Cultivation

## Cultivation Terms

### Arcane Energy

* Equivalent to the "mana" of the mages. The reserves for the cultivators to cast their skills.

### Cultivation Base

* The cultivation progress of the cultivator.

### Prowess

* The comprehensive evaluation of the cultivator's ability.

### Psyche Ocean

* The reserve for the cultivator's psyche, placed in a dimensional space inside of the cultivator's body.

### Soul

* The self-consciousness of the cultivator.

### Spirit

* The counterpart of the cultivator's soul, acquired through the manifestation of the nature.

### Totem

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### Soul Weapon

* Weapons made from various materials, the materials' purity denoting the weapon's quality, while only a practitioner possessing at least the Soul Manipulation level can use. At higher cultivation realms, soul weapons become conscious and have more usage restrictions. The refined soul weapon must be free of impurities. This would be the most critical criterion for an exceptional soul weapon. The better the soul weapon, the lesser the obstacles and the easier for one’s soul to enter and wield it like an extension of one’s own body, controlling it around smoothly and naturally. Only the inferior soul weapons would be plagued by such obstacles, this was mainly due to the impurities accumulated in the soul weapon. When the soul met with these impurities, the soul would be like walking on a twisted, crooked and narrow trail filled with huge stones and stumbling detritus. Furthermore, the toughness and sharpness of an inferior soul weapon was incomparable to that of a good soul weapon, the protective capability on the owner’s soul was not too great either.

### Yuan Shen/Atman

* The completed result of the coalescence of Soul and Spirit. Atman is more commonly used to refer to the self-consciousness while Yuan Shen as the one the cultivator would use in battles.

### Blood Essence

* Oftentimes equivalent to the power and energy of the cultivator.

### Awakening

* The Wheels are Wu Xing Wheel, Wan Xiang Wheel, Shen Cai Wheel, Yin Yang Wheel and Dao Yi Wheel. Awakening Cultivators can Store Objects in their Body. The other Wheels discovered during cultivation are Fu Min's Bloodline Wheel and the Seventh Secret Realm's Wheel. The Seventh is orthodox-ed as Feng Xiaozhong's Stellar Wheel.
* The Wu Xing Wheels (五行轮) are formed with the Wu Xing five elements, gold, wood, earth, fire and water and they correspond to the five internal organs – the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
* The Wan Xiang Wheel (万象轮) formed the bones of the human body with the four limbs as its pillars. It was also the largest wheel among the others. The Wan Xiang Realm would replace the muscles and bones. Increases strength.
* The Shen Cai Wheel (神才轮), which replaced the throat, heart, and the navel. The three aforementioned organs corresponded to heaven, earth and life and Increases life force.
* The Yin Yang Wheel (阴阳轮) was the eyes and because of that, it had a slightly smaller secret realm.
* Dao Yi Wheel (道一轮) is hidden as the brain, and even smaller than the Yin Yang Wheel.
* Bloodline Wheel (血脉轮) connects the blood essence of the mortal body and Yuan Shen. Greatly enhances the blood essence of the cultivator
* Stellar Wheel (辰宿轮) grants the cultivator with the powers of the myriad stars.

## Various Cultivation State Level

 Unconscious Visualization
 Human Spirit As One (人灵一体)
 Spirit Soul As One (灵魂合一)
 Combat Yuan Shen (战斗元神)
 Atman Body As One (灵体合一, Combat Body)

## Cultivation Level Detailed

### Mortal

* Tempering, nourishing and developing a strong soul through repetitive visualization and energy replenishment.
* A strong soul has strong spiritual power (psyche), supported by a strong body. The stronger soul allows a foundation to attract spirits of the world into one's body to become a Qi Practitioner of the Spirit Nurturing level.
* Visualization cultivation requires spiritual energy (psyche) consumption, which in turn requires the body's energy to feed the process.

 Soul Liberty (出窍境)
 Soul Manipulation (祭魂境)

## References

1. ↑ *Rise of Humanity* Chapter 10
2. ↑ *Rise of Humanity* Chapter 17
3. ↑ *Rise of Humanity* Chapter 66