Cultivation/Martial Talent

## **Martial Talent**

**Martial Talent** was the grade of a martial artist, be it Grade One Martial Talent or Grade Two, it is simply the measure of the speed and ease with which their body could absorb primal energies. The faster they could absorb primal energies, the higher their martial talent would be.

### **Overview**

Cultivation was one of the most important factors of strength.

For a peak first stage Life Destruction martial artist going against a seventh stage Life Destruction martial artist, it wasn’t just one's comprehensive battle prowess would be suppressed through the absolute disparity in their boundaries.

In the end, one’s cultivation was the most essential factor in one’s combat strength. This was because it directly correlated to how much true essence a martial artist held within them.

Occasionally, some people would be born with **Innate Divine Strength**. With great strength comes great speed. Naturally, they would have an advantage in battles. as martial cultivation progresses, the primal energies become more important and the effect that one’s innate strength has becomes correspondingly smaller.

### **Jumping Ranks**

The essence of talent in the martial world are separated in three main ways - Perception, Cultivation Speed, and Combat Prowess. Without all three, then you can only be considered a mediocre of talent one path with limited growth. Take Ling Sen for example, a fighting genius that could jump ranks and is invincible in his own boundary but was sorely lacking in his cultivation speed.

For true martial prodigies, then a martial artist is able to jump ranks in order to fight, they are considered a combat genius. If they are able to maintain their ability to fight higher ranking masters, then they are considered as monstrous talents. This is especially true in higher realms:

Logically speaking, ***in the path of martial arts, the disparity in gaps of cultivation increased the further one went.*** The difference between late Pulse Condensation and Houtian realm was lesser compared with the early Houtian realm and late Houtian realm. Continuing this logic, the late Houtian realm and Xiantian realm was much less than the difference between an early Revolving Core and late Revolving Core master.

Thus, one can see how increasingly difficult it is to be a martial genius of the world.

### **Martial Potential**

A martial artist’s talent was similar to their potential, but there were some slight differences.

Talent was a martial artist’s true comprehensive combat strength in comparison to their age. At the same age, those that were stronger had the greater talent. At the same strength, those that were younger had the greater talent.

* For example: an extreme genius of the lower realms like Duanmu Qun could jump ranks to fight, but that was only compared to other more ordinary geniuses. If he compared himself to someone with his own level of talent, then half a small boundary of difference in cultivation was a nearly insurmountable gap.
* For a peerless genius, their combat strength amongst others of their realm was far, far more important than their cultivation speed!
* Potential is cultivation realm limited (divided) by age, someone at Revolving Core at 30 years can be considered as a Saint or Emperor Grade but someone at Revolving Core at 60 years won't be even a Saint Grade Talent, but there are many people who reach Revolving core even after 60 years of life.

If one’s cultivation was low but they could jump ranks to fight, this indicated that they had tremendous potential.

But if one’s cultivation was high and their strength was only on par with those of their realm, that was a sign they would only be able to cultivate for another realm or two before exhausting all their potential.

After all, in a true battle, what decided victory or defeat was actual combat strength. Comprehension of Laws was only an indicator of one’s future potential and accomplishments. If one had great attainments in Laws, it was still useless if they couldn’t defeat someone else.

But potential measures the future growth of a martial artist. A high talent didn’t necessarily mean a great potential. There were many eighth stage Life Destruction Divine Sea powerhouses that for all sorts of various reasons could surpass a ninth stage Life Destruction Divine Sea powerhouse in strength. But in terms of potential, they would be surpassed at some point.

In order for an ordinary genius to rise to the ranks of peerless genius, a martial artist should not only have immense talent in cultivation and perception but must also have experienced the arduous path of martial arts. For one to truly step on the path of becoming a peerless emperor, a martial artist must have experienced the winds and rain, the winding corridors of fate and most of all slaughter, to stand above thousands of stepping stones and rivers of blood.

It is because a genius of martial arts is like a treasure spear. The materials and array formation used to forge it were all top class of top class ingredients, but it simply hadn’t been sharpened yet.

Of course, only by practicing beyond one's limits may a martial artist truly bloom into glory. This process happens when one exerts themselves to the point of exhaustion, resulting in the increase of true essence and foundation!

This is because a martial artist’s body was similar to a lake, and true essence was the water within. Every time a martial artist exhausted their true essence and pushed it past the limits, that was the same as digging in the lake and making it even deeper. This process made one’s foundation more solid.

