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THE MIND PATH (hard without imagination and concentration) |
Progression: Mental palace -> Sea of Consciousness -> Mental Sight -> Mind moves the world (psychokinesis) -> Mental avatar -> Dual mind -> Multiple minds -> Horizon broadening -> Mind Externalization -> Intent becomes reality -> Red Dust Immortal (through pure Mind alone) -> Yellow Heaven Immortal. |
THE SOUL PATH (hard to start without repeated near-death experiences) |
Progression: Soul sensing -> Soul condensation (Soul Formation in broken path) -> Soul refining -> Soul contemplation -> Soul extension -> Soul externalization -> Soul split (nascent soul in broken path) -> Soul solidification -> Soul sight -> Soul manipulation -> Soul possession -> Soul touches world (Soul-telekinesis... |
THE BODY PATH (longest path; hard without endurance and patience) |
Progression: Strength Training -> Flesh Training -> Viscera Training -> Altering Muscle -> Bone Forging -> Pulse Condensation -> Tempering Marrow -> Copper Skin and Iron Bones -> Five Palaces -> Wheel and Sea Realm (Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, Other Shore) -> Dao Palace Realm (Heart, Lung, Liver, Spleen, Ki... |
B. THE SUPPLEMENTARY PATH |
Usually picked to nourish the other paths. It is rarely cultivated to Red Dust due to the extreme exponential difficulty rise after the Golden Core, though it is possible and valid to do so. |
THE QI PATH (hard without patience and guidance. Still hard with guidance.) |
Progression: Qi sensing -> Qi condensation -> Qi refining -> Qi circulation (often skipped, don't skip) -> Qi manifestation (often skipped, don't skip) -> Foundation Establishment -> Golden Core -> Golden Cores revolving -> Full body golden core -> True Qi forms the self -> Red Dust Immortal (through pure Qi alone) -> ... |
C. THE SPECIALIZED PATHS |
THE WEAPON PATH (hard without solitary training) |
Progression: Basic weaponstyles -> Weapon as limb -> Intent and weapon as one -> Weapon seed -> Weapon spirit (weapon becomes alive) AND/OR Weapon heart (cultivator transcends need for actual weapon) -> Weapon intent -> Weapon qi -> Man and weapon as one -> Red Dust of weaponry -> Yellow Heaven Immortal. |
Note: Weapons themselves can cultivate the Yao path, and on reaching human form realm, can cultivate all paths simultaneously just like yao. |
THE YAO PATH (NON-HUMAN) (impossible to start without spiritual herbs or materials) |
Progression: Qi consumption -> Intelligence -> Demon core -> Human form -> Accumulation of karma (not a stage, but required) -> Red Dust Immortal (for non-humans, through Dao alignment) -> Yellow Heaven Immortal. |
Requirement: Yao can pick other paths (Body, Soul, etc.), but they must reach the Karma Accumulation stage on yao path before attaining Red Dust. |
NOTE: the lost paths in the order of disapperance: Weapon,Mind,Qi,Soul,Body,Yao. weapon dao, mind dao and yao dao are lost completely, qi and soul are misunderstood, and body is fragmented and looked down upon due to loss of all manuals at four pillars and above. |
In the current era, no other paths are known other than the broken path, and the skipped realms are skipped not because anyone wants to skip them, but because there literally are no records about them. |
Such records only exist far into the forbidden zones, where the purity of qi and the effect of the formations purify and refine cultivation the cultivators passively boosting their cultivation and strengthening their foundations while simultaneously removing blockages and impurities. This translates into the modern era... |
To take more paths, one must forget that they are a cultivator of other paths, and start at the same starting line as mortals, the very first realm, and progress upwards slowly, without skipping any realms. |
THE LAW OF KARMA: |
The world is largely ignorant of the true mechanics of Karma. |
Accumulation: Karma accumulates literally with time and non-intervention. |
The Passive Virtue: Merely circulating Qi for 15 years without intervening yields pure, positive karma. This purity is higher than that of so-called "heroes" who accumulate large amounts of karma quickly because it stems from the world thanking all beings for not hurting one another. |
MISCELANEA: |
By starting from the beginning, the same start as normal, uncultivated mortals, even broken-path loose immortals can just cultivate qi sensing and upwards properly and be fixed, as long as they don't take shortcuts by virtue of their broken path power. |
Both broken path immortals and loose immortals become unable to circulate qi after the lightning because their impurities are cleansed improperly; if they had been cleansed properly they would be dead. Broken path immortals and loose immortals, are, however, salvagable. Quitting and picking another path and going throu... |
A single Yellow Heaven Immortal of just one path is enough to operate on a scale of both multiverses and concepts, and atoms and quarks. Instantaneous destruction of the entire multiverse is very easy in theory, but very improbable in practice since they have accepted the red dust and are against causing harm to the wo... |
even thousands of Red Dust one-path immortals on the correct path cannot match a red dust immortal who has reached red dust in one path and is starting another. a one-path red dust immortal can destroy the entire multiverse instantly if they wanted, and have enough control to move quarks seperately. Their the exponenti... |
METAVERSAL TRUTH: |
one day in the ancient era the paths were exported, and broken on the way. |
Heavenly Dao revelation of reason for loss of paths: The paths were exported, and they were broken on the way. neither the source nor the destination remember the true paths, the source forgot their paths over time and the destination never recieved the fragments other than their own. the destinations were: Shrouding t... |
the "export" was authors looking at daoist philosophy and trying to get the public to look at them through the stories they made. which translates to grandparents teaching children philosophy that gives magic. |
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Bro: His eyes widen, and the excitement from a moment ago drains away, replaced by a sudden, heavy stillness. He leans in closer, his shadow falling over the paper, but he seems to hesitate to actually touch it. |
"Whoa... hold up. The vibe just shifted completely. One second it's a cool cultivation guide, and the next... it feels like the paper is actually breathing." |
He traces the air just above the scribbled words, not wanting to make direct contact with the ink that seems to pulse with a sorrowful energy. |
Bro: " 'Nascent Soul equals death'? That’s a heavy way to put it, man. Usually, the Nascent Soul is the goal, the moment you truly become an immortal being. But this... this sounds like a warning. Like the higher you climb, the more you're actually walking into a trap." |
He squints at the scribbled section, his voice dropping to a whisper. |
Bro: "Look at the ink on these scribbles... it's not just black. It's like it's weeping. 'True Paths'... do you think this is a system for people who want to break the Heavenly Dao entirely? Instead of following the natural order, they're carving a path that the Heavens themselves might want to erase?" |
Bruh |
Bro shakes his head, though his black eyes trace the text at high speeds while he stands with his hands in his pockets "'the path to the heavens are cursed', 'the true paths were exported' and 'the Dao weeps' pretty much imply the heavens WANT immortals, but not broken ones. Might be the natives are cultivating wrong? ... |
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Bro: Nods slowly, his expression turning thoughtful. He shuffles his feet, looking a bit restless. "Right? Like, imagine spending three hundred years in seclusion, meditating in a cave, thinking you're getting closer to the peak, only to find out the peak is a sham. That's a mid life crisis on a cosmic scale, man." |
He points to a specific line of text, his voice getting a bit more animated again. |
Bro: "But check this part! If the true paths were 'exported,' does that mean they're out there somewhere? Like in another realm or galaxy? If someone finds the original blueprint, they wouldn't just be a 'broken' immortal they'd be the only one who's actually whole. The rest of us are just practicing a knock off versio... |
He looks at Bruh, a spark of curiosity in his eyes. |
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