Seven Nights Epoch

## Timeline

 **Primordial Beginning**

**Remote Epochs**

**Trinity Epoch** or **Nine Worlds Epoch** or **Heaven's Will Epoch**
Legendary Era • Desolate Era • Desolate Expansion Era
Ancient Ming Era • Emperors Era
Difficult Dao Era • Current Era

****Seven Nights Epoch**** or **Eight Desolates and Six Heavenly Continents Epoch**
Resplendent Age • Chaotic Era • Blessed Era • Myriad Dao Era

**Seven Nights Epoch** was the epoch created by Li Qiye. Its name (七夜纪元 = Qiye Jiyuan) came from its creator.

Using the now-former epoch to become the fertilizer for the creation of the new one, Li Qiye used his grand dao, primordial tree, true fate, and basically the entirety of his being and created an unprecedented feat of opening an epoch without the destruction of the old one, breaking the countless cycles of epoch destruction.

A few million years have passed after Li Qiye's death during the events of the Great Calamity which allowed the epoch to prosper and bear fruit. In another few million years, as stated by the epoch creator himself, the current epoch will also end since the Seven Nights Epoch is nearly at its prime state.

## History - Epoch Creation

While in the **Uncrossable Expanse**, Li Qiye picked a random area of sea and sealed himself off for a cultivation session. His cultivation session heralded a new epoch slowly over the course of a million years, he also became the source for all of three thousand worlds.

Then chaos energy flowed throughout all worlds, eagerly cultivators absorbed it since the power was so pure. Overlords however sealed themselves from this energy, since they did not want to be submitting to this incoming epoch.

Out of nowhere one strand of primordial light flashed out of the seal of the area where Li Qiye was cultivating, dissipating as fast as the blink of an eye. This signified that Li Qiye was coming out of his session soon. Meanwhile, more and more strands of light came out, creating visual phenomenas like True Immortals heading west and a praying Dragon God, slowly the complete phenomena showed itself, the Primordial Tree. Its branches containing many Dao Fruit of daos, laws and orders and the tree itself encompassing the 3000 worlds. Slowly it reached its branches into the Nine and Tenth Worlds, and many others creating new daos and laws.

The inhabitants of all worlds realized that with the opening of the new epoch, the order of the old one will no longer suffice, a new order was needed to be established with the Primordial Tree as the template for the cultivation system. After this day, all worlds opened a new page an heralded a new epoch, the golden age ushered in full swing, with Dao Lords proving their might and revealing the mysteries of the dao.

## History - Eight Desolates

### **Resplendent Age**

Thus the Resplendent Age was initiated in the Eight Desolaces, in the first 30,000 years a golden figure sat under became the Primordial Tree and uttered the title "Dao Lord" therefore becoming the first Dao Lord in history. Later on, a swordsman with a diamond-like body then became a Dao Lord as well. Then one day, the Primordial Tree disappeared. No one knew where it went, still Dao Lords could still be made without it. **From hereon forth Dao Lord became the new goal for all cultivators in Eight Desolates.**

### Chaotic Era

After the Great Calamity, the Nine Worlds, Tenth World, Three Immortals World, and the entirety of three thousand worlds were blown apart by the Primordial Light and were plunged into chaos and destruction, reshuffling the worlds that has been maintained for eras. Thus beginning the Chaotic Era, this era is where cultivation was severely crippled, monsters and unexplainable phenomena ran rampant throughout the worlds. With dangers, however came opportunities, Dao Lords rose and remodeled the Eight Desolates repairing the damages in the world barrier done during the Great Calamity. The burial grounds are no more with some of them being extinguished in its entirety, and the others hiding and eventually transformed into the Seven Forbidden Zones, with Dao Lords starting campaigns in order to assure the safety of Eight Desolaces.

During this era, many geniuses were unable to become Dao Lord due to having the limitation of having only one each generation. Space Dragon Emperor took upon the task of opening the peak and successfully created an alternative path to the Dao Lord realm, the Myriad Dao Celestial Body or its title 'Heavenly Sovereign', which can rival Dao Lords at its peak. **From hereon forth Heavenly Sovereign became a new path for all cultivators in Eight Desolates.**

### Blessed Era

That being said with the appearance of Blessed Dao Lord, who has been said to have been taught by an "immortal", he ushered in a golden era of sorts, he nearly single handedly revived cultivation by spreading the Great Era Seven Laws and other mantras, not claiming to have created it. This earned him a near unrivaled reputation even among other Dao Lords. So much so the era was named after him, the Blessed Era. In which Blessed also set up his own sect, the True Immortal Sect, which dominated the whole era with seven successive Dao Lords, with many cultivators joining their sect and becoming their disciples.

