The Physique (体) is one of the three main attributes of the Cultivation; every person is born with the Physique, Life Wheel and Fate Palace.[1]
The Physique directly affect person's physical strength and contains person's life force.[1][2]
The source of power for any Physique is the Inner Physique that exists inside the person's heart.[3]
Unlike the Fate Palace and the Life Wheel which cannot be changed after birth, the Physique of a person can be improved by using the appropriate Physique Merit Law.[2] Unfortunately, Physique Merit Laws are extremely rare, especially for Saint Physique and Immortal Physique. Even powerful Imperial Lineages are not guaranteed to have at least one such Merit Law.
The Physique Scripture, one of the Nine Grand Heavenly Scriptures, contains supreme Physique Merit Laws for every type of the Physique.
Levels[]
The Physique classified into the following levels:[4]
- Mortal Physique (凡体)
- Houtian Physique (后天之体)
- Xiantian Physique (先天之体)
- King Physique (皇体)
- Saint Physique (圣体)
- Immortal Physique (仙体)
Person can be born with any Physique from Mortal to Saint, but no one ever had a natural born Immortal Physique; it can only be cultivated from the lower levels.[5]
Limitations[]
Each Physique is limited within its branch and can be cultivated only from/into the corresponding Physique.[5]
For example, if someone is born with the Xiantian Physique, the Golden Savage Bull Physique, he can cultivate it into the King Physique, but only into the Tyrannical King Physique.
The Tyrannical King Physique in turn can be cultivated into the Saint Physique, but only into the Tyrannical Saint Physique.
Finally, the Tyrannical Saint Physique can be cultivated into the Immortal Physique, but only into the Furious Immortal Tyrannical Physique.
In other words, person with the Golden Savage Bull Physique can't cultivate it into, for example, the Solar Immortal Physique or the Hell Suppressing Deity Physique; he is confined within the branch of his Physique.
The only known exception to this rule is the Mortal Physique. It isn't a part of any branch, so it can be cultivated into any level and type of the Physique, from Houtian to Immortal, and only then it will be confined within its branch as any other Physique.[5]
Th Houtian Physique can't become a Xiantian to Immortal Physique, they are restricted in the Houtian Physique Level but it doesn't mean that having a Houtian Physique is weak. The Houtian Physique are the only type of physique that can evolve without a specific Physique Merit Law, they only need to nourish the physique with specific treasure or material but having a Physique Merit Law that correspond the physique can help in strenghtening or evolve the physique (Scarlet Refined Serpent Physique need a fire Physique Merit Law). (only a few rare physique doesn't need to evolve to become powerful or doesn't have an evolved physique, ex: Tyrannical Valley Immortal Sping Physique)
Types[]
Hardness | 金刚不灭仙体 or 金刚不灭体 Indestructible Diamond Immortal Physique |
金刚圣体 Diamond Saint Physique |
金刚皇体 Diamond King Physique |
1 |
2 | ||||
圣皇体
Sacred King Physique |
3 | |||
4 | ||||
怒仙霸体 Furious Immortal Tyrannical Physique |
霸圣体 Tyrannical Saint Physique |
霸王体 Tyrannical King Physique |
金蛮牛体 Golden Savage Bull Physique | |
霸体
Tyrannical Physique | ||||
狂怒体
Mad Furious Physique |
狂体
Mad Physique | |||
怒体
Furious Physique | ||||
Softness | 长生体 Eternal Physique |
3 | 5 | 9 |
10 | ||||
6 | 11 | |||
12 | ||||
圣泉体 Sacred Spring Physique |
圣露体
Sacred Nectar Physique |
甘露体
Sweet Nectar Physique |
13 | |
14 | ||||
春泉体
Vitality Spring Physique |
15 | |||
16 | ||||
Yin | 吞天魔体 Heaven Devourer Evil Physique |
魔天体 Heavenly Evil Physique |
吞天体
Heaven Devouring Physique |
吞噬体
Devouring Physique |
化骨体
Bone-Melting Physique | ||||
魔相体
Mutual Evil Physique |
小魔相体
Minor Mutual Evil Physique | |||
阴魔体
Yin Evil Physique | ||||
虚无体 Void Physique |
虚空体
Void Space Physique |
虚皇体
Void King Physique |
虚雾体
Void Mist Physique | |
虚光体
Bare Void Physique | ||||
空皇体
Space King Physique |
小空体
Minor Space Physique | |||
云空体
Cloud Space Physique | ||||
Yang | 昼天体 Solar Immortal Physique |
周天体 Sky Physique |
小周天体 Minor Sky Physique |
25 |
26 | ||||
相天体 Mutual Sky Physique |
27 | |||
28 | ||||
太阳体 Extreme Yang Physique |
纯阳体
Pure Yang Physique |
少阳体 Minor Yang Physique |
29 | |
30 | ||||
紫炎体
Purple Inflammation Physique |
炎体
Inflammation Physique | |||
紫焰体
Purple Flame Physique | ||||
Taint | 镇狱神体 Hell Suppressing Deity Physique |
镇狱体 Hell Suppressing Physique |
镇魔体 Devil Suppressing Physique |
镇凶体
Evil Suppressing Physique |
逐邪体
Evil Expelling Physique | ||||
神岳体 Deity Mountain Physique |
雄岳体 Mighty Mountain Physique | |||
万钧体
Myriad Tons Physique | ||||
破穹斧体 Sky Destroyer Immortal Physique |
崩天体
Sky-Collapsing Physique |
斧破体
Cleaving Axe Physique |
37 | |
38 | ||||
裂空体
Space-Splitting Physique |
39 | |||
40 | ||||
