Fairness System

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Liu Yi names the system “Fairness” while acknowledging that neither the world nor he himself can be absolutely fair. He hopes the name will represent a fairer world. Its first version resembles a rudimentary computer connected to an early internet: additional functions impose greater computational demands and make construction harder 19.

Xu Cheng’an becomes one of its first external hosts. Although unable to read, he understands the binding prompt and learns to navigate the interface through its guidance 20. Liu Yi subsequently offers rewards for distributing the system, turning its users into the main force behind its expansion 22.

The platform also serves Liu Yi’s cultivation. Hosts’ Great Dao comprehension flows back to him, while the system’s energy conversion earns Heavenly Dao Merit. He describes the relationship as one of mutual dependence and achievement rather than one in which the system erases its hosts 209 496. This purpose shapes its design: he wants independent cultivators whose discoveries can help him advance, not identical users manufactured through automatic leveling 600 652.

Binding Rules and Administration

Binding and Unbinding

• System Seeds: Existing hosts obtain seeds from the System Store and give them to prospective users. Agreeing to the prompt opens an interface in the recipient’s sea of consciousness 21 242 387.
• Moral eligibility: Later explanations define the threshold as not being utterly vicious or devoid of humanity; binding does not require exemplary virtue 233 895.
• Continued conduct: Version 3.0 introduces automatic unbinding when an existing host repeatedly commits evil 21.
• Human restriction: Liu Yi deliberately reserves access for the Human Race. Other races are not expressly prohibited by the displayed rules, but none has succeeded by this point except Little Yellow, whom Liu Yi personally exempts 610.
• No fixed host limit: The system differs from single-host systems by allowing an unrestricted number of eligible users 877.
• Voluntary departure: Hosts can unbind at will. This freedom is a major reason Lin Feng and Li Gong consider it safer than coercive systems 583 896.
• Rebinding: A System Seed can be used to bind the system again 515.

Authority and Enforcement

• Liu Yi’s control: He designs updates, sets charges, approves administrative powers, and retains an “absolute, iron grip” over the platform 527 839.
• System intelligence: Introduced in version 5.0, it handles harmful information and assists Mission Hall reviews. Many powers require Liu Yi’s permission 40.
• Restricted delegation: Liu Yi deliberately limits the intelligence’s authority to prevent inhuman decisions or a loss of control 527.
• Faction accountability: Wu Ruohan warns that violations can lead to unbinding or an extermination mission, citing the Pure Void Sect’s destruction 348.
• Affiliation records: Lin Jing reports his departure from the Pure Void Sect through the system and sees his affiliation change to “none” 179.

Abilities & Functions

Communication and Information

• Personal interface: A desktop-like display appears in the sea of consciousness, with navigation guidance and a personal center 19 20.
• Forum: Begins as text-only, then gains photographs and videos in version 3.0 19 21.
• Microchat: Supports contacts, Moments, group communication, and video calls 21 396 446.
• Visual recording: Hosts can take photographs and record videos directly through their eyes 21.
• TikTok and livestreaming: Users broadcast events, discuss updates, and earn Energy Points through performances or skills. Livestreams allow remote villagers to watch sect battles as they happen 387 394 396.
• Cloud storage and literature: Version 10.0 adds cloud storage; version 16.0 adds the Tomato Literature Website for publishing literary works 362 839.

Cultivation and Training

• No instant leveling: Liu Yi explicitly rejects spending points to directly raise cultivation. He believes it would weaken comprehension and creativity, create standardized cultivators, and obstruct their prospects of reaching the Supreme Realm 600 652.
• Effort remains necessary: The system supplies tools rather than guaranteeing equal achievement. Lin Feng finds that other hosts have surpassed theoretical limits and created exclusive cultivation methods 326 665.

Trade and Professional Certification

• Resource sales: Hosts sell cultivation manuals and treasures to obtain Energy Points. Wang Xiong earns 5.32 million points by selling most of his manuals 564.
• Knowledge market: From version 12.0, users can sell cultivation insights and their understanding of the Great Dao 597.
• Personal shops: Goods must be deposited for storage and review before listing; the system takes a 10% transaction tax 597.
• Profession Hall: Certifies alchemists, artifact refiners, talisman masters, formation masters, musicians, teachers, spirit chefs, masseurs, and other professions across 36 ranks 362.
• Assessment safeguards: Soul monitoring and video recording supervise examinations. Hosts can display or hide their certified ranks on social platforms 362.

Healing and Resurrection

Second Life

• Hosts deposit a portion of their soul and flesh in a dedicated space within the Origin System. If their main body dies, the preserved material can rebuild it 750.
• Concealment of heavenly secrets prevents enemies from detecting the stored resurrection safeguard 750.
• Preservation costs 20,000 Energy Points per month 750.
• It is not absolute immortality. Users themselves distinguish the safeguard from being truly undying or indestructible 751.
• Li Gong proposes delaying revival to sever the Lord God’s connection to his group, but treats this as a risky plan rather than a proven escape method 897.

Life Creation

• Adapted from Liu Yi’s Heaven and Earth Creation Technique, it accelerates healing and regrows severed limbs 750.
• Can remove old hidden injuries and save a person who still has a breath remaining 750.
• Energy Point consumption depends on how long the function is used 750.

