Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Organization and Methods
- 5Notable Members
- 6Relations
- 7Major Operations
- 7.1Blue Stone Town Expansion
- 7.2Cleanup of Wang Xuan
- 7.3War in Snow Sword Stride
- 7.4Reincarnation and Law Creation
- 7.5Retreat and Escape Planning
- 7.6Ultimate Reckoning
- 7.7Great Chiliocosm World Campaign
- 7.8Otherworld Evacuation and Celestial Realm Maneuvers
- 8Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Information |
|---|---|
| Name | Royal Clan |
| Alias(es) | Royal Clans; Player Royal Clans |
| Type | Neutral Character (AI); elite player clans |
| Status | Active but catastrophically diminished, fragmented, and routed. The destruction of its Immortal Realm weakened its power, Wang Xuan erased several million reincarnated Royal Clan Players across multiple star domains, and the voiding of Servant Contracts damaged its system of control. Surviving branches that fled into the Celestial Realm or retreated from the Great Chiliocosm World and the Otherworld continue to operate as scattered remnants 78 334 337 376 381 443 |
| First Appearance | 3 |
Power Progression
| Period | Development | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Early Heavens Tower era | Alongside the Longevity Families, the Royal Clan monopolized planets, resources, plot-world intelligence, and opportunities within the Heavens Tower, reducing ordinary Players to disposable labor and entertainment 1 2 | Dominant |
| Secret of the Linked Cities | Yu Jinghong's faction-building operation exposed the Clan's use of realm-boosting items, Guild Creation Tokens, Servant Contracts, and superior resources in low-martial worlds 3 4 | Locally challenged |
| Post-storage adjudication | Wang Xuan unsealed the Storage Space function, ending the Clan's long-standing storage-bag monopoly and provoking widespread hostility among ordinary Players 49 50 | Monopoly weakened |
| Snow Sword Stride conflict | The Clan controlled Liyang, maintained an Immortal Realm base, extracted the world's luck, and fielded vassal armies and Shattered Realm experts against the Federation and Beiliang 70 74 79 80 | Major high-martial power |
| Fall of the Immortal Realm | Wang Xuan's assault destroyed the Clan's Immortal Realm stronghold and eliminated large numbers of its Heavenly Human and Shattered Realm cultivators, enabling the Federation's counteroffensive 75 78 | Severely weakened |
| Primordial Era reincarnation operations | Royal Clan Players reincarnated into powerful native bloodlines, competed for resources as major racial prodigies, and used accumulated techniques to pursue Law Creation 99 128 136 | Reconstituting through reincarnation |
| Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star crisis | Hidden members, fearing Wang Xuan's Player-erasure authority, considered abandoning Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and escaping into the Strange World 237 | Fragmented and defensive |
| Faith-deity conflict | Stone Being Great Emperors among the Royal Clan Players emerged to slaughter freely but encountered faith deities capable of matching or exceeding them, resulting in casualties 316 | Overextended |
| Ultimate Reckoning | Wang Xuan identified and erased Royal Clan Players on Big Dipper and throughout other life-bearing stars, with the recorded total reaching several million 333 334 | Catastrophically reduced |
| Servant Contract collapse | The voiding of Servant Contracts released enslaved Players from their compulsions and removed a foundational mechanism of Royal Clan control 337 | Control network damaged |
| Great Chiliocosm entrenchment | The Yu Clan Royal Clan retained control of Yu Kingdom, wielded provincial military forces, maintained three-hundred-year protective formations, and prepared a national-level Five-Dharma Heavenly Capital Formation under King Yu Xuan 364 376 377 381 | Powerful regional remnant |
| Wind and Cloud Province purges | Wang Xuan swept Wind Province with the Creation Ark, destroyed its defensive formation, and subsequently eradicated Royal Clan Players and their collaborators throughout Cloud Province with Hongmeng Worms 376 379 | Under direct annihilation threat |
| Five-Dharma confrontation | Yu Xuan gathered the Yu Kingdom's strongest experts and activated the Five-Dharma Heavenly Capital Formation, but Wang Xuan tore open its outer barrier and forced the Clan into a battle against his Shattering the Vacuum power 377 381 | Embattled |
| Otherworld and Celestial Realm evacuation | Following the collapse of the Otherworld and the advance of Wang Xuan's Ancestral Dragon forces, surviving Royal Clan Player factions systematically abandoned their ancestral territories, stripped their fiefdoms bare, and fled into the Celestial Realm 439 443 | Scattered and hiding |
Background / History
The Royal Clan entered Blue Stone Town through Yu Jinghong, who used a scroll to raise her cultivation to the Fifth Layer of the Postnatal Realm. She founded the Jinghong Gang and recruited players through Heavens Tower-notarized Servant Contracts, offering martial-arts manuals and silver in exchange for their service 3 4.
