Cultivation/Daos

There are many different paths of cultivation, known as Daos. A cultivator who has reached the unsurpassed apex of a certain Dao will be given a "God" title. There are no two people who have the same God title, therefore to possess one means that the cultivator is the greatest of their dao.

## Types of Cultivation

**Martial Cultivatiors** focus entirely on combat techniques and are not limited to any specific form of combat.

**Dao Cultivators** are pacifists and scholars whose cultivation relies on enlightenment. They require minimal resources and advance through Dao comprehension and expanding the mental realm, which allows them to make massive leaps in cultivation with no risk of instability, with the tradeoff of having almost no combat power, and being prone to getting stuck if they reach a dead end in their comprehension.

**Dual Cultivators** refine the energies that are generated through sexual activity between men and women. Most Dual Cultivators can be discriminated into two main groups; monogamous couples who choose partners and cultivate only with them, and others who sleep around. There are also some like Wu Long who do not sleep around but create their own harems.

**Soul Cultivators** refine the Niwan Soul Sea much more than they do their Spiritual Qi. They have minimal physical combat ability but are exceptionally difficult opponents to combat due to being able to directly affect a person's mind and soul, something that is very hard to defend against.

**Armament Cultivators** are most similar to Martial Cultivators, except that they focus on the mastery of a singular weapon and make leaps in cultivation based on their achievements with it.

**Symbol Cultivators** are Masters of Formations, Talismans, Arrays, and other such arts. They are all grouped under the same label because they are all fundamentally based off of the same spiritual symbols.

**Alchemy Cultivators** focus on cultivating the alchemy flame. This is the only way to produce the flames required to make pills, elixirs and various other concoctions that help other cultivators progress.

## Deviant Paths

**Lust Cultivators** are an evil offshoot of Dual Cultivators. Whereas Dual Cultivation is cooperative and mutually beneficial, Lust Cultivation does not require willingness from both parties and only benefits the Cultivator, to the fatal detriment of the cultivated. Practitioners use unwilling victims, usually women, as "Cultivation Furnaces", forcefully using them to cultivate and draining them of their energy until they break and are thrown away like trash. There are not many left as they were annihilated throughout the Seven Boundless Worlds, however there are a few dregs left.

**Corrupt Path Cultivators** are the equivalent of Demonic Cultivators as often seen in Xianxia. They use malicious taboo methods that often explicitly necessitate murder or infliction of suffering, offering rapid increases in cultivation and strength in exchange for the heightening of negative impulses and loss of sanity. This umbrella also consists of last-resort type techniques that offer temporary but explosive increases in strength in exchange for the practitioner's vitalty, cultivation or life, as well as sanity.