Central Province

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Central Province (中州)
Type	Region and continent; later revealed to be an incomplete world 543 1034 1076.
Location	Initially described as one of the Cage Realm’s five domains; later carried into a higher dimension 543 1076.
Governing Powers	Historically dominated by the Seventy-Two Immortal Veins and their divided Immortal Alliance; subsequently brought under Zhou Xuan’s authority 763 1023.
Ruler	Zhou Xuan, who controls its earth veins and becomes its World Lord 1013 1034 1076.
Role	Former breeding ground for the Heavenly Patrol Guards; later Zhou Xuan’s resource-processing base and private domain 968 1020 1070.
Status	Natural laws restored and relocated to a higher dimension under Zhou Xuan’s control 1076 1078.

Power Progression

Central Province’s documented advancement concerns its laws, spiritual energy, and world-level transformation rather than a personal cultivation realm.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Partial recovery of natural laws	1005	Removing turbid qi begins repairing the region’s damaged laws and spiritual energy.
Region-wide spiritual energy revival	1070	Purified origin-source liquid feeds the Earth Vein Core. Exhausted veins recover, spirit springs appear, and spiritual energy falls as rain in the Western Wasteland.
Complete laws and higher-dimensional relocation	1076	Zhou Xuan uses the World Seed fused with his Dao Fruit to restore the world’s laws and carry the entire continent into a higher dimension. Environmental cultivation barriers begin breaking.
Post-relocation resource renewal	1077 1078	Energy from the Immortal Court Main Cannon becomes spiritual rain, replenishing mines and spirit veins while triggering widespread cultivation breakthroughs.

Geography and Infrastructure

Earth-Vein Network

• Countless golden earth-vein channels run beneath Central Province, connecting its mountains, rivers, immortal-vein territories, and Turbid Qi Forbidden Zones 1013.
• The channels converge beneath the Bottomless Abyss, where an ancient altar and cracked stone stele form the network’s control hub 1013.
• Turbid qi introduced by the Heavenly Patrol Guards corrupts the network and overloads its core, causing the stele to crack 1013.
• After taking control, Zhou Xuan can perceive spirit veins and forbidden zones throughout the land. He claims he can turn the immortal veins’ blessed lands into barren wastelands 1013.
• Once the Supreme One Token absorbs the World Seed’s core mark, Zhou can mobilize any earth vein with a thought, without forcibly redirecting the network 1034.

Notable Locations

Location	Significance
Purple-Gold Immortal Vein	Seat of the Dragon-Robed Alliance Leader and the venue for Zhou Xuan’s early negotiations. Its teleportation array later supports the relocation of surrendered sects 759 761 945.
Immortal-Burying Abyss	Contains the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pool used to drain cultivators’ origin source. Zhou later establishes the Purifier and Central Province’s principal resource-exchange operation there 990 993.
Bottomless Abyss	Houses the earth-vein control hub and a nearly dead World Seed requiring enormous quantities of energy 1013 1020.
Black Wind Valley	Located in eastern Central Province and described as its largest forbidden zone. Its outskirts become a mining settlement, then decline under the Demon-Slaying Alliance’s exploitation 1029 1039.
Wind-Thunder Valley	A zone of chaotic laws, destructive wind blades, lightning, and persistent spatial rifts; even Longevity Realm cultivators risk being torn apart 888.
Immortal-Fall Swamp	A feared dead land in the Western Wasteland. Its poison miasma corrodes Divine Sense, changes direction roughly every four hours, and briefly thins during those changes 1047 1051.
Other Turbid Qi Forbidden Zones	Deadman Valley, Myriad Poison Abyss, and Blackblood Marsh become targets of the mass scrap-collection campaign 1000.
Eastern Region	Long-depleted spirit veins recover during the world’s restoration; abandoned mines later fill with spirit crystals 1076 1078.
Southern Frontier within Central Province	Dead volcanoes produce fire spirit springs during restoration and jade marrow spirit liquid after the spiritual rain 1076 1078.
Western Wasteland	Desert margins receive spiritual rain and experience rapid vegetation growth as Central Province recovers 1070 1076.

Government and Factions

Seventy-Two Immortal Veins

The immortal veins descend from the upper realm’s Supreme One Immortal Court. The Dragon-Robed Elder identifies himself as the first and only master of the Purple-Gold Immortal Vein, which arrived tens of thousands of years earlier 762.

