Dark Forces

Biodata

Objectives

• Rule the Spirit Road World: Ancient scrolls reveal a plan to control all spiritual power in the world 105.
• Open a gateway to the Dark World: The organization seeks to exploit the Ruins’ spiritual structure and sealed nexus, allowing dark power to flow endlessly into the Spirit Road World 95 102 119.
• Destroy spiritual-power balance: Ancient Divine Artifacts and special spiritual-power materials are gathered for rituals at designated locations, including an abandoned village 121.
• Create adaptable dark creatures: Its secret cultivation program aims to produce creatures combining multiple dark powers and capable of fighting in different spiritual environments 136.
• Consume other worlds: Its later cosmic activities threaten the spiritual energy and life of every world 157.

Background / History

The Ruins Conspiracy

The Dark Forces infiltrated the construction of ruins intended to safeguard the Spirit Illusion Heavenly Venerable’s treasures. A builder’s diary records how they secretly altered the design to incorporate dark elements. Their intended passage to the Dark World relied on the ruins’ spiritual structure and treasures 95.

Mu Chen and Luo Li uncovered ritual images, dark erosion, and a central dark formation. Further records revealed multiple contingencies, allowing the organization to continue its scheme even if one part was thwarted. An incomplete map directed the investigators toward the Source of Darkness, while the Silver Armor Family independently discovered spiritual-power resonance points supporting the gateway ritual 95 96 102.

After completing a sealing ritual, Mu Chen’s group learned that the Ruins were a nexus between the Spirit Road World and the Dark World. Murals also showed black-robed figures locating the Ruins through a mysterious Crystal Fragment. A Dark Crystal beneath the Underground Dark River subsequently attacked the Five-Colored Spiritual Power Seal with corrosive black threads; destroying it stabilized the seal 119.

War Against the Alliance

Investigations beyond the Ruins exposed ritual sites and the search for Ancient Divine Artifacts. The Dark Forces counterattacked Mu Chen’s party in a swamp, where Dark Swamp Beasts and Dark Ghosts inflicted severe losses. The surviving ghosts fused into a Dark Ghost King that gravely wounded Mu Chen 121 123.

Mu Chen gathered families and sects into an Alliance built around coordinated tactics and a purification art. The Dark Forces responded with harassment, propaganda, massacres of vulnerable communities, and ambushes against rescuers. Alliance operations nevertheless freed miners and villagers, recovered spiritual-power resources, and repelled attacks on other factions 125 126 127 130.

The Alliance then attacked strongholds in the Spirit Road Mountains, Mystic Forest, and underground desert. Investigators uncovered a creature-cultivation network using captives, cultivation vessels, an energy-gathering statue, and a vast dark array. Alliance forces destroyed the vessels and array and sealed the statue’s energy-gathering function, demolishing the program 131 136 137.

Defeat of the Main Army

Despite losing its strongholds, the organization launched coordinated attacks on Alliance camps and supply convoys. Casualties, shortages, and repeated defeats nearly fractured the coalition. The Dark Forces then concentrated their strongest creatures and mages against the Alliance’s central camp 138 139.

Mu Chen’s breakthrough reversed the battle. The Alliance killed field commanders, disrupted enemy formations, and overcame the resistance of Dark Demon Gods and Black-Robed Mages. The army fled, but the Dark Leader remained on the battlefield. Mu Chen defeated him by piercing his heart with the Star Radiance Sword, after which his body dissolved and its darkness dissipated 143 144 145.

Surviving Remnants and Interworld Conflict

Remnants attempted to sabotage spiritual-energy restoration at Spirit Void Peak through Dark Assassins led by a concealed Dark Mage. They also colluded with the Shadow Society to disrupt restoration formations and coordinate an attack from inside and outside the Alliance. Mu Chen exposed the conspiracy and destroyed the conspirators’ forces 150 152.

The threat later expanded beyond the continent. The Spirit Void Continent and Star Illusion World established the Interstellar Defense Alliance and an Interstellar Expeditionary Force in response. During the conflict with the Nether Shadow Demon Lord, Dark Forces resisted World Alliance operations to destroy the sources sustaining his power 157 159.

After centuries of peace, dark power grew again in a remote cosmic region. A reconnaissance squad encountered regenerating creatures and contagious corruption; Alice suspected a connection to the earlier evil entity, but the passage does not establish that connection. Subsequent attacks threatened World Alliance unity, and a vast army of dark creatures confronted the Alliance during the Final Holy War 171 172 173 176.

