Founder of the Ten Thousand Realms
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Cultivation Levels
(Revised & Expanded - Cosmic Scale)
Written in the Founder's own hand, with annotations
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A Note Before You Begin
I've lived for millions of years. I've destroyed more worlds than I can count. I've walked through time like others walk through streets.
And still, I remember what it felt like to be at the bottom.
This guide is for you—my disciples. Read it. Learn it. Understand what awaits.
But more importantly—understand that these levels are just labels.
The Dao has no labels. The Dao simply IS.
That said, labels are useful. So here they are.
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—Yun Xiao
Founder
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PHASE ONE: MORTAL TRANSCENDENCE
From dust to divinity
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Level 1: Qi Condensation
Absorb spiritual energy. Open the dantian. Learn to feel the power that flows through all things.
Power Scale: You can break a rock with your fist. Impressive to mortals. Laughable to everyone else.
Lifespan: ~120-150 years
The beginning. Everyone starts here. Even I did, once.
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Level 2: Body Tempering
Strengthen flesh, bones, and organs. The body becomes a vessel for power.
Power Scale: You can punch through iron. Run faster than a horse. Survive a fall from a cliff.
Lifespan: ~200 years
Most mortals never reach this level. Most cultivators stop here.
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Level 3: Soul Condensation
Cultivate divine sense. The soul awakens. You can sense things beyond the physical.
Power Scale: You can lift boulders. Move faster than the eye can see. Sense danger before it arrives.
Lifespan: ~300 years
Shen Yi is here. Level 3. Broken spiritual roots. He'll go further than any of them.
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Level 4: Inscription
Carve runes into body or artifacts. Borrow power directly from the Dao.
Power Scale: You can shatter small hills. Deflect arrows with your aura. Your inscribed weapons can cut through steel like butter.
Lifespan: ~500 years
Inscriptions are contracts with reality. Choose your words carefully.
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Level 5: Divine Connection
Connect spirit with heaven's way. Divine abilities manifest.
Power Scale: You can level a mountain. Walk on water. Fly short distances. Your techniques affect the weather.
Lifespan: ~800 years
First taste of true power. This is where arrogance is born. Crush it before it crushes you.
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Level 6: Divine Transformation
Primordial spirit transforms into divine form. You become more than human.
Power Scale: You can destroy a small city. Fly across continents. Your presence makes weaker cultivators kneel.
Lifespan: ~1,500 years
Your soul gains a face. Make it one you're proud of.
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Level 7: True God
Condense a divine throne. Soul immortal even if body dies.
Power Scale: You can destroy a large city. Create hurricanes with a wave. Survive decapitation (for a while).
Lifespan: ~5,000 years (body) / Soul immortal
The throne is your foundation. Build it from truth, not ego.
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Level 8: God King
Rule a domain. Bestow divine power upon believers.
Power Scale: You can destroy a small country. Your domain spans hundreds of miles. Within it, you are nearly omnipotent.
Lifespan: ~15,000 years
Domain expansion. The bigger your territory, the stronger you become.
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Level 9: God Venerable
Revered by all gods. Half-step towards sainthood. Bloodline evolves.
Power Scale: You can destroy a large country. Your domain spans thousands of miles. Your children are born with cultivation already begun.
Lifespan: ~50,000 years
This is where you start to leave humanity behind. Don't lose yourself.
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Level 10: Half-Saint
Touch the threshold of sainthood. Saintly aura manifests.
Power Scale: You can destroy a continent. Your domain spans half a planet. You can sense the fabric of reality.
Lifespan: ~200,000 years
The veil grows thin. You can almost see through it.
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Level 11: Saint
Perfected saintly body. Traverse the starry sky.
Power Scale: You can destroy a planet. Travel between worlds. Your mere presence affects gravity. A word can heal or kill millions.
Lifespan: ~1,000,000 years
Saints are rare. One per generation. They think they've reached the peak.
They haven't.
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Level 12: Great Saint
Peak of mortal path. A single thought can create a world.
Power Scale: You can destroy a solar system. Create small worlds (planet-sized). Manipulate gravity on a stellar scale. Your arrival causes stars to flicker.
