Rise of the Alchemy God

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Unlike the mortal realm, which was divided into 5 stages, each of them having 10 levels, the spiritual realm was divided into 6 stages, each split into three phases: basic, intermediate, and advanced.

These stages were not about the level of strength or cultivation achieved at that stage, but rather the level of understanding and creation.

If in the mortal realm one trained the foundation to elevate their cultivation and make their body more in tune with their soul,

in the spiritual realm, the focus shifted to elevating the soul to a higher level.

This was because, after all, in the mortal realm, the soul couldn't live without a container,the body, and the body was useless without a soul.

This fact made every cultivator dependent on either one or the other, leaving them with too many weaknesses.

If the soul were gravely wounded, such an injury would be no different from death.

If the body were instead gravely injured, then the soul, though present, wouldn't be able to do anything, being trapped in a broken container.

Essentially, the two were too tightly bound to one another, and eliminating either would be enough to destroy a cultivator.

This, however, changed once one managed to sever their mortal ties and ascend to the next realm of cultivation, the spiritual realm.

In this stage of cultivation, a cultivator had the opportunity to address the problem of their dependence.

This solution essentially involved focusing on the primary component of their existence,the soul.

As long as the soul could be preserved in a certain state, it would be possible to rebuild the body from scratch.

This would give the cultivator an additional card to play in dire situations, allowing them to preserve their life for longer.

This card could already be acquired in the first stage of the spiritual realm: the Soul Awakening stage.

Ethan, at this moment, was slowly gathering the particles of soul remnants from the dead present in his small world and refining them to form his World Seed, which would also become the core of his soul in the future.

Just as the body had its organ for storing spiritual energy, the soul could also develop one, and this would allow the soul to survive even without the body.

Forming one's spiritual core was not simple and required at least two of the six stages of the spiritual realm to complete.

In the first part, one would lay the foundations on which to construct the astral body, which would allow the soul to exist even independently.

Within this astral body, one would continue building the spiritual core, which would become the foundation for everything else that would come in the subsequent phases.

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According to Bai Yu, this process would normally take centuries, as refining a large amount of soul residue was far from a simple and quick process.

it was like gathering spiritual energy to cultivate, it required a lot of time, which could vary depending on the person and their talent.

Bai Yu told him that being one of the most talented beings of her race, it took her just over a century to reach the peak of the first stage, an incredible feat,

at least, that's what she claimed.

She believed that, given Ethan's talent and special physique, he too would take a similar amount of time, or perhaps even a bit less, to achieve it. Thus, Ethan entered his minor dimension, activated the formation that aided cultivators in this stage to gather scattered soul fragments from the environment, and immediately began forming his astral body.

He wasn't sure how long it would take, but now that he had halted the demons' threat, it was fair to say he had earned a lot of time. This time was amplified by at least a hundredfold in this dimension, so he no longer worried and got straight to work.

He immersed himself more and more in the sensation of the soul particles provided by the formation, and without realizing it, little by little, his body began absorbing them, directing them straight into the depths of his being, where his soul resided.

Once there, these particles didn't stop but headed directly into his soul, entering it effortlessly as if nothing stood in their way.

Gradually, these particles accumulated, and soon a second phenomenon occurred.

At the center of his soul, an invisible vortex seemed to attract these particles, pulling them all towards it and beginning to converge them into a single point.

First, one particle entered, then two, and then three.

The process continued for a while, and finally, after hundreds upon hundreds of particles converged at that point, a faint light began to radiate.

This light emanated from a tiny millimeter-sized sphere that appeared solid in form but was far from tangible to material hands.

Around the sphere, a faint layer began forming over the entire outer surface of Ethan's soul, which, after who knows how long, fully enveloped it and eventually fused with it, rendering the consistency of his soul clearer.

Ethan had successfully created his astral body and fused his soul into it.

In other words, he had finally taken the second step towards awakening his soul, successfully advancing to the intermediate level of the first stage of the spiritual realm.

Although Ethan had entered the intermediate level, he didn't stop and continued advancing with his formation, as his spiritual core, which had just started to take shape, was becoming increasingly radiant.

What he was working on creating was the seed of his world, and this World Seed would eventually give rise to his spiritual core in the future.

When Ethan first heard about the various phases of the spiritual realm, he couldn't help but ask why this glowing core, which would later become his spiritual core, was called the World Seed.

Bai Yu replied, explaining that the manifestation of one's power, their domain,

could only be formed if the cultivator had a World Seed within them.

The domain Ethan had previously thought of as merely creating a space where one was stronger turned out to be the so-called inner world he had heard Bai Yu mention in the past.

In essence, this World Seed was literally a seed of a world that he would develop within himself.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He had always believed that a cultivator's inner world resided in their dantian, but it seemed it actually resided in their spiritual core, or more precisely, would be moved there after a certain refinement phase in their dantian.