, magical potions or spirit stones, meditation (especially in areas rich in various types of qi/energy for them to absorb), the infamous "Dual Cultivation" method & so on. 
Through refined control of their internal energy, cultivators unlock incredible physical prowess, exceeding human standards in terms of strength, speed, and resilience. Additionally, they gain access to potent energy projection, enabling the deployment of powerful blasts, the creation of defensive shields, the ability to heal, and even telekinetic feats and flight. Cultivation extends beyond the physical, venturing into the realm of the spiritual and mental. This refinement opens doors to heightened perception, precognitive abilities, communication with the immaterial realm, and even control over one's own soul and potentially the manipulation of others' souls as well. Most cultivation systems employ a tiered framework of distinct realms or stages, each signifying significant advancement and unlocking new abilities. These stages serve as both milestones and motivators on the path to ultimate power. Cultivation employs a diverse array of methods to refine energy and propel progress. These include meditation practices, rigorous martial arts training, the consumption of specific resources, and even the formation of pacts with spiritual entities. 
Cultivators may develop sophisticated illusions, mind control abilities, powerful summoning spells, the manipulation of various elements, and even the mastery of alchemical processes. As individuals ascend through the ranks of cultivation, they gain access to increasingly potent abilities, potentially influencing time, space, and even the fundamental fabric of reality. Cultivation often leads to profound spiritual insight, granting cultivators wisdom, control over their own destiny, and even the ability to defy natural laws. Embarking on the path of Cultivation is not without its trials. It demands unwavering dedication, rigorous discipline, and the willingness to embrace substantial risk. Talent and individual potential also play significant roles in determining the speed and success of one's progress. Additionally, various fictional universes may introduce unique variations to their cultivation systems, incorporating different forms of energy, distinct ranks, and specialized abilities.
==Applications (Foundation)==
*Any type of Energy Manipulation: A basic requirement to perform.
**Energy Absorption: If cultivation is done with energy taken from outside.
**Energy Empowerment: Becomes stronger or gaining abilities when they come into contact with energy.
**Energy Generation: If cultivation is done with energy taken from within.
*Any/all kinds of Meditation: Practicing such a facet of mind/body unison strengthens and accelerates core development.
**Adaptive Development: Meditative practices also cause profound transition.
***Accelerated Development: If the cultivator finds a dense energy source, they can develop itself much faster.
****Limitation Transcendence: It can also make them go beyond their limits.
***Takigyou Meditation: Can utilize Takigyou, a form of meditation practiced under a waterfall for development.
**Force Connection: Become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. when they absorb & channel dynamic forces.
***Assimilative Evolution: Can absorbing differing energies to not only regenerate their bodies with the absorbed amount. But physically redefining the developmental processes as well as the speed of which ones body grows.
**Meditative Floating: Can float and hover while meditating or entering a meditative state, position, or stance.
**Spiritual Meditation: Can enter or have achieved oneness with their spiritual essence and mind.
***Spiritual Adaptation: Through the practice of advanced core processing, one can modulate the soul in order to reinforce the body.
**Training Regimen: Prolonged cultivation actions or meditations may be required to acquire these abilities.
***Ability Creation: Can acquire abilities based on the type of energy they absorb.
***Supernatural Art: Using specific arts to gain specific powers and physique
== Applications (Usages) ==
Usage methods may vary depending on the type of energy. Since each energy has its own characteristics, personal development with it will vary. For example, someone who cultivates with demonic energy may become demonic. One who cultivates with celestial/heavenly energy can elevate their consciousness to the higher levels of the celestial/heavenly realms. One who cultivates with physical energy can bend the laws of physics and have a physically strengthened body. Examples can be multiplied further, but the main thing is to understand the logic.
*Lower Consciousness: As the person cultivates, they have a more and more awareness of themselves over time.
**Clouded Mind: Access to the baser elements enables feeding the more primeval aspects of the psyche.
**Self-Mastery: Withhold perfected ascertaining of ones internal/external being and compel it accordingly.
***Cellular Consciousness/Genetic Consciousness/Molecular Consciousness/Atomic Consciousness/Quantum Consciousness
*Higher Consciousness: Can gain a new state of development in consciousness while meditating and nourishing from universal energy.
**Clear Mind: Can train one's mind to be cleaner and stronger.
***Enlightenment: User can reach the level of enlightenment through cultivation.
***Inner Sight: Has reached mental observational elevation, allowing them true sight of the fullest comprehension regarding all things.
**Personal Subtle Body Manipulation: Through the use of internal energy recycling, one can utilize their full spiritual/esoterical potential to their fullest extent.
***Astral Plane Connection: With intense meditative trancing users are able to build an established link to the world beyond. Further bolstering their refinement processes.
