Vast Land

Biodata

Geography and Cosmology

• Planetary scale: The Nebula Continent is only a small part of the Vast Land. The Cangxuan Domain is a region within that continent 449.
• Surrounding worlds: Numerous small worlds surround the planet. The God Clans control many of them and travel along established cosmic routes 449 753 774.
• Cosmic travel: Turbulent currents make travel between worlds dangerous. Even the God Clans normally follow routes charted over countless millennia rather than venture into unknown space 753.
• The wider universe: The God Realm is a vast galaxy containing countless star domains and planets, including innumerable planets comparable in size to the Vast Land 774.

Notable Locations

Society and Major Powers

God Clans

The Vast Land reveres martial strength, and its God Clans stand above its many races and factions. During the migration crisis, thirty-six God Clans of varying sizes are recorded, with the Eight Great God Clans occupying the highest tier 449 450 756.

Small Worlds and World Origin

• Control: God Clans compete for small worlds because their operation produces the Power of the World Origin 449.
• Tribute: The clans extract this power and offer it to their ascended gods in exchange for continued favor and protection 645.
• Restricted development: The Darkness God Clan erects the Nine Provinces Realm's world barrier, while realm limits also constrain its inhabitants' cultivation 470 736.
• Resource policy: No explicit rule forbids transferring Vast Land resources into small worlds, but the God Clans normally refuse because outside support affects World Origin production 736.
• Resistance: Prodigies escaping from small worlds have repeatedly challenged God Clan authority. Before Chen Ning's rise, such challengers had not destroyed or crippled a God Clan and were usually eliminated early 514.

Cultivation Standards

History

Ancient Defenders and the Fate God Clan's Calamity

The war of Gods and Devils in High Antiquity was fought to protect the Vast Land. The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden was among its defenders, and her existence remained recorded in ancient texts 754 769.

Hundreds of thousands of years before Chen Ning's investigation, the Fate God Clan attempted to create another god by altering Hua Luo's destiny before birth and reproducing the God of Fate's Divine Power within her. She lost control, devastating the clan's lands and spreading calamity. Five gods eventually suppressed her and neutralized her Divine Power, but she escaped into a lower realm 577.

The Fate God Clan concealed its responsibility and portrayed Hua Luo as a Person of Calamity. The commonly accepted account instead celebrated the five gods as heroic saviors 577.

Departure of the Gods

The Vast Land's gods ascended to the God Realm, leaving their clans behind. They maintained contact to receive World Origin, but Li Changsheng reveals that no gods have physically remained in the Vast Land for a long time and that its inhabitants cannot rely on them to confront the coming calamity 645 687.

The First-Generation Sect Master discovered this abandonment after leaving the Nine Provinces Realm. He founded So Close Yet Worlds Apart and pursued a higher realm. When he attained godhood, the God of Darkness gathered three other gods' divine senses to attack him before his cultivation stabilized, fearing that he would threaten their positions 479 686 960.

Chen Ning's Arrival and Rise

Chen Ning reaches the Vast Land after breaking through the Darkness God Clan's world barrier. Near Lone Smoke City, his interrogation of the Yellow Sand Lord reveals that “Beyond the Heavens” is not a separate higher existence, but the Vast Land itself 449 470.

His search for the First-Generation Sect Master leads him to Brocade Zither City and So Close Yet Worlds Apart. He subsequently gains powerful allies, while Emperor Yu establishes Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water to gather Rogue Cultivators under his leadership 470 479 596.

After Chen Ning defeats Li Changsheng, the Vast Land chooses him to confront its coming calamity, and natural power restores his exhausted strength. Li Changsheng promises to fight beside him 644.

The later destruction of the Darkness God Clan shocks the world. The Kunlun Clan Leader's involvement discourages other God Clans from targeting Chen Ning or the Dragon Clan, producing a brief period of peace 753.

Migration Crisis

Chen Ning discovers that the Vast Land has moved when a familiar cosmic route no longer leads him home. On returning, he finds disrupted seasons, an unstable day-night cycle, melting Snow God Clan mountains, and God Clans unable to contact their gods 753 754.

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader claims responsibility and presents migration as liberation from the gods. A colossal formation powers the movement, but requires resources beyond his own clan's capacity. Earlier attempts to obtain that power through the Eight-Armed Demon Venerable and the Dragon Clan's Dragon Pearl had failed 755 757.

As disasters spread, refugees seek shelter in protected God Clan territories. The War, Fate, and Death God Clan leaders publicly submit to Profound Nether while secretly helping an alliance investigate the formation. Their objective is to seize its core and reverse the migration 756 757.

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader is eventually slain, but the formation continues operating. The Kunlun God Clan takes charge of dismantling it, apparently bringing the crisis close to resolution 763 764.

Li Yuanqing's Betrayal

Li Yuanqing then reveals that he created the formation and used Profound Nether as a pawn. The disasters and his apparent rescue of the world redirect its inhabitants' faith toward him, enabling his ascension. His true goal is to transfer the Vast Land's fortune and World Origin into his own small world to resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden—even at the cost of the planet's survival 765.

Chen Ning rescues Qingxuzi and rallies God Clan leaders, Dragon Kings, Rogue Cultivators, and thousands of experts against Li Yuanqing. The alliance represents almost all the Vast Land's strongest forces, but suffers devastating losses against his Demigod power 766 767.

Li Yuanqing becomes a god, and the formation drains the world's vitality. The resurrected Holy Radiance Divine Maiden refuses to accept its destruction and sends her divine soul into the formation to reverse it. She and Chen Ning ultimately shatter Li Yuanqing's scheme and save the Vast Land 769 770 772.

Reconstruction and Independence

Peace returns, but the Vast Land remains displaced from its original cosmic position. Its connection to the former gods stays severed. Instead of continuing tribute to them, the inhabitants can direct World Origin toward the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, their new guardian, to help rebuild her body and restore her strength 772.

Chen Ning establishes the Dragon-Seeking Sect from Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water, with Emperor Yu as acting sect master. Supported by several God Clans and the Dragon Clan, it gains an exceptionally lofty position 772.

Heavenly Demon Threat

Demonic Qi later gathers above the Vast Land as the Heavenly Demons begin their campaign against the God Realm and the myriad realms. The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden recognizes that the new threat originates far beyond her ability to intervene 1007.

Yao Li brings Chen Ning back to Brocade Zither City in an attempt to restore his lost courage. His followers, once stigmatized as inauspicious sacrifices, are now celebrated throughout the Vast Land because of their association with its savior 1008.

God King Qingxuan traces Chen Ning's origins through Lower Gods from the Vast Land, bringing the Heavenly Demon army to it. Emperor Yu, So Close Yet Worlds Apart, the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, and God Clan experts join its defense 1011 1012.

During the fighting, the Spider Demon God sends demonic silk underground to absorb the planet's World Origin. Draining it completely would reduce the Vast Land to a desolate wasteland 1016.