Essence of theUltimate Ascendant (Ultimate Human or Numen)

By drinking this Essence, you will receive multiple boons.

• Any limits you may have are now broken. You may improve any aspect of yourself, including those aspects that normally could not be improved at all, to an infinite extent. The passage of time lends you strength and even when doing absolutely nothing you may passively grow as if you were doing all-out training at a modest rate of improvement. If you were to put any actual effort into improving then this growth would gain an astronomical boost. You have total control over where any growth is allocated, will never advance further or faster than you are comfortable with, and have an exact awareness of your amassed capabilities and how they measure up. So long as a particular skill, trait, or power exists within your local context, and you have a basic understanding of what it is and entails, you have the potential to develop it. This does not require educational resources or external aids and disregards entirely the limitations of your physiology and metaphysiology. You may even develop traits that one is normally only born with. Development in any area will never preclude or hamper development in any other area, and as such you may safely acquire mutually-incompatible traits. This is to such an extent that in a Xianxia world you could simultaneously cultivate dozens of distinct foundations without any issue. As they improve, your skills, qualities, powers, techniques, and perks may develop a degree of potency, applicability, and versatility that defies their normal limits. Since improvement necessitates the removal of flaws, you may use training to remove vulnerabilities, crippling effects, and requirements. Time is your ally and you will never be lessened by the passage of time, even in the subtlest of ways. No maintenance is required to retain the fullness of your powers, and no eternity is long enough to diminish your ability to enjoy life.

• You are at the pinnacle of mental prowess with beyond genius level intellect and a perfect memory with infinite storage.

• You are now capable of calculating and processing things faster than quantum super computers. And if that wasn’t enough, you also have the ability to accelerate and form multiple independent thought processes, though by how many and how much completely depends on you, as these abilities grow stronger with more use.

• You have a near-limitless capacity to acquire and master skills of any variety, create genius inventions and techniques, and attain within a few days or weeks what mastery regular people might in lifetimes. Moreover, you require no extra knowledge to begin learning these skills. So long as you have sufficient time and materials you’ll be able to easily develop FTL starship and spacecraft, cure mankind's deadliest illnesses, make paradigm shifting discoveries, and eventually, after amassing an immense amount of knowledge to the point of absurdity, you’ll even be able to invent your very own brand of Clarketech. While the most obvious application of these abilities is in science and technology, you are by no means limited to it. In mere weeks, you could become a master of martial arts, and in days later create your own fighting styles. A week’s practice could make you humanity's greatest detective, its finest doctor, its most talented artist, or its most charismatic leader. You’re also able to analyze, discern, understand, and comprehend the truths and workings of any and all non-concealed concepts, mysteries and phenomena with long enough exposure.

• You can reverse engineer anything with enough time and resources.

• You are immune to insanity and memetic hazards. "Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" becomes more of a guideline than a rule. When you acquire new skills and expertise, you will never forget or become incapable of your peak performance. This means with time you will inevitably become a veritable swiss army knife of incredible scientific knowledge, Olympic feats of physical strength and skill and much more. In a matter of months or years, your technologies could advance civilization to its extremes or make you into a transhumanist god. Nanobot enhancement, genetic recoding, cybernetics, quantum computing, and more may be in your grasp. Only you can imagine what might be possible in a decade, or a century later. Your talent in all disciplines is quite literally all-encompassing.

• You are to become the overman.

• You have awaken to your psionic potential, allowing you to produce Psionic Energy from your thoughts, emotions, and your very consciousness. You’re able to manipulate Psionic Energy to affect both the physical, mental, and the spiritual planes of existence.

• You can alter the minds and perceptions of others, even enhancing your own body to a level beyond the peak of your species. You’ll start out as a novice psychic with high level capacity and output but low level proficiency, and intuitive knowledge of only the most basic techniques (telekinesis, telepathy, etc.). You can easily enter the minds of those with a weaker psyche than yourself, allowing you to easily read their thoughts, memories, and emotions. You can also subtly manipulate them while you are within minds. Your extrasensory perceptions allow you to perceive any and all forces/energies, including time and space, allowing you to control them with enough effort.

• You gain the ability to use Astral Projection and Clairvoyance, which allows you to traverse the immaterial planes and observe distant events.