Lifespan: ~5,000,000 years
The end of mortality. The beginning of something greater.
Or the end of everything, if you fail the next step.
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THE HEAVENLY TRIBULATION
To advance beyond Great Saint, you must survive.
Not just survive—endure.
Heavenly lightning doesn't just test your body. It tests your soul. Your will. Your worth. Every sin you've committed. Every person you've wronged. Every weakness you've hidden.
It all comes out.
9 out of 10 die.
The 10th becomes...
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PHASE TWO: THE IMMORTAL PATH
From emperor to infinity
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Level 13: Quasi-Emperor
You survived. You have a Quasi-Emperor body now. Immortal lifespan begins.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a large solar system. Collapse stars with a thought.
· Domain: Your presence affects entire star clusters. Your aura alone can sterilize planets.
· Space Manipulation: Fold space to travel between stars instantly.
· Reality Perception: You can see the strings of fate—not manipulate them yet, but see them clearly.
Lifespan: Truly immortal (cannot die of age)
Time Resistance: You begin to resist the flow of time. Memories from millions of years ago are as clear as yesterday.
This is the price of immortality. You'll watch everyone you love grow old and die.
I know. I've done it.
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Level 14: Supreme
Unified a personal Dao path. You ARE that law.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a galaxy. Your chosen element (fire, sword, void, etc.) bends to your will absolutely.
· Domain: Your authority spans multiple galaxies. Within your element, you are unchallenged.
· Space Manipulation: Create stable wormholes. Travel across galaxies in heartbeats.
· Reality Manipulation: Minor reality warping within your domain. You can make water flow upward, fire burn cold, swords cut without touching.
Lifespan: Immortal + (soul integrated with Dao)
Time Resistance: You can perceive time as a river now—see upstream (past) and downstream (future), though entering it is still dangerous.
"Sword Supreme." "Flame Supreme." "Void Supreme."
You become the embodiment of your path. Walk carefully—you can't change it later.
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Level 15: Great Emperor
Overlord of an era. Refined a heavenly path. Establish imperial rule.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a galaxy cluster (hundreds of galaxies). Your techniques can unravel the fabric of space itself.
· Domain: Your imperial will covers billions of light-years. Stars bow to your command.
· Space Manipulation: Create pocket dimensions the size of solar systems. Trap enemies in folded space forever.
· Time Manipulation: You can now step INTO the river of time. Observe the past. Glimpse possible futures. You cannot change major events—yet—but you can see them coming.
The Imperial Edict: Your words carry weight. If you declare someone your enemy, the universe itself conspires against them. Bad luck. Misfortune. Accidents. The Dao listens to emperors.
Lifespan: Truly immortal + (era-bound)
Great Emperors fight over eras. Only one rules each age. The rest wait their turn.
But waiting can last millions of years.
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Level 16: True Immortal
Pure immortal body. A single speck of true spirit can重生.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a supercluster (thousands of galaxies). Your attacks can erase concepts, not just matter.
· Domain: Your influence spans observable universe. You can sense everything within it.
· Space Manipulation: Create universes—small ones, temporary ones, but complete with their own laws of physics.
· Time Manipulation: Swim in the river of time. Visit the past (but cannot change major events). Visit possible futures (but cannot guarantee which one comes true).
The True Immortal Body: Even if your body is destroyed, a single cell—a single THOUGHT—can regenerate you completely. Killing a True Immortal requires erasing their existence from past, present, and future simultaneously.
Lifespan: Epochal (can survive until the heat death of the universe)
Almost impossible to kill permanently.
Almost.
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Level 17: Immortal King
King among immortals. Creates own immortal domain.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a galactic filament (tens of thousands of galaxies). Your attacks can erase concepts from existence—"heat," "movement," "color."
· Domain: Your immortal domain is a separate reality. Within it, you are absolute god. You can invite others in—or trap them forever.
· Space Manipulation: Create stable, permanent universes with their own natural laws. Some Immortal Kings populate their universes with life.
· Time Manipulation: BEYOND the river of time.
This is crucial, so pay attention:
At Immortal King, you no longer swim IN time. You stand BESIDE it.
