This is a further progression beyond Five Energies Converging at the Origin.
Five Energies Dividing (五行分元): The moment the senses of martial artists become sharp enough, they realize the difference between their mortal Qi and celestial Qi that cultivation requires is essentially nonexistent, they began to break down the mortal Qi into fragments of five elements of celestial Qi, hence giving them the method to start immortal cultivation.
Mortality Extrication (稅凡境): This stage takes the first steps to try and escape the grasps of death.
Mortal Vessel Reformation (凡体革新): Martial Artists realize their bodies are not built for immortal cultivation yet, hence they undergo another reformation. Stripping away all mortality aspects of an ordinary human, they transcend mortality (organs are extricated except heart and brain) and embark on the path of immortality .
- They create an artificial core/ vessel which acts as a Dantian alike the people born with it. They can configure it to their preferences.
- With mortality stripped away, martial artists at this stage can use their newly acquired celestial Qi to speed up healings, reforming their's body at will, and restoring lost limbs at remarkable speed. (Comparable to axolotl.)
- Physical body becomes flawless, with estimated lifespan to be 300+ years.
Dawn Heart Formation (黎明定心):"A true gentleman shall have a blazing heart, and a cooling mind." The hearts of martial artists compress and refined,it crystalize and become invulnerable to physical and chemical trauma, by replacing blood in their bloodstream with celestial Qi, martial artists further enhancing their physical prowess.
- After fully replacing blood with Qi, they no longer needed air to survive (though they needed celestial Qi instead), and no longer afraid of physical damages except decapitation.
- The heart now acts as a 2nd core, containing and refining celestial Qi (effectively triple the amount of celestial Qi one can receive).
Dusk Mind Formation (黄昏定精神): "One's mind shall stay cool, even amidst of the worst scenario." With "intent (意)" being honed to the extreme, by splitting and weaving strings of "intent" together, one could mimic the consciousness field of that immortal cultivators, effectively gaining prowess exclusive to that type of beings.
- By enlarging the "Intent Domain" (意念之区), martial artists can expand their zone of influence, by intensifying the "intent", they could effectively guarantee hits upon opponents in their domain (Though bigger domain would cause a bigger burden to one's mind, and effectiveness of influence would decrease relative to the size of said domain).
- By retract and compressing the intent domain, martial artists can use it to boost their defense and offense capability,accelerates their mind in the process.
Tri Heart Unity (三心统一): This stage embraces the harmony between the cores, unifying the cores to increase efficiency.
Night To Dawn (夜晚去黎明): Unifying the path between the "Dantian" and "Heart", remarkably improving physical senses.
Dawn To Dusk (黎明去黄昏): Unifying the path between "Heart" and "Mind", remarkably improving spiritual senses.
Dusk To Night (黄昏去夜晚): Unifying the path between "Mind" and "Dantian", allowing one to unlock the capability of multi-stream awareness, consciousness massively and enhanced.
- After grand perfection, all three cores now act as one.
- By connecting all three "core", martial artists enhance current capabilities further than before, while unlocking the capability of a supercomputer in terms of data processing and spatial awareness.
- All 3 stages can happen simultaneously, though the progress is exponentially slower.
Life and Death Transcendency (超越生死境): This stage focus on the physical mortality of human body, further extending lifespan.
"Heaven partials nobody, the path of immortality reserves no place for the weak."
Death Defying (不死): By channeling celestial Qi to nurture the body with sufficient density and purity, one can extend their lifespan with logarithmic gains, though their soul still deteriorates over time, limiting the lifespan to a certain degree.
- This procedure can start earlier if purity and density of celestial Qi is sufficient, lifespan gains is logarithmic, approximately 500 years.
Core Shattering And Return To Origin (碎丹还元):