They sought truth.
They sought power enough to change fate, defy heavens, and command stars.
Yet what they found was a ladder,
and each step of that ladder rewrote what it meant to exist.
These were not mere levels—they were thresholds of reality.
To climb them was to leave behind the world as it was, and become something new.
Strength: Human peak to superhuman
Lifespan: 100–200 years
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, durability.
Laws: Cannot sense or use laws directly.
Essence: Cultivators rely on physical conditioning, medicine, and resources.
Purpose: To forge the vessel. Without a body of strength, the soul will fracture under energy.
Strength: Small mountain-level power
Lifespan: 300–500 years
Abilities: Can sense and absorb World Essence (Qi, Mana, Spirit Energy).
Laws: Bare flickers sensed. Unable to interact.
Essence: Internal energy flows are unlocked.
Purpose: Cleanse and align the meridians. Begin the soul’s stirring.
Strength: City-destroying capability
Lifespan: 800–1,000 years
Abilities: Cultivator’s aura takes form; spiritual perception, energy manipulation improves.
Laws: Laws appear in dreams and epiphanies.
Essence: The embryo of the spirit is formed; a core for the future self.
Purpose: Birth the first form of true self.
Strength: Small country-level
Lifespan: 2,000–3,000 years
Abilities: Spiritual projection, soul clones, dreamwalk, law sensitivity.
Laws: Able to interact lightly with lower Daos.
Essence: The soul awakens, becomes an active force.
Purpose: Prepare the self to bind with origin.
Strength: Nation-destroying
Lifespan: 5,000–10,000 years
Abilities: Forms a Dao Seed—binds to a specific law (e.g., Fire, Shadow, Wind, Gravity).
Laws: Minor control over a single Dao.
Essence: Dao resonance strengthens the body and spirit.
Purpose: To align one’s path with the world’s truth.
Strength: Continental
Lifespan: 50,000–100,000 years
Abilities: Embody their Dao fully. Laws move with them. Can cause natural disasters with thought.
Laws: Dao manifestation—can form Law Avatars.
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Essence: The cultivator becomes a walking embodiment of their Dao.
Purpose: Fuse one’s body and soul with Law.
Strength: World-shaking
Lifespan: 500,000 years to functional immortality
Abilities: Deathless body. Can reconstitute from dust.
Laws: Multiple Daos begin fusing. Cultivator may walk through different dimensions.
Essence: Their existence is sustained by law and energy.
Purpose: Shed mortality. Become a vessel for eternity.
Strength: Planetary and planar manipulation
Lifespan: Infinite unless killed
Abilities: Incarnation, domain creation, law storms, projection across space.
Laws: Fusion of 2–5 Daos. Begin to form Inner World Realms.
Essence: Becomes a fixed entity in the flow of reality.
Purpose: Write one's name into the fabric of existence.
Strength: Multi-world dominion
Lifespan: Transcendent timelessness
Abilities: Creates stable Inner Realms. Can grant others Dao seeds. Becomes an origin for others.
Laws: Can manifest a Law World; dominate in areas tied to their Dao.
Essence: Their presence alters surrounding law fields.
Purpose: Evolve from personal to cosmic influence.
Strength: Capable of creating or destroying entire States
Lifespan: True Immortality
Abilities: Rule over their corresponding State. Merge with their Dao to become its living embodiment.
Laws: Merge up to 10–12 Daos, achieving Dao Crown status.
Essence: Reality bends around them. Time, space, life, death—none can restrain them.
Purpose: To touch the domain of the Creator, and walk parallel to it.
Only 3000 beings have reached this level: the First Ancestors of each race. Bound by the World Will, they act only at great cost.
Theory: One does not walk the Dao—one creates new Daos.
Essence: Become a Source from which Law is born.
Abilities: Absolute mastery over all previous Daos. Reality bends naturally around them.
Signs: World Will grows silent in their presence. May rewrite laws of creation.
Current Status: No known cultivator has reached this realm. All Ancestors seek it.
Theory: To reverse existence, return to the first spark.
Essence: The cultivator becomes a cosmic singularity—before creation, before time.
Abilities: Unknown. Possibly omnipresence, omnipotence, or true unity with the Creator’s remains.
Warning: Said to defy even the Creator's laws. Possibly requires sacrificing all known existence.
Whispers: Some believe the Creator himself was a being of Origin Reversal—thus, only one may exist at a time.
“To reach the Tenth Realm is to leave mortality.
To reach the Eleventh is to leave existence.
To reach the Twelfth... is to unmake all things.”
—Fragment etched into the bones of a dead Ancestor
Would you like the next chapter to follow a cultivator’s journey through the early Realms, or a forbidden technique that challenges the World Will and offers a shortcut to the Eleventh Realm?