A simple glossary put together in a hurry, sorry for the poor formatting. I'll revise it in the future.
{- Cultivation realms
- Mortal Heaven - (Lifespan values are for normal humans with no bloodlines, beasts generally live much longer.)
1. Qi refinement realm (1-9) (The dantian awakens.) Lifespan: 70 years
2. Foundation realm (1-9) (A dense Qi core is formed in the dantian.) Lifespan: 120 years
3. Golden core realm (1-9) (The Qi core turns golden, growing and becoming even denser than before.) Lifespan: 250 years
4. Iron body realm (1-9) (Their fingers can cut like swords and their bones are as strong as iron.) Lifespan: 450 years
5. Burning blood realm (1-9) (complete reconstruction of the meridians, greatly increasing their ability to maintain and move Qi). Lifespan: 600 years
6. Crystalline core realm (1-9) (The Qi core is totally purified of all it's impurities, becoming Crystalline, the ability to fly in the mortal heavens is acquired.) Lifespan: 1,000 years
7. Nascent soul realm (1-9) (A sea of the mind is formed and the soul awakens, although few manage to truly use or even feel it.) Lifespan: 2,500 years
8. Rebirth realm (1-9) (The body is completely rebuilt, from the tiniest strand of hair to a cultivator's dantian, which is technically born again. Old ones regain their youth and even lost limbs regenerate.) Lifespan: 5,000 years
9. Transcendent realm (1-3) (A law is mastered and the soul becomes even more powerful, capable of even surviving for a few minutes after the destruction of the body.) Lifespan: 10,000 years
-Immortal Heaven-
(between 7-9 realms, not yet revealed)
-Celestial Heaven-
(between 7-9 realms, not yet revealed)
Cultivation realms -}
{- grades.
-Mortal heaven -
1. Common
2. Uncommon
3. Rare
4. Epic
5. Legendary
6. mythical
7. Mortal
-Immortal heaven -
(not yet revealed)
-Celestial heaven -
(not yet revealed)
grades.-}
- Sea of the mind -
An inner visualization of the consciousness, soul and Dantian of the cultivator who formed it. It can only be accessed in the form of the cultivator's soul, which can only be cultivated in that place.
Its shape and size varies greatly depending on a cultivator's power and talent, some reaching kilometers, others being as small as an obscured dot.
Seas of the mind cause temporal distortion and time passes much more slowly there than in the outside world, making it an extremely useful place to train martial arts.
- World of the mind -
Worlds of the mind are similar to the sea of the mind, but representing a real, physical spatial pocket, a complete world in the mind of a cultivator.
They are extremely rare, formed only in exceptional cases. Not even the most powerful in the celestial sky have the guarantee of one day obtaining one.
- Primordial laws -
Primordial laws are the basis of every heaven, existing since the birth of the universe and forged by the great mother herself. They guarantee the balance and stability of space and elements.
When an individual of greater power than the primordial laws of a heaven can withstand arrives in that heaven, the result is the collapse of these laws, of space, and of the elements that form that heaven.
- Laws -
Each cultivator in the realm of transcendence has their own law, a way of distorting the primordial laws around them.
Some laws are tenuous and weak, others so powerful that the heavens simply won't accept their existence; from creating completely new states of matter to causing a gentle breeze, the power of the laws is limited only by the cultivator who forged them.
- Bloodlines/constitutions -
The inheritance of blood from a beast or a great cultivator of the past, carrying sparks of their power to future generations, vastly increasing combat power.
- If I've forgotten to explain any terms here, please let me know! -