Heaven and Earth

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Heaven and Earth
Original Name	天地
Nature	The encompassing natural world, including the sky, land, mountains, rivers, celestial bodies, and myriad things 37.
Spiritual Property	Possesses spirit and can serve as a source of Soul Inheritance 37.
Role	Source of cultivation energy, soul power, and the power drawn through Immortal Transformation 33 37 278.
Associated Cultivator	Li Hao, who establishes his soul through Heaven and Earth and develops several methods based on communion with them 37 186 372.

Power Progression

Li Hao’s Heaven-and-Earth Cultivation

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Heaven and Earth Soul Inheritance	37	Enters the Soul Succession Realm by recognizing himself as the form through which Heaven and Earth are reflected, rather than overcoming their weight through strength alone.
Land Immortal realm	147 148	Grasps the shared “breath of heaven and earth,” exchanges his qi with the world, and obtains immortal qi. Reaches the Grandmaster limit and borrows environmental power without storing it as his own.
Heaven and Earth Meridian	186	Unites 108 great meridians with the Yin Yang Dual Meridians, attaining the Circulation Realm’s extreme state. The surrounding world becomes an extension of his body.
Dharma Form: 361 soul condensations	203	During the Mo River events, ancestral refinement raises his previous 360 condensations to 361, proving that the recognized extreme realm is only a “Starting Extreme Realm.”
Heavenly Venerable insight	299	Through Ultimate Transformation to Immortality, senses Heaven’s Will and recognizes a higher possibility: wielding Heaven and Earth as a whole, rather than merely drawing their power.
Second Final Realm / All Heavens Star Meridian	357	Uses Immortal Transformation to pass through the Heavenly Curtain as consciousness. Establishes 370 external meridians: 368 anchored to stars’ laws, plus two connected to the sun and moon.
Law, Heaven and Earth	372	Tempers his physical body into a miniature Heaven and Earth, allowing Sacred Dao and incense power to coexist without mutual suppression. His strength nearly doubles.
All Heavens Star Meridian: 837 meridians	373	Continues expanding his celestial meridian network while traveling through Small Worlds.
All Heavens Star Meridian: 1,100 meridians	381	Further develops the network over half a month of cultivation.
Second Final Realm: 1,464 stars	390	Draws on all 1,464 stars during his battle with the Primal Chaos Saint, producing a Supreme Saint-level sword strike.
Embryonic All Saints Heaven and Earth Dharma Form	559	Manifests a form surrounded by saintly phantoms. Although incomplete, it exceeds an ordinary Heaven and Earth Dharma Form’s might by more than tenfold.
Heaven and Earth Immortal Body	600	Completes its construction through twelfth-stage Chess Dao attainment. His immortal power also incorporates Primordial Spirit power, enabling spiritual attacks through his killing moves.
King’s path authority	656	Rejects the Heavenly Heart’s binding mandate but nevertheless receives authority from the Heavenly Dao to command the myriad Daos directly.
Heaven and Man Final Realm	671	Merges with the Heavenly Venerable’s shell through the Void Piercing State of Mind, gaining the ability to sharply weaken attacks based on Dao power.

Nature and Cosmology

• No single fixed form: The sky, clouds, mountains, rivers, and land are parts of Heaven and Earth, but none represents their entirety. Li Hao’s Soul Inheritance succeeds when he understands himself as their reflected form 37.
• Unity beneath diversity: Li Hao comprehends all things as expressions of a single breath. This insight underlies both immortal qi and his later integration of different paths to sainthood 147 372.
• Origin in chaos: The Heavenly Heart shows Li Hao visions of chaos dividing and Heaven and Earth first emerging 655.
• A constructed celestial layer: Beyond the Heavenly Curtain, Li Hao discovers that the stars he examines are painted constructs formed from concentrated laws. The sun and moon are genuine celestial bodies containing profound laws of their own 357.
• Eventual decline: According to the Source Ancestor, the sun, moon, stars, and world all gradually decline. Passing Heavenly Tribulation allows cultivators to perceive this deterioration 371.
• Dao imprints can persist: An Immortal Deity’s cultivation phantom and lingering Dao Resonance shape a mountain’s lethal lightning and tribulation fire long after the deity’s presence 390.

