Taiqing Daode Tianzun explained the next three grades of qi practitioners, and continued to explain the middle three grades and the upper three grades of qi practitioners:

The sixth grade of Qi practitioners: demon gods, witches (witch elites), etc. The five grades practice qi, cultivate the avenue, forge the heart of the Dao, emphasize their own cultivation, and occasionally use external forces to assist the practitioners. The future achievements of demon gods and sorcerers can reach the Mixed Yuan Quasi-Saint, but the five-grade qi cultivators are extremely bloodline-heavy, and a group can only have one ancestor, and the rest of the bloodline descendants will never have the possibility of surpassing the ancestor.

The fifth grade of Qi practitioners: Heavenly Gods, Heavenly Demons, etc. Gods and demons are a monk, can cultivate the avenue, cast the heart of the Dao, can be called the gods, the demons, the gods (demons) practice does not focus on external forces, their bloodlines are stronger than witches, demons, so the future achievements can be to the sub-sacred.

The fourth grade of Qi practitioners: Heavenly Immortals. Heavenly immortals cultivate the avenue, cast the heart of the Dao, emphasize merit, far cause and effect, practice does not emphasize external forces, only external forces as a means of protecting the Dao, and can achieve Daluo. However, the immortal path is focused on super-exaltation, although the heavenly immortals can only achieve Daluo, if the Dao foundation is stable, they can be promoted to the third-grade qi refiner, and there is the possibility of sanctification, so the grade is above the heavenly gods.

The fourth, fifth and sixth grade qi practitioners are the middle and third grades, collectively referred to as Tianxian, and the limit of cultivation is immortal Yasheng, and its realm can be called Daluo Tianxian, Taiyi Tianxian and so on.

The third product of the Qi Practitioner: Demon Immortal, Wu Ancestor. Demon immortals, witch ancestors, cultivating the way of heaven, casting the heart of the Dao, can break through the limit of the bloodline, and have the qualifications to become holy, such as Nuwa, Dijun, and Houtu several Taoist friends.

The second product of the qi practitioner: immortals. Immortals, the darlings of the Heavenly Dao, are in the vein of gods and demons, both innate gods and spirits, and the acquired efforts, the perfect combination of the first and the second day, can become holy, such as the Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun two saints.

The first product of Qi practitioners: Golden Immortal. The golden immortal, congenitally weak, all rely on the acquired efforts, cast the supreme Dao heart, and achieve the acquired divine body, which is the ultimate in the transcendent immortal Dao, and when the opportunity comes, you can become holy.

The upper three grades of qi practitioners, collectively referred to as the golden immortals, can be called supreme, immortal, mixed yuan golden immortals, Daluo golden immortals, Taiyi golden immortals and so on.

The upper three grades of qi practitioners all have the qualifications to become holy, but the innate qualifications of the immortals are stronger than those of the demon immortals, so the combat power of the immortals is above the demon immortals of the same level, so the three grades of the demon immortals and the second grade of the immortals.

Jin Xian's acquired god body is not weaker than the immortal's acquired god body with the best efforts to cast the day after tomorrow, and the combat power is equivalent to the immortal, but the starting point of the immortal is high, the starting point of the golden immortal is low, and the golden immortal can reach the level of the immortal, and the tempering is far greater than that of the immortal, and the golden immortal Taoist heart is often more than the immortal, so the golden immortal ranks first.

After Taiqing Daode Tianzun's theory on the nine grades of qi cultivators was finished, all the monks who listened to the lecture were shocked and discussed.

The monks of all ethnic groups basically agree with the division of the three orders of immortals, gold, heaven and earth, but they have some objections to the position of the nine ranks, and the objections are mainly concentrated on the two points that the immortals are in front of the gods and the gods are before the witches and demons.

Since the founding of the immortal law at the beginning of the Yuan, the practice of the Honghuang monks has formed two completely different paths, one is the immortal monks, focusing on transcendence, the pursuit of the realm of Taoism and breaking through the innate limit, and the other is the Shinto monks, focusing on cultivation, the pursuit of combat power and innate bloodline nobility.

