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''Desolate Era'', aka Mang Huang Ji, is a WebSerialNovel written by {{xianxia}} author I Eat Tomatoes. It does not share the setting of any of his other works, despite the frequent misinformation from those who read machine translations. The translation into English was started by [=IEatWatermelons=], but the translation is currently being performed by [[http://www.wuxiaworld.com/ Ren Wo Xing]].
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''Desolate Era'', aka Mang Huang Ji, is a WebSerialNovel written by {{xianxia}} author I Eat Tomatoes. It does not share the setting of any of his other works, despite the frequent misinformation from those who read machine translations. The translation into English was started by [=IEatWatermelons=], but the translation is currently being performed [=IEatWatermelons=] and later picked up and successfully finished by [[http://www.wuxiaworld.com/ Ren Wo Xing]].
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''Desolate Era'', aka Mang Huang Ji, is a WebSerialNovel written by {{xianxia}} author Creators/{{I Eat Tomatoes}} It does not share the setting of any of his other works, despite the frequent misinformation from those who read machine translations. The translation into English was started by [=IEatWatermelons=], but the translation is currently being performed by [[http://www.wuxiaworld.com/ Ren Wo Xing]].
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''Desolate Era'', aka Mang Huang Ji, is a WebSerialNovel written by {{xianxia}} author Creators/{{I I Eat Tomatoes}} Tomatoes. It does not share the setting of any of his other works, despite the frequent misinformation from those who read machine translations. The translation into English was started by [=IEatWatermelons=], but the translation is currently being performed by [[http://www.wuxiaworld.com/ Ren Wo Xing]].
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: This turns out to be the finale of the Endwar of the Three Realms. Nuwa's side leaders ''started out'' with suspicion that denizens of the Primordial Ruinworld were going to try and sweep in the aftermath of Nuwa's vs Seamless conflict, and thus send forces to wipe the out ahead of time, only to find out they have already joined with the Seamless... And later discover that they have been taken over by another Outsider force led by Godfiend Witherspike, who indeed harbors designs to take out both weakened sides. Only for ''that'' plan to get blindsided as well by another party in [[spoiler:Mindlord of the Blacklotus Empire]] who immediately after revealing himself and his powers inflicts heavy casualties on both Nuwa and Seamless and scares Witherspike into fleeing.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: This turns out to be the finale of the Endwar of the Three Realms. Nuwa's side leaders ''started out'' with suspicion that denizens of the Primordial Ruinworld were going to try and sweep in the aftermath of Nuwa's vs Seamless conflict, and thus send forces to wipe the them out ahead of time, only to find out they have already joined with the Seamless... And later discover that they have been taken over by another Outsider force led by Godfiend Witherspike, who indeed harbors designs to take out both weakened sides. Only for ''that'' plan to get blindsided as well by another party in [[spoiler:Mindlord of the Blacklotus Empire]] who immediately after revealing himself and his powers inflicts heavy casualties on both Nuwa and Seamless and scares Witherspike into fleeing.
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** Back in Three Realms, all "Overlord" level figures are a unique example of weakness compensated by skill. They all are Ki Refiners of Daofather level, which would theoretically be on the same level as Elder Gods. But because they have very weak cultivation techniques for that path, their energy is merely on the level of a stage lower True Gods. The Overlord figures however compensate for that by their mastery of the Dao allowing them to reach basic level of Elder Gods.
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* SpiritCultivationGenre: It's an [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld isekai]] cultivator story. Ji Ning dies and is reborn in a world of immortals and demigods, and resolves to gain power and fame that he was always denied in his first life.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: This turns out to be the finale of the Endwar of the Three Realms. Nuwa's side leaders ''started out'' with suspicion that denizens of the Primordial Ruinworld were going to try and sweep in the aftermath of Nuwa's vs Seamless conflict, and thus send forces to wipe the out ahead of time, only to find out they have already joined with the Seamless... And later discover that they have been taken over by another Outsider force led by Godfiend Witherspike, who indeed harbors designs to take out both weakened sides. Only for ''that'' plan to get blindsided as well by another party in [[spoiler:Mindlord of the Blacklotus Empire]] who immediately after revealing himself and his powers inflicts heavy casualties on both Nuwa and Seamless and scares Witherspike into fleeing.
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** Inverted with the Sidhe. Autarchs thought them to be contained within a sealed region and unable to grow, but they were both able to get more reinforcements from their own dimension as well as slip out and set up bases outside of containment. The reignited war was even more threatening than the first time they tried.
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** Inverted with the Sidhe. Autarchs [[spoiler:the Sidhe]]. They were thought them to be contained within a sealed region and unable to grow, but they were both able to get more reinforcements from their own dimension as well as slip out and set up bases outside of containment. The reignited war was even much more threatening than the first time they tried.tried despite the defenders' own growth in power and number.
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* NormalFishInATinyPond:
** Applies to most creatures born from primordial chaos as while they may be just normal or even simply weak children by the marks of their own species, to cultivators they are massively powerful monsters. The trial of Astral Islands was based on plucking a large amount of World level cultivators from around the entire realmverse and sticking them into a tournament. One of the most powerful contestants turned out to be a being made out of pure water and thus invulnerable to all harm. Everybody else thought that it was playing up ObfuscatingStupidity but Bertulu's Heartforce talents proved to him that it really was a newborn of its species that knew nothing about the world around it.
** Showcased again with the Brightshore prince that Ning and some fellow cultivators escort on an adventure. The quartet of them are near the absolute cream of the crop for World Level cultivators, and the prince can match their power in combat... But because he is just a young chaosbeast that was picked up and trained by the Hegemon since youth, when it comes to trials based on willpower and strength of heart, he loses out miserably.
** Applies to most creatures born from primordial chaos as while they may be just normal or even simply weak children by the marks of their own species, to cultivators they are massively powerful monsters. The trial of Astral Islands was based on plucking a large amount of World level cultivators from around the entire realmverse and sticking them into a tournament. One of the most powerful contestants turned out to be a being made out of pure water and thus invulnerable to all harm. Everybody else thought that it was playing up ObfuscatingStupidity but Bertulu's Heartforce talents proved to him that it really was a newborn of its species that knew nothing about the world around it.
** Showcased again with the Brightshore prince that Ning and some fellow cultivators escort on an adventure. The quartet of them are near the absolute cream of the crop for World Level cultivators, and the prince can match their power in combat... But because he is just a young chaosbeast that was picked up and trained by the Hegemon since youth, when it comes to trials based on willpower and strength of heart, he loses out miserably.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:After Yu Wei's first death, it becomes Ning's goal from that point on to rescue or revive her. Every time he thinks he's reached his goal, he finds out that the goalpost has been moved again]]
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:After Yu Wei's first death, it becomes death]], one of Ning's goal main driving motivations from that point on is to rescue or revive her. Every But every time he thinks he's reached his goal, he finds out reaches a new milestone that he thought would allow him to do so, it turns out the goalpost has been moved again]]mission is ever harder.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Pretty much everybody in cultivation world has both a birthname and a Daoist Title which they selected after passing the basic cultivation levels and it is the latter that they more commonly use. Ji Ning's is "Darknorth" and while he often introduces himself using both, a lot of characters stick to Darknorth. His friend Ninedust has an extra levels of nicknaming going - his name of Ninedust comes from him usurping a leadership position of Ninedust Sect. He only did it to participate in the sect's rivalry with another sect which held something he needed. Once he gets it, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he never even thinks about going back to the sect]], instead going on adventuring with Ji Ning, but keeps using the name out of habit. His actual title of "Redwater" comes up much later and is mentioned exactly twice in the entire novel.
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** On the other hand, there exist techniques that build on the concept properly. They are extremely rare, and require very expensive and rare materials to practice, but eventually allow splitting into bodies each as powerful as the original was, and even merging the clones back into one, much more powerful than it was. A 12 body technique is a tightly kept treasure by higher-ups of the Pangu's Realm, 18 body technique is a unique treasure from a whole another world that requires resources normally not available at all in that world, and while they have records of a ''1000'' body technique, the requirement to practice it at the lowest level is consumption of an ''entire Chaosworld'' as a material.
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** On the other hand, there exist techniques that build on the concept properly. They are extremely rare, and require very expensive and rare materials to practice, but eventually allow splitting into bodies each as powerful as the original was, and even merging the clones back into one, much more powerful than it was. the original. A 12 body technique is a tightly kept treasure by higher-ups of the Pangu's Realm, 18 body technique is a unique treasure from a whole another world that requires resources normally not available at all in that world, and while they have records of a ''1000'' body technique, the requirement to practice it at the lowest level is consumption of an ''entire Chaosworld'' as a material.material.
** Youngflame Freak was only able to uncover a portion of the 18-body technique, and practiced it to the first level. It allowed him immense survivability at the cost of power - which he compensated for by using the other partial technique from the stele to raise an army of bugbeasts. Ning masters the second level of technique, getting both his original and his primaltwin bodies to split into clones, for a total of 36 full-power bodies, but third level remains beyond him. He later pairs it with another technique that allows him to fuse clones together, permanently. It loses out on versatility of switching between being a OneManArmy and an actual army, but he merges together 17 for the powerboost regardless. 18th is left as a backup in case his primary body gets killed, so he can rebuild the clones and re-merge them together. Final tally is just 4 bodies and only one going out and having adventures.
** Youngflame Freak was only able to uncover a portion of the 18-body technique, and practiced it to the first level. It allowed him immense survivability at the cost of power - which he compensated for by using the other partial technique from the stele to raise an army of bugbeasts. Ning masters the second level of technique, getting both his original and his primaltwin bodies to split into clones, for a total of 36 full-power bodies, but third level remains beyond him. He later pairs it with another technique that allows him to fuse clones together, permanently. It loses out on versatility of switching between being a OneManArmy and an actual army, but he merges together 17 for the powerboost regardless. 18th is left as a backup in case his primary body gets killed, so he can rebuild the clones and re-merge them together. Final tally is just 4 bodies and only one going out and having adventures.
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* CloningBlues: Averted. Clones are pretty much always created using the original's soul, meaning there is a real time connection between the original and the clone. They are one soul, networked and connected to [[CloneArmy any number of bodies]]. There ''is'' a range limitation on the connection, it usually vastly exceeds a person's ability to travel that far based on their own efforts. But even if they get sent into an alternate universe or a locked dimension by somebody vastly more powerful, upon returning from it their bodies easily reconnect and merge their memories. Ning goes through the experience twice at different points.
