Human Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

These milestones describe the clan’s collective development, rather than a cultivation realm attained by every member.

History

Ancient Supremacy

Before encountering the Pillar of Creation, the Human Clan already ruled almost half the universe. Its exploration eventually brought ten Supreme Powerhouses to the pillar, where ten crystals transformed them into Great Sages 513 514.

The Great Sages took up residence within the Pillar of Creation and controlled the universe’s vital core. Their ascension marked the universe’s recognition of humanity as its leading race, beginning a rule that lasted billions of years 514.

Rise of the Demon Race

The balance changed when Demon Beasts began ascending from the Cultivation Realm. Unlike humans, their reproductive capacity did not diminish as their strength increased. Repeated human extermination campaigns failed to prevent their recovery, and the Demon Race eventually produced twelve Great Sages by an initially unknown means 514.

The ten Human Great Sages confronted them but were outnumbered. One human sage suffered grave injuries; the humans used the Pillar of Creation’s power to grievously wound two opponents before retreating. The demons replenished their armies through nests and continued attacking, taking extensive human territory. The Pillar’s support nevertheless allowed the remaining nine combat-ready Human Great Sages to maintain a prolonged stalemate 514.

Humans in the Eternal Sea

Human travelers occupied a disadvantaged position in the Eternal Sea. Its environment suppressed their combat strength by an entire major realm, while Sea Clan raiders exploited human caravans and commonly demanded half their valuables. Lü Huang regarded appeals to Sea Clan protection as futile 202.

Yi Xuan’s technological constructs bypassed this disadvantage: his upgraded Black Tortoise retained its strength in the sea. He later instructed Xing Qi to expand human–Sea Clan trade and establish a secluded location between North Wave City and East Expanses 206 223.

Unification on the Mother Planet

The five immortal kingdoms formed an alliance against the Barbarian Clan, but their armies remained unable to drive it back during a fifty-year border standoff. The Sea Clan and Barbarian Clan subsequently reneged on an agreement with Venerable Yuan, undermining his plan to address the Cultivation Realm’s crisis 376 379.

Venerable Yuan later announced that the five kingdoms would merge under Zhuo Ning as Common Sovereign of the Human Clan. Yi Xuan supported the choice, but the other four Immortal Emperors rejected his assurances and demanded that sovereignty be decided by force 390.

Cooperation later extended across racial boundaries. Zhuo Ning, Hai Qingshi, and Man Da combined their clans’ fortunes with the National Fortune Great Sun. Its merger with Yi Xuan’s artificial sun countered the Dyson Sphere Project’s effects on the Mother Planet 406.

Captivity and the Technological Revival

In Demon-controlled regions, human populations were maintained as food supplies. Cage Planet No. 55 and 114 other cultivation planets served as “snack farms,” with ascension prevented and periodic harvests leaving a tenth of the population alive to reproduce. This cycle endured for eight million years. Human cultivators developed concealment methods, including illusion formations, but stronger demons could expose them 466.

Yi Xuan’s technological expansion opened a route out of captivity. Civilian and official spacecraft spread from the Homeland Galaxy through the Ziwei Domain, while weapons and increasingly powerful immortals eliminated remaining demons. Over fifty thousand years, humanity reclaimed the domain 500 501.

Through the Seed Plan, Yi Xuan distributed Technology Assistance Systems into Demon nests. Successful inheritors built resistance movements: Mu An’s steel battlesuits turned his Cage Galaxy into a battlefield against its former harvesters, and he became its human leader. Other inheritors died or were captured before developing sufficient technology; their seeds detached and hid to await successors 507 510.

Technology Enters the Immortal Realm

Shi Zhenghao negotiated cooperation between the Ziwei Domain and the Immortal Realm. Yi Xuan proposed supplying advanced weapons first, using the Immortal Realm’s resources to establish infrastructure rather than waiting for its inhabitants to master technological fundamentals. The Human Great Sages approved the arrangement 521 524.

Technology subsequently became indispensable to both immortals and ordinary humans. Liang Shi made the Book of Technology freely accessible through the assistance systems, allowing the Immortal Realm’s researchers to catch up with Mother Planet technology within a thousand years. The Mother Planet became a revered birthplace of technology and the home of its foundational text 559 562.

Defeat in the Human–Demon War

Technological weapons and stronger formations improved human battlefield performance, but the Demon Race’s growing numbers repeatedly offset those gains. Its territory was twice the size of humanity’s, giving it a corresponding resource advantage. Human leaders therefore sought to use technological productivity and attrition to exhaust Demon resources 550 563.

The situation worsened after the Echo of Life was tainted and the Great Sage of Longevity was gravely wounded. Humanity lost a tenth of its territory in less than a thousand years. Yi Xuan’s Space Wall temporarily stabilized its defenses, and the Space Giant Dragon force later grew from twelve to 150 574 576 582 591.

