Heavenly Star Holy Land
Swallowed Star: Starting as a Late BloomerContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Background
- 3Location and Facilities
- 3.1Heavenly Star Secret Realm
- 3.2Cultivation Areas
- 4Admission and Retention
- 5Cultivation and Instruction
- 5.1Free Energy Accumulation
- 5.2Expert Teaching
- 6Contribution Points and Rankings
- 6.1Star Level Rewards
- 6.2Assessment Formats
- 6.3Access to the Initial Universe
- 7Cultivation Missions
- 8Notable Personnel and Cultivators
- 8.1Authority and Instructors
- 8.2Administrative Staff
- 8.3Cultivators
- 9Story Role
- 9.1Lu Qingshan’s Training
- 9.2First Cosmic Humans Peak Powerhouse Battle
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Background
- 3Location and Facilities
- 3.1Heavenly Star Secret Realm
- 3.2Cultivation Areas
- 4Admission and Retention
- 5Cultivation and Instruction
- 5.1Free Energy Accumulation
- 5.2Expert Teaching
- 6Contribution Points and Rankings
- 6.1Star Level Rewards
- 6.2Assessment Formats
- 6.3Access to the Initial Universe
- 7Cultivation Missions
- 8Notable Personnel and Cultivators
- 8.1Authority and Instructors
- 8.2Administrative Staff
- 8.3Cultivators
- 9Story Role
- 9.1Lu Qingshan’s Training
- 9.2First Cosmic Humans Peak Powerhouse Battle
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Heavenly Star Holy Land |
| Original Name | 天星圣地 |
| Type | Cultivation holy land and training ground for geniuses 65 |
| Location | Heavenly Star Secret Realm, in the central region of the Heavenly Star Universe Country 76 81 |
| Affiliation | Heavenly Star Universe Country 65 |
| Overseeing Authority | Heavenly Star Country Lord 72 |
| Role | The Universe Country’s foremost institution for nurturing talented cultivators 65 72 |
| First Appearance | Mentioned in Lu Qingshan’s plans 29; first visited by him 81 |
Background
The Heavenly Star Holy Land gathers exceptional geniuses from across the Heavenly Star Universe Country. Its cultivation resources, teachers, secret techniques, and opportunities to compete with talented peers surpass those available at Heavenly Pillar Mountain. Before Human Race-wide genius competitions were established, Universe Country holy lands were among humanity’s principal institutions for nurturing geniuses 65 82.
Its responsibilities also extend to cultivators outside its membership. The Holy Land assigns instructors to deliver public lectures in remote starfields, where limited resources and teaching support force many cultivators to advance without guidance. Alfred’s ten-year lecture on the Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law in the Golden Lion Starfield was one such assignment 72.
Location and Facilities
Heavenly Star Secret Realm
- Surroundings: The approach passes through faint mist, colorful clouds, and scattered meteorites before reaching a vast landmass floating in space 81.
- Energy density: Cosmic energy is sufficiently abundant that Aomengsi remarks it would accelerate a World Lord’s creation of a world 81.
- Navigation: Arriving ships receive a guidance signal and must follow its designated route to the reception area 81.
- Entry control: Silver-armored staff verify recruitment tokens. Escorts may reach the reception landmass but cannot accompany recruits farther into the Holy Land 81.
- Distance: Lu Qingshan’s journey from the Golden Lion Starfield takes more than a year aboard the E-Class spaceship supplied by Wells 78 81.
Cultivation Areas
| Area | Residents and Features |
|---|---|
| Star Level—domain cultivators | Geniuses who have comprehended a domain but have not crossed an Origin Law threshold; housed on one side of a vast plain 81. |
| Star Level—Origin Law cultivators | Geniuses who have crossed an Origin Law threshold; receive separate accommodation and better benefits 81 82 86. |
| Universe Level area | Separate residences for Universe Level cultivators, without the Star Level division between domain and Origin Law groups 93. |
| Private manors | Lu Qingshan’s initial residence includes several hundred servants and a Universe Level steward, Fiers 81. |
| Virtual Universe teaching facilities | Much of the Holy Land’s instruction takes place in the Virtual Universe, including lectures in Hall One of the Lecture Building 81 97. |
Admission and Retention
- Star Level minimum: Applicants must possess at least a sixth-level domain and sufficient growth potential 82.
