Runes

## Introduction

Runes (符文道数) was cultivation technique created by the Rune Progenitor of the Fifth Mainland and allows for the creation and erasure of attacks, objects, and even people.

## Information

Runes was a cultivation method developed by the Rune Progenitor and the technique used to interact with runes was known as Truesight. To the cultivations, whether it was a being, an environment, or a planet, everything was formed from runes that can be manipulated or erased. The Runes present themselves as a unit which the more runes there are, the different degree of strength or power level If someone has all of their runes erased, they would cease to exist or die. Runes were not fixed, nor were they truly represent what the power level of a person or object is, due to using techniques or innate ability could temporarily increase the amount of runes one has.

Runes works in mysterious ways to those that do not know how Runes work could allow for surprising affects as it could decrease the strength of an attack without the enemy knowing or could weaken their defense.

Truesight can only work in the Fifth Mainland as it Runes only exist within the scope of the Fifth Mainland, it was only able to be used within the bounds of the Fifth Mainland. This was a severe restriction on this particular cultivation method, as Truesight practitioners were completely helpless and useless once they left the Fifth Mainland, however once one reaches the Infinity realm of Truesight, the mastery at this realm allows the user to use Runes whereever.

## Truesight

The main cultivation technique that manipulates Rune was Truesight. It has incredible capabilities that almost were on par with secret techniques. Runes were prevalent all around and almost everything has runes to represent their strength and their power. Every realm of Truesight allows further uses of runes and manipulation.

### Awakening Realm

* The first realm of Truesight was the Awakening Realm, which allowed the user to channel star energy into their eyes to see the runes of other people or objects. This can be useful to see things hidden or to see those that have what strength based on how many runes the object or person has.
* Being able to view runes allows the user to see hidden enemies even through cloaking techniques as their own presence has runes that is viewable to truesight users.

### Clarity Realm

* The second realm of Truesight was the Clarity Realm, which allowed the user to interact with the Runes manipulating external runes through their eyes. The user was capable of temporarily removing some runes, thus either weakening an object, an attack, or anything that has runes.

### Knowing Realm

* The third realm of Truesight was Knowing Realm, which controlled whether or not a person, thing, or place could influence the universe.This ability would ensured that one thing or place in would not be affected by another. If the latter had the ability to affect the former, then the latter’s ability would be weakened and possibly even completely erased. This was fundamentally different from erasing an object’s runes to weaken it overall. Instead of weakening the object by manipulating the individual runes, this new method was based entirely off of one’s mastery of Truesight.
* Allowed the user to create things out of Runes. It was mostly simple objects that are created but it contained immense power within the vessel.
* It is possible to create a screen around himself which when attacks passed through the screen, it removed a good portion of the attack's runes. If the attack was below the threshold of the screen, the whole attack could have it's runes erased before it could reach the user.
* At the Knowing Realm, it allowed one to use something as a point of reference, then, any attack could be rendered ineffective against the point of reference. Then, any attack could be rendered ineffective against the point of reference. A defensive use of the Truesight to guard against attacks on themselves.

### Infinity Realm

* At the Infinity realm, all battle techniques, skills, secret techniques, and innate gifts can be seen as runes with Truesight. The Truesight allows one to do more than merely observe and weaken the runes at this level—it can also force runes to change on the finest, most detailed level, which allows one to change the observed battle techniques and more. Essentially, the Infinity realm of mastery is a transformative level for Truesight where the practitioner is able alter the most primitive observable state to nullify an opponent's attack, and allow a user create something out of nothing.
* The mastery of the Infinity realm allowed the user to cause planets to disintegrate and be reassembled. They can transform someone else’s battle technique into his own, or even copy an opponent's battle technique, and able to even copy an innate gift to a certain degree.
* The Infinity realm of Truesight unlocks the Truesight the ability to be used outside of the Fifth Mainland as there only exists runes on the Fifth Mainland.

### Manifestation Realm

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* The failure of not reaching the Manifestation realm of Truesight results in the transformation of the user into a rune object and the object becomes one realm stronger. For example, The God of Flames had failed to reach this realm and as a result, the God of Flame had turned into a candle. The God of Flames was at most peak Envoy realm but once he became a candle, the candle could be used with the strength of a Semi-Progenitor realm.
* Lu Jian of the Lu family also studied Truesight but transformed into a Champions' Stage as a result of failing to reach this realm.

## Story

The Rune technology and truesight was created as a cultivation method that utilized star energy into it's own form of techniques, with the Rune Progenitor creating a whole civilization that used runes.

After the Fifth Mainland's defeat to the Sixth Mainland, they covered the sky of the Fifth Mainland, The Rune Progenitor alongside the Rune Civilization challenged the Sixth Mainland upstream of the Starfall Sea and it resulted in rivers of blood and mountains of corpses. This battle had led to the Sixth Mainland greatly weakening, and they had been unable to do anything to the Fifth Mainland afterwards. If this battle had never happened, the Sixth Mainland absolutely would not have stopped at merely replacing the Fifth Mainland’s sky, as they would enslave the entire Mainland.

After the war against the Sixth Mainland, the short-lived civilization had disappeared, and although they only lasted for a brief period of time, they had extremely powerful to the point where the Sixth Mainland had not dared to record them in history as a result.

The disappearance of the Rune Civilization had been lost and their knowledge had been erased or not been told due to the short lived nature of the civilization as well as the terrifying effects of Runes. In history there were a few relics and creations by which utilize runes and had been developed. The Gods' Origin from the Neoverse was the organizations which specialized in Rune Technology, and gathered any rune technology and relics remaining in the Fifth Mainland.

The Trial Zone of the Astral Combat Academy was a creation with Rune Technology while, the war spirit created by the Trial Zone were just replicas of the cultivator's runes. Accessing the top layer of the Sky Platform of the Dao of Purgatory allows one to awaken the first realm of the Truesight.

The Rune Progenitor left the rune cosmic phenomena with the Fifth Mainland as a means of protection, allowing the Fifth Mainland to defend themselves from from an invasion by limiting the power level of the those in the phenomena. Anything under the Progenitor realm that exceed the limit set by the phenomena would have their entire being erased. When the Seaking opened the Three Upper Gate that connected to the Sixth Mainland, the Innerverse and Outerverse were separated, the phenomena was used in the Innerverse and those that attack with anything above 200,000 power level would be instantly wiped out of existence by the runes. The Progenitor of Combat had tried to forcefully remove the rune phenomena but resulted in injury.

There are traces of Rune Civilization and inheritance left in the Burial Garden, with a statue of the Rune Progenitor. Those that enter the inheritance would be forced to kneel and pray in front of the statue.

## Trivia

* The Rune Technology made it's official debut on Chapter 245: Rune Technology

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1295
2. ↑ Chapter 1321
3. ↑ Chapter 1918
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 2158
5. ↑ Chapter 2159
6. ↑ Chapter 2067