Cultivators’ levels are determined by their cultivation realms. In terms of realms, “A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality” doesn’t have an excessive number of them, but it excels in clarity and well-defined progression, providing a solid foundation for subsequent works.

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Cultivation Levels in A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality

Human Realm:

Qi Refining Stage (Early – Mid – Late): Consists of nine layers, a stage of refining the essence of heaven and earth, allowing the body to absorb it, and existing in the form of gas within the dantian (energy center). With continuous improvement, one breaks through to the next layer. Lifespan: 120-150 years.

Foundation Establishment Stage (Early – Mid – Late): Spiritual energy essence liquefies, considered as touching the door to true immortality. This is a crucial step, building the foundation for cultivation. Lifespan: Approximately 200 years, qualifies one to become an inner sect disciple.

Core Formation Stage (Early – Mid – Late): Liquid essence is compressed and crystallized into a golden inner core, called the Golden Core (Jindan). Reaching this stage, one is truly considered a cultivator. Lifespan: 500 years.

Nascent Soul Stage (Early – Mid – Late): When the necessary level is reached, the Golden Core shatters like an egg, and the cultivator’s Nascent Soul (Yuanying) is born, its shape similar to the cultivator’s own. It can assist the cultivator in continuous cultivation. If the main body is destroyed, the Nascent Soul can seize another person’s body. This stage can be considered as having achieved immortality. Lifespan: Over 2000 years.

Spirit Transformation Stage (Early – Mid – Late): Ascends to the Spirit Realm. This stage possesses powerful divine sense (spiritual awareness) and can battle using it.

Spirit Realm:

Void Refining Stage (Early – Mid – Late)

Body Integration Stage (Early – Mid – Late): This stage combines the Nascent Soul, divine sense, and the cultivator’s power into one, forming a powerful Dharma Idol (law manifestation), with immense power. However, it usually consumes a large amount of spiritual energy, therefore it’s only considered a last resort.

Mahayana Stage (Early – Mid – Late): Ascends to the Immortal Realm. The highest realm, understanding a portion of the laws of the universe.

Spirit Domain Realm:

Ordinary Spirit Domain: The initial stage of the Spirit Domain, most cultivators are at this stage.

Spirit Manifestation Realm: The Spirit Domain has a Domain Spirit (域灵), its fighting strength is no less than the cultivator’s main body.

Creation Realm: Relatively singular scenes, powerful Creation Realms can conjure rivers, mountains, lakes, etc., forming a small world.

Heaven-Man Realm: The Spirit Domain transforms from illusion to reality.

Immortal Realm Map

Northern Cold Immortal Domain:

Black Wind Sea Region: A remote region of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, the Black Wind Sea Region is surrounded by a vast, barren black wind. Has the Ming Leng Immortal Mansion Secret Realm.

Barren Arashi Continent: A continent near the Black Wind Sea Region, close to the Thunderstorm Ocean.

Upper A Continent: Southern part of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain. The power on it is the Shangliu Palace of the Azure Mountain Range.

Small Heavenly Nether Realm: Northern part of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain. The power on it is the Woling Sect.

Ancient Cloud Continent: Eastern part of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain. The power on it is the Zhulong Dao of the Zhongming Mountain Range.

Bright Cold Continent: The power on it is the Northern Cold Immortal Palace.

Approaching Barren Continent, Barren Continent: Southwest of the Northern Cold. Because of a continent, it is cut off in the middle by golden sand, connecting to the Wild Barren Realm.

Four Underworld Immortal Regions: Black Mountain Immortal Region, Black Earth Immortal Region, Wozhe Immortal Region, Yuanjing Immortal Region.

Small Golden Source Immortal Domain: The Great Golden Source Immortal Domain split due to a great tribulation. Han Li’s soul transmigrated to the Immortal Domain where Li Yuanjiu was located. Li Yuanjiu came from the Mulan Mountain Range on the Wooden Thorn Continent. Ancient books record that adult Gold Devouring Immortals once appeared near the Golden Flame Mountain Range.

Central Earth Immortal Domain: The largest Immortal Domain among the thirty-six major Immortal Domains in the Immortal Realm, the location of the Heavenly Court headquarters. The core of the True Immortal Realm, the domain has a total of Nine Provinces and Four Seas. Each province is a boundless continent, separated from each other by four vast oceans. The Heavenly Palace Continent in the center of the Nine Provinces and Four Seas is the location of the Heavenly Court orthodoxy. The remaining ones are the Eastern Victory Continent, the Western He Continent, the Southern Zhan Continent, and the Northern Ju Continent, located in the southeast, west, south, and north seas, respectively.

