Seeing his grandson so excited about cultivation he once again began to explain the basics of the cultivation world. "Long'er in this world of cultivation there are 9 stages, the first stage being qi gathering, in this stage the cultivator begins to sense the energy of heaven amd earth and begin to refine it into usable qi after which you start to guide the qi into your dantian which os located right above your navel where the qi will gather in a gaseous form and start a small cyclone, to breakthrough to the second stage known as qi condesation once you've gather enough gaseous qi you start condense the qi into a liquid state once you have form a drop of liquid qi you have stepped into the second stage, to step into the third stage known as qi foundation your dantian has to be full of liquid qi, to breakthrough the fourth stage which is know as core establishment which is further broken down into three phases core gathering from the third stage to the fourth stage is a watershed to break into core gather one must establish a cyclone of liquid qi, this is much harder than the cyclone of gaseous qi as it takes much more concemtration amd since the qi is in liqiud state it is also much more powerful which means if you dont revovle the qi correctly you could end up crippling your self or dying from qi deviation, once youve set up your liquid qi cyclone you no longer have to individually refine drops of qi the cyclone will do it for you, the second phase of the fourth stage is known as core condensation to break into this phase a cultovator must gather as much liquid qi as possible in their cyclone and begin to condense it into a solid ball shaped form, the last stage of the core establishment is known as core cleansing to reach the final phase of this stage a cultivator must remove the impurites from their core the more impurities they remove the stronger the core becomes this is all i will explain to you for now as anymore detailed information might he harmful instead. At the very least i will finish telling you the the levels of cultivation so you dont appeat ignorant before the other young masters, the fifth stage is known as soul awakening, the sixth stage is known a soul condensation, the seventh stage which isthe stage your grandpa is in the peak of is called the soul crystalization, the eigth stage which i will get to soon is called the enlightenment stage, and finally the ninth stage is called the Saint stage.