Cultivation/Beyond the Heavens

## Cultivation

The Ancient Celestial is the peak cultivation rank that any Bloodline can achieve.

### Ancient Gates

The way to progress further is to be acknowledged by one of the Constellations living Beyond the Heavens and receive their blessing.

This blessing will grant you a portion of their power and leave their mark on you, granting you access to all the Realms under their rules. To open a Gate is a simple way of saying you have received a Celestial Blessing. The more gates you open, the more famous and powerful you can became.

Whenever you reach the peak cultivation rank of your Bloodline, you have the chance to attract Constellations. If they're interested in you, they will contact you through their Avatar and present you with their blessing.

Of course, if an individual has high potential, they will receive better offers as the Constellations will vie for them.

Constellations are quite prideful, so most of them will retract their offers after you settle on one.

There are a few reasons why the Constellations are so eager to grant their Celestial Blessing, but their main goal is simply to increase their battle power.

Once you accept their blessing, you commit to protect the Constellation in exchange for access to their power. In the event that the Constellation is ever at war with another Constellation, you will be summoned to fight in their stead. Each Constellation usually spends millions of years rising in power, so they don't want to risk death by fighting on their own.

So once you accept their blessing, you are essentially their chess piece they can use at any time. They have nothing to lose since you stop using their power once you die fighting for them.

Even knowing this, almost everyone accepts because one, they don't want to be stuck at the peak of their cultivation, and two, they don't want to become the enemy of other Constellations.

### Constellation

There is another path, which is to become a Constellation yourself. It's an extremely lengthy process that involves claiming rogue Realms and refining their power. You need to rule at least a hundred Realms to even be considered one of them and be allowed to challenge other Constellations.

Unfortunately, before you can even reach that point, you will be targeted by everyone else in an attempt to steal your progress. King of Heaven is still too weak to even fall under the Constellations' radar.

Their closed community is another reason why Constellation targets talented individuals. Besides wanting to use them, they want to prevent the appearance of new competitors since you can no longer become a Constellation once you accept even a single Celestial Blessing. From that point onward, you are destined to become a chess piece and can only hope to open more Gates to have a higher chance of survival.

The Constellations have already reached the apex of existence, and to entertain each other, they compete to determine who is the strongest. They bet the ownership of their Realms during their challenges and rise in their ranking depending on how many Realms they own. Instead of possessing rogue Realms that take thousands of years to refine, it's easier to just take someone else's Realm. Everything is just one big competition.