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-- Information --
Name – Sarah Worthington
Species – Human
Life – 34/148
Cultivation – Qi Stage (Expert)
-- Cultivation --
Ranks
Daoyin < Jing < Qi < Shen < ? < ?
Mastery
Basic - Skilled - Proficient - Expert - Mastered
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| Internal Arts
Daoyin
• Mastered (Ch. 8) - Through repeated practice, a little help from Dao Child, and the guidance of a great master, you have mastered this ability.
Aside from an increase to your physical attributes, you can now begin to safely cultivate the internal alchemy of your choosing.
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Jing Stage
• Proficient (Ch. 8) - Regulate your breathing, calm your emotions, and use Daoyin to open your energy channels. You have begun to focus your physical energy into your Lower Dantian, building a reservoir of energy.
At this stage, the energy can only improve your physical and mental health. When mastered, your Jing can begin to be refined into Qi.
• Mastered (Ch. 9) - You have successfully built your foundation. With all your energy channels opened, and a reservoir of your Jing gathered in your Lower Dantian, you can now begin to convert it into Qi and step onto the path of cultivation.
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Qi Stage
• Basic (Ch. 11) - Under the watchful eye of your master, you have completed your first microcosmic orbit, creating your first bit of cultivated Qi.
As you build up more and more Qi, you overall physiology will start to improve, and your maximum lifespan will increase.
• Skilled (Ch. 12) - Due the infusion of divine power from a nature deity, your Chi has grown in quantity and quality, and has gained additional recovery power. As you cycle your Chi through your body, your longevity will increase at a greater rate.
You can now also manipulate your Chi with greater ease, aiding your cultivation and easing the learning of Chi-based techniques.
• Proficient (Ch. 22) - After a couple years of unsupervised training, and many theories on how to advance, you have reached the midway point of the Qi Stage.
You can finally begin to call yourself a true cultivator, your achievement separating you from common mortals, becoming something more than human. While you have finally advanced, earning your place among the powerful, you have only just completed the first step on a long journey, the peak of the mountain still out of sight.
Your Chi has improved in quantity and quality; the depths of your reserves greatly increased, as is the potency of your Chi. Your base physique, unbolstered by Chi, is now beyond the strongest of common men, reaching the realm of superhuman, with an increase in your physical senses.
• Expert (Ch. 31) - While trapped in an alternate world, you finally switched focus to your talent in Taoism, putting magic to the side, for now. During your search for a font of Lightforce, which you hoped would add to your power and aid you in your cultivation, you intervened in a fight between two enhanced individuals. This lead you to... discover that which you sought; Tandy Bowen, the Avatar of Life.
Upon laying your hand on her, her Light sensed the unmatched purity of your life-force and wished to join with and aid you. Unfortunately for it, and for you, in the cosmic pecking order, the Seedbed vastly outmatches it, causing its attempt at awakening the light of your soul to fail.
Its try was not without its own rewards, thankfully, as the concepts that it represents and embodies became wound to your Chi, imprinting through it. This has made it so that you'll have an easier time of comprehending the Dao's of Light, Life, and Healing, and their divergent, relating Dao's.
You have successfully opened up your Middle Dantian, the birthplace of Shen, moderately enhancing your physical abilities and vitality. Now, you can emit your Chi from your body, projecting and manipulating it, while also able to slightly control the ambient Chi of the world.
The awakening of this Dantian has also released the Cosmic Energy left to you by the Celestial, Arishem the Judge, as thanks for your aid in sealing the Mahd Wy'ry of the Eternal, Thena. This gift grants you the power to shape your Chi into various forms, though it will require experimentation on your part; so give it go when you have the time.
Congratulations, Sarah; you're one step closer.
• Mastered (Ch. ?) -