Yuan Clan

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Background / History

Ancient Origins

The Yuan Clan is one of the oldest and most powerful lineages in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. It was already a taboo lineage during the era when the Human Ancestor silently protected humanity, before he became the world's strongest known expert 16 23.

Its true origins remain undisclosed. A Heavenly Mandate Clan senior from the Creation Era describes it as even more mysterious than the Clan of the Heavens. Asked about its beginnings, he says that he does not know—and that even if he did, he could not speak of them 40.

Conflict with the High Heaven Clan

According to the High Heaven Clan's ancient records, it once fought the Yuan Clan for ownership of Great Origin Heaven and lost. A High Heaven Clan ancestor later attempted to divine the Yuan Clan's origins, but suffered a backlash that gravely injured him 48.

War with the Netherworld Land

In an earlier epoch, a Yuan Clan Sequence accidentally entered the Netherworld Land. Despite identifying himself and explaining the mistake, he was killed. His extinguished soul flame alerted the Yuan Clan, which investigated and dispatched ten ancestral-ground ancestors—including the Ninth Ancestor—and one hundred present-day ancestors in retaliation 23.

The battle lasted more than a month. The Netherworld Land lost seventy percent of its awakened ancestral-ground ancestors and ninety percent of its present-day ancestors. The Ninth Ancestor severely injured the Netherworld Lord and nearly forced him into Extreme Sublimation before leading the Yuan forces away 23.

The victory established the Ninth Ancestor's reputation as the foremost expert beneath the Great Emperor realm. The Netherworld Land required several epochs to recuperate and later sought revenge by targeting Yuan Zhexian, whose death it believed would drain the Yuan Clan's fortune 2 23.

Organization and Hierarchy

• Ancestors: Reside in the forbidden ancestral grounds and constitute the clan's deepest reserves of power. Ordinary clansmen are not qualified to meet them; Yuan Xun and Yuan Changsheng had previously gained an audience upon becoming clan leaders 2.
• Clan leader: Holds absolute authority over life and death within the clan. Everyone except the ancestors must show the clan leader the highest respect 7.
• Divine Son: The designated future clan leader. Before Yuan Zhexian's appointment, the position had remained vacant after Yuan Changsheng became patriarch 6 7.
• Elders: Include supreme clan elders, grand clan elders, and clan elders, who participate in governance, protection, and external affairs 3 12 25.
• Ten Sequences: The younger generation's leading prodigies. Each possesses one of the Three Thousand Physiques; they were the strongest contenders for the vacant Divine Son position 6.
• Main and branch families: Have different cultivation privileges. The Primal Origin Scripture is practiced by branch-family members, while certain inherited techniques are restricted to core members 4 6.

Leadership and Senior Members

Known Sequences

Divine Son's Retinue

• Yuan Zifeng — Assigned by Yuan Xun to serve Yuan Zhexian; reaches the ninth stage of Grotto Heaven after five days of intensive training under him 7 9.
• Yuan Yan'er — Branch-family attendant with a Water Spirit Physique; cultivates the Primal Origin Scripture and Three Thousand Weak Waters Art 7.
• Ji Jingtian — Ji Family Divine Son who agrees to serve Yuan Zhexian for one thousand years. Later speaks for the Yuan delegation and risks his life to rescue wounded clansmen 28 34.

Cultivation Arts and Techniques

Inherited Scriptures

The clan's three inherited scriptures lead directly toward the domain of immortality and rank among the finest methods in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands 4.

One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones

• Restricted to core clan members 4.
• Creates three clones, each of which can receive up to eighty percent of the original body's strength 4.
• A destroyed clone costs the original body spiritual power and mental strength rather than its life 4.
• Yuan Zhexian uses two manifested clones to attack the coalition pursuing Yuan Ruochu while his original body prevents its leaders from escaping 33.

Four Immortal-Slaying Swords

• Ranked alongside the Grand Primordium Heavenly Sword Sect's One Sword Breaks the Heavens as one of the world's two strongest sword arts 4.
• The complete four-sword combination is said to be capable of slaying immortals 4.
• Combining two swords requires Supreme Saint cultivation; combining three requires Quasi-Emperor cultivation 42.
• Yuan Xun uses the Immortal-Slaying Sword to kill four hostile Supreme Saint elders, then combines the Immortal-Slaying and Immortal-Butchering sword arts to threaten a Quasi-Emperor 41 42.

Instant Sword Strike

• A sword technique made famous by a Yuan Clan sword Dao Great Emperor, who once used it to kill three Great Emperors of the same realm in one strike 41.
• Yuan Xun uses it to cut apart nine golden dragons and clash directly with a True Dragon Clan Quasi-Emperor 41.

Strength, Resources, and Facilities

Hidden Foundations

• Concealed power: Yuan Changsheng states that the clan displays less than one-tenth of its actual strength. Even as clan leader, he knows only twenty to thirty percent of its true foundation 29.
• Exceptional younger generation: Yuan Changkong, Yuan Suyu, and Yuan Xingchen each demonstrate ten Grotto Heavens during the ancient tablet trial 16.
• Divine Son investment: The ancestors use supreme true blood and spirit medicines to temper Yuan Zhexian's body before he begins cultivating 3.
• Wealth: The coming-of-age banquet serves rare beasts, precious spiritual fruits, and wines that even immortal imperial clans and dynasties would ordinarily hesitate to expend 25.