Other Immortal Domains:

Great Golden Source Immortal Domain: One of the thirty-six major Immortal Domains in the True Immortal Realm, the location of the Nine Yuan Temple, the Hundred Creation Mountain, the Sun Moon Alliance, and the Great Golden Source Immortal Palace.

Kaiyuan Immortal Domain, Xunyuan Immortal Domain, Wutu Immortal Domain, Underworld Sea Immortal Domain, Heavenly Star Immortal Domain, Heavenly Azure Immortal Domain, Green Python Immortal Domain, Remaining Immortal Domain, Qianyuan Immortal Domain, Northern White Immortal Domain, Heavenly Fire Immortal Domain, Flowing Mist Immortal Domain, Vast Sea Immortal Domain, Flying Wing Immortal Domain, Crane Gang Immortal Domain, Blue Water Immortal Domain, Xuan Heavenly Immortal Domain, etc.

Wild Barren Realm:

A boundless area of the Immortal Realm, a primitive area rich in spiritual energy and cultivation resources, inhabited by various ancient races and True Spirits. The Immortal Domains are opened up within it.

Hundred Thousand Mountains: The wild barren area connected to the southern part of the Demon Realm.

Eight Desolate Mountain: The location of the sanctuary in the wild barren area.

Demon Realm:

An independent place in the Immortal Realm, the region where demons and demon cultivators ascend, the Holy City is Night Sun City.

Divided into Southern Wasteland Region, Approaching Holy Region (South), Mountainous Marsh Region, Sunken Mound Region, Abandoned Scenery Region (Midwest), Yellow Beam Region, Ten Dream Region, Ink Sea Region, etc.

Accumulated Scale Empty Realm: A secret realm in the Black Water Region that isolates spiritual energy and exiles criminals.

Gray Realm Map

Gray Realm: A realm where all spiritual materials, spirit beasts, land, etc., are gray. Dominated by baleful energy, an endless interface with three suns and six moons, like the wild barren realm, is based on groups and ruled by lords and domain masters; divided into three major forces, and is opposed to the True Immortal Realm.

Nine Nether Domain: A large region of the conservative and brutal local faction, with various clan forbidden holy places such as the Evil Cleansing Pool within its borders, and the Asura City at its center.

Black Rope Domain: A large region of the neutral and status quo maintaining faction.

Reincarnation Domain: A large region led by the radical faction of Three Corpse Immortals, advocating the invasion of the Immortal Realm, the Reincarnation Domain Master is the Reincarnation Palace Lord.

Shaohao Domain: A region led by the highly respected Void Integration Clan, affiliated with the Reincarnation Domain.

Black Tooth Domain: A small region led by the Sanmiao Clan in the Gray Realm, the northwest is the Sanmiao Ridge Six Moon Prairie, and the center is Black Tooth City.

Nici Tuo Domain: A small region led by the Green Ape Clan, affiliated with the Nine Nether Domain.

Forces

Heavenly Court: The largest administrative organization in the Immortal Realm, divided into Immortal Palaces and Immortal Prisons, with Immortal Palaces in each Immortal Domain to manage order, and Immortal Prisons to manage criminal cases.

Reincarnation Palace: A force resisting the Heavenly Court, with many hidden subordinate forces, such as the Ten Directions Tower, the Inconstant Alliance, and the Yi Bao Association. Cooperates with the Gray Immortals of the Gray Realm.

Nine Yuan Temple: A sect founded by Nine Yuan Dao Ancestor.

Ten Directions Tower: An assassin organization in the Immortal Realm, actually an organization established by the Reincarnation Palace.

Inconstant Alliance: A trading organization in the Immortal Realm, using masks for grading, membership system; a subordinate organization controlled by the Reincarnation Palace.

Yi Bao Association: An organization in the Immortal Realm that specializes in disguise and human skin decoration, a subordinate force of the Reincarnation Palace, widely distributed in the Immortal Domain.

Zhulong Dao: A large sect in the Ancient Cloud Continent of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, headed by the Twelve Golden Immortal Dao Lords.

Shangliu Palace: A large sect in the Upper A Continent of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, specializing in the cultivation of time-related techniques.

Fuling Sect: A large sect in the Small Heavenly Nether Realm of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, specializing in time-related techniques.

Hundred Creation Mountain: One of the leading giant weapon refining sects in the Immortal Realm.

True Words Sect: The former number one sect in the Black Earth Immortal Domain, destroyed by the Time Dao Ancestor of the Heavenly Court.

Medicinal Pills

Pill Refiners:

Human Pill Refiner: Can refine pills for ordinary cultivators.

