Immortal Cultivation System

The **Immortal Cultivation System** is the path above the nine mortal realms, and divided into either the **Immortal Pathway** or **Transcendent Pathway**.

## **Information**

After passing their Heavenly Tribulation, one forms their Immortal Vessels; one for the soul and another one that connects Essence Gathering and Body Tempering Cultivation. The Immortal Vessel that connects the soul is known as the Immortal Soul Vessel. They practically overlap each other like a sphere enveloping another half of a sphere. They're interconnected yet not connected at the same time. Hence, they're separate and have their own conditions to form and improve.

Depending on the type of Immortal Vessel one forms, their prowess in the Immortal Realms will vary. However, there are variations, having an Immortal Grade Physique can complement an Immortal Vessel, causing its prowess to spike depending on the quality of the Physique.

### Quasi-Immortal Stage

Quasi-Immortals, also called Immortal Children, are those born as immortals. As explained by Founder Alstreim, the Quasi-Immortal Stage is not an official realm per se, rather, it is considered the immortal amalgamation of the mortal realm, visible only in children who are born with an immortal vessel that's slowly forming from the moment they are born until they turn sixteen. At this point, their immortal vessel would have formed, causing them to successfully step into the Immortal Foundation Stage.

The known cases of Immortal Children are Myria during her first life and Ermin Alstreim, Founder Alstreim's grandson.

Having children as Immortals is extremely hard, with the percent being 1%, to have Immortal Children, the percentage is even lower. In the first place, there are two conditions Immortals must fulfill to attempt having an Immortal Children. One, the immortal seed is required, and the immortal egg must definitely be present. For the second condition, not only does the formation of immortal seed and immortal egg take a lot of time, but one must also abstain from engaging in intimate act with their partner.

For men, they must maintain celibacy for a year for their seed to mature into an immortal seed. As for women, they must maintain celibacy for fifteen years in order to produce an immortal egg. Even then, the chances of giving birth to an immortal progeny is below one percent, approximately recorded to be one out of thousand tries.

However, if one manages to become an Immortal while having remained chaste, their Primal Yin and Yang will be able to support an Immortal Egg or Seed, allowing chaste newly-ascended Immortals to basically have an Immortal Egg or Seed immediately after ascension.

## **Pathway Differences**

The Immortal and Transcendent Pathways are intrinsically different.

### **Immortal Pathway**

In the Immortal Pathway, Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation merge into one, where as Soul Forging Cultivation remains on its own. An "Immortal Vessel" is formed after achieving Immortal-hood. It has higher energy consumption and a lesser power output compared to the Transcendent Wheel. However, even if the body is destroyed, an Immortal can still escape using their soul.

According to Celestial Transcendent, the Immortal Pathway is made from Immortal Beast and Spirit Race, adapted from them. Due to the many advantages the Transcendent Path provides, in the Three-Layered Universe, only around one percent of humans still use the Immortal Pathway while the latter has abandoned it, using the Transcendent Cultivation System instead.

### **Transcendent Pathway**

According to Celestial Transcendent, the Transcendent Pathway is adapted from the Seraphim Race. The Transcendent Cultivation System is more appreciative of heavens than the Immortal Cultivation System as the latter plunders instead of giving back, unlike the former. Therefore, the Transcendent Path has an easier tribulation, all three powers combine into one, resulting in better prowess, less energy consumption, and many other advantages.

Due to these many advantages, in the Three-Layered Universe, only around one percent of humans still use the Immortal Pathway while the latter has abandoned it, using the Transcendent Cultivation System instead. However, the Transcendent Path lacks "immortality", and by that it means that it is easier to kill transcendents as long as you destroy their "Transcendent Wheel", causing them to decay into heaven and earth energy sooner or later. After all, since all three cultivation systems are connected to a single dantian, they cannot escape with their souls unlike the Immortal Path.

It is only in the Autarch Realm where Transcendents can separate their souls and bodies again.

## **Immortal Vessel**

The Immortal Vessel is the amalgamation of a human being becoming an immortal. An immortal will always be in possession of it as it is what practically states that you’re an immortal, containing a vast source of immortal core that allows your cultivations to vastly improve to what it was from when you were a mortal, not to mention that it changes the state of your body and soul, allowing you to become an immortal being.

There are four ranks of Immortal Vessels.

#### **Cracked Immortal Vessel**

When a mortal has reached the Peak-Level in only one cultivation system and breaks through to become an immortal, that mortal will obtain a Cracked Immortal Vessel which lowers their prowess by one level. This doesn't mean their Immortal Vessel is in a crippled state, but it only disables a mortal from reaching the Immortal King realm. Majority of the immortals in the First Haven World have a Cracked Immortal Vessel due to their inability to collect resources to advance in cultivation or because they're in a hurry to become immortalized. When they are a Level One Immortal, their prowess is one level lower, and therefore, they're actually in the eighth level of the Ninth Stage yet still an immortal.

