Nascent Soul Realm

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Position in the Cultivation System

• Nascent Soul is the fourth realm in the documented sequence: Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Return, Body Integration, Tribulation Transcendence, and Mahayana 4.
• Magical treasures and medicinal pills are graded from first to ninth, corresponding in order to the cultivation realms from Qi Refinement through Mahayana; Nascent Soul therefore corresponds to fourth-grade items 7.
• Peak Nascent Soul is one step short of Spirit Transformation 15.

Capabilities

• An Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivator can live for up to one thousand years 7.
• The System's description of Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivation states that flying by escape light and tearing through the void to teleport are achievable 7.
• Regenerating severed meridians requires at least Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation cultivation 65.
• Fire Maple Mountain's gatekeeping disciples regard appearing out of thin air as evidence that someone is at least a Nascent Soul cultivator 10.

Recorded Limitations

• A Nascent Soul cultivator remains vastly outmatched by Void Immortal-level opponents: the Nascent Soul Blood Refining Ancestor was terrified when confronted with nine Void Immortal flood dragons 16.
• A Void Immortal Li Zhōujūn subdued an evil Nascent Soul female soul cultivator through his Spiritual Sense 75.
• Several Nascent Soul cultivators in seclusion were unable to resist the phoenix-eyed man's blood-essence extraction; their stronger divine souls only prolonged their awareness of the attack 123.

Known Practitioners

• Li Zhōujūn — Received Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivation as a System reward after exchanging blows with Murong Xue 7.
• Blood Refining Ancestor — A Peak Nascent Soul cultivator, described as one step from Spirit Transformation 15 16.
• Unnamed female soul cultivator — An evil-soul practitioner at the Nascent Soul Realm who had been sealed beneath a hill in Qingzhou 75.
• Fu Hao — One of the only two Nascent Soul cultivators on Yunju Mountain during Li Zhōujūn's century-long seclusion 149.
• Su Yuhai — Fu Hao's cultivation partner and the other Nascent Soul cultivator on Yunju Mountain at that time 149.