For the likes of Zhao Layue and Zhuo Rusui, whose names often appeared in this story,
it was almost a natural process for the Cultivation states, according to the classification
of the Green Mountain Sect, to progress from the Possession of Virtue State in the
beginning, to the Spiritual Stability State, then the Perfect Attainment State, the Perfect
Preservation State, the Inherited Will State, the Undefeated State, the Free Travel
State, the Broken Sea State, and all the way to the final state, the Heavenly Arrival
State. It seemed like a simple process, taking one step at a time all the way to the final
state, but it was actually not so easy.
In fact, cultivating was a very difficult endeavor. At least half of the Cultivation
practitioners would be unable to move up to the next state. And a Cultivation practitioner
had to break through five states from the Perfect Attainment State to the Broken Sea