With a deep foundation the potential would be immense. But if it wasn’t sharp enough then a genius wouldn’t be able to display its true strength. First he had to sharpen and whet himself in the martial road, creating a keen edge. This would allow a martial artist to quickly bloom in terrifying glory.

### **Raising a peak genius**

The path of martial arts was filled with risks. Countless geniuses fell midway in their path, their bones littering the earth.

* The birth of every Revolving Core powerhouse was atop the piles of bones from numerous middle class geniuses.
* The birth of every Life Destruction powerhouse was also from atop a pile of top class geniuses.
* As for a Peerless Emperor, they were born from the endless corpses of Saint level talents!

A genius was never created in a single stroke. The only exceptions were those like Xiao Moxian, who were naturally destined to be monstrous geniuses by birth. As for the lower realms, most geniuses slowly accumulated their strength over time.

The process of a genius’s growth wasn’t something accomplished with only seclusion. There were only extremely old martial artists that were stuck at a boundary for tens of thousands of years and would then go into deep closed-door seclusion, either making a breakthrough or dying in the process.

Of course, these people would have no progress in the future.

The birth of a true genius not only depended on their naturally born will, perception, martial talent, or even the struggle of their destiny. There was also the struggle of resources, background, and inheritances. Otherwise, no matter how talented a genius was, they would still be wasted if they weren’t cultivated.

In the end, a true genius would need the resources of a great influence to truly bloom. But, to what extent a peerless genius would reach, that is an enigma of fate...

### **Destiny**

Although there were a great amount of heroic elites across the land, one could say it would be extremely hard for a single one of them to reach the level of an Empyrean.

This was because there were far too many factors involved in the growth of a talent. Even if a martial artist seemed extraordinary now, there might be some problems on their future road of martial arts. For instance, maybe they would exhaust all of her potential or all of their destiny. They might even go adventuring in a mystic realm and perish there!

Even if a genius died, they might be lost within the rising talents in the future. A genius needed destiny and lucky chances to continue walking down the road of martial arts.

For this type of person to grow to such a degree, their life must inevitably be extremely tough. Those that plotted against them might find their plans bouncing back on them instead. A calamity that would annihilate a normal genius would be turned into an opportunity by this youth.

But these types of people are incredibly rare, it was like having 9 chances of dying while having only one chance of surviving. If that was so, many people would think hard about weighing the gains and the losses. But the martial world was filled with perils, and if one did not go far as to fight for their destiny then they were not true martial artists. Only those who survive perils and mind-boggling dangers could truly become a peak talent.

Thus, there would be far too few martial artists that could truly bloom and become a peerless powerhouse. Compared to the countless martial artists across the 33 Heavens, only mere hundreds could truly become peak experts and lords of their domain.

#### **Lucky Chances**

To an extreme talent, if a lucky chance was placed in front of them, they had to go all out to obtain it even if the chances of survival were slimmer than a hair.

But, sometimes, just sometimes, in a situation where one couldn’t grasp the circumstances and variables involved, one would need to give up. And giving up also took enormous determination.

## **Mortal World Martial Talent(Lower Realms)**

> *"Of the several factors that formed a genius, martial talent was at the end. But, this didn’t mean that it was unimportant. On the contrary, martial talent was actually indispensable. It was just that in the Divine Realm there were many different methods to increase one’s martial talent, thus it wasn’t considered too important." c1038*
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Martial Talent at base (body transformation stages) is something like Essence gathering and assimilation rate divided by time.

* Willpower (Battle Spirit)
* Soul(Spiritual Sea): Laws Perception, Martial Intent, Battle Spirit and Essence control

Talent is battlepower divided by age. Ability to overcome others of the same age and realm.

### **No talent**

* Ordinary individuals that are unable to cultivate
* A 30 year old martial artist was in the prime of their youth.
* A 40 year old martial artist already began to age, bones rusting, and the weathering of time begins.