The other Cracked Immortal Vessel is the true crippled state. It is better termed as a Cracked Mortal Vessel, Cracked Earth Vessel, and Cracked Heaven Immortal Vessel. When the Mortal, Earth, or Heaven Immortal Vessels become cracked, the prowess they bestow will disappear and that immortal will become unable to advance to the next level and stage, but they will still retain their level.

#### **Mortal Immortal Vessel**

The Mortal Immortal Vessel is differentiated into three comprehensive levels. The first level is called Average Mortal Immortal Vessel, one that is obtained by having a Peak-Level Stage Cultivation in essence or body cultivation while having non-peaked cultivation in the other cultivation system. It doesn't provide any increase in prowess, but it doesn't lower the prowess like a Cracked Immortal Vessel either. The second level is called the Unperfected Mortal Immortal Vessel which requires one to have peaked in body, essence, and it increases one's prowess by half a level. There is no way around it. On the other hand, if one has peaked their essence and soul or soul and body, then instead they have created a Cracked Immortal Vessel. But for the soul, one would've created an Unperfected Immortal Soul Vessel.

For the third and final level of the Mortal Immortal Vessel, called the Perfected Mortal Immortal Vessel, it allows the prowess to increase by one whole level. To obtain a Perfected Mortal Immortal Vessel, one has to reach the pinnacle in all three cultivation systems and perform a breakthrough. Many have failed to achieve this.

#### **Earth Immortal Vessel**

The Earth Immortal Vessel increases one's prowess by two levels.

#### **Heaven Immortal Vessel**

The Heaven Immortal Vessel increases one's prowess by three whole levels.

### **Immortal Soul Vessel**

One thing to notice for the Immortal Soul Vessel is that the soul requires a connection with an Immortal Vessel for essence, body, or both. Depending on whether one has reached, not reached, or peaked in Essence Gathering or Body Tempering Cultivation in different combinations, one could achieve a Cracked Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel, Average Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel, Unperfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel, or Perfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel.

## **Transcendent Wheel**

The result of a transcendent's amalgamation of all three cultivation systems connecting to a single dantian. The Transcendent Wheel is their power source, destroying it is the same as killing them, meaning they will sooner or later decay into heaven and earth energy without it.

## Lifespan

The lifespan of an Immortal largely depends on their Immortal Vessel. The average immortal with a Heaven Immortal Vessel can live up to 10 million years. Myria can live up to 25 million years due to her Eternal Life Soul Physique and Heaven Immortal Vessel positively affecting her. On the other hand, Davis with his Grand Chaos Body Art technique can live up to 50 million years. Despite this, Immortals can technically live forever.

Technically, Immortals don't age past their prime. If one were to see a middle-aged or an old Immortal, that's because there is a lack of blood essence in their bodies. Their blood essence decreases over time rather than degrades. This is because every nine thousand years, there is an Immortal Tribulation that humans must encounter. It takes away their blood essence before they could even sense it and sends down three strikes of heavenly lighting which isn't strong unless one is too injured to endure.

Therefore, as long as one could nurture their blood essence and keep it at an optimal level, an Immortal would be able to live past their known limits, meaning anywhere between a million up to ten million years. Once past that period, it is actually cheaper and better to obtain resources to be an Immortal King and boost one's vitality rather than stay and keep their life afloat with expensive life-extending resources.

In short the relationship between the Immortal Vessel and Blood Essence is special. The former was the anchor that supported the vitality from degrading. If the Immortal Vessel ended up breaking, the Blood Essence no longer would be able to sustain itself and collapse, which was why Immortals who had their Immortal Vessels crippled quickly turned old and scattered into dust in a few seconds or years if they had aged past a certain age.

Naturally, there are other factors involved like a cracked Immortal Vessel, ailments, cultivation deviation, self-harming techniques, runes, and formations that disables people from making it past the Immortal Stage or their potential limit.

Davis' case, that he can live up to 50 million years, is rather special due to the positive factors like the chaos energy making his Heaven Immortal Vessel superior in being able to decrease the loss of blood essence with time which therefore allows him to life longer. In other cases, having dragon blood, immortal panacea fruit, or things of that sort would also help immensely.

Recovering Immortal Blood Essence is extremely difficult because only high-tiered resources and heavenly resources are capable of doing so. Not any mere immortal pills made with ordinary immortal resources is capable of that feat, and even if one could find higher-tiered resources, the number of alchemists who would successfully complete a refinement is far less than the number of the buyers. That why existences like Saints and Saintesses are so worshiped. They almost never die because they can use their life energy to further boost their vitality from the start until it reaches a state that they can no longer restore due to the overbearingness of the heavenly tribulation. But at that time, they would have far outlived higher-tiered cultivators. Hence, their specialty invokes admiration and reverence.

## **Trivia**

* The First Haven World Master has banned the Transcendent Cultivation System in the First Haven World to prevent the Immortal Path from vanishing.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Chapter 2230: Immortal Vessel
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 2312: Challenged
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Chapter 2893: Realm Above
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Chapter 2447: High Vitality