Blue Star

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Blue Star (蓝星)
Status	A world captured by and connected to the Spirit Realm for more than three centuries; by the later era, its supernatural age is nearing a millennium and its impending merger with the Spirit Realm has led Li Yi to sever and bless Great Xia separately 1 755 1037
First Appearance	Chapter 1

History

More than three hundred years ago, Blue Star was an “age of declining magic”: a world without an extraordinary tradition, where power rested primarily with collective human institutions. An unspecified accident resulted in Blue Star being captured by the Spirit Realm. 1

As the two worlds drew closer, extraordinary elements flowed from the Spirit Realm into Blue Star. Spatial rifts and planar passages began appearing intermittently, enabling travel in both directions and exposing Blue Star to incursions by Spirit Realm creatures. 1

Blue Star’s people initially struggled to resist these creatures with ordinary military power. Technology, emerging extraordinary strength, and inheritances carried over from the Spirit Realm allowed humanity to defend its homeland and begin exploring beyond it. Spirit awakening was developed during this period to create cultivable extraordinary physiques among Blue Star’s population. 1

As Great Xia’s extraordinary strength grew, it shifted from defending Blue Star to establishing bases, plantations, and territories throughout the Spirit Realm. Universities, noble houses, and academic clans became major forces in this expansion, with Spirit Realm holdings serving as their principal sources of wealth and military strength. 68 100 554

Blue Star’s will later began preparing for its merger into the Spirit Realm. Most of Great Xia’s Legendary professionals arose during the first century of the supernatural era, when Blue Star bestowed exceptional opportunities upon its people; the creation of new Legends subsequently slowed significantly. 755

When Li Yi became the God of Dawn, he attempted to bless Blue Star but found that doing so directly would consume too much of his divine power. He instead bestowed his blessing upon Great Xia, severing it from Blue Star while Blue Star’s will compressed much of its consciousness into Great Xia’s territory. 1037

Connection to the Spirit Realm

Spirit Awakening

Spirit awakening is Blue Star’s primary method of creating naturally awakened professionals.

• Spirit Realm aura can be captured, compressed, and released on Blue Star to increase the extraordinary factors within a person’s body. 1
• Once those factors reach a sufficient level, the Spirit Realm may actively capture the person and transport them there. 1
• Only people actively captured by the Spirit Realm can evolve from mundane bodies into extraordinary physiques capable of cultivation. Those entering through other portals lose this opportunity. 1
• Newly transported awakeners generally must survive in the Spirit Realm for three to seven days before returning. 2
• The process is highly lethal: at least three or four of every ten participants die, while only one or two survivors successfully awaken. 2

Return Beacons and Spatial Rifts

Awakeners who survive may return using a Blue Star Beacon, a mental construct that charges while they remain in the Spirit Realm. Once charged, it can be shattered to open a temporary portal back to Blue Star. 5 18

A return can sometimes leave behind a spatial rift connecting Blue Star to the awakener’s destination in the Spirit Realm.

• These rifts may expand or shrink over time. 4
• Safe, expanding rifts can be secured and developed into Spirit Realm bases. 4
• Dangerous rifts may be destroyed by garrisons to prevent invasions from the other side. 4 19
• Fixed passages are valuable routes to resources and cultivation sites, but may also allow hostile Spirit Realm races to invade Blue Star. 19

Permanent Teleportation Gates

Legendary spellcasters can construct permanent teleportation gates, greatly reducing the cost and difficulty of interplanar travel compared with repeated Saint Domain-level teleportation. 605

Huo Ling later constructed an everlasting teleportation gate between Blue Star and the Spirit Realm. The gate required a Saint Domain-grade framework, a Legendary-grade shield, an underground array plate, and an energy-supply core; after its completion, he began moving Type-B combat regiments and workers from Blue Star into the Spirit Realm. 611

Planar Restrictions and Assimilation

Blue Star imposes severe restrictions on Legendary power. A Legend can enter and act on Blue Star, but cannot fully unleash Legendary strength; an outsider Legend risks provoking the plane’s counterattack, whereas a native Blue Star Legend is accepted by the planar will. 595

Blue Star is approaching merger with the Spirit Realm, after which its will is expected to merge into the Spirit Realm’s will. This approaching end prompted Li Yi to preserve Great Xia through a separate divine blessing. 755 1037

Mana and Cultivation

Blue Star’s spiritual-energy concentration is low compared with the Spirit Realm, making normal meditation inefficient. Cultivating on Blue Star is described as requiring twice the effort for half the result. 19 27 29

