m4gm A World of Power and Patience

(Large amounts of world info for those who don't like reading a bunch, there will be a very short version at the end with a bunch of missing details)

In a world born of domination over power itself Gods once ruled before boredom set as pit in their stomachs which grew in frustration then genuine wrath they soon directed towards each other. A war quickly approached with death that could even vanquish immortality itself, leaving nothing but a broken minor god of creation with the blood and breath of divinity. This god was soon to die so with what little still permeated their divine existence came humanity spread as far as the lands were which was quite literally near infinite on the planet and lowest realm chosen as the battlefield, nothing can reach full potential without challenge thus came a secondary race known as true demons which were wild and random in their form. The god soon died after leave the creations spread far and wide, human were first to wake in their newfound existence with a world soaked in divinity within all things from the earth to the air and ocean to ore which was quickly made use of by all including wild animals. Flora and fauna evolves alongside humanity as they adapt to absorb the divinity in the world, demons unable to do the same but took from humans what they could not from the land but regardless all thrive and soon the divinity build new gods of human and demon who quickly find out about the upper realms. These new gods are in harmony but know they won't be if their divinity is questioned all are gods thus both species cripple their mortal people to limit the amount who can reach divinity down to the blood but not all as they must keep a population in some fashion as they reach further realms and power. Civilization builds, gods take mortals on occasion as lovers, philosophies and methods are shared before these new gods suddenly disappear entirely from the lower realm but clearly not dead just distancing widening the gap of power further. True demons of the mortal variety sneak into early human society, whispers ideas, then retreat while leaving a seed of idea for new faction among four others.

Three centuries pass and true demons have been starved into utterly feral forms with the lack of gifted humans, these gifted humans have been given the title of cultivators across all societies no matter the distance or difference in societies, and seedlings of factions have sprouted into entire philosophies. The first of focus in this era of stabilization are cultivators, they in ancient eras were the mortals who became the new gods (and only gods at this point) and within the era of stabilization with less abundance have formed factions for their power with techniques and understanding being their substitute for the raw power the gods that currently are of the upper realms. Many humans are completely unable to cultivate, that is to absorb the divine energy that is cycling through the world in endless but slow generating amounts, making cultivators special and highly revered beings as their power is monstrous and supernatural the longer they cultivate. This cultivation is not a easy task even among prodigal cultivators as it takes quite a bit of time for the body to absorb then process and adapt to this energy with dire consequences if not properly processed such as a sickness as the energy slowly breaks down the body from the inside out or what some cultivators considering an even worse fate losing the ability to cultivate outright and being a completely normal human being. The benefits far outweigh any negatives like time spent or any sickness as you can live hundreds of years as a cultivator and defeat armies of men by yourself, that is all the low tier cultivators so one can only imagine the powers of high tier cultivators or even the gods in the upper realms. The art of cultivation has many methods with many a philosophy to support these methods like the simplest of meditation and cycling of the divine energy we will now dub as chi or qi depending on the culture, there are also external tools like pills and elixirs as the divine blood that soaked the world was also absorbed by the plants and animals which can be used to process purer chi far easier or in higher quantity.

There are other things to focus on like the factions of both mortal and of cultivators. There are six major factions with individual organizations within them: The Orthodox, The Demon Cult, The Heavenly Order, The Apex, The Monk Temple, and The Free Blades. The Orthodox holds the most non cultivators as a basic military force for whatever government they fall under from nation to nation with cultivators usually being a special military force or generals/commanders that have lead over ordinary people but the Orthodox are usually the weakest cultivators as resources are rationed and most cultivators are untalented and rarely given the time needed to properly cultivate with common or very simple uncreative techniques meaning their more of a numbers game than anything. The Demon Cult are the seed planted before the true demons went feral leaving humans with the methods they use to cultivate, stealing chi from others or unsavory methods like sex and suffering, this has benefits like better physiques and stronger bodies but also the possibility to go feral becoming wild demons like true demons, the immoral cultivation has led to internal scheming and complete destruction by the other factions until they went into hiding for their own safety into secret cities. The opposing force but definitely not good by any means are the Heavenly Order, masters of righteous power and strict hierarchy with political scheming corrupted once pristine internal workings but keeping their safe and pure cultivation. The Apex is a primal faction that tame beasts and cultivate alongside their animals to increase power and take on beastial features while their animals gain supernatural appearances and abilities, the only ones to be physically more imposing than the demon faction. The Monk Temple are a major faction of religious teachings and studies of the gods that came before before gaining the mindset of the original gods, many go through this different ways depending on being mortal or a cultivator and the god their branch falls under with some taking righteous path similar to the Heavenly Order or a far more sinister path like the Demon Cult but all keeping out petty politics. Last are The Free Blades which are bandits, mercenaries, and information brokers so general scum of the earth for hire or money in general with their sub factions being gangs or more subtle hands that may work for other factions, their biggest clients that they keep close ties to being the now secretly alive major faction Demon Cult but they may work with the governments and Orthodox on occasion too but the Temple and Heavenly Order are to arrogant to work with them while the Apex are wild and nomadic.

