Phoenix God Continent

Biodata

Geography

• The continent stretches for thousands of miles, with mountains, rivers, forests, cities, and Soul Beast habitats on Feng Xuanyuan’s back 1.
• Its inhabitants remain undisturbed when Feng Xuanyuan moves, even though the wind from one stretch raises a tsunami in the sea below 1.
• The Divine Mountain holds a thousand-zhang statue of the Phoenix God and serves as a site of imperial worship 1.
• The Phoenix God Realm is a separate Divine Realm that Feng Xuanyuan established within his body using the faith of his followers 1.
• The continent floats above the sea of clouds. Its terrain also includes vast deserts and extensive inland seas; the imperial warship carrying Huo Yuhao’s group must climb above the clouds to reach it 70.
• Spirit City is an imperial urban center with modern buildings, vehicles, and Soul Guidance public transport. Bibi Dong finds its devices unfamiliar, while Huo Yuhao and his companions use a Soul Guidance Bus to reach the Royal Academy of Sciences 11 62 70.
• Heavenly Phoenix Forest is the location where the Golden-Winged Great Roc survives its heavenly tribulation and reaches 800,000 years of cultivation 6.

History

Feng Xuanyuan’s Creation Godhead shaped land upon his body while he slept. As the floating island drifted over Douluo Star, it sometimes descended near other continents; humans and Soul Beasts settled on it and came to worship him after witnessing its miracles 1.

Ten thousand years before the present story, competing kingdoms on the continent fought over land and resources. The wars disturbed Feng Xuanyuan’s sleep. He took human form, subdued the kingdoms, and founded the Spirit Hall Empire 2. After learning that Spirit Hall had been destroyed on Douluo Continent, he brought its surviving Soul Masters to Phoenix God Continent and reestablished the organization within the empire. Spirit Hall thereafter worshipped the Phoenix God rather than the Angel God 2.

Some of the pre-unification inhabitants originated from Sun Moon Continent and used Soul-Guided Shells in their wars. When Feng Xuanyuan investigated the destruction of Spirit Hall, he guided Phoenix God Continent down until it bordered Douluo Continent, enabling him to transfer the survivors 2. Xu Yi’s ancestor was another migrant from the Sun Moon Empire, having left to escape its internal strife ten thousand years earlier 15.

During Feng Xuanyuan’s subsequent 10,086-year sleep, the continent’s cities and Soul Guidance Technology developed further. Qian Renxue governed the Phoenix God Realm as Divine Empress, while descendants of her and Feng Xuanyuan ruled the empire 1 2.

Feng Xuanyuan attributes the empire’s technological development in part to guidance he gave its people ten thousand years earlier, emphasizing that finding the correct direction for Soul Guidance research was the decisive step 9. Upon his awakening, Feng Jiuge declares three years of tax exemption throughout the empire 1.

After the campaign against Shrek Academy, the empire arranges to bring Huo Yuhao’s group and Clear Sky Sect laborers to Phoenix God Continent aboard its fleet 54. Members remaining at the Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral home also leave to join the Royal Academy of Sciences, rejecting Tang Hao’s attempt to stop their departure 61 62. Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei subsequently arrive in Spirit City 70.

Inhabitants and institutions

• Spirit Hall Empire — the continent’s governing state, ruled in the present story by Empress Feng Jiuge. At Feng Xuanyuan’s awakening, it counts tens of millions of Soul Masters 1.
• Spirit Hall Academy — the empire’s highest educational institution; every teacher is a Titled Douluo 13. Its Soul Tool Department teachers must additionally be Level 7 Soul Engineers and Two-Word Battle Armor Masters 13.
• Royal Academy of Sciences — develops the empire’s Soul Guidance Technology, including the Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell Gods’ Dusk 1 4. Xu Yi offers its instruction in rare-metal forging to the defeated Clear Sky Sect, while privately assigning the recruits exhausting twelve-hour workshop shifts 37.
• Soul Beasts — include the Battle Saint Ape, revered as their sovereign on the continent, and a Golden-Winged Great Roc reported to have reached 800,000 years of cultivation 4 8. The Battle Saint Ape possesses 990,000 years of cultivation and was personally created through Feng Xuanyuan’s creation power 8 45.
• Imperial family — possesses the divine bloodlines of both the Phoenix God and the Angel God. These bloodlines allow fortunate members to withstand the transcendent god-level Phoenix God Martial Soul, whose creation power would otherwise exceed a mortal body’s capacity 69.
• Sects and Soul Master families — include the Purple Radiance Sect, led by Long Zihuang, and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Family, led by Dugu Cheng. Their leaders participate in the continent’s public response to Xuan Zi’s insults against the Phoenix God 7.
• Clear Sky Sect — its defeated members are spared and recruited by Xu Yi for forging work on Phoenix God Continent. The empire’s invitation extends to those still at the sect’s ancestral home, who later abandon Clear Sky Peak for the Royal Academy of Sciences 37 61 62.
• Tang Sect and new Spirit Hall adherents — Tang Ya agrees to bring the Tang Sect into the Spirit Hall Empire, and Bei Bei swears allegiance to Spirit Hall after Qian Daoliu offers him Mu En’s Dragon Core and the possibility of meeting Mu En again 39.
• Huo Yuhao’s group — Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya travel with the imperial fleet and later explore Spirit City. Mu Qing also gains permission to board the departing fleet by showing a golden hair belonging to the Battle Saint Ape 54 70.