Cultivation method	Availability / effect
Blue Star meditation	Possible, but slowed by insufficient spiritual energy 25 27
Cultivation base near a spatial passage	More efficient than ordinary locations on Blue Star 27
Spirit Realm cultivation	More efficient still because of abundant mana 19 27 29
Magic-stone cultivation	More effective than Spirit Realm cultivation, but prohibitively expensive for many people 27

Blue Star’s approach toward the Spirit Realm has exposed it to void storms and resources brought back by pioneers. These influences accelerate the growth of Blue Star’s plane, raise its upper limit for accommodating power, and improve the innate potential of beings born there. 655 809

Society

Blue Star’s society is divided sharply between extraordinary professionals and mundane citizens. Successful awakening can transform a person’s social prospects, while those who remain mundane—especially those born poor—often have limited paths beyond lifelong labor. 1 2

The extraordinary population cultivates through numerous inheritances, including those of warriors, knights, warlocks, mages, and wizards. Inheritances brought from the Spirit Realm became the foundation of Blue Star’s modern cultivation systems. 1

• Spirit Realm’s Blessings may grant resources or inheritances to successful awakeners. 6
• Inheritances are classified as Black Iron, Silver, Gold, Sanctuary, and Legendary. 6
• Universities compete to recruit promising awakened students and provide access to spells, credits, mentors, and Spirit Realm opportunities. 22 24 26
• Magic stones function as a major cultivation resource and are exchanged for mana collected through Spirit Awakening Orbs. 28 29
• Great Xia’s political order combines imperial authority with the influence of nobles and academic clans, whose principal territories and economic interests often lie in the Spirit Realm. 100 554
• During wartime, academic clans may conscript professionals under their jurisdiction; refusal can be treated as treason and result in imprisonment or assignment to penal assault units. 100
• Universities are not merely educational institutions: many are supported by Saint Domain or Legendary professionals and develop Spirit Realm passages, bases, and military forces. 68

Defense and Expansion

Great Xia maintains garrisons at Spirit Awakening Bases and fixed spatial passages to monitor returnees and guard against threats from the Spirit Realm. 19 20

• Ordinary Great Xia soldiers are generally apprentice-tier combat professionals. 19
• Noncommissioned officers and officers above squad leader are Black Iron-tier professionals; Battalion Commander Zhao is Silver-tier. 19
• Some soldiers who failed or avoided spirit awakening gain permanent apprentice-tier physiques through special mana potions, though these potions prevent further advancement. 19
• In earlier decades, invasions through spatial passages sometimes forced Blue Star’s defenders to use weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear bombs, to destroy both the passage and surrounding threats. 19
• Blue Star’s people later established and expanded bases in the Spirit Realm, using them for cultivation, resource hunting, and magical-material plantations. 19
• University-controlled portals and Spirit Realm bases face continual counterattacks from native races displaced by Blue Star’s expansion. 68
• Type-C combat divisions are primarily composed of apprentice-tier soldiers, while Type-B units field Black Iron-tier professionals equipped with standardized Black Iron enchanted weapons and armor. 130
• Elite noble forces may include fully equipped Silver-tier formations, such as the five hundred Azure Rhino Knights deployed by the Count Nanhe family. 130
• Permanent teleportation gates permit the mass deployment of Blue Star personnel and combat regiments into the Spirit Realm. 611

Technology in the Spirit Realm

Blue Star’s conventional gunpowder firearms and thermal weapons do not function properly in the Spirit Realm because its magical environment differs from Blue Star’s physical conditions. Weapons that are effective on Blue Star become little more than improvised tools after crossing over. 4

This limitation makes extraordinary cultivation, melee weapons, spells, and enchanted equipment essential for Blue Star explorers operating in the Spirit Realm. 4 20

Spirit Realm ores contain mana and are better suited than Blue Star materials for channeling battle aura and magical power. Blue Star’s industrial capacity remains valuable after importing such resources, allowing it to manufacture military equipment at scale. 65

• Below the Gold tier, Blue Star-style industrial assembly lines can mass-produce weapons, equipment, and consumables more efficiently than many traditional Spirit Realm workshops. 418
• High-tier equipment remains dependent on skilled individual blacksmiths and enchanters, since forging rune foundations and completing powerful enchantments cannot be fully mechanized. 408 412
• Huo Military Industries later demonstrated the large-scale production of standardized enchanted armor, including Black Iron-tier Soldier Type One sets and Silver-tier Soldier Type Two sets. 742 743
• Standardized enchanted equipment allows damaged components to be replaced with matching parts from other sets, preserving set effects and making it especially valuable for large-scale warfare. 742