Circling back to cultivation, there are ranks to better understand a level of power: Mortal, Earthly, Sky, Phoenix, Dragon, Heavenly, and Transcendent. there are small substages to understand to save for mortal which are just normal humans along with upper stages only available to those who reach the upper realms and by extension their richer and more abundant chi. The sub stages go as: Gathering, forming, refining, and processing, and Forged. The forming stage leads to slow change in the body and refining finishes that physical change before processing which acclimates one's energy to the new body, Forged is just the finalization stage. The physical changes are only big in the first three stages past mortal as that idealizes the body to both the powers used and to the cultivator themselves but not the conscious ideal but the subconscious meaning while they may consciously see muscular and fair skinned as the ideal they may keep tanned skin and possibly get even skinnier in their final major change, regardless all cultivators are quite happy with their final form and it fits their powers and techniques best but cultivation method also changes the final form as most righteous Heavenly Order cultivators are longer haired and refined but fit bodied while Apex tend to have beastial eyes and canines with beefier bodies as the difference in the cultivation methods and techniques influence their subconscious ideal. Beyond just appearance there are certain passive features of higher cultivators such as chi pressure, a force that cultivators passively unleash with the leaking force of their power that many easily suppress and sometimes direct for internal damage against far weaker cultivators they feel disrespected them though while most mortals full on are forced to the ground bleed from orifices weaker cultivators usually are forced to just kneel from the force or just have to fight against it to stand up and regardless it is not a useful technique against cultivators equal or just barely weaker than yourself. There effects to those who first cultivate like the impurities of mortal life leaving you in one fashion or another like a putrid coatings of dirt leaving your skin you must wash off after first cultivating or puking up a tar colored phlegm instead, this only happens to those who transition from mortal to Earthly and first become cultivators so it's only a one time worry if you break through to the first stage in one solid try or in smaller less disgusting amounts if you chip away at the progress. Due to the massive life spans of cultivators they age both slower and live longer in general due to their durability but that also changes their perception of time meaning while a normal human considers two to three years a massive amount of time, a cultivator sees that as just a drop in the bucket to wave away in their cultivation. Many cultivators still eat and sleep and in the lower levels require it still but the upper levels do it out of enjoyment or passing time. Cultivators also have schools for study called sects, these schools fall under a faction save for the Monk Temple, Apex, and Free Blades with the Orthodox being more of a military school with basic techniques and abilities taught to them with focus on weapons like swords while the Demon Cult sects may go through hellish training if you decide or are made to join one with beatings and near impossible lethal training being a regular thing even for non cultivating members. There are political houses that influence the sects with the Heavenly Order's political houses intermingling with the governments' Orthodox Sects along with their own, most of the houses being rich and carrying a bloodline with extremely powerful cultivators and techniques along with passed down features as a cultivator's genes are strong.

A Bloodline may have had a powerful cultivator or a mortal mingle with a mythical cultivating beast who gained a human form have children thus making a powerful set of children and house that may branch off as time goes on with some keeping that insane potential and power generations later or skipping/diluting certain others, there are even the rare few who are that of the new gods and a mortal or cultivator though that is extremely rare but possible and even more interesting is whether the god is a human one or that of the original true demons who became gods which may effect the effective cultivation method that a bloodline may need. Despite the houses being big enough players politically they are still kept in check by the governments they fall under since most keep Heavenly level cultivator agents to put people in their place with extremely powerful and hidden techniques while the average ruler or council is a completely normal human being with good leadership or born into that position. 