Pure | 无垢体 Void Imperfection Physique |
玉清体 Pure Jade Physique |
碧清皇体 Pure Crystal Physique |
清流体
Pure Stream Physique |
碧莲体
Jade Lotus Physique | ||||
净玉体 Substance Jade Physique |
净水体
Clear Water Physique | |||
白碧体
White Jade Physique | ||||
飞仙体 Soaring Immortal Physique |
飞升体 Ascension Physique |
龙腾体 Soaring Dragon Physique |
腾空体
Space-Soaring Physique | |
龙行体
Traveling Dragon Physique | ||||
祥云体
Auspicious Cloud Physique |
飞云体
Cloud-Soaring Physique | |||
翔松体
Free Flight Physique |
Inheritance[]
The Physique can be inherited from one's ancestor in a few different ways:
- If one has a Demon among ancestors it is likely to manifest in the form of the Houtian Physique. For example, Xu Hui's father was a Golden Hawk and Xu Hui was born with the Golden Hawk Physique, Huangfu Feng's ancestor was a Golden Bird and she was born with the Golden Bird Physique, etc.
- If one has an ancestor with the Immortal, Saint or King Physique it is possible to have a natural born Physique in the same branch of the same or lower level (except for the Immortal Physique). Entire Furious Immortal Saint Country is created around this fact. Its Progenitor cultivated the Furious Immortal Tyrannical Physique, so his descendants are often born with a Xiantian to Saint Physiques of its branch. Another example is Lion's Roar Heavenly King who was born with the Tyrannical Saint Physique, because his ancestor cultivated the Furious Immortal Tyrannical Physique.
- It is also possible to inherit the Houtian Physique. For example, Chen Baojiao inherited her ancestral grandmother's Tyrannical Valley Immortal Spring Physique after countless generations.
- The Physique of the ancestor can cause a "mutation" of one's Physique. For example, Su Yonghuang, is a descendant of Immortal Emperor Min Ren, who cultivated the Solar Immortal Physique. As such, she believed that she was born with the Minor Sky Physique, a King Physique from the Solar Immortal Physique's branch. But in reality, she was born with the Complete Yang Saint Physique, because one of her ancestors had a Heavenly Evil Physique and it affected her.[6]
Completion Levels[]
The Physique of a person can be cultivated to two levels:
Minor Completion (小成)[]
It is the first breakthrough in the realm of Physique and after it the body itself would have been successfully tempered,[7] but in order to achieve it one should endure a Physique Tribulation.[8] Those who reach minor completion at young age would have a greater chance of reaching Grand Completion in the future.[9]
Half Completion (中成)[]
This level is reached after surpassing one's Life Reduction, if prior to it the Physique is at Minor Completion. It isn't obligatory to go through this step due to isn't really a breakthrough in the realm of Physique, essentially it wouldn't have any major changes. The Physique will just became more powerful due to the rise in Blood Energy and a better foundation will be laid out for Grand Completion in the future. But for Immortal Physiques, this level is very important because only a Grand Completion Immortal Physique that went through the half completion step would be flawless and would be capable to assail an Immortal Emperor.[10]
Grand Completion (大成)[]
It is the last breakthrough in the realm of Physique and once achieved all Physique's power could be fully used. One need to be at least at the Virtuous Paragon level to survive the Physique Tribulation for the grand completion Immortal Physique. Many natural born Saint Physiques were able to cultivate their Physiques to grand completion extremely quickly, but in the end they die from the tribulation because their cultivation isn't enough.[11]
Multiple Physiques[]
Due to having only one body, it is normally impossible to cultivate more than one Physique. The only known method to do so is by using the One Thought Creating Myriad Physiques to create multiple inner physiques.[12]
Only two cultivators in the history were able to cultivate more than one Physique:
- Black Dragon King, who cultivated two Immortal Physiques to the Grand Completion.[12]
- Li Qiye, who currently cultivates four Immortal Physiques.
Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter #0002(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter #0029(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0086(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0017(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter #0036(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0095(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0322(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0224(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0317(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0907(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ Chapter #0612(WuxiaWorld)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter #0355(WuxiaWorld)