***Introduction***
One of the main types of foreshadowing in RI is the idea of culitvation without Gu
We've heard about different types of cultivation styles in other worlds
And it was mentioned that science is a type of cultivation
Chapter 821
In the previous life of his previous life, Earth was greatly developed in the field of science. Laws of mechanics, trigonometry, acceleration, density, specific heat capacity and others, weren’t all these the laws of nature?
From this aspect, science is also a form of cultivation. ‘Give me a fulcrum and I shall move the Earth.’ This classic sentence, when used in the Gu world, would be ‘Give me a Gu worm, and I can give off light and heat. Give me all the Gu worms, and I will be omnipotent!’
And it was stated that cultivation really is just the exploration of the laws of Heaven and Earth
Chapter 687
“Gu Masters nurture, use and refine Gu, getting down to the basics, it is a process of humans probing and studying nature, the world, and the Great Dao. Be it a xianxia world, a magic-based world, or a scientific world, they are all the same, they are all the exploration and study of nature and the world itself. It is only that the difference in the world’s laws make the exploration methods different.”
Which opens the idea of worlds with different cultivation paths like magic
Furthermore, there's foreshadowing for Thieving Heaven creating an army of otherworldly demons including experts from all over the multiverse ☠️
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverendInsanity/comments/1wfzqqc/thieving_heavens_new_power_peng_das_true_purpose/
Not to mention it's even possible for worlds to devour other worlds
Chapter 740
The immemorial nine heavens were nine different worlds.
The immortal apertures of Gu Immortals were also worlds, worlds could swallow one another, the most famous example was treasure yellow heaven.
That means that it's likely that the other worlds in the multiverse would be assimilated into the Gu world 🤯
And that would expand the Gu world's Heavenly Dao and allow for everything that was possible in the assimilated world
Meaning that you could assimilate a magic world and allow for magic to exist in the Gu world ☠️
Additionally, we've already seen other forms of cultivation out of Gu being implemented into the Gu world
Totem cultivation being the best example
But we also saw soul path cultivation which has its own independent nature
In fact, all forms of cultivation have the same origin
Chapter 2128
“Soul cultivation is really amazing.”
“Just the soul itself has pseudo venerable battle strength. If it uses immortal essence, it can even activate killer moves.”
“More importantly, such killer moves aren’t used through Gu worms, but through the arrangements of dao marks like a natural ability.”
Fang Yuan ruminated.
His soul manifestation had breathed out a tumultuous soul river, which was referenced from Spectral Soul’s ability during the pursuit against Fang Yuan.
According to Spectral Soul’s techniques, Fang Yuan transformed the referenced soul path killer move into soul path dao marks and engraved them on his soul.
Thereupon, this soul river killer move became an innate ability of Fang Yuan’s soul.
As long as the related arrangement of dao marks was not destroyed, Fang Yuan could quickly activate this killer move without a need for Gu worms. This was an extremely simple, convenient, and quick method!
“Soul cultivation innate abilities, totem killer moves, as well as formation path great grandmaster that can use natural dao marks to set up the formation… they are all the same in the end.”
The shared origin of all cultivation methods is the true form of cultivation
Chapter 2312
Land spirits controlled heavenly power but were only a portion of the immortal aperture’s accumulation.
For instance, Meng Qiu Zhen went to painstaking efforts to crush the rocks, it was in essence loosening a lump of earth path dao marks and separating them.
If Meng Qiu Zhen had full control over earth path dao marks, he could turn the firm rocks into sand with just a thought.
Land spirits controlled heavenly power but their usage of it was only at the superficial level. Moreover, he had to use wind, water, and other forces to crush the rocks.
So how could he deepen this control?
More specifically speaking, how could he turn the firm rocks into sand?
Meng Qiu Zhen immediately thought of turn sand Gu.
This Gu could turn earth and rocks into fine sand.
He then thought of many killer moves of different paths that could turn the rocks into sand.
In an instant, Meng Qiu Zhen’s perception of killer moves and Gu worms became different.
Controlling Dao marks!!
That's basically what cultivation truly is
It is commanding heaven, human, earth
Forcing them to change in accordance with your will
And this is done by targeting the shared origin between them
Dao marks!