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* CloningBlues: Averted. Clones are pretty much always created using the original's soul, meaning there is a real time connection between the original and the clone. They are one soul, networked and connected to [[CloneArmy any number of bodies]].bodies (see CloneArmy above). There ''is'' a range limitation on the connection, it usually vastly exceeds a person's ability to travel that far based on their own efforts. But even if they get sent into an alternate universe or a locked dimension by somebody vastly more powerful, upon returning from it their bodies easily reconnect and merge their memories. Ning goes through the experience twice at different points.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Practiced by majority of high-powered beings in regards to struggles of people in lower power tiers, at least as far as those outside their fiefdoms are concerned. Flamedragon Realmverse is home to six organizations that are tied in a web of friendships and proclaimed vendettas, but despite three of them having immensely powerful Hegemons, they mostly just let ordinary members of roughly similar power levels duke it out versus each other. When mystical fruits of Crimsonwave Temple are brought out, leaders of all six gather together to trade, equally, without even trying to exclude any of the organizations out. Even Aeonians, whose IAmHumanitarian cultivation practices put them in opposition to Ning's primary allegiance of Dao Alliance, get a fair share of trading. Silksnow Palace, organization comprised of absolutely worst villains of the Realmverse that casually slaughter billions and trillions of mortals for cultivation practices or just for fun, have won ownership of a Sacred City fair and square so Dao Alliance allowed them to prosper in peace... But neither they shed much tears when Ji Ning slaughters them. At the very top of cultivation hierarchy, Autarchs allow entire Realmverses die by natural phenomenon of primordial chaos, because it is all just a cycle of death and rebirth, all obeying internal workings of the grander Chaosverse.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Practiced by majority of high-powered beings in regards to struggles of people in lower power tiers, at least as far as those outside their fiefdoms are concerned. Flamedragon Realmverse is home to six organizations that are tied in a web of friendships and proclaimed vendettas, but despite three of them having immensely powerful Hegemons, they mostly just let ordinary members of roughly similar power levels duke it out versus each other. When mystical fruits of Crimsonwave Temple are brought out, leaders of all six gather together to trade, equally, without even trying to exclude any of the organizations out. Even Aeonians, whose IAmHumanitarian ImAHumanitarian cultivation practices put them in opposition to Ning's primary allegiance of Dao Alliance, get a fair share of trading. Silksnow Palace, organization comprised of absolutely worst villains of the Realmverse that casually slaughter billions and trillions of mortals for cultivation practices or just for fun, have won ownership of a Sacred City fair and square so Dao Alliance allowed them to prosper in peace... But neither they shed much tears when Ji Ning slaughters them. At the very top of cultivation hierarchy, Autarchs allow entire Realmverses die by natural phenomenon of primordial chaos, because it is all just a cycle of death and rebirth, all obeying internal workings of the grander Chaosverse.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Practiced by majority of high-powered beings in regards to struggles of people in lower power tiers, at least as far as those outside their fiefdoms are concerned. Flamedragon Realmverse is home to six organizations that are tied in a web of friendships and proclaimed vendettas, but despite three of them having immensely powerful Hegemons, they mostly just let ordinary members of roughly similar power levels duke it out versus each other. When mystical fruits of Crimsonwave Temple are brought out, leaders of all six gather together to trade, equally, without even trying to exclude any of the organizations out. Even Aeonians, whose IAmHumanitarian cultivation practices put them in opposition to Ning's primary allegiance of Dao Alliance, get a fair share of trading. Silksnow Palace, organization comprised of absolutely worst villains of the Realmverse that casually slaughter billions and trillions of mortals for cultivation practices or just for fun, have won ownership of a Sacred City fair and square so Dao Alliance allowed them to prosper in peace... But neither they shed much tears when Ji Ning slaughters them. At the very top of cultivation hierarchy, Autarchs allow entire Realmverses die by natural phenomenon of primordial chaos, because it is all just a cycle of death and rebirth, all obeying internal workings of the grander Chaosverse.
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* VillainForgotToLevelGrind:
** The Youngflame Clan on the whole. While they ''have'' escalated their threats, they only had a fixed amount of them. Initially, they were a threat of certain doom, focing Ning to hide in the capital city, so only assassins of more limited power would be willing to take a suicide mission - and even then the one they sent puts him on the ropes and he barely survives. After return from Subhuti's school, they ambush him with a handful of Celestial Immortals, the highest-ranked members of the clan. They are a threat but he manages to fend them off. When he attacks one of their bases, all nine Celestials of the clan show up, but Ning's continued growth even throughout the battle allows him to keep an upper hand, forcing them to trick and entrap him with a double-blow of a celestial tribulation and the clan's most powerful treasure. And the next time, when he returns from Nihilum Zone where they teleported him, they know they are so outmatched, their leader has no choice but to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere take the entire clan and run away to another world]].
** Archon Silksnow. First he attacks Ning and Ninedust and they are massively outmatched. Ning barely holds on and calls for Hegemon Brightshore to resque him. Silksnow sees Brightshore coming and quickly kills Ning with a one-use Hegemon level treasure. Ning survives through his use of a [[OneUp Lifeblood Talisman]], but experience allows him to advance to Fourth Step Omega Daolord, and quickly after that to come after Silksnow. He barges into his base, confronts him and all twenty plus of his underlings... And slaughters most of them, shrugging off ''two'' Hegemon treasures in the process.
** Inverted with the Sidhe. Autarchs thought them to be contained within a sealed region and unable to grow, but they were both able to get more reinforcements from their own dimension as well as slip out and set up bases outside of containment. The reignited war was even more threatening than the first time they tried.
** The Youngflame Clan on the whole. While they ''have'' escalated their threats, they only had a fixed amount of them. Initially, they were a threat of certain doom, focing Ning to hide in the capital city, so only assassins of more limited power would be willing to take a suicide mission - and even then the one they sent puts him on the ropes and he barely survives. After return from Subhuti's school, they ambush him with a handful of Celestial Immortals, the highest-ranked members of the clan. They are a threat but he manages to fend them off. When he attacks one of their bases, all nine Celestials of the clan show up, but Ning's continued growth even throughout the battle allows him to keep an upper hand, forcing them to trick and entrap him with a double-blow of a celestial tribulation and the clan's most powerful treasure. And the next time, when he returns from Nihilum Zone where they teleported him, they know they are so outmatched, their leader has no choice but to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere take the entire clan and run away to another world]].
** Archon Silksnow. First he attacks Ning and Ninedust and they are massively outmatched. Ning barely holds on and calls for Hegemon Brightshore to resque him. Silksnow sees Brightshore coming and quickly kills Ning with a one-use Hegemon level treasure. Ning survives through his use of a [[OneUp Lifeblood Talisman]], but experience allows him to advance to Fourth Step Omega Daolord, and quickly after that to come after Silksnow. He barges into his base, confronts him and all twenty plus of his underlings... And slaughters most of them, shrugging off ''two'' Hegemon treasures in the process.
** Inverted with the Sidhe. Autarchs thought them to be contained within a sealed region and unable to grow, but they were both able to get more reinforcements from their own dimension as well as slip out and set up bases outside of containment. The reignited war was even more threatening than the first time they tried.
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** The Fiendgod Refiners are basically this - they study the Dao just as the {{squishy wizard}}-like Ki Refiners do, but apply it through physical arts rather than spells. There is personal variation of course, with how much of their power is derived from Dao and how much from their body cultivation and divine abilities. Ji Ning oscillates over this balance through early phases of his journey - sometimes his magical treasures and soul power are his main tools, sometimes they fall behind his physical prowess.
** Reaching Daolord level erases the difference between Fiendgod and Ki Refining, joining everybody into this. Heartforce cultivators however add a bit more wizardy aspect with their illusions and world projections. Of the prominent ones, Timedream has more lean into the heartforce aspect, while Winesage and Ning are more about using it as a supplement to physical prowess.
