Meng Chuan/Cultivation (2025)

Quintessence Cultivation[]

There are three types of Tribulation Eminence experts. 1 Body Cultivation. 2 Essence Soul. 3 Dual Cultivation. The Tribulation Eminence stage is divided into 9 levels with level 1 being the lowest and level 9 the highest. Every Star River System has at least one level 5 Tribulation Eminence expert while every Star region has a level 6 expert. Experts at level 7 are really rare and level 8 experts are nearly impossible to meet. Even meeting a level 7 Tribulation Eminence might not happen for most cultivators in their lifetime. After reaching Tribulation Eminence level 8 it`s mentioned that the practitioner is able to cross between different universes and travel to the future and past they are nearly immortal with a lifespan of billions of years. It's mentioned that there is no known person from Meng Chuan's universe who has ever reached Tribulation Eminence stage 9.

Half-step means one has grasped a corresponding Tribulation Law, but hasn't transcended the tribulation yet.

Dao/Law Level[]

After the Saber Dao realm it gets difficult to place chapter and age because Meng Chuan starts to learn different Skills/ Arts that progress at different speeds. This can be seen on how long he takes to be promoted to Creation and Imperial Lord cultivation realms despite having the Soul and Law qualifications. That stems from the fact that you have to choose one Law to be your main Body and True Essence Cultivation foundation that can't be changed afterwards.

- Every art starts from unity, and reaches Heaven-Earth if one is capable enough. This form of table is really crude, and there's Saber of Nirvana.

Once a technique reaches Heaven-Earth perfection, they are further improved and codified as 'Ordinal number' Tribulation Law

His paramount technique Infinite Saber Imperial Lord perfected Heaven-Earth technique is counted as a Fifth Tribulation Law. (Fact check this for me, new readers.)

Essence Soul Cultivation[]

From the third level of the Essence Soul, the Power of Essence Soul will become very potent. Previously, the first and second levels increased his control over his body and Quintessential Essence, allowing him to unleash greater strength. From the third level and onward, other than having finer control over his body and Quintessential Essence, the Power of Essence Soul alone could deal with enemies.

Even if one were a mortal with a weak body, if they had a third-level Essence Soul, they could easily kill a Great Solar Godfiend with the Power of Essence Soul.

According to the manual’s description, a third-level Essence Soul’s Power of Essence Soul alone has the strength of a weak Marquis Godfiend. A fifth-level Essence Soul’s Power of Essence Soul has the strength of a weak Regis Godfiend. A seventh-level Essence Soul’s Power of Essence Soul has the strength of a weak Creation realm expert. If one was strong in all aspects, like the physical body, Quintessential Essence, technique realm, and cultivation realm, they could unleash even more strength when working in concert with their Essence Soul.

The Nightroaming stage. According to the manuals, the first time one sends their Essence Soul outside their body, they will encounter a Wind Tribulation, This Wind Tribulation will make one’s body more resilient. Only when one can remain as stable as a rock while being buffeted by the wind, can one’s Essence Soul travel far away at night.

Only after attaining a fourth-level Essence Soul could one seal a portion of their Essence Soul into another person or object. Doing this required one to split a portion of their Essence Soul’s Origins. According to records, splitting the Essence Soul into nine was the normal limit. Within this limit, splitting one’s soul wouldn’t affect their intelligence and perception. If one split their Essence Soul into more than nine portions, their Essence Soul would be injured. With weakened intelligence and perception, one’s cultivation path would be much more difficult. Therefore, it was very rare for powerful Godfiends to cast an Essence Soul seal willingly. Once the Essence Soul seal was activated, it would be equivalent to an Essence Soul avatar. However, it would dissipate after a single use. Only after his Essence Soul reached the sixth stage—the Indestructible realm-could his Essence Soul avatars last for a long time. When his Essence Soul reached the seventh stage, he could have up to nine long-lasting Essence Soul avatars.

Possession could be done at the fifth level, but powerful Godfiends rarely used the ability. Firstly, one’s lifespan was linked to their Essence Soul! Even if one changed their body, they couldn’t escape their deaths when their lifespan came to an end. Secondly, if a body and Essence Soul weren’t completely compatible, it would affect one’s strength. Godfiends usually possessed other bodies because their bodies were destroyed or were unable to be saved. Thus, they were forced to possess another body.

One can create an Essence Soul Avatar at the sixth stage - Indestructible. Ultimately, an Essence Soul avatar only had a part of his Essence Soul. It wasn’t a complete lifeform. Although it could act independently, it still relied on his true body. Once it was destroyed, the dissipated Essence Soul would quickly return to his true body. Once his true body died, his Essence Soul avatar would die as well. The Essence Soul avatar could only stay in the same world as the true body. It couldn’t go to other worlds if Meng Chuan’s true body wasn’t there. A Corporeal Avatar was the only exception to this rule. An Imperial Lord could create a Corporeal Avatar. Once an Essence Soul avatar merged with the Corporeal Avatar, it would become a complete lifeform. When that happened, the avatar was no different from the true body.

A seventh-level Essence Soul had all sorts of magical powers. For example, the Essence Soul’s Origins—that was consumed by forming an Essence Soul seal—could be completely restored at the seventh level. Every Essence Soul avatar would have the combat strength of a Regis Godfiend despite only having a single Essence Soul mystic technique. As long as the main body didn’t die, the Essence Soul avatar could be restored after being destroyed.

After attaining an eighth-level Essence Soul, every single of one's Essence Souls avatar can travel very far away from the main body. It’s very easy to control them, even if they are separated by inhabited worlds and several river zones. With a seventh-level Essence Soul, one’s Essence Soul avatars couldn’t be too far away from their true body. In the outer realm, one’s Essence Soul avatars and true body had to be in the same river zone. In a world that supported life, one’s Essence Soul avatars and true body had to be in the same world. With an eighth-level Essence Soul, one’s Essence Soul avatars could roam freely. Furthermore, their Essence Soul avatars would also have an Essence Soul World.

An Essence Soul World can already affect the real world. It can absorb the outer realm essence energy and transform it into its own strength. One's Essence Soul avatars could roam the outer realm freely and absorb energy whenever it needed to. Therefore, Essence Soul Tribulation Eminences would typically have several Essence Soul avatars carrying out missions. When each Essence Soul avatar was equipped with a Tribulation treasure, their combat strength was on par with their true bodies. This was because most of an Essence Soul Tribulation Eminence’s strength came from their Essence Soul.

Cosmos Body Cultivation[]

The Body Cultivation gets a bit hard to follow after the Blood Droplet stage because of Meng Chuan's break through to the Creation Realm changes his physique and he has run out of the material he used in his previous Body Cultivation Art.

After he compressed the core in his dantian at Regis Godfiend, it became a black hole, which is called Chaos Hole in the novel. His body improved by using Primordial Stones and other ways. He didn't use cosmos stone to further himself in Cosmos Body Cultivation. Divine Powers are ultimately early manifestation of one's latent talent in a certain field. Even if he didn't improve his body through this cultivation system, his Dao improved to the point he no longer had any use. As I said it's just a representation of one's latent talent.