1. Bronze World
Cultivation Support:
Qi Refinement → Foundation Establishment: Easily supported.
Core Formation: Extremely difficult, resources thin, heaven & earth suppression heavy.
Nascent Soul: Nearly impossible, heaven's rejection manifests in disasters.
Features: Thin spiritual veins, weak Qi cycles, limited heaven-and-earth treasures. Cultivators constantly fight for scraps.
Fate: Most worlds naturally fall into this state as cultivators rob them of vitality.
2. Silver World (one step above Bronze)
Cultivation Support:
Qi Refinement → Nascent Soul: Supported, though advancing beyond Nascent Soul requires heaven-defying luck.
Core Formation/Nascent Soul breakthroughs are possible but always provoke tribulations.
Features: Stronger spirit veins, natural formations, small sects with legacies lasting thousands of years.
Fate: Naturally declines toward Bronze once its spiritual veins are exhausted.
3. Gold World
Cultivation Support:
Supports all stages below Peak-Core Formation and hundreds of Nascent Soul experts thrive naturally.
Spirit Severing & Spiritual Mending Realms appear rarely, but are attainable.
Features: Great Dao flows more freely; spiritual roots awaken more often; and grand sects thrive with long lineages.
Fate: Golden prosperity often attracts higher-plane invaders; wars drain its essence, pushing it toward Silver.