Great Xia

Biodata

Power Progression

Great Xia’s documented advances concern cultivation research and industrial production, rather than a national cultivation realm.

History

First Contact

Lu Li first reached Great Xia through a twin fish jade pendant while trapped as a miner in the Azure Pool Sect. Police investigated his identity and the unexplained connection before security officials took over. Researchers traced the signal beyond Blue Star, and Li Yuanchao formally assured Lu Li that the nation believed his account 1 2.

The first successful supply transfer established that Great Xia could provide material assistance, not merely advice. Afterward, Li Yuanchao reported the discovery to higher authorities. The General Administration of Security entered level-one alert, its building was locked down, and the pendant was moved to an underground control hall for continuous monitoring 3 5.

Southern Heavenly Gate

With approval from the highest authorities, Great Xia established the 749 Otherworld Civilization Research Group and announced Southern Heavenly Gate, also known as the Ascension to Immortality Plan. Lu Li became its pioneer, authorized to draw on nationwide resources and cooperation 12.

The program’s objectives were to:

• Research otherworld civilizations in depth 12.
• Support Lu Li in becoming an immortal first 12 36.
• Establish nationwide immortal cultivation in Great Xia 12 36.
• Lead Blue Star’s development of cultivation civilization and influence the future course of human evolution 12.

Industrial Mobilization

The state mobilized factories, engineers, researchers, and local governments to build experimental equipment unavailable on the commercial market. At Liao River Heavy Industries, military requisition halted ordinary production and foreign contracts so the factory could manufacture specially specified components. The state handled compensation for breached contracts, while county authorities guaranteed water, electricity, and logistics 19.

Military personnel described the effort as a war across worlds over Lu Li’s survival and Great Xia’s future. Its immediate work centered on cultivation-method research and spirit-ore purification, with equipment repeatedly built, tested, and revised 19.

Institutions and Personnel

Cross-Realm Operations

Twin Fish Jade Pendant

• Communication: Carries voices between Great Xia and Lu Li’s location in the cultivation world 1 9.
• Material exchange: Transports equipment to Lu Li and brings spirit ore, refining waste, materials, and research information back to Great Xia 3 16 36 50.
• Power requirement: Depends on Lu Li supplying spiritual power; insufficient reserves interrupt the connection 3 7.
• Contact restriction: Great Xia initially cannot initiate contact. Lu Li is instructed to call every seven days, provided his surroundings are safe 7.
• Continuous staffing: Designated personnel answer unexpected calls when senior officials are absent 36.

Strategic Support

• Advises Lu Li to wait at least six months before seeking outer-sect promotion, reducing the risk that rapid advancement will attract suspicion 16.
• Assesses Ye Chenfeng as very likely to be a “protagonist” and recommends keeping a safe distance 31.
• Prioritizes low-risk sect missions, learning cultivation arts, and building resources rather than unnecessary exploration 31 44.
• Recommends attempting Foundation Establishment at age forty-eight to balance preparation, success probability, and an inconspicuous advancement schedule 31.

Science and Cultivation Research

Computational Cultivation

Great Xia uses quantum computers to analyze cultivation methods and simulate their operation 8.

• Researchers compare the Five Elements Instruction to a mathematical formula, with spiritual power as its result and spirit roots as the ability to solve it 8.
• Three-dimensional projection devices provide Lu Li with annotated demonstrations of revised circulation pathways 10 12.
• The improved method increases both his cultivation speed and spiritual-power reserves, but its initial use causes severe pain and bleeding 12 13 15.
• By the time Lu Li uses Five Elements Instruction 3.0, further improvement has stalled for over a year 50.

Spiritual Materials and Artifact Refinement

• Ore purification: Researchers propose melting azure-gold ore within a bath of its own liquid material to prevent spiritual power from escaping 20.
• Spirit-liquid storage: Containers forged from azure-gold slag seal purified spirit liquid and prevent leakage 30 31.
• Waste recovery: Lu Li sends furnace slag and ash containing residual spiritual essence for analysis and reuse 36.
• Precision manufacturing: Wang Zhiwen identifies standardized material quantities, timing, processing, and inscription work as potential advantages over traditional artifact refinement 43.
• Industrial production: Program-controlled armor manufacture establishes the potential for bulk artifact production, provided sufficient materials are available 47.
• Experimental feedback: Lu Li returns armor test data, artifact-pattern images, and refining materials for further national experiments 50.

Barriers to Nationwide Cultivation

• Soldiers recruited to test cultivation methods fail to cultivate successfully 36.
• Spiritual-power modeling remains difficult: by one research update, 1.28 million simulations have failed to produce a matching molecular sequence 24.
• Machine-made Law Armor remains inert on Blue Star but activates upon entering the cultivation world. Wang Zhiwen suspects differences in world laws, while he and Lu Li also connect the problem to Blue Star’s lack of Spiritual Qi 45 46.
• Lu Li proposes sending back a Spirit Vein, but says he will not attempt it before Foundation Establishment. The proposal remains a future objective, not a completed transfer 46 47.

Notable Locations

• Jing City — Location of the General Administration of Security and the underground cross-realm control hall 2 9.
• Jinghai — Li Yuanchao’s destination when reporting the first successful material transfer 3.
• Liao River Heavy Industries — Northeastern factory requisitioned to manufacture specialized research components 19.
• Fengnan Machinery Factory — Workplace of Lu Li’s parents and the site of their public presentation with his national reward 20 24.
• Jing City No. 3 Middle School — Lu Yao’s school when military representatives arrive to explain her brother’s national service 24 25.
• National Defence University — Institution Lu Yao enters after achieving her school’s highest college-entrance examination score 43.

Relationships

• Lu Li — Citizen, otherworld intermediary, and national pioneer. Great Xia supplies equipment, research, and strategic guidance while repeatedly placing his survival above risky gains 3 7 12 46.
• Lu Dahai and Liu Xiulan — Lu Li’s parents. The state protects and supports them, arranges workplace promotions, and presents a one-million-yuan reward and a Household of Merit plaque 20 24.
• Lu Yao — Lu Li’s younger sister. Military representatives reassure her that her brother is serving on a special national mission; later reports document her academic recovery and university admission 25 43.

At Lu Li’s request, his family is not told that he is stranded in another world. Officials instead explain his absence as a confidential national assignment. National Security’s later family reports record major events without closely or intrusively monitoring their private lives 7 21 24 43.

Notable Quotes

“You are one of the people of Great Xia, and even if you've ended up in another world, you still have the right to protection.”
— Li Yuanchao 3

“And before that, the country will support you... in becoming an immortal first!”
— Li Yuanchao, announcing the Southern Heavenly Gate mission 12