Cultivation

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Cultivation forms the basis of the power system in *Absolute Resonance*. This page displays the levelling system and the system used to cultivate along with descriptions.

## **Ten Seals and Resonant Master Stage:**

Human cultivators, upon establishing their resonant palace, are considered to have entered the most rudimentary stage of cultivation, the **Ten Seals** stage. After the **Ten Seals** stage is the **Resonant Master** cultivation stage. At this stage, a cultivator is considered to have truly embarked on the road to cultivation.

The **Resonant Master** stage is divided into three tiers. The first tier was the **Sprouting Seed Tier**. In this tier, the resonant power in the cultivator's palaces will be gathered into a seed-like lump and be reborn anew. This tier is further split into two sub-tiers, namely the **Clear Seed Sub-tier** and **Flowering Seed Sub-tier**. Each sub-tier is further categorised into an upper and lower level.

The name of the **Clear Seed Sub-tier** references the translucent appearance of the resonance seed. In this sub-tier, the resonance power contained within the seed is too weak to be able to leave any marks on the surface of the resonance seed. As the cultivator progresses, more marks will be left on the surface of the seed. The more resonant power marks left on the seed, the stronger the resonant power of the cultivator. When resonance power marks have more or less covered the entire surface of the cultivator's resonance seed, a petal-like pattern will appear and the cultivator will have stepped into the **Flowering Seed Sub-tier**.

As a **Flowering Seed Sub-tier** cultivator progresses, the petal-like marks on their resonance seed will gradually merge into an arcane pattern. When the arcane pattern is fully formed, the cultivator will have progressed to the second tier of the **Resonance Master Stage**, the **Pattern Genesis Tier**.

At the **Pattern Genesis Tier**, the cultivator's resonant power will start to mature and gain depth. This will create pattern marks across the cultivator's resonances. These patterns were called resonance patterns, hence the name of the tier.

The third and final tier of the **Resonance Master s**tage is called the **Evolving Resonance Tier**. At this tier, the cultivator's resonances will begin to change in preparation for a breakthrough to the next tier.

The three cultivation stages after the **Resonance Master** cultivation stage are the **General**, **Duke**, and **King** stages.

The **General** stage consists of two sub-levels. The lower and upper sub-levels are known as the **Earth Fiend General** and **Heavenly Dipper General** sub-levels respectively. The **Earth Fiend General** sub-level is separated into the early, middle and late stages.

## **General Stage:**

The General Realm is the third cultivation rank in absolute resonance and is divided into 2 stages:

**1) Earth Fiend General:** Only by reaching this cultivation level can someone be called an expert, and it's further divided into 3 sub-stage

***-Fiend Palace Tier***: In this stage the size of the resonance palace will increase allowing it to store more resonant power. This tier is divided into Lesser and Greater Palace. Furthermore when breaking through the Earth Fiend Stage, one can cultivate Fiend Arts which allow to refine Earth Fiend energy into another form of energy known as Abstruse Fiend Light. Abstruse fiend light possessed an amazing quality: it could amplify resonant power. This was absolutely game changing in battle. This was also the symbol of might of an Earth Fiend General Stage cultivator. At the same time, abstruse fiend light was able to polish and enhance one's resonant palace. For one to progress to the Greater Fiend Palace Tier, one had to rely on this new energy. Thus, the Fiend Art that one cultivated was of significant importance to any cultivator.

To progress from Lesser to Greater Fiend Palace, a normal cultivator need to fill his/her Lesser Fiend Palace with 3000 rays of Abstruse Fiend Light. As for going from Greater Fiend Palace to the second tier of Earth Fiend General, the Fiend Body Tier, the cultivator need to fill his Greater Fiend Palace with 8000 rays of Abstruse Fiend Light.

***-Fiend Body Tier*:** it's a body cultivation stage that would sharply increase your physical strength as well as your defense, it's divided into 3 sub-stage: silver body stage, golden body stage, glass body stage.

***-Fiend Finisher Tier*:** This was also where a fresh injection of power was found - one's body would produce a special type of energy by itself, known as Fiend Dipper energy. This was the greatest and most recognisable mark of the Earth Fiend stage.

**2-Heavenly Dipper General:** The Heavenly Dipper General stage was divided into two sub-stages.

***-Heavenly Pearl Stage:*** It was called the Heavenly Pearl stage because one's resonant power would begin to naturally condense into these pearl-shaped forms at the Heavenly Dipper General stage. They were called heavenly pearls because of their magical properties; when resonant power formed these pearls, they became even stronger. Because heavenly pearls were condensed energy bodies, they reacted crisply to the worldly natural energy around them. In battle, they made one even stronger. It was said that the Heavenly Pearl stage had nine pearls. This meant that one could technically max out with nine heavenly pearls. However, those that reached that stage were rare. Creating each heavenly pearl not only severely tested one's talent and potential, but also required a ridiculous amount of cultivation resources. That was why most of the Heavenly Pearl stage cultivators chose to aim for the breakthrough to the Heavenly Resonance stage once they reached about five pearls. Only the truly brave would choose the longer path of condensing more heavenly pearls, maximizing their capacity before they chose to make the breakthrough. Of course, their eventual breakthrough would pay off with both a deeper foundation and power ceiling compared to those who made the breakthrough at five heavenly pearls. The Heavenly Pearl stage was basically a preparatory stage.

***-Heavenly Resonance Stage*:**

Further divided into Lesser Heavenly Resonnance and Greater Heavenly Resonnance.

**-Duke Stage:**

It was said that to enter the Duke Stage, one would have to condense and compress their resonant power to the extreme. Only then could they construct a Duke Bergfried with it. When this was completed, one's body would once again undergo an unimaginable quantitative change. Duke Bergfrieds did not only demonstrate the depth of their foundation, they were also one of their strongest abilities at their disposal.

