Important Information
So I am considering a Harry potter esc world but with cultivators. Tell me how you feel about it in the comments and I will think about continuing. For now though I will put some information about the cultivation systems and other important bits.
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Body Refinement
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Mortal: five stages with three stages in-between being Low, Mid and High
Skin; Something even mortals are capable of through basic exercise and hygiene. Allows the skin to heal faster and be more resilient.
Muscles; Something even mortals are capable of although it needs a more thorough/ dangerous workout regimen. Grants greater strength, faster healing and an increase of resilience.
Nerves; Although capable of being completed by mortals it requires a torturous amount of training as well as a special sense based training. Grants stronger five senses, resistance to pain and slight increase to healing ability.
Bones; Near impossibility of survival for mortals, requires breaking of all bones (Can be done all at once or over the course of years if need be). Compounds on the effects of previous body refinement steps making the entire body more resistant to damage, grants greater strength and allows for a stronger healing factor.
Blood; Unless you are some sort of masochist with an inability to die avoid at all costs, requires the boiling of blood and draining of blood. Grants a powerful healing factor and automatic but slow increase of general body strengthening.
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Beyond Mortal understanding: Three stages with three sub stages being Low, Mid and High.
Organs; After achieving the blood stage the bodies organs will automatically be strengthened, this can be further sped up by shattering the organs and letting them heal (Doesn't include heart or brain). Strengthens the metabolism allowing for a better automatic body refinement via absorbing the nutrients more efficiently.
Heart; The same as the previous stage as it can be automatically done however by slowly breaking it down you can speed up the process. Allows for greater blood flow and therefore a much better automatic body refinement.
Brain; As one of the most important parts of the body brain refinement is usually left to automatically refine, this has caused a large watershed for many, it can be sped up similarly to the heart stage although only for so many part at a time (Will cause a period of inability to defend). This will greatly extend the abilities of your senses and allow for faster thinking, unlikely however it is, there is a chance you could form a spiritual sense allowing you to better strengthen your talent as a cultivator.
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Immortal Path: Two stages with three sub stages being Low, Mid and High.
Dantian; As the bodies blood is so tyrannical it will slowly break open a path into an invisible organ, the organ is barely understood other than the fact that it stores a large amount of energy, the speed of opening the dantian can be increased if you have a spiritual sense as it will allow you to see the dantian within your body. Opening the dantian will allow the body to accumulate more energy, it has a strange connection to the heart, this intern makes the automatic body refinement faster to a high degree, and creates an inner sense (Allows you to sense the inside of your body nothing else)
Meridians; Having opened the dantian and gaining your inner sense you become able to sense your meridians and although it can be done via the automatic body refinement it is possible to speed up the process by guiding the blood energy stored in your dantian also known as Qi. Allows the body a far greater strength and automatic body refinement by giving your whole body access to Qi.
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Cultivation
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Over thousands of years cultivators became stronger, as when they had children their children would be born with a certain level of talent. This talent sometimes gave them Spiritual sense which allowed them to skip body refinement in its entirety although at great cost.
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Beginning: Two stages with three sub stages being Low, Mid and High
Dantian Opening; With an unborn spiritual sense the children of cultivators become able to open their dantians by force. This allows for a special type of dantian where it absorbs natural energy.
Meridian Refinement;
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So I got an amazing suggestion a while ago from a person who goes by "weirdo". The suggestion was basically to use the bone marrow as the foundation of everything. You accumulate energy within the marrow until it forms a drop, slowly you build that up in each bone of your body and as they said "The body is like the earth and the energy is like the water." Something like that. Either way I would like to get some feedback, it will be a while before cultivation truly begins and the book is new so if I need I could just restart with the same ideas just a different cultivation system. Thanks for reading this, if you do you're a legend!!!
