Dragon Nation

Biodata

Background

Dragon Nation entered the Centennial National Destiny Trial after nine consecutive trials outside the reward-earning top ten. Its weakened national fortune made citizens fear that contestants exploring unfamiliar, stronger worlds would receive poor starting identities and talents 1 22 23.

Soul Land World was one of the strongest training worlds Dragon Nation had explored. Teacher Wang Gang recommended it as the ambitious but familiar choice, particularly for students willing to follow Zhao Xuan. Li Yi instead chose the unexplored Primordial World 1.

Dragon Nation had previously achieved stronger results: a contestant who became a Soul Ancestor on the first day won first place twenty years earlier, while the nation's last reward before the current trial came from an eighth-place finish ten years earlier. These precedents contributed to the confidence initially placed in Zhao Xuan 21 22 24.

The nation's established cultivation families include the Zhao Clan and the Xu Family. The Zhao Clan had produced three Titled Douluo and possessed inherited knowledge of Soul Land World, giving its entrants advantages in choosing and navigating that training world 1 108 109.

National Destiny Results

Trial rankings grant rewards to a contestant’s nation. The recorded rewards improve national fortune, citizens’ comprehension, and their Initial Identity talent in future trials 1 22.

Rewards depend on a contestant's strength as well as placement. Li Yi's first-day national fortune reward reached the ranking system's 50% cap; without that limit, a reward proportional to his strength would have been vastly greater 22 38.

Documented weapon-ranking rewards

Story Role

• Recovery through Li Yi: His first-place training result overturned the despair caused by Zhao Xuan’s 11th-place reveal. Citizens received their first national destiny reward in ten trials 22 23 24.
• Weapon-ranking dominance: Li Yi’s repeated placements delivered rewards that helped some citizens break through cultivation bottlenecks. Rival nations’ prized weapons ranked below his collection 40 42.
• Renewed uncertainty: When Eagle Nation and nine allies paid national destiny to send contestants into the Primordial World, many Dragon Nation citizens feared Li Yi would lose his advantage once rivals had access to the same world 50 51.
• Battlefield victory: Citizens initially judged Dragon Nation’s representative, Tongtian, too ordinary-looking to face the other nations’ Demon Kings. Eagle Nation’s Earth Spirit Tiger instead surrendered out of fear of him; subsequent opponents also conceded 64 69 70 71.

Public divisions and battlefield representatives

Dragon Nation's viewers repeatedly struggled to interpret the Primordial World's cultivation and treasure grades. Before the weapon rankings, some assumed that Li Yi's starting Cosmos Cauldron must be inferior to treasures acquired later. The rankings gradually established the superiority of high-grade and supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures and, finally, Innate Supreme Treasures 38 39 41.

Doubts intensified before the battlefield contest. Some citizens defended Li Yi as the nation's greatest contributor regardless of the eventual result, while others credited his success entirely to the Primordial World's high standing and demanded that he disclose the location of his island after returning 64.

Tongtian appeared in Dragon Nation's National Destiny Plaza through a Spirit Treasure Avatar, not his true body. Zhao Xuan also summoned Tang Ren from Soul Land World, whom some viewers treated as the nation's real trump card. A third Soul Land powerhouse joined them on the battlefield, but the Earth Spirit Tiger's display of magic power frightened Tongtian's teammates before the tiger surrendered 63 64 65 69.

Discovery of the National Destiny Game's purpose

While representing Dragon Nation, Tongtian investigated the space beyond Blue Star and discovered that the apparent universe concealed a Minor World in which the planet had been confined. He recorded the responsible world's aura and delivered it to Li Yi 69 71.

Li Yi identified the Xuanhuang Realm as the force behind the National Destiny Game. It used the inhabitants of captured planets to investigate other worlds, taking over Minor Worlds and seeking to control powerful inhabitants of greater worlds before devouring those worlds. The battlefield summoning contest also allowed its operators to assess worlds they could not investigate directly 71.

Tongtian's appearance drew the operator's attention to Li Yi. Unable to determine Tongtian's cultivation, the operator changed the fourth day's rules to recall the participants, intending to use Li Yi as leverage to control him. Other nations responded by demanding access to Li Yi and threatening collective action against Dragon Nation if it refused 71.

Fourth-day recall and plans to exploit Li Yi

Before the recall, Zhao Haishen and other Dragon Nation powerhouses planned to require Li Yi to reveal the Primordial World's secrets and surrender most of his Spirit Treasures in return for compensation. Meanwhile, Eagle Nation's Speaker Robert sought to organize a coalition that would apply for a national war if Dragon Nation refused to share the information 108.

The Zhao Clan, Xu Family, and other family heads assembled at National Destiny Plaza to await Li Yi. Returning students learned that Li Yi, rather than Zhao Xuan, had secured the nation's ranking victories, but Li Yi himself did not emerge. Even the Guto Family's hidden summoning contingency failed to recall him 109.

Guto Xuefeng then entered the Primordial World to capture Li Yi, broadcasting the expedition across Blue Star to intimidate its inhabitants. Instead, his encounters progressively exposed how greatly the nations and Dragon Nation's established families had underestimated Li Yi and his treasures 109 114 115.

Reassessment of Li Yi's standing

• Quasi-Saint revelation: Viewers learned that Primordial Unity Supreme Immortals were known as Quasi-Saints in the Primordial World and ranked among its factions' strongest cultivators. The Zhao Clan, Xu Family, and other great families became afraid of the consequences of their plans to capture Li Yi 114.
• Treasure reassessment: Guto Xuefeng's receipt of a lower-grade Innate Spirit Treasure demonstrated the value of treasures below even Li Yi's lowest-ranked weapon-ranking entries, further overturning earlier assumptions about his collection 115.
• Proposed sovereign status: After hearing that Human Emperor Huang was a Great Dao Sage, viewers rejected the suggestion that he could be Li Yi because the trial panel still listed Li Yi as a peak Quasi-Saint. The Zhao Clan and Xu Family leaders instead discussed honoring Li Yi as sovereign if he returned, hoping to obtain cultivation knowledge and a way to escape the National Destiny Game 118.
• Tongtian's Sage status: Learning that Tongtian was a Sage filled Dragon Nation's viewers with excitement and renewed questions about Li Yi's influence in the Primordial World 120.
• Possible identification as Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor: Li Yi's appearance during Houtu's crisis and the subsequent display of the Chaos Gourd led viewers to connect him with the Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor. Dragon Nation's citizens argued that the National Destiny Game could not measure a Sage's true cultivation and celebrated the prospect that their nation had a Sage of its own 124 130.
• Great-family hostility: Unlike the celebrating public, Zhao Haishen and other family heads feared that Li Yi knew of their plans to imprison and interrogate him. They hoped Hongjun would kill him before he returned to Blue Star 130.
• Anxiety during the battle with Hongjun: When the Chaos Gourd cracked under Dutian Divine Thunder, Dragon Nation's viewers feared Li Yi might be destroyed beyond recovery, while the hostile family heads welcomed the apparent danger. The gourd was actually advancing and subsequently repaired itself as an upper-grade Chaos Spirit Treasure 131.

Key Figures and Rivalries

• Li Yi — Dragon Nation contestant whose Primordial World training secured its first-day and weapon-ranking victories; he sent Tongtian to represent it on the battlefield 24 42 63 71. His failure to return during the fourth-day recall frustrated plans to seize his knowledge and treasures. Later broadcasts led citizens to identify him with the Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor 109 124 130.
• Zhao Xuan — Soul Land contestant whose 11th-place finish initially appeared to leave the nation without a reward 21 22. He summoned Tang Ren for the battlefield contest and returned to discover that Li Yi had become the cohort's celebrated Super Genius 65 109.
• Taoist Tongtian — Li Yi’s disciple and Dragon Nation’s battlefield representative; his reputation caused opposing fighters to surrender 63 70 71. His avatar also uncovered Blue Star's confinement and gathered the world aura that enabled Li Yi to identify the National Destiny Game's operators 69 71.
• Wang Gang — Teacher of Li Yi and Zhao Xuan who initially favored familiar training worlds and placed his hopes in Zhao Xuan. Li Yi's victory left him ashamed of his earlier judgment 1 22 24.
• Tang Ren — Soul Land powerhouse summoned by Zhao Xuan to fight for Dragon Nation; citizens initially regarded him as a more promising representative than the apparently ordinary Tongtian 65.
• Zhao Haishen and the great-family heads — Dragon Nation powerhouses associated with plans to demand Li Yi's secrets and treasures. Their attitudes shifted from attempted coercion to proposals of sovereign status, then to hoping Hongjun would kill him once his apparent Sage identity threatened their safety 108 118 130 131.
• Eagle Nation — major ranking rival that later organized a ten-nation effort to send contestants into the Primordial World 24 50 51. It subsequently threatened a coalition national war to force Dragon Nation to share Li Yi's information 108.
• Cherry Blossom Nation — rival whose viewers repeatedly challenged Dragon Nation’s prospects and whose representative joined the ten-nation plan 21 23 50. Its viewers also threatened vassalization or conquest and later welcomed the possibility of Li Yi dying in battle against Hongjun 23 131.
• Guto Xuefeng and the Guto Family — figures behind the National Destiny Game's attempt to recall and capture Li Yi. Guto Xuefeng's broadcast expedition became the means through which Dragon Nation and the other Blue Star nations learned more about the Primordial World's power hierarchy 109 114 115 116 118.
• Xuanhuang Realm — the world behind the National Destiny Game, which used Blue Star's inhabitants as explorers and potential intermediaries for controlling other worlds 71.

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