🌌 World Overview:
The world is divided into three realms:
1. The Mortal Realm – where commoners, low-level cultivators, and beginner sects reside.
2. The Mystic Heaven Realm – ruled by ancient sects, royal clans, and Void Shattering cultivators.
3. The Celestial Dao Realm – home to transcendent beings, Divine Swords, and the lost legacies of gods.
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⚔️ Cultivation Realms:
1. Body Tempering (锻体)
Enhances the physical body to endure qi and battle.
Foundation of all cultivation.
Techniques: Bone Refining, Iron Skin
2. Qi Condensation (聚气)
Begins gathering spiritual energy.
Can perform basic sword techniques.
Dantian forms.
3. Core Formation (金丹)
Condenses qi into a golden core.
Step into true inner strength.
Can create sword aura externally.
4. Nascent Soul (元婴)
Forms a soul avatar that can exit the body.
Drastic power spike; capable of flight.
Cultivators become feared leaders.
5. Dao Foundation (筑道)
Begins grasping laws of the Dao.
Cultivators gain Dao Insight and personal "Sword Intent".
Sword Qi gains destructive, conceptual force.
6. Sword Spirit Realm (剑灵)
Sword becomes alive through the cultivator's will.
Slashes can split rivers, collapse mountains.
Sword moves carry soul resonance.
7. Void Shattering Realm (破虚)
Cuts through space, time, and illusions.
Walk between dimensions, vanish at will.
Considered near-immortal.
8. Heaven Ascension Realm (登天)
Defies the heavens. Undergoes tribulation to break free of fate.
Very rare—only a few exist every era.
9. Eternal Sword God (永恒剑神)
Crafts their own Dao.
Can sever karma, reshape destiny, or rewrite sword laws.
Legends say the heavens kneel before such beings.
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🗡️ Sword Arts Used by the MC (Ye Tian):
Heaven-Splitting Slash (破天一斩) – Cuts through anything, even formations or space.
Silent Lotus of the Sword (无声莲华) – A sword art that strikes the soul in silence.
Void Severing Blade Dance (断虚剑舞) – Series of strikes that erase matter.
One Thought, Ten Thousand Blades (一念万剑) – Summons countless invisible sword slashes with will alone.
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🧬 Special Traits of Ye Tian:
Soul Cultivation – Even if his dantian is broken, his Sword Soul grants him power.
Taiyi Sword Resonance – His divine sword awakens through blood, memory, and fate.
Eternal Memory – Remembers every sword art ever created or seen in his past life.
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🏯 Major Sects and Factions:
Name Description Alignment
Heavenly Sword Sect Once ruled by Ye Tian in his past life. Now corrupted. Antagonistic
Feng Clan Local tyrants who dominate villages. Hostile
Seven-Star Pavilion Neutral sect known for sword tombs and ancient sword souls. Neutral
Celestial Dao Hall An empire-backed cultivation institute. Only accepts elites. Mysterious
Shadow Sect Cultivators who devour qi and souls to grow stronger. Evil
Wandering Blades Guild Rogue sword cultivators who follow no sect. Neutral/Allied
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🔥 Legendary Sword: Taiyi (太一神剑)
True Form: Sword of Primal Creation, one of the Nine Divine Weapons.
Current Form: Rusted, sealed, mistaken for junk.
Spirit: Sleeping. Only awakens through blood, hatred, or old memories.
Bond: Only Ye Tian can awaken its true form.