• You are able to keep your other powers while utilizing astral projection and/or clairvoyance, allowing you to exert your abilities from an even greater distance.

• You have an uncanny intuition for developing new psionic techniques, refining existing ones, and can essentially copy any psionic powers/abilities you see.

• You possess, within your mind, a library of memories about psionic techniques.

• You will need to meditate and experience the memories to understand them but all the knowledge you need is at your fingertips. Your psionic potential is immeasurable and can train yourself to, not only increase your skills and proficiency, but your output and capacity as well. The latter two should be nigh impossible as for most psychics, as they are, most of the time, fixed at birth. With enough time you will be able to develop into a psychic god capable of rewriting reality on a whim but the road there will be long and arduous. Be careful not to lobotomize yourself on your journey.

• You possess a magical reactor, as a spiritual organ, that grants you the ability to generate, store, and manipulate Magical Energy, the fundamental energy fueling all mystical phenomena. Your reactor can adapt to any Magical Energy, integrating their exotic and esoteric property to fuel various spells from different systems of magic. It provides you with a steady supply of magical power that will only grow over time, even now you can already use high consumption spells with wild abandon and still not make so much as a dent. You have the capacity to learn and use any magic, even unique ones upon seeing it once or understanding enough about it. You’re capable of utilizing a transcendental magic system not reliant on any mystical foundations, esoteric laws, or exotic metaphysics. With this magic system, you can reproduce any spell from any magic system from first principles. This allows you to still cast them even without the necessary mystical foundations, esoteric laws, or exotic metaphysics from the spell’s place of origin. This magic system has three major branches, they are Spellcraft, Enchantment, and Alchemy.

• Spellcraft: The shaping of Magical Energy into constructs that produces various effects that we commonly refer to as spells. Your library contains information on many different systems and schools of magic, so with enough perseverance you may even discover the secrets of True Magic.

• Enchantment: The creation of objects powered by Magical Energy, capable of producing the same effects as Spellcraft but anchored to objects.

• Alchemy: The creation and transformation of materials and liquids with Magical Energy. From potions producing effects when ingested to esoteric metals and gems to use in Enchantments, the creation of devices, or armor, etc.

• A library of grimoires about these three major branches has been implanted into your mind. You will still need to read them in order to understand them, to experiment if you want to acquire new skills, and practice to raise your proficiency, regardless all the knowledge you need is at your fingertips. You’re capable of casting spells without requiring any extra materials like magical foci, arcane artifacts, or mystical catalysts, the only thing you require is Magical Energy to fuel the spell. The time required to cast, if any, remains however and the library also contain spells from several broad magic systems to get you started. While this ability has no theoretical upper limit, the more complex and powerful spells will test your knowledge, understanding, skill, and proficiency. With enough time you will be able to reach heights only the gods can dream of but be careful not to break reality or destroy your soul on your journey there.

• You have unlock the spiritual pathways that enables the circulation and cultivation of Life-Force Energy, the fundamental energy that allows life to appear/exist, grow and flourish. This slows down the aging process, and will inevitably culminate in complete agelessness.

• You will begin at the first stage of cultivation, and through arduous efforts you can refine your body, mind, and soul, to purify your very essence, distilling it to attain higher levels, raising your overall physical, mental, and spiritual attributes. Each advancement grants you access to increasing tiers of powers and effects. Though they are usually wuxia/xianxia themed in nature, it need not necessarily be the case. The exact nature of these powers and effects are actually determine by the methods, techniques, and systems you are using to cultivate as well as the abilities you are cultivating. Your talents and aptitudes are raised beyond the maximum possible, the speed and ease at which you learn all things pertaining to cultivation (this may include but is not limited to martial skills, mystic spells, alchemy, formations, artifact creation, etc.) is beyond ludicrous.

• You have the option of utilizing any already existing cultivation system or you can pioneer a new one.

• Your soul has been fused with an ancient spirit of knowledge. You can commune with this spirit to access their knowledge and learn new techniques or acquire knowledge of how to advance your path. Cultivation is not for the idle, but instead for those who struggle and overcome challenges. Regardless of how powerful you grow you may always find things that challenge you, so long as you make a sufficient effort to seek them out, until you finally stand among the highest of beings.

