Pathway To Eternity

Millions of years later.

Mortals came into existence. They were created from the vital essence of life of the Alpheron — the Chi essence of life — according to the laws of creation. Mortals were created on different planets — worlds of different sizes. These worlds were divided into minor worlds and major worlds. Among the mortals, were the humans. Many mortal worlds belong to humans while other species occupied numerous worlds too.

For millions of years, mortals were living extremely short and difficult lives. It was a circle of short life, death and reincarnation. But mortals were reluctant to accept these forms of living. Hence, they started the ultimate search, the search for immortality. The ability to gain eternal life, the capacity to live forever. The cosmic divines seeing the mortals predicament, decided to give mortals a chance to achieve the eternal life they had been craving.

The answer? Cultivation!

Immortality through tribulations and trials. Cultivating chi and practicing martial and mystical arts through the created methods.

The first of the cosmic divines, the three pure ones — lord of primordial origin, lord of luminous treasure and lord of true way — decided to teach the 'Dao' of the universe[the way] to mortals. The teaching — Dao produced Taiji; Taiji produced Yin and Yang; Yin and Yang produced Yin, Yang and Chi — was spread throughout the mortal worlds. Luminous treasures from them, were scattered all over the universe to aid mortals in their cultivation and other arts.

Cosmic divines, the Adi-Buddhas — lord Buddha Bhavana and lord Buddha Bodhisattva — added the "Dharma" of the universe, the path. They taught the Eight-fold path and the Bodhisattva path. The enlightenment and awakening of the mortal self to reach immortality. Luminous artifacts from them were also created and placed all over the universe.

The roads were opened for mortals cultivating these techniques, to have eternal lives. This was due to the fact that the mortal body had a dantian — the centre of oneself. By sensing the heavenly spiritual energy, and absorbing the energy to form Chi in the dantian, mortals were capable of improving their health, increasing their longevity and growing more powerful. Mortals were able to achieve these through the circulation of Chi through their meridians. The cultivation of Chi in the dantian, was the root of the immortality tree.

In order to record and preserve these techniques, manuscripts were created. These were scriptures and manuals containing detailed instructions on different techniques in cultivation, mystical arts and martial arts. Over the course of millions of years, many mortals had used these manuscripts to achieve immortality. Therefore, these manuscripts became being regarded as extremely valuable treasures and were well-guarded by clans, sects[schools] and loose cultivators who were in possession of them.

Various treasures of magical and divine nature were also made during creation of the universe and primordial chaos. Natural treasures of immense powers that could be harnessed to further the path of cultivation and martial arts. All over the universe and primordial chaos, these treasures were secretly located.

The path of cultivation was a hard, tedious and dangerous one. It required obtaining a Chi cultivation methods and other techniques for meditation, martial and mystical arts. More importantly were the availability of spiritual energy and resources for advancement.

There were various stages of advancement for a cultivator.

The first stage was the Juchi — the gathering of Chi.

The second stage was the Lianchi — the refining of Chi.

The third stage was the Ningchi — the condensing of Chi.

The fourth stage was the Zhuji — the foundation establishment from the condensed Chi.

The fifth stage was the Miechi — the evanesce core formation.

The sixth stage was the Jindan — the golden core formation.

The seventh stage was the Yuanying — the forging of the nascent soul.

The eight stage was the quangtian stage — the hegemon soul. Immortal ascension stage.

The ninth stage was the Shenxian — the hegemon soul reaching godhood.

The tenth stage was the Tianshang — the god soul becoming celestial.

The eleventh stage was the Shensheng — celestial soul becoming cosmic divine.

Every stage of advancement had further stages.

From the first stage[Juchi] to the third stage[Ningchi], there were three further stages— the early stage, the middle stage and the late stage.

From the fourth stage[Zhuji] to eight stage[Quangtian], there were four further stages— the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage and the peak stage.

For the heavenly plane, it was a different matter entirely.

For the ninth stage[Shenxian], there were three initial stages— the lowgods, the highgods and the puregods. And four further stages of— early, middle, late and peak stages.

The tenth stage[Tianshang] had three stages— lowcelestials, highcelestials and purecelestials.

For the cosmic plane.

The eleventh stage[Shensheng] had only one. The cosmic divines. Total universal emptiness.

The essence of the Universe was Oneness, and harmony was the underlying nature of the Universe. Oneness, Unity and Harmony were the basic qualities that the Universe operated on. Those who knew these insight facts, were truly enlightened. The more one was able to understand oneness and creative harmony in all areas of life and situations, the more enlightened one would become in viewing and interacting with reality.

Nonetheless, cultivation was an act of defiance against the mortal laws of creation. Mortals lived, died and reincarnated. That, was a mortal law of creation. For mortals to be immortals, was going against the natural order of creation. And that immortality, would not come easily. This also applied to sacred and demonic beasts that practiced cultivation.

Though cultivation was not a forbidden act, it was still an act of defiance and would bring immortality trials. The immortality trials were the wrath of creation which came as the heavenly tribulations. This also applied to sacred and demonic beasts that practiced cultivation. Every major steps into immortality brought heavenly tribulations. But, surviving the tribulations meant immortality.

This is the pathway.