Above Pure Yang?!
Looking at the solemn Taiyin True Monarch hidden within his sea of consciousness, Jiang Sheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a laugh. "True Monarch, you truly think too highly of me."
"The Nine Realms of cultivation, with Dharma Image and Pure Yang included, amount to roughly fourteen realms and fifty-two stages. I have not even perfected the Integration Realm yet, so how could I speak of beyond Pure Yang?"
The Nine Realms of cultivation were divided into upper, middle, and lower, with three realms each. Every realm was further divided into four stages, making nine realms and thirty-six stages.
Between Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement, there was also Dharma Image. Dharma Image did not enter the ranks of immortals and gods, yet it transcended Spirit Transformation, so it was counted as a separate realm. Unlike the entry, middle, late, and extreme stages of other realms, Dharma Image was divided into four stages: yin, void, yang, and solid.
Beyond the Nine Realms of cultivation lay Pure Yang. Pure Yang great powers were further divided into the three realms of entering the Dao, holding the Dao, and wielding the Dao, for a total of twelve stages.
In the chaotic cosmos, across the myriad worlds and heavens, all immeasurable living beings—whether humans, gods, immortals, Buddhas, Nature Spirits, demons, or devils—were all within these fourteen realms and fifty-two stages.
Jiang Sheng was presently still in the Integration Realm. Of the Five Tribulations of Integration, he had only passed one. Though his cultivation rivaled that of a True Lord of Five Calamities, his realm remained Integration; he had yet to achieve Five Qi Converging at the Origin.
He was still two or three stages away from the Great Vehicle Realm, let alone Pure Yang, much less beyond