Cultivation (Journey of Cosmos)

## Introduction

**Cultivation Base** refers to the progress along the path of cultivation attained by an individual. It is the source of the supernatural abilities that can be used by cultivators and what gives them their improved longevity, physical abilities and intelligence. Below are the variety of abilities given by cultivation to its practitioners.

## Uses

From the cultivation of one's body and soul to cultivation of Laws and beyond, there is a more-or-less uniform direction with similar milestones shared between all cultivators, with only a handful of glaring exceptions. While different races use different names and methods for their cultivation systems, all of them can be grouped into a series of steps.

### Mortal Realms: Mortality to Immortality

Mortal Realm cultivators focus on shedding their mortality and entering immortality. Despite being the weakest characters in the overall setting, they have a variety of supernatural abilities that separate them from mortals. They have a significantly improved but finite lifespan whose extent depends on their realms of power. Those at the peak of this step can cause devastation across an entire cultivation dimensions, which are comparable to real-world galaxies in size. It is generally divided into the following realms;

#### Chaos Gathering

At energy Gathering, cultivators sense and absorb ambient energy and make it course through their meridians, something that cleanses them of filth and improves their abilities to hold more. A precise strike under their naval can potentially destroy their meridians and even cripple their cultivation. This is the more prevalent path among cultivators and is divide into at least 10 stages.

* Cultivation Abilities
* Resistances

* **Superhuman Physical Characteristics**: All cultivators have their bodies purified and pushed beyond normal human limitations by Chaos Qi, undergoing a change in body and mind. Even the absolute weakest cultivators are capable of moving faster than the human eye and Qi exposed non-cultivators are at the absolute peak of human capability.
* **Absorption**: Cultivators by nature absorb Chaos Qi from the world to use. However, they can absorb almost any form of energy (some requiring the right kind of method) including the aura of death from corpses, energy from consuming souls, electricity, electromagnetism and many others.
* **Adaptation:** A cultivator's body adapts to drugs and poisons, building up resistance to them. It applies even if beneficial ones, making regular use of healing or physical enhancing pills impossible.
* **Adhesive Manipulation:** Through contact, a cultivator can attach something to themselves in a way that the target can't let go. How strong this adhesive is is unclear, as it has only ever been used to catch vultures.
* **Attack Reflection:** When struck, almost all cultivators and their items release the rebound force that harms the one who struck them. This tends to scale with the power of the attack.
* **Passive Aura:** Cultivators always have auras of mystery, charisma and intimidation, though the specific emotions they elicit can vary on the cultivator. Beyond that, all cultivators have an aura of suppression that allows them to make all energy near them act to their will, allowing them to nullify powers and attacks that use them. Their auras also render people unable to move, makes lesser beings explode, lethally damages their souls and minds, makes plants wither and paralyses them with sheer terror, among other things.
* **Afterimage Creation:** Through sheer speed, cultivators can leave afterimages of themselves and their attacks, allowing them to trick or confuse their opponents. Potentially tens of afterimages can be left at once.
* **Blood Manipulation:** Many cultivators can at will cough up blood, and control that blood to create arrows or to refine/strengthen items or use the blood of opponents to enhance themselves.
* **Chi Manipulation:** All cultivators utilize spiritual Qi in their attacks and Magical Arts.
* **Durability Negation:** Can attack internal organs, the mind and even the soul with spiritual pressure.
* **Elemental Manipulation:** Cultivators can channel the energy they use for cultivation into elements to potentially attack with them, like gusts of wind, large water globule and fireballs.
* **Energy Manipulation:** Can force energy in the range of their aura to follow their will and energy they absorbed can be used in a multitude of ways, like channeling it into people to crush their weak-points or making a sword create energy beams when slashed.
* **Enhanced Senses:** All of the default abilities of a cultivator are enhanced, including their senses. While being previously gifted with a sense allows for greater enhancements, every cultivator can hear the heartbeats of people trying to ambush them, smell animals, their friends and their location even if they can't see them, and see more colors than they normally could.
* **Explosion Manipulation:** By channeling energy into something, a cultivator can make it explode. The explosion can be delayed, to throw the item at an enemy.
* **Extrasensory Perception:** Cultivators can sense Qi and auras, letting them sense where others are even if their normal senses can't detect them. They can also asses how strong someone is, roughly how much they killed, their emotions, if they stole the cultivator's property and many other traits. They can see Qi and abilities/creatures based on it, which are invisible to mortals.
* **Healing:** Can stall wounds by using Qi to replace life energy and suppressing wounds. Suppressed wounds are still present but do not worsen and do not impede the cultivator from fighting, however this is only temporarily. Without life energy, one ages and becomes a mummified husk (or ash in some cases, such as inanimate objects like mountains) and their total lifetime decreases, so Qi can stall age manipulation and life energy absorption for some time.
* **Heat Manipulation:** Cultivators can light incense and sticks on fire with their breath if they want to.
* **Instinctive Reaction and Precognition:** All cultivators possess a sense of danger that preemptively warns them of danger before it actually happens, specifying even its degree, letting them get varying levels of knowledge of when something bad is about to happen or when enemies are about to act. It varies from an uneasy feeling to the exact specifics of why it's bad and can act accordingly instinctively. This is potent enough that it can alert them of a danger that's nowhere near the vicinity and will happen a long time in advance.
* **Longevity:** Cultivation allows them to live far longer than mortals. Their lifespan increases with cultivation though the exact extent depends on The Heavens.
* **Magic:** Spiritual Qi allows cultivators to utilize magical attacks and Arts.
* **Plant Manipulation:** Can reattach cut apart herbs to make them whole and healthy, and they can make plants and seeds grow potentially meters in minutes by channeling their energy into it.
* **Probability Manipulation:** All cultivators possess Will in greater potency than mortals, allowing them to bend the reality and fate in their favor with sheer belief in themselves, increasing the chances of success in whatever they do. This increases with one's Will.
* **Sealing:** Cultivators can seal powers, souls and locations, making it impossible to leave the location.
* **Self-Destruction:** Cultivators can cause themselves and their items to fully or partially explode for a blast far greater in power than they are. Partial destruction can include losing a limb or an eye. They can control the direction of the blast's energy so that it doesn't spread in all directions.
* **Self-Sustenance (All Types):** Cultivators rely on no external substances to sustain their bodies, needing no sleep at all to function and being able to subsist without food due to the presence of spiritual energy.
* **Intangibility:** Cultivators can turn into smoke and light to travel or turn outright intangible, like spirits.
* **Non-Physical Interaction:** Can interact with souls, spirits and even Divine Sense. At higher cultivation levels, even natural laws and abstract Domains can be interacted with.
* **Sound Manipulation:** Cultivators can shout so hard that enemies are reduced to a bloody mist, make their whispers be heard from far away or make their words impossible to hear for any besides the ones they intend to. Their shouts can also damage souls.
* **Statistics Amplification:** Cultivators can circle their cultivation level to increase their body's striking and lifting strength to match their cultivation level.
* **Stealth Mastery:** They can hide themselves from people that have their own enhanced senses and extrasensory perception. They can also seal their heat, making it impossible to detect them by thermal imaging.
* **Regeneration (High-Low, Low-Mid over several months):** Can regenerate near lethal wounds over time.
* **Supernatural Willpower:** All cultivators have willpower that far surpasses that of mortals, which grows with cultivation and is even potent enough to allow their souls to persist after death for a short while.
* **Invisibility:** Cultivators' abilities are invisible to regular mortals (Passive). Additionally, they can turn invisible on a whim.
* **Telekinesis:** Cultivators are capable of utilizing their spiritual energy to create an invisible force that they can utilize to create a restrictive grip on people and objects, create blunt force and attack others with it or simply move objects to and from a certain place.
* **Physics Manipulation and Power Nullification:** Due to the presence of spiritual Qi, all natural energy sources cease to function and nuclear reactions such as fission and fusion fail, resulting in nuclear weapons not functioning.
* **Soul Manipulation:** For cultivators, physical attacks, magical arts and even the suppressive aura generated by them attack the soul.
* **Acausality (Type 4):** Cultivators defy and break out of the natural laws of the world and reincarnation as well as the will controlling fate itself the moment they begin cultivating. Their path of cultivation is one of defiance of the laws of the heavens and the flow of nature and their futures are impossible to predict for mortals.

