Heritages

## Summary

Sometimes Heritage is used to mean one's race, culture, bloodline, faith, or background. This page is not for that, it is for Cultivation Heritages.

At its core, a cultivation heritage is the path and means to progress from one grade to the next. It generally also includes supporting and ancillary aspects.

## Description

### Overview

* “The stronger the Heritage of a clan, the greater its prospects. The more and better progression paths, cultivation techniques, hidden titles, access to hidden pocket-worlds, and unique cultivation resources a force has, the better the Heritage is. **Book 1, Chapter 74**
* His experience was a great example of the difference between a manual and a Heritage. The manual was short-worded and obscure, sometimes intentionally so as to make it harder for outsiders to glean information. But a Heritage also contained the experiences of the predecessors. **Book 7, Page 613**

### Classes

* Inheritances weren’t as narrow as a Heritage, which usually showed how to attain a certain class. **Book 3, Page 436**
* “It’s called Heritage,” he said. “The progression paths are public knowledge, but the details are fiercely guarded secrets. Those classes that Alyn mentioned are public knowledge, but the exact method to advance past E-grade is not. Clan Azh’Rezak has bought guides that explain the progression to E-grade Uncommon for over a dozen classes, but only had two clear paths to reach D-rank.” **Book 1, Chapter 74**
* “Buying a full progression path from F to D with all required attributes, Dao requirements, and hidden requirements is costly enough to set back a D-ranked force quite a bit. So most only have one or two, and they are the foundation of the clan. **Book 1, Chapter 74**
* “The greatest forces in the Multiverse are said to have progression paths all the way to at least B-rank, making their Heritage an unimaginable treasure,” **Book 1, Chapter 74**
* “Achievements is the third requirement, and the most diffuse. Only with a full Heritage can you know exactly what you need to do to be able to gain a class. But examples are to fight in wars, to have killed enough enemies, to have seen and explored certain areas. Generally to have grown as a being and have accomplished things above the norm. **Book 1, Chapter 74**

### Dao

* Of course, if you were following a Heritage guide, there would be a wrong and right choice. Sometimes one or two parts of the Dao Seed usually needed to correspond to the requirement for the class upgrade, with the remaining ones enabling some customization to personal preference. Apparently, there were even more stringent classes, where all parts needed to match. Generally, the more specific classes and the higher rarity ones had more stringent requirements, whereas the common classes were more forgiving. **Book 1, Page 186**

### Skills/Manuals

* “Money isn’t enough to create a true Heritage for a clan. Brazla was rich, but money can only buy unimpressive and widely distributed skills and cultivation manuals. Things that might take you to early D-grade but leave you with a pitiful core that can’t evolve,” the man said with a disdainful snort. “And my name is Yrial, so you can call me Lord Yrial or Beauty Yrial.” **Book 3, Page 470**

### Techniques

* “Formation stage,” Zac muttered, the term not ringing any bells. “Truthfully, the vast majority of cultivators take a shortcut for this stage,” Pavina said as she gazed at Zac with a small smile. “They choose to walk in the footsteps of their predecessors, learning established techniques before anything else. It is a central part of a proper heritage.” **Chapter 812**

### Specialty Cores

* Unfortunately, Alyn knew even less about them than Calrin, only having heard that stronger forces sometimes depended on Specialty Cores for their advanced Heritage to work. **Book 2 Page 651**
* Most proper Heritages with instructions on forming Specialty Cores also came with methods to evolving them, making Zac suspect that Rasuliel wanted the Eye for some other purpose than Zac himself. **Book 4, Page 544**

### Upgrade Aids

* Galau had also mentioned Skill Arrays, which was something that most forces and academies used. You could even say they were an integral part of a proper Heritage. They were like assisted guidance systems that helped you upgrade certain skills. **Book 5, Page 571**
* The Big Axe Coliseum probably had one of the most complete Heritages when it came to cultivating with the axe, be it classes, skills, or upgrade methods for Spirit Tools. **Book 7, Page 660**

### Core Blueprints

* Otherwise, the easiest solution would be to find a Chaos-based Heritage. That kind of heritage should contain some blueprints and techniques you can use as a basis for your own attempt at Hegemony. **Chapter 853**
* Most barely understood how the Cosmic Cores functioned and simply followed their Heritage like it was a cookbook. But that was how things worked in established factions. **Chapter 1,117**
* Similarly, those who would form their Cosmic Cores were likely those who followed one of the Atwood Empire's basic Heritages. **Chapter 1,117**

### Locations and Treasures

* “The [**Star of Aryaldar**] is placed on top of a flying treasure. ... The star is the core of our Heritage; we cannot lose it. **Book 5, Page 229**
* If the Cloudsoar Cauldron was the defining treasure, then the Primal World was the defining Mystic Realm in their possession. **Book 7, Page 561**
* That there is the Void Star, and it’s a central part of our heritage. **Chapter 866**

## Atwood Heritages

### Book of Duality

* In other words, the book [*Book of Duality*] could be considered a whole heritage, as long as you managed to unearth the truths within. **Chapter 863**