The river of time flows before you. You can see its entire course—from the beginning of existence to the final heat death. You can see every drop (every moment), every tributary (every possibility), every fish (every living being) that ever swam in it.
You cannot be affected by changes to the river. If someone goes back in time and kills your ancestor, YOU remain unchanged. You remember both versions—the one where you existed and the one where you didn't.
You are BEYOND causality.
To kill an Immortal King:
· You cannot kill them in the present—they'll just重生.
· You cannot kill them in the past—they exist outside it.
· You cannot erase them from fate—they write their own.
You must enter their immortal domain and destroy them there, on their own ground, where they are strongest.
No one has done this in... a very long time.
Lifespan: Coexistent with the multiverse
"King among immortals." It sounds grand. It is grand.
But even kings bow to higher powers.
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Level 18: Immortal Venerable
Venerated through the ages. Master of time and existence.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a cosmic void (a significant portion of the multiverse). Your attacks can erase laws of physics themselves.
· Domain: Your veneration spans multiple universes. Beings in countless realities know your name, worship your existence, fear your wrath.
· Space Manipulation: Create universe clusters. Design complete multiverse branches with their own natural laws.
· Time Manipulation: You don't just stand beside time—you HOLD the river.
The River in Your Hands:
An Immortal Venerable can:
· Reach into any moment of past or future
· Pluck individuals out of time
· Create time loops that last eternities
· Accelerate or decelerate time for entire universes
· Create "bubbles" where time flows backward
Causality Manipulation: You can reorder cause and effect. Make the effect happen BEFORE the cause. Kill someone, THEN go back and start the war that led to their death. The universe accepts it because YOU say so.
The Veneration Effect: The more beings who venerate you (know your name, tell your stories, pray to you), the stronger you become. An Immortal Venerable with a billion worshippers is powerful. One with a trillion is terrifying.
Lifespan: Multiversal (can survive the death of individual universes)
Changing the past has consequences. I've seen Venerables erase themselves by accident.
Time doesn't like being played with.
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Level 19: Immortal Emperor
Ultimate ruler of myriad paths. End of all laws. Beginning of all things.
Power Scale:
· Destructive Capacity: Destroy a multiverse cluster (a collection of multiverses). Your attacks can erase existence itself—not just matter, not just concepts, but the POSSIBILITY of anything ever having existed.
· Domain: Your imperial will spans infinite realities. Every universe, every dimension, every possible world acknowledges your supremacy.
· Space Manipulation: Create infinite multiverses. Design existence from scratch. You are a true creator god.
· Time Manipulation: You ARE time. You ARE causality. You ARE existence.
The Emperor's Absolute Authority:
An Immortal Emperor can:
· Rewrite the laws of physics across all realities
· Create new dimensions of existence
· Erase concepts from the fabric of reality (there used to be a seventh color in the rainbow. An Emperor removed it. No one remembers.)
· Resurrect the dead—even those erased from existence
· Create life from nothing
· Destroy life with a thought
· Will things into being without effort
The Imperial Throne: Every Immortal Emperor sits on a throne that exists outside all realities. From this throne, they can observe all of existence—past, present, future, possibilities, impossibilities.
To become Immortal Emperor:
· You must defeat all rivals for your era
· You must unify all paths under your rule
· You must survive the crowning ceremony (which has killed 30% of all who attempted it)
Lifespan: Eternal (can survive the death of ALL realities)
The peak. The summit. The end of the road.
Or so they think.
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THE FOUNDER'S REALM
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Level ??: Unquantifiable
There is no official name for this level. I've been calling it "Beyond Immortal Emperor" for so long that I forgot there might be a better term.
The system calls me "unquantifiable." I like that.
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Name: Yun Xiao (probably. It's been a while.)
Years Cultivated: Lost count after the first million. Currently somewhere around... 17 million? 23 million? Time gets fuzzy when you exist outside it.
Current Status: Stuck at the "Beyond the Dao" barrier. Been here for 800,000 years.
How to Break Through: Need 10 disciples to become Immortal Emperors.
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Power Scale:
Let me put it this way:
· An Immortal Emperor can destroy a multiverse cluster.
· I can destroy an Immortal Emperor with a glance.
