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* ''VideoGame/SwordAndFairy'' is a prime example of this genre in video gaming and the game series and it's live action adaptation is credited for popularizing the genre.
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* ''Manhua/CultivatorAgainstHeroSociety'' is a parody of this trope, showing how someone so powerful would fit in a world with traditional Eastern and Western superhero parodies not too dissimilar to ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. The main character, Yan-Sen, is so powerful that no one shown in the series so far (the unseen Ancient Heroes being a possible exception) can even match him, and he is instead more focused on rebuilding his sect to find a way to get back to his realm that he was thrown out of.
* ''Anime/{{Demonic King Who Chases His Wife}}'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
* ''Manhua/FengQiCangLan'' is a story where the main protagonist gets TrappedInAnotherWorld after getting summoned by unknown powers while playing a VR game with a BrainComputerInterface. With the help of a [[RPGMechanicsverse System based on the VR game]], she must navigate the perils of a cultivation world where MightMakesRight and people [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence feel oppressed by her very existence]]. She eventually learns that she is TheChosenOne, summoned by the two strongest cultivators in that world to help them defeat [[spoiler:the Emperor and the artificial Heavenly Dao he created before they destroy that world.]]
* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' is about a girl who, after being DrivenToSuicide, is blackmailed into working for the eponymous [[RPGMechanicsverse System]]. Her job involves performing missions for the guardian deities or GeniusLoci of various worlds, usually to repair damage to that world's balance. Each world has different rules. One of them uses this genre.
* ''Manhua/IronLadies'' is basically a {{Magitek}} scifi version of this trope. Human science has improved to the point of FasterThanLightTravel, but after AbusivePrecursors declared a GuiltFreeExterminationWar on humanity, it became clear that the occult was real, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum even if nobody could figure out how it works]]. Cultivators in this universe are called "angels". Cultivation in this universe is a GenderRestrictedAbility, as the creation process will normally destroy anything that isn't female. The main protagonist is the first male angel to appear in thousands of years. Angels become stronger with EnlightenmentSuperpowers. Their abilities mostly revolve around shape shifting parts of their bodies into mechanical space weapons.
* ''Manhua/CultivatorAgainstHeroSociety'' is a parody of this trope, showing how someone so powerful would fit in a world with traditional Eastern and Western superhero parodies not too dissimilar to ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. The main character, Yan-Sen, is so powerful that no one shown in the series so far (the unseen Ancient Heroes being a possible exception) can even match him, and he is instead more focused on rebuilding his sect to find a way to get back to his realm that he was thrown out of.
* ''Anime/{{Demonic King Who Chases His Wife}}'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
* ''Manhua/FengQiCangLan'' is a story where the main protagonist gets TrappedInAnotherWorld after getting summoned by unknown powers while playing a VR game with a BrainComputerInterface. With the help of a [[RPGMechanicsverse System based on the VR game]], she must navigate the perils of a cultivation world where MightMakesRight and people [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence feel oppressed by her very existence]]. She eventually learns that she is TheChosenOne, summoned by the two strongest cultivators in that world to help them defeat [[spoiler:the Emperor and the artificial Heavenly Dao he created before they destroy that world.]]
* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' is about a girl who, after being DrivenToSuicide, is blackmailed into working for the eponymous [[RPGMechanicsverse System]]. Her job involves performing missions for the guardian deities or GeniusLoci of various worlds, usually to repair damage to that world's balance. Each world has different rules. One of them uses this genre.
* ''Manhua/IronLadies'' is basically a {{Magitek}} scifi version of this trope. Human science has improved to the point of FasterThanLightTravel, but after AbusivePrecursors declared a GuiltFreeExterminationWar on humanity, it became clear that the occult was real, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum even if nobody could figure out how it works]]. Cultivators in this universe are called "angels". Cultivation in this universe is a GenderRestrictedAbility, as the creation process will normally destroy anything that isn't female. The main protagonist is the first male angel to appear in thousands of years. Angels become stronger with EnlightenmentSuperpowers. Their abilities mostly revolve around shape shifting parts of their bodies into mechanical space weapons.
