Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Great Chu (大楚) |
| Affiliation | Human Alliance; one of its strongest forces 835 |
| Occupation/Role | Major human nation; leading power of the Qi-Blood Martial Dao era |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | Chapter 28 |
History
Before Great Chu was established, the martial world was dominated by sects, gangs, and aristocratic martial families. Zhao Yingchun abandoned his martial-family status to follow Taizu during the period of internal and external turmoil that preceded Great Chu's founding. 50
Zhao Yingchun later helped establish the Martial Artist Association and became a pioneer of Great Chu's martial arts era. Through the Tianshan Reform, he challenged sectarian and clan-based martial inheritance, replacing it with a university system and combining martial arts with technology to develop the modern Qi-Blood Martial Dao. 49 50
The Tianshan Reform formally ushered Great Chu into an era of universal martial arts. Zhao Yingchun also repeatedly revised the Guoyi Fist to improve the physical foundation of Great Chu's citizens, while his direct disciple Zhao Linyuan rose to become the foremost human powerhouse of his era. 49 50
Martial Arts and Education
Great Chu's mainstream cultivation system is the Qi-Blood Martial Dao, regarded as the fastest method of strengthening oneself for Blue Star physiques. Other cultivation paths are studied to prepare practitioners for the fifth-stage path of Hearing the Dao and to raise martial arts' long-term ceiling, rather than replace Qi-Blood cultivation. 668
The state officially classifies human Traits into three major systems. 159
Qi-Blood Martial Dao developed from the survival and combat arts of Great Chu's ancestors after their integration with qi-and-blood cultivation. Great Chu's Three Flowers Martial Dao is particularly compatible with humanity's Yuan Qi and forms a major foundation for the nation's leading number of high-level martial artists. 626
- Major martial arts universities mobilize against Demon Nest crises and serve as a key part of national defense. 233
- Great Chu combines martial training with modern technology, a principle established during the Tianshan Reform. 50
- City Intelligent Brains support military use, city defense, martial-arts entrance examinations, and urban administration systems such as Skynet and the Sky Canopy. 679
- The Chu Academy of Sciences developed force-measuring devices capable of establishing martial-force standards for both Martial Practitioners and Martial Artists; their protective light screens can neutralize stray impacts from Martial Artist-level attacks. 658
- Great Chu's Great Sages and Martial Heavenly Kings jointly constructed the Phantom Heaven Martial Realm, a martial-fortune-supported spiritual training space inspired in part by extraterrestrial cultivation-simulation technology. 717 718
- The nation hosts major martial competitions, including the River Gathering—its foremost contest for determining the strongest Martial Artist below the Great Sage realm—and the World Youth Championship at Phoenix Nest. 427 697
National Power and Security
Great Chu is described as peaceful and prosperous, with a level of stability among the best in the world. Violent incidents and Demonic Path activity are generally suppressed quickly, though the Demonic Path cannot be wholly eradicated while Demon Nests and the temptation of shortcut-based power remain. 29 92
During the Qi-Blood Martial Dao era, Great Chu is regarded as the world's foremost martial arts power, possessing the largest number of Seventh Great Limit experts. 485
Demon Nest Response
A surge of Demon Nest unrest led Great Chu's major universities to mobilize nationwide. One Level Three Demon Nest incident in western Hunan caused more than ten thousand deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands before Emei Martial University's principal killed its thousand-year Corpse King. 233
In response to later Demon Nest riots, Great Chu began relocating residents of small towns within one hundred kilometers of Demon Nests into expanded major cities. It also upgraded city defenses, assigning Fifth Limit Venerables to garrison major cities such as Yong'an. 630
Mountain Whisper and Demonic Path Suppression
Great Chu coordinated the Grand Luotian Rite against Mountain Whisper, one of the country's most active manifestations of Ultimate Darkness. The rite brought together the Daoist and Buddhist sects, United University, and the military because Mountain Whisper was approaching freedom from its restraints. 460 473
The campaign was closely linked to Zhao Linyuan's planned Eighth Breakthrough. Great Sages cannot freely battle in the human world because their power damages its rules, making Demon Nests and specially prepared operations essential battlegrounds for conflicts at that level. 460
- Cui Yunyu's Demon-Expelling and Dao-Defending Plan included the establishment of an Enforcement Bureau to strike at Demonic Path forces. 738
- A Great Chu Enforcement Bureau branch was subsequently organized with dedicated teams and senior martial artists, and it later undertook operations against Purgatory-controlled strategic resources. 798 803
- Great Chu's National Talent System also opened enlistment into the Resistance Army, offering field-grade treatment, specialized combat training, advanced equipment, and priority access to national cultivation resources. 735
Military Strength
Great Chu can assemble nearly ten thousand Grandmasters into a nine-palace military formation aligned with yin-yang, the Five Elements, mountains, rivers, and the Big Dipper. 622
- Beaconfire Great Sage Tu Qianshan served as the formation's central eye during the Mountain Whisper campaign, linking soldiers through a vast blood-and-qi network. 623
- The Four Guardians are Great Chu's foremost military and political leaders across its four regions. 630
- The Diamond Dragon Medal is second only to the Supreme Pillar of the Nation, an honor associated with Seven-Limit Great Sages. 362
- Great Chu's National Talent System directs resources toward cultivating future defenders, while its highest-level experts continue to bear the primary burden of resisting Heavenly Demons and cosmic invaders. 696
- During the World Youth Championship, Great Chu retained fifty-seven of the final hundred competitors, demonstrating the depth of its cultivation system compared with other major powers. 707
International Affairs
Great Chu convened a Global Martial Arts Summit amid escalating Demon Nest unrest and the activity of cosmic gods and their sects. Its invitation stated that anti-universe allies from the Cosmic Dao Domain, already in friendly diplomatic contact with Great Chu, would attend. 676
The nation established stable contact and deep cooperation with the Dragon Kingdom, obtaining advanced resources, technology, cultivation knowledge, spiritual-space methods, Intelligent Brain improvements, and forging techniques. 722
Great Chu promotes human unity against cosmic threats. Its proposed Human Alliance sought to combine humanity's strengths, avoid unnecessary conflict between cultivation systems, and ultimately purge Demonic Path forces and human traitors. 709
Great Chu's international blueprint called for the delineation of priority human regions and defensive boundaries, the sharing of Sky Canopy technology, reform of three-tier city-defense systems, coordinated Demon Nest suppression, and the prevention of destructive internal conflict among humanity. 725
Support for the Human Alliance expanded after America publicly backed its establishment, with other countries subsequently signaling their willingness to join the emerging united front. 748 By the time of the Rongcheng Star Ore dispute, one-third of the Human Alliance's Seventh Limit powerhouses had assembled there to secure humanity's interests against cosmic factions. 848
- Great Chu hosted the World Youth Championship, gathering five thousand elite young competitors from around the world at Phoenix Nest. 697 698
- Its competition organizers aimed for an average global online audience of five billion viewers, with Great Chu expected to account for one-third of that total. 692
- Great Chu later became one of the Human Alliance's strongest powers, while Meng Chuan described the alliance as humanity's principal force resisting cosmic invasion. 835