Ten Thousand Chariots Nation

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ten Thousand Chariots Nation
Original Name	萬乘國
Type	Nation
Capital	Capital City
Founder / First National Leader	Zhou Ming
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 446

Founding and Early Growth

The Ten Thousand Chariots Nation was founded on November 1, with that year designated as the first year of its national calendar. Its name, proposed by Zhou Ming and chosen through a public vote, refers to the historical association of possessing ten thousand vehicles with exceptional wealth and power. 446

Milestone	Details
Founding membership	55 city-states joined in the first batch—half of the Hundred Cities Alliance's city-states. 446
Initial territory	13.5 million square kilometers. 446
Initial population	230 million. 446
Initial GDP	38.7 billion Spirit Coins, representing 61% of the Hundred Cities Alliance's total GDP. 446
Three-year expansion	Membership rose to 85 city-states. 446
Three-year GDP share	Member regions' share of the Hundred Cities Alliance's GDP rose from 61% to 77%, exceeding Zhou Ming's 75% target. 446

Zhou Ming's initial development strategy centered on proving the superiority of the national system through infrastructure, foreign trade, and the widespread adoption of Spiritual Energy technology. 446

Economy and Infrastructure

Infrastructure Construction

The Infrastructure Construction Bank approved 158 loans totaling 1.8 billion Spirit Coins during the nation's first three years. The funding supported:

• 18,000 kilometers of new roads. 446
• 12,000 kilometers of metal railways. 446
• Seven industrial zones. 446
• Five reservoirs. 446
• Nineteen airports. 446
• Twenty-two mines. 446

Foreign Trade and Spiritual Energy Industry

Exports to the Eastern Yuan Continent rose from 3.3 billion to 23 billion Spirit Coins annually within three years. Cheap Soul Stones imported from the Eastern Yuan Continent enabled the nation to employ more than 100,000 cultivators in its expanding Spiritual Energy economy. 446

• Spiritual Energy Locomotives reached three-digit numbers. 446
• Propeller-driven cargo airplanes increased fivefold. 446
• Spiritual Energy factories gained the capacity for sustained operation. 446
• The First Pill Refining Factory in Heavenly Sun City produced 300,000 Spirit Fusion Pills daily. 455
• State-owned refining, alchemy, banking, infrastructure, and export enterprises generated profits on the trillion-Spirit-Coin scale and accounted for 45% of national GDP. 536

National Cultivation

The nation developed a Cultivation for All model, combining public education, cultivation academies, Spirit Fusion Pills, and Spirit Gathering Towers to expand the cultivator population. 465 470

By the period preceding the Guang Lei Mountain conflict, estimates placed the nation at roughly 800 million people, nearly two million cultivators, and a growing number of Core Solidification Stage Immortals. 465

Affiliated Sects

The Ten Thousand Chariots Nation incorporated major cultivation sects while formally allowing them to retain autonomy, independence, and control over fundamental sect affairs. Affiliated sects were nevertheless required to obey national law, avoid harming national interests, and accept national oversight. 457

Sect	Outcome
Flying Cloud Mountain	Became affiliated with the nation before the Red Star Mountain negotiations. 465
Red Star Mountain	Joined after accepting International Student Disciples and national terms. 459
Guang Lei Mountain	Was conquered and incorporated following diplomatic pressure, infiltration, and conflict. 468 470
Azure Cloud Mountain	Joined without resistance, completing the integration of Central Yuan Continent. 470

The affiliated sects gained access to talented disciples, subsidies, strategic materials, cultivation manuals, Spirit Fusion Pills, and industrial cooperation. 457 470

In practice, the sects became economically dependent on the nation. Spirit Gathering Towers reduced the strategic importance of traditional Spirit Veins, cultivation academies produced Immortals outside sect structures, and Spiritual Essence Warships reduced the nation's need for sect military protection. 470

Government and National Leadership

National Leader	Documented Role
Zhou Ming	First National Leader; oversaw the nation's founding, early economic expansion, and integration of Central Yuan Continent. 446 470
Wu Xinyu	National Leader during the decision to invade the Western Yuan Continent. 535
Cheng Zhiyuan	National Leader during the aftermath of the Eastern Yuan Continent's raid; approved the Five-Year Recuperation plan. 541

National institutions mentioned in the narrative include the National Defense Army, Intelligence Bureau, National Special Operations Bureau, Infrastructure Construction Bank, Congress, and several ministries. 461 527 541

Military Capabilities

Spiritual Essence Fleets

The nation's military strength relies heavily on Spiritual Essence Warships, industrialized weapons production, and a large cultivator population.

• Before the Southern Yuan campaign, the standing army consisted of four fleets totaling slightly over 300,000 cultivators. 529
• The nation later operated six Spiritual Essence Fleets. 541
• After the Five-Year Recuperation plan, the military retained 300,000 elite soldiers and six fleets equipped with Type-Five Spiritual Essence Warships. 544
• Type-Five warships incorporated beyond-visual-range radar, high-power engines, wireless spiritual essence wave communicators, automated controls, and Super Spiritual Essence Cannons. Their overall combat power was stated to be 3.8 times that of Type-Four warships. 544

Civilian Legions

During the Southern Yuan Continent invasion, the government supplemented its regular forces with self-funded civilian legions.