### **Common Grade (1/2/3)**

> *"It had to be known that a normal medium third-grade martial artist, if they started cultivating at the age of 12, and were not supported by any special top-quality pills, then they would be able to reach the early Bone Forging stage by the time they were 40 years old. This period was at least 30 years!"* c136
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* 1st Grade. Flesh Training before 30 years means 1st Grade Talent

* 2nd Grade. Viscera Training before 30 years means 2nd Grade Talent

* 3rd Grade. Altering Muscle at 30 years means 3rd Grade Talent
	+ 1x cultivation speed for 3rd Grade
	+ Ex. Lan Yunyue

### **Human Grade (4)**

* Low Grade
	+ 1.25x cultivation speed
	+ Altering Muscles before 30 years
	+ Ex. Ling Sen
* Medium Grade
	+ 1.5x cultivation speed
	+ Bone Forging before 30 years
	+ "For a medium fourth-grade martial artist, if they started in a similar situation at 12 years of age and also didn’t utilize any top-tier pills or cultivation methods, they would reach the early Bone Forging stage when they were 30 years old. This period was 20 years." c136
	+ Ex. Wang Yuhan
* Superior Grade
	+ 1.75x cultivation speed
	+ Peak Bone Forging before 30 years
	+ Ex. Ta Ku, Wang Yanfeng, Huayu
* Concept Level
	+ No concepts grasped at all - rudimentary small success at Xiantian in a large world.

* Pulse Condensation realm at 30 years old is a peak Human Grade Talent
	+ A 30 year old martial artist was in the prime of his youth. They had a hope of breaking through to the Pulse Condensation Period, thus extending the period of their growth, and their strength would also greatly improve. They would be like a carp that became a dragon.

### **Earth Grade (5)**

* Low Grade
	+ 2x cultivation speed
	+ Pulse Condensation before 30 years
	+ Ex. Zhang Guanyu
* Medium Grade
	+ 2.50x cultivation speed
	+ Peak Pulse Condensation before 30 years
	+ Ex. Liang Long
* Superior Grade
	+ 3x cultivation speed
	+ Houtian before 30 years
* Concept Level
	+ No concepts grasped at all - rudimentary large success at Xiantian in a large world.
* Late Houtian at 30 years means peak Earth Grade Talent
* Considered ordinary in a Third-Grade Sect.

### **Heaven Grade (6)**

With a sixth-grade talent, one would be a once-in-a-generation talent within Sky Fortune Kingdom. Within the Seven Profound Valleys, a sixth-grade talent was at the upper echelons. But placed within Divine Phoenix Island, a sixth-grade talent was only so-so.

> *"A sixth grade talent, this was not a joke. Many people did not know Qin Xingxuan’s cultivation, but Wang Yanfeng knew. She was at the peak of the Fourth Stage of Body Cultivation. She was similar to Ling Sen(4th, low) in cultivation, but she was younger than him by five years(20 vs 15)!"*
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* Low Grade
	+ 3.50x cultivation speed
	+ Peak Houtian before 30 years
* Medium Grade
	+ 4x cultivation speed
	+ Xiantian before 30 years
	+ Ex. Qin Xingxuan, Ouyang Ming (?), Jiang Lanjian (?), Mugu Buyu (?)
		- Divine Phoenix Island was a top fourth-grade sect. With her sixth-grade talent, she was a once-in-a-generation talent within Sky Fortune Kingdom.
		- Within the Seven Profound Valleys, her talent was also good. But if she were placed in Divine Phoenix Island, her talent was only ordinary.
		- Within Divine Phoenix Islands, most of the maids there were at least inferior sixth-grade talents. c417
* Superior Grade
	+ 4.50x cultivation speed
	+ Mid Xiantian before 30 years
	+ Ex. Jiang Baoyun (?),
* Concept Level
	+ Small Success - rudimentary great perfection at Revolving Core in a large world.
* Late Xiantian realm before 30 years means peak Heaven Grade Talent, but slim chances for Life Destruction survivability due to cultivation quality, actually it will be hard to reach Extreme Revolving Core realm.
* Revolving Core before 50 means peak Heaven Grade Talent, at 100 Low(est).
* **Note**: Impossible to naturally breakthrough in Revolving Core after 100.

