Divine Court

Biodata

Power Progression

These milestones track the organization’s collective strength, not a cultivation realm held by the court itself.

History

Establishment in the Xuantian Realm

Su Chen proposed creating an empire-like organization but rejected the name “empire” in favor of Divine Court. The Su Family initially worried about adopting the name of the vanished Supreme Divine Court, which had once briefly unified the Immortal Realm. Su Chen nevertheless declared that their new court would surpass it 277.

After nearly three days of discussion, the family established the court’s offices and four great halls without changing the Su Family’s existing internal positions. Su Chen became Lord, while Su Qingtian assumed responsibility for administration. A floating island appeared at the center of the Xuantian Realm, and the realm was divided into Qitian State, Wenxian State, and Shenzhou State. Those who openly opposed the arrangement were killed 277 278.

The new regime also curbed established families’ behavior. In Wangyun City, Wang He stopped his servant from attempting to seize Yan Wanwan, warning that the Divine Court’s establishment had changed what the Wang Family could get away with 278.

Black Gold Domain and Northern Nether Empire

Expansion into the Black Gold Domain brought the court into conflict with its ruler. Its occupation of cities and killing of appointed overseers led the Domain Lord to dispatch Yang Menghua against Su Yuanba in Rizhao City. Local spectators mocked the court’s name and assumed its visible Daluo Golden Immortals could not survive the retaliation 285 286.

Su Chen ultimately killed Yang Menghua, subdued the Heavenly Spirit Domain Lord with a Soul Imprint, and ordered the court to secure the Black Gold Domain. Once the Black Gold and Tianling domains were nearly controlled, he suspended further expansion so that the organization could develop enough strength to administer its holdings 291 302.

An Ruoxuan proposed supplying cultivation resources below market prices. The arrangement addressed a specific weakness: Su Chen possessed exceptional treasures and immense wealth, but insufficient ordinary cultivation materials for the entire court. One subsequent delivery cost nine hundred million top-grade Immortal Crystals 292 302.

The court declared independence from the Northern Nether Empire. Su Chen initially deterred interference by releasing his Immortal Lord aura; after the court defeated four Immortal Lords, its reputation rose sharply. It eventually absorbed the empire’s territory and developed there for more than a million years 305 309 310.

Conquest of the Myriad Star Realm

The court initially remained within the former Northern Nether Empire, avoiding an immediate confrontation with the Myriad Star Realm’s established Immortal Venerable factions. Those factions nevertheless feared its growth and speculated that its resources came from an extraordinary inheritance or a connection to the ancient court 311 312 327.

The severe injury of Lingyun Sect disciple Zhang Wu supplied a pretext for war. Lingyun Sect attacked with nearly forty experts, while other major factions supported the court’s destruction. Mu Qingling killed the Ninth Elder after he demanded Lin Yimeng and one hundred billion top-grade Immortal Crystals 341 342.

The offensive ended in defeat. Following Su Chen’s destruction of General Ao Hu, Su Qingtian took the Primordial Spirits of the surviving Tianshan and Wuji leaders and the Lingyun Sect remnants. Rather than discard their manpower, he ordered them to help consolidate the Myriad Star Realm 349.

Su Qingtian then targeted lower-ranked worlds. He conquered the fourteenth-ranked Ziyun Realm, spent five hundred thousand years consolidating it, and continued the outward campaign. Stronger powers largely refrained from intervening, partly because of the Xuantian Realm’s connections to the ancient court’s surviving followers 352 353.

Connection to the Supreme Divine Court

The court’s ancient history is entangled with time travel. Future Su Chen explained that he had taken the Su Family into the past and established the Divine Court there. In that account, the ancient court disappeared because its future-born members returned to their proper timeline 335.

Tongtian independently reached a similar conclusion. He had remained behind after the disappearance, located the Xuantian Realm, and left an inheritance there while waiting for the Su Family and Divine Master to reappear. Other surviving followers spent the intervening years hiding from their enemies 354 387.

Su Chen initially kept these remnants at a distance, concerned that their overwhelming strength might disrupt the present court. After recognizing their loyalty, he summoned them home and issued new identity tokens 354 453.

