Human Race
Swallowed Star: The Eternal Divine BrainContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Organization and Leadership
- 3.1Governing Bodies
- 3.2Principal Figures
- 3.3Major Human Powers
- 4Territory
- 5History
- 5.1Original Ancestor’s Rise and Humanity’s Retreat
- 5.2Bloodline Reform and the Earth Dispute
- 5.3War with the Demon Race
- 5.4Resurgence in the Universe Ocean
- 5.5Ancient Inheritances and the Coming Coalition
- 6Cultivation and Race-Wide Resources
- 6.1Bloodlines and Genetic Potential
- 6.2Earth Lineage
- 6.3Recovery and Resurrection
- 6.4Treasures and Inheritances
- 7External Relationships
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Organization and Leadership
- 3.1Governing Bodies
- 3.2Principal Figures
- 3.3Major Human Powers
- 4Territory
- 5History
- 5.1Original Ancestor’s Rise and Humanity’s Retreat
- 5.2Bloodline Reform and the Earth Dispute
- 5.3War with the Demon Race
- 5.4Resurgence in the Universe Ocean
- 5.5Ancient Inheritances and the Coming Coalition
- 6Cultivation and Race-Wide Resources
- 6.1Bloodlines and Genetic Potential
- 6.2Earth Lineage
- 6.3Recovery and Resurrection
- 6.4Treasures and Inheritances
- 7External Relationships
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Human Race |
| Original Name | 人族 |
| Species/Race | Humanity, encompassing multiple bloodlines and branches 153 271. |
| Affiliation | Leading race of the Hongmeng Alliance; later forms an oath-bound alliance with the Ancestral God Church 238 535. |
| Occupation/Role | One of the Six Great Peak Races; ruler of Human Territory and its Universe Countries 238 305. |
| Principal Leaders | Original Ancestor historically; Giant Axe Founder, Chaos City Lord, and the Human Race’s Universe Masters in the current era 340 440. |
| Major Powers | Initially five major powers; Heavenly Court Holy Land becomes the sixth 229 343. |
| Status | Active; recognized as the foremost race in the Universe Ocean after the Aurora Land battle, while facing a developing coalition backed by Purple Moon Holy Land 492 495 537. |
Power Progression
These milestones track humanity’s collective strength rather than a single cultivator’s realm.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Powerful race → peak race | 340 | Under Original Ancestor’s historical leadership, humanity becomes a peak race and the strongest force in the Primal Universe. His guidance benefits many future Universe Masters and Giant Axe. |
| World Lord-level bloodlines become available | 272 335 | Li Xin partners with the Virtual Universe Company to distribute his Bloodline Evolution Agents. Ice Peak credits them with raising the lower ranks’ potential by at least two grades and multiplying their chances of becoming Immortals. |
| Additional Universe Master: Tianyuan | 294 | Tianyuan Venerable breaks through in the Initial Universe after receiving Li Xin’s assistance. |
| Twenty Universe Masters | 340 | Humanity’s growing upper echelon supports a more aggressive territorial policy toward the weakened Demon Race. |
| Giant Axe gains a Supreme Supreme Treasure | 396 406 | His new axe removes a longstanding equipment disadvantage. He subsequently confirms Peak Ninth-Order strength by defeating Nine-Headed Demon Lord. |
| Three active True God-level combatants | 440 | Venus becomes a Universe True God, joining Giant Axe and the realm-surpassing Li Xin as humanity’s three active combatants at this level. Li Xin also announces three new Universe Masters from Heavenly Court Holy Land. |
| Three Ninth-Order fighters; seven Supreme Supreme Treasures | 453 457 | Giant Axe possesses Peak Ninth-Order strength, while Li Xin and Venus possess Ninth-Order strength. Gains from the Poison Vortex bring humanity’s Supreme Supreme Treasure total to seven at this point. |
| Foremost race in the Universe Ocean | 492 495 | After Aurora Land, Li Xin’s Tenth-Order power and Giant Axe’s and Venus’s Peak Ninth-Order power establish humanity’s leading position. |
| Wu Kingdom inheritance distributed | 530 531 | Divine Power Burning Secret Techniques offer a one-order combat increase. Nine systematic cultivation inheritances provide routes through the limit of Universe True God, while Fourth-Order Universe Masters and above become eligible to borrow Supreme Supreme Treasures. |
Organization and Leadership
Governing Bodies
- Human Race Supreme Council — Coordinates race-wide policy, including battlefield investment, genetic research, and announcements of new Universe Masters 440 462.