### **Saint Grade (7)**

> *"Mu Qianyu had reached Pulse Condensation at 15, the Houtian realm at 17, the Xiantian realm at 22, and the extreme Xiantian realm at only 26 years. Now, she was already a half-step into the Revolving Dan realm; breaking through was only a matter of time." c215*
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* Low Grade
	+ 5x cultivation speed
	+ Late Xiantian before 30 years
	+ Ex. Zhou Lie, Huo Ruyan, Bai Aoxuan, Zhan Yunjian
	+ Considered second grade talents in a top-fourth grade sect.
* Medium Grade
	+ 5.50x cultivation speed
	+ Extreme Xiantian before 30 years
	+ Ex. Mu Qingshu, Muk Gu, Ming Sun
* Superior Grade
	+ 6x cultivation speed
	+ Revolving Core before 30 years
	+ Ex. Mu Qianyu, Mu Bingyun, Xuan Ji, Muk Qing
* Concept Level
	+ Large Success - 1st Level Law at Life Destruction in a large world.
* Revolving Core at 30 years means Peak Saint Grade Talent, at 50 - Low(est)
* A Saint level talent would stop growing at the first-second stage of Life Destruction
* 1st Life Destruction at 50 years means Peak Saint Grade Talent
	+ Slim chances for Divine Sea before 100 years due to Life Destruction survivability and cultivation quality and speed, but with great lucky chances Divine Sea is possible.
	+ All talents before this limited only by energy resources and True Essence cultivation methods, Saint Grade Talent requires Perception for Laws and developed Soul for Essence control to progress in Life Destruction (Spiritual Body).
	+ The younger a martial artist was, the easier it was for them to make breakthroughs. Once they were old, the progress they could make would be limited. If they wasted their time and their potential was exhausted, then they would at most become a top tier talent like Nanyun Wang. But, they would never become an Emperor level powerhouse.
* In terms of talent, it was easier to raise the more mundane one was. For an ordinary talent to become a Saint level talent, all they would need was a single great lucky chance. For instance, two drops of Ancient Phoenix blood.
* As for a Saint level talent rising to an Emperor level talent, that would require the accumulation of several lucky chances. In addition, a martial artist would also need to have extraordinary natural talent to begin with.

### **Emperor Grade (8)**

> *The definition of an Emperor level talent only meant that one had a small ray of hope for becoming a true Emperor level powerhouse. In fact, one could call themselves an Emperor level talent, but of these so-called Emperor level talents, the vast majority were not able to become a Peerless Emperor.*
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> *Maybe they exhausted their potential, maybe they weren’t able to persist, or perhaps their destiny was lacking and they perished, but even between Emperor level talents there were massive gaps, otherwise Emperor powerhouses would not be so exceedingly rare. Chp 580*
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* Low Grade
	+ Mid Revolving Core before 30 years
	+ Ex. Xing Yang, Lan Xing, Yan Chi, Da Gu, Xun Ji
	+ Lower Prince of a Divine Kingdom
	+ Divine Sea at 200 for Lowest Emperor Grade Talent
	+ LD before 50 years means Low(est) Emperor Grade Talent c767(Revolving Core at 30)
	+ A normal Emperor level talent would be able to reach the Revolving Core realm at around 25 or 26 years of age.
	+ A general Emperor level talent would step into Life Destruction at 50 years of age. From that point on, they would pass a stage of Life Destruction every 7-8 years, finally reaching a maximum of six or seven stages.
* Medium Grade
	+ 1st Life Destruction before 30 years
	+ Direct Prince of a Divine Kingdom
	+ Ex. Li Yifeng, Situ Chuan, Situ Bai, Ouye Qun
	+ At least 6 stage Life Destruction before reaching Divine Sea
	+ Has a high chance of reaching the Divine Sea, however, progressing any further than the early Divine Sea would be difficult.
* Superior Grade
	+ 2nd Life Destruction before 30 years
	+ High Prince of a Divine Kingdom
	+ Ex. Duanmu Qun, Lan Xin, Feng Shen, Zhuan Yu, Situ Luosha, Situ Haotian
	+ They often reached the Revolving Core realm at 24 or 25 years of age, and then stepped into the Life Destruction realm at 30 to 40 years of age.
	+ For upper Emperor talents, becoming a Peerless Emperor was as good as settled unless they died. But, the question was whether or not they could maintain this momentum, how many stages of Life Destruction they would pass, and how far they could reach.
	+ The level of a heaven-step Asura of the King's Cage.
	+ 6th or 7th Quasi-Emperor LD before 100 years old for peak Emperor Grade Talent
* Quasi - Hallowed Lord
	+ 3rd Life Destruction before 30 years
	+ Ex. Situ Yaoyue, Yang Mu
	+ Usually has a divine trait or variation such as the Extreme Violet Dantian, or is extremely skilled in the Laws.
	+ Barely the level of a Titled Asura of the King's Cage.
	+ 7-8 Quasi-Emperor LD for ***Closest to Highest Under the Heavens***
* Concept Level
	+ 1st Level Law at Life Destruction - 3rd Level Law in a large world.
* At least 2nd level laws for Inner World and Spiritual Body
* Having a Life of an Emperor.
* An Emperor level talent had the qualifications to step into the Divine Sea.
* The path from Revolving Core to Peerless Emperor is truly a long and unbearable road. Reach Xiantian at 20, break into Revolving Core before 30, Extreme Revolving Core before 50, and become a Peerless Emperor at 100 years! c392 & c510

