Lower Plane

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature

Lower Planes are worlds of a lower order than the Great Thousand World. Their natural energy is generally inferior to Great Thousand World spiritual energy, but they can contain powerful inheritances, rare resources, and cultivators capable of reaching extraordinary realms 34 35.

They vary greatly in foundation:

• The Dou Qi Continent and Heavenly Profound Continent are described as relatively weak Lower Planes; their ascenders initially entered the Great Thousand World at the Sovereign Stage 34.
• The White Dragon Sovereign’s Lower Plane was powerful enough to produce Earthly Sovereign-level cultivators and an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection expert 34 38.
• Ancient Lower Planes can become the ancestral lands of major factions after establishing a connection to the Great Thousand World, as with the Nine Nether Realm of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan 34.
• White Dragon Continent serves as an example of a top-tier Lower Plane, whereas the Dou Qi Continent and Heavenly Profound Continent fall well below that standard 105.

The space of a Lower Plane is considerably less stable than that of the Great Thousand World. Experts capable of tearing apart space in their original worlds may be unable to open a Spatial Rift after arriving in the Great Thousand World, while visitors from the latter can cause devastating destruction in a Lower Plane with relatively little effort 23.

Although Lower Planes are distinct worlds and need not directly border the Great Thousand World, they ultimately exist in dependence on it. This relationship extends to their laws and Plane Spirits, which reject the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan in accordance with the Great Thousand World’s will 89.

Cultivation ceilings do not necessarily reflect the ultimate potential of their inhabitants. Those who break through a Plane Barrier usually possess exceptional talent and determination, and can flourish after adapting to the Great Thousand World. Peak experts brought over through Futu Yun’s integrations can overcome their former bottlenecks; those from stronger planes may eventually reach Earthly Sovereign or Heavenly Sovereign 31 34 43.

Access and Spatial Nodes

A Lower Plane is ordinarily reached through a spatial node hidden within the void. Before being opened, such nodes may be as small as dust and are extremely difficult to locate 34.

• A native object can bypass a plane’s natural entry restrictions. Futu Yun uses the White Dragon Spirit Pearl, which bears the White Dragon Sovereign’s mark, as the key to his destination 34.
• Heavenly Sovereigns can force entry if they possess the necessary spatial coordinates, as they have transcended the limitations of Lower Planes 34.
• Futu Yun locates the White Dragon Sovereign’s world by having Mandala trace the aura of the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, to which she is particularly sensitive 34.
• After integrating White Dragon Continent, Futu Yun perceives the coordinates of numerous other Lower Planes. These initially detected worlds already possess connections to the Great Thousand World through former ascenders, whose native tokens can provide entry 38 39.
• The number of Lower Planes Futu Yun can sense increases as he integrates more of them into the Great Thousand World 43.
• Spatial nodes can be repositioned for military purposes. The Extraterrestrial Evil Clan secretly moves an infiltrated Lower Plane’s node outside Northern Wilderness Hill and uses it to launch its intervention during the Great Thousand Covenant 109.

Plane Spirits and Plane Masters

A Plane Spirit is a rare spiritual entity condensed from the essence of an entire Lower Plane. It lacks a developed consciousness but retains instinctive spirituality and can judge threats to the plane 34 35.

Plane Spirit

• Not every Lower Plane can produce a Plane Embryo or Plane Spirit; their formation requires exceptional opportunities 34.
• A sufficiently powerful Plane Spirit contains immense Primordial Chaos Power, sufficient to help an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection attempt a breakthrough to the Heavenly Sovereign Realm 35 64.
• Invasions and mass slaughter can corrupt a Plane Spirit. The White Dragon Continent’s spirit develops blood-red threads after the Blood Evil Clan devastates the world 35.
• Continental Power and Supreme Spiritual Liquid can catalyze the birth of a Plane Spirit in a plane that lacks one 42.
• Futu Yun can create a temporary Artificial Plane Spirit to search and relocate a Lower Plane that has lost its original spirit 64.
• A weak Lower Plane’s spirit does not necessarily possess enough power to support a Heavenly Sovereign breakthrough, although it can still help a cultivator open a Supreme Sea and enter the Sovereign Stage 64.
• Refinement is dangerous for cultivators below the Sovereign Stage. Failure can cause the prospective refiner to be assimilated by the Plane Spirit and become nourishment for the world 38.
• Plane Spirits ordinarily cannot leave their native worlds. An exceptional spirit born from an ascender’s aura can accompany that ascender into the Great Thousand World, as occurs with the spirit later recognized by Mu Chen 64.

The spirit inherited by Mu Chen demonstrates that a Plane Spirit can resist the ascender whose breakthrough helped bring it into existence. His ring-bound Senior takes it away after it refuses refinement and confines it within her Supreme Sea for thousands of years; it eventually recognizes Mu Chen after he refines her Spirit God Liquid 64.

Plane Master

Refining a Plane Spirit makes an individual the Plane Master of that world 35.

A Plane Master can:

• Sense every region, living being, and fertile or barren area within the plane 36.
• Reach any location in the plane and influence its terrain, mountains, rivers, and natural conditions 36.
• Draw upon the plane’s vast spiritual-energy reserves in battle or cultivation 43.
• Determine the fate of the plane’s inhabitants, though their collective prayer power can also nourish the master’s cultivation 37.
• Relocate the plane with the assistance of Heavenly Sovereigns after taking control of it 43.
• Search the entire world without damaging it, including through temporary authority obtained from an Artificial Plane Spirit 64.

A Plane Master normally shares prosperity and ruin with their world; destroying or exhausting the plane causes backlash to its master 43.

The relationship also operates in the opposite direction. Mu Chen’s death causes the Evil Spirit Continent to lose vitality. Restoring it requires another expert, no weaker than Mu Chen, to inherit the Plane Spirit he leaves behind 112.

Recognition by a displaced Plane Spirit can produce an unusual form of succession. Mu Chen becomes the recognized master of his Senior’s former world while still in the Great Thousand World, but Futu Yun integrates that world before Mu Chen can reach it. The Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor regards him as a prospective ruler whose territory has already ceased to exist as an independent plane 64 65.

Great Thousand Creation Liquid

Great Thousand Creation Liquid is the embryonic form of a Plane Spirit. Its development proceeds from intangible energy to a tangible liquid, then potentially to a solid state constituting a fully formed Plane Spirit. Consequently, the liquid is a transient resource rather than something that remains available after a spirit’s formation 105 106.

The Flame Emperor initially describes its source as a top-tier Lower Plane that has never produced a Plane Spirit but has produced an ascender. Futu Yun recognizes this as an observed pattern rather than an absolute requirement 105 106.

• Contact with the Great Thousand World allows a Lower Plane to receive nourishment in return, even when that connection originates with a single ascender 106.
• In a top-tier plane, an expert’s ascension to Heavenly Sovereign can inspire its inhabitants to yearn for the Great Thousand World. The world consciousness condensed from that yearning forms the liquid’s embryonic basis 106.
• Formation without this collective yearning remains possible, but is less likely, helping explain the rarity of naturally occurring Plane Spirits 106.
• The liquid is the principal ingredient of the Great Thousand Creation Pill, which greatly improves an Immortal-grade Peak Heavenly Sovereign’s chances of advancing to Saint Grade 105.
• Futu Yun supplies the Flame Emperor with a quantity large enough to astonish him, and the resulting pills help strengthen the Great Thousand World before the Great Thousand Covenant 105 107.

Corruption by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan

Lower Planes are especially vulnerable to invasion by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. A fully occupied plane can become a lifeless, poisoned world in which both living beings and natural energy are consumed or corrupted 42.

• The Blood Evil Clan occupies the White Dragon Continent, preserving some inhabitants only as a renewable source of blood food 36.
• The clan’s slaughter damages the White Dragon Continent’s Plane Spirit and leaves it susceptible to Futu Yun’s refinement 35.
• In another corrupted Lower Plane, Futu Yun uses four-colored power and a chaotic light sphere to remove the occupying Evil Clan without a prolonged battle 42.
• Mandala orders the execution of all survivors carrying the Blood Evil Clan’s aura after the White Dragon Continent’s liberation 36.
• The Heavenly Profound Continent also suffers an invasion, but the Martial Ancestor drives the invaders away and personally kills their emperor. Most Lower Planes lack the strength to repeat such a victory 42.
• Some ascenders remain unable to return to defend their homelands even after learning of an invasion 42.

Evil Spirit Clan and Planar Laws

Ordinary members of the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan cannot become Plane Masters because the Great Thousand World’s will rejects them. Even a Heavenly Demon Emperor can destroy a Lower Plane but cannot obtain its recognition in the normal manner 89.

The Evil Spirit Clan provides a potential means around this restriction. Bred from unions between the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan and beings of the Great Thousand World, its members can cultivate both spiritual energy and evil qi. The Flame Emperor reasons that such a being could become a Plane Master and completely rewrite a Lower Plane’s laws, rather than merely contaminate its existing energy 89.

After his abduction, Mu Chen sacrifices large numbers of the Evil Spirit Clan to acquire their dual-energy aptitude and becomes the master of a Lower Plane with the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s assistance. He later reports that Futu Yun has destroyed that world. The Evil Clan subsequently provides him with a top-tier Lower Plane where the Evil Spirit Clan multiplies and Demon Emperors are stationed as reserve sacrifices 89 118.

Mu Chen transforms this later territory, the Evil Spirit Continent, into a blessed land comparable to the Great Thousand World. His death weakens it, while the subsequent sacrifice of its inhabitants and stationed Demon Emperors nourishes the Heavenly Evil God 112 118.

Strategic Use of Lower Planes

The Extraterrestrial Evil Clan uses Lower Planes for more than occupation and resource extraction:

• Conquered worlds provide populations for experiments, including the development of the Evil Spirit Clan 89.
• A secretly relocated planar node allows an army to emerge immediately outside Northern Wilderness Hill despite Futu Yun’s advance warning 109.
• The Evil Spirit Continent serves as a prepared sacrificial territory. After Mu Chen’s death, the Heavenly Evil God seizes its authority and forcibly merges it into the Great Thousand World, combining the blood sacrifice with the benefits of integration 112 118.

Plane Ascension and Integration

Futu Yun develops a method of bringing Lower Planes into the Great Thousand World rather than merely opening passages to them.

• After becoming Plane Master of the White Dragon Continent, he moves its spatial coordinates near Futu Continent and merges the entire plane into the Great Thousand World 37.
• The integration elevates the Lower Plane into a complete continent with its own laws, an achievement even established Heavenly Sovereigns consider extraordinary 37.
• The newly merged plane is nourished by the Great Thousand World, while Futu Yun benefits in return as both its Plane Master and master of the new continent 38.
• The method cannot be readily replicated by the Flame Emperor or Martial Ancestor because their cultivation, timing, and relationships with their respective Plane Spirits differ fundamentally from Futu Yun’s 38.
• Futu Yun later inherits the Heavenly Profound Continent’s Plane Spirit and integrates that world, advancing its relationship with the Great Thousand World beyond the Martial Ancestor’s earlier protected passage 61.
• Integration rewrites a Lower Plane’s laws as it becomes part of the Great Thousand World, even when the world itself remains intact 64.

Futu Yun’s original breakthrough depends on refining a Plane Spirit before reaching the Heaven Transformation Realm, then merging with the Great Thousand World while carrying that spirit. The Martial Ancestor had already reached his original world’s cultivation ceiling before ascending, while the Flame Emperor was not his homeland’s Plane Master at ascension. Their established cultivation paths therefore do not permit a straightforward repetition of Futu Yun’s initial achievement 38.

Repeated integration also has consequences beyond the individual continents. Bringing Lower Planes into the Great Thousand World strengthens it and earns Futu Yun its recognition and a portion of its authority. This relationship helps him sense and stir the Firmament Ledger, although it does not by itself qualify him to leave his surname upon it 43 118.

The Heavenly Evil God later demonstrates a different route to integration. After seizing the authority left by Mu Chen, he uses his overwhelming cultivation to force the sacrificed Evil Spirit Clan world into the Great Thousand World. This lets him perceive the Firmament Ledger, though he cannot stir it as Futu Yun does 118.

Futu Yun’s Lower Plane Expansion

Futu Yun turns Lower Planes into a systematic source of personnel, resources, and cultivation opportunities for the Pagoda Ancient Clan Expedition Group 43.

1. He brings Continental Power and Supreme Spiritual Liquid into a Lower Plane.
2. He subdues an existing Plane Spirit or artificially nurtures one.
3. The plane’s overflowing energy is distributed among the expedition force to support breakthroughs.
4. Heavenly Sovereigns assist in moving the exhausted plane to prepared coordinates.
5. The plane is merged into the Great Thousand World, where its depleted foundation is repaired 42 43.

This process allows several Earthly Sovereigns under Futu Yun to advance into the Heavenly Sovereign Realm. Survivors and peak experts from absorbed Lower Planes are also recruited, gaining access to cultivation beyond their former world’s limits 43.

The method has consequences:

• The sudden arrival of a new continent can trigger major earthquakes near existing continents, including White Dragon Continent 43.
• Futu Yun’s practice of overdrawing a plane’s energy avoids ordinary Plane Master backlash only because he subsequently merges the damaged world into the Great Thousand World 43.
• Plane Spirit Origins gathered through this expansion are used to refine Earth Spirit Liquid, a treasure capable of directly aiding an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection’s breakthrough to the Heavenly Sovereign Realm 48.
• The Expedition Group accumulates vast resources. Although much of the material is relatively low-grade, the conquered worlds also contain rare treasures 48.
• Not every powerful inhabitant accepts the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s authority. Some peak experts refuse submission and attempt to claim the newly formed continents for themselves 48.
• Each successful integration replenishes Continental Power in the newborn continent, supports Futu Yun’s cultivation, and expands the range of Lower Planes he can detect, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of expansion 43.

The removal of a Plane Spirit does not prevent Futu Yun from integrating its former world. After being injured by the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and falling into a Lower Plane, he uses an Artificial Plane Spirit to search and relocate it. This is the world sought by Mu Chen and his ring-bound Senior, whose original Plane Spirit has already recognized Mu Chen 63 64.

Known Lower Planes

Associated Figures

• Futu Yun — Refines the White Dragon Continent’s Plane Spirit, becomes its Plane Master, and pioneers the large-scale elevation and integration of Lower Planes 35 37 43. He later integrates the Heavenly Profound Continent and gains Great Thousand World recognition and authority through repeated integrations 61 118.
• Mandala — Detects Evil Clan contamination, breaks the White Dragon Spirit Pearl’s seal, and assists in the operation to seize the White Dragon Continent 34 36.
• White Dragon Sovereign — Former inhabitant of the Lower Plane that becomes White Dragon Continent; his Spirit Pearl provides the key to enter it 34.
• Bai Susu — Queen of the White Dragon Continent who acknowledges Futu Yun as its new ruler after the Blood Evil Clan’s defeat 36.
• Flame Emperor — Ascended from the Dou Qi Continent and established a stable passage connecting it to the Great Thousand World 34. His investigations contribute to understanding the Evil Spirit Clan’s potential influence on planar laws and the production of Great Thousand Creation Liquid 89 105 106.
• Martial Ancestor — Ascended from the Heavenly Profound Continent and protected it through a connection to the Martial Realm 34 37. He had previously repelled an Evil Clan invasion of his homeland and slain its emperor 42.
• Mu Chen — Gains recognition from a displaced Plane Spirit before Futu Yun integrates its world. He later becomes an Evil Clan-supported Plane Master and rules the Evil Spirit Continent, whose vitality declines upon his death 64 65 89 112 118.
• Mu Chen’s ring-bound Senior — An ascender whose breakthrough helps her homeland produce a Plane Spirit; she removes and imprisons that spirit after it resists refinement, inadvertently preserving it for Mu Chen 64.
• Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor — Injures Futu Yun, tracks him through a residual corpse aura, and encounters Mu Chen after Futu Yun removes the Lower Plane they seek 63 64 65.
• Heavenly Evil God — Seizes Mu Chen’s planar authority and combines a blood sacrifice with forced integration of the Evil Spirit Continent to regain strength and perceive the Firmament Ledger 112 118.

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