You were driving with your colleagues and suddently an avalanche hits the car, you wake up in a forest togheter with your colleagues, the plants look unfamiliar compared to your original world and the environement feels full of a strange energy you still cant grasp. Your colleagues wake up and one of them starts blaming you for the current situation. He starts to hit you but the other colleagues stop him saying it couldnt have been your fault.
After looking for shelter you all find a small cave and rest there, in the meantime you found a strange plant resembling a ginseng seen in cultivation novels but you dont know much more.
the day after, a demonic beast resembling a giant tiger, over 10 meters tall, he calls himself the "king of the forest", as he gets unpleased with you and your colleagues behaviour, you swiftly get on your knees and beg for mercy to try to save everyone. The king of the forest spares your lives and seeks an offering being 1 arm which you volunteer for.
The next day 5 people that make you feel supressed like being an ant watching an human about to stomp on it seem to float in the sky, they lift 3 of your colleagues and find them talented and bring them away, in the meantime, they heal all your wounds and plant in your mind basic knowledge of this world:
This world is exactly like cultivation novels, but not everyone can cultivate, there are mortals which lack spiritual roots to intake the energies of heaven and earth, these roots also determine the talent of such could-be cultivators, the spiritual roots are about the 5 elements: Earth-water-fire-wood-thunder
A cultivator with less spiritual roots will be able to advance in realms much faster since he wont have to purify and sort the different energies in heaven and earth.
Heaven and earth is the accumulation of every element energy of the world, but most understanding of it is hindered by your status as mortal.
A mortal without spiritual roots can create spiritual roots by reaching the summit of martial arts studied by mortals that conprend the following realms: 3rd rate (athletic body, basic martial arts understanding) 2nd rate (a body that surpasses human limits by starting to use inner energy which is akin to heaven and earth but without nearly as much purity as spiritual energy) 1st rate (the inner energy flows trough the 8 meridians in a stable way, allowing the user to strenghten specific parts of his body with internal strenght, as increased speed, strenght or durability) Peak (this realm allows the user to enter the world of intent, where a martial artist can see the murderous intent other people have in the form of a red thread and predict the next attack, and a blue thread, that shows the user the effective way to counter, while the power gaps between 1-3 rate are by about: 10 2nd rate to defeat 1 1st rate, 100 1st rate cant defeat a peak martial artist. origin converging (the martial artist creates a divine consciousness compared to that of cultivators and forms 1 spiritual root)
the cultivation realms for the lower world are: Qi gathering Qi refining Qi building Core formation
a portal sends you in a city, you manage to sell a ginseng worth 15 silver that you got in the strange forest to a shop. You chose to join a sect and learn martial arts. You have the option to chose between these 3 manuals -Fist warrior manual (3rd rate) -Swift counter manual (3rd rate) -Bull kick manual (3rd rate)