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I'll be briefly explaining the World Building.
Geography & Key Locations:
The story takes place in a world that blends modern urban society with ancient cultivation traditions, creating a unique fusion of technology and spiritual mysticism.
Feilong City:
A futuristic metropolitan hub, blending skyscrapers, AI-driven public systems, and cultivation schools. It is the heart of spiritual technology development and political intrigue.
Shuyuan District:
A region renowned for its elite schools, including Phoenix Ridge No. 72. The district is a testing ground for talent, with competitions, high-level instruction, and surveillance by both government and secret organizations.
Tianxu:
A neighboring city-state controlling cultivation law enforcement, government research, and criminal investigations. Home to the Cultivation Police Department, which regulates spiritual energy usage and monitors criminal organizations like the Phantom Network.
Astral Heights & Ziyang District:
Regions that host high-level student exchanges and competitions. These events may appear as school activities, but they serve as political gatherings, scouting missions, and energy tests for cultivators.
2. Societies & Organizations
The world consists of several overlapping societies that control different aspects of life, cultivation, and governance.
Mortal Society:
Everyday humans unaware of high-level cultivation. Modern technology dominates, but spiritual energy is subtle, influencing things like luck, reflexes, or intuition.
Cultivation Schools:
Elite institutions like Phoenix Ridge No. 72 train prodigies in martial arts, spirit swordcraft, alchemy, and spiritual laws. Schools are ranked by influence, funding, and success rate in producing high-tier cultivators.
Government & Law Enforcement:
Entities like the Cultivation Police Department and the Tianxu Bureau regulate energy usage, criminal networks, and dimensional disturbances.
Criminal Organizations:
Groups like the Phantom Network specialize in assassination, intelligence theft, and illegal energy experiments. They often clash with schools and government forces.
Secret Societies & High-Level Beings:
Some exist beyond mortal comprehension, influencing history, dimensional energy, and even reincarnation. Most remain hidden unless directly provoked.
3. Technology & Spiritual Fusion
This world merges advanced tech with spiritual cultivation.
AI & Monitoring:
Schools use AI for security, student assessment, and competition management. Some students, like Ling Xian, are capable of overriding ordinary devices due to innate energy interference.
Advanced Artifacts:
Devices crafted by top-level geniuses (like Ling Xun) incorporate spiritual energy, emerald alloys, and Celestial God Matter. They can monitor, suppress, or amplify power.
Spirit Weapons & Tools:
Spirit swords, staffs, and artifacts grow with the wielder, housing intelligence and independent energy. Their development depends on cultivation, devotion, and lifespan.
4. Political & Social Hierarchy
Schools:
The main arena for prodigies. Their rankings dictate prestige, government favor, and future opportunities.
Prodigy Class:
A select group within schools, often granted special resources, competitions, and diplomatic exposure. Ling Xian belongs here, making him part of an elite few with secretive missions.
Government Influence:
Oversees energy balance, crime suppression, and artifact legality. High-tier students can affect international relations due to their energy output.
Criminal Networks:
Threaten balance, but also serve as unintended tests for schools and prodigies, creating opportunities for recognition and growth.
5. Rules of the World
Energy Interaction:
Mortal, spiritual, and dimensional energies coexist, but imbalance leads to catastrophic outcomes.
Artifacts & Contracts:
Objects can be sentient or infused with energy, but the bond must be nurtured over time.
Consequences:
Reckless use of spiritual or dimensional power can destroy regions, attract government intervention, or draw attention from cosmic entities.
6. Key Themes
Duality of Progress: Technology and cultivation enhance each other, but also conflict.
Hidden Potential: Strength alone is meaningless without restraint, strategy, and understanding.
Political Intrigue: School events often conceal real power struggles, both local and interdimensional.
Human & Non-Human Interaction: Students, teachers, secret societies, and cosmic entities coexist in a delicate, sometimes dangerous balance.
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