Spatial Travel and World Functions

• Spatial Teleportation: Supports travel across great distances and eventually between realms; version 12.0 specifically targets the barrier between the Azure Billows Realm and Land of Exile 597.
• World-based subsystems: Introduced in version 13.0 as an alternative to standard spiritual-light vessels, providing substantially greater energy output 668 750.
• Portable Daoist Sanctum upgrades: Allow adoption of world-based subsystems, though the cost remains prohibitive for many users even with dedicated interest-free loans 750.
• World creation: The system can open a world containing all three thousand Great Daos, overturning one observer’s belief that it was merely a treasure produced by the Azure Billows Realm’s Heavenly Dao 671.
• Teleportation charges: Version 16.0 imposes additional energy-based charges for functions requiring Cross-Realm Teleportation outside the Mysterious Firmament Realm. Version 17.0 makes such travel affordable to every host, though not entirely free 839 943.

Security and Concealment

• Anti-cracking protection: Successive updates strengthen encryption; version 13.0 incorporates methods learned from the Demon-Slaying and Devil-Exterminating System 85 668.
• Concealed origins: The Origin System’s power and the intertwined karma of countless hosts obscure both the system’s source and Liu Yi’s identity as its master 496 505.
• Divination backlash: Lan Sheng and Li Zhe are injured while investigating it; other diviners suffer severe injuries or die 169 179 394.
• Tracking limits: Liu Yi can pursue an unfamiliar system through cause and effect and fate, but initially fails to locate the Slaughter System after it conceals its traces 519.
• Soul protection: Explicitly included among the core functions improved in version 17.0 943.

Devil-Refining Cauldron

• Added in version 17.0 alongside the Two Realms Battlefield 943.
• Constructed from Great Dao Principles including devouring, yin and yang, the five elements, energy, purification, and space 943.
• Refines Devil Race and Devil Beast corpses into Energy Points, turning battlefield remains into usable resources 943 945.

Energy Points and Merit

Sources and Costs

• Automatic generation: Subsystems convert energy into Energy Points. Later versions draw on chaotic void currents, while the Origin System gains direct access to Chaos Qi after becoming an Innate Supreme Treasure 496 597.
• Equal division: Documented subsystem generation is split 50–50 between Liu Yi and the host 597 750.
• Promotion rewards: The first promotion mission offers 200 Energy Points per system shared, without a cap. A later seed distribution earns 100 Energy Points 22 511.
• Other income: Hosts earn points by selling resources, knowledge, or goods, and by livestreaming skills and performances 396 597.
• Operating costs: Functions consume Energy Points, with advanced functions potentially remaining expensive even after daily generation rises 365 679.
• Free system updates: Liu Yi pays for subsystem upgrades rather than imposing a hardware barrier that would widen inequality between users 496.

Documented Daily Generation

Figures below distinguish total subsystem production from the host’s share.

Version 12.0 figures are documented separately by energy source; version 14.0 totals combine the stated sources, with the standard subsystem’s host share calculated using the equal-split rule 597 750.

Heavenly Dao Merit

• Converting external void currents into energy adds energy to the Azure Billows Realm and earns Heavenly Dao Merit 362.
• A smaller share of Merit comes from easing conflicts and reducing resentment and Sha Qi 362.
• Liu Yi receives the vast majority of subsystem-generated Merit; hosts receive a share because they serve as the systems’ vessels 496 528.
• The visible accumulation of Merit reassures suspicious hosts and strengthens the belief that the system is a Heavenly Dao creation 528.

Spread and Major Events

Social Effects and Limits

• A safety net, not equal outcomes: Liu Yi explains that differences in cultivation, status, and wealth persist. The system raises the minimum standard of life rather than eliminating hierarchy 710.
• Restraint on oppression: Powerful hosts hesitate to abuse weaker users because of their future potential and the risk of violating system rules 710.
• Public accountability: Social media can expose sect betrayal to the wider host population, making reputation harder to escape 846.
• Collective innovation: Universal access produces new cultivation methods and creations rather than merely increasing the number of conventional cultivators 815.
• Expansion risks: Ye Xuanxiao warns Liu Yi to conceal himself and the system from the three nonhuman Rulers until he reaches the Ruler Realm 815.

Relationships

• Liu Yi — Creator, master, and principal developer. The system supports his cultivation through energy, Merit, and hosts’ accumulated insights 496 527.
• System intelligence — Administrative assistant with deliberately limited authority; later gathers host suggestions through surveys 527 785.
• Little Yellow — Personally exempted from the effective restriction against nonhuman hosts 610.
• Slaughter System — Hostile rival that initially attempts to locate and destroy the Fairness System. It later privately admits its inferiority and avoids confrontation 517 656.
• Wusheng — Seeks the Fairness System as an escape from the Slaughter System. Binding it triggers a confrontation in which Liu Yi intervenes 593 728.
• Demon-Slaying and Devil-Exterminating System — Studied by Liu Yi for its principles and encryption. Lin Feng uses it alongside the Fairness System, demonstrating that dual-system use is possible 652 665 668.
• All Heavens Chat Group — Enables Wang Qiang to distribute seeds to members in other worlds, accelerating interworld expansion 833 836.

Notable Quotes

“Do you want to know the meaning of life? Do you want to become stronger? The Fairness System is at your service. Would you like to bind it?”
— Initial binding prompt 19

“Old Qian, the Fairness System is just a platform. Your own hard work also played a part in your achievements, so don’t belittle yourself.”
— Liu Yi to Qian Duoduo 326