Wang Xuan killed Yu Jinghong twice, exhausting her A-rank Reincarnation Substitute Talent and ejecting her from the plot world. The players bound to her Servant Contracts subsequently died suddenly, and Jinghong Gang was announced as annihilated 5 6. Other clan members established Qingtian Gang and Power Gang, while Qingtian Gang placed a Jianghu Kill Order on Wang Xuan 6.
The Clan repeatedly pursued Wang Xuan across plot worlds, employing tracking functions in their storage bags, organized cleanup missions, and powerful martial artists. Their attempts were repeatedly frustrated by Wang Xuan, including the defeats or deaths of Yu Qingtian, Shen Chenzhou, Ye Jingchen, Yin Mingchen's force, and multiple Shattered Realm experts 15 39 42 84.
Yu Ming later abducted Wang Xuan from the Origin Earth Star's safe zone and took him aboard a spacecraft, intending to bring the matter before the Longevity Families. Wang Xuan escaped by expending a portion of his Authority to return home 20.
In the Snow Sword Stride world, the Royal Clan controlled the Liyang Dynasty and exploited its mortal population, draining earthly and human luck while maintaining military campaigns against the Federation and Beiliang 69 74. Their Immortal Realm stronghold was later destroyed, severely reducing their power and enabling a Federation counteroffensive 78.
Despite this setback, Royal Clan Players continued to exploit reincarnation mechanics in higher-level plot worlds. They could enter powerful native bloodlines and special constitutions unavailable to ordinary Players, allowing them to become racial prodigies, Sacred Land elites, and rulers of imperial dynasties with relative ease 99 128 334.
By the time of the Big Dipper Star Domain conflict, the Royal Clan was willing to exchange a copy of the Great Ocean Boundless Art for intelligence on Wang Xuan 108. After Wang Xuan obtained an authority capable of directly erasing Players, hidden Royal Clan members considered abandoning Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and fleeing to the Strange World 237.
Wang Xuan later began a systematic purge of reincarnated Royal Clan Players. He detected them through their distinctive arrogance and aura, erased large numbers on the Ancient Star Big Dipper, and continued doing so across life-bearing stars; the recorded total eventually reached several million permanently erased Players 333 334. The subsequent voiding of Servant Contracts freed many of the Players formerly bound to Royal Clan masters 337.
In the Great Chiliocosm World, the Yu Clan Royal Clan remained entrenched through Yu Kingdom. Its Players controlled provincial cities and armies, reduced civilians to exploitable property, and used human blood, bones, souls, and faith as cultivation resources 364 365 379. When Wang Xuan's Creation Ark began sweeping their territory, an internal dispute emerged between factions advocating withdrawal and factions insisting on a decisive battle 376 377.
King Yu Xuan ultimately forbade retreat, convened the Yu Kingdom's strongest cultivators, and deployed the Five-Dharma Heavenly Capital Formation against Wang Xuan 377 381. Wang Xuan destroyed Wind Province's defensive arrangements, purged Royal Clan Players and their lackeys from Cloud Province, and then directly breached the formation's outer barrier 376 379 381.