Even bloodlines cannot escape the only evidence that the new gods still remain known as trials, Trials are the barrier that may keep certain cultivators stuck in a level and thinning the herd further and further as the levels go on, the first trial is chi Vein formation from mortal to Earthly which will let one process chi nicely and increase the general strength to inhuman levels then earthly to sky is the three pools trial that requires one to make three pools of energy outside of the chi veins which hold and enhance the body and abilities further with each in the stomach then chest and finally head. The Third trial is the forging trial which is considered the longest and hardest trial even after the rest to come as it starts with one meditation in the richest point of chi they can find and absorbing it all and burning it all their entire bodies inside and out to burn the old layer of skin and reach their final physical form which usually finishes completely at phoenix rank. The last two trials are Opening and Philosophy, Opening is a trial of gaining a abstract mindset only possible for the truly strong cultivators and is usually done all the way through Dragon Rank, the Philosophy trial is one made entirely of figuring out the personal purpose for getting stronger and could be the hardest stage for some or the easiest and usually finishes at the end of transcendence before one reaches godhood and the next realm. These trials usually are started for some cultivators but never finished leaving many stagnant and most stopping completely at Dragon rank cultivation as they cannot think in an abstract manner. There are many ways outside of ranking up and training to increase one's potential and power but it is risky or they are hidden methods thus most cultivators are quite average which has led to a secondary class not quite cultivators but rather something of a different user of the chi that permeates the lands in a far less take and take way and more synergy method.

There are four separate and rather human users of chi: Alchemists who scientifically understand the flow and process of chi for pills and elixirs they cannot use themselves, Botanists who help breed plants for cultivators to use, Mystics who take a magical and taboo approach to chi to speak to the dead or make servants, and inventors who use the special ore infused with chi for various creations like weapons or armor or even clothes. These people are more advanced than the average human but by no means a cultivator but useful to one or a sect thus kept around like servants or general population. Mystics are quite taboo thus ostracized by all but the Demon Cult who put much use into them for protection and help keep their secret cities hidden, Botanists are liked best by the Apex for the natural take on cultivation materials, Alchemists by the Heavenly Order as they line up best with the easy and pure nature of it all, and the Inventors by the Orthodox as they can build both equipment compatible with chi but also basic equipment for normal soldiers or siege equipment for wars. All cultivators limit inventors as advancement could threaten the power cultivators have over mortals especially the Heavenly Order as they thrive on the power and prestige of being a cultivator.

The final piece of the puzzle that needs any revealing for now are the three major phenomena and placement of sects. The Three major phenomena are Mythical animals, Legendary weapons, and spatial pockets. Mythical animals are those who absorbed chi in one fashion or another like eating a chi infused plant or eat the corpse of a dead mythical beast, there are major groups of minor mythical beasts and then there are apex mythical beasts who often time lead groups of lesser animals and speak perfect human languages and some can even have human forms with a feature staying like a tail or horns. The Legendary weapons are weapons fed chi in one fashion or another and made of a special material, after a century worth of chi is infused the weapon gains a soul and can communicate with its owner and master, after two centuries it gains a human form with personality most compatible with its master. Spatial pockets are next, a phenomena where certain items or spaces can be enchanted to hold space in another dimension different from the realms and hold insane amounts of equipment, this is how most cultivators hold their equipment after a certain point through rings or other jewelry they never take off which is far better than a bag or purse that can be stolen with fast hands.

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With the world now in view there is a boy in view, one in a medium sub faction demon cult of odd origin and circumstance. Clearly foreign born of a nation billions of miles away yet orphaned and adopted soon after by a lord of the house of Indulgence, this lord is killed on the boy's 4th birthday and now years later in the sect and house of indulgence he is consider trash without the lord's protection as the legitimate child belittles the boy and the lord's wife only sees a challenge to her son's rule, the 19-21 year old kid is only considered gold by his demonic master who trains the boy in rather brutal fashion with a clear sinister understanding of what is to happen to the hidden city and himself soon but wishing to leave a legacy in the boy who is soon to strike out on his own with great and possibly now cruel ambitions after being raised in the hidden Demon Cult city his entire life.

(The short version crazy world of power inspired by dragonball and old kung fu films with a couple others, a boy turned semi cruel power hungry man uses his secret lineage to become as strong as possible and enjoy as much of life as he can)

(I want struggle just as much as I want power fantasy, I like a darker plot too if someone does take up being Gm and most of all this will definitely be leaning more women and possibly harem if you are comfortable with that or a singular love interest who helps corrupt my character. but that is about all for now and I really hope someone, really anyone takes interest in this. It doesn't have to be women after all, I do take some interest in guys or others especially the more feminine variety but just about all types~. This can be very horny or a lot of action and drama as I am flexible in that regard but have some interest or give it a go at least with dismissing it outright.)