- Giant Axe Meetings — Used for major decisions by humanity’s upper echelon. During the Earth dispute, the leaders planned to announce their arrangement without consulting Li Xin because he was not yet a Universe Master 335.
- Universe Countries — Administer almost all Human Territory; the six major powers directly control comparatively little land 461.
- Race Treasury — Holds resources and Supreme Treasures available through contribution and exchange systems. Especially desirable equipment is often claimed quickly by Universe Masters 342 458.
Principal Figures
| Figure | Position and significance |
|---|---|
| Original Ancestor / Origin | Architect of humanity’s rise and creator of the Virtual Universe. Suppressed by the Primal Universe’s Origin Will after attempting to seize the Primal Universe 238 340. |
| Giant Axe Founder | Humanity’s principal protector after Original Ancestor’s suppression. Leads major diplomatic and military decisions 340 396 460. |
| Chaos City Lord | Senior leader involved in commercial partnerships, council policy, and alliance negotiations 272 462 463. |
| Lord of Ice Peak | Universe Master of the Virtual Universe Company; Li Xin’s teacher and a forceful opponent of seizing Earth from him 77 335. |
| Li Xin / Jian Yu Lord | Founder of Heavenly Court Holy Land; supplies bloodline agents, inheritances, maps, treasures, and recovery infrastructure central to humanity’s resurgence 272 381 399 458 531. |
| Venus / Succubus True God | Li Xin’s servant and an active Universe True God aligned with humanity. Participates in its major battles and mass resurrection efforts 440 453 462. |
Major Human Powers
The context names three of humanity’s six major powers:
- Virtual Universe Company — Supports cultivation, maintains high-level research and commercial resources, and partners with Li Xin to produce World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agents 77 134 272.
- Giant Axe Arena — Ranked humanity’s greatest internal power when Heavenly Court Holy Land rises to second place 441.
- Heavenly Court Holy Land — Established as the sixth major power using the existing five powers’ organizational structures as templates. Provides artifact-refining training, genius tournaments, and the Infinite Divine Furnace service 343 399 433 458.
Territory
- Location and value — Human Territory lies at the Primal Universe’s heart alongside the territories of the Demon Race, Zerg, and Machine Race. Of these four territories, humanity’s contains the greatest concentration of the universe’s life essence 340.
- Effect on descendants — Life nurtured in essence-rich territory gains greater innate potential, making territorial control a long-term cultivation resource rather than merely living space 255 259 340.
- Universe Countries — At one point, 1,008 High-level Universe Countries occupy all existing Human Territory. Creating another would require expansion or the transfer of an existing country 305.
- China Universe Country — Becomes a High-level Universe Country during Li Xin’s rise. After later territorial acquisitions, it absorbs a large share of the new land and becomes humanity’s largest and strongest Universe Country 335 461.
- Earth — Remains Li Xin’s homeworld and a politically sensitive source of talented descendants. He rejects settlement by anyone other than Chinese people 334 339 340.
- Former colonies — Earlier retreats left human populations outside Human Territory. Immortals returning from these abandoned regions are sufficiently common that Ice Peak uses this background for Li Xin’s concealed Sword Prison King identity 229.
History
Original Ancestor’s Rise and Humanity’s Retreat
Humanity was originally a powerful race rather than a peak race. Original Ancestor led its ascent, taught many of its leading experts, and created the Virtual Universe. At his height, other Universe Strongest avoided confronting him, and even the Ancestral God Church was unwilling to provoke humanity 340.
His suppression reversed that dominance. Giant Axe became humanity’s main protector, while pressure from the neighboring three races forced territorial concessions. Humanity also lost access to its former Supreme Supreme Treasure, leaving Giant Axe unable to display his full strength without caution 396 459.