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* ''Manhua/FengQiCangLan'' is a story where the main protagonist gets TrappedInAnotherWorld after getting summoned by unknown powers while playing a VR game with a BrainComputerInterface. With the help of a [[RPGMechanicsverse System based on the VR game]], she must navigate the perils of a cultivation world where MightMakesRight and people [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence feel oppressed by her very existence]]. She eventually learns that she is TheChosenOne, summoned by the two strongest cultivators in that world to help them defeat [[spoiler:the Emperor and the artificial Heavenly Dao he created before they destroy that world.]]
* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' is about a girl who, after being DrivenToSuicide, is blackmailed into working for the eponymous [[RPGMechanicsverse System]]. Her job involves performing missions for the guardian deities or GeniusLoci of various worlds, usually to repair damage to that world's balance. Each world has different rules. One of them uses this genre.
* ''Manhua/IronLadies'' is basically a {{Magitek}} scifi version of this trope. Human science has improved to the point of FasterThanLightTravel, but after AbusivePrecursors declared a GuiltFreeExterminationWar on humanity, it became clear that the occult was real, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum even if nobody could figure out how it works]]. Cultivators in this universe are called "angels". Cultivation in this universe is a GenderRestrictedAbility, as the creation process will normally destroy anything that isn't female. The main protagonist is the first male angel to appear in thousands of years. Angels become stronger with EnlightenmentSuperpowers. Their abilities mostly revolve around shape shifting parts of their bodies into mechanical space weapons.
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* ''Manhua/TalesOfDemonsAndGods'' features a mixture of this trope and PowersViaPossession, capturing demon beasts to boost one's own power further.
* ''Manhua/WhatDoYouDoWhenYouSuddenlyBecomeAnImmortal'' is about a Saintess from a cultivation world and a mortal man from modern day Earth. These two people from completely different universes find their lives entangled when, due to a freak accident involving a mistake in the Saintess's cultivation and the man having a near death experience, transmigrate into one another's bodies in a FreakyFridayFlip situation. Once every three days, they switch back and forth. They proceed to cooperate to improve their shared lives, leaving messages for one another. In the cultivation world, they create {{Magitek}} inspired by modern Earth technology. On Earth, the two discover that Earth once had a BackgroundMagicField, but it was [[TheMagicGoesAway unstable and dissipated]]. They gather what is left and nourish it with knowledge from the cultivation world to cause TheMagicComesBack, with the ultimate goal of bridging the two worlds so they can meet in person.
* ''Manhua/WhatDoYouDoWhenYouSuddenlyBecomeAnImmortal'' is about a Saintess from a cultivation world and a mortal man from modern day Earth. These two people from completely different universes find their lives entangled when, due to a freak accident involving a mistake in the Saintess's cultivation and the man having a near death experience, transmigrate into one another's bodies in a FreakyFridayFlip situation. Once every three days, they switch back and forth. They proceed to cooperate to improve their shared lives, leaving messages for one another. In the cultivation world, they create {{Magitek}} inspired by modern Earth technology. On Earth, the two discover that Earth once had a BackgroundMagicField, but it was [[TheMagicGoesAway unstable and dissipated]]. They gather what is left and nourish it with knowledge from the cultivation world to cause TheMagicComesBack, with the ultimate goal of bridging the two worlds so they can meet in person.
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* ''Manhua/CultivatorAgainstHeroSociety'' is a parody of this trope, showing how someone so powerful would fit in a world with traditional Eastern and Western superhero parodies not too dissimilar to ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. The main character, Yan-Sen, is so powerful that no one shown in the series so far (the unseen Ancient Heroes being a possible exception) can even match him, and he is instead more focused on rebuilding his sect to find a way to get back to his realm that he was thrown out of.
* ''Manhua/FengQiCangLan'' is a story where the main protagonist gets TrappedInAnotherWorld after getting summoned by unknown powers while playing a VR game with a BrainComputerInterface. With the help of a [[RPGMechanicsverse System based on the VR game]], she must navigate the perils of a cultivation world where MightMakesRight and people [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence feel oppressed by her very existence]]. She eventually learns that she is TheChosenOne, summoned by the two strongest cultivators in that world to help them defeat [[spoiler:the Emperor and the artificial Heavenly Dao he created before they destroy that world.]]
* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' is about a girl who, after being DrivenToSuicide, is blackmailed into working for the eponymous [[RPGMechanicsverse System]]. Her job involves performing missions for the guardian deities or GeniusLoci of various worlds, usually to repair damage to that world's balance. Each world has different rules. One of them uses this genre.