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* PowerLevels:
** Immortal practitioners are divided into stages (Houtian, Xiantian, Zifu, Wanxiang, Primordial, Void, and Celestial Immortal). With each level, the person's lifespan extends, their body undergoes enhancements, and they become able to use more powerful abilities and items. Although these stages tend to determine the abilities that one can have, they are also sub-divided into early, middle, late, and peak based upon how much elemental energy the practitioner has accumulated.
** [[spoiler: Higher stages: True God/True Immortal, Ancestor God/Ancestor Immortal, God of World/Immortal of Chaos, Dao Lord, Eternal Emperor, Supreme Sovereign. Because Ji Ning's world lack of most advanced practice condition, an normal Ancestor Immortal was only as strong as a True God.)]]
** Immortal practitioners are divided into stages (Houtian, Xiantian, Zifu, Wanxiang, Primordial, Void, and Celestial Immortal). With each level, the person's lifespan extends, their body undergoes enhancements, and they become able to use more powerful abilities and items. Although these stages tend to determine the abilities that one can have, they are also sub-divided into early, middle, late, and peak based upon how much elemental energy the practitioner has accumulated.
** [[spoiler: Higher stages: True God/True Immortal, Ancestor God/Ancestor Immortal, God of World/Immortal of Chaos, Dao Lord, Eternal Emperor, Supreme Sovereign. Because Ji Ning's world lack of most advanced practice condition, an normal Ancestor Immortal was only as strong as a True God.)]]
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**PowerLevels: Immortal practitioners are divided into stages (Houtian, Xiantian, Zifu, Wanxiang, Primordial, Void, and Celestial Immortal). With each level, the person's lifespan extends, their body undergoes enhancements, and they become able to use more powerful abilities and items. Although these stages tend to determine the abilities that one can have, they are also sub-divided into early, middle, late, and peak based upon how much elemental energy the practitioner has accumulated.
** [[spoiler: Higher stages:accumulated.\\
Celestial Immortal is the milestone for being able to travel between worlds and having a lifespan not troubled by constant heaven-sent calamities. Within the Three Realms, Empyrean God was thought to be a higher stage of cultivation than Celestial, but eventually it is shown to be the same tier, its just that the available cultivation methods were too weak, downgrading all Ki Refiners.\\
Past that level, cultivation continues as True God/True Immortal, Ancestor God/Ancestor Immortal,God of World/Immortal of Chaos, World God/Chaos Immortal, Dao Lord, Eternal Emperor, Emperor (with exceptionally powerful ones being known as Hegemons) and finally Supreme Sovereign. Because Ji Ning's world lack of most advanced practice condition, Sovereign (or Autarch in RWX's translation). Omega Dao Emperors break the scale as Autarchs just consider them on the same tier as themselves, and Omega Dao Autarch is an normal Ancestor Immortal was only as strong as existence too unique to be placed within a True God.)]]category.
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** [[spoiler: Higher stages:
Celestial Immortal is the milestone for being able to travel between worlds and having a lifespan not troubled by constant heaven-sent calamities. Within the Three Realms, Empyrean God was thought to be a higher stage of cultivation than Celestial, but eventually it is shown to be the same tier, its just that the available cultivation methods were too weak, downgrading all Ki Refiners.\\
Past that level, cultivation continues as True God/True Immortal, Ancestor God/Ancestor Immortal,
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: on multiple levels
** In general for cultivators, understanding and strengthening their heart is very important as it helps them to master the Dao and control their magic and treasures. It comes in under a direct test during Celestial Tribulation (and other occasional heavenly tribulations) where the cultivator is sent into an illusory world and must resist getting trapped in it.
** Then there is the Heartforce. In the Three Realms there is only one fully structured teaching method for it - Hoyui's Archery. It guides students through the stages of heartforce and how to imbue it into arrows, giving them tremendous power at the cost of being very limited in ammunition as every shot uses a big chunk of mental reserves. His ultimate technique is a straight up self-sacrifice for an arrow of immense power. Ji Ning eventually figures alternative application of heartforce to his fingers for hand to hand strikes and Old Man Yuan passes him his notes on other applications which he focuses on mastering applying it to his soul.
** Outside of Three Realms, Heartforce blossomed into an entire parallel cultivation path with its practitioners holding mastery of illusion and even mind control if the power disparity is great enough. They even have their own analogue to World level of cultivation - Heartworld, that they can project outside in order to trap people in or to apply energy pressure field. Practice of fusing heartforce with attacks returns later on, with Timedream and Winesage slowly infecting their illusions unto the opponent through weapon clashes while Ning himself once again focuses on applying it for raw power.
** Later on of the novel, it is revealed that complete mastery of the Heart and heartforce, and fusing it into the cultivator's primary Dao is necessary to ascend to Eternal Emperor level with a Supreme Dao. [[spoiler:Ning was too late to figure that out, resulting in his failure.]]
** In general for cultivators, understanding and strengthening their heart is very important as it helps them to master the Dao and control their magic and treasures. It comes in under a direct test during Celestial Tribulation (and other occasional heavenly tribulations) where the cultivator is sent into an illusory world and must resist getting trapped in it.
** Then there is the Heartforce. In the Three Realms there is only one fully structured teaching method for it - Hoyui's Archery. It guides students through the stages of heartforce and how to imbue it into arrows, giving them tremendous power at the cost of being very limited in ammunition as every shot uses a big chunk of mental reserves. His ultimate technique is a straight up self-sacrifice for an arrow of immense power. Ji Ning eventually figures alternative application of heartforce to his fingers for hand to hand strikes and Old Man Yuan passes him his notes on other applications which he focuses on mastering applying it to his soul.
** Outside of Three Realms, Heartforce blossomed into an entire parallel cultivation path with its practitioners holding mastery of illusion and even mind control if the power disparity is great enough. They even have their own analogue to World level of cultivation - Heartworld, that they can project outside in order to trap people in or to apply energy pressure field. Practice of fusing heartforce with attacks returns later on, with Timedream and Winesage slowly infecting their illusions unto the opponent through weapon clashes while Ning himself once again focuses on applying it for raw power.