Later, Wang Xuan encountered the avatar of a blond Royal Clan Player from the Augustus Family in the Everlasting World, confirming that far-flung Royal Clan branches continued operating in higher-level worlds 396. When Wang Xuan's power grew to encompass the Ancestral Dragon realm and he swept through the Otherworld, the Royal Clan Player factions realized the writing was on the wall; they stripped their territories bare, abandoned their domains, and retreated into the Celestial Realm, where they attempted to insert themselves into mysterious secrets such as the Little Stone Emperor's Tomb 439 443.
Organization and Methods
- The Royal Clan operates under the broader dominance of the Longevity Families, which command vassal royal clans such as the Feng Clan 1.
- Its members hold a clear internal hierarchy. Failed operatives face reprimands and possible punishment, while senior figures direct cleanup operations and military strategy 42 78 80.
- Royal Clan branches are not a monolith. Rival clans compete for resources and status, while endangered branches may seek to use Wang Xuan to eliminate one another 18 237.
- The Clan and the Longevity Families regard high-martial plot worlds as major resource investments; the loss of a protagonist in a territory under a member's protection can bring severe family punishment and political retaliation from rival relatives 51.
- Royal Clan members can exploit prior knowledge of plot worlds, quests, and valuable targets, giving them a systemic advantage over ordinary Players 2 6.
- They have monopolized practical resources such as storage bags and suppressed the Heavens Tower's Storage Space function until Wang Xuan unsealed it for all players 49 50.
- The Clan uses tampered skill books, debt traps, and Servant Contracts to bind weaker Players into dependence or disposable service 4 5 65.
- Royal Clan storage bags possess special tracking features, allowing the Clan to trace those carrying them 15.
- In major wars, the Clan deploys Servant armies, vassal forces, formations, forbidden artifacts, Imperial Weapons, and Shattered Realm cultivators 74 80 137.
- Royal Clan Players can use reincarnation to enter plot worlds with superior native identities, including special constitutions, high cultivation aptitude, and the luck of Sons of the World 99 100.
- In the Primordial Era world, different Royal Clan branches competed through reincarnated identities among the Ancient Races; the Ye Royal Clan's rapid rise was tied to its advancement on the path of Law Creation 128 136.
- The Clan maintains an industrialized reproduction system in some higher-floor worlds. Royal Clan Players establish themselves among lower-level dynasties, use Servant Players or other Royal Clan Players as breeding stock, and produce descendants born with System Panels 334.
- Royal Clan administrations can possess or replace plot-world officials and rulers, allowing them to monopolize military authority, court power, and national Luck from within native governments 74 94 95.
- In Yu Kingdom, Royal Clan Players treated civilians as human livestock, massacred resisting settlements, and refined blood, bones, souls, and faith into cultivation resources such as Pure Yang Soul Crystals 364 365 379.
- Surviving major branches can construct national-level formations by combining their inherited cultivation systems, elite experts, and large-scale territorial resources 377 381.
- The Clan's reliance on Servant Contracts was critically compromised when those contracts were voided, allowing former Servant Players to turn on their former masters without punishment 337.
- When facing overwhelming military defeat in higher worlds (such as the Otherworld), Royal Clan factions abandon their territories entirely, strip their cities down to the topsoil, and retreat into the Celestial Realm 439 443.
Notable Members
- Yu Jinghong — Founded Jinghong Gang in Blue Stone Town; her Reincarnation Substitute Talent was exhausted after Wang Xuan killed her twice, ejecting her from the plot world 4 5.
- Yu Qingtian — Pursued Wang Xuan with Shen Chenzhou; killed by a single modified Divine Blade Slash 15.
- Shen Chenzhou — Royal Clan pursuer killed alongside Yu Qingtian 15.
- Yu Ming — Abducted Wang Xuan from the Origin Earth Star safe zone and reported the failed operation to his uncle 20.
- Yin Mingchen — Led a Royal Clan force hunting Wang Xuan; used Wind God Leg to defend against his sword techniques 39.
