Immortal Realm

Biodata

Geography

The original Immortal Realm comprised thirty-six great worlds. These worlds differed considerably in strength, resources, and political organization 205 228.

Xuantian Realm

• Su Chen originally proposed transporting the Xuantian Realm into Chaos and establishing it as the Immortal Realm’s thirty-seventh world 264.
• He ultimately released it within the Myriad Star Realm, using that region’s fragmented geography and disorder to support its development 282.
• Its initial foundation remained much weaker than that of native Immortal Realm territory: it could produce Mortal Immortals but offered almost no cultivation assistance above the Earth Immortal level 284.
• Su Chen later improved its quality until it could nearly stand alongside the Qing Tian Realm. These improvements did not extend equally to the surrounding Myriad Star Realm 442.

Cultivation and Natural Laws

Immortal Energy

• Entry into the Immortal Realm transforms a cultivator’s body and replaces Spiritual Energy with Immortal Energy 225.
• Cultivators at the Extreme Emperor Realm normally become early-stage Mortal Immortals through this transformation 225.
• Su Chen’s Chaos Body required far more energy than an ordinary ascender’s body. He used one hundred million Immortal Crystals to complete his transformation and reach early Mortal Immortal 226.
• Spiritual Energy is described as incompatible with the Immortal Realm. When the Xuantian Realm arrived, Immortal Energy flooded it, strengthened mortal bodies, and caused widespread cultivation breakthroughs 282.

Cultivation Hierarchy

• Immortal cultivation emphasizes Dao comprehension, not merely accumulated energy. Sudden enlightenment can enable a direct breakthrough to Earth Immortal or even Heavenly Immortal 258.
• A lower-world Great Emperor is called a Mortal Emperor in the Immortal Realm 254.
• “Half-Step Mortal Immortal” is not an official realm. Su Chen coined the term for the Evil Lord’s combination of a Mortal Immortal-level body and Extreme Emperor cultivation 204.
• Higher levels include the Master Realm, Innate Ancient God level, and Dao Lord Realm. The Great Dao’s condition can prevent otherwise qualified cultivators from advancing further 461 491.

Great Dao and Karma

• The Immortal Realm is governed by the Great Dao, rather than by a world spirit like the Xuantian Realm’s Heavenly Dao 275.
• Its native foundation is strong enough that even its weakest ordinary regions can support the birth of Heavenly Immortal cultivators 293.
• Its Great Dao is nevertheless described as incomplete before the later changes to its history 454.
• Killing increases karmic burden and can hinder future cultivation. The altered Myriad Worlds lack this particular restriction, allowing killing-based paths and stronger Demonic Cults to flourish 561.

Travel and Access

Ascension

• Great Emperor Wushi’s ascension renewed public awareness of the route after an exceptionally long period without anyone ascending from the Xuantian Realm 209.
• Su Chen initially believed random destinations would prevent the Nine Nether Demon Kingdom from identifying Xuantian ascenders 209.
• His own party encountered spatial turbulence, and numerous earlier Su Family ascenders were later found injured or scattered 225 228 245.

Descent to the Lower Realm

Three methods of descent are identified 204:

• Overwhelming strength: personally disregard the Great Dao’s restrictions.
• Assistance: be sent down as a weaker immortal cultivator by a sufficiently powerful expert.
• Reincarnation: descend by being reborn and cultivating again.

Additional restrictions include:

• Crossing the Great Dao Barrier ordinarily requires Immortal Emperor-level cultivation. Su Chen crossed using his constitution and the Heaven-Escaping Banner 268.
• Immortal Kings, Immortal Lords, and even Immortal Venerables cannot ordinarily descend by their own strength 264 307.
• Reincarnators cannot normally bring possessions with them, although soul-bound natal treasures provide an exception 270.
• An Immortal Emperor entering the Lower Realm retains that cultivation; the Lower Realm’s breakthrough ceiling does not erase an already-existing higher realm 270.

Travel Between Great Worlds

• Merchant associations established teleportation gates between Canglan and Jiuyang to support trade 254.
• These gates are open to outside travelers for payment in Immortal Crystals 254.
• Immortal Kings stationed at the associated cities belong to the merchant associations and do not participate in Canglan’s local power struggles 254.

Resources and Society

Immortal Crystals

Immortal Crystals support both cultivation and commerce. Higher grades contain denser Immortal Energy and Dao principles 227.

Each grade is worth one hundred times the preceding grade 227.

• Top-grade crystals provide substantial help with Dao-based cultivation 236.
• Divine Crystals are a superior resource containing over a thousand times the Great Dao power of Immortal Crystals 442.
• Specialized physique-enhancing treasures can be exceedingly rare even at first-grade Immortal Rank 223.
• Treasures capable of improving cultivation aptitude are especially valuable; those containing Creation Force are among the rare means of doing so 265.

