《Against the heavens.》Auxiliary chapter, cultivation realms.
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Human Rune Realm. Divided into Mortal Rune, Houtian Rune, and Xiantian Rune realms. One must use their Qi and their understanding of the laws to carve runes inside their dantian, slowly growing it larger to create space for more runes. Each of the sub-realms requires one to create 3 Law Runes and are thus separated into the minor realms of early-mid-late. An example would be a person having carved 5 runes being at the middle-stage of the Houtian Rune realm. The same is true for any realm that requires carving runes to ascend to a higher realm of cultivation.
Ascending Heaven Realm. Divided into the Ascending Foundation, Ascending Road, and Ascending Gate realms. After carving at least nine runes of one law into their dantian, the cultivator must connect all their runes using a thread of Qi, allowing the runes to create a large platform at the center of them all. This platform was the Ascending Foundation, and from this point on, the cultivator had to pour their Qi and understanding into the platform, slowly creating a mountain on top of it, their Ascending Road. Once the mountain could grow no longer, it would connect to the heavens, allowing the cultivator to enter the Ascending Gate realm.
Immortal Rebirth Realm. Divided into Body Rebirth, Energy Rebirth, and Spiritual Rebirth realms. Once a person's Ascending Road has connected with the heavens, they must survive three different tribulations, shedding their mortal coil and joining the ranks of immortals. The first tribulation tests and tempers the body, the second tests and tempers a person's Qi, and the final one will test and temper one's soul. After surviving all three tribulations, one must prepare to enter the Primordial Rune realm.
Primordial Rune Realm. Divided into Early, Middle, and Late stage. After one has joined the ranks of the immortals, one must shatter the Ascending Road they have created, fusing it into the various runes they have already carved and used as the Ascending Foundation. This allows the runes to carry a piece of the heavens, letting them unleash even greater might. After doing this, one must fuse the strengthened runes, fusing 9 runes into one, a Primordial Rune. These Primordial Runes will serve as a blueprint to carve future Primordial Runes. Every three sets of Primordial Runes constitutes one of the three stages in the cultivation, 3 equals early stage, 6 equals middle stage, and 9 equals late stage.
Celestial Immortal Realm. Divided into Earthly Immortal. Heavenly Immortal. Transcended Immortal.
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One has finished carving 9 Primordial Runes, now it is time for a cultivator to unshackle themselves from the heavens, becoming their equal. A cultivator must use the fragments of their Ascending Road that have fused into their Primordial Runes, letting the energy of them spread throughout the dantian, creating a pseudo-heaven. The more like the true heavens that this pseudo-heaven is, the higher their cultivation is.
True Deity Realm. Divided into Earthly Deity, Heavenly Deity, Transcended Deity. At this cultivation stage, a cultivator starts turning their pseudo-heaven into a true heaven. They use every single law they have gained insight into, merging it into their pseudo-heaven and using vast amounts of energy to slowly fuse the laws with the pseudo-heavens. This slowly changes the pseudo-heaven, turning it from an all-inclusive pseudo-heaven into a true heaven that focuses solely on the laws that a cultivator has gained insight onto.
Empyrean Realm. Divided into Early, Middle, and late stage. Thought to be the peak of cultivation, often titled Godkings. The true heaven within the cultivators dantian has not only become complete, but it has also become an entire universe, capable of birthing living beings and sentient species. The cultivator can draw power from these living beings, their faith and life-force becoming the might of the cultivator.
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Soul Cultivation.
Soul Materialization realm. One has strengthened their soul and mind so much that one's soul has gathered together and turned corporeal, appearing within the cultivator's mind. The more corporeal the soul becomes, the closer you are to entering the next stage.
Heaven Reaching Soul realm. One's soul has turned so corporeal and strong that it is now able to leave their body and begin reaching for the heavens. The more you strengthen your soul, the closer it can get to the heavens, and the closer your soul could get to the heavens, the higher you are in this cultivation realm. Upon leaving your body for the first time, your soul will start drawing in the surrounding Qi and laws, using them to form a unique energy called Vital Essence, the soul equivalent of Qi. As it is ethereal and almost unreal, it is perfectly suited for attacking souls and other ethereal things.
