Human Emperor Hall

Biodata

Background and History

Founding and Primordial Era

Tan Lin founded the Human Emperor Hall after crossing into the Quasi-Emperor realm at approximately 2,100 years of age. From the Central Region of the Big Dipper, he led humanity against the myriad races and helped restore the strength of a people long oppressed during the Primordial Era. 1

The Hall transformed Tan Lin’s personal influence into a broad network of karmic connections, enabling the All-Causes Soul Pearl to accumulate causality points far more efficiently than he could alone. By age 3,000, Tan Lin had reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm while the Hall handled much of his external affairs. 1

Tan Lin’s soldiers, generals, and human settlements along the Ancient Road bestowed the title Human Emperor upon him after his rise, elevating the Hall from a military organization into the principal symbol of human resistance and prestige. 20 44

Decline after the Human Emperor’s Fall

The Hall survived Tan Lin’s death for hundreds of thousands—possibly millions—of years, continuing to provide faint causality to his surviving remnant soul. Its continued existence also made it an obvious anchor point through which his enemies could wait for his return. 2 4

After the Primordial Era, the Hall suffered repeated turmoil. Its later leaders became corrupt, and the human strongholds along the Extraterrestrial Ancient Road fell. 45

Gong Xuan eventually became Hall Master. He cooperated with forces connected to the life forbidden zones in order to preserve the Hall through a period when it was near collapse, while imprisoning or sidelining old loyalists such as Dongfang Taiyi and the surviving generals. 15 20 45

The Legacy Scheme

The Hall publicized the emergence of the Human Emperor’s Legacy in the Southern Region of the Eastern Wasteland, drawing cultivators from across the Big Dipper and beyond. Its suspicious preparations led many factions to believe it was concealing a larger plan. 14 15

The supposed legacy was the Human Emperor’s former Drill Tower: a ten-story military training ground containing realm-specific trials. Human Emperor Hall members entered it safely while outsiders were killed for violating its rules, further intensifying suspicion toward the Hall. 16 17

The Hall’s old arrangements were ultimately used as bait for Tan Lin. The Xuanxiao Nine True Soul-Execution Formation was activated through its connections to locate his remnant soul, with Gong Xuan acting under pressure from forbidden-zone Supremes. 20

Return of the Human Emperor

The Undying Daoist later turned the Hall into a soul-killing trap, spreading Soul Spirit Pond water throughout its grounds and engraving dense soul-suppressing formations around an ancient well. 39

Tan Lin infiltrated the Hall, reached the inner chamber, and reclaimed the largest fragment of his true soul from the Human Emperor Banner. His temporary restoration as the Human Emperor caused the Hall’s cultivators and civilians to recognize and worship their returned founder. 40 42

Afterward, Tan Lin chose not to purge the Hall for its decline. He accepted that later generations had survived under circumstances he could not simply judge, spared Gong Xuan’s restrained followers, and allowed the Hall’s cultivators to choose whether to remain or depart with the Ziwei lineage. 45 46

Relocation and Final Decline

Many Primordial Era survivors and old loyalists accepted relocation with Suiren Hong, Suiren Lianlei, and the Ziwei Human King Hall. Those who remained in the Central Plains were predominantly cultivators ashamed of their former service to Gong Xuan and the forbidden zones. 237

Gong Xuan eventually returned to the Hall and offered incense at the Human Emperor’s former seat, accepting that Tan Lin could have punished him at any time but chose mercy instead. 48

During a later attack on the Central Plains, Gong Xuan attempted to protect the Hall’s territory and the generations of beings who had worshipped it. Jia Kong Supreme killed him with a single strike before beginning his intended massacre. 319

In a later era, the Human Emperor Hall lineage in the Big Dipper had all but disappeared during an upheaval. Great Emperor Huan Yu subsequently explored the ruins of the former Hall while seeking a path to immortality in the Central Plains. 386 518

Organization and Facilities

Human Emperor Banner

The Human Emperor Banner is the Hall’s foremost symbol and the traditional mark of its Hall Master.

• It was originally Tan Lin’s battle banner, rather than an Emperor-level weapon of enlightenment. 16
• A fragment of Tan Lin’s true soul entered it after his death, creating a divine spirit. 16
• It can gather the heroic souls of fallen soldiers and generals. 16
• Gong Xuan used the banner to execute seven Saint-realm officials who had colluded in releasing the Human Demon; its astral winds destroyed both their bodies and primordial spirits. 15
• Tan Lin reclaimed the banner and its soul fragment during his return, then entrusted it to Suiren Hong of the Ziwei Human King lineage for safekeeping. 42 46
• Tan Lin instructed that it should eventually be passed to the future Female Emperor when she became worthy of inheriting it. 46
• While accompanying Suiren Lianlei, the banner responded to Tan Lin’s summons and crossed the void to support him. Its concealed imperial might was used against Great Saint-level opponents and later overwhelmed Divine Mountain’s Faith Divine Sea. 169 170 192
• Though originally not an Emperor weapon, it was later refined anew by Human Emperor Suiren. Its divine spirit completely re-formed after centuries of transformation, and its power came to rival a true Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon. 309
• The banner was eventually enshrined in the Human King Hall Ancestral Hall in Ziwei. It instinctively recognized Tan Lin when he returned as a Great Emperor, but he declined to claim it and allowed it to remain as the lineage’s sacred foundation. 478
• Suiren Lianlei later wielded the banner in defense of the Central Plains during a Dark Turmoil. 517

Drill Tower

The Drill Tower, publicly called the Human Emperor’s Legacy or Immortal Palace, was a former Human Emperor military training ground.

