🌀 # The Cultivation System
• Cultivation is the path to defying mortality, defying fate, and defying the heavens.
• The path is divided into 6 Realm Categories.
• The first 5 Realm Categories are attainable by all.
• The 6th Realm Category, which has been a mystery to even the one who reached the peak.
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📖 # Cultivation Manuals
• Manuals dictate how one absorbs, refines, and channels energy.
• Their rank reflects the strength and potential of a cultivator's path.
• Ranks of Manuals:
• Mortal-Grade – Used by commoners and low-tier sects.
• Spirit-Grade – Allows moderate Qi control.
• Earth-Grade – Enables internal tempering and bodily refinement.
• Heaven-Grade – Unlocks insight into natural Qi flow.
• King-Grade – Grants spiritual foundation building.
• Emperor-Grade – Capable of forming inner worlds.
• Immortal-Grade – Touches upon concepts of Dao and Nirvana.
• Divine-Grade – Allows manipulation of reality's threads.
• Cosmic-Grade – Used by god-like entities across galaxies.
• Origin-Grade – Said to be carved from existence itself; obtainable only by Max.
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⚔️ # Techniques & Arts
• Techniques are the methods of action — attacks, defenses, movement, support.
• They can be martial, spiritual, elemental, or law-based.
• Techniques are ranked similarly to manuals.
• A higher-grade technique can obliterate a city or freeze time.
• Types of Techniques:
• Martial Techniques – Fist arts, weapon arts, pressure-point styles.
• Movement Arts – Shadow steps, blink dashes, domain traversal.
• Soul Arts – Mental illusion, spirit seals, dream invasions.
• Law Techniques – Use of conceptual energies like Time, Space, Karma.
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🔥 # Supporting Professions
• Cultivation isn't the only path; many walk auxiliary professions that support or enhance others.
• These paths have their own rankings and trials.
• Key Professions:
• Alchemists – Brew spiritual pills, refine body and soul.
• Forgers – Craft spirit weapons, divine armor, artifact tools.
• Array Masters – Set up formations that shield sects or trap enemies.
• Beast Tamers – Bond with spirit beasts and mythical creatures.
• Rune Engravers – Imprint Dao into objects or arrays.
• Spirit Farmers – Cultivate immortal herbs and elemental resources.
• Professional Ranks:
• Apprentice → Novice → Adept → Expert → Master → Grandmaster → Sage → Saint → Sovereign → Eternal Artisan
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💰 # Currency System
• Mortal economies run on copper, silver, and gold coins.
• 100 copper = 1 silver
• 100 silver = 1 gold
• Cultivators use Spirit Stones, which contain refined spiritual energy.
• Tiers of Spirit Stones:
• Low-Grade → Mid-Grade → High-Grade → Peak-Grade
• 100 of one grade equals 1 of the next.
• For advanced cultivators, rarer materials are used:
• Saint Crystals – Used by Saint Realm and above.
• Divine Crystals – Used in realm-scale transactions.
• Origin Crystals – Rarest, containing laws and time fragments.
• Spirit stones power formations, fund breakthroughs, and serve as universal currency across realms.
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🏯 # Societal Order and Hierarchy
• A cultivator's strength determines their role in society:
• Mortal Realm cultivator – Village guardian, sect errand disciple.
• Ascension Realm cultivator – Sect leader, general, noble.
• Divine Realm cultivator – Overseer of kingdoms, stars, and factions.
• Transcendent Realm cultivator – Founder of realms, manipulator of Karma.
• Eternal Origin Realm cultivator – One who rewrites laws, birth reality, and alter eternity.
• Entire dynasties, sects, and empires rise or fall based on the whim of powerful cultivators.
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📘 # Final Words: The Cosmic Ladder
• The journey of cultivation is not just upward, but inward — toward truth, will, and origin.
• Max's path is unlike any before him. His soul is marked not by fate but by defiance.
• In a world of endless realms and infinite power, only one question remains:
Can a mortal soul climb past the gods and become the origin of existence itself?