Time-Space City

Biodata

Background / History

Time-Space City is the core hub of the Time-Space Origin Realm, connected to the vast majority of known planes. It draws cultivators from innumerable worlds; even Second-Order Gods are considered its baseline rather than exceptional figures. Its population includes factions, independent cultivators, and powerful experts seeking techniques, resources, missions, or opportunities tied to transcendence 355.

Before the River of Time and Space entered a violent fluctuation period, the city was chiefly controlled by forces such as the War God Tower and Myriad Laws Hall, supported by only a small number of Supremes. The subsequent awakening of ancient Supremes and influx of high-level cultivators destabilized this arrangement, bringing conflict, robbery, and battles into the city itself 436.

At the Supreme Council, the city’s Supremes agreed to establish the Time-Space Inversion Nine Heavens Great Array. Ji Qing became the first participant to comprehend his assigned portion, later constructing the entire formation alone. The array repelled more than twenty invading Ninth-Order God Supremes led by Void Supreme 436 437.

By the end of the River of Time and Space’s fluctuation period, the city regularly used the array to shift through space, relocating between the river’s edge, deep Void, and desolate planes to evade danger 449.

Appearance

Time-Space City is a boundless fortified metropolis whose city walls extend beyond sight. Its artificial sky consists of stable formation light-screens, while its streets are thousands of zhang wide and built from unknown materials 355.

• Buildings range from immortal palaces and divine halls to mechanical fortresses, floating mountain peaks, and miniature oceans 355.
• Its architecture is densely packed, bizarre, and varied, reflecting the city’s connection to countless planes 355.
• Large-scale formations protect the city and serve as its principal means of spatial travel and defense 355 437.
• The city remains bustling even during crises, with cultivators from many realms trading, traveling, and accepting missions 410.

Society and Economy

Time-Space City is a place of immense opportunity but harsh competition. Tan Kui describes talent as its least valuable commodity: those who reach the city are already outstanding figures from their own planes, yet many still become ordinary or perish in its struggles 355.

Time-Space Crystals

Time-Space Crystals are the city’s principal high-value currency and are essential for cultivation, residence, teleportation, and high-level transactions.

• A low-grade mansion costs at least one billion Time-Space Crystals; better locations begin at ten billion 355.
• Annual mansion rents range from one hundred thousand to several million Time-Space Crystals 355.
• Cross-plane teleportation can cost one hundred million Time-Space Crystals per traveler 360.
• High-level War God Tower missions offer rewards ranging from trillions to hundreds of trillions of Time-Space Crystals 372.

Factions and Public Order

The city’s order is maintained through powerful institutions, formal rules, and the deterrence of its Supremes.

• War God Tower — A major city faction and a broad platform for missions, resource exchanges, intelligence, and combat-power testing. Second-Order Gods may apply for membership if they accept its rules 355.
• Myriad Laws Tower — A prestigious supplier of cultivation methods and secret arts ranging from First-Order to Ninth-Order God level; its wares are reliable but extremely expensive 355.
• Myriad Laws Hall — A leading authority in the city and the site of the Supreme Council that addressed the city’s defense and governance 436.
• Supremes — Following the Supreme Council, more Supremes received portions of the city’s authority, binding them to its defense in future crises 436.

Locations and Infrastructure

• Time-Space Tower — A towering ancient structure connected to the Time-Space Secret Realm and the route into Time-Space City. Its complex patterns evoke the same vastness as the River of Time and Space 337 355.
• War God Tower / War God Hall — Handles combat testing, bounty missions, exchanges, information, and resource trading 355 384.
• Myriad Laws Tower — A scroll-shaped building that sells high-level techniques and secret arts 355.
• Cross-Plane Teleportation Hub — A vast complex of array platforms used for directional travel between planes. Users must register, pay individually, and cannot conceal additional passengers inside spatial artifacts 360.
• Fragrant Mountain — A dojo district of green peaks, spiritual mist, rare herbs, mansions, and cultivation grounds 385.
• Eastern Floating Immortal Island Area — A district where Venerable Baixiang’s Jade Divine Hall reconnects to the city’s ley lines 382.

Defenses

Time-Space Inversion Nine Heavens Great Array

The Time-Space Inversion Nine Heavens Great Array is Time-Space City’s defining defense. Rather than relying only on direct protection, it enables the entire city to traverse space freely, making even top Supremes unable to pursue it effectively 436.

• The array also carries profound principles of the Dao of Time and Space, making it valuable for comprehension 436 438.
• Myriad Laws Supreme originally divided the array into dozens of sections for more than fifty Supremes to study and construct collaboratively 436.
• Ji Qing used the Eternal Pearl to deduce its complexities, completed the formation alone, and blocked an invasion by over twenty Ninth-Order God Supremes 436 437.
• The array became the city’s last barrier during the upheaval surrounding the River of Time and Space, allowing repeated emergency relocations 449.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Ji Qing’s arrival — Ji Qing enters the city through the Time-Space Tower, rents a mansion, studies its society for a month, and receives a Second-Order Limit combat-power assessment from the War God Tower 355.
• Rise of Venerable Guixu — Ji Qing uses the city’s mission network, markets, teleportation arrays, and factional connections while his growing strength turns him into a widely feared figure 356 360 372.
• River of Time and Space crisis — Ancient Supremes awaken and the city descends into chaos, forcing its major factions to convene the Supreme Council 434 436.
• Array defense — Ji Qing establishes the Time-Space Inversion Nine Heavens Great Array and saves the city from Void Supreme’s invading force 437.
• Transcendence era — The city survives continued threats by shifting through space under the array’s protection. Ji Qing ultimately returns there to complete his Mind’s final transformation before transcending beyond space and time 449.

Trivia

• The city’s stated connection to “the vast majority of known planes” makes it a nexus for cross-plane travel and commerce 355.
• Rumors claim that traces of Transcenders can occasionally be found in Time-Space City, though the provided accounts do not confirm any such appearance within the city 355.
• War God Tower added Ji Qing to its internal Observation Sequence after his first combat-power test, assigning him an initial rating of B+ 355.