Five Life-and-Death Pacts in the Starpath Simulation

Setting:

- The otherworldly “Nine Heavens Realm,” in the Dark and Mysterious Era, when spiritual qi revival occurs once every three thousand years

- The Xia calendar is used. The male lead transmigrates at the end of a sixty-year cycle, on the eve of the 213th spiritual qi tide

Power system:

[Five Human Realms] Essence Refining → Bone Tempering → Marrow Cleansing → Aperture Opening → Deification

[Three Heavenly Tribulations] Core Condensation → Nascent Soul → Tribulation Crossing → True Immortal → Creation

[Ancient Secret Realm] Twelve Heavenly Gate stages, preceding the shattering of the void

Factions:

- Three Great Sacred Lands: Heavenly Sword Pavilion (sword cultivators), Cloud Dream Marsh (alchemists), Burning Heaven Valley (artifact refiners)

- Ten Great Demonic Sects: Blood Soul Hall, Yellow Springs Sect, and others

- Thirteen Royal Courts of Zhongzhou: secular dynasties and cultivation forces rule together

- Reclusive clans: the Murong Clan, for example, possesses the secret art of calculating celestial trajectories