Human Race

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Human Race
Original Name	人族
Species/Race	Humans
Affiliation	Great Zhao and the Qianyuan Sacred Ground; later a leading race within the Celestial Court 630 677 870
Leadership	Great Thousand World: Emperor Zhao and Qin Shujian serve as the two Human Emperors. Inner World: Human Emperor Feng, the race’s first human and creator of its subsequent members 695 866 959
Homeland	Great Thousand World: Eastern Continent, with territories beyond it. Inner World: Human tribal territories, later expanded to include the Sea Region 597 643 1073 1131
Status	Great Thousand World: Restored to supremacy over the myriad races. Inner World: One of the final two contenders for World Overlord, facing the Spirit Race 748 1132

Power Progression

Great Thousand World

These milestones concern the original Human Race, not the separate humanity founded inside Qin Shujian’s Inner World.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Heavenly Being leadership; no living Immortals	512 554	Emperor Zhao is humanity’s strongest cultivator. The Eastern Continent’s limited resources prevent the race from developing the strength needed against the Demon Abyss.
Eight-Seal Dao Artifact: Heavenly Rankings	625	Qin Shujian completes an artifact capable of sealing Nirvana Realm experts and kills the Red-Absolute Emperor. The defending humans lose no Heavenly Being cultivators in the battle.
Eight-Seal Dao Artifact: Human Race Monument	629 630	Qin completes the monument with Su Zhan and Fire Sage’s assistance; its forging raises Human fortune.
Two Human Emperors	640 643	Qin gains control over the cultivation world’s fortune, becoming its Human Emperor alongside Emperor Zhao.
Nirvana-level reinforcement	646 647	The Blackstone Vulture Race submits. Its Nirvana Realm Black Emperor gives humanity a third supreme combatant comparable to its existing two defenders.
True Immortal leadership restored	685	Emperor Zhao attains the Dao. Qin has not yet become a True Immortal, but his comparable combat strength makes humanity the strongest race in the Four Great Continents.
Three openly possessed Ancestral Weapons	695	The Heaven-Splitting Halberd returns to Xiao Chengfeng, increasing humanity’s publicly known Ancestral Weapon reserve to three.
Four True Immortals	748	Xiao Chengfeng survives a five-day Immortality Tribulation and becomes humanity’s fourth True Immortal. Qin and Zhao defeat the opposing emperor-level True Immortals.
Broad cultivation resurgence	861	Stellar energy, improved inheritances, and the Celestial Court’s establishment produce experts continuously. Humanity could now conquer the earlier Four Great Continents without deploying its True Immortals.

Qin Shujian’s Inner World

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First human born	772 774	The Human Emperor Rule produces a single male human from chaotic energy. Qin names him Feng.
Tenth Heavenly Being founder	851	Feng reaches the Heavenly Being limit while still humanity’s sole member, despite concentrating on creating more humans rather than cultivation.
Human Race established; first Human True Immortal	866	Feng animates clay figures with his blood, survives the Immortality Tribulation, and becomes the Inner World’s second True Immortal.
Middle-third-tier immortal leadership	959	Feng is recognized as one of the world’s few middle-third-tier True Immortals.
Higher cultivation ceiling becomes available	965	The Inner World advances after more than 90,000 years, lifting the ceiling that had held its strongest cultivators at sixth-stage immortality.
Hundreds of True Immortals; approximately 100 million Heavenly Beings	1080	Humanity mobilizes almost its entire strength after tens of thousands of years of recovery. Even its weakest tribes can field at least one hundred Heavenly Beings.
Second-strongest supreme race	1130	Humanity ranks behind the Spirit Race among the five surviving supreme races; the others are Dragon, Tiger, and Phoenix.
New Ninth-Level Immortal; major consolidation	1131	A new Ninth-Level Immortal restores humanity’s momentum. Phoenix surrenders, Tiger seeks Human protection, and the Dragon Emperor’s death brings the Sea Region under Human control.

Background / History

Ancient Supremacy

Ancient humanity was one of the world’s greatest races in both strength and population; only the Demon Race could rival its numbers. It possessed three Ancestral Weapons. A human supreme powerhouse established the Celestial Court as Heavenly Emperor and ruled the myriad races for ninety thousand years before the Demon Abyss arrived 568 592 600.

The Demon Abyss invasion devastated the Celestial Court and the myriad races. To preserve their lineages, the Human, Demon, and Spirit Emperors sent portions of their peoples overseas. Xia Chao, the youngest son of the ancient Xia Emperor, led the Human refugees whose descendants eventually lived on Heavenly Pattern Island 473 555.