- Ye Jingchen — Cleanup operative who self-destructed rather than be captured after confronting Wang Xuan 42.
- Ye Xianxian — Mission director who escalated the cleanup protocol after Ye Jingchen's failure 42.
- Chu Lingtian — Arrogant member who treated NPC lives as entertainment; his techniques were later used by Wang Xuan 29 39.
- Shen Shuyue — High-status Shen Clan powerhouse who directed the campaign against Beiliang 78 79.
- Chu Lushan — Royal Clan member and commander of the assault on Wild Goose Weeping Pass 78 80.
- Mu Tiandao — Mu Clan’s top prodigy; possesses the SSS-grade talent Diligence Rewarded by Heaven and supported the Beiliang campaign 79.
- Ye Linyuan — Shattered Realm expert killed by Wang Xuan in the Immortal Realm 75.
- Yu Zhiyan — Shattered Realm expert who vowed vengeance after Ye Linyuan's death 75.
- Wu Chongxuan — High-ranking Liyang official occupied by a Royal Clan Player; sacrificed himself to strengthen the Golden Dragon of Luck 94.
- Emperor Zhao Dun — Liyang ruler whose body was occupied by a Royal Clan Player; the operative admitted to extracting destiny from plot worlds 74 95.
- Zuo Yuchen — Zuo Royal Clan Shattering the Void expert; sought Su Huaijin’s Heavenly Luck and was killed by the Sword Intent Primordial Spirit 83 84.
- Zuo Linchuan — Used the forbidden Ten Thousand Dragon Bell to threaten the Ziwei Divine Sect 110.
- Shen Yueyin — Accompanied Zuo Linchuan during the confrontation with the Ziwei Divine Sect 110.
- Ye Huaian — Ye Royal Clan prodigy reincarnated into the Silver Blood Race; possessed an Ancient Emperor Battle Soul and gathered the Nine Secrets 128 153.
- Yu Hansheng — Golden Race Divine Daughter and Royal Clan Player who claimed development rights over resources associated with her reincarnated identity 128.
- Stone Being Great Emperors — A group of Royal Clan Players who emerged in a later plot world and fought faith deities; one was killed during the conflict 316.
- Feng Shaoyun — Feng Royal Clan member who sought Wang Xuan and was unable to comprehend his Authority-based disappearance 65.
- Yu Xuan — King of Yu Kingdom and the Yu Clan Royal Clan’s strongest Player; a Half-Step Shattering the Vacuum powerhouse who wielded the Three-Era Cosmic Extremity Wheel and commanded the Five-Dharma Heavenly Capital Formation 377 381.
- Yu Tianhai — Yu Clan elder and leader of the war faction; advocated gathering Yu Kingdom's experts for a decisive battle against Wang Xuan 376 377.
- Yu Wenyuan — Five-Thunder-Tribulation Yu Clan diviner and leader of the peace faction; argued for unconditional withdrawal from the Great Chiliocosm World 376 377.
- Augustus Family Player — A blond Royal Clan Player whose avatar's memories identified him as a member of the Augustus Family in the Everlasting World 396.
Relations
- Longevity Families — Allied or parallel elite power bloc; both invest heavily in high-martial plot worlds. The Longevity Families command vassal royal clans and jointly monopolized key Heavens Tower resources 1 51.
- Federation — Primary military and political adversary in several plot worlds, including the Nine Cauldrons and Snow Sword Stride worlds. The collapse of Servant Contracts enabled the Federation army to secure comprehensive victories across multiple worlds 50 74 83 337.
- Wang Xuan — Principal enemy. The Clan pursued him through kill orders, cleanup operations, military force, surveillance, and intelligence trading; he later used the Instant Death Authority to erase millions of its reincarnated Players, assaulted surviving Yu Clan territory with the Creation Ark, and systematically hunted them down across higher worlds 6 42 108 333 334 376 381 439.