- All prior and current abilities: Cultivators can resist the hax of their fellows in the same realm if their own cultivation is higher.

- **Magic:** Can resist the effects of Magical Arts at their level.

- **Disease Manipulation:** Immune to all mortal ailments.

- **Energy Manipulation:** Other cultivators on the same level are unable to control their energy.

- **Corruption:** All cultivators can purge their minds, bodies and souls are unaffected by mental, spiritual or physical corrupting agents

- **Explosion Manipulation:** Can will away forced self-destruction. Other cultivators cannot force them to explode.

- **Heat Manipulation:** Are unaffected by extreme temperatures. Can withstand the cold surface temperatures of Mars and the Moon and even withstand heat that instantly vaporizes snow, causes fires and is drawn from magma.

- **Sealing:** Cannot be sealed by other Qi Condensation cultivators.

- **Blood Manipulation:** Unaffected by techniques that can desiccate them and strip them of blood when used by other Qi Condensation cultivators.

- **Madness Manipulation (Type 2 and 3):** Adequate cultivation offers a resistance to chaos pockets that may drive them mad.

- **Death Manipulation:** Unaffected by death aura that kills mortal animals and plants.

- **Absorption:** Cannot have their Qi absorbed by other cultivators of the same cultivation.

- **Poison Manipulation:** Unaffected by poison that can reduce people to a skeleton and pool of blood in moments.

- **Biological Manipulation:** Their cultivation allows them to negate the effects of pills, which can cause mutations and the like.

- **Probability Manipulation:** As they defy The Heavens, they also go against the lowered probability at their success in any endeavors.

- **Passive Aura:** All cultivators resist Spiritual Pressure from those comparable in Cultivation Base.

#### Cosmos Master

At the Master realm, cultivators have need further need for physical enhancements in a mortal verse, so they focus on enhancing their control over the physical world and their spiritual strength. Their strength is inviolable in the mortal realms, and their power unbending.

* Cultivation Abilities
* Resistances

* All previous abilities but greatly enhanced.
* **Small Law Manipulation**:
* **Small Reality Warping**:

- All prior and current abilities: Cultivators can resist the hax of their fellows in the same realm if their own cultivation is higher.