Great Zhou

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Great Zhou Dynasty
Alias(es)	Great Zhou
Government	Feudal imperial dynasty ruled by the Human Emperor, the Destined Great Emperor 361 557 559
Territory	Occupies the center of the continent and rules the Four Seas and Eight Directions; later established the Tenth Continent beyond the Great Thousand World 1 731
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 1

History

Establishment and early order

The Human Emperor founded Great Zhou’s governing order around law rather than open conflict with cultivators. To preserve stability, the dynasty enfeebled gods, established temples, and created Daoist Magic Cities to supervise the population and restrain destabilizing powers. Shen Zhui appears eight hundred years after this order was established. 110

Ji Fa, the Destined Great Emperor, ascended the throne under the reign title Tianming. His early campaigns relied on figures such as Marquis Champion Yang An, Divine Martial Marquis Liu Ruqin, and Divine Marquis Fan Yi to reclaim territory and defeat rival powers. 559 580

Great Zhou’s prolonged conflict with the sect world eventually forced the Nine Nether Realm to retreat from the Great Thousand World roughly five hundred years after the dynasty’s founding. 559

Feudal structure

Great Zhou governs through a feudal system in which kings, marquises, and major families hold substantial regional influence. The court may enfeoff foreign races as kings or marquises, seeking to pacify and incorporate them rather than rely solely on extermination. 345 362

The dynasty later integrated many extraterrestrial and foreign races as Zhou citizens. These groups were educated in Great Zhou culture, permitted to serve the Imperial Court, and occasionally given reduced recruitment requirements for exceptional talents. 577 616

Governance

Temples and divine supervision

Temples form a core part of Great Zhou’s administrative and surveillance system. Temple spirits are bound by Heavenly Rules and Laws, distinguishing them from the ancestral Yin Gods maintained by powerful clans. 3

Heyuan County’s City God Temple illustrates this hierarchy:

Office / Deity	Responsibility
Earl of Heyuan	Governs the Yin-Yang Division
Generals Gan, Liu, Fan, and Xie	Oversee the Speedy Report, Investigation, Reward Goodness, and Punish Evil divisions
Day and Night Patrol Deities	Oversee the Increase Stipend and Add Lifespan divisions

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Civil officials

Great Zhou’s Human Emperor transformed ancient Deity Classics, Saint Word Art, and sacred texts into a systematic cultivation path for civil officials. Officials can use weakened Rule Power through their ranks without following the arduous cultivation path of ordinary cultivators. 361 362

Civil officials study texts including Ode to the Deities, Ten Commandments, Craftsmanship Records, medical texts, and law codes. Their arts can attack, defend, alter weather, and aid civilians. 361

Their power is inseparable from the Imperial Court: promotion raises their cultivation, while demotion can strip it away. An official who falls far enough may be removed from the civil-official system entirely. 171 361

An imperial decree can enforce the court’s authority across realm differences; a seventh-rank official carrying such a decree may order the execution of a Divine Ability Realm cultivator. 362

Merit and military administration

Heaven’s Heart Hall serves as an Imperial Temple and as the Wu'an Army’s guardian temple. It records military merit and can preserve records even when normal contact with the rear is disrupted by war. 230 524

Military merit is both an honor and a restraint: accepting court rewards can bind powerful cultivators more closely to their posts and responsibilities. 550

Armed Forces and Expansion

Great Zhou commands vast military resources, including the Wu'an Army and the seven Big Dipper Legions—Tianquan, Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang. The Big Dipper Legions include both humans and alien races, while the Xiaoyao Legion recruits only humans from the Great Thousand World. 678

Its military culture emphasizes mutual support among comrades. During the Critical Lands war, Great Zhou generals repeatedly shielded one another from fatal attacks, a level of battlefield cooperation noted as rare among sect forces. 545

Great Zhou’s expansion beyond the Great Thousand World was exceptionally rapid. Within eight hundred years, it established the Tenth Continent, a territory described as roughly one-third the size of the Great Wu Star Domain. 731

This expansion fostered the “Great Zhou Threat Theory”: foreign powers feared that Great Zhou’s cultivation talents, disguising techniques, and territorial growth could threaten neighboring star domains. King Ali rejected claims of deliberate aggression toward the Great Wu Star Domain, citing the two sides’ long record of trade and cooperation. 731

Notable Policies

• Law before open conflict — Great Zhou seeks to control cultivators through laws, temples, and supervised cities rather than risk world-shaking direct confrontation. 110
• Integration of foreign races — Subdued races may become Zhou citizens, serve the court, and receive opportunities based on talent. 345 616
• Merit-based enfeoffment — Military achievements, governing cities, expanding territory, and producing nationally useful artifacts can all support ennoblement. 524
• Centralized cultivation canon — The Human Emperor consolidated diverse cultivation traditions into a system centered on rules, laws, and comprehension of the World’s Origin. 823

Notable Quote

“Those who offend our Great Zhou will be punished, no matter how far they are!” 341