First Step Before The Throne
Also known as: Seated Detachment, Standing Oblivion (좌탈입망/坐脫立亡) (Kim Young-hoon), Seated Detachment, Entering Hope (座脫入望) (Seo Eun-hyun), Red Lotus (紅蓮) (Underworld faction), One Wheel (一輪) (Hyeon Mu).
Description
In the vast Bright Cold Realm, there are only 22 known practitioners that have attained this step. When one attains this stage, they gain at least an extra 10,000 years of lifespan.
Essence: Resolutely preparing for one's soul to be crushed and perish, one compresses their heart essence into depths of their martial arts. If one's true heart aligns with their martial arts, they won't perish even when delving into the depths of their martial arts. In this way, if one stakes everything and succeeds in infusing their heart, their heart essence, into the depths of their martial arts, uniting the heart of their martial arts with their own heart, their martial arts will completely rise to the plane of Soul. Those who reach the First Step Before the Throne can all achieve a strike at the plane of Soul. Using that strike, they can embed their heart essence into their opponent's heart essence or manifest their heart essence externally to create an avatar.
Beings at this stage are capable of fighting against Four Axis and Integration stage Masters.