* "The best chance for a martial artist to attack the Divine Sea realm was before they were 100 years old. If they couldn’t accomplish this then their chances of success would lower more and more with every following year. **After they reached 200 years of age, it was basically impossible for them to ever hope of breaking through on their own.**" c855

* The Sky Spill Continent was too limited. Not to mention the resources, but the environment and inheritances there were simply a blank slate. In the Sky Spill Continent, for the inheritances of Concepts and Laws to reach the **second or third boundary, that was already first class**. As for the seven or eight boundaries behind that, no one in the Sky Spill Continent had even heard of them before. c876

### **Hallowed Lord(of Mortal World) Grade (9)**

* Also known in the Sky Spill Continent as **Highest Under the Heavens.**
	+ Ex. Hao Gan, Emperor Argent
	+ Eightfall Divine Sea before 80
	+ Having reached a cultivation at extreme Divine Sea but has yet to breakthrough.
* At least 7 stage Life Destruction to reach Divine Transformation Realm without many external support.
* At least 3rd level laws for Inner World and Divine Body.
* Evidence: There were many accounts in the novel about Hallowed Lords, such as the Hallowed Lord in the Holy Demon Continent that died under a dragon claw, one in Sky Spill Continent, and also martial artists that have been rumored to have ascended the martial void, **but never mentioned that there was talent was higher than Emperor Grade(8)**, normally anyone with Divine Sea Cultivation Realm must ascend to Divine Realm due to resources scarcity of Sky Spill Continent's planet
* And above an Emperor level talent, if one wanted to rise to the ranks of Huo Wenlong and Huo Yu, that was even more difficult. At that time, something that might be a great lucky chance to a Saint level talent might only be standard treasure for someone like Huo Wenlong.
	+ Yang Yun can be considered at least a Peak Divine Transformation Talent

## King’s Cage Talent Ranking

### Common

* Divided into low, medium, and high grade

### Saint

* Divided into low, medium, and high grade

### Asura

* Divided into human-step, earth-step, and heaven-step grade

## Upper Level Universe Martial Talent(33 Heavens)

### **Cultivating Genius**

In the *Martial World* universe, elites are determined mainly by their background and aptitude for cultivation. But true geniuses are those with impressive determination, extraordinary potential, and the indomitable will to overcome hardships, just like a moth walking towards the flame.

In their youth, many heroes destined to become powerhouses have had the so-called 'Life of an Emperor'. Meaning that everything that they did was flawless, miraculous and that their destiny would be so great that no matter what happens they would never die. Rather it would be their enemies that would die a tragic death, creating their legend. This would occur until they had exhausted their potential and ultimately die.

**Note: author reworked demands for Laws after Ninefall arc.**

* "Of these nine Concepts, each one was more difficult than the last. **If one could pass the sixth or the seventh Concept, then they could become a Holy Lord within the Realm of the Gods**. If one could rush past the ninth Concept, then that would mean they had fully comprehended the source Laws of Fire, having a strength as if they were a god of fire incarnate!" с730
* "**Comprehend seven to eight Concepts and become a Holy Lord**. Thoroughly comprehend the nine levels of Concepts and reincarnate as a God of Fire!" c731

### **Divine Sea Talent(1)**

* At least 6 stage Life Destruction to reach Divine Sea Realm without external support
* At least 2nd level Laws for creating Spiritual Body, opening and grooming Inner World and breakthrough
* At least 3rd level Laws to be considered talented
* Divine Sea at 100 and below for Peak Divine Sea Talent, Divine Sea at 200 for Lowest Divine Sea Talent.
* "The best chance for a martial artist to attack the Divine Sea realm was before they were 100 years old. If they couldn’t accomplish this then their chances of success would lower more and more with every following year. After they reached 200 years of age, it was basically impossible for them to ever hope of breaking through on their own." c855
* "A Life Destruction martial artist over 100 years of age would find it hard to break into the Divine Sea, but a Divine Transformation martial artist over a thousand years old still had a chance of entering the Divine Lord realm. A 10,000 year old Divine Lord martial artist could even increase their cultivation by small boundaries during the Divine Lord realm. The only problem was if they wished to cultivate to a higher realm." с993

