Divine Land

Biodata

Power Progression

Population milestones and civilization-strength assessments are distinct from Li Xingkong’s personal cultivation.

History

Before Nationwide Cultivation

Before cultivation, Divine Land is already Earth Star’s second-ranking power beneath Eagle Country and a major manufacturing center. Its diplomatic influence has risen sharply from an earlier period when its representatives carried little international weight 227 291 375.

Li Xingkong’s early experience of the country is notably peaceful: the worst violence he recalls witnessing is a minor brawl. This makes several of his combat spells largely unnecessary at home 62.

Partnership with Li Xingkong

Officials cultivate ties with Li Xingkong through practical cooperation. Old Tang recommends Wanli Shitang for his deep-water spell tests partly to strengthen his connection with Divine Land and its troops. When he returns from space carrying a large object mistaken for a meteorite, the authorities suspend its destruction, retain backup interception measures, and issue a reassuring cover story 133 162.

The partnership brings both strategic advantages and diplomatic disputes. Divine Land announces a domestically developed antigravity, propulsion-free launch vehicle, while a later video of an Eagle Country satellite being destroyed near the moon prompts accusations of lunar weapons deployment. Divine Land denies maintaining offensive lunar weapons or bases and states that the satellite violated another party’s territory despite repeated warnings 179 227.

Spiritual Qi Revival

The Rosy Clouds Ascension Plan prepares Divine Land for nationwide cultivation through Earth Vein placement and accompanying institutional reforms. Its intended third stage would make the country Earth Star’s first cultivation civilization. Rather than creating a permanent separate administration for a small cultivator minority, the plan anticipates existing institutions governing a society of cultivators 235 247.

Li Xingkong supplies foundational books on Qi Refining, spells, and Body Refining, asking Divine Land to develop methods suited to Earth Star. Old Tang calls him the Teacher of the Divine Land. After providing further help with formation research, Li Xingkong leaves the management of Spiritual Qi revival to the authorities and returns to seclusion 248 309.

Cherry Blossom Country and Territorial Expansion

During the disaster affecting Cherry Blossom Country, Divine Land’s cultivators defend their own coast while its aerospace carrier and troops conduct rescue operations around Edo City. The deployed forces prioritize rescuing Divine Land People, take control of designated cities, and arrest criminals exploiting the destruction. Spell-assisted reconstruction restores virtually all island facilities within days 357 360 361 363 369.

Divine Land subsequently dismantles Cherry Blossom Country’s administration and divides the islands into isolated experimental regions. These experiments test political and legal systems for a society in which powerful cultivators can increasingly live outside collective protection 370 372.

Its expansion then accelerates. Java is annexed after a military campaign, Moon Country surrenders and joins Divine Land, and India is conquered in less than a week following fighting over Nepal. India’s size and Divine Land’s shortage of administrators lead officials to turn to Ji Nanzhi and his companions; the country is reorganized into a theocracy 381 386 394 395.

Nuclear War and Integration

By the later stages of Earth Star’s wars, Divine Land controls most of the planet. Although its homeland avoids nuclear strikes, atmospheric debris threatens sunlight-dependent cultivation, agriculture, and the climate. The Nation-Protecting Grand Formation proves capable of excluding the dust from the original territory, substantially reducing the cleanup burden 410 412.

Expansion also creates a demographic divide: established cultivator citizens live alongside over a billion newly incorporated ordinary people who lack immediate access to cultivation. The government rejects simply abandoning those it has accepted, but unequal lifespans, strength, and opportunities produce persistent unrest. Its later response combines education, adjusted cultivation opportunities, and differentiated treatment of protesters 410 428 430.

Interstellar Development

The threat of the Snail People exposes Divine Land’s inexperience in space warfare. Officials organize teams to study a captured reconnaissance ship and recall veteran generals to stabilize military preparations. After Li Xingkong destroys the invasion force and attacks its home territory, he secures Divine Land admission to the Pan-Civilization Convention with a guarantee from the Sihali Kingdom 475 563.

Alien contact brings trade, intelligence, and technology. Eventually, the Great Expedition mobilizes sixty percent of Divine Land’s cultivators to develop surrounding star regions. Officials remaining behind pursue closer cooperation with the Sihali Kingdom, while unequal access to knowledge and cultivation infrastructure becomes a source of internal conflict 572 573 592 596 597 600.

Radiance Theocracy support later strengthens the expeditionary force and improves Divine Land’s position between larger powers. Its capital system is rebuilt using transported planets, and the Underworld is placed under national management 632 639.

Wu Ting’s universal cultivation method eventually permits beings from different civilizations—including silicon-based and carbon-based life—to cultivate. An organized recruitment system brings alien civilizations into Divine Land. Its subsequent expansion makes it a mainstay of the Kingdom of Fixed Light’s side, while its intelligence network and the True God Sect help deter external threats without Li Xingkong’s direct protection 803 826 827.

Territory and Important Sites

Government and Society

Administration and Law

• Central Heavenly Court: Replaces the original main governing body and coordinates multiple star systems. The administration originating on Earth Star gains star- and continent-level divisions 559.
• Inspection Department: Acts as a restraint on cultivators whose individual strength could otherwise devastate ordinary communities 559.
• Marriage administration: The Toad Palace develops from the Civil Affairs Bureau’s marriage department; Yue Lao is established as an official matchmaking organization 559.
• Administrative shortages: Cultivation competes with public service for time and personnel. Important officials cannot freely enter long seclusions, while rapid territorial growth repeatedly exceeds the available supply of capable administrators 246 395 503.
• Legal reform: Authorities recognize that laws concerned only with stability may fail to retain strong cultivators who can leave society and support themselves elsewhere 372.