According to the division of the three levels and nine grades of the moral Tianzun, the upper three grades of golden immortals, immortals and demon immortals are all powerful powers that can combine the two realms of gods and immortals, and the monks of all ethnic groups have no objection to this, but in the middle three grades, the limit of the heavenly immortals is Daluo, and the limit of the heavenly gods and demon gods is quasi-saints, but the grade of the heavenly immortals is above the heavenly gods and demon gods, and the same situation is that there are earth immortals and gods of the lower three grades, and the cultivators are superior and inferior.

Although the immortal path is widely spread, but the monks who can really become immortals are very few, and the true immortals who are usually shouted by monks of all ethnic groups, Taiyi immortals, are just pursuing the trend of immortal dao, in fact, the essence is Shinto.

The immortal path is difficult, the divine path is simple, the vast majority of the monks in the flood wilderness are the level of cultivators, and the few who can cultivate the avenue and realize the way are lucky to break through the level of cultivators, and they are also walking the divine way, they have no hope of the immortal path, but they don't want to be forced by the immortal way.

In addition to the objection to the path of cultivation, there is also an objection that the ethnic division, the monks of all races who can come to listen to the sermon are basically the qualifications of the upper and middle grades, and in the upper three grades, the immortals are above the demon fairies and witch immortals, and in the middle three grades, the heavenly gods are above the demon gods and witches, which makes the monks of the witch and demon clans who account for the majority of the number dissatisfied, and they feel that such a ranking will damage the face of the witch and demon clans.

However, this dissatisfaction also exists among the middle and low-level monks of the two witch clans, and the powerhouses of the witch and demon clans have no objections, and when they reach their realm, they naturally know the innate gap between the bloodline of gods and demons and the bloodline of the witch and demon clans, and when they reach the level of the strong of the Dao, what they think about is how to break through the limitations of the innate bloodline, transfer to the immortal path, and reach the qualification of the upper three grades.

Although the monks of all ethnic groups were a little dissatisfied with the division of the third-order nine-rank gold, heaven, and earth immortals, no one spoke out to refute it, after all, this was determined by the saints, so the third-order nine-rank qi practitioner level spread in the wilderness.

After the Taiqing Daode Tianzun finished preaching, the monks of all ethnic groups returned to their own clans.

This time, Daode Tianzun preached, and the one who benefited the most was the incense wish power cultivation method founded by the two clans of people, demons and Zhang Tiantian.

The monks who came to listen to the Tao of the human race also had at least one experience of enlightenment, plus the blessing of listening to the sage's preaching, after returning to the Tao, they could basically be promoted to a great realm, and those Taiyi Realm immortals with broken Dao hearts could not preach, but they could also be promoted from Taiyi Scattered Immortals to the level of Taiyi Heavenly Immortals.

And those Terran monks whose Dao hearts are undamaged, because their eyes are opened, their future achievements will be higher, and those who are deeply blessed will even be able to attain Dao Daluo.

In addition, the vast majority of the monks of the human and demon clans belong to the level of the nine-rank cultivators, and the appearance of the eight-rank gods has given some aspiring nine-rank cultivators of the two clans a path to promotion, and the overall strength of the two clans will be on a higher level.

Comparatively speaking, the overall strength of the Wu clan has not improved significantly, because the Wu clan has grown up in fighting since childhood, and generally starts from the third-order earth immortals, and the way of the gods is not of much use to the Wu clan.

Just when the human and demon clans vigorously promoted the method of incense and wishing power, a major event that affected the flood occurred:

"This seat of Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, there is a sense of the flood and the famine, the disputes of the various ethnic groups are continuous, there is a heart to reconcile the difference between the bloodlines, reduce the killing, and create a special line of teaching, all people who are destined, regardless of race, can worship under the sect of interpretation, and understand the holy way. ”

Yi Shi Gong: Thoughts on the Nine Rank Qi Practitioners.