Decline and Isolation

After the ancient order collapsed, humanity endured prolonged warfare and steadily lost its reserves. The Dog Emperor attributes part of that decline to Human predecessors launching costly attacks to defend their former supremacy. Qin’s later journey through the River of Time confirms that repeated conflicts killed established experts faster than humanity could replace them 588 662 947.

Some humans renounced their identity and founded the God Race, seeking to escape humanity’s expected destruction. Emperor Zhao describes their subsequent participation in the war against humanity as especially ruthless 589 592.

Approximately two hundred thousand years before the present, Xia Yi fought the myriad races in humanity’s last decisive stand. He sacrificed half his rule, killed enemy Immortals, and isolated the Eastern Continent behind the Heaven and Earth Seal and Void Turbulence. His intervention preserved humanity, but the battle exhausted its remaining strength 598 642 947.

Isolation did not eliminate the Demon threat. A Demon contingent had entered the Eastern Continent before its separation and subsequently oppressed the weakened humans. Some communities paid tribute in livestock and living people, while others maintained secret resistance 685 946.

Emperor Zhao’s Restoration

Emperor Zhao emerged several thousand years before the present and led humanity’s resurgence. In the battle securing its Eastern Continent foothold, his Ninth Heavenly Being cultivation and powerful human-way rule overcame the Tenth Heavenly Being Demon Emperor. More than a million humans died, but the victory laid the foundation for humanity’s recovery and Great Zhao’s establishment 472 685 946.

During the later rebellion, Zhao’s feigned death exposed internal enemies and invited a Demon invasion. His return restored Imperial authority; rebel lords and their extended families were executed. He then announced a campaign against the Demon Race 500 501.

Return to the Four Great Continents

Zhao sought to reopen the continental barrier because the Eastern Continent alone could not support sufficient growth. After humanity emerged, he defeated the combined opposition of the God, Demon, Blood Spirit, and Ancient Buddha Emperors. Human territory was established within one hundred thousand li of the passage entrance, protected by four fortified cities 512 597 604.

Qin Shujian’s rise supplied another supreme defender, but the broader race remained fragile. Enemy bounties caused heavy casualties outside Human territory, while the Origin Pavilion issued retaliatory missions. Qin’s victories against the Earth Spirit Race and during the Heavenly Rankings’ forging increased Human prestige and weakened its opponents 608 610 612 619 625.

Xia Yi’s remnant soul later made a final attack against the Demon Race, slaying its hidden True Immortal and gravely wounding its emperor before perishing. Qin used the resulting deterrence to extend Human territory three hundred thousand li into the Western Continent 642 643.

Renewed Supremacy and the Celestial Court

Qin secured allies to protect Zhao’s attempt at immortality. Zhao’s successful breakthrough coincided with another assault on Human territory; Qin routed the attackers, destroyed the God Race, and killed the Ancient Buddha Emperor. Humanity thereafter held the strongest position in the Four Great Continents 662 663 685.

The Myriad Races Battlefield initially offered controlled competition and military training. Its conflicts ultimately escalated into a war between True Immortal emperors, ending with decisive Human victory. Qin and Xiao Chengfeng then agreed that a new Celestial Court should unite the races against the Void Fiends and Demon Abyss 700 748 749.

Under the restored Celestial Court, humanity secured five divine positions—more than any other race. Emperor Zhao nevertheless warned that envious rivals might covertly assassinate promising Human cultivators 870. After Qin retrieved Xia Yi through the River of Time, Xia Yi witnessed humanity’s prosperity and eventually settled among its people as a teacher 946 951 979.

Humanity in the Inner World

The Inner World’s humanity arose separately. After Qin introduced the Human Emperor Rule, Feng emerged as its first and initially only human. Unable to reproduce alone, he searched for another means of creating his people. Jianmu advised him that life could arise through the five elements, giving his search a new direction 772 774 851 852.

Feng eventually fashioned clay figures and infused them with his blood. They absorbed spiritual energy and emerged as robust young men and women, greeting him as “Father God.” He established the Human Race as those bearing his bloodline and attained True Immortality through fleshly sainthood 864 866.

Humanity developed into a network of tribes under Feng, then expanded through warfare and the subjugation of lesser races. During the final struggle for supremacy, it defeated the Dragon Race, absorbed the Sea Region, and gained the surrender or protection-seeking allegiance of Phoenix and Tiger. The supplied account ends with Human and Spirit forces confronting each other for World Overlord; no victor is established 1073 1088 1131 1132.