Access to Cultivation

Social Divisions

Cultivation initially transforms most original citizens, but later expansion leaves cultivators and ordinary people in roughly equal numbers. The resulting disputes concern access to cultivation, unequal lifespans, cultural identification, and whether different groups should receive different legal treatment 410.

The divide also exists within cultivation itself. Low-level cultivators fear that more talented individuals will eventually become powerful enough to disregard their rights and overwhelm the state’s protection. Divine Land explicitly seeks to avoid a permanent separation resembling mythological rule over humans and gods 430 431.

Culture

• Sacred landscapes: Native religious traditions closely associate sacred sites with famous mountains and rivers; planners consider these connections when placing Earth Veins 235.
• Regional cultivation traditions: Cultivators develop paths reflecting their home provinces. Fuzhou travelers encountered in space say they journey under Mazu’s orders 558.
• Entertainment: The industry expands partly because entertainment helps cultivators reconnect with contemporary society after prolonged training 565.
• Environmental protection: Once space resources become accessible, Divine Land increasingly avoids extracting equivalent materials from Earth Star 516.
• Long-term ideal: After Nascent Soul becomes attainable, Li Xingkong argues for using endless energy and matter to pursue a great commonwealth rather than continued territorial expansion. Its realization remains an aspiration, not an accomplished condition 917.

Military and Cultivation Infrastructure

Nation-Protecting Grand Formation

A nationwide defensive system whose design is led by Xia Yuqing, Divine Land’s strongest formation master apart from Li Xingkong 357.

• Combines regional defenses and redirects energy toward areas under attack 376.
• Provides strategic protection against nuclear retaliation 374 376.
• Keeps nuclear-war dust outside the original territory, preserving sunlight beneath its barrier 412.
• Helps maintain habitable conditions inside Divine Land despite Earth Star’s worsening climate 429.

Aerospace and Spatial Transport

• Aerospace carrier: Demonstrates comprehensive air and ground suppression. One exercise deploys more than fifty aircraft and airdrops two armored combined-arms brigades within ten minutes 322.
• Spell-enhanced lasers: Ground-based emitters become powerful enough to serve as laser ship cannons, replacing conventional aerial dogfights as a principal air-defense method 394.
• Troop teleportation device: Li Xingkong prepares a ring-shaped device opening a spatial entrance of nearly fifty square meters for transport between fixed locations 393.
• Space dock and mining: Completion of the space dock provides the basic capacity to mine the asteroid belt 376.

Venus Combat Grounds

Resurrection formations allow soldiers and civilian cultivators to participate in genuine lethal combat without permanent battlefield deaths 463.

• Military exercises occupy most early testing areas; smaller grounds open to public registration 463.
• Later facilities include tens of thousands of fighting zones and a battlefield for two thousand aliens against two thousand 573.
• The claim that Divine Land cultivators must kill ten thousand people there to reach Foundation Establishment is an alien rumor, not an advancement requirement 573.

Computing and Spiritual Roots

• Hexagram Computer: Makes Foundation Establishment easier, though some users become dependent on external computation and neglect their own mental computational development 562.
• Spiritual Roots: Treated by Old Tang as cultivation tools, with particular value for soldiers who excel in combat but struggle with technical study 516.
• Spiritual Root Server: Supplies computational services. Sihali Kingdom-linked VIP research requests later consume its capacity, leaving ordinary cultivators waiting days 600.
• National surveys: Divine Land surveys nearly every cultivator to help Li Xingkong design cultivation aids around actual learning and practice difficulties 508.

Souls, Divine Offices, and Reincarnation

• Artifact-bound divine offices: Souls can merge with array-control artifacts and administer local formations as unconventional artifact spirits. This offers longevity but prevents further soul cultivation 503.
• Initial appointments: Early offices cover small inland cities and are generally placed near participants’ hometowns 506.
• Reincarnation Agreement: Participation is voluntary. Signatories gain access to reincarnation and agree to accept Underworld souls into their families 639.

Relationships

• Li Xingkong — Principal cultivation benefactor and strategic protector during Divine Land’s early development. He generally leaves governance to its institutions, but later becomes disappointed by recurring social failures and intervenes against abuses 248 309 609 629.
• Old Tang — Senior official and Li Xingkong’s central administrative contact; coordinates research, national policy, and the transfer of cultivation infrastructure into public management 248 508 639.
• Tang Cheng — Early cultivation leader who later becomes the new God of War and an external member of the Kingdom of Fixed Light 431 803.
• Wu Ting — Develops the universal cultivation method that enables recruitment across biological species and civilizations 803.
• Sihali Kingdom — Guarantees Convention admission and becomes a major development partner, but also pursues interests in the Solar System and exploits cultivation-related infrastructure 563 600 632.
• Radiance Theocracy — Supports the expeditionary force, strengthens its technological base, and views Divine Land as a potential counterweight to the Sihali Kingdom 632.
• Kingdom of Fixed Light — Divine Land gains influence within it as Golden Core numbers increase and later becomes a major strength on its side during interstellar war 803 826.
• True God Sect — An unofficial force associated with Ji Nanzhi and his companions. Its attacks on surrounding civilizations deter threats to Divine Land and make it an effective covert instrument of national power 827.
• Holy Church of Truth — Carries out blood sacrifices inside Divine Land’s territory. A planned war is preempted when the world’s will transforms every living being throughout the Church’s territory into inorganic matter 915.