Cultivation Realms

Breakdow of Cultivation Realms ch,1651
No matter which world he was in, it all boiled down to four key stages in cultivation — Cultivating Essence into Qi, Cultivating Qi into Spirit, Cultivating Spirit into Emptiness and Cultivating Emptiness into the Harmonic Way.

Everyone had to go through these four stages no matter which school of martial arts they belonged to. The only difference was in the categorization.

Ling Yun’s current Physique Tempering Stage was equivalent to Cultivating Essence into Qi stage. The different stages — Physique Tempering Stage One, Two, Three — were purely categorizations of the body’s physical hardness. Ling Yun would be able to cultivate his Spiritual Energy or Life Energy once he reached Physique Tempering Stage Four.

At this stage, the cultivation would be focused mainly on the energy center found under the navel amongst other meridians. The practitioner’s body would transform from one that was innately reliant on absorbing spiritual energy to one that could generate spiritual energy on its own. This essentially meant that one could fight without fear of depletion of spiritual energy.

After the Qi Cultivation stage, the amount of spiritual energy that the body could generate would increase with time. The practitioner could then proceed to use the spiritual energy to aid in his advancement of stages. He need only open up the governor and conception vessels to enter the Realm of the Unity of Universe and Mankind.

That would be equivalent to Huaxia’s ancient ranking of Xiantian Realm.

Practitioners of the Xiantian Realm would be able to meditate and return back to the most pristine state of being. Practitioners of this realm would appear as ordinary common men if they deliberately chose to hide their skills.

That was exactly why Ling Yun could not discern Qin Qiuyue’s strength as a Xiantian master.

Qi Cultivation Stage was actually the second stage: Cultivating Qi into Spirit.

Practitioners who attained this stage would have their own divine sense which differed from sect to sect.

Take Qin Qiuyue for example. She was at Xiantian Realm Level Two; her maximum range of her divine sense was about two hundred meters.

Ling Yun was temporarily granted the power of a Qi Cultivation Stage Nine while wielding the Emperor Brush last night. His divine senses had covered over nine kilometers, which encompassed the entire mountain range of Dragon Mountain and Nancui Peak!

That was how Ling Yun discovered Qin Qiuyue’s presence at the Zhuang Family’s woods.