• You are the embodiment of the concept of a warrior. Your martial talent is supreme amongst all others, in a fight you are peerless.

• Your body and skill can be trained with no limit, even breaking the laws of physics and accomplishing seemingly impossible tasks with pure skill and might.

• You gain strength and skill at an accelerated rate as well and grow in response to whatever threat you are facing. You possess a heart that is adamant and unyielding, able to stand up to any seemingly insurmountable obstacle with a truly unbreakable will.

• You are pure undiluted badass.

• You have all the talent and skills to be a natural born genius at fighting, spatial awareness, tactical thinking, you name it.

• Furthermore you will slowly but surely develop skills and martial arts designed to fell whatever foe you are fighting as long as you are training to fight them or fighting them actively, fighting will make the process go far quicker. For example, if you are fighting an immortal foe you can create a martial arts technique which imparts the concept of mortality upon whomever you strike or slash, however such a technique would likely take long to develop if you don’t already have something similar developed. This does not mean you will win against anyone in a fight however, merely that you have the potential to do so.

• You are also able to master any form of martial techniques or martial arts in a matter of days to the point where you could be called a grandmaster at it. However the more supernatural the martial art the longer it will take to master.

• You possess immense knowledge on occult and alchemical lore, allowing you to make potions that can do almost anything, from immortality to regeneration, and/or even cause someone to fall in love with a specific target. Your skills in the medicinal arts is such that you can cure just about anything with a bit of research, even granting patients immunity to their ailments. You are a master of life and biology, able to create homunculi that are superior to regular versions of their species in all areas including being ageless and perfectly loyal to you. Any ingredients you need, you can conjure from thin air.

• You are also a master craftsman, able to design, build, and maintain anything from machines to a simple shovel. Your work is flawless, and will never rot or rust, only able to be destroyed through violence. Fortunately they are extremely durable and work better than one made by someone else. You are able to craft items on par with those in myths and legends. A spear that never miss, a sword that can cut through anything, invulnerable armor, etc. You can even force specific abilities onto items through sheer skill and craft on a conceptual level. Any materials you need, you can conjure from thin air.

• Your Spark has ignited, freeing you from the influence of fate/destiny and the local laws of reality, be they physical or magical. Most important however, is your new ability to traverse the multiverse at your leisure.

• You can perceive and target any plane, universe, or dimension within the multiverse easily, but accessing any kind of destination beyond the multiverse will require a monumental amount of effort and practice. And if you were to do so blindly, you might find yourself in a semi-random location. Your physical form is now merely a projection of your mind, allowing you to alter your appearance at will and in time, even replicate the powers and abilities of other creatures.

• You gain the ability to enter a state wherein you are invulnerable towards all threat physical or magical. However, in order to maintain this state of invulnerability, you are require to remain undistracted at all times. You are also granted multiple forms of immortality, such as agelessness, restoration, and resurrection. On the downside, this means your immortalities are dependent on your Spark. On the upside, this means that so long as your Spark remains, you’re able to restore yourself even if your body, mind, and soul were erased from existence. Your spark is also a source of seemingly infinite power and energy, drawn from across the multiple planes, universes, and dimensions you’ve visited. While you’re blessed with limitless aptitude for exotic and esoteric disciplines, you lack any sort of inherent knowledge and so must learn from scratch. In time, as you grow in power and familiarity with your abilities, you’ll be able to create planes, universes, and dimensions of your own.

• Optionally, you may turn this entire Essence into a bloodline, inheritable to all your offspring and their descendants. Though they inherit the power and potential, they will not be able to inherit the knowledge that came with the original. However, those knowledge can still be pass down through the more traditional methods. If you choose this option, your descendants will inherit a Spark of their own, but whether or not they can ignite their spark depends entirely on them.

• Optionally, you may choose to start with your Spark dormant. While you still have your Spark, whether or not you will be able to ignite it depends entirely on you.

• The boons granted to you by this Essence cannot be drained, suppressed, weakened, stolen, copied, altered, or otherwise manipulated against your will in any way shape or form. You may extend this protection to any other Essence or Essences in your possession.