Power	Leadership or Base	Position
Central Province Immortal Alliance	Dragon-Robed Alliance Leader of the Purple-Gold Immortal Vein	Nominal umbrella organization. Its leader admits that the Seventy-Two Immortal Veins have split into five camps and that his title carries little effective authority 763.
Seeking Path Faction	Grand Hua Immortal Vein	Pursues forbidden research. The Alliance Leader suspects involvement in the Extreme Bone Sect and the curse affecting two million Northern Lands mortals 763.
Dominance Faction	Supreme Force Immortal Vein	Advocates invading the Northern Lands, capturing Zhou Xuan, and turning its inhabitants into blood pills 763.
Three other camps	Unnamed in the supplied account	Pursue their own advantage, including remaining neutral during conflicts or profiting from both sides 763.
Demon-Slaying Alliance	Taichu, Hunyuan, Wuji, and the Seventeen Great Sects	Later coalition that monopolizes major forbidden zones, extracts fees, confiscates scrap, and pressures independent cultivators 1038.

Early intelligence describes Central Province as a land of vast mortal dynasties, almost no sects, and absolute imperial authority. Later accounts instead show extensive sect organizations and the fractured rule of the immortal veins 543 763 907.

Zhou Xuan’s Administration

• Zhou Xuan — Controls the earth-vein network, resource system, and ultimately the world itself 1013 1023 1076.
• Old Ancestor Xuanming — Receives, weighs, registers, and accounts for Purifier deliveries; Zhou denies him authority to manipulate exchange prices 993.
• Old Ancestor Cangwu — Enforces the Purifier’s rules 993.
• Emperor Jiang Wu and the Origin Return Alliance Leader — Secure the Immortal-Burying Abyss’s perimeter and regulate access through contribution-point Jade Plaques 993.
• Ji Chen and the Heavenly Strategy Pavilion — Gather intelligence, circulate orders, and monitor region-wide changes 1021 1036 1070.

Cultivation Environment

Resources and Inheritances

• Central Province possesses seventy-two immortal veins, linked by laws, alongside countless subsidiary veins 710.
• Its Immortal Alliance offers access to Immortal Crystals, Longevity Realm cultivation, and the Heavenly Ladder—advantages that tempt aging cultivators from the border regions to submit 638 642.
• Beneath its apparent wealth, immortal-vein depletion forces Longevity Realm experts into slumber and weakens the Alliance’s ability to expand 713.
• Its incomplete natural laws constrain Dao Fruits and leave ancient cultivators unable to progress beyond their existing cultivation limits 986 990 1028.

Heavenly Patrol Guards’ Exploitation

• The Heavenly Patrol Guards seal Central Province within a formation and treat it as a breeding ground 968 969.
• Its spiritual energy contains turbid qi. Cultivators refine that energy into pure origin source, effectively serving as filters for the Guards 990.
• The Court Guardian Pavilion serves the Guards and uses the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pool to drain cultivators’ origin source 990.
• Zhou attributes the deaths of the Hunyuan Immortal Vein’s Third-Generation Patriarch and the Heavenly Sword Sect’s patriarch to harvested Dao Fruits rather than cultivation deviation 990.
• Removing turbid qi begins reversing the damage, while restoring complete laws eventually removes environmental cultivation barriers 1005 1076.

Resource Economy

Purifier Exchange System

Zhou Xuan replaces competition over damaged spirit veins with an exchange system centered on the Immortal-Burying Abyss 986.

Component	Function
Collected materials	Turbid-qi demon remains, scrap, and ownerless corruption sources are delivered for processing 993.
Contribution points	Deliveries are assessed and recorded. The initial fixed rate is 50,000 contribution points per liang of crystal-stone fragments 993.
Purifier	Converts collected material into valuable crystal stones and origin source. Zhou supplies an external core because Central Province’s incomplete laws cannot sustain its original operation 1003.
Earth Vein Core and World Seed	Convert purified origin-source liquid into spiritual energy that nourishes Central Province 1070.
Miner payment	The Purifier’s by-products condense into ordinary top-grade crystal stones suitable for paying collectors 1070.
Cultivation feedback	Stronger cultivators explore deeper forbidden zones and gather higher-grade material, feeding further regional growth 1070.