· An Immortal Emperor can create infinite realities.
· I can create an Immortal Emperor with a wave.
· An Immortal Emperor IS time.
· I existed before time began.
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What I Can Do:
· Create Existence: I once sneezed and accidentally created a galaxy. I felt bad about it for a thousand years.
· Destroy Existence: I once frowned and accidentally erased a timeline. I restored it immediately, but still—oops.
· Manipulate Concepts: I can make "up" become "down" across all realities. I can make "hot" mean "cold." I can create new concepts—things that never existed before—and add them to existence.
· Exist Everywhere: Every moment of time, every point in space, every possibility, every impossibility—I am there. I am here. I am everywhere.
· Exist Nowhere: I can also choose not to exist. Step out of reality entirely. Watch from outside.
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The Loneliness:
But none of that matters.
Because when you're at this level, there's no one to share it with.
Immortal Emperors kneel when they see me. They don't talk to me. They don't laugh with me. They don't ask my name.
They're too scared.
So I wait. For someone who isn't scared. For someone who will look at me and see... a teacher. A friend. A companion.
That's why I'm building this sect.
That's why I'm collecting "trash."
Because trash doesn't know enough to be scared.
And that's exactly what I need.
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POWER SCALE SUMMARY
Level Realm Destructive Capacity Time Manipulation
1 Qi Condensation Break a rock None
2 Body Tempering Break iron None
3 Soul Condensation Lift boulders None
4 Inscription Shatter hills None
5 Divine Connection Level mountains None
6 Divine Transformation Destroy small city None
7 True God Destroy large city None
8 God King Destroy small country None
9 God Venerable Destroy large country None
10 Half-Saint Destroy continent None
11 Saint Destroy planet None
12 Great Saint Destroy solar system None
TRIBULATION SURVIVE OR DIE
13 Quasi-Emperor Destroy large solar system Resist time
14 Supreme Destroy galaxy Perceive time as river
15 Great Emperor Destroy galaxy cluster Step INTO river
16 True Immortal Destroy supercluster Swim in river
17 Immortal King Destroy galactic filament STAND BEYOND river
18 Immortal Venerable Destroy cosmic void HOLD the river
19 Immortal Emperor Destroy multiverse cluster BE time itself
? UNQUANTIFIABLE Destroy Immortal Emperors Exist outside all
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A Note on the River of Time
Many of you will ask: what does it mean to be "beyond" the river?
Let me explain.
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Quasi-Emperor to True Immortal: You are IN the river. You can swim. You can dive. You can surface. But the river carries you. It shapes your path.
Immortal King: You climb OUT of the river. You stand on its banks. You can see the entire river—where it comes from, where it goes, every fish that swims in it. If someone upstream does something, YOU don't change. You remember both versions.
Immortal Venerable: You HOLD the river. You can redirect it. Speed it up. Slow it down. Create whirlpools. Dam it entirely.
Immortal Emperor: You ARE the river. And every other river. And the ocean they flow into. And the rain that feeds them. And the clouds that carry the rain.
Me: I dug the riverbed. Before there was time, I was there. Before there was existence, I was watching.
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Does that help?
Probably not. That's okay. You'll understand when you get there.
If you get there.
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A Final Note from the Founder
Written in the margin, slightly smudged
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I wrote all this for you. Every word. Every explanation. Every scale.
Keep it. Read it. Study it.
But remember:
Realms are labels. Labels are lies.
I've seen Qi Condensation cultivators with more determination than Immortal Emperors. I've seen "trash" rise to peaks that geniuses could never reach.
Talent is nothing. Spiritual roots are nothing. Bloodlines are nothing.
The only thing that matters is this:
Get up one more time than you fall down.
That's cultivation.
That's strength.
That's why I chose you.
Now stop reading and go train.
—Yun Xiao
Founder
The Loneliest God
Your Teacher
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P.S. — Little Foodie, if you're reading this, no, you cannot eat an Immortal Emperor yet. Wait until at least True Immortal level.
P.P.S. — She's going to try anyway. Someone stop her.
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End of Cultivation Level Document
(Revised Cosmic Edition)
—The Creator