Ascenders and Local Life

• Major factions generally compete to recruit Lower Realm ascenders, regarding those who rose to the top of their original worlds as talented recruits 213.
• This does not guarantee safety. Injured Su Family ascenders endured exploitation and prolonged fear before Su Chen gathered them 245.
• Nearly everyone in the original Immortal Realm could cultivate, unlike the Lower Realm, which also contained ordinary mortals 569.
• A Supreme Spirit Root, highly useful for Spiritual Energy cultivation, is inadequate for efficiently absorbing Immortal Energy. Han Li’s poor absorption severely limited his progress 254.
• Seclusion can last millions of years or an entire hundred-million-year epoch 245.

History

Birth and Primordial Origins

While traveling upstream through time, Su Chen discovered that the Immortal Realm had undergone a long gestation rather than existing in a complete state from the beginning. He observed its Great Dao taking shape in a nearly lifeless world 464.

Su Chen used the Time Great Dao to stabilize the forming Heart of the Great Dao. Immortal Energy and vitality then surged outward, and countless living beings appeared. A connection formed between him and the realm; within the white radiance of its Great Dao Spirit, he saw a figure with a karmic aura identical to his own 464.

Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate separately claimed that Su Chen was the Lord of the Darkness Origin and had ended the Primordial Era, killing countless Immortal Realm powerhouses and Innate God-Demons. This was presented as a revelation about Su Chen’s predecessor, not something Su Chen already understood 460.

Xuantian Ascenders and the Divine Court

After the Xuantian Realm recovered, Great Emperor Wushi ascended, followed by other cultivators associated with Su Chen. Su Chen eventually entered with his own companions, arriving in the Canglan Realm after spatial interference disrupted their passage 209 212 224 225 227.

He located scattered Su Family descendants and rebuilt the family’s presence in the Immortal Realm. He later transported the Xuantian Realm into the Myriad Star Realm, where the Divine Court expanded into surrounding domains 228 245 282 304.

The Divine Court ultimately unified the Myriad Star Realm. Its rise also brought it into direct conflict with the Nine Nether Demon Kingdom, whose Immortal Emperor general Ao Hu was killed by a Divine Court expert 348 350.

Decline and Unification

After Su Chen’s departure, Immortal Energy began withering for reasons the inhabitants could not identify. Within one hundred epochs, half of the realm’s overall energy had disappeared, and the decline continued accelerating 461.

Tongtian destroyed the Upper Three Realms and unified the Immortal Realm under the Divine Court. Despite this political unification, the energy crisis continued: advancement to Immortal King became extremely difficult, powerful cultivators avoided unnecessary fighting, and some sealed their cultivation to conserve energy 461 462 489.

The resulting Age of Dharma’s End transformed cultivation society. Cultivators below the Master Realm still required energy to sustain themselves, and deaths from exhausted lifespans became increasingly common. Tongtian created protected small worlds to sustain the Divine Court and Su Family, while other powerful figures adopted similar measures 462.

Altered Birth and the Myriad Worlds

An enemy delayed the Immortal Realm’s birth by ten thousand years, changing the course of its entire history. The revised chronology had a much longer Primordial Epoch, followed by an Age of Gods and a Darkness Origin calamity 466.

The resulting setting was called the Myriad Worlds. It contained countless worlds and lacked the original division between Upper and Lower Realms 467. Su Chen later explained that the original Immortal Realm had not simply become an earlier historical era: its history had been overwritten and no longer existed in the past 674.

Restored Immortal Realm

Heavenly Vast Realm Lord later recalled surviving the Age of Dharma’s End in a sealed pocket space and awakening only after Su Chen restored the Immortal Realm. The realm’s rebirth gave him an opportunity to begin comprehending the Dao Lord Realm 757.

The restored realm operated under substantially stronger laws than its predecessor 757:

Threats and Unresolved Mysteries

• Darkness Origin — Universally recognized as an enemy threatening the Immortal Realm. It exists outside the Myriad Worlds, leading Su Chen to suspect that the altered birth might not have affected it 460 489.
• Xuantian Realm’s enemies — Thunder Spirit Immortal Emperor pursued Xiao Yan because of his Xuantian origins and claimed that the entire Immortal Realm would eventually oppose the Xuantian Realm. Su Chen did not yet know the basis of that claim 328 331 333.
• Su Chen and the Great Dao Spirit — Su Chen sensed an unexplained affinity with the realm before discovering his identical karmic aura within its forming Great Dao Spirit 445 464.
• The realm’s life cycle — Su Chen theorized that the Immortal Realm might undergo reincarnation, passing through growth, decline, death, and renewed life. The idea arose from his observations of its birth rather than a confirmed explanation for its decline 464.