Question How Many stages of Cultivation are in Xianxia?

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  1. Lunnear

    Lunnear BL Readers and Writers- [My Muse is Yaoi~!]

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    Some cultivation novels start from the mortal root then goes to immortal. My question is, what are some of the most common ways how to separates cultivation rank?

    Like from Mortal Realm -> Profound Realm -> Spirit Realm -> Sky Realm - > Immortal Realm ?

    How are the levels in each rank define as? Like, in the Profound Realm: what are the stages of cultivation?
    What are the stages in the Spirit Realm? and the others?
     
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    bonifide Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm too hard to count. Usually the beginning realm be the same but after that they go all crazy. lol
     
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    Sordahon 『One Person Virtue Is Another One Sin』

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    Mortal Profound Spirit Earth Sky Emperor Tyrant Sovereign God
    Qi Gethering Stage, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, Dao Seeking, Immortal Ascension, Ancient Realm, Quasi Paragon Realm, Dao Lord, idk. Ji Tian Realm, Buddha Guy Realm, Meng Hao Realm, Wang Lin Realm,

    ah well whatever, it's all similar.
     
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    Low, mid, high, peak, half a step. The names you can change
     
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    Liron Well-Known (Failed) Prophet

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    It varies from author to author. True Martial World so far has 9 (or close to that) and ongoing. Ze Tian Ji has only 7 in total. But most levels are divided into low, mid, advanced and peak, or initial, middle, late and peak, or 1st layer, 2nd layer,... or initial, small success, large success, perfection and so on.
     
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    Raneday Not Rane

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    well you could just summarize the cultivation into two category
    1. The general/usual cultivation stages
    2. The Mc's Cultivation
    Since Mc usually out of the cultivation common sense and it will still depend on the novel you're reading since some author might use a different cultivation category or something
     
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    FranckOA Killer Klown From Outer Space

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    There's always new stages of cultivation in a xianxa novel as long as it is popular, just like there is as many further power levels in a shonen manga as long as it is popular in the magazine..
     
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    redleaf97 Lurker

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    have you ever read IET novel;s work the hell with cultivation he literally create like dozen stages
     
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    ShizukanaShadou Well-Known Member

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    I feel like there is 4 stages presented in the start and then more stages added on if the Authors want to :p
     
  10. Nyamsus

    Nyamsus Life is full of shit and we live in it

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    Usually it goes like this..
    Mortal > mortal shedding > transcend mortal > some what immortal > kinda immortal but not >immortal (for real)
     
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    Usually it goes by the 9 by 9 Heavenly Principles. Nine major stages each with nine minor steps. Some are simplified down to three or four minor steps however. Really depends upon teh author and the story.
     
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    Drakaos Member (Patriarch?) of the Anti-Qidian Sect

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    Well desolate era has
    Houtian
    Xiantian
    Zifu
    Wangxian
    Primal Daoist
    Void/Earth Immortal/Loose Immortal
    Celestial Immortal/Empyrean God
    Pure Yang/True God
    Ancestral Immortal/Elder God
    Chaos Immortal/World God
    Samsara Daolord
    Eternal Emperor
    And two more realms that would be spoilers.
     
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    Wimp-> Mortal -> badass but mortal -> lives extra long but still mortal -> doesn't age but still mortal -> all powerful god immortal, but can still be killed otherwise there is no point to anything, so I guess everyone is always mortal.
     
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    ShizukanaShadou Well-Known Member

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    Wow... Desolate Era has so many damn stages xD
     
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    It is more of author choice and the world
    For some it can only 7 to 9 major stages with middle being anywhere from 3-12 and then there are some stages which are not official but dubbed as one such as peak or half-step
     
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    In a way, Martial World has even more cultivation realms.
    There are 6 beginning body transformation realms
    Houtian
    Xiantian
    Revolving Dan
    9 stages of Life Destruction
    Divine Sea
    Divine Transformation
    Divine Lord
    Holy Lord
    World King
    Empyrean
    True God
    (Exceeding True God) Not sure whats its actually called
    As well as a bunch of other un-essential body transformation realms.
     
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    StuffedDuck Stuffed with Fluff

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    as many as the author needs/wants ... some even just squeeze a new stage between existing ones - just to inflate the story ...
     
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    yotae Drunkard Emperor

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    A classic xianxia is , i think, like this :
    houtian
    xiantian
    jindan
    yuanying
    dacheng
     
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    True...
     
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    It basically a show of one upmanship to every other country fiction characters like DBZ and Superman.
     
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