Imprints

## Introduction

Imprints is an ability from the Sixth Mainland that allows a cultivator to borrow a super powerhouse’s projected strength, empowering or enhance their own attacks or defense. Those that can create Imprints are at least Star Envoy realm and above.

## Information

The cultivation method of the Sixth Mainland has three different branches which different families/clan fall under as well as the main one that all Sixth Mainland member have which is Imprints. It is only those that reach the Explorer realm and above that have strength their body and spiritual force enough to handle and use Imprints.

Imprinters differ depending on their cultivation levels and have certain titles; they are known as Imprinters, World Imprinters, Cosmic Imprinters, and Empyrean Imprinters. Normal Imprinters just regular Envoy realm cultivators; World Imprinters have a power level of over 800,000; Cosmic Imprinters have power levels over 1,000,000; while Empyrean Imprinters are 1.2 million power level that but lower than a Semi-Progenitor's power levels.

The stronger the Imprinter, the greater the power increase from the Imprint. For cultivators who were in the same realm, the difference between having the imprint of a normal Imprinter and an Empyrean Imprinter’s was huge. It was similar to the difference between a normal Explorer and to ones who were the Top 100 Rankings. However, cultivators could not choose their Imprinters at random, and an important condition for obtaining imprints was the cultivator’s own ability to withstand an Imprinter’s power. It is only through upgrading their spiritual force that the cultivator is able to withstand the pressure of the imprint with a stronger spiritual force, that can display more of the Imprinter's strength. When a cultivator uses their Imprint, an image of the Imprinter appears behind the cultivator.

The average strength of Sixth Mainland cultivators far surpasses those of Fifth Mainland of the similar age and rank due to the higher spiritual force development, access towards the inheritance from the Daosource Sect that rules the Sixth Mainland, as well as the cultivators of the Sixth Mainland belonging to the three different realms that grant different paths of cultivation.

Although on average the Sixth Mainland has the advantage, however their cultivation system is too rigid—it’s as though they are merely getting stronger for the sake of becoming stronger, and the process is wholly unrelated to cultivation. The path of cultivation is filled with unknown variables, and it involves a cultivator striving against the universe itself. However, the cultivators of the Sixth Mainland walk along a path created by their predecessors, and they even borrow the strength of those predecessors. An Imprinter's power directly correlates to the power of which a family whey belong to. If an Imprinter of a family dies, their status within the Sixth Mainland will fall as well as those with the Imprints of the fallen Imprinter will lose the benefits to having an Imprint. They may achieve great strength now, but their paths are only more limited the further they progress, and they will lose out on certain possibilities.

Since the Sixth Mainland rely upon their Imprinter, they haven't developed other forms of cultivation step by step as well since their reliance on Imprints. Compared to the Fifth Mainland who had cultivators who cultivate additional forms of cultivation methods such as battle force, force fields, the Sixth Mainland cultivators do not train in these are they believe Imprints are more important. Those that are informed and at the top experts of the Fifth Mainland understood that the Sixth Mainland had been tricked into reliance on the Imprints, and they would become complacent to them.

Since the disappearance of the Garan family, the visualization method has been lost from the Sixth Mainland, as a result, the Aeternals were able to introduce the Imprint method to the Sixth Mainland. The Imprint was an imperfection version of the visualization method used to reduce and undermine the Sixth Mainland's potential future.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1077
2. ↑ Chapter 1036
3. ↑ Chapter 1160
4. ↑ Chapter 655