** Later on of the novel, it is revealed that complete mastery of the Heart and heartforce, and fusing it into the cultivator's primary Dao is necessary to ascend to Eternal Emperor level with a Supreme Dao. [[spoiler:Ning was too late to figure that out, resulting in his failure.]]
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* RankInflation: pops up with the Daos used for passing from World God/Chaos Immortal level to Daolord level. There are ordinary dao that can vary in strength, then there are "Ultimate Daos" that are massively more powerful and guarantee a great deal more power as a Daolord. More power yet is available from mastery of several Ultimate Daos and "perfectly" fusing them together. Two or three most of the time, and even the few that went higher weren't all that much more powerful. Ning discovers that those fusions aren't quite perfect as they still lack a lot of aspects of the overarching Dao and that results in great difficulty in merging them. As for himself, his ''five'' Ultimate Daos merge together instantly and easily. Yet, he feels that something is missing and spends [[TimeSkip several millions of years mulling over it]]. Eventual result is the realization that the separation and merging isn't real and that there is one singular overarching Dao of the Sword, which is dubbed as a Supreme or Omega Dao (depending on translation) and launches his power beyond comprehension of his compatriots.
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* WillfullyWeak: During one of this training periods, Ji Ning goes around many worlds of Three Realms while suppressing his power level to near-nothing in order to test his sword-arts against as many different styles as possible. Everybody he meets he would be able to crush instantly, and he even has to hold back his skill in addition to raw power to remain competitive, but this all-encompassing training regime allows him to set up a foundation for later mastery of the Grand Dao of the Sword.
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* WeakButSkilled:
** Overall combat power here is derived from a couple sources - the cultivation level being the "strength" and mastery of the Dao being the "skill". Ji Ning is pretty much always ahead of the cultivation curve thanks to his Dao, but it is also common enough for others. Black-White College outright makes it their principle to stay on lower cultivation level for longer than the minimal requirement to create a solid foundation for further growth, resulting in ''everybody'' there following this trope.
** By the later stages of the novel however, the power of immortal energy is noted to become vastly inferior compared to the mastery of the Dao. Daolords using special techniques to empower their energy hundreds of times only achieve a fractional increase in their overall combat strength. In the finale, a new type of cultivation energy [[spoiler:created by Ning]] is quickly adopted by all Autarchs, but despite it being hundreds of thousands times more powerful than old cultivation energy, they only get thirty percent powerboost out of it.
** Overall combat power here is derived from a couple sources - the cultivation level being the "strength" and mastery of the Dao being the "skill". Ji Ning is pretty much always ahead of the cultivation curve thanks to his Dao, but it is also common enough for others. Black-White College outright makes it their principle to stay on lower cultivation level for longer than the minimal requirement to create a solid foundation for further growth, resulting in ''everybody'' there following this trope.
** By the later stages of the novel however, the power of immortal energy is noted to become vastly inferior compared to the mastery of the Dao. Daolords using special techniques to empower their energy hundreds of times only achieve a fractional increase in their overall combat strength. In the finale, a new type of cultivation energy [[spoiler:created by Ning]] is quickly adopted by all Autarchs, but despite it being hundreds of thousands times more powerful than old cultivation energy, they only get thirty percent powerboost out of it.
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** While he has access to the Underwater Estate for some really nice training facilities and powerful challenges, it only gave Ji Ning one direct technique. Given that he has already completely eclipsed everybody in his native clan, he then moves to Stilwater Commandery City to join a school to obtain access to good cultivation techniques. He gets a lot more than he expected, joining Black-White College, inheriting technique of one of its ancient immortals and earning direct tutelage from a living one.
** After getting treasures and libraries of the Witchriver Immortal Estate, he inverts this - most of those techniques are not useful for him, so he gives them out to his clan, setting up a library for generations to come. Clan elders muse on setting up necessary trials for accessing it.
** Ji Ning himself then seeks out tutelage from Daofather Crimsonbright by competing in the Immortal Conclave of Grand Xia world. Despite excellent showing, Crimsonbright doesn't select him as a personal disciple, which leaves him open to offer by Daofather Subhuti, who is an even greater specialist at teaching and rising of impeccable geniuses. Subhuti offers him some lessons to start with for free, a vast library to pick from that each comes with challenges for specific techniques, and promises a parting gift of a couple techniques specifically tailored for Ning.
** After his return from Subhuti's domain, Ning does the inversion again, passing some techniques he acquired during his adventures to his clan, the Black-White College and even directly to his previous master Diancai.
** While he has access to the Underwater Estate for some really nice training facilities and powerful challenges, it only gave Ji Ning one direct technique. Given that he has already completely eclipsed everybody in his native clan, he then moves to Stilwater Commandery City to join a school to obtain access to good cultivation techniques. He gets a lot more than he expected, joining Black-White College, inheriting technique of one of its ancient immortals and earning direct tutelage from a living one.
** After getting treasures and libraries of the Witchriver Immortal Estate, he inverts this - most of those techniques are not useful for him, so he gives them out to his clan, setting up a library for generations to come. Clan elders muse on setting up necessary trials for accessing it.
** Ji Ning himself then seeks out tutelage from Daofather Crimsonbright by competing in the Immortal Conclave of Grand Xia world. Despite excellent showing, Crimsonbright doesn't select him as a personal disciple, which leaves him open to offer by Daofather Subhuti, who is an even greater specialist at teaching and rising of impeccable geniuses. Subhuti offers him some lessons to start with for free, a vast library to pick from that each comes with challenges for specific techniques, and promises a parting gift of a couple techniques specifically tailored for Ning.
** After his return from Subhuti's domain, Ning does the inversion again, passing some techniques he acquired during his adventures to his clan, the Black-White College and even directly to his previous master Diancai.
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* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Only ones who reach Eternal Emperor stage are truly immortal. But even if someone can't, they can live 108,000 Chaos Cycles (1 Chaos Era equal an amount of time from birth to death of a normal Chaosworld)]].
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** All Celestial Immortals and up beings that didn't just grow to that level in the story. Within the Three Realms, most ancient figures have lived for over a "Chaos Cycle", a timeframe that isn't stated clearly but insinuated to be on the scale of trillions to ''millions of trillions'' of years.
