Chapter 82: Awakening

There was five Cultivation realms accessible for the people of Qing Empire. Starting with the Body Strengthening Realm, Qi Refining Realm, Foundation Realm, Core Formation Realm and finally the Nascent Soul Realm.

There were more realms but because of the unique environment and geography of Qing Empire, one had to cross the Hollow Mountains if they wanted to gain access to higher realms.

Xiao Lan had attained great divine realms, but she had still started from the bottom once. After all, no matter the place, a Cultivator had to start from the bottom and rise through the realms. Granted that mortal realms could be attained very easily in the Divine Realm, one still has to go through them.

That's why Xiao Lan already had experience in awakening as a Cultivator. It was actually very simple but time consuming for the people with less talent.

The awakening was a simple process. All she had to do was attain the First Rank of Body Strengthening Realm, which was also basically the Realm on which everyone started their journey.

The Five Cultivation Realms were further classified into Ranks and every Realm had Nine Ranks in them. The Major Realms could also classified into Stages which involved each Stage having three Ranks.

For Example, the First to Third Ranks of the Body Strengthening Realm would be said to be the Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm, with the Fourth to Sixth ranks as the Mid-Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm. Likewise, the Seventh to Ninth Rank were Late-Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm.

This classification was done because of the difference between each Rank and Stage. While ranks didn't have that much of a difference while advancing, attaining a new Stage gave the cultivators newfound powers. The difference in each Stage was huge and a Mid-Stage could easily defeat someone of Early-stage.

There was also the so called peak of every Realm. It was also the Ninth Rank of a realm and one only attains peak of a realm when they were very close to ascending to next Realm. It basically meant that the person was invincible in their Realm.

But that wasn't it. Qi was very peaceful in nature but if someone tried to use it, it gets violent. It was a universal fact as the Qi belonged to Heaven and and Earth, and taking the Qi basically meant that they were taking things of Heavens. That's why the Cultivation was also called going against heaven.

Because of all this, one had to tame the violent Qi before absorbing it in and then control it until they make it theirs. Only when the Qi had become a part of their body could they relax.

That was also one of the problems while awakening, as the person would have to struggle against the violent Qi and tame it before taking it in.

Xiao Lan didn't have that problem, as the Qi in the Divine Harem Sect was tamed already and even seemed happy to be used by her. She knew about this even before because Ying Yue had told her.

Having a smile on her face, Xiao Lan sucked in the mist greedily as a small vortex formed around her, sucking the surroundings Qi Mist but even with that, the mist was dense as ever.

Feeling that it was enough for the starting, Xiao Lan stopped the absorption of Qi. Then, she took a few moments as she felt the Qi Mist roaming inside her body like an excited child. It explored all the parts, making them even stronger.

She nodded and then went through the Cultivation Manual Li Xue had given her which she would use as her foundation. It was a domineering Cultivation Manual which used the Ancestral Phoenix Flames she had in her soul as base.

She sucked a cold breath as she remembered its name.

'Primordial Nine-Coloured Phoenix Flames'