Integration

Description

From the Integration stage, a small world (小世界) begins to form within the body, and by the Entering Nirvana stage, even the discarded husks become powerful enough to be considered small worlds. To build a domain requires a clear sense of self.[1]

A Heaven Tribe's Integrated Dao Domain unfolds around oneself. Meanwhile, an Earth Tribe's domain expands their bodies such that one becomes a small dimension in and of oneself. When one practices Heaven and Earth Dual Cultivation, both occur simultaneously.

Cultivation Method

The formula for the Integration stage is divided into six major aspects. Rain (雨), Sun (陽), Heat (燠), Cold (寒), Wind (風), and Time (時). These aspects represent cloudiness (雨), clearness (陽), warmth (燠), coldness (寒), and wind (風), symbolizing the changes of the seasons (時). Cultivation in the Integration stage involves unifying Heaven, Earth and the Four Directions—the Six Harmonies (六合)—within one's Integrated Dao Domain. By integrating each of these Six Harmonies, one can gain a divine power, and these divine powers are named after the six aspects mentioned above. Collectively, they are referred to as Various Omens (庶徵), a process of mastering one's domain more perfectly and harmonizing within it.[2] Once all six harmonies have been integrated, a cultivator has reached Grand Perfection Integration. The Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity oversees this realm.

Advancement

Four-Axis to Integration

To ascend to the Integration stage, refine another Nascent Soul and assign an elemental attribute to it. Compress the Nascent Soul to get an Axis and plant it in the center of the four axis. Typically, the process of rising to the Integration stage would involve first shortening the distance between the Heavenly Circle and the Earthly Bearings through the process of Heaven and Earth Unity, then merging them entirely, and finally evolving them into a small world.

The Five Elements Axes places the attribute learned by one’s Nascent Soul as the center and strengthens the central axis with the remaining four axes of Five Elements. The Five Blessings Axes do not strengthen attributes but instead strengthens the Four-Axis Canopy itself.

True Earth Axis to Integration

The proper Earth Axis Stage requires the Five Elements Axis, the Five Blessings Axes, and the Six Extremes Axes. The prepared aspect-carrying Nascent Soul Axis slips between the others to form Twelve Axes. The crucial point in forming the Heavenly Circle and Earthly Bearings is the [Sky] and [Ground]. The Four Directions aren't necessarily required.

The Four-Axis Canopy that has been turning three-dimensional suddenly forms a complete sphere, and Seo Eun-hyun's Nascent Soul expands to match the size of the sphere, placing it within his dantian. These are the Earthly Bearings (地方).

Nascent Soul becomes the atmosphere surrounding the Earthly Bearings' world, simultaneously becoming the cycle of Yin and Yang of day and night, the star constellations, and even the cycle of the Four Seasons. Attraction force forms the Earthly Bearings' attraction force, giving rise to the concepts of North and South. With the workings of day and night, East and West are born, finally manifesting the concept of the Four Directions within the sphere. The Heavenly Circle of the sky and the Earthly Bearings of the ground interact, forming a small world of Heaven and Earth Unity.

Heavenly Tribulation

After the World is created, Heavenly Tribulation strikes. The breakthrough Heavenly Lightning of the Integration stage is also known as Six Lightnings (六雷), a powerful Heavenly Tribulation that fills the positions of the Heavens, Earth, and Four Directions. Unless one is an Ender, the common Heavenly Tribulation is as follows:

• Sky: 200 bolts of golden and mysterious black*-colored (玄色) Heavenly Lightning, symbolizing the Heavens,
• Earth: 200 bolts of golden and the yellow-colored (黃色) lightning, symbolizing the Earth,
• East: 200 bolts of golden and the azure-colored (靑色) Heavenly Tribulation, symbolizing the East,
• West: 200 bolts of golden and white-colored (白色) Heavenly Tribulation, symbolizing the West,
• South: 200 bolts of golden and red-colored (赤色) Heavenly Tribulation, symbolizing the South,
• North: 200 bolts of golden and black-colored (黑色) Heavenly Tribulation, symbolizing the North.

*'Mysterious black' (玄) is the same as black in Hyeon Go (玄古; meaning 'Black Ancient').

Eventually, draw upon the energy of the Heavens from the Six Lightnings, and the energy of Earth from the nearby dragon vein, to carve a dragon vein into the interior of the small world created. This dragon vein will create the life force within the small world, functioning as the Eight Extraordinary Meridians of the 'world' itself, making it an extremely crucial task.

Vitality

At the Integration stage, lifespan increases by 100,000 years and the only way to be killed is to have one's domain destroyed.

Trivia

• In Bright Cold Realm, the Human Race calls their Integration stage cultivators by the title Grand Cultivators. In the Dragon Race, they are titled Kings. Demon beasts in Ancient Force Realm also title them as Grand Cultivators
• The Integration stage is overseen by the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity.