Great Thousand World

Biodata

Cosmology and Geography

The Great Thousand World is a vast realm of ancient races, long-established factions, divine beasts, and ascenders from Lower Planes. Its higher-level spiritual energy is a central reason cultivators from weaker worlds seek to enter it 8 31 34.

Spatial stability is exceptionally high: methods that can tear space apart in Lower Planes may fail to create even a crack here, while carving stable space is beyond Heavenly Reaching Realm experts 23.

Although Lower Planes are separate from the Great Thousand World and need not directly border it, they ultimately exist in dependence upon it. Its world will rejects the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, preventing even Heavenly Demon Emperors from becoming Lower Plane Masters through ordinary means 89.

Known Regions

World Will and the Firmament Ledger

The Firmament Ledger, also called the Firmament Ranking, manifests the Great Thousand World's world will. Cultivators seeking to advance beyond Saint Grade must sense that will and inscribe their true spirit into the world to draw upon its immense power 61 114.

The world's recognition can also be gained through the integration of Lower Planes. Futu Yun earned recognition by repeatedly merging planes into the Great Thousand World, strengthening it in the process. The Heavenly Evil God later revealed that, with the Evil Spirit Clan's holy son's assistance, he had likewise blood-sacrificed a Lower Plane and merged it into the world 43 118.

The Great Thousand World ordinarily suppresses invading Extraterrestrial Evil Clan experts, with stronger invaders facing greater suppression. The Heavenly Evil God's prolonged imprisonment allowed the sealing power to permeate his aura, enabling him to evade the world's rejection after escaping 117.

Cultivation System

The Three Lesser Sovereign Trials precede entry into the Sovereign Stage and are required to forge a Sovereign Body. They comprise the Physical Body Tribulation, Spiritual Energy Tribulation, and Divine Soul Tribulation 51 53.

Sovereign Spatial Mastery

First- through Fourth-grade Sovereigns are principally distinguished by the strength of their spiritual energy. From Fifth Grade onward, differences in spatial mastery greatly widen the gaps between ranks 53.

Great Thousand Creation Pill

The Flame Emperor developed the Great Thousand Creation Pill to deepen Heavenly Sovereigns' foundations and improve their chances of advancing to Saint Grade. Its reported improvement to the chances of success was fifty percent, making it an extraordinary aid for sufficiently prepared Immortal-grade Peak cultivators. He publicly released its ingredient formula, though not his refining techniques 105.

Futu Yun supplied large quantities of its principal ingredient, Great Thousand Creation Liquid, which the Flame Emperor refined into pills. Their distribution nurtured numerous experts before the Great Thousand Covenant; the number of Heavenly Sovereigns born during that period exceeded the number Futu Yun had recently killed 105 107.

During preparations for the final invasion, many Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection experts risked advancement despite the possibility of failure. These breakthroughs, followed by further distributions of Creation Pills, considerably increased the world's overall strength 123.

Lower Planes

The Great Thousand World is connected to countless Lower Planes, but entry normally requires locating a spatial node that may be as small as dust before opening 34.

Lower Planes differ greatly in strength. The Dou Qi Continent and Heavenly Profound Continent are comparatively weak, while the Lower Plane of the White Dragon Sovereign could produce an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection expert 34 38.

Plane Spirits and Plane Masters

• A Plane Spirit can provide a Plane Master with an immense supply of spiritual energy and may directly assist an expert's advance toward the Heavenly Sovereign Realm 43.
• Overdrawing a Lower Plane risks its collapse and the death of its inhabitants; the Plane Master also suffers backlash if their plane is destroyed 43.
• Each sufficiently large continent possesses Continental Power, which can temper the body, improve affinity with heaven and earth, and increase the chance of reaching the Heavenly Sovereign Realm 42.
• Continental Power is ordinarily mobilized only by Heavenly Sovereigns. After integrating White Dragon Continent, Futu Yun gained a portion of the Great Thousand World's authority and could use it to elevate Lower Planes or nurture Plane Spirits 42.
• Lower Planes moved into the Great Thousand World become new continents whose laws are rewritten as part of the larger world 64.
• A Plane Spirit's usefulness depends on its plane's strength. Spirits from weak Lower Planes cannot necessarily help an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection expert become a Heavenly Sovereign, though they can provide substantial assistance at lower cultivation levels 64.
• Contact with the Great Thousand World, including the ascension of a native cultivator, can cause a Lower Plane to receive nourishment in return and eventually produce a Plane Spirit 64 106.
• Futu Yun created a temporary Artificial Plane Spirit using Continental Power and Supreme Spiritual Liquid, allowing him to search and relocate a plane whose original spirit was absent 64.
• Pure members of the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan are rejected as prospective Plane Masters. The hybrid Evil Spirit Clan can bypass this limitation and, upon becoming Plane Masters, rewrite a Lower Plane's laws rather than merely corrupting its energy 89.

