The level of immortals in novelsIn the novel, there were many ways to divide the ranks of immortals:
1. ** Twelve Levels **:
- ** Mortal Cultivation Stage **: Refining into Qi (includes Enlightenment, Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment); Refining into Qi into Spirit (includes Spirit Movement, Core Formation (Golden Core), and Nascent Soul); Refining Spirit into Void (includes Leaving Aperture, Soul Separation, and Void Penetration); Refining Void into Dao (includes Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation. After the Immortal Tribulation, one becomes an Immortal. If one fails to transcend the Tribulation, one becomes an Immortal, Earth Immortal, or Ghost Immortal. The Tribulation here is a Human Tribulation, not an Immortal Tribulation.
- [Stage after refining to become an immortal: Ordinary immortal stage](Celestial Immortal, Mystic Immortal, True Immortal), Primordial Immortal Stage (Taiyi Golden Immortal, Blooming a Flower, Gathering Three Qi, Forming Taiyi Dao Fruit)(Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, Blooming Three Flowers, Gathering Five Qi, Facing the Origin, Forming Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit)(One Corpse Quasi-Sage, Two Corpse Quasi-Sage, Three Corpse Quasi-Sage, and in fact, Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal)(quasi-sage, initial-stage sage, middle-stage sage, Dao Fruit or Dao Integration); Heavenly Dao Stage (Realm Heavenly Dao, Concept Heavenly Dao, and Nomological Heavenly Dao. The three Heavenly Dao levels are all gathered into Dao Fruit to enter the next stage regardless of the order); Great Dao Stage (Nomological Great Dao, Karma Great Dao, Concept Great Dao, regardless of the order, all gathered into Dao Fruit to transcend everything and jump out of this dimension to advance to a higher dimension); Immortal King, Immortal Venerable, and Immortal Emperor.
2. ** Seven levels (from low to high)**: Spirit Lord (includes three sub-levels: Spirit Weapon, Spirit Official, and Spirit Lord. Spirit Weapon is the lowest level of the immortal system, Spirit Official is a spirit weapon with an official position, and Spirit Lord is a god who holds the position of the main officer among Spirit Officials), Divine Lord (also known as True God, including Divine General, etc.), Heavenly Lord, Celestial Lord, True Lord, Imperial Lord, and Dao Lord.
3. ** The possible nine ranks of Taoist-related novels **: including the Three Pure Ones, Pangu, Nüwa, etc.; Jade Emperor, Doumu Progenitor, Four Royals, etc.; Five Elders, Golden Mother Wood Duke, Five Emperors, etc.; Thunder Ancestor, Nine Heavenly Maidens, Old Mother of Blackfoal Mountain, etc.; Eight Immortals, Erlang God, Nezha, etc.; Four Spirits and Twenty-Eight Constellations, Wang Lingguan, etc.; Thirty-six Heavenly Generals, Thirty-six Heavenly Stars, Seventy-two Earth Fiends, etc.; Zhong Kui, City God, Earth God, Kitchen God, etc. The saints of Fengdu, the Ghost Emperors of the Five Directions, and the true spirits of the Six Heavenly Palaces of Luofeng.
4. ** Grades derived from the Creation Original Spirit **:
- [Level 1 Immortal (Highest Level): Genesis Original Spirit]
- [Level 2 Divine Immortal: The four great disciples of the Creation Spirit are Patriarch Hongjun, Patriarch Hunkun, Goddess Nuwa, and Dao Lord Lu Ya.]
- [Third-level Immortal: Second-level Immortal Patriarch Hongjun and Ancestral Master Hunkun's disciples (Mother Nuwa and Daolord Luya don't have disciples).]
- [Level 4 Immortal: Mainly the disciples of Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sect Master Tongtian. Grand Supreme Elder only has one relatively famous disciple.]
In addition, there were other divisions based on different standards. For example, in the Cao Wei Dynasty, the "Five Buckets of Rice Dao" divided the immortal products into three grades according to different merits (the upper grade was immortal, the middle grade was earth immortal, and the lower grade could only prolong life). The Shangqing Jing Sect divided the immortals into high-grade, middle-grade, and low-grade according to the effect of taking medicine (the high-grade immortals could ride clouds and dragons, ascend to heaven, etc., while the middle-grade and low-grade had different functions and restrictions).
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