Let Me Write a Single Chapter to Explain the Realm Division...

To be perfectly honest, I find myself dreading these sorts of glossaries whenever I encounter them in other authors' works.

However, as the question refuses to cease, I suppose I must lay it out plainly in a dedicated chapter, keeping such dry statistics far away from the narrative itself.

Martial Artists: Body Forging, Formal Martial Artist, Martial Master, Grand Martial Master, Martial Ancestor, Grand Martial Ancestor, Martial King, Martial Emperor.

Cultivators: Pre-natal, Qi Condensation, Spirit Spring Realm, Essence River, Spirit River Realm, True Lake, Divine Sea.

As for how the power dynamics of Cultivators and Martial Artists align, you need only look at how I have arranged the text above to see the parity.

Furthermore, prior to the Martial King stage, Cultivators utterly crush Martial Artists; yet past that threshold, a Martial King holds a slight advantage over the True Lake stage, and a Martial Emperor absolutely dominates the Divine Sea—after all, Martial Artists must cultivate through one additional realm.

That is essentially the sum of it.

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