• Allied city-states supplied troops, equipment, and provisions. 529
• Civilian legions were required to obey National Defense Army command or face disbandment and repatriation. 529
• More than 3,000 full-strength, 1,000-man civilian legions were announced within one month. 529

Heretical Cultivator Suppression

Heretical Cultivators were a major domestic security target from the nation's founding onward. Three large-scale campaigns involving millions of troops and Spiritual Essence Warships reportedly reduced the group to near-extinction within national borders. 521

History

Integration of Central Yuan Continent

The nation first expanded by combining city-states under a centralized national system, then extended its influence to cultivation sects through economic pressure, diplomacy, technology transfers, and offers of access to strategic materials. 446 457

It targeted Guang Lei Mountain by assisting its oppressed mortal cities, undermining the sect's economic base, and presenting its leaders with the alternative of cooperation or decline. 461 462 After Guang Lei Mountain's incorporation and Azure Cloud Mountain's voluntary accession, the whole Central Yuan Continent entered what Zhou Ming described as the Age of Mortals, in which mortal institutions held greater political weight than Immortal sects. 470

Southern Yuan Continent Invasion

Forty-eight years after its founding, slowing growth, resource scarcity, overloaded Spirit Veins, unemployment, and trade conflicts helped drive the nation toward external expansion. 527 528

The leadership used crimes attributed to Southern Yuan Heretical Cultivators—including the abduction of Mu Feiyan—to generate public support for annexation. 527 The stated campaign objectives were permanent occupation, acquisition of land and population, and seizure of Spirit Veins and resources. 529

The nation absorbed the Southern Yuan Continent within roughly three years, but its civilian legions committed widespread atrocities while conquering mortal cities and extracting wealth. 534 535

Western and Northern Yuan Campaigns

After digesting the Southern Yuan Continent, the government turned toward the Western Yuan Continent under pressure from factions seeking further profits. 535 The four major sects destroyed or incorporated the Western Yuan Continent's sects with limited losses, though full integration of its cities was expected to take years. 537

The nation also intervened in the Northern Yuan Continent, but Eastern Yuan support for Northern and Western Yuan resistance forces inflicted steady losses on its militia. 538

War with the Eastern Yuan Continent

The Eastern Yuan Continent launched a raid on the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation's homeland after the latter escalated its Northern Yuan campaign. More than one hundred cities fell; tens of millions of people were killed, hundreds of billions of Spirit Coins in wealth were plundered, thousands of factory installations were stripped, and hundreds of thousands of technical workers were abducted. 538

The nation initially halted major operations rather than retaliating. Exhaustion, desertion, inflation, dwindling recruitment, and the withdrawal of the Four Great Sects from the National Defense Army forced Cheng Zhiyuan's government to adopt the Five-Year Recuperation plan. 541

After recovery, the nation returned to war with more advanced Type-Five warships. Its expeditionary fleet defeated Eastern Yuan forces at an approximately 100:1 warship-loss ratio, destroyed more than 1,000 enemy warships, and compelled the return of over 200,000 technical personnel. 545

Devil Saint Crisis

Following two decades of resource-driven growth from trade with the Devil Abyss Continent, the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation became a “super-superpower.” 579

A Devil Saint later inflicted severe casualties on both the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation and the Eastern Yuan Nation. The nation lost 350,000 Immortals, while its cannon ships could only inflict minor injuries on the enemy. 580

Facing the Devil Saint and a vast devil army, the nation planned to abandon its homeland and relocate to a continent 200 million li westward. 580 The Saint Creation Project subsequently achieved a breakthrough when a peak Spirit Manifestation Late Stage cultivator advanced to the Spirit Saint Stage. 582

Notable Characteristics

• The nation emphasizes “beauty” in clothing, etiquette, artifact design, and political systems; outside observers associate its people and goods with refinement rather than crude mass production. 464
• It uses industrial production to mass-produce cultivation resources and military equipment, narrowing the traditional gap between mortals and Immortals. 455 466
• Its leadership often frames annexation as cooperation and mutual benefit, while rival sects regard its economic dependence, disciple policies, and integration methods as covert annexation. 464 465
• Its long-term expansion created powerful interest groups and increasingly militarized parts of society, leading Zhou Ming to describe the nation he founded as having become “a monster.” 537

Trivia

• “Chariot” refers to a vehicle; the name originally evoked the wealth and military power associated with owning ten thousand vehicles in earlier city-state history. 446
• Despite its name, the nation could manufacture not merely ten thousand but hundreds of thousands or millions of vehicles. 446
• The nation’s founding calendar continues from its first year as long as the nation endures. 446