### **Divine Transformation Talent(2)**

* At least 7 stage Life Destruction to reach Divine Transformation Realm without many external support
* At least 3rd level Laws for Inner World and Divine Body and breaktrought
* At least 4th level Laws to be considered talented
* Divine Sea before 50
* Divine Transformation at 120 and below for Peak Divine Transformation Talent
* "In fact, most Firebird Hall disciples didn’t even have the ability to step into the eighth stage of Life Destruction; **it was already excellent if they stepped into the Divine Sea with a seventh stage Life Destruction cultivation. If they didn’t have some great lucky chance, it’d simply be impossible for them to reach Divine Transformation**." с990

### **Divine Lord Talent(3)**

* At least 8 stage Life Destruction to reach Divine Lord Realm with too much external support
* At least 4th level Laws to breaktrought
* At least 5th level Laws to be considered talented
* Divine Sea at 33
* Divine Transformation at 50
* Divine Lord at 120 and below for Peak Divine Lord Talent
* Divine Lord at 1000 for Lowest Divine Lord Talent
* Ranked 10 million and above in the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting
* "The senior disciples no longer had any value in raising, and all junior disciples were required to be younger than 33. '**'In the Divine Realm, a martial artist could be considered the cream of the crop if they could cultivate to the early Divine Sea by the age of 33**''. In Phoenix Cry Palace, nearly all of these disciples were gathered at Phoenix Hall. All other hall disciples were at the eighth stage of Life Destruction or below." сh990

### **Holy Lord Talent(4)**

* Reached 9th stage of Life Destruction and baptized by 7-12 Layered Heavens
* At least 5th level Laws to breaktrought
* At least 6th level Laws to be considered talented
* Holy Lord at 1000 and below for Peak Holy Lord Talent
* Holy Lord at 10000 or slightly higher for mediocre Holy Lord Talent
* A peerless talent among Holy Lord influences
* Ranked 500,000 of the First Divine Martial Meeting
* The standard of becoming a Holy Lord talent meant that they were prodigious during their Divine Sea and Divine Transformation. Normally, such a talent had a good cultivation method and accumulation
	+ In truth, for a genius of Crimson Strifecloud’s level, it was extremely easy for him to break through the earlier realms. **If he wanted to he could have stepped into the Divine Sea at 26-27 years of age**. But, there was no reason to do that. ch1037
	+ The entire audience was completely bewildered. Even those Holy Lords and World Kings were utterly shocked. 16 spatial mirror images meant that Dragon Fang had touched upon the sixth level Concept of the Space Laws!
	Although he had only touched the sixth level Concept, he was still many steps away from reaching it. Even so, this accomplishment left one trembling in fear! “These juniors are too terrifying!” “An ordinary half-step Holy Lord would have reached this level! In terms of the comprehension of Laws alone, Dragon Fang has reached the standard of a half-step Holy Lord!” ch1298

### **World King & Great World King Talent(5/6)**

* 9th stage of Life Destruction and baptized by 13-18 Layered Heavens for ordinary World King and 19-24 for Great World King
* World King - At least 7th level Laws to be considered talented
* Great World King - At least 8th level Laws to be considered talented
* World King at 10000 and below for Peak Wold King Talent, almost no chances to break through after 25000 c1037
* World King at 3000 and below for Peak Great World King Talent ch1841
* Can rank in the top 1,000 of the Divine Realm Martial Meeting. For those that can reach the Great World King realm, they can reach at least the top 100s.
* It is not easy to be recognized as a young World King due to, most of the time, the lack of resources in the Divine Realm, even with talent alone. Hence, only with promising achievements in cultivation will one be scouted by great influences and gain access to such resources. Since one cannot grow spontaneously without resources as a martial artist, even if one were very gifted in cultivation.
* To step onto the throne of a World King, one had to encounter many lucky chances. They had to have a great will, great intelligence, a strong heart of martial arts, heaven-defying talent, the direction of skilled masters, and countless resources stacked upon each other. Only when everything came together would one have a small chance of achieving such a boundary.
* Examples are Nether Limitless, Yuwen Bo, Purple Blade.