Plane Ascension

White Dragon Continent's emergence beside Futu Continent was treated as an unprecedented form of plane ascension. The event shocked Heavenly Sovereigns because a complete Lower Plane had merged into the Great Thousand World rather than merely being connected by a passage 37.

Afterward, Futu Yun and the Pagoda Ancient Clan developed a system of locating Lower Planes, controlling or nurturing their Plane Spirits, drawing out their energy, and merging the exhausted planes into the Great Thousand World for restoration 43.

Integrating a Lower Plane inherently strengthens the Great Thousand World. The world consequently provides nourishing feedback to the new continent, repairing its depleted condition and benefiting its Plane Master. Repeated integrations increased Futu Yun's cultivation and helped Earthly Sovereigns serving under him advance to Heavenly Sovereign 43.

The Heavenly Profound Continent was subsequently fully integrated after Futu Yun inherited its Plane Spirit, extending the process beyond White Dragon Continent and the Expedition Group's other acquisitions 61.

Great Thousand Creation Liquid and World Consciousness

Great Thousand Creation Liquid is the condensed embryonic form of a Plane Spirit. It originates in world consciousness, the collective consciousness of a world's intelligent inhabitants, rather than the will of a creator deity. This consciousness can settle from an intangible state into liquid and ultimately solidify into a complete Plane Spirit 106.

The Flame Emperor initially identified its source as top-tier Lower Planes that had produced an ascender but had not yet formed a Plane Spirit. Futu Yun understood that these conditions described a particularly favorable pattern rather than an absolute requirement: a plane's contact with the Great Thousand World and its inhabitants' collective yearning encourage its formation, but the liquid can arise without that yearning at a lower probability 105 106.

Futu Yun's internal world, which lacked a Plane Spirit, continually accumulated the substance. Its production depended on the number of intelligent inhabitants and the world's development rather than its size alone, allowing him to supply the Great Thousand World with quantities unavailable through ordinary searches of Lower Planes 106 107.

Major Factions and Institutions

Humans and divine-beast races frequently dispute territory and interests in ordinary times, but both are native beings of the Great Thousand World. Against the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, their shared threat allows them to set aside those divisions and unite 110.

Extraterrestrial Evil Clan Conflict

The Extraterrestrial Evil Clan was the Great Thousand World's defining external threat until its eventual extermination. Following the Primordial War, the Great Thousand World retained only half of its ancient territory, while the other half fell under Evil Clan control 49 51 126.

Evil Clan corruption destroys more than living beings. Their influence can contaminate a Lower Plane's natural energy into poisonous black energy, while their corpses dissolve into corpse aura that pollutes spiritual energy and prevents its refinement 42 49.

The ancient war could scarcely be called a complete victory for the Great Thousand World: countless experts and factions perished, extensive territory remained occupied, and the surviving inhabitants knew that a renewed invasion remained possible 83.

Demon-Slaying System

• Demon-Slaying Points are earned by killing Extraterrestrial Evil Clan members and may be exchanged for treasures such as Peerless Divine Abilities and Supreme Dharma Bodies 42.
• A slain enemy's demonic soul can be shattered and placed into a Demon-Slaying Command to obtain the corresponding points. One thousand points qualify a Low-Rank Demon-Slaying Master for Intermediate Rank, while three thousand qualify them for High-Rank Demon-Slayer 42.
• A Demon-Slaying King is a supreme title within the Great Thousand Palace, achievable through ten thousand Demon-Slaying Points or the killing of a Heavenly Demon Emperor 50.
• Futu Yun became the second Demon-Slaying King after killing the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor and annihilating the Blade Demon Clan, one of the Evil Clan's thirty-two great clans 50 51.
• Qin Tian was the first Demon-Slaying King since ancient times and became palace master after fighting his way out of Evil Clan territory. The Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor had secretly planted a demon seed within him for use against the Great Thousand World 90.
• Futu Yun later offered Demon-Slaying Points and spirit god liquid as bounties on the Tai Ling and Maha Ancient Clans' Heavenly Sovereigns, drawing hunters' attention across the world 92.

Evil Spirit Clan and Changes to the World's Energy

The Evil Spirit Clan was bred through unions between Extraterrestrial Evil Clan members and beings of the Great Thousand World. Its members can cultivate both spiritual energy and foreign evil energy, making them a concealed means of bypassing restrictions that normally exclude the invaders 89 110.

