Cultivation

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# Soul, Spirit and Body:

## Soul:

Every living being had a soul, and their life and death and even cultivation depended on it. Each time a cultivator progresses his or her cultivation realm the soul would be upgraded as well, even if not directly.

Having said that, just because a being has a soul does not mean they have a body and a spirit either. A soul is simply what gives life.

## Spirit:

A soul is simply what gives life, but the spirit is what allows the living being to think and make conscious decisions. A being with a soul but no spirit would only simply exist, and any interaction it has with the surrounding universe would just be a result of the characteristics of its soul and nothing else. A spirit is what would guide the soul to take action. Different beings exhibited that differently, for example, both an animal and a plant have spirits. Animals use them to hunt, eat, rest etc. whereas plants use it to grow towards sunlight, search for water with their roots and so on. There are also beings in the universe with just a soul and spirit, and are incorporeal beings.

### Spiritual Energy:

Spiritual energy originally is neutral, but it can gain affinities. For example, if a person is using a cultivation technique that is based on fire, or relies on heated environments or natural treasures that have the fire element, then when that person absorbs spiritual energy, his cultivation technique will give it a fire affinity. That means the spiritual energy that person has stored in his body will have the characteristics of fire, and he can use spiritual attacks based on fire.

## Body:

Last was the body. The body hosts the soul and allows it to interact with the material world, as well as protect beings with weak souls from randomly disintegrating. For example, a regular human soul can only exist for a few moments outside the protection of a body, and would collapse under the pressure of its own existence.

# Cultivation:

## Bloodline Cultivation:

Bloodline cultivators often absorb the bloodline of stronger beings and merge with them, taking on some of the traits of the stronger being.

## Gu Cultivation:

Gu were similar to spiritual beasts, but instead of beasts they were insects. Gu cultivators nurtured the Gu in their own bodies and shared everything from nutrients to spiritual energy. It was quite a rare form of cultivation, and was widely frowned upon not only because of how dark the practices were, but also because most people found it too disgusting to let Gu enter their bodies. Nevertheless, Gu allowed people with low inherent cultivation talent to easily surpass their natural limits as their cultivation depended on the Gu instead.

As it’s name suggested, the Heart Meridian Mother Gu attached itself to the meridians around one’s heart. The Mother Gu fed on the spiritual energy coursing through the meridians to lay eggs, which would eventually hatch and then could be implanted to other bodies. The child Gu would also find its way to the heart of its new host, but unlike its mother instead of feeding on the spiritual energy it would go dormant. The user of the Mother Gu could send signals to the child Gu and control it to attack its host’s heart, ultimately gaining control over the host’s life.

## Primes:

Prime of any physical lifeform, are those that focus on growing stronger by elevating their physical body. They are distinct from body cultivators, as body cultivators still use spirit energy to temper their bodies, but Primes directly alter and elevate their genes. Primes only use other bloodlines as nutrition to elevate their own inherent bloodline. This form of cultivation is extremely rare in the universe, and extremely difficult. You may not encounter a single Prime in a million worlds, not because others don’t try it but simply because the chances of dying are so high.

Marlo is one of Primes.

## Cultivation:

Here are cultivation level and a little detail.

## Body Tempering Realm:

A normal cultivation technique for humans would begin by tempering the mortal body with spirit energy, a special kind of energy present throughout the universe, and improve its strength and endurance, and this was called the Body Tempering realm. Body Tempering strengthens the body to absorb spiritual energy within it without being hurt by it.

Once the body was tempered sufficiently it would be ready to accept spirit energy inside of it, and that is when the cultivation could truly be considered to have begun. Once inside the spirit energy would improve body function in everyway and make the cultivator faster and stronger as well as improve the cultivators mental faculties. Each realm would then focus on developing a specific aspect of a cultivator or put them in touch with new, more powerful energies.

Normal body Tempering level has 9 stages.

## Qi training:

Qi training, which also has nine realms, involves absorbing spiritual energy in the body, and then pushing the limits of how much energy the body can store. Each time a cultivator breaks through a sub realm in Qi training their capacity for spiritual energy is increased. But where in the body is this energy being stored?

In simple words, Qi training only focuses on the quantity of spirit energy that the body can hold. It forces the body to absorb as much energy as possible. Suffice to say, the better the cultivation technique or the talent of the cultivator, the more energy they can absorb.

## Foundation Realm:

All the energy in Qi training is simply absorbed. However, this changes in the Foundation realm. The spirit energy that has so far been absorbed by the body is neutral, and of very low quality. In fact, if spiritual energy that is purer or higher in concentration can actually harm the cultivator. The Foundation realm starts building a foundation in the body to sustain higher concentrations as well as quality of spiritual energy. One of the steps involved in this naturally changes the neutral spiritual energy in the body to that of one with an affinity.

## Golden Core:

Later, in the Golden Core realm, the energy is stored in the core, however before that the energy is stored in the muscles, tissues and organs of the body.

# Arrays:

Similar to how spirit techniques used spirit energy to give rise to different effects, and talismans used spirit energy as well as the complex science of spirit engineering to give birth to seemingly magical results, arrays used natural treasures and spirit treasures to have different effects over a certain piece of land. By arranging treasures, or array flags (spirit treasures that served a single, very specific purpose) in a complex design one could arrange an array that served various purposes. It could be a protective array that stopped incoming enemies or attacks from entering an area. It could be an attacking array that attacked enemies with it. It could even be a spirit gathering array that gathered spirit energy from the atmosphere and filled the area of the array with concentrated spirit energy – a boon for cultivation. In short, it could have various effects and all depended on the user’s purpose.

## Reference:

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 65
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 40
3. ↑ Chapter 45
4. ↑ Chapter 47
5. ↑ Chapter 65
6. ↑ Chapter 66