# What Is Cultivation? Cultivation is a central concept in Xianxia novels and the "SageVerse" metaverse. It is a means to grow stronger and attain immortality by absorbing the "Qi" in the air around you into your body via "cultivation techniques" such as breathing techniques, visualization techniques, heart mantras, physical postures, and ingesting medicines. The purpose is to circulate your "Qi" along a predetermined path in your body until it begins to saturate inside of yourself at different stages. As you develop your "Qi" and become increasingly enlightened along the path of cultivation, you begin to go up in your "cultivation realm." These are marked stages of development that have particular qualities for each realm. The general rule of thumb is that your cultivation realm determines your overall strength and combat ability. This is not an absolute, but it is generally true. The higher you go up in realm, the harder it is to fight those above your realm. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://sageverse.gitbook.io/SageVerse/sageverse-tm-gameplay/what-is-cultivation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.