C-Grade

## Requirements

* Rare Class
* Peak-Quality, Peak-Stage Cosmic Core
* Successfully form your **Inner World - Book 5, Page 516**

## Inner World

* "The treasure has formed an internal world, just like a C-Grade Monarch!" **Chapter 657**
* "There was one more usage for the Seed from what Urd understood. It could be used as a foundation upon creating the Inner Sanctum of a C-Grade Monarch. It would help create a world so powerful that it might even have enough potential to take that mythical next step. The vaunted B-Grade." **Chapter 489**
* The problem all Monarchs faced, whether Cultivator or Mortal, Boundless or Heavenly, was the constant energy drain. Inner Worlds could draw energy from the cosmos, but no C-grade cultivator could form a perfect dimension. Accordingly, what leaked through the imperfections was more than what they received. Just staying afloat required diligent cultivation to supplement the natural influx. Even that wasn't enough for Monarchs on the frontier, where heritages were shallow and the energy thin. They also had to supplement their Inner Worlds with mountains of treasure. **Chapter 1,184**
* Technically, crossing each threshold of Monarchy was an opportunity to alleviate the drain by improving your Inner World. In reality, the deficit usually got much worse. A breakthrough drastically expanded the Inner World, increasing its power and energy requirements alike. You would have a harder time keeping up even if the world quality remained the same. **Chapter 1,184**

## Dao Body

* In a sense, his body couldn't be fully considered one of flesh anymore. He was moving closer to a Dao Body, something cultivators normally only gained after stepping into Monarchy. By that point, their true being was the world they nurtured inside their body, while their outer body could be considered just a projection of themselves. **Chapter 995**

## Divine Monarch

* As for Divine Monarchs, he’d heard something about it before. Apparently, it was a stage similar to a Half-Step D-grade cultivator. But while Half-Step D-grade essentially signified failure, a Divine Monarch was the opposite. Each grade evolution was a larger step than the one before, and required preparations to even attempt reaching B-grade. Zac didn’t know the details, but if you managed to become a Divine Monarch, you essentially had the base qualifications to attempt a breakthrough. **Book 8, Page 31**
* “No, you can’t. But there is a straightforward method to get out of here,” the man smiled. “You simply need to confirm your Dao.” “What!” a man roared. “Become a Divine Monarch? Why not ask us to defend our Dao while we’re at it!” **Book 9, Page 249**

## Tribulations

* Most Monarchs would never encounter one, instead facing Grand Minor Tribulations and two-cycle tribulations like Saeward. **Chapter 1,184**
* Only the utmost geniuses throughout the Multiverse had the luxury of improving their foundations while expanding their world. However, there was one circumstance that could significantly stem the drain—the Four Desolates Tribulation. **Chapter 1,184**

## Mortals

* Zac hadn't found a single example of a Mortal going beyond Early C-grade to this day, proving just how hopeless the situation was. **Chapter 1,184**

## False Stage

Opening a proto-space wasn't the only path to the C-grade. One could even say it wasn't the right one, since it apparently limited the Inner World's size and potential. Furthermore, taking that step was irreversible. If this general failed to open an inner world within 1,000 years or so, the proto-space would collapse, destroying the Cosmic Core and taking his life.

Despite the downsides, almost all Monarchs on the frontier used this method instead of the orthodox paths. After all, it split the breakthrough into two steps with a consolidation period between them, which drastically lowered the difficulty. And if you survived opening the proto space, you'd enjoy a millennia of Half-step power. **Ch 1,161**

## Commentary

* It was no wonder that Monarchy was considered one of the great watersheds within cultivation, where it was almost impossible for D-grade Cultivators to put up a fight. **Chapter 1,092**