* ''Manhua/IronLadies'' is basically a {{Magitek}} scifi version of this trope. Human science has improved to the point of FasterThanLightTravel, but after AbusivePrecursors declared a GuiltFreeExterminationWar on humanity, it became clear that the occult was real, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum even if nobody could figure out how it works]]. Cultivators in this universe are called "angels". Cultivation in this universe is a GenderRestrictedAbility, as the creation process will normally destroy anything that isn't female. The main protagonist is the first male angel to appear in thousands of years. Angels become stronger with EnlightenmentSuperpowers. Their abilities mostly revolve around shape shifting parts of their bodies into mechanical space weapons.
* ''Manhua/TalesOfDemonsAndGods'' features a mixture of this trope and PowersViaPossession, capturing demon beasts to boost one's own power further.
* ''Manhua/WhatDoYouDoWhenYouSuddenlyBecomeAnImmortal'' is about a Saintess from a cultivation world and a mortal man from modern day Earth. These two people from completely different universes find their lives entangled when, due to a freak accident involving a mistake in the Saintess's cultivation and the man having a near death experience, transmigrate into one another's bodies in a FreakyFridayFlip situation. Once every three days, they switch back and forth. They proceed to cooperate to improve their shared lives, leaving messages for one another. In the cultivation world, they create {{Magitek}} inspired by modern Earth technology. On Earth, the two discover that Earth once had a BackgroundMagicField, but it was [[TheMagicGoesAway unstable and dissipated]]. They gather what is left and nourish it with knowledge from the cultivation world to cause TheMagicComesBack, with the ultimate goal of bridging the two worlds so they can meet in person.
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** Swearing on penalty of a DivineBoltOfRetribution or the end of their {{Reincarnation}} cycle will also sometimes be enforced by a SentientCosmicForce in some settings.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: If a cultivator makes an oath by heart demon, it will create an EnemyWithin that will drive the cultivator mad if they break their promise, and potentially even damn their soul to eternal torment.
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** Swearing on penalty of a DivineBoltOfRetribution or the end of their {{Reincarnation}} cycle will also sometimes be enforced by a SentientCosmicForce in some settings.
** If a cultivator makes an oath by heart demon, it will create an EnemyWithin that will drive the cultivator mad if they break their promise, and potentially even damn their soul to eternal
** Swearing on penalty of a DivineBoltOfRetribution or the end of their {{Reincarnation}} cycle will also sometimes be enforced by a SentientCosmicForce in some settings.
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* ''Anime/{{DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife}}'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Anime/{{DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife}}'': ''Anime/{{Demonic King Who Chases His Wife}}'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Anime/DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Anime/DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife'': ''Anime/{{DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife}}'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Anime/Demonic King Who Chases His Wife'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Anime/Demonic King Who Chases His Wife'': ''Anime/DemonicKingWhoChasesHisWife'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Demonic King Who Chases His Wife'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* ''Demonic ''Anime/Demonic King Who Chases His Wife'': The protagonist, Su Luo, was an assassin and thief who was murdered by her lover and reincarnated in the Blue Sky Continent -- a world resembling ancient China -- due to having swallowed the mystical Dragon Ring they were sent to steal. She begins cultivating spiritual powers as an Apothecary, awakening the wood and fire elements, while finding herself at the center of a convoluted love dodecahedron between herself, Nangong Liuyun, Li Yaoyao, Nangong Liujue, and Yun Qi.
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* EveryoneIsASuper: In Western variants of the genre, it's common for everyone in the world to be a cultivator or the equivalent. Often, the protagonist is [[UnSorcerer the exception]], which makes them "trash" until they find some UniqueProtagonistAsset that lets them cultivate.
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* TheDarkArts: Demonic cultivation is usually this if it's not actually BlackMagic, because it's still a path to power through sanity-threatening means. To a lesser extent, in some settings, any kind of cultivation which doesn't come through orthodox paths is seen as unrighteous. Usually, this is because it allows the protagonist to gain power without going through the proper channels, which are dominated by the existing righteous sects.
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* TheDarkArts: Demonic cultivation is usually this if it's not actually BlackMagic, because it's still a path to power through sanity-threatening means.means and/or to the detriment of others. To a lesser extent, in some settings, any kind of cultivation which doesn't come through orthodox paths is seen as unrighteous. Usually, Sometimes, this is because it allows the protagonist to gain power without going through the proper channels, which are dominated by the existing righteous sects.