Although Su Chen explicitly told Zhou Yunling that the ancient and present courts were the same force, later revelations complicated his understanding. After returning to the Upper Reaches of Time, he concluded that he had not founded the Supreme Divine Court and privately questioned the identity of the lord Tongtian remembered. The supplied account does not resolve that contradiction 428 489.

War with the Upper Three Realms

The Nine Nether Demon Kingdom invaded the court’s Immortal Crane Realm branch to draw out its master. Yang Yunjian killed dozens of members and forced Su Ping Tian into a deadly delaying game before Su Xiao and other Su Family experts arrived through a Spatial Formation 446 448.

The fighting exposed a larger conflict. Wang Lan and Li Hedong intervened against the court’s defenders, while Su Chen identified the Upper Three Realms as the opposing side behind the confrontation. Wang Lan had formerly belonged to the Supreme Divine Court before leaving with the two defecting Heavenly Venerates 453 458.

Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate and Daode Heavenly Venerate had betrayed the court out of fear of Su Chen’s unusual identity and a desire to seize his Time Dao Fruit. Despite that betrayal, both later sacrificed themselves, becoming a Taiji Compass and a crimson sword for Tongtian 371 461.

Su Chen then departed for another battlefield, stating that the war with the Upper Three Realms had never stopped. He left Tongtian countless treasures and ordered him to unify the Immortal Realm and protect the court 461.

Unification and Seclusion

Tongtian rebuilt the court over successive epochs, first conquering every world outside the Upper Three Realms. As Immortal Energy dwindled, he eventually attacked and erased the Upper Three Realms, completing the unification Su Chen had ordered. He continued waiting in the Xuantian Realm for Su Chen’s return 461.

After unification, the court became increasingly withdrawn. Hundreds of epochs later, it remained universally known but rarely seen, while declining Immortal Energy forced many outside experts to conserve their strength or seal their cultivation 462.

Su Chen later described another upheaval: an unknown enemy had changed history after his defeat, transforming the Immortal Realm into the Myriad Worlds. His account included the Divine Court and the loss of his relatives 588.

Reappearance in the Restored Immortal Realm

In the later restored Immortal Realm, the court resided within the Thirty-three Heavens. Its prolonged absence reduced it to fragments of legend preserved by a few ancient forces 756 757.

The World-Destroying Demon Lord’s campaign brought it back into public view. Bell chimes announced the appearance of its celestial palace throughout the Immortal Realm. Su Chen’s reconstruction had made the court exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, allowing observers across the realm to see it 757 758.

The Demon Lord defeated its two gate guards, but the residents did not regard him as a serious danger. Jueyang stated that many within matched his strength, and Su Xuan ultimately forced the attacker to kneel 758.

Organization and Administration

Leadership

• Su Chen — Founder and Divine Master. He supplies resources and protects the organization, describing his practical role as a guardian of its growth rather than its principal territorial conqueror 277 313.
• Su Qingtian — Chief steward and commander of the four great halls. He later receives full responsibility for management and directs campaigns against surrounding worlds 278 352.
• Tongtian / Lingbao Heavenly Venerate — Ancient core member and leader of the surviving followers. He assumes command after Su Chen departs and completes the conquest of the Immortal Realm 453 461.

Four Great Halls

• Proposed divine offices: Orthodox Gods and High-Gods were intended to replace elder positions once the organization became sufficiently powerful. These were plans, not implemented offices at its founding 277.
• Other ancient military bodies: Fang He belonged to the God of War Hall; Jueyang had been a general of War God Heaven under Tongtian 388 453.

Territorial Government

The administrative hierarchy runs through states, domains, and cities, with towns and villages managed beneath the cities. During the Northern Nether reorganization, the court planned three states, twenty-one domains, and several hundred cities 310.

• The same three state names were first used when dividing the Xuantian Realm 278.
• Territorial administration primarily secured revenue rather than absolute control over every locality 310.
• Residents later defended the regime’s record, noting that its resource collections were not excessive and that life under its rule had been comfortable 346.

