Great Scarlet Realm

Biodata

Realm Laws and Travel

Connection to the Yuyu Realm

• Travel artifact: The Great Sun Golden Crow Nine Luminaries Mysterious Heaven Treasure Mirror allows its holder, Li Zhengjun, to travel freely between the two realms 2.
• Cultivation compatibility: Yuyu Realm cultivation methods, Law Power, and Dao arts function in the Great Scarlet Realm. Li Zhengjun also successfully teaches introductory methods to local martial artists 2 5.
• Limits of Yuhong’s perception: When Yuhong examines Li Zhengjun’s past through his Divine Ability, the images disappear at the point where Zhengjun crosses into the Great Scarlet Realm 4 5.

Time and Lifespan

Bringing Others Across

• Accompanying clansmen cannot exceed Li Zhengjun’s cultivation realm, and the mirror limits how many he can bring. Its initial allowance is ten 2.
• Clansmen taken into the other world cannot return. The first settlers therefore leave with the expectation of permanently founding families there 2 7.
• The mirror indicates that descendants born in the Great Scarlet Realm can be brought to the Yuyu Realm, although Li Zhengjun has not tested this when he first reports it 5.
• By Li Zhengjun’s Fetal Breath Sixth Layer, the mirror has added two more crossing slots 54.

Geography and Resources

Frozen Water Resources

• Jade Wave Turtles and their predators are Frozen Water spiritual creatures, making Jade Wave Island a valuable source of cultivation materials 23.
• Li Zhengjun estimates that the Ning Kingdom can supply more than fifty Fetal Breath cultivators, with a strong possibility of higher-grade materials in the island’s core region 26.
• Adjusted for the time difference, the kingdom’s estimated output equals that of an entire Lesser Cold River, potentially resolving the Li Household’s declining supplies in the Yuyu Realm 26.
• During the branch’s first three months of collection, it gathers a year’s supply for more than thirty cultivators 36.

Bright Yang Resources

• The realm’s Bright Yang Qi is described as exceptionally primal and wild. Li Zhengjun becomes the first cultivator to resonate with it 14.
• Ordinary spiritual land in the Ning Kingdom cannot adequately sustain his high-grade method; his Spirit Gathering Formation requires replacement Spirit Stones every two hours during his early cultivation 14.
• Later discoveries include a Bright Yang spiritual land, the Phoenix-Perching Golden Parasol Tree, and Bright Yang Primordial Qi 70.
• Yuhong plans to send the Li Household’s Bright Yang spiritual seeds there for planting, compensating for the worsening conditions facing Three Yang resources in the Yuyu Realm 70.

Cultivation

Comparison with the Yuyu Realm

• Resource-heavy cultivation: The Li Household’s early intelligence describes abundant resources but inferior methods. Daoist Lu’s disciples reach Late Qi Refinement using first-tier low-grade methods supported by spiritual materials and blood food 26.
• Cultivation arts: Pills examined by the Li elders use genuine Frozen Water materials but show refining techniques worse than those of their beginning outer disciples 26.
• Changing methods: Local cultivators can disperse cultivation within a minor realm and adopt another method without losing their major realm 35.
• Foundation Establishment risk: Even taking a Foundation Establishment Pill can be fatal. Zhengjun suspects that the additional layers represented by Yuyu Realm methods could improve local breakthrough prospects 54.
• Uncertain upper limits: Early victories in the Ning Kingdom do not establish the realm’s maximum strength. Yuhong repeatedly warns that powerful native cultivators may exist beyond the settlers’ knowledge 7 25 48.

Introduction of Yuyu Realm Teachings

• The Li Household recruits locals through Spirit Root testing and offers later cultivation-method sections in exchange for Contribution Points 22 35.
• Ye Xiufan is selected as a native-born test case for introducing the Yuyu Realm’s full cultivation system and observing the wider realm’s reaction 41.
• The elders favor gradual dissemination: widespread familiarity could reduce both resistance to the new system and attention focused on the Li Household 41.
• Bright Yang and Altar Thunder methods are treated cautiously because unfamiliar Dao Paths might attract hostile scrutiny. Most disciples are instead advised to follow paths believed to exist locally, such as the Five Virtues 48.
• After securing Jiang Liuyang’s true spirit, Li Zhengjun gives him Frozen Water methods and orders him to spread the new cultivation path 65.

Demon Beasts

• According to Li Chenxiao’s analysis of the available intelligence, local Demon Beasts generally absorb Spiritual Qi through bloodline instinct rather than cultivation methods. They grow slowly and are slow to develop intelligence 40.
• Unlike Yuyu Realm demons that develop intelligence after forming the Brightness-Bearing Wheel, the observed Great Scarlet Realm beasts remain unintelligent and in beast form 40.
• This makes Yuyu Realm spirit-binding methods particularly valuable for controlling local beasts, including the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger 40 41.

History

Discovery and First Expedition

Li Zhengjun first enters the Great Scarlet Realm when the Mystic Mirror offers him escape from a fatal attack. There, he kills a Jade Wave Turtle and rescues Fang Yuan and Fang Qing. The turtle later serves as physical proof that the other world contains resources usable by Yuyu Realm cultivators 1 2 5.

After verifying Zhengjun’s travel ability, Yuhong commits the Li Household to establishing itself in the realm. He appoints Zhengjun household head of the new branch, while Li Yuankai takes responsibility for logistics and routine affairs. Ten clansmen form the initial expedition under Zhengjun’s leadership 5 7 8.

Establishing the Ning Kingdom Foothold

The expedition targets Daoist Lu, who controls the Ning Kingdom and uses martial artists to refine blood pills. The Li Household prepares specialized talismans, artifacts, and a formation to prevent the Devil Cultivators from escaping the palace 11 12 15.

The campaign eliminates all thirty-eight Devil Cultivators without losing a Li Household warrior. No higher cultivator immediately investigates, allowing the household to begin consolidating its first foothold 25.

Recruitment follows the victory. The branch organizes Spirit Root testing for residents aged six to forty, establishes annual testing for children from age six, and rewards work against the remaining Devil Cultivator influence with Contribution Points. Li Chenxuan also resolves to build a new city for the household 22.

Expansion and Consolidation

The settlers establish families, organize resource collection, and prepare to develop Gold-Bearing Mountain. Li Zhengjun’s marriage to Fang Qing is celebrated across the Ning Kingdom 32 36.

At Jade Wave Pool, the Li Household decisively defeats the Sun Household’s assault. Li Yuankai controls the formation, Li Dongping leads the attack, and Li Huchan and Li Dongsheng counter the enemy’s spirit beasts and concealed wood spirits 60.

By the time the Bright Yang spiritual land is reported, the lineage has prepared materials and plans for an immortal mountain. With investigation by the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect expected, Zhengjun proposes bringing over a clansman immediately before a Qi Ingestion breakthrough, creating a local Foundation Establishment-level protector while he enters seclusion 70.

Li Household Strategy and Secrecy

Settlement Principles

Protecting the Realm’s Existence

• The Great Scarlet Realm becomes the Li Household’s greatest secret. Letters from settlers are to be reviewed by at least three elders to prevent accidental disclosure 27.
• Yuhong fears that exposure would draw predatory attention from powerful Yuyu Realm figures, particularly True Person Heaven-Forging 27.
• Support personnel are vetted by at least five elders. Once admitted to the secret operation, they must sever outside contact and work under assumed names even if they never cross realms 30.
• Yuhong approves reorganizing the growing operation into dedicated bodies for conquest, logistics, and intelligence rather than leaving every task to the existing elders 27.