Mountain and Sea Wind and Cloud

Worldview Framework of Mountains and Seas

I. World Background: The Martial World of Mountains and Seas

This world is called the Realm of Mountains and Seas, a primordial world inhabited by countless races and mythical beasts from the ancient Classic of Mountains and Seas. In ancient times, the human race was weak and was crushed and slaughtered by thousands of mythical beasts, teetering on the brink of extinction. In this desperate situation, the ancient sages of the human race observed the behavior of the mythical beasts, discerned their supernatural powers, and imitated their forms, thus comprehending the martial arts of symbolic representation.

Humans, based on their physical bodies, imitated the physiques, power exertion methods, and innate abilities of mythical beasts from the mountains and seas, evolving their own unique symbolic martial arts, thus gaining the means to contend with these beasts. Over tens of thousands of years, humanity multiplied and grew, carving out their own territory in blessed lands and dividing and isolating the wilderness inhabited by mythical beasts, forming the three major structures of "Human Territory, the Wilderness, and the Forbidden Abyss."

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth nourishes all things. Beasts are divided into three tiers based on their strength: mortal beasts, refined beasts, and divine beasts, corresponding to the cultivation levels of human martial artists. Beasts are the source of power in this world. All martial arts and supernatural abilities originate from beasts. No one can create moves out of thin air. Only by imitating the mythical beasts of the mountains and seas can one improve their martial arts.

II. Core System: Mountain and Sea Figurative Martial Arts

In this world, there is no internal energy or true qi; pure physical martial arts are the only righteous path, and all techniques are imitative martial arts. Martial artists observe and comprehend exotic beasts, temper their bodies, and replicate the exotic beasts' talents. The stronger the body, the more complete and powerful the replicated exotic beast's divine abilities.

Cultivation Realm (Fifth Rank, Ninth Level)

1. Meridian Expansion Realm (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced): Refines the skin, flesh, and meridians, allowing one to imitate the rudimentary postures of ordinary beasts and perform basic imitative fist techniques. It is the standard for beginner martial artists.
2. Bone Forging Realm (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced): Strengthens muscles and bones, allows complete mastery of a martial art that mimics the form of a common beast, and grants physical strength far exceeding that of ordinary people.
3. Fusion Realm (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced): The physical body resonates with the form of a mythical beast, allowing one to briefly transform into the form of a mythical beast and unleash beast-level innate divine abilities, making one a formidable opponent.
4. Spirit Transformation Realm: The physical body is imbued with spiritual energy, and one has thoroughly mastered several martial arts techniques of rare beasts. One can condense the Dharma Image of a rare beast and roam freely across the human realm.
5. Divine Realm: Touching the origin of divine beasts, imitating the forms of ancient divine beasts, and drawing upon the power of mountains and seas with a wave of the hand, one is a top-tier human expert.

Martial Arts Classification

1. Common Beast Martial Arts: Imitating common exotic beasts such as wild boars, black snakes, and red carp, the moves are rudimentary and the boost is limited. They are the basic skills that lower-level martial artists must learn.
2. Beast Martial Arts: Imitating exotic beasts such as the cunning, the fierce, the Bifang, and the Qiongqi larvae, and possessing special abilities such as speed, poison, and flames, these are core martial arts of the sect.
3. Divine Beast Martial Arts: Imitating ancient divine beasts such as Taotie, Azure Dragon, Bai Ze, and Kunpeng, even incomplete techniques are enough to suppress a region, and complete techniques are almost extinct.

III. Global Power Structure

1. The orthodox sects of the human race: Each sect possesses a core symbolic martial art and is based in famous mountains and rivers. The Qingqiu Sect is skilled in the Nine-Tailed Fox Transformation Technique, the Linghuo Sect inherits the Bifang Blazing Flame Martial Art, and the Xuanshan Sect mainly cultivates the Xuan Snake Devouring Power Hard Skill. They counterbalance each other, protect the territory of the human race, and hunt exotic beasts to obtain martial arts inheritances.
2. Wandering Martial Artists: Independent cultivators without a sect or school, who venture deep into the wilderness to hunt exotic beasts and comprehend symbolic techniques on their own. Their strength varies greatly, and most are those who fight desperately for their lives.
3. The Beast Clans of the Great Wilderness: In the boundless and savage wilderness, beasts occupy different areas, where the strong prey on the weak. Ordinary beasts are scattered on the outskirts, while elite beasts occupy deep mountains and dangerous places. Ancient divine beasts lie dormant in the forbidden core of the Great Wilderness, rarely appearing in the world, yet they are the most powerful source of strength in this world.
4. Ancient Ruins: Scattered ancient battlefields and ancestral caves contain fragments of lost mythical beast-shaped martial arts manuals, representing the ultimate opportunity for martial arts masters, but also accompanied by extremely powerful and deadly beasts.

IV. Main Character's Cheat: Mountain and Sea Devouring Spirit Cauldron

You (the protagonist) are a modern transmigrator who transmigrates and possesses the body of an orphan martial artist in a small border town in the Mountain and Sea Realm. You are born with a unique and heaven-defying cheat code—the Mountain and Sea Spirit Devouring Cauldron.

In this world, ordinary people can only observe beasts to comprehend martial arts, spending years or even decades imitating and comprehending them. Moreover, they have a high probability of failing to replicate the core talents of these beasts, only learning the superficial aspects. But your cheat code has extremely simple and invincible rules: by devouring the flesh and blood or core of a beast, you can inherit the corresponding beast's talents and imitative martial arts with 100% accuracy, without needing to comprehend or cultivate, directly achieving complete mastery.

Golden Finger Rules

1. Devour Mortal Beasts: Directly gain the physical enhancement of the corresponding mortal beast, basic symbolic moves, and instantly master the entire set of techniques.
2. Devour Beasts: Unlock exclusive abilities of exotic beasts, such as the night vision of the Zhen, the speed of the Jiao, and the venom of the Du Jiao, while simultaneously enhancing the physical body with the exotic species' abilities.
3. Devouring the remains/bloodline of a divine beast: Directly unlocks the incomplete divine beast's divine abilities, causing a qualitative change in the physical body, and breaking through realm barriers without bottlenecks.
4. Stacking Mechanism: The same type of beast can devour multiple times, with abilities stacking layer by layer, making the moves more and more perfect; the abilities of different types of beasts do not conflict with each other, and can be freely combined to create their own unique fusion-based martial arts, breaking the shackles of traditional martial arts.

V. Main Character Design and Background

The protagonist's original form: Sixteen years old, an orphan from Qing Shi Village on the border, with mediocre talent, originally destined to be stuck at the Meridian Opening Realm for life, the weakest martial artist in the village, with no famous master to guide him and no opportunity to comprehend the strange beast, his future was bleak.

Located at the border between the human territory and the Great Wilderness, Qing Shi Village is constantly harassed by low-level beasts. The villagers live by hunting ordinary beasts and rely on rudimentary beast-shaped martial arts to protect themselves. It is the lowest level of human settlement in this world.

After you transmigrate and awaken your cheat ability, your destiny will be completely rewritten. The exotic beast martial arts and innate abilities that others cannot obtain can be easily acquired by you simply by hunting and devouring them. You will start from the lowest level, relying on devouring exotic beasts and fusing the power of thousands of mountain and sea beasts, to create a unique and invincible symbolic martial arts from scratch.