Immortal Alliance

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Background / History

During Heavenly Abyss Star’s Primordial Era, great demons dominated the world, and human cultivators could not match their bloodline divine abilities. Some humans resorted to blood sacrifices to obtain protection. Human resistance eventually developed the path of cultivating through beasts; a later account credits an unrivaled human figure with pioneering this beast-borrowing Dao 1 30.

By the present era, the Immortal Alliance has established a civilization that surpasses the Demon Race. The demons that once ruled Heavenly Abyss Star have been driven into the Creek-Cavern Earth Abyss, while those remaining within Alliance territory are classified as demonic beasts according to their bloodline potential 1.

Organization and Governance

Ruling Sects

The Alliance contains numerous cultivation sects, but the Five Great Grotto-Heavens rule over them with overwhelming strength. Establishing a sect within Alliance territory requires a Golden Core True Person 6 30.

Administrative Bodies and Services

Cultivation System

Cultivating Through Beasts

The Alliance’s cultivation philosophy follows “cultivating oneself through the outer Dao”: borrowing a beast’s power to cultivate and attain a Dao fruit. It places particular importance on spiritual roots and resources, unlike the Southern Wild Region’s greater emphasis on spell comprehension 30.

• Companion contracts: The Three Treasures Companion Seal binds a spirit beast’s essence, qi, and spirit 41.
• Shared cultivation: A cultivator converts the companion beast’s demonic power into pure magic power and establishes a circulation through a compatible cultivation method and the Companion Beast Seal 44 49.
• Three meridians: A companion beast’s origin, attribute, and technique meridians provide benefits involving spiritual-root purity, elemental aptitude, accumulated cultivation, and innate spells 43.
• Foundational methods: The Ten Thousand Beasts Art is one of the Alliance’s four renowned foundational methods and is practiced by nearly three in ten students. Its balanced magic power supports later transitions to other methods 2.
• Cultivation essentials: The five essentials are beasts, wealth, methods, companions, and land, with beasts ranked first 2.
• Qi Refining research: Alliance experts discovered that the ninth layer was not the true limit and added three further levels above the traditional peak. Exceeding that peak improves Foundation Establishment prospects and the quality of the resulting Dao foundation 45.

Beast Classification

The Alliance distinguishes bloodline potential from actual strength. Bloodline tier indicates a beast’s theoretical ceiling; actual cultivation is measured in “years,” with each basic Dao mark in its technique meridian counted as one year. These years are not necessarily the time the beast has spent cultivating 3 43.

Spiritual Roots and Cultivation Methods

The Alliance grades spiritual roots as false, mixed, true, earth, heavenly, and immortal, using the highest-grade elemental root to determine a cultivator’s overall classification 3.

Education and Advancement

• Compulsory cultivation education: Schools teach cultivation and the four cultivation arts. Its expansion has increased the cultivator population and strengthened the constitutions of descendants born to cultivators and mortals 14 29.
• Foundational visualization: All Alliance students can practice Great Mystery Guarding the One, a spiritual-root cultivation method originating from Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven 6.
• Assessment support: At Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, examination results determine subsequent school grants of spirit stones 1.
• Early spirit-beast eligibility: Public middle-school students reaching the seventh layer of Qi Refining before eighteen may apply to purchase a spirit beast, including through an Alliance loan. Ordinarily, only Foundation Establishment experts qualify to buy spirit beasts 2.
• Grotto-Heaven entrance requirements: Candidates must possess heavenly spiritual roots or break past the Qi Refining limit and achieve Foundation Establishment within a hundred days to sit the entrance examinations 6.
• Immortal-root exception: A cultivator with an immortal spiritual root can enter the Immortal Examination without taking the Alliance’s college entrance examination and may receive guaranteed admission to the Five Great Grotto-Heavens 3.
• Beast-based admission: Contracting a Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle permits examination-free entry into the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect 11.

Resources and Economy

Spiritual-Energy Control

Most of Heavenly Abyss Star’s spiritual energy has been nationalized after tens of thousands of years of Alliance development. Outside special regions, ambient energy is maintained only at a level sufficient to preserve spiritual vitality 3.

• Cultivators must purchase permission to establish cultivation rooms and then pay monthly spiritual-energy fees 3.
• Cultivation chambers have limited daily supplies. A first-tier middle-grade chamber supports middle-stage Qi Refining cultivation but cannot meet Chen Beiwu’s needs after he reaches late Qi Refining 11.
• Local cultivation clans hold usage rights, not ownership, over spiritual veins 41.
• A cultivation site with spiritual-energy concentration approaching tier three is reserved for Golden Core True Persons 48.

Currency and Documented Costs

Spirit Origin is redeemed at the Alliance Bank at one unit per low-grade spirit stone and has gradually become the most trusted currency for cultivator transactions. The bank also exchanges one spirit stone for one spirit yuan, divided into ten tenths or one hundred cents 3 21.

Loans and Financial Barriers

• Alliance spirit-beast loans encourage talented students to acquire companion beasts. They charge interest but are distinguished from compound-interest cultivation loans 9 45.
• Cultivation loans carry rates starting at 10%, rising to 25% for poor-credit borrowers. Interest compounds, and descendants remain liable after the borrower dies 9.
• Professional training can be prohibitively expensive: alchemy apprentices may spend years working unpaid while funding their own furnace practice 14.
• Knowledge is comparatively abundant: Low-value Foundation Establishment methods that sell for thousands of spirit stones in the Southern Wasteland can be downloaded and shared without restriction in the Alliance 48.

Laws and Enforcement

Realm-Suppressing Formation

• The Alliance maintains the Nine Heavens Star Array Realm-Suppressing Immortal Formation 35.
• Nine-Breath Chaos enables Chen Beiwu to travel between worlds without the formation detecting him 12 35.
• Chen Beiwu initially considers whether his glimpse of the sun’s terrifying nature exposed an Alliance taboo; this remains his speculation, not a confirmed explanation 1.

Story Role

• Chen Beiwu’s home society — Alliance schools, cultivation-room fees, beast eligibility, and technique prices shape his early cultivation plans 1 2 3 44 45.
• Contrast with the Southern Wild Region — The Alliance offers enforceable protections against predatory cultivators, while the other world provides abundant spiritual energy but much weaker protection for unaffiliated cultivators 30 47 48.
• Cross-world economic opportunity — Differences in resource prices and access to cultivation legacies lead Chen Beiwu to investigate ways to earn spirit stones between the two worlds 48 50.
• Constraint on his secret — Chen Beiwu believes he cannot retain Nine-Breath Chaos if it is exposed while he remains weak. Bringing an army of cultivators through the gate is only a distant possibility tied to gaining high authority within the Alliance 16.

Notable Quotes

“Wherever the sun and moon shone, wherever rivers flowed, all lands belonged to the Immortal Alliance.” 1