What is your Spirit Root?

Spirit Root Rarity Leaderboard 灵根稀有榜

Ranked rarest first. "Site roll" is this site's own roll table — the % of root-havers who draw each grade in the test's taxonomy. Genre lore ranks roots by composition, not percentage; the canonical ordering from Chinese references sits directly below this board. (About 62% of mortals are born with no root.)

Only 1 in 100 root-havers draws the Heavenly Root at #1. Take the test to see where you land on this board.

Realm Power Leaderboard 境界战力榜

All 14 realms, strongest first. A mortal is power 1 — each realm is a wall, not a step.

The gap from #14 to #1 is 8.3 million-fold. See the full ladder with breakthrough methods in Cultivation Realms.

Strike Counts — in Multiples of Nine 天劫重数

The conventional count from Chinese genre references. Bolt count and power scale with the cultivator's talent and realm — a heavier tribulation is both deadlier and a mark of greater potential, and each successive bolt is stronger than the last. Lighter systems simplify the count to 3 / 6 / 9 bolts; the multiples of nine are the standard form.

Lightning tribulation attaches to major breakthroughs — not to Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment, which are bottleneck breakthroughs only. In the mortal-flow tradition, high cultivators also face recurring audits: a minor tribulation roughly every 300 years and a great one every ~3,000 years (intervals are that tradition's specifics, not a genre constant).

The Five Audits 五劫

Composite tribulations stack these types. Preparation follows the same levers the simulator gives you: breakthrough pills, defensive artifacts and arrays, protected ground — and 护法 protectors standing guard, because rivals ambushing a tribulation-weakened cultivator is a genre institution.

Failure outcomes: for ascension, the default is death with the soul scattered （身死道消 / 魂飞魄散）. Lesser failures: cultivation crippled or regressed, meridians damaged, qi deviation （走火入魔）. In the older xiuzhen tradition a failed ascender may survive as a Loose Immortal （散仙） — alive, but facing escalating tribulations ever after.

Sub-Stages — the Universal Mini-Ladder 小境界

Above Ascension — the Immortal Extension 仙阶

Daoist-mythology ranks reused across many works, in their usual order. Consensus is loosest here — order and membership vary the most — and there are no agreed lifespans: immortals are usually “coeval with heaven and earth”, subject to periodic declines （三衰五衰， the Three/Five Declines).

真仙 True Immortal → 金仙 Golden Immortal → 太乙 Taiyi (Jade/Golden) Immortal → 大罗金仙 Daluo Golden Immortal → 道祖 Dao Ancestor

Intermediate titles in some systems: 人仙 Earthly/Human Immortal · 地仙 Earth Immortal · 天仙 Heavenly Immortal · 玄仙 Profound Immortal · 仙君 Immortal Lord · 仙王 Immortal King · 仙帝 Immortal Emperor. (The site's own ladder above uses three of these — Earth, Celestial and Golden Immortal — as its immortal ranks.)

Variant Ladders — Recognise, Don't Merge

Older xiuzhen ladder: 练气 → 筑基 → 开光 Opening Light → 融合 Fusion → 心动 Heart Movement → 金丹 → 元婴 → 出窍 Out-of-Body → 分神 Spirit Severing → 合体 → 洞虚 Void Insight → 大乘 → 渡劫. A genuinely different, older convention still used by games and older novels — offered here as a recognised alternate, never spliced into the spine.

Common additions: many xuanhuan works prepend 炼体 / 锻体 Body Refining/Tempering (often 1–9 layers) before Qi Refining, and some insert 紫府 Purple Mansion between Foundation and Golden Core. Additions, not spine members.

Technique Grades 功法品阶

The most reused ladder in the genre. Every grade splits Low / Mid / High.

Provenance, honestly: this clean four-tier ladder was popularised for skills by Battle Through the Heavens and has since been reused so widely it functions as generic — the ladder is safe to adopt, that novel's named techniques are not. Mastery within a technique runs 入门 Entry → 小成 Minor Completion → 大成 Major Completion → 圆满 Perfection.

Artifact Grades 法宝品阶

Terminology first: 法器 fǎqì is a magic tool (lower) and 法宝 fǎbǎo a magic treasure (higher, from Core Formation up, nurtured in the dantian; 本命法宝 is the life-bound natal treasure). Every tier splits Low / Mid / High / Top.

Variant note: some ladders insert 宝器 Treasure Tool, and sources disagree even on the 灵器 / 宝器 order — this table is the common synthesis. Sibling systems: 符箓 talismans (graded by tier or 初/中/高）, 阵法 formations (Tier 1–9 or by realm fit), and storage gear by capacity — pouch 袋 < bracelet 镯 < ring 戒指.

Pill Grades — Two Models 丹药品阶

Model 1 — tiered （一品–九品）, the alchemist model:

Within every tier, quality: 下品 Low / 中品 Mid / 上品 High / 极品 Top — quality tracks purity and pill-poison （丹毒） load: low quality means more impurities and more toxicity on repeated use. Alchemist ranks mirror the tiers: a Tier-N alchemist （一品–九品炼丹师） reliably refines Tier-N pills. An “Emperor-grade” tier above nine is one famous tradition's extension, not generic.

Model 2 — realm-fitted, unnumbered (the mortal-flow model): pills are not formally numbered at all. A pill belongs to the realm it serves, and its value is set by herb age and scarcity — a Qi-stage pill is simply useless to a Core cultivator.

Sect Ranks 宗门等级

The disciple ladder, bottom to top:

Leadership: 执事 Deacon/Steward → 长老 Elder → 大长老 Grand Elder → 太上长老 Supreme Elder (often beside or above the leader, in seclusion) → 宗主 / 掌门 Sect Master → 老祖 Patriarch, the sect's hidden highest power. Peers address each other as 道友 — Fellow Daoist.

Sects themselves have no single canon; the common pattern is 不入流 unranked → 三流 / 二流 / 一流 third/second/first-class → 顶级 / 超级 top/super — or, plainest of all, by the strongest member's realm: “a Golden Core sect”.