Earth Pill Refiner: Can refine pills needed by Immortals.

Heaven Pill Refiner: Also known as Dao Pill Refiner. The highest-status alchemist in the Immortal Realm, capable of refining Dao Pills (pills containing the power of the laws of heaven and earth).

Pills:

Hopeful Tear Pill: Nascent Soul stage pill, main material is Cloud Crane Grass, etc.

Returning Origin Pill: Can greatly replenish vitality and fill blood energy.

Spring Rain Pill: True Immortal Earth Grade advancement pill, requires a 50,000-year-old Praying Dragon Grass, three 5,000-year-old Segmented Sea Flowers, Water Tank Sand Expansion, seven 3,000-year-old Nether Luo Fruits, etc.

Unifying Origin Pill: True Immortal Earth Grade advancement pill, requires a 50,000-year-old Candle Spirit Grass, various spiritual medicine auxiliary materials, etc.

Burning Infant Blood Pill: A huge forbidden medicine that burns the Nascent Soul’s essence blood to improve cultivation in a short time.

Bearing Gentle Pill: True Immortal Earth Grade pill, requires spiritual materials of 50,000 to 60,000 years.

Time Dao Pill: Dao pill, requires main materials such as Thunder Pond Golden Liquid, Tuling Flower Pistil, Nether Mist Grass, Ephemeral Fruit, Heaven-Made Ginseng, Rugge Kui, Condensing Dew Grass, Time Crystalline Particles, etc.

Ten Thousand Wheel Pill: True Immortal Late stage pill, requires main materials such as Ten Thousand Wheel Fruit, Falling Flower Hua, Blood Crystal Lotus Root, etc.

Golden Soul Pill: A rare pill that can assist True Immortal Late stage cultivators in breaking through bottlenecks and increase the probability of advancing to the Golden Immortal realm, requires the main material Golden Immortal Nascent Soul.

Void Origin Pill: Yin attribute Dao pill, requires main material Black Marrow Crystal, etc.

Beast Fetus Mysterious Origin Pill: A precious pill refined from the umbilical cords of some heaven and earth strange beasts or beast eggs containing pure bloodlines as the main material.

Taiyi Pill: A Dao pill that helps Golden Immortal peak cultivators resist the Fifth Decay Tribulation and advance to the Taiyi realm.

Clarity Pill: Golden Immortal pill, requires Night Light Grass, etc.

Heavenly Splendor Pill: Golden Immortal pill, requires main materials such as Heavenly Rainbow Vine, Purple You Grass, etc.

Snow Soul Pill: Golden Immortal pill, can consolidate foundation and cultivate vitality to promote cultivation.

Five Stone Pill: Golden Immortal level to stabilize realm, increase cultivation pill

Lodging Baleful Pill: Can resist the backlash of baleful energy and help Golden Immortals survive the Baleful Decay; requires main materials such as Bitter Joy Grass, Mysterious Finger Stone Essence, etc.

Adamant Iron Bone Pill: Golden Law Dao Pill, helps to understand the Law of Gold, and can also strengthen the physical body.

Jade Purity Pill: Taiyi-level advancement pill, requires Jade Yang Marrow, Wind Spirit Seed, Nine-Leaf Rue, etc.

Yi Gentle Pill: Taiyi-level advancement pill.

Left Dragon Pill: Taiyi Mid-stage cultivator advancement pill.

Heavenly Green Pill: Taiyi-level advancement pill.

Laws

– Three thousand Great Daos (grand paths), each law represents a Great Dao, and each Great Dao can eventually reach the Dao Ancestor realm. Among them, the Law of Time, the Law of Space, and the Law of Reincarnation are Supreme Laws. These three major laws are the source of all laws, and all other three thousand Great Dao Laws are derived from them. The known laws are:

– Five Elements Source Law, Law of Gold, Law of Wood, Law of Water, Law of Fire, Law of Earth, Law of Ice, Law of Sea, Law of Mist, Law of Tide, Law of Blood, Law of Wind, Law of Lightning, Law of Swiftness, Law of Qi, Law of Imprisonment, Law of Destruction, Law of Corrosion, Law of Baleful Energy, Law of Devouring, Five Yin Law, Law of Deadly Poison, Law of Demonic Mist, Law of Skull, Law of Puppet, Law of Illusion, Law of Soul, Law of Yin and Yang, Law of Heart Demon, Law of Prophecy, Law of Vine Ghost, Law of Curse, Law of Baleful Thunder, Law of Ghostly Charm, Law of Illusory Reality, Law of Hypnosis.