Void Refinement

Biodata

Power Progression

Realm Principles

Trials and Advancement

Void Refinement Three Disasters

Void Refinement refines the brilliance of Essence, Qi, and Spirit through the Three Disasters, or Three Calamities, of Wind, Thunder, and Fire. Passing them produces Three Flowers Gathered at the Crown, the mark of the realm’s extreme stage. 1027 1036

• Bixi Wind — the first disaster; it can corrode the physical body, meridians, acupoints, Dantian, Violet Palace, Sea of Consciousness, and True Spirit. 754
• Tribulation Thunder and Yin Fire — together with Bixi Wind, they can rot organs, shatter meridians and bones, disperse cultivation, and disintegrate a cultivator’s Dao Fruit. 811
• The Three Disasters are Dao Tribulations rather than ordinary Heavenly Tribulations; even veteran Void Refinement beings fear them. 811
• The Three Calamities normally arise at intervals of roughly a thousand years. Methods of avoiding calamity can delay them, but the entire sequence can span at most approximately six thousand years. 889
• The heart tribulations within the Three Calamities are as dangerous as their physical manifestations. Many otherwise exceptional cultivators lose their Dao Hearts and perish while crossing them. 889
• The Three Flowers represent the perfected essence, qi, and spirit of Void Refinement. The Five Qi Returning to the Origin belongs to the subsequent major attainment of a Cave Profound Dao Fruit. 1027

Cultivation Speed

Advancement depends on comprehending Great Dao Laws, deepening divine abilities and magic power, and accumulating sufficient Immortal Source. 717

• A normal Void Refinement cultivator may require several thousand years to advance one minor stage, while some make no progress for ten thousand years. 315
• Jiang Sheng is an exception: he reaches Middle Void Refinement roughly four hundred years after his breakthrough and is projected to reach the extreme realm after a further five hundred years. 717 891
• From initial breakthrough to the extreme of Void Refinement, even a Cave Profound cultivator ordinarily requires roughly three thousand years, while Cave Void and Cave Spirit cultivators may need seven or eight hundred years merely to establish themselves after ascending. 891
• The accumulation of Immortal Source is an essential part of every stage. Even profound comprehension and powerful divine abilities cannot replace the required accumulation. 717

Position in the Cultivation System

Combat Significance

• Dao Fruit quality can outweigh a difference in minor cultivation stages: Jiang Sheng’s Supreme Unity Cave True Dao Fruit surpasses True Lord Zhan Fa’s Supreme Unity Cave Spirit Dao Fruit despite Zhan Fa being in Middle Void Refinement. 554
• The difference between Cave Void, Cave Spirit, and Cave Profound Dao Fruits extends beyond mana and divine abilities to the cultivator’s True Spirit, Immortal Source, Dao Fruit, and fundamental essence. 753 889
• Jiang Sheng’s Bixi Wind forced the late-stage True Lord Qiyuan to retreat and deploy a defensive jade pendant. 754
• The aura of the Three Disasters carried by Jiang Sheng’s sword light deters Ghost Dao Void Refinement cultivators, who fear attracting further tribulations through contact. 651
• A Void Refinement cultivator can traverse the void and project power through the boundary between illusion and reality, making ordinary movement arts and mortal defensive methods largely irrelevant against them. 502
• Jiang Sheng’s battle with Qiyuan demonstrated that a middle-stage Void Refinement cultivator with a superior Cave Profound Dao Fruit could contend evenly with a late-stage opponent who had already formed the Three Flowers. 753
• The Three Flowers Gathered at the Crown mark the pinnacle of Void Refinement and can be attacked directly; destroying them can cripple or eliminate even a late-stage Cave Profound cultivator. 1027
• A Void Refinement cultivator’s destiny star manifests as a celestial body; after reaching Body Integration and gathering Three Flowers and Five Qi, it may become a bright moon. 936
• The full-body ascent of the Immortal Path gives a Void Refinement True Lord a major advantage over a Divine Path being of the same level whose physical form is incomplete. 473

Documented Practitioners

• Jiang Sheng / Ling Yuan / Yu Chen Daoist — A Penglai True Lord who attains the Supreme Unity Cave True Dao Fruit, later advances through Middle Void Refinement and reaches Body Integration. 467 753 1052
• Daoist Yuchen — Jiang Sheng’s avatar, who enters Void Refinement through his divine office and merit-based cultivation before Jiang Sheng’s true body breaks through. 449 451
• Fa Hui — One of the first contemporary Heaven’s Chosen of the Three Realms to enter Void Refinement; the Three Realms’ merger places severe new restrictions on his cultivation. 453
• Ye Wenshu — A contemporary pioneer of Void Refinement alongside Fa Hui; she also struggles under the increased pressure of the merged Three Realms. 453
• Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong — Void Refinement cultivators who participate with Jiang Sheng, Fa Hui, and Ye Wenshu in a Spell Duel Contest within a destroyed Small Thousand World. 564
• True Lord Qiyuan — A late-stage Void Refinement Cave Profound cultivator who had passed the Three Calamities and formed the Three Flowers Gathered at the Crown. 753 755
• Young Lord Xuanpeng — A pureblood Kunpeng cultivator in Middle Void Refinement. 732
• Zhong Yuxiu — A Void Refinement cultivator who restores his Three Flowers and reaches the extreme realm, remaining only one step from Body Integration. 787
• Young Lord Chi Peng — A late-stage Void Refinement Cave Profound Heavenly Demon who has formed the Three Flowers, before Jiang Sheng’s Heaven-Cutting Sword destroys his Dao Fruit. 810
• Xiao Xian / True Lord Yuanxian — A destiny’s chosen of Jiuzhou World who advances into Void Refinement under the protection of Great Vehicle Immortal Lord Wanxian and the Qiankun Dao Sect. 1067