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Over the course of the trip back, you take some time to deeply think about your "big rocks"
>Potential
>Friendship
>Foundation
>Weapon skills
>Spiritual Beasts
>The sect
That's quite a few of them. But the jar was made of mundane glass. You'll only need to temper it to avoid it to break. You might even expand it that way.
You also have quite a few answer to quite a few questions.
>Provinces of the empire and our position
Ryota shows you the map in Picrel. He indicates the position of the Eastern branch. Of course, the map only indicate biggest towns. Most towns are under the rule of a sect or organisation but you didn't caught everything said, immersed in gazing at the sheet of paper encompassing the whole empire.
>What are the levels of cultivation
There are nine cultivation level :
The <span class="mu-s">First Stage</span>, Beyond Mortal, starts at the Heart Aperture opening. You will next open your Eye Aperture, Nose Aperture, Ears Aperture and lastly Mouth Aperture. Then, the Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate tribulation will let you reach...
The <span class="mu-s">Second Stage</span>, True Master. In that stage, you'll have to open your Eight Dragon Dantian with True Qi. Once the Dragon Horn Dantian is opened, True Qi will circle back to the Original Dantian. The Qi loop will attract the Tribulation Lightning, tempering your body to...
The <span class="mu-s">Third Stage</span>, Battle King. You will need to temper your Four Extraordinary Meridians. Opening one of them gives a surge of power, at the cost of decreasing energy while recovering. Opening the four of them trigger the Tribulation Lightning, tempering your body to...
The <span class="mu-s">Fourth Stage</span>, Inborn. True Qi condense a Void Core. The Battle King Body stays activated at all time : every single move muster a strength roughly at the level of a Battle King giving its all. The inborn True Qi, even purer, can also be used to power Flying Sword arts.
The stage minor realms are condensing the 9 Immortal Bones. Each will pierce the Void core when quenched. However, there is a risk to shatter the Core, leading to a full stop in the cultivation progress. This is also the last chance to delay the Tribulation, if opportunities are nearby, for once the Tribulation Lightning is defeated, the cultivator is tempered to...
The <span class="mu-s">Fifth Stage</span>. Spirit Sovereign. the Void core is turned into a Golden Core, with an amount of Dragon Pattern depending on inner potential, raised skills, lucky encounters, and so on. Once the Golden Core is formed, the Dragon Pattern will remain for all of cultivator life.
It's important to have as many as possible. 1 to 3 is a low amount : with only these few, the cultivator will remain stuck at Fifth Stage no matter what. With 5, you can hope to breach through 7th stage, although it will take twice the effort for half the result of a 6-pattern cultivator.
Cultivators with 7 pattern can reach Ninth stage, without any guarantee to cross minor realms inside. Of course, the goal is to reach 8 pattern, or even 9.