- Recommendation: Wells offers to recommend Lu Qingshan if he reaches the Earth Domain Eighth Layer within two thousand years. This is the condition for Wells’s proposed recommendation, rather than the Holy Land’s universal minimum 65 82.
- Direct recruitment: Instructors can invite promising cultivators. Alfred recruits Lu Qingshan and Copperfield after his public lecture and gives them silver tokens containing the Holy Land’s coordinates 74.
- Voluntary acceptance: Invitations can be refused. Chen Jin declines Alfred’s offer because of the dangers associated with cultivation missions 74.
- Universe Level retention: Cultivators who advance to Universe Level without comprehending an Origin Law have five thousand years to cross a lower Origin Law threshold or face expulsion 84.
- Breakthrough verification: Major advancements are checked before benefits and accommodation are updated. Brandon tests Lu Qingshan’s gene force, spiritual force, and blood after his Universe Level breakthrough 93.
Cultivation and Instruction
Free Energy Accumulation
- Formal members receive resources to raise their bodies, Origin Energy, and Spirit Power from the first to the ninth stage of their current major realm 82.
- This support extends through Star Level, Universe Level, Domain Lord Level, and World Lord Level 65 82.
- Members must achieve the qualitative life-gene breakthroughs between major realms themselves 82.
- Wells estimates that these benefits can save a cultivator more than a million years of energy accumulation 65.
- After Lu Qingshan reaches Universe Level, the Holy Land supplies a nutrient pod and solution to advance him toward Universe Level Ninth Stage 93 94.
Expert Teaching
- Basic cultivation facilities and public lectures are available to Star Level members 82.
- Numerous Immortal Gods teach laws, secret techniques, and combat methods 82.
- Higher-ranking instructors also lecture: Marquis Thousand Mountains teaches the Earth Origin Law, while Green Wood King teaches the Space Origin Law 83 97 98.
- King-level Immortal lectures ordinarily occur only once every several decades, even with the convenience of the Virtual Universe 97.
- Much of the teaching moved into the Virtual Universe a little over a year before Lu Qingshan’s arrival; new members receive the relevant access permissions upon entry 81.
Contribution Points and Rankings
Contribution points are the Holy Land’s principal resource-exchange currency. One point is valued at 100 million Universe Coins. Points can readily be exchanged for Universe Coins, but purchasing points with currency requires exceptionally high authorization 72 82.
Star Level Rewards
The domain-only Star Level group contains more than ten thousand cultivators, while slightly over three hundred Star Level members have crossed an Origin Law threshold. These groups receive different benefits 82.
For Star Level cultivators who have not crossed an Origin Law threshold, assessments occur every hundred years and determine the following rewards 82:
| Ranking | Contribution Points per Assessment |
|---|---|
| 1st | 200 82 |
| 2nd–10th | 100 82 |
| 11th–100th | 50 82 |
| 101st–1,000th | 20 82 |
| 1,001st–10,000th | 10 82 |
| Below 10,000th | 1 82 |
- Star Level Origin Law cultivators receive at least 200 contribution points each century, with greater rewards for higher rankings 86.
- A Star Level member’s first Origin Law breakthrough is announced to the remaining geniuses to encourage competition and cultivation 86.
- Universe Level cultivators no longer receive free contribution-point rewards from ranking assessments; they normally obtain further resources through cultivation missions 93.
Assessment Formats
| Cultivation Group | Documented Assessment |
|---|---|
| Star Level Origin Law geniuses | A Ranking Assessment Battle held once per century 89. |
| Universe Level cultivators | Trial Tower challenges establish preliminary rankings. Cultivators then fight within groups of two hundred to determine their final placements 101. |
| World Lord Level cultivators | A Ranking Assessment Battle every hundred thousand years, historically awarding the top three places access to the Initial Universe 98. |
Access to the Initial Universe
Historically, the Holy Land’s Initial Universe opportunities were reserved for the top three World Lord Level contestants in each hundred-thousand-year assessment. Later, access expanded to lower-realm geniuses: Karina and other highly ranked members left to cultivate in the Initial Universe and other Human Race secret realms 97 98.
Cultivation Missions
- Purpose: Missions provide contribution points and resources beyond routine benefits 82 93.
- Voluntary participation: Life-and-death missions are not compulsory. At Universe Level, however, avoiding missions makes continued resource acquisition difficult 74 93.
- Variable danger: Missions differ in difficulty, and some overlap between Star Level and Universe Level cultivators. A mission extremely dangerous to the former may be relatively simple for the latter 82 93.
