True Immortal

Biodata

Power Progression

Lin Xiaoyao's True Immortal progression

Realm Characteristics

Ascension

A True Immortal is attained by overcoming the ascension tribulation after reaching the appropriate pre-immortal cultivation stage. This breakthrough is regarded as the divide between ordinary high-level cultivators and true immortals 12 144.

• The final step can trap even a pinnacle Loose Immortal for centuries; the Hundred Crafts Courtyard's sect master remained unable to cross it for eight hundred years 139.
• The gap between Tribulation Transcendence and True Immortal is described as the difference between heaven and earth 144.
• Lin Xiaoyao is an exception: his Saint Fruit Position leaves him without cultivation bottlenecks, allowing him to ascend once his magical power is sufficient 144.

Layers and combat power

The realm contains at least nine layers followed by Great Perfection 201.

• Each minor advancement represents a qualitative increase in power; an ordinary second-layer True Immortal can defeat ten first-layer True Immortals with ease 144.
• The fourth layer is identified as the mid-stage of the realm 168.
• Ordinary True Immortals may require tens of thousands of years to advance a single layer 189.
• A cultivator can temporarily force their realm upward through rare treasures, but this does not necessarily grant the experience or foundation of a long-established immortal 140 141.

Limits

True Immortals are formidable, but they are not the pinnacle of cultivation.

• Moving an entire spirit vein without harming its spirituality is considered beyond even a True Immortal 108.
• Artificially controlling the concentration and distribution of a spirit vein's spiritual energy is likewise believed to exceed True Immortal capabilities 110.
• True Immortal is surpassed by the Golden Immortal realm 201.

Temporary True Immortal Ascension

• One-Day Immortality Pill — Grants the cultivation of a True Immortal for twelve hours 76.
• Su Zhiyan — After taking the pill, she temporarily rises from Spirit Transformation to the peak of the first True Immortal layer; her perfect spirit root lets her surpass the newly ascended Hundred Crafts Courtyard sect master 140 141.
• Ephemeral Bloom — Raises the Water Spirit Sect master from the second to the fourth True Immortal layer for a short period 167 168.

Known True Immortals

• Lin Xiaoyao — Formally ascends in Chapter 144 and rapidly progresses from the first layer to Golden Immortal through rare immortal treasures and sign-in rewards 144 153 188 189 201.
• Su Zhiyan — Temporarily becomes a peak first-layer True Immortal through the One-Day Immortality Pill 140 141.
• Hundred Crafts Courtyard Sect Master — Breaks an eight-hundred-year bottleneck to become a True Immortal, only to be killed by Su Zhiyan shortly afterward 139 140.
• Chasing Clouds True Person — A True Immortal slain by Lin Xiaoyao in a single move 152.
• Water Spirit Sect Master — A second-layer True Immortal who temporarily reaches the fourth layer using Ephemeral Bloom 166 167.

Reputation and Misidentification

The title “True Immortal” is often used by cultivators as a measure for powers they cannot explain, rather than as a confirmed assessment of cultivation.

• Lin Xiaoyao's remote sword attacks and extraordinary treasures lead many witnesses to assume that their hidden master must be a True Immortal 38 42.
• Before Lin Xiaoyao's actual ascension, Cloud Province already regarded the anonymous cultivator who crushed the Heavenly Demon Sect's Supreme Elder as a True Immortal 130 144.
• The Feathering Sect's Heaven-and-Earth Grand Formation can bar all cultivators below True Immortal; at the time it is deployed, Cloud Continent has no confirmed True Immortals capable of forcing through it 143.