Da Luo Jin Xian, Mixed Yuan Jin Xian, Taiyi Scattered Number (Immortal) These settings are the standard configuration of Honghuang Xianxia novels, but many people set Jin Xian, Tianxian, and Scattered Immortals as the realm, I think it is very inappropriate, because the height of the realm is best in a pyramid structure, and the higher the realm, the fewer the number of people should be. It shouldn't be gourd-shaped, there are fewer monks in a lower realm than in a higher realm, it would be too awkward.

I remember that there is a flood of desolate novels that divides the realm into mixed yuan golden immortals, mixed yuan heavenly immortals, mixed yuan scattered immortals, Da Luo Jin Xian, Tianxian, scattered immortals, Taiyi gold, heaven, scattered immortals, gold, heaven, scattered immortals, etc., and then each realm is divided into upper, middle and lower three levels, and the top mixed yuan golden immortals have six saints such as Sanqing and Nuwa, and Sun Wukong is Taiyi Sanshu (immortal).

At that time, my head exploded, there were six Mixed Yuan Golden Immortals, how many Mixed Yuan Heavenly Immortals should there be? And so on, when it came to Sun Wukong, how many powerful people were stronger than Sun Wukong, if not 10,000, but 8,000, right? Under such a setting, is it a monkey to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace? To hold a monkey with tens of thousands of powerful skins? I think it is not a monkey that is really slipped, but these great powers.

Therefore, in this book, I set the Golden Immortals, Heavenly Immortals, and Scattered Immortals as qualifications, so that it is easy to explain many things, for example, the Twelve Golden Immortals cannot defeat the three generations of disciples of the Interception Sect, which can be understood as the Twelve Golden Immortals represent their development potential rather than combat effectiveness. Coupled with some settings of the Great Dao Restraint, the future war of the gods will be much easier to write.

In addition, regarding the division of the Nine Rank Qi Practitioners, this is a setting that I have been thinking about for a long time when I wrote the book. There are a few main thoughts.

First, online novels are popular, and I like to read them very much, starting from the ethereal journey, Zhu Xian, Shenglong Dao, to mortal cultivation of immortals, etc., the famous works of various gods have been chased. But I like to like it, but I always have an inaccessible idea, that is, there are too many plots such as murder and treasure grabbing in Xiuzhen's novels, and the anger is too heavy. I feel that in every book, except for the protagonist and other individual people, other cultivators don't look like immortals at all, but more like a group of hooligans who carry watermelon knives to grab turf, in fact, many book protagonists are such people, but from the perspective of the author and readers, the protagonist is more acceptable.

In my heart, immortals are not necessarily immortals, righteous and awe-inspiring, but they should also be masters with great magical powers and great means, and have their own firm ideas. So when setting up this book, there was a concept of avenue that was different from the general Xianxia novel. So I want to write about a group of immortals who have ideals and beliefs, but the Tao is different and they don't conspire with each other.

Second, most of the book friends and authors of online novels are grassroots like me, with grassroots plots, and grassroots plots have two major manifestations in Xianxia novels, one is that the protagonist is born with a strong bloodline or supreme inheritance and other innate conditions, and then the protagonist slaps his face and upgrades all the way. The other type is born from waste wood, and then upgrades all the way, and then goes to slap in the face.

The first category belongs to this innate aptitude school, and the second category belongs to the acquired hard work school, which has become the theoretical source of my nine-grade class, the middle and third-grade qi practitioners are the kind of people with excellent innate qualifications and average hard work, and the demons and immortals of the upper three grades belong to the people who are congenitally strong and work hard, and the golden immortals are the people who strive to catch up with the day after tomorrow.

In essence, I still agree that the most important thing is to strive for the day after tomorrow, so my origin finally became an acquired saint.

In fact, I first wanted to put the gods in the first grade, because I think that if the innate aptitude is strong, but the acquired efforts can also be comparable to those grassroots who struggle endlessly, is such a person a higher achievement? Ma Yun, Ma Huateng These people are all people with average congenital conditions and success based on their acquired efforts, but if Ma Yun's son can also work as hard as Ma Yun, and have the foundation left by his son, what will be his future achievements?

However, I thought that the disciples of Yuan Shi Tianzun were twelve golden immortals, not twelve immortals, so in the end, I still chose to put the golden immortals in the first grade.