Jingfu

Biodata

Background / History

Jingfu was founded a million years before the story and became the birthplace of the all-round cultivation system. The Immortal Palace’s founding director was one of its graduates; his achievements across multiple cultivation disciplines helped lay the foundations of the Eastern Divine Continent 11 33.

Jingfu possesses deeper high-end cultivation reserves than Handong University. Huaqing University is identified as the only institution within the Immortal Palace capable of standing alongside it 11.

Educational Principles

• Character before rank: According to Jiang Qingyuan, Jingfu judges students by character and talent rather than background. Its graduates are expected to distinguish right from wrong and maintain their principles; cultivation and rank come second 33.
• Balanced development: From their freshman year, students must cultivate four modules simultaneously: physical body, spiritual power, soul, and natal cultivation method. Failure in any component requires a makeup examination 9.
• No exploitable weaknesses: Shen Moru argues that specialization alone leaves cultivators vulnerable to attacks outside their strongest discipline. All-round development is necessary to survive clashes across star domains and reach the highest levels 11.

Research and Resources

All-Round Cultivation Research

• Advanced Research into the All-Round Cultivation System: An ongoing Jingfu project for which Shen Moru considers Chen Fan particularly suitable after reviewing his seventeen Foundation Establishment-standard test results 11.
• Multiple Spirit Vein compatibility: Jingfu holds core research data on compatibility with multiple Spirit Veins 11.
• Omnidimensional Foundation Establishment refinement: Its cultivation methods include foundational and core sections. Shen Moru treats the core methods as institutional assets that cannot casually be shared with outsiders 11.

Facilities and Restricted Materials

• Scripture repository: The top floor houses the founding director’s Omnidimensional Cultivation Notes 11.
• High-end laboratories: Included among the resources offered to Chen Fan for his future postgraduate studies 13.
• Star-domain combat exchanges: Jingfu provides opportunities for practical combat across the greater universe’s star domains 11 13.
• Internal research projects: Normally closed to outsiders, but made accessible to Chen Fan through his joint-training agreement 17.
• Cultivation-method research materials: Jiang Qingyuan offers to approve access for Chen Fan’s Luofu Society if he seriously pursues cultivation-method improvement. These materials are described as unavailable for purchase 23.

Notable Personnel and Alumni

• President Gu — Jingfu’s president; participates in the annual academic summit and defends its claim to Chen Fan’s future postgraduate enrollment 34 35.
• Shen Moru — A fourth-rank professor and authority on all-round cultivation. Initiates Chen Fan’s joint-training proposal and is designated as his future postgraduate mentor 11 13.
• Jiang Qingyuan — A Jingfu alumna and serving fourth-rank professor, concurrently appointed at Handong University. An early Mahayana cultivator and core researcher at the Immortal Palace Cultivation System Research Institute; assigned to teach Chen Fan individually 16 17 40.
• Immortal Palace’s founding director — A Jingfu graduate whose all-round prowess became a model for the university’s cultivation approach 11.
• Head of the Xuzhou Academic Administration Bureau — A graduate of Jingfu’s fifty-seventh class, introduced to Chen Fan as a potential contact for club-funding applications 34.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Chen Fan’s Joint Training

Shen Moru approaches Handong president Zhou Zhengyuan after discovering that Chen Fan, despite remaining in Qi Refining, has achieved Foundation Establishment standards in all seventeen testing categories. Rather than transferring him immediately, the universities negotiate a shared educational program requiring Chen Fan’s consent 11.

Chen Fan agrees in principle when Zhou presents the offer. The representatives later settle the detailed agreement, leaving submission to the Immortal Palace Education Department and filing as the remaining formalities 13 17.

During negotiations, the universities also discuss an annual place for Chen Fan on a Jingfu-led star-domain exchange and research attribution to Handong during his undergraduate years and Jingfu during his postgraduate years 11.

Foreign-Student Policy Reform

Following the case involving Hu Zhongyuan and foreign students at Mysterious Spirit Academy, Jiang Qingyuan proposes a university-wide response to unequal treatment. She secures Handong’s support and plans to contact President Gu so Jingfu can lead a joint declaration 29.

Eighty-one universities subsequently announce an end to foreign exchange students’ special privileges, applying assessments and punishments equally. Huaqing is deliberately kept uninformed, leaving it outside the declaration and facing public criticism 29 30.

Alumni Support for Jiang Qingyuan

When overseas accounts and local officials criticize Jiang Qingyuan’s verdict against foreign cultivators, Jingfu alumni across the Nine Provinces publicly defend her. Their intervention helps overwhelm the opposition in less than half a day 33.

Prominent supporters include:

• A deputy mayor from a city in Qingzhou 33.
• The president of the Xuzhou Alchemy Theory and Practice Association 33.
• A Yunzhou authority on swordsmanship theory and practice 33.
• A major general from the Yuzhou Grand Military Region 33.

Ordinary students, rogue cultivators, and commoners join the support, while the official accounts of the Xuzhou and Qingzhou Grand Military Regions like the posts. Jiang explains that Jingfu graduates work throughout military, government, business, and academia, acting independently in ordinary circumstances but standing together over matters of principle 33.

Academic Summit Recruitment Dispute

At the annual academic summit, Chen Fan’s presentation on quantified sword practice prompts Huaqing professor Li Songyan and President Lin to offer him recruitment benefits. Shen Moru and President Gu object, citing his existing joint-training arrangement and planned postgraduate enrollment at Jingfu 34 35.

Jiang Qingyuan ends the dispute by confirming that Chen Fan remains an undergraduate at Handong and will pursue further studies at Jingfu, which can supply his cultivation methods, resources, and research projects 35.

Institutional Relationships

• Handong University / Han University — Joint-training partner for Chen Fan, retaining responsibility for his undergraduate education while sharing resources and instruction with Jingfu 11 13 17.
• Huaqing University — Longstanding rival of comparable standing. Competition extends from presidents to students and includes rankings, research, recruitment, and public initiatives. Shen Moru and Li Songyan have personally argued for almost two thousand years 11 29 34 35.
• Luofu Society — Chen Fan’s cultivation-method research club; potentially supported through Jiang Qingyuan’s offer of restricted Jingfu research materials 23.