Earth Shattering

## Establishing Heart Of Qi

*Breaking through from Origin Returning to Earth Shattering is the process of fusing the layers of Spiritual Sea. The fusion of 4 layers is considered good, less than 4 is inferior, 6 layers is extremely rare and 8 layers is very rare to appear even in the Upper Reaches' Sects.*

## Stages

**Level 1: Vital qi body tempering**

Progress: Generate vital qi in your body

Abilities: Passive increase to physical fitness. Your body is tempered by vital qi.

Breakthrough: Channel vital qi from your stomach to one of four points (head , arms, torso, legs)

**Level 2: Qi channeling (Head. Arms. Torso. Legs)**

Progress: Channel vital qi to to different parts of your body. It has four small realms. They are head, arms, torso, legs

Abilities: When you channel qi to your head you can gain an enhancement to one of your senses (eyes, ears, nose, mouth). Active increase to physical ability of whichever part of your body qi is channeled into.

Breakthrough: Cycle qi throughout your body and form an unbroken circulation

**Level 3: Qi circulation (Small cycle. Great cycle. Perfect cycle)**

Progress: Accumulate more vital qi in your body. It has three small realm. They are based on the number of cycles of vital qi. They are small cycle (12 cycles), great cycle (36 cycles), perfect cycle (60 cycles).

Abilities: Your body is tempered by vital qi allowing the buff gained from actively channeling qi to become passive. You can burn your blood form more power.

Breakthrough: Use vital qi to connect with heaven and earth. Fuse heaven and earth aura with your vital qi to form true qi. The force of heaven and earth aura will destroy your body while your vital qi reconstructs it. After at most 100 cycles of destruction you will be reborn as an innate master.

**Level 4: True qi divine art**

Progress: Absorb heaven and earth aura to produce more true qi. It has three small realms. They are based on the number of cycles of vital qi. They are small cycle (72 cycles), great cycle (96 cycles), perfect cycle (120 cycles).

Abilities: True qi can be used to cast divine arts like spells and elemental based martial arts. You can produce elemental attacks based on your qi affinity.

Breakthrough: Improve your control of your true qi till the flame like true qi becomes refined into a lightning form

**Level 5: Qi control (Fire. Thunder. Wind)**

Progress: Improve your control over true qi. Your true qi takes the form of fire, lightning or wind based on your skill in control. Wind shows the highest level of qi control.

Abilities: You can release qi projectiles and cloak your body with true qi to increase movement speed.

Breakthrough: Refine your wind like true qi into spiritual light. The more colors of light you produce the better. You may produce at most nine lights.

**Level 6: Qi release (Spirit light. Qi silk. True domain)**

Progress: Refine your spiritual light into threads and weave the threads into a net covering a few meters around you. Its small realms are spirit light, qi silk and true domain

Abilities: spiritual light can be infused into an object to give it an effect. You can ride a spiritual light to fly. Qi silk can be used to control objects from afar with a form of telekinesis. True domain can be used to apply the effect of your spiritual light to an area. Sword cultivators can form sword light.

Breakthrough: Use a true fire and divine water to refine your true qi into essense qi. A blessed land is necessary to prevent your body from dying during the process.

**Level 7: Essence qi immortal treasure**

Progress: Absorb the vitality of heaven and earth to advance. Accumulate essence qi to progress. Its small realms are small cycle (12 years), great cycle (36 years), perfect cycle (60 years).

Abilities: Consume vitality to refine immortal treasures. Lifespan is extended by one year for every year of vitality you absorb. You gain the title of human immortal.

Influence: elders and leaders of the Righteous Nine & Demonic Six.

Breakthrough: Compress your true domain into a hollow core.

**Level 8: Qi manifestation (Hollow. Solid. Radiant)**

Progress: To advance you form more layers on your hollow core. The layers reflect the attributes of your essence qi. The order of the layers reflect the depth of your cultivation. The orthodox way is to end with a metal layer outside (outer/metal, earth, fire, wood, water, centre/domain). The realms are Hollow. Solid and Radiant. The more attributes the greater the quality of the core. A core with three to six layers is solid. With seven or more layers is called a radiant core.

Abilities: You can create things from essence qi.

Influence: Divine Elders of the Righteous Nine & Demonic Six.

Breakthrough: After forming a solid core you can breakthrough to qi transformation by expanding your core aura throughout your body. The core is like a domain and can be manipulated to cloak you flesh turning your body into a golden body.

**Level 9: Qi transformation (Golden body. Divine ability. Natal treasure)**

Progress: The core aura gradually refines the nature of your body locking the power you have stolen from heaven and earth into your body. The small realms are golden body, divine ability, natal treasure. Your flesh gradually transforms into essence qi. When your blood transforms into essence qi you can awaken a bloodline talent called the divine ability based on your cultivation. When your bones become essence qi you can refine them into a life bound treasure that will grow alongside you.

Abilities: After forming your golden body you can no longer absorb energy from outside your body so casting spells will consume your cultivation base. Most experts of this level spend all their time in seclusion unless their faction is about to be destroyed. Their lifespan is at most 360 years. Their natal treasure commonly becomes a relic of their faction if they fall. If they have children it will cost them lifespan with women paying a higher price. Their offspring are born with a body more suitable for cultivation and if a hundred years of lifespan is spent can even be born with a divine ability. At this level cultivators can learn the five elements escape art. They can escape by transforming into one of the five elements.

Influence: Venerables of the Righteous Nine & Demonic Six.

Breakthrough: This the peak of the great realm of qi refinement. To reach the heavenly dipper realm you have to consume your essence qi to refine your soul. The process is more difficult than a mortal forming their vital qi for the first time and will consume your lifespan during the process. Its common for tombs of human immortals to be discovered with only skin remaining after they successfully formed their heavenly dipper.