The decisive reversal came when the demons disrupted the Pillar of Creation’s support. Three Human Great Sages died, leaving seven survivors. Yi Xuan briefly stopped eleven Demon Great Sages with a seven-mirror barrier, but a later assault killed eight human False Sages and annihilated the army. The Good Corpse saved Peng Tianlin, Jian Nu, Xiao Anhe, and Li Yuntai 601 604.

Withdrawal and Destruction

Yi Xuan eventually declared that humanity would abandon the struggle for supremacy, retreat into desolate lands, and never return. Liang Shi and the Human Clan’s leadership opposed the decision 619.

Fear of Yi Xuan initially restrained the myriad races. As their probes met no intervention, they escalated into open campaigns against humanity. Its territory contracted, casualties mounted, and resentment spread from ordinary people to Yi Xuan’s former companions. After Xiao Anhe died, the Good and Evil Twin Corpses joined the resistance and were also killed 620.

After another million years, a mortally injured Liang Shi reached Yi Xuan and announced that the Human Clan was gone. Before this final meeting, he had broadcast humanity’s Great Sage advancement method through quantum channels. The disclosure redirected the victorious races into a race for ascension rather than the renewed fighting they had previously planned 620 621.

Organization and Leadership

Abilities and Military Capabilities

Cultivation

• Innate intelligence: Humans possess adult-level intelligence without the ascension required for Demon Beasts and sea demons to reach an equivalent level 283.
• Human cultivation methods: Human genes allow Liang Shi’s hybrid Demon Scorpion Soldiers to practice Human Clan techniques 239.
• Mental cultivation: Humanity’s emphasis on understanding itself and controlling emotions makes advancement difficult but provides an advantage in comprehending Principles after reaching Supreme Powerhouse level 590.
• System-assisted advancement: In the Ziwei Domain, sufficient resources and technological assistance allow even people of average talent to become immortals 520.

Coordinated Warfare

• Layered defenses: Human armies combine energy barriers with tightly assembled shield formations, repairing gaps and replacing losses in an orderly fashion 511 512.
• Armored shield formations: High-tech armor reinforces immortal soldiers and strengthens their collective defenses 549.
• Integrated weapons: Soldiers form shields and spear-like weapons from their equipment, joining individual energy shields into enormous barriers between warship volleys 596.
• Elite forces: More than ten thousand Human Supreme Powerhouses take the field together during the later war 598.

Technological Systems and Weapons

Weaknesses

• Eternal Sea suppression: Humans lose roughly one major realm of effective combat strength. Lü Huang, newly in Golden Core, can display only Early Grain Avoidance strength and cannot sustain it for long 202.
• Underwater dependence: Sea God Stone arks exclude seawater and pressure. Outside them, humans rely on the Water-Avoidance Instruction, which consumes exceptional amounts of True Essence in the Eternal Sea 209.
• Early-stage physical disadvantage: Demons generally cultivate more easily and can match human immortals one minor level above them during earlier stages 515.
• Finite resources: Technology increases extraction and productivity but cannot create resources from nothing. Territorial losses therefore threaten both cultivation and industrial capacity 563 576.
• Dependence on peak combatants: Massed armies and Supreme Powerhouses cannot reliably survive Great Sage attacks. Losing access to the Pillar of Creation’s power leaves the Human Great Sages at a severe disadvantage 601 604 607.

Notable Figures and Relationships

• Yi Xuan — Drives humanity’s technological revival and supplies decisive defenses. His later refusal to intervene against the myriad races leads many humans to denounce him as a traitor 501 582 620.
• Liang Shi — Publishes the Book of Technology, helps shape resource strategy, and releases the Great Sage advancement method before reporting humanity’s destruction 562 563 620 621.
• Venerable Yuan — Long-serving protector of the Cultivation Realm and organizer of the proposed union of the five human kingdoms 379 390.
• Zhuo Ning — Chosen as humanity’s Common Sovereign and represents the Human Clan in the joining of racial fortunes 390 406.
• Peng Tianlin — Army commander who coordinates human defenses, Supreme Powerhouses, and cooperation with Yi Xuan 581 582 596.
• Jian Nu — Described as the foremost Supreme Powerhouse; confronts the Golden Crow patriarch and recognizes the importance of Yi Xuan’s Space Wall 581 582 601.
• Great Sage Xumi — Leads the seven surviving Human Great Sages after the catastrophic loss of three of their peers 601.
• Great Sage of Longevity — Senior human defender whose grave injury weakens humanity’s strategic position 574 607.
• Demon Race — Principal rival for universal supremacy; consumes captive humans and ultimately destroys the main Human Clan army 466 604.
• Sea Clan and Barbarian Clan — Regional adversaries whose representatives later cooperate with humanity to sustain the Mother Planet 202 376 406.

Notable Quotes

“The Human Clan endures forever!”
— An unnamed Human Supreme Powerhouse before sacrificing himself to kill two demons 567.

“Perish along with my Human Clan!”
— Liang Shi’s final cry, later revealed to refer to the consequences of releasing humanity’s Great Sage advancement method 620 621.