Heaven Touching Soul realm. Your soul has reached all the way up to the heavens and managed to make contact with them, allowing you to control your soul and let it greedily absorb the might of the heavens, using the potent energy to change itself, evolving to the next realm. The more complete the evolution of your soul is, the closer you are to reaching the next cultivation stage.
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Primordial Soul realm. Your soul has fully evolved to the next realm, the might of the heavens having integrated themselves into your soul and having made it so strong that you can survive as just a soul, taking over the bodies of other living beings should your own body be destroyed. To cultivate through this realm, you must use the might of the heavens that have integrated into your soul to hollow out your own soul, pushing all the energy that would be in the inside of your soul to the outside, further compressing and strengthening the now hollow shell of your soul.
Heaven Imitating Soul realm. A cultivator would enter this realm once they had fully hollowed out their soul, and the way to cultivate through this stage was just as the name suggested. Using the might of the heavens that your soul had absorbed, you would form a pseudo-heaven within your hollowed out soul, creating an imitation of the heavens that governed your universe. The larger this pseudo-heaven grew, the higher in this cultivation realm you were.
Heaven's Soul realm. In this cultivation realm, you had to disintegrate your soul and fuse both your disintegrated soul and all your laws into the pseudo-heaven you had created, slowly merging them together and evolving your pseudo-heaven into something that could be called a true heaven, a heaven completely unique to you. The larger and more real your heaven became, the closer you came to reaching the final soul cultivation stage.
Soul Empyrean realm. The peak of soul cultivation, the heaven that was your soul would become an entire universe, spawning living and sentient beings. The strength, faith, and life-force of every living being within this universe could be freely used by the soul cultivator, giving them boundless might that equaled an entire universe.
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Body cultivation.
Core Forging realm. A person must use Qi as well as their laws to engrave runes onto their bones, strengthening them using the laws contained within the runes. Like this, the bones will be able to handle the immense strain they will be put under in the future. Once a person has covered their entire skeleton, they can enter the next cultivation realm.
Heart Rune realm. Much like the previous realm, the cultivator must use their laws and some source of Qi to engrave runes onto their organs, covering them with tightly connected runes that signify your laws. These runes will connect with the ones carved onto your skeleton, causing them to resonate with the distant heavens above and drawing down some of their might. This resonance will also spawn a type of energy unique to body cultivators, Dark Star Essence. This Dark Star Essence is not as versatile as Qi, but it contains far more might and weight, perfect for physical attacks and body strengthening. This Dark Star Essence also contains a terrifying vitality, allowing a cultivator's body to rapidly regenerate itself.
Star Blood realm. After engraving all their organs with their runes, a cultivator will move on to their veins and blood, using their laws and Dark Star Essence to carve the runes directly into their own veins and their blood, allowing the runes to move throughout the entire body. These runes will connect with the previously carved ones to further strengthen the resonance with the heavens, drawing down even more might.
Primordial Body realm. This step required a person to carve their runes into the remaining parts of their body, their flesh, skin, hair, and nails. Once every inch of their being has been covered in their own unique runes, the resonance they create will become so strong that a tremendous amount of heavens might will be drawn down and swallowed by the body. The body will then use this energy to strengthen and evolve itself, allowing a cultivator to enter the next cultivation realm.
Heaven Imitating Body realm. Just like the soul cultivation realm of the same name, the cultivator now has to hollow out their body and use the gathered might of the heavens to form a pseudo-heaven inside their body. Once every inch of their now hollowed out insides had been filled up with the pseudo-heaven, they could enter the next cultivation realm.
Heaven's Body realm. In this realm, the body cultivator disintegrates their own body and merges both their disintegrated body and their laws into their pseudo-heaven turning it into a true heaven that is unique to them. Once the pseudo-heaven finished evolving into a true heaven, you would enter the peak stage of body cultivation.
Star Empyrean realm. The peak of body cultivation, the heaven that one's body had become would grow into an entire universe that could birth living and sentient beings, allowing the cultivator to draw upon their collective might to unleash might that can only be considered calamitous
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