Cultivation Applications

Soul Inheritance

Heaven and Earth can impart Soul Inheritance just as humans, monsters, and other races can. The burden differs according to the source 37.

Inheritance Source	Required Burden
Human	Carry on the person’s will 37.
Monster	Carry on the creature’s nature 37.
Heaven and Earth	Bear their immense weight 37.

• Li Hao initially experiences crushing pressure that bends his body and drives his feet into the floor. Even nearly ten million jin of strength cannot resolve the inheritance through force alone 37.
• His breakthrough depends on understanding the relationship between himself and the world; a phantom bearing his own likeness appears as his essence, energy, and spirit condense 37.
• Heaven and Earth Soul Inheritance must be undertaken at the Soul Succession Realm to obtain the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form extreme realm. Unlike certain other extreme realms, it cannot simply be revisited at a higher cultivation stage 278.

Heaven and Earth Dharma Form

The Heaven and Earth Dharma Form is the Soul Succession Realm’s extreme-realm manifestation, conventionally associated with 360 soul condensations 235 333 389.

• Li Hao’s manifestation: Bears his face and blue robes and stands over a hundred zhang tall when first fully revealed against Li Tiangang 109.
• Greater soul capacity: Ji Family prodigies inheriting their founding Sage’s soul are limited to 270 condensations—the capacity of that Sage’s Soul Avatar. Inheriting Heaven and Earth permits the 360-condensation extreme realm 235.
• Power amplification: Draws on additional power and produces several times greater combat strength when combined with the Heaven and Earth Meridian 203.
• Containment: Helps Li Hao contain a nearly fatal surge of Heaven and Earth power during his fight with Ji Xuanshen 235.
• Limits: Phoenix true fire distorts the form during the battle with Lord Fengshan, forcing Li Hao to recall it 163.
• Higher-realm prevalence: Most tenth-layer True Immortal cultivators possess a Heaven and Earth Dharma Form; its amplification grows more formidable with cultivation 450.

Heaven and Earth Meridian

The Heaven and Earth Meridian is the Circulation Realm’s extreme state, formed by merging the 108 great meridians with the special Yin Yang Dual Meridians 186 389.

• Connects the cultivator directly to surrounding power, making Heaven and Earth function as extensions of the body 186.
• Accelerates Li Hao’s body refinement and raises the threshold at which Immortal Transformation becomes dangerous 186.
• Requires a sufficiently broad collection of meridian-opening methods. Even elders of smaller tribes may fail to form it after centuries of cultivation 234.
• Its later development, the All Heavens Star Meridian, anchors external qi meridians in celestial laws. These anchors require little personal energy to maintain and are exceptionally difficult to sever 357.

Immortal Qi and Immortal Transformation

At the Land Immortal limit, Li Hao stops treating environmental power as something to possess. He leaves it within Heaven and Earth and borrows it when needed 148.

• Energy supply: Immortal Transformation merges him with the world, continually drawing in power beyond his original reserves rather than merely restoring exhausted strength 278.
• Attack reinforcement: Immortal qi draws surrounding power into his body and sword; the Dragon Soul within Dragon Sky Sword can absorb that power as well 150.
• Damage distribution: Ultimate Transformation to Immortality lets him channel much of incoming Dao Arts’ destructive force into the surrounding Heaven and Earth 299.
• Blood-Drop Rebirth: Lodging consciousness within Heaven and Earth through Immortal Transformation provides one route to this survival ability. An alternative is lodging consciousness within a Sage’s Sacred Dao 365.
• Risk to identity: Drawing too deeply on the world strains Li Hao’s body and threatens to dissolve his consciousness 299.

Law, Heaven and Earth

Law, Heaven and Earth transforms Li Hao’s physical body, rather than merely manifesting a soul avatar. Witnesses initially mistake his enormous body for a Dharma Form, then recognize that it is real 372.