- Documented casualties: Of the 104 Star Level geniuses Fiers previously served, fifty died on cultivation missions. This is his personal service record, not a stated Holy Land-wide mortality rate 82.
- Edgar’s death: Edgar, a Golden Lion Starfield genius who comprehended an Origin Law at Star Level, died during a Holy Land training mission. His fate influences both Aomengsi’s warnings and Chen Jin’s refusal to join 65 74 75.
| Named Mission | Documented Connection |
|---|---|
| Dragon Hunter | Orpheus and two companions accept this dangerous mission after learning of Lu Qingshan’s Earth Origin Law breakthrough 86. |
| Black Star | Shangguan Yue completes this difficult mission before an upcoming Universe Level Ranking Assessment Battle 97. |
Notable Personnel and Cultivators
Authority and Instructors
- Heavenly Star Country Lord — Oversees the Universe Country’s strongest training ground; personally addresses its contestants before the first Peak Powerhouse Battle 72 106.
- Alfred — Immortal God, Four-Star Heavenly Star Practitioner, and instructor specializing in the Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law; recruits Lu Qingshan and Copperfield 72 74.
- Marquis Thousand Mountains — Lectures on the Earth Origin Law 83.
- Green Wood King — King-level Immortal who lectures on the Space Origin Law 97 98.
Administrative Staff
- Avril — Administrator of miscellaneous affairs in Lu Qingshan’s initial Star Level area; verifies his Earth Origin Law breakthrough and announces it to the other geniuses 81 86.
- Fiers — Lu Qingshan’s initial manor steward; a Universe Level cultivator with more than eighty thousand years of service in the Holy Land 81 82.
- Brandon — Guides Lu Qingshan into the Star Level Origin Law area and later verifies his Universe Level breakthrough 86 93.
- Holt — Receives Lu Qingshan in the Universe Level cultivation area and takes him to his residence 93.
Cultivators
- Lu Qingshan — Direct recruit who rises to first place among the Holy Land’s Star Level geniuses and later becomes its foremost Universe Level cultivator 74 89 106.
- Copperfield — Universe Level recruit who travels with Lu Qingshan; initially ranks near the bottom despite already comprehending the Earth Origin Law 81 100.
- Karina — Exceptional genius who crosses a higher Origin Law threshold after only a few hundred years of cultivation; later leaves for the Initial Universe 97 98.
- Wadis — Leading Universe Level cultivator versed in the Gold and Space Origin Laws; receives intensive preparation alongside Lu Qingshan for the Peak Powerhouse Battle 97 103 106.
- Shangguan Yue — Disciple of a Marquis Immortal who comprehends the Flame and Space Origin Laws and completes the Black Star mission 97.
Story Role
Lu Qingshan’s Training
Lu Qingshan initially considers the Holy Land beyond his reach. Wells later presents it as a way to eliminate the enormous time cost of energy accumulation. After witnessing Alfred’s teaching and reaching the Earth Domain Eighth Layer, Lu Qingshan accepts direct recruitment despite warnings about mission fatalities 29 65 73 74 75.
He arrives with Copperfield and initially chooses resource-supported cultivation over dangerous missions. In his 480th year there, he reaches the Earth Domain Ninth Layer; after nearly a thousand years, he crosses the Earth Origin Law threshold and transfers into the better-supported Origin Law group. He subsequently becomes the leading Star Level genius before advancing to Universe Level 81 82 83 86 89 93.
First Cosmic Humans Peak Powerhouse Battle
The first Human Race-wide Peak Powerhouse Battle prompts the Holy Land to intensify its training. Lu Qingshan and Wadis receive one-on-one Immortal instruction, other contenders receive increased personal guidance, and public lectures become much more frequent 103 106.
As its strongest Universe Level contender, Lu Qingshan gains free access to cultivation grounds that previously cost contribution points, priority use of restricted resources, Earth Origin Law instruction from an Immortal, and Space Origin Law instruction from a Marquis Immortal. The Country Lord asks the Holy Land’s contestants to secure at least half of the Heavenly Star Universe Country’s thousand qualifying places, while also seeking positions in the overall top thousand 106.
During the preliminaries, Holy Land instructors monitor contestants through privileged access to perspectives, battle recordings, and data. Lu Qingshan’s confrontation with Kamengsi, known as “Reaper,” becomes a contest of prestige between Holy Land-trained geniuses and outstanding cultivators from outside it 108 109.