Cultivation Ranks

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Cultivation is a challenging, dangerous, and expensive occupation in the world. People practice cultivation for various reasons; for longer lives, a more profound understanding of the world, protecting themselves and their loved ones, and fame and fortune.

Cultivation is divided into Realms, which each have 9 Ranks. Cultivators generally begin in the lowest realm and progress linearly through the ranks of each realm. After the 9th Rank of a Realm, they progress to the 1st Rank of the next Realm.

The realm that a person can reach in their life depends on many different things. His bloodline, physique, family, cultivation techniques, his perception, and luck just to name a few.

Most importantly, however, is their location. The world a cultivator lives in is the most significant determining factor in how far in cultivation rank they will progress. For example (see below), a cultivator in the Nine Provinces Continent would expect to reach a maximum level of Heavenly Realm (even as a genius). Reasons include a lack of natural energies, techniques, teachers, treasures, and general knowledge of the cultivation world. Someone in this place would typically be called a great talent or an exceptional genius. However, a somewhat talented person in the Great Chiliocosm Upper Realm might achieve True Immortal, a rank far higher due to resources, etc. Even an average child in the Holy Land of Martialism reached the Profound Realm before his teenage years. Because of these reasons, the location in which a cultivator is raised or trained is the most significant deciding factor in the maximum rank they may achieve.

A cultivator's "cultivation" is consistently stored in a 'Dantian,' and said cultivation could be lost if the Dantian is damaged.

A single Saint Spirit Grass (a cultivation resource for those in Spirit Realm) costs 100 taels of silver, a large sum of money that could allow a commoner and their family to live comfortably for several years. On the other hand, a Spiritual Bead costs 100 gold coins and would allow a household to live comfortably for their whole lives.

## Cultivation Techniques

A person can increase their cultivation using several methods. For example:

* one can take in the naturally occurring world energies and try to break through

* one can use spiritual medicines, absorb their energies and try to break through

* one can use formations and other natural or artificial phenomena and try for the same effect

The only downside of using any single or multiple methods from above is that it is usually prolonged and tedious, not to mention wasteful. To counter this, some ingenious dude (namely Fate Primogenitor) came up with cultivation techniques and spread them.

Cultivation techniques increased the speed of absorption of energies from the surroundings, spiritual medicines, and other methods. Some cultivation methods also had some side effects; some good, some bad.

With such techniques, cultivators could gather more spiritual energy and refine spiritual medicine quicker, causing the spiritual energy in the dantian more prosperous. The battle abilities were several times stronger than ordinary people.

One such cultivation technique introduced in the novel is the Beginning level Mysterious Technique, Breathing Technique. Mysterious Techniques were separated into the beginning, middle, and high levels. It used unique methods to change the spiritual energy within the body, and it made it more vital than those who did not use it.

## Cultivation Realms

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*\*The + symbol denotes a value far greater than specified*

## Local Cultivation Limits

Shows the maximum cultivation usually seen for the specified location. We are not counting hidden cultivators or survivors from past eras.

## Trivia

* Higher cultivation realms have maximum lifespans far exceeding 10,000 years (see God Bestowment Bamboo Slip); in the tale of two brothers, it is said that they lived for tens of thousands of years simply training in the bamboo forest.
* Once reaching the Exalted realm, one can increase their lifespan (see Life Span). There is no set number for the maximum lifespan yet.
* From the latest chapters, we can assume that there are a minimum of 2 or more levels above True God.

## See Also

* World Spiritists
* Bloodlines
* Cultivation Resources
* Divine Body
* God Bestowment Bamboo Slip
* Life Span
* Nine Galaxy

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 608
2. ↑ Chapter 23
3. ↑ Chapter 50
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 156
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 2207
6. ↑ Chapter 3421