- Servant Players — Exploited subordinates bound through contracts, debt, and controlled cultivation resources; some are used as cannon fodder or frontline troops. Following the voiding of Servant Contracts, many became free to resist their former masters 4 65 80 337.
- Liyang Dynasty — Controlled by the Royal Clan during the Snow Sword Stride conflict 74.
- Yu Kingdom — A Great Chiliocosm World kingdom controlled by the Yu Clan Royal Clan, whose government, army, provincial formations, and resource systems served Royal Clan interests 364 376 381.
- Ancient Races — Royal Clan Players infiltrated or reincarnated into powerful Ancient Race bloodlines, using those identities to compete for inheritances and plot-world resources 128 136.
- Faith Deities — Powerful opponents of the Royal Clan's Stone Being Great Emperors; their strength inflicted losses on the Clan's emerging Players 316.
- Undying Heavenly Emperor — Considered by hidden Royal Clan members as a potential means to force entry into the Strange World; a Royal Clan Player also cursed him during his fourth-life nirvana, enabling an inner demon to take control of his body 237 291.
Major Operations
Blue Stone Town Expansion
- Yu Jinghong created Jinghong Gang, initiating the first faction-related main quest in Blue Stone Town 4.
- Recruitment relied on Servant Contracts that proved fatal to signatories when Yu Jinghong died 4 5.
- Qingtian Gang issued an 800-tael gold bounty and a Mid-Grade sword manual reward for Wang Xuan’s death 6.
- Shen Chenzhou established Power Gang in Yueyang City after Jinghong Gang's destruction 6.
Cleanup of Wang Xuan
- Royal Clan members tracked Wang Xuan through storage-bag functions and repeatedly underestimated his growth 15.
- Ye Xianxian’s cleanup protocol sought intelligence on Wang Xuan’s talent and treated operative losses as acceptable 42.
- The Clan’s campaign extended into the Immortal Realm, where its forces charged Wang Xuan before being immobilized by Sword Heart Hell 77.
- Yu Ming separately attempted to seize Wang Xuan in reality by abducting him beyond the Origin Earth Star safe zone, but Wang Xuan escaped with Authority 20.
War in Snow Sword Stride
- The Clan controlled Liyang, drained the world’s luck, and prepared to use the Heavenly Mandate Blade to suppress the Great Evil King and cultivate a replacement protagonist 69 70.
- Following the Immortal Realm’s destruction, it deployed a vassal army exceeding twenty million against the Federation and Beiliang 74.
- Its assault on Wild Goose Weeping Pass used Servant troops, but Deng Tai’a’s Thunder Pool Sword Formation devastated their ranks 80.
- The Mu Clan contingent eventually withdrew after failing to overcome Beiliang’s defenders despite its numerical advantage 90.
- Wang Xuan annihilated the Royal Clan camp and its Servant army in Juzi Province, killing four Shattered Realm experts in the decisive strike 92 93.
- In Taian City, the Clan's occupied officials and rulers converged their luck into the Golden Dragon of Luck in a desperate attempt to preserve Liyang's defenses 94 95.
Reincarnation and Law Creation
- Royal Clan Players exploited reincarnation mechanics to enter higher-level plot worlds with superior bloodlines, physiques, aptitudes, and identities 99 100.
- The Clan treated reincarnated identities as branch assets, with Royal Clan custom granting the Player occupying a bloodline the right to develop resources associated with that identity 128.
- The Ye Royal Clan established a major advantage in the Primordial Era through Law Creation, enabling its members to cultivate methods based on Ancient Emperors in their youth 136.
- Royal Clan Players also developed self-perpetuating bloodlines in higher-floor worlds, producing descendants who inherited System Panels and began from far above Origin Earth Star Players 334.
Retreat and Escape Planning
- The Clan’s loss of its Immortal Realm base weakened its position and accelerated the Federation’s counterattack 78.
- After Wang Xuan gained Player-erasure authority, hidden members debated complete withdrawal and escape to the Strange World through the Flying Immortal Waterfall’s spatial rift 237.