Technology and military

• Gods’ Dusk — a Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell successfully test-fired under Xu Yi’s direction and reported to have entered mass production. Kong Deming’s claim that a shell of this level might destroy the world is an estimate, not a demonstrated result 4 5. The imperial flagship later fires a Level 12 shell at Shrek Academy; Da Ming and Er Ming recognize god-slaying power in the attack and retreat, while Mu En confronts it with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud 29.
• Battle Armor and mecha — the continent has developed humanoid Soul Tools and armor that fuses with Soul Masters to increase their combat power 13 14. Xu Yi is a Quasi-God and Four-Word Battle Armor Master who operates the god-level Golden Crow mecha, combining his Martial Soul, armor, and mecha in combat 15.
• Aircraft and warships — aircraft travel between its cities, while large flying Soul Tools and Soul Tool Warships carry imperial forces 1 8 23.
• Technological lead — Kong Deming estimates that the continent’s ability to mass-produce Level 12 shells puts its Soul Guidance Technology at least ten thousand years ahead of the Sun Moon Empire’s 6.
• Public transportation — Spirit City operates Soul Guidance Buses with announced stops, including a stop serving the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences 70.
• Soul Ring Storage Devices — Xu Yi uses these devices to collect the Divine Soul Rings produced by Da Ming and Er Ming’s deaths 36.
• Imperial command — Feng Jiuxiao, Feng Jiuge’s elder brother, serves as Grand Commander of the Spirit Hall Empire Army and oversees preparations for the Shrek campaign 11.
• Heavy naval armament — the flagship possesses a main cannon forged entirely from heavenly forged metal. A later crimson fire-phoenix attack overwhelms and destroys its muzzle, but cleaves through Tang Hao’s Rainbow Clear Sky Hammer and nearly kills him 40.
• Phoenix God Martial Soul — imperial bearers are born with rank-thirty innate Soul Power and can acquire a trace of creation power capable of simulating Ultimate Attributes. Burning their Phoenix God bloodline can summon a trace of Feng Xuanyuan’s true spirit and briefly produce power comparable to a First-Level God, at the cost of the Martial Soul’s collapse 69.

Story role

• Sky Screen contact — a worldwide screen gives Phoenix God Continent its own news and chat sections, exposing its people and technology to the Douluo and Sun Moon continents 3 4. Feng Xuanyuan welcomes this exposure as a means of attracting more believers, whose faith can be converted into Immortal Spirit Qi and used to nurture additional Godhoods in the Phoenix God Realm 3.
• Conflict with Shrek Academy — after Xuan Zi publicly insults the Phoenix God, Feng Jiuge orders an attack on Shrek. The Battle Saint Ape travels ahead of the army and defeats him 7 8 16.
• Shrek City assault — following the Phoenix God’s decree, an imperial fleet surrounds Shrek City. Xu Yi’s Golden Crow mecha destroys its eastern defenses; the attackers seek to destroy the Golden Ancient Tree and bring Huo Yuhao back to Phoenix God Continent 9 20 23.
• Fulfillment of the oracle — Qian Daoliu rescues Huo Yuhao, who agrees to follow him away from Shrek Academy. Xu Yi and Qian Daoliu subsequently strike the Golden Ancient Tree with the Divine Flame Xuanyuan Sword and Angel God Sword, severing it and causing it to collapse 25 31 32.
• Phoenix Martial Soul advancement — the Sky Screen states that any Soul Master with a Phoenix Martial Soul can find an opportunity to advance it on Phoenix God Continent. This leads Ma Xiaotao to hope that visiting could also remove the hidden danger in her Evil Fire Phoenix, although the announcement does not itself confirm a cure 11.
• Emperor Auspicious Beast recruitment — the Battle Saint Ape seeks to bring the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to Phoenix God Continent for the benefit of its Soul Beasts. After the deaths of Da Ming and Er Ming, Di Tian accepts the result of his wager with the ape and agrees that the Emperor Auspicious Beast will travel there 8 36.
• Phoenix God’s descent — Feng Xuanyuan projects his presence from the continent into Feng Jiuxiao’s body during the confrontation with Ma Hongjun. The continent’s chat participants regard the experience as a potentially invaluable opportunity for the commander to comprehend divine laws 41 42.
• Expansion policy — although Feng Xuanyuan initially prefers letting the younger generation expose Tang San’s arrangements rather than immediately conquering the other continents, he later authorizes annexation of Douluo Continent. He orders the empire to avoid indiscriminate slaughter of innocents and use gentler methods, while crushing resistance decisively 9 46.
• Trade strategy — Feng Jiuge and Xu Yi plan to rename the former Shrek City Douluo City and develop it into a trade hub between Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent. Imperial hardliners initially favor direct conquest, but accept the commercial approach after its lower costs and resource advantages are explained 54.
• Foreign interest in its technology — the technological revelations prompt both Sun Moon and Star Luo leaders to consider acquiring the continent’s Soul Tools or research. Kong Deming later proposes sending Ji Juechen there to study Soul Tool technology, but the proposal is not itself confirmation that an exchange has occurred 6 67.
• Huo Yuhao’s visit — Feng Xuanyuan places Huo Yuhao under Xu Yi as a personal disciple and tells him to visit the continent and pay homage to his statue after Wang Dong awakens. After their arrival, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er bow before the statue, whose light draws their souls into an audience with Feng Xuanyuan 46 70 71.