Northern Border Alliance

Biodata

Background

The Northern Border Alliance formed when weak races banded together. It became one of the universe’s nine superpowers after inviting a supreme powerhouse to oversee it. This backing distinguishes it from alliances such as the Nine Domains Alliance and Thorn Ring Alliance, which possess large numbers of experts but lack a Universe Strongest presiding over them 5 22.

Its solidarity is imperfect. One member resents the pinnacle races for occupying the finest territories and criticizes the alliance’s Universe Masters for fighting over power rather than strengthening the organization. The Lord of Desolation’s membership shows that the alliance also attracts established powerful races: as his race’s sole Universe Master, he brought it into the alliance 11 28.

Organization and Military Strength

Reported Numbers

The chapters give differing figures for the alliance’s Venerable population; these are not presented as documented recruitment milestones.

Strengths and Limitations

• Numerical advantage: Its members are the most numerous experts encountered on the Primal Stars, allowing several teams to operate on the same star and giving the alliance an advantage in collecting scattered treasure keys 21 22.
• Group combat: Venerables commonly band together for protection and favor overwhelming isolated opponents. Three teams totaling ten Venerables gather for one treasure contest, though most are only Intermediate Universe Venerables 5 11 12.
• Resurrection support: The alliance’s Universe Masters can resurrect fallen Venerables. Soul enslavement remains a greater danger, prompting a weakened member to self-destruct rather than risk capture by a Zerg soul specialist 12.
• Uneven resources: Its Venerables are generally poorer than human powerhouses. Two participating Universe Overlords possess few supreme treasures and cannot secure a decisive advantage against a single well-equipped demon opponent 10 28 29.
• Incomplete intelligence coverage: Humanity’s information database does not record every alliance Venerable, making unfamiliar teams harder for Yang Hao to assess 10.

Known Members

• Lord of Black Lotus — Representative of the alliance’s six great plant-life races. His enormous divine body and exceptional strength place him among its top three Universe Masters; he intervenes to protect the Lord of Desolation from Ice Peak 30.
• Lord of Star River — A Universe Master placed in the same broad strength tier as Lord Peng Gong and the Chaos City Lord 40.
• Lord of Desolation — His race’s sole Universe Master, with relatively ordinary strength at that rank. He guards a treasure hall and plans to seize its prize from whoever survives inside 28 29.
• Venerable Linhong — Member of a five-Venerable team that attacks Yang Hao for a key. Yang Hao kills him with three strikes from Natural Disaster 21.
• Two unnamed Universe Overlords — Enter the final chamber of the soul-treasure trial together. Both die in a mutual self-destruction with Demon Venerable Wild Nightmare 24 28 29.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Primal Star Contests

• Warhammer contest: Two alliance Venerables arrive before an ordinary supreme treasure warhammer fully emerges. They withdraw after a human domain treasure restrains them, judging their chances poor against the human team and Flame Demon Venerable without nearby alliance reinforcements 5.
• Profiting from human–demon conflict: Five alliance Venerables face Yang Hao and two demon Venerables. While the humans and demons turn on each other, the alliance claims the offensive supreme treasure, worth approximately one Supreme Treasure Point, and watches the battle from the sidelines 10 11.
• Volcanic-island defeat: Three alliance teams totaling ten Venerables converge on a stronger treasure emergence. Venerable Qing Mi’s illusion makes one member attack a companion; Yang Hao, the Golden Horned Beast, the Zerg Mother Emperor, and the demon team then jointly attack the alliance, inflicting deaths and forcing the survivors to flee 11 12.

Zhenren Stone Formation Keys

Five High Universe Venerables attempt to force Yang Hao to surrender a newly emerged key. He kills Venerable Linhong, pursues another member until that opponent self-destructs, and collects the remaining treasures. The other three escape through a Primal Star passage 21.

The seven keys open the Zhenren Stone Formation on Primal Star No. 01754. The Chaos City Lord handles humanity’s negotiations, and Yang Hao receives the Ten Thousand Skies Sea as his share of the payment 21 22 33.

Soul-Treasure Hall

• Two-on-one battle: Two alliance Universe Overlords reach the final chamber containing a high-grade Soul-type Supreme Treasure. Forced into a survival battle, they attack Demon Venerable Wild Nightmare together but gradually fall behind despite their numerical advantage 28 29.
• Mutual destruction: Both alliance Overlords and Wild Nightmare self-destruct. Yang Hao and Venerable Liangzhu survive by sheltering inside Luohua Hall 29.
• Failed outside ambush: After learning that the alliance’s Overlords have died, the Lord of Desolation prepares to kill whoever emerges. The Lord of Ice Peak suppresses him with the Cold Mist Realm 29 30.
• Black Lotus’s intervention: The Lord of Black Lotus counters Ice Peak’s domain but declines a major battle over the treasure. He leaves with Desolation, and Liangzhu ultimately claims the Hundred-Thousand Soul Crystal 30.

Closing Primal Star Victory

Near the end of the Primal Star opening, the Northern Border Alliance wins the contest for the finest Peak Supreme Treasure available there. Giant Axe cites that outcome when advising humanity’s Universe Masters to stop competing for further treasures and avoid possible Machine Race traps 43.