### **Empyrean Talent(7)**

* 9th stage Life Destruction and baptized by 25-30 Layered Heavens
* At least 9th level Laws to be considered talented

* Great World King below 3000, Empyrean at 10000 means Peak Empyrean Talent. ch1841
* An extreme Empyrean Talent can fight martial artists within a gap of one large boundary until they reach World King Realm. Meaning at Holy Lord, they can contend with ordinary World King Realm martial artists
* Can easily rank in the top 10 of the Divine Realm First Martial Arts Meeting
* Potential from an early age has been monstrous and abnormal compared to usual genius-level talents
	+ To become a World King by 3000 years of age, anyone who could accomplish this was a genius amongst geniuses.
* Examples are Mo Evernsnow(Before), Empyrean Demondawn, Empyrean Vast Universe.

* "To become a World King by 3000 years of age, anyone who could accomplish this was a genius amongst geniuses. As for becoming a Great World King by 3000 years of age, that was a true monstrous genius. This sort of person could easily become an Empyrean before they were 10,000 years old, and in the future they would likely become an extreme Empyrean with even a small chance of attacking the True Divinity realm. This type of person was exceedingly rare even in the entire Soul World." ch1841
* Amongst Empyrean talents, there are those with chances of breaking through into True Divinity.
	+ Examples are Hang Chi, Jun Bluemoon, Dragon Fang.

### **True Divinity Talent(8)**

* 9th stage Life Destruction and baptized by 31-33 Layered Heavens
* At least 9th level Laws at Great Perfection to break through to True Divinity
* Touch 10th level Law at half-step True Divinity to be considered talented
* Having undergone great transformations during their martial road
* Great World King below 3000, Empyrean before 10000 means Lowest True Divinity Talent ch1841
* True Divinity before 5,000,000 for Lowest True Divinity Talent. (ch\* 18 Abyss Arc)

* Can jump ranks even at Early Empyrean Realm
* Only the most extreme talents of a race along with having immense potential are those capable of reaching true divinity.
* Examples are Xiao Moxian, Good Fortune Saint Son, Fairy Blue Lotus.
	+ Supreme Elders could live on for more than a million years and ancient kings of the world could live on for a hundred million years. To these rulers that lived for such a long time, several thousand years was nothing more than a blink of an eye. However, to geniuses on the level of the Good Fortune Saint Sovereign, a few thousand years was enough to have them grow to a terrifying boundary.

### **Limit True Divinity Talent**

* Characters with talent and potential even surpassing that of a standard True Divinity or is outstanding even amongst young True Divinities.
* Can face multiple peak Empyreans at early Empyrean.
* Examples are Sheng Mei, Lin Huang, Lin Jiu Er, Divine Seal, and Divine Dream.

### **Beyond True Divinity(9)**

* Absolutely having 100% completion after the Final Trial at the Asura Road.
* Has the potential of creating his own Law at Dao level, but not whole Dao.
* Can rival martial artists who are two large boundaries above them without the aid of artifacts at the level of the cube, bead and card until they reach True Divinity
* Can jump ranks even at True Divinity
* Transcendent progress and development in terms of every facet of one's martial road starting at the beginning and the extreme levels of cultivation.
* Has grown to have overpowered capabilities even up and beyond large boundaries and mostly bypassing them.
* There have been countless of talents in the past yet only Asura, Immortal Sovereign and even the Demon Lord could achieve this boundary. But even they were not considered talents above divinity since they had only achieved their boundary by mastery through a comprehensive study.
* Only the peerless **Demon God** before the Great Universal Cataclysm and **Lin Ming** could be considered a talent 'Beyond' what a god could become.
* **Having countless miracles and unsurpassed transformations in their martial road**
	+ Limitless

## Based on Asura Road Final Trial

* 60-69% possibly Great World King
* 70-79% possibly Empyrean
* 80-89% possibly True Divinity
* 90-100% possibly Extreme True Divinity

True God

* with 85%-87% completion, one is said to have a good chance to breakthrough into True Divinity.
* with 90% and above completion, one has an assured chance of reaching True Divinity; and an outstanding True Divinity at that.
	+ Limit - True Divinity at the utmost limit

1. ↑ Chapter 7 - Innate Divine Strength?[1]