Cultivation

Cultivation is a process of detachment, to break free from the shackles of fate and the rules of the world. In order to break free one must cultivate the Qi, Spirit, Essence, Dao, Dao heart, or all.

* [Qi] represents the spiritual energy that permeates throughout all worlds and the primordial chaos. However spiritual qi is only a catalyst and cannot be directly used, but instead changed into different types of energy that fit to a cultivation system.
* [Spirit] is about the soul, it is the energy of souls and spirts. The soul, of course controls a person's memories, personality, comprehension, and consciousness.
* [Essence] is about the energy of the body. It determines how strong a persons body is and can be cultivated by cultivating the body.
* The [Dao Heart] is more nuanced and harder to cultivate than the others. It is about ones goals, state of mind, will, morals, and views combined.
* The [Dao] or [Laws] is about understanding and controlling the laws of the world. The Law can be controlled by either Qi, Spirit, Essence or Dao Heart.

There is more than one type of Cultivation System, some examples are the Origin Path System, Spiritual Foundation System, Star Beast System, Martial Exterior System, and others. But all Cultivation Systems follow a set of rules:

-The Mortal stage can only have 9 Great Realms (Only applies to Source Chaos Worlds).

-The Immortal Stage has 3 Great Realms (Only applies to Source Chaos Worlds).

-There are five things that cultivation systems can cultivate, Body, Soul, Qi, Law, and Dao heart. They can specialize in just one or combine any mix of the five.

-Most Cultivation systems involve the Laws in the later stages. Pure energy systems that don't incorporate Laws are looked down on by Emperors as they are training people to be Immortal Venerables, the weakest path to immortality.

-The universal way to refer to Realms is by tiers, Mortal Stages go from Tier 1 to Tier 9, and Immortal Stages go from Tier 10 to Tier 12.

-The maximum lifespan a Mortal can achieve is 1 Yuan Epoch.

## Immortal Stages

The final destination of all cultivation systems can be summarized into three paths: the Emperor Path, the Dao Path, and the Immortal Path–which corresponded with the three realms of Great Emperor, Dao Ancestor, and Immortal Venerable.

The Emperor Path is the superior one, and the difference in strength between the other two is quite vast. An ordinary Great Emperor can easily slaughter hundreds of Dao Ancestors and ten thousand Immortal Venerables; the gap is simply immeasurable. However, there are people called Insurgence Heaven Chosen who can close that gap and defeat Great Emperor in the same level. Ultimately most go with Emperor Path if not then the Dao path. The Immortal Path is looked at with disdain out of the three, because they are the weakest.

Each one of the Immortal Stages path uses a different ways to achieve immortality. The Immortal Path uses energy to achieve immortality. The Dao Path turns itself into a world to achieve immortality. The God path uses the Soul to achieve immortality. The True Power Dao Path uses the body to achieve immortality. The Heaven Path uses bloodline to achieve Immortality. Meanwhile, the Emperor Path achieve immortality by understanding laws.

Some immortal stages also use different laws. Great Emperors use Grand Dao Law Source. Fiendgods use primordial laws. Primarchs uses Innate Laws.

### Difference between Mortal and Immortal

Quasi-Emperor to Immortal Venerable

15 Great Realms

Quasi-Emperor to Dao Ancestor

25 Great Realms

Quasi-Emperor to Great Emperor

40 Great Realms

**Normal Chaos Worlds**

In normal Chaos Worlds cultivators go through the 15-40 great realms skipped by Source Chaos World Cultivators. Every Normal Chaos world has a unique cultivation system and doesn't rely on the three paths to immortality that are used in Source Chaos worlds.

#### Immortal Path/Qi Path

 11

#### True Power Dao Path/Body Path

 11
 12

#### Spiritual Fortune Dynasty Path

 11