After Mu Chen acquired Evil Spirit Clan characteristics and developed fused evil spirit energy, a subtle upheaval spread through the Great Thousand World. The Demon Realm's evil energy began to be accepted by heaven and earth rather than remaining wholly rejected. It could then strengthen itself by directly devouring the world's natural energy, instead of relying solely on corruption 90.

This change weakened environmental suppression of Evil Clan experts and triggered widespread advances. Demon Emperors comparable to Spirit-grade Heavenly Sovereigns rose to Immortal-grade equivalence, while stronger Demon Emperors and Heavenly Demon Emperors also gained cultivation or combat strength 90.

Great Thousand Covenant

The Great Thousand Covenant is the millennial gathering organized by the Great Thousand Palace to operate the Immortal Emperor's seal and wear away the Heavenly Evil God's remaining vitality. Only Heavenly Sovereigns ordinarily qualify for Great Thousand Invitations: iron, silver, and gold invitations correspond to Spirit, Immortal, and Saint Grade respectively 105.

The Immortal Emperor predicted that forty-nine thousand years of operation would annihilate the Heavenly Evil God. The forty-ninth gathering was therefore intended to complete the process. Northern Wilderness Hill's Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array, formed from the Immortal Emperor's life, dissolved evil energy while permitting cultivators of orthodox spiritual energy to move freely 105 110.

Before the gathering, the Evil Clan repeatedly attacked the Boundless Fire Territory and Martial Realm. The approaching existential crisis led the world's factions to set aside many internal grievances, including some resentment toward Futu Yun over his destruction of two ancient clans 107.

The Evil Spirit Clan penetrated defenses that ordinary Evil Clan members could not cross. Futu Yun led the Heavenly Sovereigns' defense and killed its Middle Saint-grade chief, Jiang Ya, but the Heavenly Evil God ultimately escaped with only hours remaining before the seal's intended completion 110 111 112.

Renewed War and Final Liberation

The Heavenly Evil God's escape threatened the entire world. The Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor answered by inscribing their surnames on the Firmament Ledger, proving that advancement beyond Saint Grade remained possible and restoring hope among the Heavenly Sovereigns 113 116.

With the Heavenly Evil God's full recovery expected within five years, the Boundless Fire Territory and Martial Realm rallied experts at Earthly Sovereign or above. A million-strong allied host assembled in less than a month and entered the Demon Realm under the two leaders 122.

After nearly four years of campaigning, the allies returned having weakened the Evil Clan but failed to prevent the Heavenly Evil God's recovery. They fortified a long border defensive line. During the following year, collective resolve, risky breakthroughs, and Futu Yun's supplies of Great Thousand Creation Liquid strengthened the defenders before the Evil Clan launched a savage counterinvasion 123.

Futu Yun inscribed his surname on the Firmament Ledger and joined the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor against the Heavenly Evil God. Their combined power could contend with his Nine-Eyed State, but his revelation of a still stronger Ten-Eyed State plunged the world's experts into despair 124.

By the time Futu Yun revived in his internal world and returned, the war had ended. His son Futu Xi had become the world's undisputed guardian deity and exterminated the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. Using World Power, Futu Xi purified the occupied territories, opening vast lands to renewed settlement and competition 126.

The Pagoda Ancient Clan thereafter ruled the Great Thousand World. Futu Xi did not suppress the superpowers' renewed struggles over territory and resources, regarding continued competition as necessary to prevent the world's decline 126.

Major Historical Events

Trivia

• The Great Thousand World's ancient Divine Beast Continent once housed most spirit-beast and divine-beast races before the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan shattered it during the ancient war 72.
• The Divine Beast Origin, once located on that continent, periodically returns from the black-hole dimension that swallowed it during the war 72.
• The Flame Emperor connected the Dou Qi Continent to the Great Thousand World, while the Martial Ancestor similarly established a connection with the Heavenly Profound Continent; neither initial achievement fully integrated their original worlds in the manner of White Dragon Continent's ascension. Futu Yun later fully integrated the Heavenly Profound Continent 34 37 38 61.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow Clan's ancestral Nine Nether Realm was said to have originated as its ancient Lower Plane. A powerful ancestor connected it to the Great Thousand World, and the clan once produced Heavenly Sovereigns for three consecutive generations 34.
• The invaders' origins were ultimately traced to the Saint Clan, which fled to the Great Thousand World carrying a black egg from which the Heavenly Evil God hatched. His survival followed Zhou Yuan's decision not to eradicate the remaining threat, leaving the Great Thousand World to endure a calamity that cost countless lives 126.
• Although Futu Yun made extensive contributions to the world's defense, Futu Xi's prestige ultimately surpassed his father's because Futu Yun was absent from the final battle while reviving in his internal world 126.