My Cultivation Universe - Shamanism

### Description

Shamanism is one of the 3 main path that use as base the mind and soul of the user as vector for generate energy and then use it for manipulate spirits

### Root

The root of a spiritualist is not classified based on talent, this because the root represent 3 factors that are the "spirit capacity", "spirit affinity" and "alignement"

The "Spirit Capacity" represent the number of spirits one can have, this factor is show using a color system that is the ones of the rainbow plus other 2:

* White, max 5 spirits
* Violet, between 6 and 10
* Indigo, between 11 and 20
* Blue, between 21 and 25
* Green, between 26 and 38
* Yellow, between 39 and 59
* Orange, between 60 and 79
* Red, between 80 and 90
* Black, unlimited/not limit found yet

The "Spirit Affinity" represent the ability of take out the best from the spirits one have, the classification use the same system of the cultivation and this mean that there are 4 ranks and each rank is divided into 9 levels:

* Yellow
* Human
* Earth
* Heaven

The "alignement" of the root is an important thing that a shaman need to know and they are:

* Yang
* Yin
* Yin & Yang

The reason for know this is explained in the application section

### Spirits

What in this universe is called "spirit" it refer not only to souls but to entities composed by energy.
Spirits are divided into categories depending on their type:

* Weapon, this type have the form of weapons
* Beast, this type have the form of a animal
* Structure, this type have the form of a structure and usually is a pagoda like one.
* Item, this type have the form of items of various types like tools, books, scrolls, etc.
* Human, this type have human like appearance.

there are various ways for a shaman to gain a spirit that are:

* Birth, shamans are born with one spirit that is called "martial spirit", usually a person is born with only one but if specific conditions are met then is possible born with more, the conditions are reincarnation, an absorbed twin before birth, possession of a half dead shaman, voluntary passing from a shaman that is almost dead
* Beast extracted, this spirits are the ones that a shaman extract from monsters, in other words a shaman take the soul of a monster and transform it into a spirit
* Remain, shamans can take the martial spirits of other shamans that died for long time
* Steal, is possible steal the spirits of other shamans BUT martial spirits are protected by the heavenly way and if one steal it with the intention of do that then every single tribulation that thief will face will be 1000 times stronger then normal
* Artificial, shamans are able to take souls, essences and fragments of spirits and mold them into new ones creating artificial spirits.

One important thing to keep in mind is that spirits can influence the shaman if the shaman is not strong enough and for this reason is always better take spirits weaker compared to the shaman.

### Training

The path for become a shaman start to discover if one have the relative root, the size is not important.

After the check the steps one need to follow are the following:

1. Mental and soul training, mental and soul strenght are the base of spiritualism and they must be trained to a certain extent
2. Aura perception, one need to start to feel their own aura and get accostumed to the feeling
3. Aura Flow Perception, the practioner start to figure the flow of aura not only around his body but inside too
4. Aura Flow Control, the practioner learn how control its own aura in concentration and even keep it all inside the body

After learned all of this the practioner can start to learn the applications

### Applications

The power of a shaman come mainly from 2 sources that are its own martial spirit and the spirits the shaman have, aside this it usually have self boost abilities.
The main concept behind the application is that the aura is converted and is used for imitate the traits of things one understand, due to this there is no real list that can be done in this field.
The most basic and common use are:

* Healing, the aura is used for stimulate the normal cellular regeneration resulting in heal injuries
* Self Boost, the aura is used for increase the physical abilities, while the aura outside form a defensive covering the one inside stimulate the body

Spirits have a certain number of abilities, normally the less one have the stronger they are, but some skills can be used depending on the alignement of the root:

* Yang, this root make possible fuse with the spirit leading to physical changes, an example of this can have a tiger spirit and fuse with it growing tiger tail, ears and claws.
* Yin, this root make possible summon the spirits in the form of shadow like entities that can't die or destroyed (if they are destroyed in truth they just go back inside the shaman), is possible too infuse the spirits inside items and create special equipments.
* Yin & Yang, this version of the root have both traits

### Trivia

Spiritualism is, in certain ways, a combination of the spirit system used in "Shaman King" and the system present in the manhua "Tales of Demons and Gods"