Strength is the Supreme rule in Nine Serenities, cultivators can be found everywhere and knowledge about Cultivation is widespread but majority of people are low level cultivators.
The first five Cultivation levels are Awakening Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Soul Realm, Spirit Origin Realm, Dragon Ascension Realm. there are other Cultivation levels above this, but majority of cultivators can't reach the Spirit Origin Realm in their life time.
At the age of 12-13 children form their Eight Great Meridians after which one can try to absorb spirit essences to strengthen and widen their meridians.
But not everybody in the world will manifest their Eight Great Meridians those that can't will forever remain mortal unless they come across a great opportunity.
After Strengthening the meridians the cultivator need to connect the meridians by running spirit essences through them at the same time and form a Spirit Sea, this is the Spirit Sea Realm.
In the Spirit Sea Realm there are grade of Spirit Sea from lowest to highest 3rd Grade, 2nd Grade, 1st Grade, Special Grade and Supreme Grade.
The grade of a cultivator Spirit Sea determine how far one can go on the path of Cultivation. In order to break through the Spirit Origin Realm one must have at least a 1st Grade Spirit Sea.
The Spirit Sea Realm is divide into five stages Stream Stage, River Stage, Lake Stage, Sea Stage and Ocean Stage.
The next level is the Spirit Soul Realm at this stage cultivator, cultivate their soul one will gain access to their Sea of Consciousness were the soul reside.
In the Blue Cloud County the top Cultivators are in the Spirit Soul Realm which are the clan Leader of the four major clans and some other powerful figures.
"Meng Han, Meng Ye son is at the peak of Awakening Realm and is about to form a Spirit Sea, so Meng Ye managed to get the main clan to allow him to participate in the up coming Holy Baptism in six months time.
To Form a Spirit Sea one need special natural treasure to form a better grade of Spirit Sea and the Meng Clan main clan usually hold a Holy Baptism for the best genius in the clan.
In the Holy Baptism most of those that participate usually form a 1st grade Spirit Sea there was once a genius that form a special grade Spirit Sea.
So the spot for the Holy Baptism is greatly fought for within the clan members, Meng Ye must have paid a great price to get a spot for his son said Meng Chuan".
Meng Chuan continued " About a month ago I received a letter from your maternal grandfather he was complaining that you haven't come to visit them for some years now, so while going around seeing the world try and go to capital to see them".
" Alright Meng Hao replied" thinking about his maternal grandfather Meng Hao remember his mom.
Meng Hao monther died when he was 5 years old and he has been raised by his father since.
"Dad about mom can you tell me what really caused her death".