Macro Setting: The Three Thousand Dao Domains
This is a brutal world where the powerful reign supreme for all eternity, while the weak are as insignificant as blades of grass. The laws of heaven and earth are strict, and bloodlines and physiques determine the limits of one’s cultivation.
* **Territories**: The world is boundless, divided into the “Nine Heavens and Ten Lands” and the “Three Thousand Dao Domains.” Each Dao Domain stretches across countless billions of miles. Mortals could spend a hundred lifetimes and never make it beyond one corner.
* **Laws**: The law of the jungle is taken to its extreme. Might makes right, and truth lies within firing range. Anger a high-ranking faction, and the extermination of your entire clan is commonplace.
#### 2. Factional Hierarchy
The pyramid is rigid. Those below must obey those above without question, or face utter destruction.
* **Destined Imperial Clans (the very top of the pyramid)**: The mightiest factions, standing above the clouds. Their clans have given rise to, and may still possess, experts of the “Destiny Realm” who control the origin of heaven and earth. The protagonist’s paternal clan, the Chen family, and his maternal clan both belong to this category. They look down upon the river of time and regard all creation as ants.
* **Immortal Dynasties / Primordial Ancient Clans**: Their ancestors produced great emperors, and their legacies have endured for several eras. They possess Imperial Weapons of the Ultimate Path to safeguard their foundations and rule over boundless territories.
* **Supreme Holy Lands**: Founded by supremes or saints, they govern a Dao Province and are worshiped by countless billions of living beings.
* **Forbidden Zones of Life**: Buried within them are the failures of various eras, ancient emperors clinging to life, and indescribable horrors. The living must stay away. Enter, and you will die.
#### 3. Cultivation Realms (from lowest to highest)
The path of cultivation steals yin and yang, seizes creation, undergoes nirvana, commands life and death, and governs reincarnation.
* **Five Physical Realms**: Blood Tempering, Bone Forging,
