Divine Kingdom

Biodata

Power Progression

The following records Su Bai’s Divine Kingdom, rather than a universal sequence of cultivation realms.

Nature and Development

Awakening

• At eighteen, people receive an opportunity to open an initial small world within their bodies and become demigods 1.
• Awakening assessments record talent rank, initial area, ecosystem, followers, and dark matter contamination 1.
• Initial conditions vary dramatically: some kingdoms begin with established follower races, while Su Bai’s begins without any followers 1.

Ecology and Resources

• A sufficiently large kingdom with a suitable ecosystem can nurture powerful follower races and generate a continuing supply of faith power 1.
• Conventional kingdoms require sunlight, spiritual energy, and water for followers to thrive and reproduce 1.
• Spirit veins provide the continuing spiritual-energy supply needed for normal development. A second-tier miniature spirit vein core is valued at at least one million yuan 23.
• Followers can provide resources as well as military strength. Shen Yueli’s moonshadow elves can fight and cultivate valuable spirit plants 1.
• Dark matter pollution normally threatens a kingdom’s ecology. At Su Bai’s awakening, the instructor declares his 99%-contaminated wasteland incapable of supporting growth or reproduction 1.

Core and Origin

• The divine kingdom core is central to the world’s survival. Destroying it causes the kingdom to collapse; the host may suffer catastrophic mental damage or die 5.
• Followers’ deaths can destabilize the core. The destruction of Gu Chengfeng’s berserker legion leaves his kingdom cracked and close to collapse 9.
• Origin power can be stolen. Su Bai drains more than half of Gu Chengfeng’s reserves, severely damaging his foundation without completely destroying his core 9 10.
• Preserving an intact core leaves a possibility of gradual recovery after heavy losses 9.

Divine Warfare

Passages and Deployment

• Owners can open spatial passages to transfer materials and deploy followers. Su Bai uses his passage to collect corpses and later summon Hongdou into the outside world 3 13.
• In organized divine battles, connection pods link the participants’ spiritual power and open a passage between their kingdoms 6.
• Followers can also manifest outside their home kingdom: Gu Chengfeng summons a berserker projection, while Venomous Bee deploys shadow assassins 2 20.

Full-Connection Battles

• A full-connection battle completely opens the passages between two kingdoms, allowing followers to invade either side without restriction 5.
• Unlike an ordinary points match, this format exposes both kingdoms’ cores to direct attack and potentially fatal destruction 5 6.
• Disconnecting can protect a surviving kingdom, but the passage may be obstructed. Hongdou holds Gu Chengfeng’s passage open while Su Bai drains its resources 9.
• Officials forcibly terminate that battle through the connection equipment after Hongdou releases the passage 9.

Domain Suppression

• Forcibly drawing an opponent into one’s kingdom is normally a form of domain suppression used by a high-tier true god against a low-tier false god 21.
• Su Bai achieves a comparable result through the Thirteenth Step’s spatial rules, pulling Venomous Bee and his followers into its labyrinth 21.
• Inside that labyrinth, Venomous Bee loses contact with his own kingdom core and cannot carry out his intended self-destruction 22.

Known Initial Kingdoms

Su Bai’s Wasteland Divine Kingdom

Environment

• Initially consists of a sunless wasteland beneath thick black fog, with dried dark-red bloodstains, debris, bottomless pits, and a dilapidated school building at its center 1.
• A rusty bronze bell installed above the school serves as Hongdou’s trigger medium 6.
• By its expansion to 30 km², the sky contains a dark-red glow, and the atmosphere carries concentrated fear, resentment, and despair alongside dark matter 36.

Ghost Story Creation

Su Bai’s Ghost Story Creator system turns conditions normally fatal to a kingdom into resources for rule-based followers 1 2.

• Materials: Corpses, ruins, resentment, fear, special objects, and contamination sources can be fused into Anomaly followers with specific rules 2.
• Sustenance: These followers need neither food nor spiritual energy; they grow through fear, resentment, and contamination 2.
• Recycling: Dead invaders’ bodies and souls automatically become materials for further ghost stories 2.
• Assimilation: The kingdom can absorb existing Anomalies, physical structures, and rule origins, as demonstrated at Sunshine Waterfront 15 17.
• Detection: Hongdou is incorporated into the kingdom itself, so official instruments do not register her as an independently surviving Anomaly 10.

Principal Followers and Structures

• Rule-based attacks are not universally invincible: each ghost story develops corresponding survival methods from its underlying obsession 5.
• Fear-dependent abilities can be countered. Gu Chengfeng’s Berserk Blood Boiling removes his followers’ fear and expels Hongdou’s possession 8.
• The hospital can extract energy even from spirit vein cores whose properties oppose dark matter, combining it with pollution origin to strengthen production 50.

Regulation and Safety

• Unauthorized attacks on fellow students using kingdom power can result in cultivation being crippled or execution under Great Xia law 2.
• Specialized detectors measure core stability, contamination, and prohibited items such as higher-god weapons or banned scrolls 9 10.
• After recording 99.5% contamination, Bai Lan classifies Su Bai as a first-level observation subject, requires weekly testing, restricts his movements and passage use, and threatens to erase his kingdom if contamination leaks 10.
• Wang Hai invokes the Deity Safety Management Regulations, which classify kingdoms above 90% contamination as extreme threats, to demand compulsory excision 25.
• Great Xia law does not expressly prohibit contamination-based ecosystems. Qin Wan argues that Su Bai’s kingdom remains sealed and controllable despite its readings 25.
• Following the Benevolent Heart Hospital assessment, Bai Lan grants Su Bai the highest-level safety certification, protecting him from forced removal by the Gu Family and Education Bureau 34.
• The Eye of the Abyss later takes interest in his ability to remain in control at 99.9% contamination, suspecting that he possesses a secret to controlling dark matter 50.