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* ''Series/LoveBetweenFairyAndDevil'' is a romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* "Series/Love Between Fairy and Devil" is a romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* Love Between Fairy and Devil is a romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* Love "Series/Love Between Fairy and Devil Devil" is a romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* "Love Between Fairy and Devil": romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* "Love Love Between Fairy and Devil": Devil is a romantic oriented Chinese drama about a fairy named Little Orchid who accidentally frees demon lord Dongfang Qingcang from Haotian Matrix. Previously, the demon lord led an army of 100,000 soldiers on a path of devastation, placing the three realms Shuiyuntian (the immortal fairy realm), Cangyan Sea (the Moon Tribe), and Yunmeng Lake in danger. Little Orchid's and Dongfang Qingcang's encounter sets off a chain of events that threatens to change the fate of the world once again with love blossoming between the two.
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* ''Literature/CultivationChatGroup'': A comedy manhwa where a modern student is accidentally invited into an online chat group for cultivators, despite having no knowledge of the supernatural himself.
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* ''Literature/CultivationChatGroup'': A comedy manhwa manhua where a modern student is accidentally invited into an online chat group for cultivators, despite having no knowledge of the supernatural himself.
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* BadBlackBarf: As cultivators ascend through the different ranks and realms and such, they frequently expel "impurities" which tend to resemble sludgy goo.
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* ''Literature/VirtuousSonsAGrecoRomanXianxia'': transplants the genre conventions of spirit cultivation narratives into a setting inspired by the Mediterranean of Myth/ClassicalMythology, with more than a few twists. E.g., [[spoiler:Carthage has destroyed Rome for one, and all the gods of Olympus seem to be dead, absent, or wiped from memory.]]
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* ''Literature/VirtuousSonsAGrecoRomanXianxia'': ''Literature/VirtuousSonsAGrecoRomanXianxia'' transplants the genre conventions of spirit cultivation narratives into a setting inspired by the Mediterranean of Myth/ClassicalMythology, with more than a few twists. E.g., [[spoiler:Carthage has destroyed Rome for one, and all the gods of Olympus seem to be dead, absent, or wiped from memory.]]
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* ''Literature/BanishedDisciplesCounterAttack'': A fairly typical story where a young man, after receiving a CareerEndingInjury doing a mission on behalf of the sect, discovers that the {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s and {{Fair Weather Friend}}s he aided so much are now feeling annoyed by his very existence and seem to think he should be grateful if they don't just sadistically beat him to death for his weakness. Likewise, his fiance, having awakened her enormous talent, doesn't want a cripple for a husband, so she treats him coldly and dismisses him. After they shamelessly banish him, he discovers a MagicMeteor emanating a special fire. Absorbing it heals his injury. He joins a rival sect to show his former friends what they have lost.
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* BackgroundMagicField: One of the most common forms of cultivation is to absorb qi from the environment. Some locations have a lot more qi than others, which also makes some countries a lot stronger than other little backwaters. AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence usually brings you to a place where the qi is a lot thicker, which is why the local cultivators, even the youngest of children, are so much stronger than even the top cultivators back home. If a region, or potentially even an entire world gets damaged, the concentration of qi thins, making cultivation harder, potentially even up to the point of TheMagicGoesAway, which is sometimes an explanation for why modern Earth style worlds in this setting only have weak cultivators if any. Conversely, if the land is healed, it can result in TheMagicComesBack.
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* BackgroundMagicField: One of the most common forms of cultivation is to absorb qi from the environment. Some locations have a lot more qi than others, which also makes some countries a lot stronger than other little backwaters. AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence usually brings you to a place where the qi is a lot thicker, which is why the local cultivators, even the youngest of children, are so much stronger than even the top cultivators back home. If a region, or potentially even an entire world gets damaged, the concentration of qi thins, making cultivation harder, potentially even up to the point of TheMagicGoesAway, which is sometimes an explanation for why modern Earth style worlds in this setting only have weak cultivators if any. Conversely, if the land is healed, it can result in TheMagicComesBack. Sometimes, lands themselves can be classified by a FantasticRankSystem and be upgraded like cultivators, eventually turning them into one of the very places AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence takes you for lands that have not caught up.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A common type of protagonist origin is a mediocre, "trash," cultivation student who can't seem to overcome that mediocrity no matter how hard he trains and gets frequently bullied by other more talented disciples stumbling across some kind of cheat, or awakening to his non-human heritage, or stumbling across a cultivation manual containing a cultivation method more suited to him, and quickly turning things around to become a badass almost overnight, often brutally murdering or at least humiliating his bullies in the process.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A common type of protagonist origin is a mediocre, "trash," cultivation student who can't seem to overcome that mediocrity no matter how hard he trains and gets frequently bullied by other more talented disciples stumbling across some kind of cheat, or awakening to his non-human heritage, or stumbling across a cultivation manual containing a cultivation method more suited to him, or catches the eye of some OldMaster who sees his unrealized potential when apparently no one else did, and quickly turning things around to become a badass almost overnight, often brutally murdering or at least humiliating his bullies in the process.
