Profound Martial Realm

Biodata

Power Progression

Documented advancements by Lin Chen within the realm:

Cultivation

Entering the realm

• A tenth-level Spirit Martial cultivator must liquefy the spiritual power in their Qi Sea to form True Essence. Loss of control can cause severe injury or damage the Qi Sea and cripple the cultivator’s foundation 27.
• Lin Chen used his Sword Intent as a stable furnace for the conversion. His panel showed a 100% breakthrough chance before he began; refining the first drop took a full day and night 27.
• A Profound Breakthrough Pill can raise a tenth-level Spirit Martial cultivator’s chance of reaching the realm by more than 20 percentage points 14.

Cultivating within the realm

• Lin Chen’s first-to-second-stage advancement required 5,000 experience points. Without a cultivation art suited to the realm, his system would permit advancement only at twice the usual experience cost 28 36.
• The Three Revolutions Profound Origin Art purifies and strengthens True Essence. Its practitioner must complete the first revolution before reaching the fourth level, the second before the seventh, and the third before the tenth 36.
• Each completed revolution increases the amount, purity, and recovery speed of True Essence. The three revolutions respectively add five, ten, and fifteen percentage points to the chance of entering the Earth Martial Realm; Lin Chen completed the second by the sixth level and the third before reaching the ninth 36 55 75 78.
• At the tenth level, Lin Chen could no longer advance within the realm. His panel attributed his initial 63% chance of entering the Earth Martial Realm to martial aptitude, the completed Three Revolutions Profound Origin Art, and 40% Sword Intent. Failure would damage his foundation and prevent another attempt for ten years; an Azure Origin Fruit subsequently raised his displayed chance to 79% 85 89.
• Breaking through to the Earth Martial Realm requires a cultivator to form a Martial Dao Bridge from their accumulated foundations, cross a chasm to the Martial Dao Divine Mountain, and temper their True Essence with its Earthfire 89 90.

Defining Traits

True Essence and spiritual sense

• True Essence is the refined, liquid form of a Spirit Martial cultivator’s spiritual power 27 28.
• Entering the realm strengthens the soul and expands spiritual sense. Immediately after his breakthrough, Lin Chen could perceive subtle activity within roughly 100 meters 28.
• The gap from Spirit Martial is substantial: Lin Chen’s True Essence-powered flying sword overcame the Golden Bell Shield of Li Yuan, a tenth-level Spirit Martial cultivator, despite Li Yuan’s full resistance 30.
• Lin Chen’s True Essence lake more than doubled in size when he reached the tenth level, and its contents became thicker and more condensed. During his subsequent Earth Martial breakthrough, Earthfire purified that True Essence and reduced the lake to less than a tenth of its former size before he replenished it 85 90.

Martial Dao True Intent

• Cultivators generally begin comprehending Martial Dao True Intent after entering the Profound Martial Realm. Lin Chen was an exception, attaining 10% Sword Intent while still in the Spirit Martial Realm with help from a Sword Diagram 21 42.
• Comprehension becomes progressively harder. Lin Chen understood 30% True Intent to be an effective limit for ordinary cultivators in this realm, while 40% marked the attainment of exceptional disciples of major powers 42.
• Lin Chen reached 20% Sword Intent while at the second level, 30% before entering Cloud Dream Marsh, and 40% by the ninth level. His panel later credited that 40% comprehension with twelve percentage points toward his Earth Martial breakthrough chance 40 42 63 78 85.

Standing

• No Profound Martial cultivator had appeared in Kaiyang City before Lin Chen’s breakthrough. His advancement overturned the balance between its Lin and Li families and led to the Li Family’s submission 3 28 30.
• In the stronger Yunlan region, Profound Martial cultivators remain respected elites, though Earth Martial cultivators are the region’s overlords 32.
• The Cloud Province Rising Stars Ranking assesses Profound Martial cultivators under eighty. At the time Lin Chen researched it, even its lowest-ranked entrant had reached at least the fifth level 33.
• Lin Chen later rose to third on the Cloud Province Rising Stars Ranking while at the ninth level. Its first-ranked cultivator, Xiao Wangsheng, had reached the tenth level 77 78.
• Lin Chen’s mother subsequently reached the Profound Martial Realm on her second breakthrough attempt, further strengthening the Lin Residence 78.