
Levels of Warrior Power
Body Forging Realm / Mortal Body Realm (10 Levels)
Warriors take in the natural energy of the world to strengthen their bodies. Nature all around is their nourishment, the sun is their driver and the stars are their future. The vastness of natural energy encompasses everything from elemental energy to solar energy, astral energy, lunar energy, and even the energy from living breathing things. The first step for any warrior is forging their Mortal Body through the following stages:
1. Entry Level
2. Muscle Quenching
3. Skin Hardening
4. Bone Forging
5. Tendon Strengthening
6. Blood Boiling
7. Organ Quenching
8. Perception Domain
9. Spirit Sense Awakening
10. Apex Level
Spirit Sense Realm / Soul Sense Novice Realms (10 levels)
After a warrior reaches the 9th level of Mortal Body Realm, they undergo spiritual awakening. This allows them to sense their soul, strengthen it and harness spiritual energy for their use. The levels are:
1. Spirit sense awakening - Sensing the Soul and developing spirit sense: the 7th Sense
2. Spirit energy sensing and absorption
3. Spirit energy circulation
4. Spirit energy channeling
5. Spirit energy shrouding
6. Spirit energy shaping
7. Spirit energy expulsion
8. Spirit energy imbuement (external objects such as weapons)
9. Spirit energy external manipulation
10. Spirit energy retrieval
Psychic World
Some special individuals are born with unique abilities pertaining to the mind. They are collectively called psychics. Unlike them, the ordinary man has to go to great lengths to train and harness the power of their own minds. They have to have at least reached the 8th level of Mortal Body Realm. Training the psyche is molding the world. This 'Psychic World' is categorized as such:
- Psychic Accumulation
- Splitting Thought
- Mind and Body as one
- Minor Telekinesis - application of psychic energy
- Major Telekinesis
- Heart Fruit, Thought Fruit and Will Fruit: mental power in illusionary form that can be controlled and affect the heart, will and ones future thoughts.
- World Mind
- Eternal Mind
Training the psyche is NOT a linear process so there are no hard-set stages just different paths and categories of mental power.
Magician Ranks
Unlike the powers that come with the 3 core aspects of living beings: Body, Mind, Spirit; Magic is an external power to humans. It is a power from a higher magical plane. Magicians can be categorized as follows:
1. Magic Pupil
2. Magic Student
3. Magic Teacher
4. Magic Master
5. Magic Grandmaster
6. Magic Sovereign
7. Magic Sage
8. Magic Saint
9. Magic God
There are 13 ranks of magic spells. Rank 1 to Rank 9 spells correspond with the 9 ranks of magicians.
Rank 10 spells are labeled as Forbidden spells as they usually come with a price.
Rank 11 spells are called Unique spells as they are unique for every spell-caster with only a few talented magicians inheriting this power and some talented Magic Gods creating their own Rank 11 spells.
The amount of magical power one can harness and use decides ones rank and the strength of spells they can use.
This means that a magician can use spells above their titled rank as long as they have enough magical energy.
A magician's title usually depends on their magical knowledge and skill with their magical capacity coming last.
Tbh I don't think I'll read your novel as it seems to be more focused on his relationships than on his journey, but I have to say your power system is well thought out and sparked my interest in a novel I wouldn't even have considered before (again, because of personal preferences).
I have tried some worldbuilding of my own lately because of my frustration for similar and loose power systems out there, but works like yours are what are holding me back (because I read them xd).
So instead of it being like Rank 1-7 (or so) with early, middle, high, and peak (and half step >.>) of each stage, you have it mostly split up into one big set with smaller stages in the middle? Kind of interesting…and should reduce the silliness of there being tons of "half-step X realm" people that are supposed to be nearly to the next level and being above the peak of whatever stage their leaving. Not that those kinds of people existing is odd, just that it seems to pop up so often in xianxia stories
Also interesting that they have to do a significant amount of body cultivation before they can start spiritual cultivation