Earth Cultivation

Earth used to have many Immortal Cultivators. But when Earth's spiritual qi started to dissipate, they became rarer and some of them even passed down their arts. But due to the increasing of weaponized technologies, it degraded and became more weaker. There are martial artists, spell casters, and other people cultivate these arts.

## Martial Arts

The last heyday of the martial arts was during the chaotic time of the early 20th century, right after the collapse of the mighty Qin dynasty.

There had been many grandmasters during that time. However, the ensuing war with Japan had halted the development of martial arts ever since. By then, there was only a handful of martial arts grandmasters left in China.

The power of martial artists was divided into three levels.

External Strength, Internal Force, Transcendent State.

Majority of the martial artists in the world were of the first level: the External Strength. Let it be the Eagle Claw, Hong’s Fists or Tan’s kicks, all of those famous martial arts focused on the power and resilience of human flesh.

Only a very few schools of martial arts advanced into the second level: internal force — schools such as the Neijia, and other secret family arts.

The Internal Force level was also divided into four sub-levels: Entry, Initial Success, Phenomenal Success, and Perfected. Chen Fan wagered that Mr. Wei was of the Phenomenal Success level.

Even after one had achieved the Perfected state, a martial artist with internal force could not dodge a bullet. Since decades of martial arts training could be easily undermined by the use of guns, the martial arts had become obsolete, and fewer and fewer people practiced it.

However, Mr. Wei believed that a martial artist would be practically invincible once he or she reached the transcendent state.

The transcendent master was protected by Aura Qi from any physical harms.

That being said, Mr. Wei conceded that it had become very rare to find a transcendent master during this day and age. Chen Fan was the first transcendent master he had seen in the eighty years of his life.

“Mr. Wei also mentioned that there was another level of martial arts beyond even the Transcendent State, and it was called the Immortal State, in which the martial artist could wield unimaginable power. However, Mr. Wei seemed to believe that this was just a legend, since no one had ever seen a martial artist in such a level before.” Chen Fan reminded himself.

If the Internal Force corresponded to Foundation Establishment and Transcendent

State corresponded to the Profound Connection, then the Immortal State’s cultivation counterpart should be the Divine Sea.

Once a martial artist reached the Divine Sea level, he could perform various miracles even without having learned any Dharmic formulation.

However, since the martial artist in the transcendent state were considered rare, Chen Fan doubted that he would find someone who was in the immortal state.

The martial arts practice is said to be a method of refining qi that has been passed down from major schools and is simplified by the martial arts masters, innovating and creating a variety of internal strength techniques and martial arts.

On the earth, even a warrior cannot transcend the worldly power if he can't reach the realm of transformation, but when he reaches the realm of gods, he can be comparable to a small country, without a nuclear bomb, and invincible.

## Magic Cultivation

Magic Cultivation is another type of cultivation on Earth that uses all types of magic spells and magic artifacts. Once one has Enter Dao, they can cultivate magic power and become a witch/wizard. It is a different version of wizardry that was depicted in the west, and instead has involvement with Spirits and Ghosts for Magic Cultivation in the east.

Divided into three levels: Enter Dao (入道) - Magic Cultivation (修法) - God Reigning State (御神则) - Respectively named spell caster (术士) - Perfected Person (真人) - Immortal Master (仙师).

See more in the Magic Cultivation page.

## Physique Refinement

In Earth, many Martial Artists or Pugilist strengthen their body by focusing their training on the External Strength. For example is the Jin Gang Monastery, which has it's Buddhist members practice External Strength that would harden their body to the point it can become golden.

## Extraordinaries

Extraordianaries are a group of people who has spiritual roots, so they naturally have high affinity with some elements and able to use extraordinary power like the depiction of the western. However, their energy is not as pure as martial artists or spell casters.