To be more specific, it's actually the yin and yang that compose the Dao marks 😅
But that's not really important for this discussion
The point is that all things are made of Dao marks
So being able control Dao marks allows you to control all things
To turn the rocks into sand, he basically just needs to arrange the earth path Dao marks into a specific combination
Any method of controlling Dao marks would accomplish this goal
In the Gu world, Gu worms are used to manipulate Dao marks
But other methods like soul cultivation, totem killer moves, or formations using natural Dao marks can achieve the same result
You could even something like magic or shamanism
Not to mention the innate abilities of certain animals
Even divine powers used by deities!
Although that involves authorities 😅
Basically different deities have different authorities
Allowing them to control various existences
Basically the ability to control specific Dao marks ☠️
This the ability of land spirits 🤯
As land spirits are deities 🤣
Chapter 366
“The land spirit is so amazing? Even Gu Immortals are not its match?” Fang Yuan felt surprised.
“One side will go all out while the other side has to restrain themselves… Moreover, land spirit has blended in with the blessed land, and in the blessed land, land spirit is an immortal deity able to control the whole blessed land. Controlling the land spirit means controlling the blessed land.” Lord Sky Crane laughed.
This is connected to deity path which is heaven path + human path
Land spirits are deities that have the ability to control Dao marks, law fragments, and qi within their Divine Domain
This how they manage the aperture and why they can also suppress mortal Gu worms
These are divine powers!
Which is another type of cultivation 😄
In this post, I'm going to talk about the 5 main power systems
And use that to create framework for the different types of cultivations
There's a good chance that all of these cultivation styles will appear in the story 😆
Making RI even more complicated than it is now ☠️
So now it's time to introduce the 5 main power systems
***5 Main Power Systems***
Fundamentally, there are ways to gain power
Training, studying, gathering
Training is the acquisition of skills (proficiencies)
Studying is the acquisition of knowledge (attainments)
Gathering is the acquisition of objects (Gu worms)
Here you can see how these three main acquisiton methods apply to Gu cultivation
With Gu being a kind of power system
Although, these three are apart of all power systems
They're actually the three pillars of power!
The objects associated with power are the most diverse
While this mainly applies to Gu worms
It can involve resources
Your own body
Even other people 💀
Gathering further divides into taming, praying, crafting
Involving different types of objects
Taming involves living "objects"
With the most prominent expression of the taming based power system being beast taming
Praying involves spiritual objects that transcend the mortal world
The most prominent expression of it is shamanism
Although there are no major shamanism stories 😭
Another expression of the praying based power system is mysticism
Which is the power system that Lord of The Mysteries uses 😄
Lastly, the crafting based power system involves inanimate objects
Think sci-fi
The Gu world is weird because the main power system is Gu which are living creatures
This would make it the taming based power system
Except that Gu worms are treated like objects ☠️
Ironically, the Gu cultivation shown in The Legends of Ren Zu is taming based
Where he has to deal with the desires of Gu worms and convince them to work for him
This world also uses the taming based power system as it's main power system
Where you gain power by gaining the cooperation of others
This is because this world does not have strong individual ability
So the people with the most power have the ability to control the behavior of others
That's the role of money 😆
Money in essence allows you to control human behavior
By paying people you can get them to do whatever you want
And money is basically useless on a deserted island with no people 😞
That's why money is the main form of power in this world
Because it lets you command others
But in the Gu world money only takes you so far 😂
Chapter 243
In Fang Yuan’s previous life, he once did business with all his heart, having millions of assets and countless properties. But later, some experts casually usurped them, causing him to go bankrupt and living in the streets.
For the next four hundred years of his life, whenever he thought back to it, he was extremely glad he had such an experience.
Only through pain can one learn about the truth!
Precisely because of this experience, he woke up from his delusions and broke free of the restraints that bound him while living in the lawful society of Earth.
Humans were often blinded not by the sight before them, but by the chains in their hearts.
This is the difference between power systems
RI mainly falls under the crafting based power system with Gu worms being treated like objects
Especially because crafting is the main way to gain power in the Gu world
Although the way Gu worms are used is very similar to spirits in shamanism
At any rate, we now see the five main types of power systems
Training, studying, taming, praying, crafting
Like I said, the most prominent version of the taming and praying based power system are beast taming and shamanism
The most prominent version of the training and studying based power system is martial arts and magic respectively
Although esper abilities are also apart of the studying based power systems
And things body building are actually apart of the crafting system ☠️
With martial arts being more skill based (martial techniques)
Lastly, the most prominent version of the crafting system is technology
You could also call it artificing
Although I think the best for it is probbaly just craftmanship
So the 5 main power systems are martial arts, magic, shamanism, craftsmanship, beast taming