Clan Resources and Sites

• Forbidden ancestral grounds — Residence of the ancestors and the site of Yuan Zhexian's personal instruction under the Ninth Ancestor 2 4.
• Divine Son Palace — Yuan Zhexian's residence, where his attendants serve him and he undertakes secluded cultivation 3 7 23.
• Spirit Hall — Stores members' soul flames, allowing the clan to detect their deaths 23.
• Training grounds and platform — Used for cultivation and internal challenges, including Yuan Zhexian's battles with the Sequences 6 10.
• Protective barrier — Activated when the Chaos Bell's peals threaten disciples near the Divine Son Palace 3.
• Heavenly Origin Pills — Clan-exclusive pills that raise Grotto Heaven cultivation without side effects; gains depend on the user's potential 8.
• Extreme Spirit Grass — Clan-exclusive spiritual grass that strengthens spiritual power; rare even among main-branch geniuses 8.
• Traveling palace — Pulled by nine Azure Nether Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragons and marked with a golden “Yuan” plaque 12.

External Relationships

• Yu Clan — Closely connected through Yuan Changsheng's marriage to Yu Lingqing, the Yu patriarch's younger sister. Its younger generation and elders defend Yuan clansmen, and its patriarch proposes naming Yuan Zhexian the Yu Clan's imperial son 13 28 34 41.
• Tai'a Lineage — Connected through Yuan Zhexian's arranged marriage to Tai'a Qingcheng. Although Qingcheng initially rejects the arrangement, her father continues to favor the match 17 28.
• Ji Family — Becomes an ally after Ji Jingtian's defeat. Yuan Changsheng refuses its offer of submission because submission would make the Yuan Clan bear its karma, whereas an alliance leaves that responsibility with the Ji Family 28.
• Jun Lineage — Develops cooperative ties through Jun Yichen's partnership with Yuan Zhexian. Jun Yichen fights beside the Yuan delegation, and a Jun elder later shields Yuan Zhexian from hostile Supreme Saints 30 34 41.
• Netherworld Land — Longstanding enemy following the death of a Yuan Sequence and the clan's devastating retaliation. Its lord orders younger successors to kill Yuan Zhexian 2 23.
• Eastern Extremity Divine Hall — Its ancestor takes Yuan and Yu clansmen hostage to compel Yuan Zhexian's attendance. The Ninth Ancestor kills him, while Yuan Xun attacks the hall 22 23.
• True Dragon Clan and allied forces — Engage in escalating clashes with Yuan members during and after the canyon secret realm. Their ancestors later plan to awaken ancient geniuses and emperor's sons to oppose Yuan Zhexian 33 34 41 42.
• High Heaven Clan — Ancient rival defeated in the struggle for Great Origin Heaven. Its members consider killing Yuan Zhexian in the Heavenly Billows Realm but delay action because of the Yuan Clan's unfathomable background 48.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Appointment of the Divine Son

• Yuan Zhexian's birth produces extraordinary phenomena, followed by the revelation of his Chaos Physique, Double Pupils, and six Supreme Bones. The Ninth Ancestor names him Divine Son and grants him access to all clan resources 1 2.
• At age three, he enters the forbidden ancestral grounds for instruction. The Ninth Ancestor teaches him the cultivation system and the clan's supreme inheritances 4.
• Yuan Zhexian defeats Yuan Di and reprimands him for accepting followers who disgrace the clan. He later defeats five Sequences together, establishing his authority over the younger generation 6 7 10 11.
• Senior members approve of the challenges as a correction to the Sequences' arrogance, warning that the clan cannot protect them everywhere 11.

Ancient Tablet Trials

• Yuan Jiuzhong escorts the five-year-old Divine Son to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where the clan's arrival and younger generation attract widespread attention 12 13.
• Yuan Zhexian takes first place on both the Great Origin Heaven trial ranking and the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tablet, then displaces the Human Ancestor at the top of the Eternal Rankings 16 22.
• When the Eastern Extremity Divine Hall's ancestor captures the Yuan and Yu delegations, Yuan Shengyuan intervenes, kills him, and brings the clansmen home 22 23.

Coming-of-Age Gathering and Ji Alliance

• The Yuan Clan hosts delegations from major clans, holy lands, and dynasties for Yuan Zhexian's coming-of-age banquet 25.
• Yuan Ruochu defeats Wang Teng, and a Yuan supreme elder prevents the Wang patriarch from retaliating against him 27.
• Yuan Zhexian defeats Ji Jingtian and demands his service. The dispute ends with Ji Jingtian's thousand-year service agreement and an alliance between the Yuan and Ji lineages 27 28.

Canyon Secret Realm

• Rival prodigies target Yuan clansmen to reduce competition for treasures. Yuan Ruochu is ambushed after obtaining essence blood, and Yuan Zhexian retaliates against his pursuers 32 33.
• A second coalition gravely wounds the Yuan delegation near the Dao Comprehension Tea. Ji Jingtian moves the injured clansmen to safety before collapsing; Yuan Zhexian arrives, heals them, and counterattacks 34 35.
• Yuan Ruochu offers to surrender his absorbed Power-Fusing Essence Blood even at the cost of his cultivation. Yuan Zhexian later rewards his sacrifice with an Origin-Restoring Foundation-Securing Saint Pill and Emperor Flame Blood Jade 36 39.
• Outside the realm, Yuan Xun refuses demands to surrender Yuan Zhexian, kills four hostile elders, and fights a Quasi-Emperor. Yuan Shengyuan intervenes when four Quasi-Emperors threaten him 41 42.
• The confrontation ends with four hostile lineages promising collective compensation of one emperor-grade herb and thirty Quasi-Emperor-grade herbs, due within three days 42.

Heavenly Billows Realm

• Yuan Ruochu and Ji Jingtian repel Huo Ping despite his temporary advancement to the ninth stage of Samsara. Yuan Zhexian subsequently directs his followers toward further secluded cultivation 48.
• The High Heaven Clan identifies Yuan Zhexian's presence through his companions' techniques and weapons, bringing its ancient rivalry with the Yuan Clan back into consideration 48.