** Prisoners trapped within the otherworldly stone stele Ning finds have them beat - while it wasn't a particularly eventful existence for them, the thing has spent about five Chaos cycles drifting through the inter-dimensional void before landing in Pangu's Chaosworld. Some of them are on the brink of mental breakdown from the experience, only vague hope of release and return to their clans and families of other immortals holding them together. Unfortunately, Ning's arrival and news of the stele being gone far away from their native realm of Pangaea they figure out that their world was destroyed and commit suicide. Others are pretty happy to hear that the World Gods that imprisoned them are probably dead too and try to suss out if Ning can release them.
** Once Ning travels outside his native Chaosworld, we find out that a Chaos Cycle is about how long a Chaosworld can naturally last, and he starts running into figures that have lived much, much longer than that. This sets up a new bar for real immortality - only by becoming an Eternal Emperorstage are truly immortal. But even if someone can't, they one can live 108,000 past 108'000 Chaos Cycles. Ning isn't too worried because to his mind of only a hundred thousand years old this is eternity.
** And of course once he starts mingling with Eternal Emperors and Hegemons, they show up as being many orders of magnitude older than the 108'000 Cycles baseline. One particular thing is noted that travel between Realmverses without a Realmship can take tens of millions of Chaos Cycles(1 Chaos Era equal an amount drifting through the void, but some of time from birth to death of a normal Chaosworld)]].them still go for it.
** All Celestial Immortals and up beings that didn't just grow to that level in the story. Within the Three Realms, most ancient figures have lived for over a "Chaos Cycle", a timeframe that isn't stated clearly but insinuated to be on the scale of trillions to ''millions of trillions'' of years.
** Prisoners trapped within the otherworldly stone stele Ning finds have them beat - while it wasn't a particularly eventful existence for them, the thing has spent about five Chaos cycles drifting through the inter-dimensional void before landing in Pangu's Chaosworld. Some of them are on the brink of mental breakdown from the experience, only vague hope of release and return to their clans and families of other immortals holding them together. Unfortunately, Ning's arrival and news of the stele being gone far away from their native realm of Pangaea they figure out that their world was destroyed and commit suicide. Others are pretty happy to hear that the World Gods that imprisoned them are probably dead too and try to suss out if Ning can release them.
** Once Ning travels outside his native Chaosworld, we find out that a Chaos Cycle is about how long a Chaosworld can naturally last, and he starts running into figures that have lived much, much longer than that. This sets up a new bar for real immortality - only by becoming an Eternal Emperor
** And of course once he starts mingling with Eternal Emperors and Hegemons, they show up as being many orders of magnitude older than the 108'000 Cycles baseline. One particular thing is noted that travel between Realmverses without a Realmship can take tens of millions of Chaos Cycles
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* WhenYouSnatchThePebble: Ji Ning must demonstrate his mastery in swordplay and his understanding of the Dao before [[spoiler:Immortal Diancai, his master, allows him to leave the Black-White College]].
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** While training in Black-White College, Ji Ning must demonstrate his mastery in swordplay and his understanding of the Dao before[[spoiler:Immortal Immortal Diancai, his master, allows him to leave the Black-White College]].College for some adventuring in the outside world.
** Subhuti also follows this principle, whisking Ning off to his personal dimension for training and only allowing him to return to Grand Xia after mastering enough divine abilities. Ning is free to pick which ones he wants, but every one of them comes with a unique trial to requisition it from the library, and that's before the challenge of actually studying the technique.
** Undermoon Lake turns out to be not just a weird location, but an automated training ground. Any fiendgods challenging it must pass through several tiers of battles with demons of varying power levels in order to earn rewards of treasures and eventually some very powerful techniques that surpass the standards of the entire Three Realms chaosworld.
** Same goes for the Astral Islands of the Brightshore Kingdom. The "pebble" in this case is a [[DismantledMacGuffin collection of pieces of many powerful techniques]] disseminated between all contestants. Once you gather one full technique you are allowed to leave. Ning ends up helping two other cultivators out by giving up a fully collected technique before sticking around to improve himself some more.
** While training in Black-White College, Ji Ning must demonstrate his mastery in swordplay and his understanding of the Dao before
** Subhuti also follows this principle, whisking Ning off to his personal dimension for training and only allowing him to return to Grand Xia after mastering enough divine abilities. Ning is free to pick which ones he wants, but every one of them comes with a unique trial to requisition it from the library, and that's before the challenge of actually studying the technique.
** Undermoon Lake turns out to be not just a weird location, but an automated training ground. Any fiendgods challenging it must pass through several tiers of battles with demons of varying power levels in order to earn rewards of treasures and eventually some very powerful techniques that surpass the standards of the entire Three Realms chaosworld.
** Same goes for the Astral Islands of the Brightshore Kingdom. The "pebble" in this case is a [[DismantledMacGuffin collection of pieces of many powerful techniques]] disseminated between all contestants. Once you gather one full technique you are allowed to leave. Ning ends up helping two other cultivators out by giving up a fully collected technique before sticking around to improve himself some more.
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** On his trip to Stillwater City, Ning runs into a trio of youths from Meng clan getting assaulted by a pair of bandit cultivators. Meng Roch decides to use a forbidden technique to give the other two a chance to escape before Ning arrives to save them. Afterwards, Meng Jun immediately discards Roch despite his near-sacrifice and tries to rope Meng Xin into a relationship (being well aware that Xin and Roch had a liking to each other). He doesn't stop at just that, trying to beg Ning for some free treasures, and also discounting him as not worth the effort when he refuses. He comes to eventually regret his decisions when he runs into Ning in the city again and finds out Ning was friends with a high-ranking noble in the city, as well as Ning's outstanding power. Roch gets a little payoff when Ning accepts him as his follower into the Black-White College as well, rubbing more salt into Xin's missed chance.
** Youngflame Nong recruits a group of students from Black-White College as well as a few other cultivators to assist him in exploring the Witchriver Immortal Estate. Inside the estate, while tools provided by his clan did a lot of heavy lifting, he still needed to rely on the recruited help to endure the less dangerous but still deadly trials. He repays them by trying to use Yu Wei as entertainment and then outright attempting to kill Ji Ning when he found out about his ancestry. Even the pawn that sold Ning's secret out gets that treatment as he's forced to try and kill Ning in a duel first - something he stood no chance at.
