Cultivation

In this world, every living being in this world is made up of a body and a soul. Tempering the body is something anyone knows, but even they can only become ordinary martial artists in the end. There are some that can hone their souls and empower their soulforce. By using the soul to control the body, they can push their bodies to their limits. Some become able to use even the elements of the world and unleash a force unimaginable. These people who can train the soul are called soul cultivators.

Based on the power of the soulforce, soul cultivators are split into nine different stages: Soul Apprentice, Soul Personage, Soul Warrior, Soul Sprite, Soul Ancestor, Soul Exalt, Soul King, Soul Emperor, and Soul Saint. Each stage is then split into three substages: early-stage, middle-stage, and late-stage.

The first three stages of soul cultivators are: Soul Apprentice, Soul Personage and Soul Warrior. They are also called the Three Stages of Body Control: the Soul Apprentice stage — controls the skin and flesh; the Soul Personage stage — controls the bones and blood; the Soul Warrior stage — controls the acupoints.

The next three stages, Soul Sprite, Soul Ancestor and Soul Exalt, involve controlling the natural elements. Elemental forces are the forces of the elements in nature. Among them, the five elements, namely Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, plus Wind and Lightning are the most commonly seen properties of elemental forces. The other elements, such as ice, cursing, space, and even the fate are also elemental forces.

Essence Seed
The Essence Seed is what a Soul Cultivator is able to form instinctively when they attain the Soul Sprite Stage. The element of the Essence Seed is determined by the elemental affinity of the cultivator, with most only having one.

It is said that a person can only have one of each type of Essence Seed and the others from the same type can only:
 * Be absorbed by the first Essence Seed
 * Destroy each other with the First Essence Seed
 * Become a Companion Seed (incomplete Essence Seed).

By having a Companion Seed of the same type (or another element that compliments it), the Main Essence Seed is strengthened by the Companion Seed. The most famous person to have Companion Seed was Wu Tianhun, the Tianhun Empire's Founder, who was said to have 5 Companion Seeds. It's believed that having a Second Essence Seed of the same type is impossible, but if it was possible then the Soul Cultivator would be a lot stronger then someone with Companion Seed.