- They considered controlling the Undying Heavenly Emperor as a means of forcing access to the Strange World 237.
Ultimate Reckoning
- Royal Clan Players emerged in force during a later plot-world era, including more than a dozen Stone Being Great Emperors who sought to slaughter and plunder freely 316.
- Wang Xuan used his Red Dust Immortal Divine Sense to identify Royal Clan Players across the Ancient Star Big Dipper and shatter their Immortal Platforms, permanently erasing them 333.
- He continued the purge across life-bearing ancient stars, with the Heavens Tower recording several million erased Royal Clan Players 334.
- The voiding of Servant Contracts dismantled a major component of the Clan's coercive system and enabled former Servant Players to attack their masters without contractual backlash 337.
Great Chiliocosm World Campaign
- The Yu Clan Royal Clan dominated Yu Kingdom through Player-controlled officials, provincial armies, Human Immortal commanders, formations, and a resource economy built on enslavement and extraction 364 365.
- When the Creation Ark arrived in Wind Province, three Yang God thoughts destroyed Windbreaker City's three-hundred-year protective formation, killed or terrified its Ghost Immortal defenders, and enabled the systematic plundering of its vaults 376.
- Yu Clan leadership divided between Yu Tianhai's war faction and Yu Wenyuan's withdrawal faction after learning that Wang Xuan might be the King of Divine Artifacts responsible for erasing an entire Royal Clan force in a prior plot world 376.
- Yu Xuan rejected retreat, displayed the Three-Era Cosmic Extremity Wheel, and ordered all Yu Kingdom experts above the Human Immortal realm in Profound, Cloud, and Azure Provinces to gather for battle 377.
- Wang Xuan released Hongmeng Worms throughout Cloud Province, killing Royal Clan Players and their lackeys while seizing treasuries containing blood-essence pills, bone-essence pills, and Pure Yang Soul Crystals refined from human souls 379.
- Yu Xuan assembled the Five-Dharma Heavenly Capital Formation, combining Past, Present, Future, Cosmic-Time, and Spatial-Void Dharmas through the Three-Era Cosmic Extremity Wheel 381.
- Wang Xuan refused Yu Xuan's recruitment offer, breached the formation's outer barrier with a single grasp, and gave its Royal Clan Players three breaths to surrender before the full formation was activated 381.
Otherworld Evacuation and Celestial Realm Maneuvers
- Realizing the impending defeat of the Otherworld forces against Wang Xuan's Ancestral Dragon progression, Royal Clan Players systematically dismantled and evacuated their ancestral territories, stripping cities down to the topsoil 439.
- They retreated into the Celestial Realm, hedging their bets across multiple factions and targeting secret locations such as the Little Stone Emperor's Imperial Mausoleum 443.
Trivia
- The Royal Clan’s monopoly on storage capacity ended when Wang Xuan unlocked a 125-cubic-meter Storage Space for all players 49 50.
- Royal Clan members have been portrayed as regarding both NPCs and Servant Players as expendable assets, including in warfare and cultivation schemes 29 50 65.
- Some Player Royal Clans secretly left their sealed clans to seek greater strength in the outside world 233.
- Royal Clan members are commonly identified by a glowing golden [Royal] imprint on their foreheads 3.
- The Royal Clan's advantages were classified by the Heavens Tower as cheating; Wang Xuan's evaluation in the Secret of the Linked Cities world specifically credited him with killing three cheating Players 18.
- Royal Clan cheating prevents its members from receiving the SSS-rank plot evaluations needed to acquire Heavens Tower Authority, motivating their long-term suppression of Authority holders 52.
- Wang Xuan could distinguish reincarnated Royal Clan Players by the distinctive arrogance and predatory air they developed through treating plot worlds as playgrounds 333.
- The Clan's resource methods in Yu Kingdom were considered so extreme that even the Creation Daoist judged the refinement of Pure Yang Soul Crystals to surpass the imagination of ancient evil-path giants 379.