Cultivation

## Overview

Throughout all the realms and paradises, cultivation is divided into three distinct types; Qi, Blood, and Soul. The three cultivation methods are widely practiced by different races among the realms, with each race having a close affinity toward a certain method. However, only demons have the unique affinity to all three types.

## Three types

### Qi Cultivation

Qi cultivation cultivates Spiritual Qi. For demons the counterpart to this would be the Evil Qi. Qi cultivation is the most cultivated method by humans and spirits.

### Blood Cultivation

Blood cultivation cultivates Blood Energy, a minuscule force in most low-level cultivators which grew alongside realm breakthroughs and tribulations. Whereas humans and spirits have an affinity for Spiritual Qi, Mysterious Beasts and Blood Spirits excelled on cultivating Blood Energy. Blood Energy has nine levels which are called orders, with the Ninth Order of Blood Energy commonly being the highest. However, cultivators who possess the Eternal God Physique can surpass the Ninth Order cap due to their unique physique that allows them to cultivate a limitless amount of Blood Energy.

### Soul Cultivation

Soul cultivation focuses on cultivating an individual's Soul Force. It is what powers a cultivator's Spiritual Sense. Ghosts have an innate affinity to this method. However, whereas a cultivator can cultivate a multiple number of Qi and Blood cultivation methods, a cultivator can only practice a single Soul cultivation method throughout their life. This is the reason why God-Child candidates from the Hengye clan abstain from cultivating any Soul cultivation method until a God-Monarch is chosen among them. Since the Records of the Eternal Night that the chosen God-Monarch will inherit is a Soul cultivation method. After a God-Monarch is selected, the other candidates can now settle for other Soul cultivation methods. Additionally, for Divine Spirits, their Soul Force is the basis of their Divine Power. When a Divine Spirit's Soul Force reaches a certain threshold, it will evolve into Divine Power.

#### Spiritual Sense

Powered by Soul Force, without unique skills to exploit it, a cultivator's Spiritual Sense only served three purposes: communication, telekinesis and long-range observation. But often, the depth of the Spiritual Sense also revealed how resourceful the cultivator was. In the Qi Refinement sphere, Xinzi's Spiritual Sense only lost to Xia Hu, and yet the gap was so large that the two seemed to belong to entirely different realms—or so Xia Hu thought, at least.

## Spiritual Roots

Spiritual Roots determine the limits of a cultivator's accomplishments. No amount of willpower can override this rule. All human beings possessed Spiritual Roots, their gift from nature to compete with demons and mysterious beasts. But as with all of nature's gifts, Spiritual Roots came with a catch: an element-based hierarchy.

From one to five, Spiritual Roots could encompass any of the five basic elements: fire, earth, wood, water and metal. Within the root, all elements competed for dominance. The more elements the root contained, the more they restrained one another. Therefore, cultivation talent wasn't determined by how many, but how few elements one's root carried. Those with a single element could harness the fullest extent of its powers, embody its principles, cultivate its best techniques with extreme ease, speed, and meet no bottlenecks in the early stages of cultivation.

On the other end of the spectrum, those with Five-Element roots couldn't even harvest Spiritual Qi without enduring searing pain, could cultivate all but were limited to the most mediocre techniques, and despite decades of hard work, would not reach the middle-stages of Qi Refinement—to say nothing of Foundation Building. Xia Hu, alongside 90 percent of humanity, belonged to that class, whereas Rong Suishan proudly ranked among the Single-Element chosen. As for Chun Xu and Xinzi, they belonged to the anomalies: the Void Children.

### Mutant Roots

The five elements and Void Spiritual Root aside, humans had access to three mutations: the Wind, Thunder and Ice Spiritual Roots. The three mutant variants stood above the average Single-Element Roots but below Void Spiritual Roots. More importantly, unlike the traditional elements, mutant roots granted their owners uncommon innate skills—making them infinitely more valuable.

#### Void Spiritual Root

Children born under the glow of the seventh full moon of the rat's year all possessed a Harmonious Duality physique. While of massive appeal to dual cultivators, in 99.9% of the cases, the perfect balance of Yin and Yang also filled the child's Spiritual Root with the five elements—effectively making them cultivation-hopeless. Harmonious Duality physique owners thus became the helpless targets of yin and yang plucking rogues. Still, in the extra 0.1% case, all five elements scattered—giving birth to a mutant root: the Void Spiritual Root.

Unfettered by the five elements, Void Spiritual Root owners could siphon them all with maximum efficiency—effectively giving them chosen-tier talent in all five. Better, they could refine the oddities of Heaven and Earth to constantly add superior attributes to their Void Spiritual Root.

## Qi Cultivation

In Qi Cultivation realms, each realm has Early, Mid, High and Peak stages.

## Immortal Foundation/Demon Creed

Is a unique cultivation system.

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## Divine/Demon/Saint Tiers:

It's not ranks like Cultivation, but rather lifeform tiers.

In Saint ranks, in the Great Desolation World, Lianist Practitioners are mostly monks, but you don't have to be a monk to practice Lianism.

## Body Cultivation/Constitutions:

**They fall into four categories (Flesh, Organs, Bones and Blood)**

Typically, Humans and Mysterious Beasts can only have one of these. Some rare cases have two, and a few exceptional individuals present the whole package.

### Flesh

Blood aside, the most common type, and for that reason they're broadly referred to as physiques. Arguably the weakest, the benefits of flesh-type constitutions vary from cultivation-related perks to battle-power growth. However, while flesh-type constitutions can cover several aspects, their boosts on average can't compete with the other types.

#### Examples

* Xinzi & Chunzu's Harmonious Duality Physique
* Hengye Zhen's Eternal God Physique

### Organs

The most unusual type. They typically don't affect cultivation quality or speed—instead providing a broad range of miscellaneous abilities that can not only enhance the cultivator's survival skills but also pair with their various arts to boost their battle-power.

#### Examples

* Hengye Zhen's Glorious Eye of Heaven
* Hengye Zhen's Stainless Heart of the Sovereign

### Bones

The most overpowered type. Not only do bone-type constitutions provide by far the most overwhelming battle perks, but they can also resonate with the Grand Dao to enhance the owner's Dao Comprehension. On top of that, they offer miraculous effects in certain cultivation realms.

#### Examples:

* Xinzi's Heaven-Trampling Dao Bones
* Hengye Zhen's Celestial Dao Bones

### Blood

The most desired type—also the most unpredictable one. Unlike the previous three types, unique bloodlines can be inherited by descendants, either directly or through an atavism—making them more valuable to clans than other constitutions. They cover about every aspect of the cultivation world, and unless we discuss them individually, we can't really establish rules for them.

* All Mysterious Beast bloodlines
* Hengye Zhen's Divineline
* the Immemorial Blood Gu
* the Reincarnation of Mahasura's 6 bloodines

## Grades

Artifacts, Alchemists, Refiners, Formation Masters, Pills and co. all follow this hierarchy.

1. Yellow Grade
2. Black Grade
3. Profound Grade
4. Earth Grade
5. Heaven Grade
6. Sage Grade
7. Three Tribulation Grades (White Tribulation < Red Tribulation < Golden Tribulation)
8. Immortal Grade.