** On his trip to Stillwater City, Ning runs into a trio of youths from Meng clan getting assaulted by a pair of bandit cultivators. Meng Roch decides to use a forbidden technique to give the other two a chance to escape before Ning arrives to save them. Afterwards, Meng Jun immediately discards Roch despite his near-sacrifice and tries to rope Meng Xin into a relationship (being well aware that Xin and Roch had a liking to each other). He doesn't stop at just that, trying to beg Ning for some free treasures, and also discounting him as not worth the effort when he refuses. He comes to eventually regret his decisions when he runs into Ning in the city again and finds out Ning was friends with a high-ranking noble in the city, as well as Ning's outstanding power. Roch gets a little payoff when Ning accepts him as his follower into the Black-White College as well, rubbing more salt into Xin's missed chance.
** Youngflame Nong recruits a group of students from Black-White College as well as a few other cultivators to assist him in exploring the Witchriver Immortal Estate. Inside the estate, while tools provided by his clan did a lot of heavy lifting, he still needed to rely on the recruited help to endure the less dangerous but still deadly trials. He repays them by trying to use Yu Wei as entertainment and then outright attempting to kill Ji Ning when he found out about his ancestry. Even the pawn that sold Ning's secret out gets that treatment as he's forced to try and kill Ning in a duel first - something he stood no chance at.
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** Staple of the genre and acknowledged in universe: it is not uncommon for a cultivator being put in dire straits to attain breakthroughs in the Dao and turn the tables. Unusually for most works in the genre, here it also works for characters other than the protagonist.
** Immortal Diancai when facing his Celestial Tribulation. He faces seven nine-sets of thunder, already more than anyone expected for him. He pulls out all stops, using a DangerousForbiddenTechnique and even a second set of swords to just barely deflect the last bolt... Only for the clouds to gather again, with power far exceeding the last. As he looks up, [[DespairEventHorizon facing and accepting death with only consolation being able to meet with his beloved companion in the afterlife]], this despair catalyzes his understanding of Five Elements Sword art. He uses it to disperse all nine final bolts with minimal effort.
** During the Conclave of Immortal Destiny, Ji Ning and Yu Wei team up and fight together, although the latter is weaker of the pair for most of it. Once they encounter a much stronger team, she nearly dies but it stimulates her to unlock full memories of her past life and immediately combine past and present Daos for a massive power boost, saving her life. Unfortunately, she was already poisoned and thus has to quit the tournament and seek healing.
** When villainous Arroyo and Fukai compete for the access to the treasures of Daolord Allgod's estate, each are pitted against another's underling. Fukai's servant Buxin almost manages to put Arroyo on the ropes, but the latter [[VillainousValour undergoes a breakthrough, launching his power beyond both his current opponent's and Fukai's as well.]] Fukai then ''tries'' to invoke the same in his next duel, refusing to use some of his treasures in order to challenge himself, but he can't manage to make an advancement. Unfortunately for them, Ji Ning has also earned rewards during the same trial, and uses them to reach a level even further beyond both of them and all their treasures.
** Staple of the genre and acknowledged in universe: it is not uncommon for a cultivator being put in dire straits to attain breakthroughs in the Dao and turn the tables. Unusually for most works in the genre, here it also works for characters other than the protagonist.
** Immortal Diancai when facing his Celestial Tribulation. He faces seven nine-sets of thunder, already more than anyone expected for him. He pulls out all stops, using a DangerousForbiddenTechnique and even a second set of swords to just barely deflect the last bolt... Only for the clouds to gather again, with power far exceeding the last. As he looks up, [[DespairEventHorizon facing and accepting death with only consolation being able to meet with his beloved companion in the afterlife]], this despair catalyzes his understanding of Five Elements Sword art. He uses it to disperse all nine final bolts with minimal effort.
** During the Conclave of Immortal Destiny, Ji Ning and Yu Wei team up and fight together, although the latter is weaker of the pair for most of it. Once they encounter a much stronger team, she nearly dies but it stimulates her to unlock full memories of her past life and immediately combine past and present Daos for a massive power boost, saving her life. Unfortunately, she was already poisoned and thus has to quit the tournament and seek healing.
** When villainous Arroyo and Fukai compete for the access to the treasures of Daolord Allgod's estate, each are pitted against another's underling. Fukai's servant Buxin almost manages to put Arroyo on the ropes, but the latter [[VillainousValour undergoes a breakthrough, launching his power beyond both his current opponent's and Fukai's as well.]] Fukai then ''tries'' to invoke the same in his next duel, refusing to use some of his treasures in order to challenge himself, but he can't manage to make an advancement. Unfortunately for them, Ji Ning has also earned rewards during the same trial, and uses them to reach a level even further beyond both of them and all their treasures.
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* BornAgainImmortality: This novel has two separate appearances of this tropes. The story starts with Ji Ning dying on Earth and going to the Land of the Dead before being born again in a new world. Also, on the world that Ning is reborn on, immortal practitioners that reach a sufficient level can be reincarnated in the same world. As they grow up, the memories of their previous life, along with the abilities that they learned during it, return to them. This restoration of knowledge from their previous life makes reincarnated immortals among the most talented practitioners in the world.
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* BornAgainImmortality: This novel has two separate appearances Part of this tropes. The story starts with the setting, slightly varied if magical means were involved.
** For regular deaths within the Three Realms, the soul goes to the underworld, where they get judged, serve punishment if needed, and then get their memories wiped and sent out to reincarnate. At the start of the novel, Ji Ningdying on Earth and having earned a bunch of karmic merit was going to the Land be incarnated as an already-magical creature in one of the Dead before being born again in heavenly realms.
** For cultivators, they usually incarnate while keeping some of their talent and soon restart their cultivation as anew world. Also, on the world that Ning is reborn on, immortal practitioners that reach a sufficient level can be reincarnated in the same world. ChildProdigy. As they grow up, the advance, they start unlocking memories of their previous past life, along with eventually culminating in full reemergence, and merging of the abilities that they learned during it, return to them. This restoration knowledge and Daos of multiple lifetimes. Ning, as he didn't have any cultivation knowledge from his past life, was going to have Nuwa Visualization Technique implanted in him to be unlocked by 16 years old instead.
