Published: August 16, 2025
Chapter 127: The Talk About Spiritual Roots
And so, the two walked along, chatting casually—though it was more like Han Li asking questions and the young man replying.
From the youth’s words, Han Li unconsciously gleaned quite a bit of information about the immortal cultivation world, learning many common facts that every immortal cultivator should know.
For example: Immortal cultivators are divided into three major stages by their realm—lower, middle, and upper.
The lower stage includes five levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Transformation Spirit. The middle stage has Refining Void, Fusion, and Great Ascension. The upper stage actually only has one level left—Tribulation Crossing. Once one passes this level, they can ascend to the immortal world and live as long as Heaven and Earth.
It sounds simple enough, but in reality, true cultivation is a distant and difficult endeavor!
Not to mention advancing through the three great stages—in the lower stage alone, no one in all of Yue Country had ever reached the pinnacle of the Transformation Spirit realm, according to the youth. Even those lingering in the Nascent Soul realm were rare, just a handful of old monsters blessed with great fortune.
According to the youth, the lifespan of an immortal cultivator is closely connected to their cultivation realm. Every advancement multiplies their lifespan.
Ordinary mortals living past a hundred years old are already considered long-lived.
Foundation established cultivators living two hundred years or more is quite normal. If someone is lucky enough to form a Golden Core, living four to five hundred years is very much within expectation. And if a miracle happens and you manage to refine a Nascent Soul, congratulations! Living a thousand years or more is not impossible!
The youth clicked his tongue repeatedly, greatly admiring those old monsters who could live for a thousand or eight hundred years—this was ten times the lifespan of ordinary people!
Han Li listened dumbfounded. Although he had vaguely guessed that immortal cultivators lived longer than ordinary people, he never imagined it could be this extreme. More than a thousand years! Wouldn’t that essentially make them ancient tortoises? Han Li thought with a touch of malice.
But if Nascent Soul cultivators live that long, what about those in the Transformation Spirit and other middle, even upper stages? Wouldn’t their lifespans be even more absurdly long?
Han Li finally couldn’t hold back and subtly brought up the question.
“Who knows? Maybe they live even longer, or perhaps they are immortal and never die?” The youth said carelessly.
“It is rumored that any cultivator who truly reaches the Transformation Spirit realm and perfects it must leave this world and go to a higher-dimensional space. What kind of space and world it is, nobody knows, and no one has ever returned.”
“No one has ever returned? Then how are the realms above Transformation Spirit classified?” Han Li thought in frustration. But judging by the young master in front of him, he probably couldn’t explain that clearly either, so Han Li held back from asking.
Besides the cultivation realm divisions, Han Li also gained a rough understanding of the immortal cultivation sects and families in Yue Country.
The youth didn’t know about other places, but he spoke authoritatively on the sects of Yue Country.
From him, Han Li learned that there were seven major cultivation sects in Yue Country: Moon Veil Sect, Yellow Maple Valley, Spiritual Beast Mountain, Qingxu Sect, Blade Refining Wharf, Sky Gate Fortress, and Great Sword Sect. Among these, Moon Veil Sect was the strongest, followed by Spiritual Beast Mountain. The others were roughly equal in strength without much disparity.
If these cultivation sects were the towering trees supporting the entire immortal cultivation world in Yue Country, then the cultivation families were like the various vines and branches entwined around them, relying on these sects to survive in the cultivation world.