Headquarters and Resources

Headquarters

Resources and Infrastructure

• Cultivation supplies — Su Chen’s wealth sustains rapid growth, supplemented by commercial purchases when ordinary materials prove insufficient 292 302 310.
• Scripture Repository — Su Chen deposits tens of thousands of useful cultivation techniques, almost all Immortal Rank eight or higher, including nearly a thousand Immortal Emperor-level techniques 313.
• Divine Crystals — Contain over a thousand times the Great Dao power of Immortal Crystals and enable mass Immortal Emperor breakthroughs 442 443.
• Identity tokens — Issued to recruits such as Jiang He and to the returning remnants 426 453.
• Spatial Formations — Allow reinforcements to reach distant branches, including the embattled Immortal Crane Realm branch 448.
• Startling Swan organization — Su Anshan’s intelligence network eventually places spies in practically every world outside the top three 353.

Notable Members

• Su Yuanba — Founding supporter and early expansion commander in Rizhao City; survives Yang Menghua’s initial assault while seeking reinforcements 277 285 286.
• Su Xiao — Leading Su Family combatant; becomes a late-stage Immortal King during the court’s early growth and later reinforces the Immortal Crane Realm branch 310 448.
• Yang Xiao / Heavenly Spirit Domain Lord — Initially bound by a Soul Imprint. After Su Chen removes the restriction, he chooses to stay and receives the opportunity to become the court’s first subordinate Immortal King 291 309 310.
• Mu Qingling — Su Chen’s disciple and a court member; plays a central role in resisting Lingyun Sect’s attack 342 426.
• Xiao Yan — Kills Lingyun Old Ancestor during the Myriad Star Realm conflict 349.
• Fang He — Loyal ancient follower and Forbidden Expert. Serves Su Chen and recruits Jiang He 388 424 426.
• Bai Ao — Forbidden Expert among the returning remnants; intervenes against Jiang He’s attackers 424 453.
• Zhou Qitian — Former vice hall master of Lintian Hall and an Acquired Ancient God 453.
• Jueyang — Pure-blooded Dragon Clan expert, former War God Heaven general, and Acquired Ancient God 453.
• Li Heng / Void Annihilation Immortal Venerable — Joins seeking greater strength. Contrary to his expectations, the court does not place a Soul Imprint on him 351 352.
• Jiang He — Recruited after Fang He promises protection for his parents. Receives an identity token and resources exceeding the Jiang Family treasury; instructed to conceal his affiliation from powerful experts 424 426.
• Su Xuan and Su Qingyan — Appear during the confrontation with the World-Destroying Demon Lord; Su Xuan subdues him 758.

Affiliated Forces and Enemies

Subordinate and Commercial Forces

• Treasure Seeking Merchant Guild — Begins as a resource supplier and later voluntarily becomes an affiliated force 292 310.
• Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce — Commercial organization vigorously developed under the court’s banner. Its backing threatens the Treasure Seeking Merchant Guild’s position as the foremost merchant guild 309.
• Tianshan Holy Land and Wuji Palace — Submit after the failed assault on the court; their leaders surrender their Primordial Spirits and are ordered to consolidate the Myriad Star Realm 349.
• Lingyun Sect remnants — Spared in exchange for their Primordial Spirits and retained as administrative manpower 349.

Principal Opponents

• Black Gold Domain — Retaliates against the court’s seizure of cities and killing of overseers; its territory is subsequently brought under court control 285 302.
• Northern Nether Empire — Opposes the court’s independence and growth before losing its territory to it 305 306 310.
• Nine Nether Demon Kingdom / Tianming Realm — Attacks the Immortal Crane Realm branch to draw out the Divine Master 446 448.
• Upper Three Realms — Pursues the ancient remnants and stands behind the larger conflict with Su Chen. Tongtian later destroys them 453 461.
• World-Destroying Demon Lord — Challenges the reappearing court while attempting to devastate the Immortal Realm; subdued by Su Xuan 757 758.

Notable Quotes

“My Su Family... will become the ruler of the myriad realms, the Lord of the Immortal Realm.”
— Su Chen, declaring the court’s founding ambition 277

“The Supreme Divine Court and the current Divine Court... are the same force.”
— Su Chen 428

“From the moment we joined the Divine Court, we became part of it. We will never betray it, and we will never abandon it.”
— Tongtian, at the remnants’ formal return 453