Comment by Blackthorn_lp on Snake Immortal: The Tale of a Snake’s Cultivation to Immortality - Chapter 44

@Blackthorn_lp snakey's still at qi refinement stage which is only the 1st major cultivation realm. Foundation establishment is merely the 2nd major realm which means all their battles till now have been with weaklings. Godhood is nowhere in the equation currently.

@Manghuwa Thanks, could you tell me like a list, like: spiritual awareness, foundation establishment, perfected foundation establishment, etc. I wanna know how many major realms there are and I wanna know the smaller stages within them as well.

@Blackthorn_lp

I found this:

1. Body Refinement
2. Qi Gathering
3. Foundation Establishment
4. Golden Core
5. Nascent Soul
6. Soul Formation
7. Body Integration
8. Tribulation Transcendence
9. Enlightenment

So by this scale (if I got a valid / applicable one) we are at number 3, and I assume if you go further than stage nine you become a g**?

@Blackthorn_lp it really depends on the manhua. In some body refinement is the first stage and in others like this one qi refinement is the first. Most of them have manhayana realm or great ascension realm after which one becomes immortal. Immortals also have realms like the one you mensioned like erath immortal, heaven immortal etc most of which emd with immortal emperor, after which godhood comes.

@Blackthorn_lp   Yeah, in many cases, this is just the phases for the mortal realm, before ascension into the g** realms. And like Vishel pointed out, body refinement isn't always a phase, but then later around the foundation establishment, the MC starts hitting a bottleneck because he lacks a good body refining skill. There's also sometimes extra phases. Golden Core and Nascent Soul are considered big power-up phases, so there might be a crystalization phase after foundation establishment to prepare for Golden core, and a spirit refining phase to to prepare for Nascent soul phase.

@Jesse Dodd Interesting, thanks for telling me

@Vishal i think i read one where there was a heavenly realm and a heavenly dao realm, and them immortal realm?