***Ley Line Connection: Practice with ones own energy circulation enables users to draw upon externalized sources of energy from the natural and supernatural worlds. Enabling the connection to the world flow via life-veins.
*Self Supremacy: Through processing of internal capacities, users can attain a certain oneness with their own personal anima that brings everything under their concise purview.
** Body Supremacy: Can control and change their body with energy. 
***Bodily Aspect Enhancement: Can select any physical attributes of their anatomy, biology or physiology and focus on/enhance them, enabling drastic changes from enhancing skin density to shifting the malleability of the skeletal structure and generating new organs with various functions.
****Accelerated Muscle Development: Has the ability to develop their muscles faster than normal.
***Energized Body: Can enhance themselves through absorbing energy and converting it into bodily energy to perform superhuman feats.
***Personal Functionality: Through deep bodily internal/external refinement. One undergoes subtle changes that better allows for processing as well as accumulating greater reprocessing power.
***Replenishment: Focus one internal force in order to restore oneself from fatigue by using all available resources.
****Energy Healing: Can heal oneself with energy.
** Mindshifting: Can improve and change their mental abilities via energy. 
***Fathomless Mind: When ones mental progression reaches a certain apex, they can ascend their corporeal material and gain new insight.
***Inner Reading: By modifying one's own mental frame, one can internally grasp the full makeup of their body in its entirety.
***Mind Adjustment: Alternate ones one psyche in order to better focus and moderate thought processes, neural responses and memory recall.
***Neuro-Psychic Knowledge: Can modulate their cerebral/psychological structuring to reach a new level of sapience/sentience.
****State of Mind: Gain a sort of epiphany that broadens ones understanding, ingenuity, creativity and apprehension.
**Self-Aura Manipulation: Able to see, change and manipulate their own aura. This is done by changing certain qualities of the aura and morphing or shifting certain attributes of the aura to something different.
== Variations ==
* Ascension
** Spiritual Ascension
* Energized Body (It uses only physical energies and focuses only on the body.)
** And its variations.
==Associations==
*Chi Manipulation: It is a type of energy that we frequently encounter in cultivation based fictions.
*Energy Manipulation
*Unity: In some fictions, it is seen as the end point of cultivation.
==Limitations==
*Has a wide variety of risks and issues, such as:
**Forceful interruption of this state may damage the user.
**Bottlenecks - When the user hits a wall in their cultivation attempts and is completely unable to improve further until they overcome it.
**"Heart demons" - Their internal negative emotions & mental issues causing damage, hindering their advancement & potentially killing them while they attempt to cultivate.
** In some settings, merely clashing energies with someone with a higher cultivation level can backlash and induce severe damage to the user before they've even been touched.
**Qi Deviation - A result of various factors, such as improper cultivation or getting distracted while cultivating, which backlashes on the user & can, weaken injure and/or drive the user insane.
**Vulnerability - Cultivation may include areas, such as meridians, dantians, pressure points and so on, the destruction of or injury to can severly reduce or even outright remove one's cultivation and may leave one even weaker then when you started.
*Cultivation is often displayed as power system with a large number of levels or "realms," that often heavily invokes the trope "always someone better."
*Despite claims of mental improvement, this aspect is very rarely realized in stories, with most methods seemingly being devoted solely to increasing power and survivability.
*Weak to manipulation of whatever form of energy they cultivate with, possible even to the point of the manipulator being able to undo their cultivation.
==Notes==
*Cultivation is a very popular genre for Chinese Web novels; see Xianxia, Wuxia. But also, it is a concept that is also used in Asian related media. It should also be said that this concept is known to be used outside of these fictional work areas. It has a much wider usage fictional area. Therefore, it should not be thought of as unique to its Chinese origins. In addition, cultivation can take place as an application in many different power systems. It would be wrong to think that it is only about a single energy and system.
==Known Users==
=== Religion/Ideology===
*Lao Tzu (Daoism)
*The Buddhas/Buddhahood (Buddhism) via Enlightenment
**The Buddha/Siddhartha Gautama (Founder of the Buddhism)
===Literature/Web Novels===
===Manga=== 
*Various Characters (Fist of the North Star)
*Clan Shiyuu (Kingdom)
*Kyou Kai (Kingdom)
*Kyou Rei (Kingdom)
*Users of Senjutsu (Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Next Generation)
===Manhua=== 
*Nie Li (Tales of Demons and Gods)
*Gu Changge (I Am the Fated Villain)
*Gu Feiyang (The Ancient Sovereign of Eternity)
*Yan Sen (Cultivator Against Hero Society)
===Manhwa===
===Comics===
*Immortal Weapons (Marvel Comics)
*Various Mages (Marvel Comics)
*Matt Mudock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
*Shang Chi (Marvel Comics)
*The Mandarin (Marvel Comics)
==References==
====General==== 
*Self-cultivation (Wikipedia); General article about Cultivation.