• Recreates Heaven and Earth on a bodily scale through expansion and tempering 372.
• Uses the insight that all things arise from one breath to accommodate otherwise conflicting sacred powers 372.
• Solves the mutual suppression between Li Hao’s Sacred Dao and incense power, which the Source Ancestor’s separating seals could only manage hierarchically 372.
• Establishes the means to integrate all three paths to sainthood; their powers subsequently merge after Li Hao attains Ultimate Dao sainthood 372 373.

Energy and Spatial Limits

Property	Documented Rule
Body-tempering requirements	Ordinary Heaven and Earth energy cannot satisfy the external prerequisites of certain fourth-level supreme body-tempering arts 33.
Power quality	Natural Heaven and Earth power is compared to water, while Dao power is compared to solid stone. The qualitative difference makes higher-realm opponents difficult to injure 278.
Energy availability	The Abyss lacks Heaven and Earth power. Li Hao compensates by converting the Demon Sage’s blood into usable power through the Spirit Offering True Devil Art 247.
Disruption of access	Li Hao’s Limitless-Destiny strike prevents the Divine Venerable from drawing power from the surrounding world 648.
Heaven and Earth Space	Dao Heart cultivators can tear open the void to create a personal space. Such spaces can also be sealed inside treasures, as with the Universe Jade Belt 224 246.
Nested spaces	One Heaven and Earth Space cannot be placed inside another; their spaces resist overlapping 246.

Connection to Sainthood

• Spiritual foundation: Heaven and Earth Soul Inheritance is described as essentially a standard prerequisite for becoming a Sage. Possessing its Dharma Form indicates the potential for sainthood 320.
• Restricted alternative: Without a Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, an incense-based Sage can bear only two sticks of incense and remains confined to the Saint Realm’s first stage 320.
• Heaven-grade Dao Heart: Standing shoulder to shoulder with Heaven and Earth and pursuing the eternal Immortal Dao is associated with a heaven-grade Dao Heart 425.
• World creation: Immortal King World Domains can contain seas of life, races, tribal communities, and dynasties. Their true foundation lies in the World Heart, rather than merely the domain’s outer structure 633 634.

Heaven’s Will and the Heavenly Heart

Borrowing Power versus Commanding It

• Li Hao encounters a vast, emotionless Heaven’s Will when reaching farther into Heaven and Earth through Ultimate Transformation to Immortality 299.
• He borrows a fragment of Heavenly Venerable Will to retaliate against the Void Saint’s will at the Immortal Gate 311.
• Supreme Saints can borrow Heaven’s Will. Li Hao distinguishes this from the commanding power associated with his prospective sixth final realm, which he has not yet completely mastered 372.
• Heavenly Dao order also constrains interference with time: it disperses the Supreme’s hostile Emperor’s Might when Li Hao searches upstream through the River of Time 712.

The Heavenly Heart Trial

At the Heavenly Path’s summit, Li Hao encounters a will offering him emperor-level power, a lifespan equal to Heaven and Earth, and the status of Son of Heaven. Acceptance would bind him to the Heavenly Dao’s mission of delivering all living beings 655.

Li Hao rejects the binding terms rather than the responsibility of helping others. He insists that salvation cannot be forced and that his own heart must define his Dao. The Heavenly Dao responds with overwhelming pressure, then withdraws it and unexpectedly grants him king’s path authority 655 656.

• Li Hao’s reward: The right to command the myriad Daos directly, despite not completing the Heavenly Heart trial 656.
• Unresolved intention: Li Hao cannot explain why the Heavenly Dao rewards his refusal 656.
• Contrasting outcome: The Black-robed Youth accepts the opportunity, proves the Heavenly Heart, and is carried away with the Heavenly Path 656.

Notable Quotes

“I will establish my soul through heaven and earth!”
— Li Hao 37

“All things in heaven and earth can merge because all things in heaven and earth are but a single breath!”
— Li Hao 372

“If heaven follows me, I will affirm the Heavenly Heart. If heaven does not, I will follow my own heart!”
— Li Hao 655