Qualifications: Spirit Roots, Physique, Bloodlines
Spiritual Roots:
Five Spiritual Roots - False Spiritual Roots - Stuck around late Qi Condensation for rest of life
Four Spiritual Roots - False Spiritual Roots - Worker Disciples (Rarely Accepted)
Three Spiritual Roots - True Spiritual Roots - Normal Disciples
Two Spiritual Roots - True Spiritual Roots - Talented Disciples
One Spiritual Root - Heavenly Spirit Root - No bottleneck until after Core Formation (Core Disciple)
Mutant Spiritual Roots - Two Spiritual Roots, but the elements mingle properly and create an entirely different element instead. Same cultivation speed as Heavenly Spiritual Roots, but still has bottlenecks. (Ice, Darkness, Light, Lightning, Wind, etc) - Talented Disciples/Core Disciples
Note: The first two are known as False spiritual roots due to their slow cultivation speeds and are unable to reach the upper echelons of Cultivation due to their qualifications.
It is also due to the fact that the sects recruit those of lower spiritual roots (Less = Better) due to their speed in cultivating, but it is also due to this and the fact that resources have begun to run low that no one in these sects have achieved Deity Transformation. (You need all 5 Elements)
One can also achieve Deity Transformation by creating Substitute Roots, but these require the core of Demonic Beasts of at least stage 10. This method is also widely unknown and due to the environment of the mortal realm, most only reach the late Nascent Stage rather than the peak.
Five Elements:
- Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, and Earth.
- They are able to counter one another dependent on their element. For example Water is effective against Fire, and Wood is effective against Water.
Mutated Elements:
- Lightning (Formed from Earth and Water)
- Ice (Formed from Water and Metal)
- Others (Unknown which element is used to fuse)
Cultivators of these roots can practice either root that made up the mutant root, but it will be at the speed of a double root cultivator rather than a mutant one.
If they gain a top tier manual and it pairs well with their element their speeds skyrocket and rival that of a Heavenly Root Qualification cultivator.
Exists, Overpowered, but will not be in story (Probably):
Super Spiritual Roots: There are two kinds of such Spirit Roots. Sun and Moon Attributes. Sun Spirit Roots is considered as Good Spirit Body, Moon Spirit Roots is considered as Evil Spirit Body. Their Cultivation speed is hundreds of times faster than Mutated Spirit Roots and this person regardless of Sun or Moon attributes are born to know the basics cultivate immortality and their body is constantly cultivating the moment they are born or when their bodies are sufficiently complete while in their mothers' womb.
Dragon Spirit Roots: Exclusive to Dragons and those strongly related to Dragons. When they cultivate a single attribute, their other attributes will increase as well. Dragon Spirit Roots does not need to create Artificial Spirit Roots to ascend to Deity Transformation and hence will be slightly stronger. They have a trait of being extremely hard to kill.
Chaos Spirit Roots: Also known as All Attributes Spirit Roots. Their Cultivation rates are higher than Super Spirit Roots and when they cultivate a single attribute, every other attributes will increase at the same rate. Tribulations' Lightning will take 'extra care' of these guys by packing a lot more wallop with every strike. People with their attribute will also be more lucky and run into more treasures in their lifetimes.
Fusion Spirit Roots: The Crafter's spirit roots. Capable of absorbing and fusing any attributes with the right techniques. Even when other people are breaking through and causing large amount of spirit energies to gather, if this person is nearby, they might end up siphoning a portion of the powers unknowing. Their greatest strength however, is in crafting. Cultivators with such Spirit Roots can fuse attributes or even magical materials in ways that is impossible regardless of skills and technology. This applies to type of crafting. Creating Pills, Magic weapons, armor, Magic Arrays, Puppets, Golems, etc... whenever Fusion Spiritual Roots appears, they become an object of fiercest contest, not just because they are perfect Magic Items disposal, their flesh, blood and bones are perfect for creating Cultivation Boosting Elixirs! As a result, people with such Spirit Roots almost never survive or have good fate when discovered
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Bloodlines:
Functions similarly to Spiritual Roots.
The closer one can trace their bloodlines to a more advanced beast, the greater their abilities. These beasts are often limited in their realm due to their bloodline, with some being stuck in a certain stage for life unless a special opportunity occurs.
Some bloodlines such as Dragons, Phoenixes, and many more have bloodlines in the mortal realm, although extremely diluted. Those with these blood can often remove the bottleneck of bloodline if their purity is great enough.
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Physiques:
Largely unknown as there are too many physiques to keep track of. Some can boost cultivation speeds or hinder the cultivator entirely by slowly killing them.
If a cultivator with a matching physique, method, and spiritual root practices then they can easily reach the limits of the Mortal Realm (Peak Nascent Soul), as long as they are at least a mutant or heavenly root in qualifications.