**Lotus Position 
**Levitating Lotus Position
**Tai Chi
*Taoist Meditation (Daoism)
*Buddhist Meditation (Buddhism)
====Fictions====
*Cultivation (Cultivation Chat Group)
*Cultivation (Martial World)
*Senjutsu (Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Next Generation)
*Cultivation, Cultivation Technique, Cultivators (Tales of Demons and Gods)
==Gallery==
===Anime/Manga/Manhwa===
Lee Jaha Cultivating Return of the Mad Demon.jpg|Lee Jaha (Return of the Mad Demon) cultivating his chi.
Jeok's Five Ring Harmonization Murim Login.jpg|Jeok Cheongang (Murim Login) meditating and cultivating his ki into the Five Ring Harmonization, the highest form of cultivation for experience martial arts masters.
Jiraiya's Meditation (Naruto).jpg|Jiraiya (Naruto) meditating and cultivating Senjutsu in order to master Sage Mode.
Naruto's Senjutsu.gif|Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) meditating and cultivating Senjutsu in order to master Sage Mode.
Seol hwi picture.jpg|Seolhwi (Heavenly Demon Cultivation Simulation)
Dam-ho.jpg|Dam-Ho (Fist Demon of Mount Hua)
Jin Mu-Won 's Cultivating Legend Of The Northern Blade.png|Jin Mu-Won (The Legend Of The Northern Blade)
Dan Yuseong Cultivating.png|Dan Yuseong (Infinite Leveling: Murim)
This-is-really-good-storm-inn-v0-ixkispqrjdc81.jpg|Zhang Qilin (The Stormy Inn)
FangYuan.png|Fang Yuan (Reverend Insanity)
Jo Hwi 2.webp|Jo Hwi (A Modern Man Who Transmigrated Into the Murim World)
Mok Gyeongwoon (Myst, Might, Mayhem) - Cultivation.png|Mok Gyeongwoon (Myst, Might, Mayhem) cultivating the dead souls and their negative emotions of pain, suffering and despair by absorbing the "ki of death".
Jin Taekyung's Enlightenment Murim Login.jpg|Jin Taekyung (Murim Login) cultivating to the next stage of an early transcendent master as he blossoms with the Three Petal Harmony.
 
===Bonzo/Comics===
The Mandarin's Cultivation Marvel Comics.jpg|A master of his chi, The Mandarin (Marvel Comics) can live for years without food and water by simply cultivating.
John Aman.webp|John Aman/Prince of Orphans (Marvel Comics)
Fat cobra.webp|Fat Cobra (Marvel Comics)
Bride of Nine Spiders (Marvel Comics).jpg|Bride of Nine Spiders (Marvel Comics)
Li Hua Tiger's Beautiful Daughter.webp|Tiger's Beautiful Daughter (Marvel Comics)
Sihing Dog Brother ＃1.webp|Dog Brother #1 (Marvel Comics) 
Danny Rand, the Iron Fist.jpg|Daniel Rand/Iron Fist (Marvel Comics)
Davos, the Steel Serpent.jpg|Davos/Steel Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
Black priest Dr Strange.jpeg|Dr. Stephen Strange (Marvel Comics)
Baron Mordo.jpeg|Baron Karl Mordo (Marvel Comics)
Matt MurdockDaredevil's Cultivating Marvel Comics.jpg|Taught by his former teacher Stick, Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics) can cultivate his inner spirit during his workouts. As a result, he can use chi to enhance his recovery & bodily repairing abilities.
Shang-Chi Vol 1 1 Textless.jpg|Shang Chi (Marvel Comics)
Dc-comics-chi-bagua-kong-kenan-activates-all-his-powers.jpg|Kenen Kong/New Super-Man (DC Comics)
Absorbing and using energy of sun - superman.jpg|Superman's Kryptonian physiology (DC Comics) allows him to enhance his physiological characteristics by absorbing the energy of stars which can enhance him both physically and mentally.
 
===Cartoons===
Leondardo Meditation.png|Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Aang meditating.gif|Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Gwen Tennyson Meditation.gif|Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10 series) meditating while using her Mana in order to perform astral projection, telepathy, and be in balance with the cosmos.
 
===Web Comics===
Black Sun Shinobi.WEBP|Shinobi (Black Sun) have enhanced physical abilities due to them in a constant state of channeling Tenchi, the accumulation of electromagnetic energy of living things.
 
==Videos==
The Scientific Power of Meditation
TAOISM - The Power of Letting Go-2
Confucius - The Art of Becoming Better (Self-Cultivation)-2
The Secret POWER of wu chi and the Dan tien-2
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Superman Gets His Powers Back & Stops Ally - Superman & Lois 2x15 (Finale) - Arrowverse Scenes-2
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