• It contains ten internal worlds, each corresponding to a cultivation realm and designed to temper soldiers, generals, formations, and individual combat ability. 17
• The lowest floor is the safest entry point; cultivators may enter a floor corresponding to their own realm, but improper entry can trigger lethal defenses. 17
• The tenth floor was Tan Lin’s ultimate proving ground, where he once sought the true harmony of Lunar and Solar power before converting it into a trial for his strongest generals. 36
• Bronze puppets enforce the tower’s rules and can instantly kill violators. 27
• A Mystic Platform beneath the tower could create a temporary spatial passage that bypassed restrictions below Great Emperor-level formations. 22
• The tower later collapsed, though Tan Lin recovered and repaired its underlying formation diagram for use in his later arrangements. 39

Central Plains Headquarters

The Hall’s Central Plains headquarters was a vast palace complex built over concealed facilities and formations.

• Its Dao platform concealed an underground divine-source prison holding Dongfang Taiyi, the Human Demon, bound by nine chains. 15
• The inner hall housed the restricted Human Emperor Banner. Heaven-Suppressing patterns were used to suppress the banner when it resisted Gong Xuan. 15
• An ancient well at the center of the complex became the eye of a massive soul-killing formation prepared by the Undying Daoist to capture Tan Lin. 39
• The Phoenix Nest later descended above the Hall’s core territory, its pressure causing the palaces, halls, and pavilions throughout the domain to shake violently. 237
• The headquarters ceased to endure as an active institution during a later upheaval and was ultimately known only as the ruins of the former Human Emperor Hall. 386 518

Leadership

• Tan Lin / Human Emperor Suiren — Founder and original sovereign. He established the Hall as humanity’s military and political center during the Primordial Era. 1 20 324
• Gong Xuan — Later Hall Master. He maintained the Hall through compromise with forbidden-zone forces, but helped operate formations intended to lure and trap Tan Lin. He later died while attempting to defend the Hall’s Central Plains territory from Jia Kong Supreme. 20 39 319
• Duan Jixian — Elderly former general and inspector of the Hall’s battle formations under Tan Lin. He was among the five generals sealed in Divine Source by Tan Lin to preserve their remaining lives. 46
• Guo Ziqian — Former general and surviving Primordial Era subordinate; he and the other old generals preserved their loyalty to Tan Lin across a million years. Tan Lin sealed him in Divine Source, and he later awakened while preparing to seek a Quasi-Emperor opportunity. 45 46 209
• Pang Ya — Former general and Tan Lin’s old subordinate. He was among the old generals preserved in Divine Source. 45 46
• Dongfang Taiyi — The Human Demon. Once joined the Hall out of admiration for Tan Lin, but became mad after cultivating Lunar and Solar arts; later imprisoned beneath the headquarters. Tan Lin ultimately released him, calmed his mind, and carried him away still sealed in Divine Source. 15 47

Relationships

• Human King Hall — The Ziwei Human King lineage is the senior branch from which Tan Lin’s own Human King Battle Body clan descended. After his return, Tan Lin entrusted the Human Emperor Banner to Suiren Hong of this lineage, which later sheltered the Hall’s surviving loyalists and preserved the banner in its Ancestral Hall. 44 46 237 478
• Life Forbidden Zones — Forbidden-zone Supremes exploited the Hall’s surviving lineage as bait for Tan Lin and pressured Gong Xuan into cooperation. 4 20
• Undying Daoist — Converted the headquarters into a soul-sealing fortress and was willing to sacrifice the Hall’s disciples to capture Tan Lin. 39
• Undying Heavenly Empress — Her Phoenix Nest later descended above the Hall’s Central Plains core, placing its diminished remnant under overwhelming pressure. 237
• Humanity of the Ancient Road — The Hall’s original soldiers, generals, and settlements were the source of Tan Lin’s title as Human Emperor and the foundation of its legitimacy. 20
• Future Female Emperor — Tan Lin designated her as the eventual worthy inheritor of the Human Emperor Banner. 46

Legacy

• The Hall preserved the Human Emperor’s banner, military methods, soul fragment, and partial Yin-Yang inheritance through the ages. 16 45
• Its ten-layer Drill Tower attracted exceptional cultivators from across the Big Dipper and other star domains before its collapse, functioning as both a proving ground and a source of conflict. 27 39
• The Human Emperor Banner outlasted the Hall itself, becoming a sacred foundation of Human King Hall and later attaining power comparable to an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon. 309 478
• Its surviving veterans carried the Hall’s ideals into the Ziwei Human King lineage, while Gong Xuan’s final defense of the Central Plains showed that even its compromised later generations retained attachment to the people under its protection. 237 319
• The Hall’s history embodies both Tan Lin’s human-centered ideals and the compromises later generations made to survive beneath the threat of the restricted areas. 45 46