** However as the novel starts, that overarching system gets broken by a calamity. Ning skips taking a drink that wipes his memory, but has to run into reincarnation path into a regular mortal rather than a xiantian immortal. As a payoff, he immediately has access to the Visualization Technique and starts training the power of his soul as an infant.
** Later we find out that the calamity resulted in individual worlds of Three Realms setting up theirprevious life makes reincarnated immortals among own local reincarnation cycles. Xia Emperor tries to track down Ning's parents but turns out their souls were shattered by [[PoweredByAForsakenChild evildoers refining demonic treasures]]. This leaves them with only their truesouls, which descended into cosmic depths of the most talented practitioners in the world.Three Realms Chaosworld and only a World God level figure could extract them from there. It takes Ning a very, very long time to get there.
** For regular deaths within the Three Realms, the soul goes to the underworld, where they get judged, serve punishment if needed, and then get their memories wiped and sent out to reincarnate. At the start of the novel, Ji Ning
** For cultivators, they usually incarnate while keeping some of their talent and soon restart their cultivation as a
** However as the novel starts, that overarching system gets broken by a calamity. Ning skips taking a drink that wipes his memory, but has to run into reincarnation path into a regular mortal rather than a xiantian immortal. As a payoff, he immediately has access to the Visualization Technique and starts training the power of his soul as an infant.
** Later we find out that the calamity resulted in individual worlds of Three Realms setting up their
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* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Late-stage lightning bolts during Celestial Tribulation go through several colors as they get progressively more powerful. While Immortal Diancai's and Ji Ning's Primaltwin's first half don't get color descriptors, starting from seventieth bolt of Ning's tribulation they are described as violet. Seventy-third shows hints of white which then grow more prominent until the last, eighty-first, bolt is described as pure white, filled with holiness and sanctity. Ning's second tribulation, undergone with his true fiendgod body to become Empyrean, is immensely more powerful and basically picks off where the first one stopped. Starting with violet-white right off the bat, it goes to pure white by the ninth, and then starts adding gold. The final bolt reaches the pinnacle of power possible for tribulation ([[CombatCommentator as noted by several observing ancient figures that lived from the very beginning of the Three Realms]]), pure gold and is called "Pure Yang Goldlight Thunder".
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* ConflictingLoyalty: Because of oaths sworn to different masters, some cultivators can be torn between two sides during wars.
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* ConflictingLoyalty: Because of oaths sworn to different masters, some cultivators can be torn Came into play at several points during the conflict between two the Seamless Gate and Nuwa's Alliance.
** Keeper of Everwood was noted as having made a lot of friends among the Nuwa's side, but in the end chose to stand with the Seamless as his native side.
** Old Man Yuan started the opposite way, being a native of Nuwa's world but having friends on both sidesduring wars.and initially refusing to join either. He confided in Subhuti that he was going join Seamless only to scam them for techniques and then leave the entire Chaosworld to travel the universe outside but haven't actually fulfilled that idea. [[spoiler:In the end, all that was a multi-layered ruse as he was possessed by a powerful Outsider who wanted to kill everybody involved and take over their entire world.]]
** Yuan also offered to accept Ji Ning as an apprentice but Subhuti refused to let him in fear of such a conflict arising. Turns out, he was much more than right to worry - first act of Yuan upon joining the Seamless was to try assassinating Ji Ning.
** Keeper of Everwood was noted as having made a lot of friends among the Nuwa's side, but in the end chose to stand with the Seamless as his native side.
** Old Man Yuan started the opposite way, being a native of Nuwa's world but having friends on both sides
** Yuan also offered to accept Ji Ning as an apprentice but Subhuti refused to let him in fear of such a conflict arising. Turns out, he was much more than right to worry - first act of Yuan upon joining the Seamless was to try assassinating Ji Ning.
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* CloningBlues: Averted. Clones are pretty much always created using the original's soul, meaning there is a real time connection between the original and the clone. They are one soul, networked and connected to [[CloneArmy any number of bodies]].
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** Eventually, Ning runs into a guy that practiced the 1000 bodies version to its full potential. Despite his own immensely powerful abilities, he instantly loses. Thankfully they are trapped in a training ground set up by a higher power so he doesn't end up killed, but even after making a couple leaps in power due to training, the most he can reach is a stalemate.
* CloningBlues: Averted. Clones are pretty much always created using the original's soul, meaning there is a real time connection between the original and the clone. They are one soul, networked and connected to [[CloneArmy any number of bodies]]. There ''is'' a range limitation on the connection, it usually vastly exceeds a person's ability to travel that far based on their own efforts. But even if they get sent into an alternate universe or a locked dimension by somebody vastly more powerful, upon returning from it their bodies easily reconnect and merge their memories. Ning goes through the experience twice at different points.
* CloningBlues: Averted. Clones are pretty much always created using the original's soul, meaning there is a real time connection between the original and the clone. They are one soul, networked and connected to [[CloneArmy any number of bodies]]. There ''is'' a range limitation on the connection, it usually vastly exceeds a person's ability to travel that far based on their own efforts. But even if they get sent into an alternate universe or a locked dimension by somebody vastly more powerful, upon returning from it their bodies easily reconnect and merge their memories. Ning goes through the experience twice at different points.
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* CloneArmy: Some cultivators have the ability to clone themselves if they have the right type of body or technique. The dilution of power can be avoided if the right technique and proper materials are applied.
* CloneArmy: Some cultivators have the ability to clone themselves if they have the right type of body or technique. The dilution of power can be avoided if the right technique and proper materials are applied.
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* CloneArmy: Some cultivators have the
** On the other hand, there exist techniques that build on the concept properly. They are extremely rare, and require very expensive and rare materials to practice, but eventually allow splitting into bodies each as powerful as the original was, and even merging the clones back into one, much more powerful than it was. A 12 body technique is a tightly kept treasure by higher-ups of the Pangu's Realm, 18 body technique is a unique treasure from a whole another world that requires resources normally not available at all in that world, and while they have
