The 4th step, Dao Source, is the realm after Dao Realm, the 3rd step. Depending on what path of cultivation is taken, it can either be called Heaven Trampling, or Boundless Dao.
Daosource is the first realm in Transcendence. A Transcendent cultivation base is the minimum requirement to leave the starry sky of the Vast Expanse.
Stepping into Transcendence[]
When one's cultivation base reaches Peak 9-Essences Paragon level, one can attempt to become a Transcendent being, with the result being either success or death due to failure. Or one could choose to stay at 9-Essences level and have virtually limitless longevity, but one will experience Vast Expense Tribulation every 10,000 years.
For someone to truly Transcend they have to Transcend in three aspects. Anyone who Transcended in even one of those areas would be referred to as being half a step into Transcendence.
Aspects[]
- Fleshly Body: When Fleshly Body reaches Daosource even if Heaven and Earth rotted away, the body would not.
- Cultivation base: When cultivation base reaches Transcendence, the person becomes completely independent of natural and magical law. Such cultivators form their own natural law, and give birth to their own Essence.
- Soul: Theoretically the most difficult aspect to reach Transcendence in, Divine Sense of this level is capable of reaching the very ends of the cosmos, though whether the cosmos have a True end is debatable.
Stages of Transcendence[]
| Rank | Stage |
|---|---|
| Dao Source Realm | Early |
| Mid | |
| Late | |
| Great Circle | |
| Half-Step Ancestor | |
| Ancestor Realm | Early |
| Mid | |
| Late | |
| Great Circle | |
| Unknown Realm | Unknown |
Paths of Transcendence[]
- There are three known ways to Transcend :
- Daosource (Mountain and Sea Realm & Planet Vast Expanse)
- The Demon transcended as Daosource
- The Ghost transcended as Daosource
- Boundless Dao (Devil Realm Continent)
- The Devil transcended as Boundless Dao
- Heaven Trampling (Immortal God Continent)
- The God transcended as Heaven-Trampling
- Renegade Immortal & Pursuit of the Truth spoilers :Old Man Extermination transcended as Heaven-Trampling
- Daosource (Mountain and Sea Realm & Planet Vast Expanse)
- The Ghost, Devil, God, and Demon paths are "special" types of Transcendence. They are unique, which means there can only be one Ghost, one Devil, one God, and one Demon in the Vast Expanse. All other transcendors transcended the "normal" way.
- The Immortal Path is forbidden in the Vast Expanse by Allheaven.
- There are numerous indications and statements given throughout Renegade Immortal, Pursuit of Truth and I Shall Seal the Heavens that there are significantly more Transcended individuals than the Five Entities alone, an example is Old Man Extermination, who appears to be one of the only ones still active in the Vast Expanse alongside Slaughter.