Racial Traits & Cultivation

Talent and Lifespan

Human cultivators combine short natural lifespans with unusually high talent 619.

• Ordinary humans live for approximately one hundred years and can begin cultivation at three to five years old 619.
• Their talent is described as exceptionally high compared with other races, but advancement still depends on resources, cultivation, and survival 619 686.
• Childhood True Martial cultivation is rare in Great Zhao, whereas even the children of Heavenly Pattern Island possess that realm 554.
• Long peace does not guarantee strong cultivators: Shan Hao blames complacency for the Eastern Continent’s small number of Heavenly Beings 608.

Cultivation Foundations

Qin spreads manuals and technical inheritances to strengthen humanity beyond its handful of supreme defenders.

• Universe-Inquiring Dao Scripture — designated humanity’s principal cultivation method and a core academy teaching 660.
• Human Emperor Immortal-Slaying Art — designated its principal martial art; Cui Huai uses it to severely wound a stronger Blood Spirit opponent at considerable personal cost 660 719.
• Human Emperor Alchemy, Forging, and Array Formation Arts — distributed through three inheritance steles. Their teachings unlock according to the practitioner’s existing attainment 692.
• Qianyuan Academy departments — Qin orders every academy to teach the three technical disciplines, broadening humanity’s specialist cultivation base 692.
• Alternative paths to immortality — Qin offers trusted followers traditional cultivation, fleshly sainthood, or forming a world; Shi Jianfeng chooses fleshly sainthood 749.

Fortune and Heavenly Momentum

Racial fortune supports Human authority and can strengthen its defenders.

• Emperor Zhao becomes substantially stronger within Human territory through fortune’s support 611.
• Human fortune remains divided between Great Zhao and the cultivation world. Zhao declines to force unification while external threats make internal conflict dangerous 630.
• Qin’s control over the cultivation world’s fortune establishes his position as its Human Emperor 640.
• Human fortune shields Xia Yi from blood-red thunder during his final battle 642.
• By the Myriad Races Conference, humanity’s fortune rivals or exceeds the Demon Race’s 700.
• Heavenly Momentum is a higher form of fortune contested during the Age of Great Strife, capable of supporting a race’s cultivation and rise 691.

Society & Organization

Great Thousand World

• Great Zhao’s Imperial Court supplies government, armies, and much of humanity’s early high-level combat strength 603.
• Qianyuan Sacred Ground organizes the cultivation world under Qin and admits nonhuman cultivators who swear allegiance 655 677.
• Origin Pavilion operates intelligence networks and bounty missions; its rewards attract large numbers of players from the Three Great Continents 603 612.
• The Four Cities guard the continental passage. Their grand formation grows stronger with each additional Heavenly Being stationed within it 597 608.
• Eastern Continent sovereignty is fiercely defended. Shan Hao rejects Huo Zhan’s proposal to exchange some territory for allies, while Huo questions whether humanity can defend the entire continent alone 608.

Inner World

• Humanity consists of tribes of varying strength, all subject to the Human Emperor 1073.
• Tribal cities serve as trading centers for humans from other communities 1073.
• Humans create their own writing system and invent paper, producing a flourishing literary culture. Their script differs somewhat from the Great Thousand World’s 1073.
• Subordinate races must pay annual tribute. Feigned submission or covert defiance can result in extermination by Human True Immortals 1088.