Rules and Enforcement

• Zhou initially forbids murdering ordinary cultivators for exchange materials and restricts processing to demon remains and ownerless corruption 993.
• He later explicitly bans using living people as material, targeting mortals or low-level cultivators, and slaughtering competitors for profit 1020.
• Sect status grants no exemption within the Abyss. Zhou publicly cripples a Taichu elder for stealing a rogue cultivator’s demon remains and compensates the victim with double their assessed value 1023.
• During a feedstock crisis, Zhou orders every spirit vein excavated and threatens to send resisting sects’ people and territory into the Purifier—a severe departure from his earlier protections 1037.
• Subsequent sect quotas tie continued supplies to performance; first-month overproduction earns escalating, uncapped crystal-stone rewards 1067.

History

Origins and Contact with the Border Regions

Central Province’s immortal veins originate from the Supreme One Immortal Court, but their long history is marked by rivalry and bloodshed rather than lasting unity. By the time Zhou Xuan visits, the Immortal Alliance is divided among five competing camps 762 763.

After the Northern Lands and Western Desolate Region unite, Central Province sends a long-distance projection offering incorporation into its alliance on the condition that it remain the absolute core. The representative then demands the Cross-Region Passage’s control core and proposes relegating the two regions’ cultivators to an outer servant army 635 636.

Central Province also operates covertly. Zhao Ji supplies an envoy with hidden-passage information in exchange for an Immortal Crystal, while infiltrators reach the borderlands through a concealed one-way teleportation array in the Extreme Bone Sect ruins. Zhao Ji subsequently receives forbidden vow-power-controlling arts from the Alliance 649 651.

Truce, Trade, and Cloud Pavilion

The Dragon-Robed Elder offers Zhou Xuan an entire immortal vein, protection, and a Longevity Realm art for the Vow Power Conversion Method and Northern Lands submission. Zhou instead probes the Alliance’s motives and recognizes that its plans for entering the Northern Lands predate his vow-power system 710.

A hundred-year pact gives the depleted Alliance breathing room. Trade follows: Zhou exchanges Perfect Crystals for immortal-vein minerals and cultivation formulas. Pei Zhengyang’s delegation attempts a forced survey of Jade Dragon City, but Zhou stops it and warns the elder against further covert interference 713 728 730 732.

Zhou then enters Central Province to establish Cloud Pavilion. He treats the factions’ competing ambitions as commercial opportunities, while the immortal veins’ Supreme One origins make the region a source of clues to his own cultivation art and Bronze Book 758 761 762 763.

Exposure and Consolidation

After uncovering the Heavenly Patrol Guards’ breeding-ground system, Zhou uses the Purifier to draw the immortal veins into collecting waste. Their desire for survival and advancement funnels resources into the Immortal-Burying Abyss and binds them to his campaign against the Guards 968 990 992.

He subsequently seizes the earth-vein hub beneath the Bottomless Abyss and organizes Central Province into a collection-and-processing “farm” feeding the World Seed. Control over the seed’s core mark completes his command of the land’s earth veins 1013 1020 1023 1034.

The Demon-Slaying Alliance threatens this system by monopolizing forbidden zones and exploiting independent cultivators. Zhou counters with economic pressure, closes exchanges under a repair pretext, and undermines confidence in hoarded contribution points. Its defeated leaders are later ordered to reopen forbidden zones and serve independent cultivators 1038 1039 1047.

Revival and World-Level Ascension

Zhou completes a closed-loop resource system that restores spiritual energy across Central Province. He declares the land free of the Heavenly Patrol Guards’ control and identifies it as his private domain 1070.

The Guards retaliate through flesh cocoons descending onto the continent. Zhou responds by attempting to devour the Central Province world, fusing with the World Seed and ultimately perfecting his Dao Integration. He restores the world’s laws and carries the entire continent into a higher dimension rather than ascending alone 1072 1074 1076.

Spiritual rain then renews resources and triggers mass breakthroughs, but also sparks violent competition. When Hunyuan challenges Zhou’s ownership of the renewed spirit veins, Zhou withdraws the power sustaining him, destroys his Dao Fruit, and kills his leading supporters. Order returns through recognition that the world’s gifts remain under Zhou’s authority 1078.