Bloodline Reform and the Earth Dispute
Li Xin’s World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agents offered humanity a way to improve its ordinary population’s cultivation ceiling. The Virtual Universe Company verified that the agents were flawless and entered a production partnership with him; he requested lower prices once production costs fell 272.
Earth’s unusual influence on descendants’ souls then attracted the leadership’s attention. Giant Axe proposed developing it for humanity as a whole, while Ice Peak argued that taking Li Xin’s homeland would betray a loyal contributor. The leaders considered obtaining one-third of Earth’s management rights in exchange for a Top-tier Palace Supreme Treasure, with those rights to be returned when Li Xin became a Universe Master 334 335.
Li Xin rejected outside settlement and made protection of his homeland a condition of his support for the race. The dispute also changed his priorities: China would receive his benefits first, while the wider Human Race would have to wait and pay for access 339 340.
War with the Demon Race
After the Demon Race lost three Universe Masters, humanity sought ten High-level Universe Countries’ worth of territory. Giant Axe announced war to begin in a hundred years, with fighting restricted to those below Universe Overlord level. Humanity publicly demanded the surrender of three Demon Race Universe Overlords accused of violating Outer Domain Battlefield rules 340 343 346.
The Zerg and Machine Race declined full participation, preferring to watch their two stronger neighbors weaken each other. They offered limited reinforcements and promised support if the conflict escalated to Universe Master-level combat 347.
Further Demon Race losses to Kunpeng Master prompted a request for peace. Humanity accepted a ceasefire and the concession of the Ten Star Regions 355.
Resurgence in the Universe Ocean
Li Xin’s contributions expanded humanity’s access to exploration routes, refining knowledge, and equipment. His corrected Silk Thread Map covered dangerous regions across all Three Great Forbidden Lands, while Craftsman God Master’s recruitment promised a future source of Top-tier and Peak Supreme Treasures 381 399.
Giant Axe’s new weapon and the rise of Li Xin and Venus transformed humanity’s military standing. Following the Poison Vortex gains, the neighboring three races ceded further territory without the expected major war. Their response was to concentrate attacks on human trainees in the Outer Domain Battlefield 457 460.
At Aurora Land, humanity joined Kunpeng Master, the Divine Eye Clan, and the Skeleton Race in hunting sixteen Universe True Gods. Twelve of the trapped True Gods died in the operation. Humanity’s displayed strength subsequently earned it recognition as the Universe Ocean’s foremost race 485 486 492 495.
Ancient Inheritances and the Coming Coalition
Li Xin brought back Wu Kingdom inheritances covering systematic cultivation, secret arts, combined attacks, refining, and medicine making. He predicted that their eventual assimilation could allow humanity to produce triple-digit numbers of Universe True Gods by the end of the reincarnation era; this remained a future projection, not an achieved total 526 528 531.
He also warned that supremacy in the Universe Ocean did not guarantee safety inside the Primal Universe, where combat power was capped at the peak of the sixth order. Purple Moon Holy Land exploited this weakness by supplying humanity’s enemies with cultivation knowledge and encouraging a broad coalition intended to expel humans from the Primal Universe 531 537.
Humanity secured the Ancestral God Church’s support through an inheritance exchange and an oath of mutual loyalty. Meanwhile, the opposing three races continued recruiting other powers, with mixed results 535 538 539 540.
Cultivation and Race-Wide Resources
Bloodlines and Genetic Potential
- Uneven innate talent — Humanity’s natural talent is described as ordinary among the universe’s countless races. Its peak-race position originally depended on exceptional leaders rather than universal biological superiority 238.
- Low baseline gene multipliers — Human gene multipliers were the lowest among the Six Great Peak Races. Conventional enhancement generally relied on treasures used from the Immortal or Venerable stages onward 134.
- Research program — Li Xin collects samples from human branches and later establishes a shared Life Genes Database for human Universe Masters 153 440.