A Duke expert can condense 9 Bergfrieds. The number of Bergfried determine if a Duke is an Early, Middle, Late stage Duke.

Low-grade stage => 1-3 Bergfrieds

Middle-grade stage => 4-6 Bergfrieds

Upper-grade stage => 7-9 Bergfrieds

In the cultivation world, when one reached the upper Duke Stage, they were able to open up a domain in the world around them, which was known as the Duke's Worldspace Domain.

The difference was that this territory was not physical land, but a world within one's own body. This world possessed miraculous properties that could protect one's body while projecting mystical might. The Duke's Worldspace Domain was ultimately the mark of one who had entered the upper-grade Duke Stage.

## Energy Cultivation Arts

 General level
* Mid
 King level

Within the Xia Kingdom, energy cultivation arts can be divided into several grades. Their grading system is similar to the way stages of power are differentiated: Entry Stage, General Stage, Duke Stage, King Stage. Except for the Entry Stage, each cultivation art level is further split into high-grade, middle-grade, and low-grade energy cultivation arts.

Entry Stage energy cultivation arts can allow a cultivator to cultivate from the Ten Seals Stage to the beginning of the Resonant Master Stage. However, if a cultivator wishes to truly enter the first Resonant Master Stage, the General Stage, the cultivator will require the usage of a General Stage energy cultivation art and so forth. Entry Stage energy cultivation arts are common like flies and relatively similar.

Only General Stage and above energy cultivation arts are more scarce. Usually, only middle-tier powers possesses them. When one enter the Earth Fiend General stage, one will practice Fiend Arts. Simply speaking, it was a way for the body to absorb and refine earth fiend energy. Once this energy was refined, it would turn into another form of energy known as abstruse fiend light. Abstruse fiend light possessed an amazing quality: it could amplify resonant power. This was also the symbol of might of an Earth Fiend General Stage cultivator. At the same time, abstruse fiend light was able to polish and enhance one's resonant palace. For one to progress to the Greater Fiend Palace Tier, one had to rely on this new energy. Thus, the Fiend Art that one cultivated was of significant importance to any cultivator. In a sense, it was quite similar to the energy cultivation arts that one practiced at the Resonant Master Stage, only Fiend Arts were of a higher tier. So far the grade of Fiend Arts are divided into five. Simply put, if one is able to produce one ray of abstruse fiend light with their Fiend Art, then it is considered a One Fiends Art. Correspondingly, the number of rays one is able to create will determine the grade of it. For example, the 12 Step Weave's Fiend Art's grade is a Three Fiends Art.

Duke Stage energy cultivation arts are even rarer, with only top-tier powers possessing them. It is also important that some Duke Stage cultivation arts also have a higher version in the aspect of Fiend Arts. For Example, Lil Luo 12 Step Weave which is a Duke Stage cultivation arts possess an another version but which include the aspect of Fiend Arts.

King Stage energy cultivation arts, on the other hand, are precious beyond comparison. If one appeared in the open, it would most definitely incite the attention of all of the mightiest powers within the Xia Kingdom. There would undoubtedly be a clash of the titans in that scenario. The entire kingdom the cultivation art appeared in could even descend into war in order to obtain the King Stage energy cultivation art. Normally speaking, higher grade energy cultivation arts also tend to be more harsh on the cultivator's body and have numerous sorts of requirements on the grade of the cultivator's resonance.

## Resonance Arts

 General
 Duke
2. Soul Ascension-Grade
3. Destiny-Grade
 King

A resonance art is a special technique used to help a cultivator apply their resonant power to greater effect. There are different resonant arts for different types of resonances. Some powerful resonance arts require the cultivator's resonance to be of a certain grade before the resonance art can be used. A resonance art can also be modified with or fused with a resonance of another type to improve its effects, although this usually can only be done by cultivators who have at least reached the Duke stage.

### General Level Resonance Arts

Ordinarily, talented individuals who have reached the Resonant Master Stage can start to access General stage resonance arts. These are far better than the Entry-level resonance arts. General stage resonance arts are separated into the Tiger and Dragon level, with the Dragon level being better than the Tiger level. These resonance arts were often abbreviated to dragon-general resonance arts and tiger-general resonance arts. In the entry Resonant Master Stage, a cultivator would normally work with tiger-general resonance arts, while dragon-general resonance arts were usually used when the cultivator had fully entered the General stage.

## Secret technique

A secret technique is an art that can neither be categorised as an Energy cultivation art nor as a Resonance art, it came in all forme and shape. It has many utilities like being able to raise someone's strenght temporarly or allow someone to store more resonant power etc, to sum it up a secret technique is only restained by it's creator's skill and imagination.

## Spirit Beast Cultivation

 Average Spirit Beasts
 Strong Spirit Beasts
 General Spirit Beasts

Spirit beasts are classified into several categories. Weak spirit beasts are at the Ten Seals Stage in strength, while average spirit beasts are roughly at the first-tier of the Resonant Master Stage. Strong spirit beasts are at the second or third-tier of the Resonant Master Stage.

Spirit beasts beyond that level would undergo a metamorphic change. They will be a lot more sentient, and their strength is stupendous. Such spirit beasts were simply dubbed General spirit beasts, for their powerful strength.

Above General spirit beasts are the legendary Duke spirit beasts, each one being powerful enough to raze a city to the ground by themselves.

## See Also

* Resonance
* Resonance Artificer
* Spirit Liquids and Purifying Lights

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 77: The Three Tiers of the Resonant Master Stage
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 107: Resonant Master Stage
3. ↑ Chapter 3: Li Luo Wants An Annulment
4. ↑ Chapter 118: Mentor Shen Jinxiao