Organization and Military Forces

Abilities & Skills

Dark Spiritual Power

• Corrodes terrain, bodies, spiritual environments, and existing spiritual-power structures 95 123 128.
• Powers spells capable of bypassing Spiritual Energy Shields to injure bodies and souls directly 127 129.
• Manifests as black flames, lightning, corrosive slime, and acid rain 128 138 144.
• Can be countered by purification techniques, suitable spiritual attributes, soul power, and Nine Nether’s devouring flames 125 129 137 142.

Possession and Soul Warfare

• Dark Ghosts pass through physical obstacles and invade victims, turning civilians and warriors against their companions 127 138.
• Possession disrupts souls and spiritual-power circulation, causing confusion and loss of fighting ability 134.
• Ghosts release Soul Shockwaves and can fuse into a stronger Dark Ghost King 123.
• Soul barriers resist incursions, while skilled soul-power users can remove dark control from villagers 130 131.
• Ghosts briefly pause after releasing Soul Shockwaves, creating an opening for counterattacks 123.

Dark Magic and Formation Manipulation

• Dark Illusion Wall — Creates false walls that obstruct enemy targeting 134.
• Magic Rebound Curse — Reflects part of an incoming spiritual-power attack 134.
• Dark Disintegration Curse / Dark Formation-Breaking Curse — Weakens formation structures or destroys their runes 134 138.
• Dark Space Distortion Technique — Attempts to trap attackers in warped space; countered by the Spirit Feather Illusion-Breaking Formation 135.
• Dark Sky Curtain Curse — Covers the sky with a black curtain that pressures enemy spiritual power and resolve 135.
• Darkness Convergence Spell — Combines the mages’ power into an expanding dark-energy sphere 137.
• Dark Shadow Curse — Weakens the Flame Family’s flames, enabling Dark Ghost incursions 139.

Creature Cultivation and Energy Harvesting

• Captures humans and creatures with special spiritual talents and injects dark power to alter their genes and spiritual attributes; many subjects die from the corrosion 136.
• Uses a dark-crystal statue to harvest forest dark power, life force, and dead creatures’ souls 136.
• Fuses collected dark powers and special items through a vortex-centered array to cultivate new creatures and powers 136.
• Depends on central facilities: sealing the statue and destroying the vortex severely weakens the strongholds 137.

Covert and Strategic Operations

• Plants redundant contingencies within the Ruins rather than relying on a single ritual mechanism 96.
• Spreads false claims that the Alliance serves private factional interests and will harm ordinary people 126.
• Uses attacks on civilians as bait for rescue-team ambushes 127 129.
• Targets supply convoys to deprive frontline troops of recovery pills, replacement weapons, and equipment 138.
• Coordinates with internal conspirators to sabotage formations, command systems, and supply lines 152.

Strongholds and Infrastructure

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Crystal Fragment — Dark-aura fragment bearing runes that guided black-robed figures to the Ruins 119.
• Ancient Divine Artifacts and special spiritual-power materials — Sought for rituals intended to destabilize the Spirit Road World 121.
• Black Battle Armor — Rune-inscribed armor that increases warriors’ defense, strength, and speed 134.
• Dark-metal blades — Weapons capable of tearing through Spiritual Energy Shields 134.
• Dark Wolf Fang Mace and dark demonic axe — Heavy weapons wielded by Dark Demon Gods during the final resistance 143 144.
• Dark Scepter — The Dark Leader’s weapon, tipped with a Dark Crystal that releases powerful dark beams 145.
• Evil Runes and dark-powered devices — Planted near restoration formations by the Shadow Society’s conspirators to disrupt spiritual-energy flow 152.

Relationships

• Mu Chen — Principal opponent; investigates the organization, assembles the Alliance, defeats its army, kills the Dark Leader, and exposes its later collaborators 95 125 144 145 152.
• Luo Li and Nine Nether — Recurring opponents in battlefield combat, restoration defense, and the campaign against the Shadow Society 142 150 152.
• Silver Armor Family — Early investigative opponent whose expedition shares evidence about the gateway ritual and accompanies Mu Chen into the Ruins and swamp 102 119 123.
• Alliance — Main Spirit Road World military opponent, uniting the Wind Spirit Family, Flame Family, Golden Rock Family, Heavenly Origin Sect, Spirit Feather School, and Spirit Sword School 125.
• Shadow Society — Collaborates with surviving remnants to sabotage restoration and attack the Alliance from within 152.
• Nether Shadow Demon Lord — Dark Forces fight against efforts to destroy the interworld dark-power sources sustaining him 159.
• Interstellar Defense Alliance / World Alliance — Later interworld opponents coordinating intelligence, military training, and campaigns against cosmic dark threats 157 159 172.