- Restricted knowledge — The Divine Power Path is kept secret even from nonhuman Universe Masters in the Hongmeng Alliance 440.
| Bloodline enhancement | Documented effect |
|---|---|
| SS-Class Bloodline Evolution Agent | Raises the user to a second-tier human bloodline, reaching Universe Level upon adulthood 45. |
| SSS-Class Bloodline Evolution Agent | Previously humanity’s best available agent; grants a highest-tier bloodline reaching Domain Lord Level upon maturity 54. |
| Li Xin’s E-grade agent | Enables World Lord Level upon adulthood. Specialized variants also improve affinity with particular laws 271. |
Earth Lineage
- Earth was modified by Sitting Mountain Guest to influence the souls of descendants born there, improving their prospects for developing strong mental states and dispositions 334 338.
- Its advantages become increasingly important at higher cultivation realms; initially less gifted Earthlings can gradually catch up with or surpass earlier peers 271 328.
- Li Xin’s bloodline agents help Earth-born cultivators survive long enough and advance far enough to realize this late-developing potential 271 328.
Recovery and Resurrection
- Infinite Divine Furnace — Replenishes divine power at a fraction of the cost of recovery treasures 458.
- Battlefield support reforms — Humanity approves increased battlefield rewards, broader furnace access, more resurrections, and halved resurrection fees to withstand the Three-Race Alliance 462.
- Mass resurrection — Li Xin and Venus resurrect ten million Immortals in the Initial Universe 462.
- Strategic limitation — These measures allow humanity to endure battlefield pressure but do not immediately eliminate its numerical disadvantage 462.
Treasures and Inheritances
- Treasure exchange — Experts contribute treasures for points and obtain equipment through the race’s exchange infrastructure 272 342.
- Equipment financing — Li Xin proposes allowing Universe Masters to borrow Supreme Treasure Points when distributing major spoils 458.
- Artifact production — Craftsman God Master joins with an inheritance capable of supporting Peak Supreme Treasure refinement; Heavenly Court begins training its own refiners 399.
- Divine Power Burning Secret Techniques — Wu Kingdom techniques can raise combat power by one order after mastery 530 531.
- Supreme Supreme Treasure loans — Li Xin makes these available to Fourth-Order Universe Masters and above to strengthen humanity before the anticipated war 531.
External Relationships
- Hongmeng Alliance — Human-led alliance of humanity and subordinate races. Its Virtual Universe city serves King Rank, Venerable, and Universe Master experts; humans hold privileged standing despite being outnumbered by nonhuman members 238.
- Tree Human Race — A vassal race of humanity. Its need for essence-rich territory makes access to Human Territory particularly valuable 256 259.
- Demon Race — Territorial rival and repeated wartime opponent. Loses land to humanity and later cooperates with the Zerg and Machine Race to suppress human advancement 355 460.
- Zerg and Machine Race — Neighboring enemies that coordinate assassinations and battlefield pressure against humans. Nevertheless, useful resource trades continue when mutual benefits outweigh hostility 287 371 440.
- Crystal Race — Maintains friendly relations and sends members to train in the Outer Domain Battlefield at humanity’s invitation. Its friendliness does not establish an unconditional military alliance 371 463 538.
- Starry Sky Beast Alliance — Friendly power without territorial friction with humanity; agrees to send battlefield trainees. Later seeks better inheritance terms before committing to a broader alliance 403 463 540.
- Ancestral God Church — Initially neutral; later accepts an inheritance-backed alliance requiring mutual nonbetrayal, sworn to the Primal Universe’s will 494 535.
- Kunpeng Master and Lord of Time-Origin — Apparent independent partners in the Aurora Land operation. Both identities are disguises used by Li Xin’s clones 485.
- Divine Eye Clan and Skeleton Race — Temporary partners in the four-power hunt at Aurora Land 485 486.
- Purple Moon Holy Land — Sponsors humanity’s enemies with treasures and cultivation inheritances, seeking to sever humanity’s developmental foundation by driving it out of the Primal Universe 465 495 537.
- First Reincarnation Era’s Human Race — A separate human civilization led by Skyfire True God, with essentially no dealings with the current-era Human Race 387.