### Eastern Trigram

* I did not want my eight thousand years of cultivation to amount to nothing, so I left my imprint and my Heritage here,” Anzonil said as he looked down at Zac. **Book 3, Page 155**
* Zac knew just how much information that first crystal contained, and with seven more of them, he essentially had a full Heritage to nurture powerful Array Masters. **Book 3, Page 251**
* There were multiple other crystals that Zac got, mainly from killing the emperor. Those crystals covered everything from blacksmithing to alchemy, though Zac knew that those were just minor paths in the Eastern Trigram Sect. **Book 2, Page 420**

### Ensolus

* We have only managed to enter one since its seal was broken-down, but the manuals inside drastically improved our heritage. **Chapter 842**

### Orom

* There were almost one hundred different cultivation methods, though it only felt worthwhile to put five or so in the Academy back home. It wasn't that the others were bad, but there were issues with spreading your base too thin. It was better to focus on a handful of paths where the successive generations of Port Atwood could expand and add detail to the Heritage. **Chapter 796**
* If he [*Zac*] ever managed to get out of this place [*Orom World*], he would probably have an exceedingly valuable Heritage to base his faction on. **Chapter 796**

### Perennial Vastness

* There were six cultivation manuals in Valsa's Possession [*sic*], though none seemed to be the one she practiced. ... Most importantly, the manuals were all Peak D-grade, which essentially was the limits of conventional cultivation manuals. Still, any of these manuals was enough to become the foundation of a peak force in Zecia, and Zac suddenly had six of them. It wouldn't help them in the short run but drastically improve Earth's long-term potential. **Chapter 1,048**

### Towers of Myriad Dao

* “We have two side halls: the Hall of the Celestial Artisan and the Hall of the Blade Emperor. Both were friends of my creator, and they each set up a branching Heritage in the great Brazla’s body,” Brazla said. **Book 2, Page 348**
* “One F-graded class leading to multiple E-graded, leading to a few D-graded classes. Various paths for various needs. Ways to get into the Heritage path from various common classes,” the Tool Spirit said with some disinterest. **Book 2, Page 348**
* He had read through the techniques of the Sword [*sic*] Emperor Heritage back home many times. Even if the methods and techniques listed there required a sword, Zac had still used it as a reference many times when consolidating his foundations. By now, he had almost completely moved away from the concepts in that Heritage through multiple iterations of his two stances. **Chapter 812**

## Breaking Away

* What is creation? It is about leading rather than following, a desire to push boundaries further and reach a higher sky. If you simply follow a Heritage to get stronger, you have likely already failed. Each Arcane Master is unique, a genius across the eons. How can one reach the peak by mindlessly following others? **Book 4, Page 610**
* Most elites had already started doing so with their manuals by the time they approached Hegemony. You used the foundations the predecessors had laid to build something new and unique. If you blindly followed the Heritages of others, you'd only ever be a follower and never a leader. **Chapter 1,001**

## Commentary

* Two Heritages were enough to base a sturdy force on, just like Clan Azh’Rezak. **Book 2, Page 348**
* He [*Ogras*] always knew this might happen, as he followed an incomplete Heritage, yet having it confirmed was a real blow. **Book 2, Page 405**
* A full inheritance of someone who walked a very similar path as himself. Such a gift was something that essentially everyone in the Multiverse thirsted for. It was far superior to some Dao fruit or Heritages. **Book 2, Page 406**
* He had started to believe that one wouldn’t become truly strong by brainlessly copying others. That was why he’d never had any interest in checking out the Heritages he owned. **Book 2, Page 677**
* “It should be locked behind Merit Points, and I believe that the same should go for the Heritages,” Abby finally said. “We can portion out the knowledge it contains into packages, with the basic ones being pretty cheap, but the more in-depth and uncommon knowledge having a higher price.” **Book 3, Page 363**
* Most established forces followed Heritages to choose their classes, but this was a great option for his people. **Book 4, Page 503**
* No one will go out of their way and share their arduously accumulated Heritage for no return. **Book 6, Page 314**
* Then again, there were no doubt quite a few Heritages containing the word “Void,” just like there was an endless number of ones having the name Heavenly, Primordial, Divine, or Origin. These words conveyed a sense of profundity and vastness, a sense that was rarely justified. **Book 6, Page 602**
* The System had long since concluded that freely accessible information generally resulted in mediocre cultivators. It rather wanted factions to go to war for each other’s Heritages, with knowledge and riches being the reward for risking your life. **Book 7, Page 532**
* “The second level gives access to better things to trade for, like some decent information Heritages. **Book 7, Page 705**
* Your bloodline is as pure as they come, yet you seem to have no Heritage to fall back on? What are your elders planning, having you derive everything on your own? [*Pavina to Zac*] **Chapter 811**
* In contrast, on a High D-grade World, even Peak Hegemons could appear with the right resources and heritage. **Chapter 844**
* The Void Templars was a highly trained army geared toward the same type of warrior classes most factions used, though they had their own heritage and subclasses. **Chapter 861**
* "You might need Tavza if you want to find the best treasures inside the inheritance," Catheya said after some thought. "She's an expert on the Limitless Empire. I hear she owns whole heritages dating back to that era. If someone can unearth any secrets in there, it's her." **Chapter 985**
* Death was no longer Death, and Life was no longer Life. It was fused into Blood, the grand heritage of the Eternal Clan. **Chapter 1,009**
* Ogras' old family didn't have a very impressive heritage and were dirt-poor, but their strength wasn't hollow. **Chapter 1,098**