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* ''Roleplay/DestinyCycle'' is a forum quest turned Xianxia web novel about Ling Qi, a teenage girl who is sent to her province's [[WizardingSchool Great Sect]] when her ability to hear spirits is discovered. While the usual fate for a commoner with talent is to join the army and eventually plateau in power, Ling Qi is determined to drive herself towards loftier goals.
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* ''WebOriginal/DestinyCycle'' is a forum quest turned Xianxia web novel about Ling Qi, a teenage girl who is sent to her province's [[WizardingSchool Great Sect]] when her ability to hear spirits is discovered. While the usual fate for a commoner with talent is to join the army and eventually plateau in power, Ling Qi is determined to drive herself towards loftier goals.
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* ''Literature/DevilVenerableAlsoWantsToKnow'': Wenren È, the cold and pragmatic ruler of a demonic cultivation sect, discovers a trashy romance book that covers future events that are supposed to happen in the story he's living in -- with the unexpected and unwelcome twist that he's a side character in it who falls in love with the main heroine and ultimately dies saving her. He sets out to change events to make sure that he neither falls in love with the heroine nor dies and the members of his demonic sect, as well as quite a few righteous cultivators, also end up having ripple effects on the plot with their actions.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: A common mindset among both the righteous and demonic sects with non-cultivators. The writers of these stories sometimes suffer this as well, which is where you get the rampant cases of ProtagonistCenteredMorality in the less well written stories.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: A common mindset among both the righteous and demonic sects with non-cultivators. The writers of these stories sometimes suffer this as well, which is where you get the rampant cases of ProtagonistCenteredMorality in the less well written stories.
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* TheClan: The biggest power houses outside the sects are usually the wealthy cultivation clans.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: A very common attitude among cultivators, including the so-called "righteous" ones, is that the strong both can and ''should'' kill the weak, and that doing so is admirable.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: If a cultivator makes an oath by heart demon, it will create an EnemyWithin that will drive the cultivator mad if they break their promise, and potentially even damn their soul to eternal torment.
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* OrganTheft: In some settings, people are RandomlyGifted with one or more spirit roots/bones, supernatural organs that allow one to cultivate. If the setting isn't using the MasterOfNone rule, then it may be possible for thieves to steal types of roots they don't have from previously gifted cultivators.
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* OrganTheft: In some settings, people are RandomlyGifted with one or more spirit roots/bones, supernatural organs that allow one to cultivate. These organs may or may not be physical. If they ''are'' physical, and if the setting isn't using the MasterOfNone rule, then it may be possible for thieves to cut out and steal types of roots they don't have from previously gifted cultivators.
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* TheDarkArts: Demonic cultivation is usually this if it's not actually BlackMagic, because it's still a path to power through sanity-threatening means. To a lesser extent, in some settings, any kind of cultivation which doesn't come through orthodox paths is seen as unrighteous. Usually, this is because it allows the protagonist to gain power without going through the proper channels, which are dominated by the existing righteous sects.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Antagonists from righteous sects practically seem to get off on being the biggest hypocrites possible, declaring blatantly evil acts as enacting justice and using AsskickingLeadsToLeadership or LoopholeAbuse to get away with it
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Antagonists from righteous sects practically seem to get off on being the biggest hypocrites possible, declaring blatantly evil acts as enacting justice and using AsskickingLeadsToLeadership or LoopholeAbuse to get away with it it. It's also common for those righteous cultivators who preach AsskickingLeadsToLeadership to say NoFairCheating to someone who gained power through unapproved methods, even though the two tropes are pretty much diametrically opposed.