Strategic Strengths & Weaknesses

Factor	Documented Effect
Exceptional supreme defenders	Zhao and Qin initially compensate for humanity’s weak overall cultivation base 604 647.
Limited early reserves	At the time of Qin’s intelligence assessment, humanity has only eight confirmed Great Powers, all belonging to the Imperial Court 603.
Attrition	After repeated battles, ordinary Heavenly Beings number around twenty and Great Powers are barely enough to count on one hand 686.
Resource disparity	The God Race has the same innate talent as humanity but produces far more experts through superior resources and spiritual energy 686.
No surviving ancient Dao guardians	Humanity’s predecessors died protecting it, leaving Zhao’s ascension vulnerable to obstruction by other races’ preserved True Immortals 644 662.
Combat-driven growth	Warfare prompts breakthroughs, but those gains come with deaths. One later campaign costs two Heavenly Beings and over a thousand Divine Martial cultivators while producing five new Heavenly Beings 608 735.
Restrained intervention	In the Inner World, Qin refuses to decide racial wars himself. The Godslayer Saber likewise cannot freely intervene without disrupting the world’s balance 1078 1080 1130.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Godslayer Saber — humanity’s Ancestral Weapon and a source of ancient knowledge. Qin later leaves it with the Inner World’s humans to absorb their fortune; it promises Feng up to three interventions if humanity faces extinction 600 1052 1060.
• Heaven-Splitting Halberd — Xiao Chengfeng’s returning Ancestral Weapon, advanced to five tribulations after its battles in the Demon Abyss 695.
• Heavenly Rankings — Qin’s Eight-Seal Dao Artifact, capable of suppressing powerful enemies and sealing Nirvana Realm experts 625.
• Human Race Monument — Eight-Seal Dao Artifact recording major contributions and victories. Subsidiary monuments in the Four Cities reproduce inscriptions on the main monument; Xia Yi later finds it in Liangshan City 630 643 951.
• Heaven-Connecting Mirror — detects racial identity at the continental passage, preventing other races from concealing themselves to enter the Eastern Continent 608.
• Immortal-Slaying Crossbow — divine weapon forged by Qin for the Qianyuan Sacred Ground. Its bolts repel Zhu You and kill three Blood Spirit Heavenly Beings during an attack 719.
• Ancient Immortal Ring — Xia Yi’s legacy, containing a small world and half his immortality rule. Qin offers the rule to Zhao, who declines in favor of his own path 642 643 644.

Relationships

Leaders and Protectors

• Qin Shujian — Human Emperor of the cultivation world, later Heavenly Emperor; expands territory, distributes inheritances, and restores humanity’s supremacy 640 660 692 748 943.
• Emperor Zhao — founder of Great Zhao and leader of humanity’s Eastern Continent restoration; later attains True Immortality 472 685 946.
• Xia Emperor — ancient Human Emperor who sends refugees overseas and leaves half his Human Emperor Rule to Xiao Chengfeng for a future crisis 555 695.
• Xia Yi — sacrifices his Dao to preserve humanity, then spends his remnant soul striking the Demon Race. After his return, he becomes a teacher among the humans 642 979.
• Xiao Chengfeng — former Marquis of Northcloud and reincarnation of Immortal Lord Haocang. He refuses a third Human Emperor position but remains committed to fighting for humanity 695.
• Feng — first human, Human Ancestor, and reigning Human Emperor in the Inner World; all subsequent humans originate from his creation 774 866 959.

Other Races

• Spirit Race — ancient refugee partner and a race Xia Yi exempts from his accusation of historical bloodshed. In the Inner World, Jianmu helps Feng create humanity, but their peoples eventually become the final rival claimants to supremacy 555 642 852 1132.
• Nine-Headed Dog Race — ally bound by Rules Oaths to assist humanity in wars and support Zhao’s ascension, provided doing so does not require its annihilation. Humanity promises reciprocal Dao protection 662.
• Earthburrowing Dragon Race — first agrees to provide its hidden True Immortal for Zhao’s protection; later becomes a Human vassal for one hundred years 663 691.
• Blackstone Vulture Race — former enemy forced into oath-bound submission. It relocates its secret realm to Human territory and serves as frontier defense 646 647.
• Soulguard Race — seeks Human protection against the Blood Spirit Race and becomes humanity’s second vassal race 685 686 691.
• Mountain-Breaking Race — accepts vassalage after Qin rejects an equal alliance, receiving a promise that its legacy will survive under Human protection 735.
• God Race — breakaway descendants of humans and a major enemy of humanity’s resurgence; destroyed during Qin’s counteroffensive 589 592 685.
• Demon Race — longstanding oppressor and enemy. Its relationship changes when humanity supports the Golden Peng Emperor’s rule and enters a battlefield alliance 556 685 735.
• Demon Clan — distinct from the Demon Race; founded by former human Si Hanhai. It later lends humanity fourteen Sainthood cultivators in exchange for limited support during his future ascension 615 635 745.
• Dragon Race, Phoenix Race, and Tiger Race — Inner World competitors ultimately brought under Human control or protection during the final wars 1131.

Notable Quotes

“May Heaven bless the Human Race, and may humanity flourish forever!”
— A cultivator responding to Xia Yi’s commemoration 643

“By order of the Human Emperor, I have come to give you one final chance. Submit, or die!”
— A Human True Immortal enforcing Feng’s annexation policy 1088