However, unbeknownst to all although his explanation of the Great Era Seven Laws benefitted the entire world and made cultivation easier throughout the Eight Desolaces ushering the golden age of cultivation, due to it being re-compiled and having a different interpretation not coming from the original seven laws during the Chaotic Era, it ultimately weakened the purity of cultivation. After the Blessed Era, the path of cultivation diverged and was no longer in line with the original dao start. This resulted to the myriad dao no longer being interconnected and although cultivation became easier for all, the ease of cultivation with the seven laws led to the lowering its floor and power straying from the intention of the original grand dao plan, cultivators picked private merit laws instead and they began hiding these secrets. **Due to this the grand dao weakened as a result and cultivation became segmented**.

Although that was said and done, whether it be sincerity or ulterior motives, Blessed Dao Lord's contributions to the world could be said to be unprecedented as stability came and the flames of war no longer ravaged the Eight Desolaces, ending the era of chaos which lasted for millions of years.

### Myriad Dao Era

Blessed Era eventually ended when Emperor Ye ascended to the imperial throne and became Dao Lord wherein she suppressed the True Immortal Sect.

With Emperor Ye suppressing the True Immortal Sect, she started the **Myriad Dao Era**, an era where not any one person or sect dominated all of the Eight Desolates. This is the era when Li Qiye was reborn.

After Li Qiye was reborn he met his old friends and allies, some even his former enemies leading their lives in the current epoch, while uncovering conspiracies and secrets that happened when he was gone. Major events happened throughout the Myriad Dao Era such as the **competition to become the Dao Lord**. This led to Li Qiye using a single palm strike to end the son of the most current dao lord, Shen Juntian which was at the Dao Lord realm at that moment, effectively ending the competition and shattering the notions and beliefs that Dao Lords were the apex, whilst also alerting the epoch overlords and hidden masters of his return to Eight Desolaces.

The most major event in Eight Desolaces' history which threatened its existence happened after Li Qiye reobtained one of the Nine Heavenly Treasures, the Corporeal Zone. This led to **epoch supremes and supreme overlords conspiring and unifying** in a world-ending war in order to steal his heavenly treasure, consume his peerless flesh and blood, and overtake to rule the current epoch. With the appearance of ancient lineages, allies and friends, alongside the guardians of Eight Desolaces with Li Qiye feigning weakness in order to bait more overlords, they failed spectacularly and ended up becoming fertilizers to bolster the current epoch's dao foundation, the Primordial Tree with the spectating overlords surrendering and tying their fate with the current epoch's future. Due to the untold destruction caused by this war, one of the eight desolaces are no more, however due to the deaths of the overlords this led to the Eight Desolaces ushering an unprecedented golden age not even the Blessed Era can compare to.

## History - Six Heavenly Continents

### Before the Great Calamity

Whilst in the **Tenth World,** the world became distraught due to the war that erupted between the alliance of the hundred races and the devils, heaveners, and diviners. The Celestial Court condemned those not on their side as sinners and started a world-shaking war that would leave effects that would last in the future, this led to the hundred races allying together to fight against the onslaught of the Celestial Court. More than a hundred emperors fell in this war which lasted for ten millenias, the Tenth World back then was ruptured by the war and many behemoth lineages were destroyed such as the Qian Clan, Heaven Searching Sect, and even the Archaic Repository. The sinners would be condemned as 'The People', while 'The Race' would be the name for the three races namely the devils, heaveners, and diviners. This war would be later labelled by the future generations as the **Immemorial Epoch War**.

### Great Calamity

After the **Great Calamity**, the Nine Worlds, Tenth World, Three Immortals World, and the entirety of three thousand worlds were blown apart by the Primordial Light and were plunged into chaos and destruction, reshuffling the worlds that has been maintained for eras.

In the Tenth World, due to the collapse of the world barriers and destruction of the worlds, the thirteen continents slammed against each other with some being completely destroyed becoming just six continents. Due to the appearance of the Primordial Tree, everyone competed for its fruits and blessings. This was when one of the nine heavenly treasures, the Immortal Dao City appeared leading to another huge war between The People and The Race. The Immortal Dao City was eventually occupied by the People, with a ceasefire made between the two therefore becoming equals. The six continents were separated between the two and was the world was eventually named the **Six Heavenly Continents**. In the future, descendants named that war the **Battle of Skysplitter**.

In an unknown time, maybe during or even after the appearance of the Primordial Tree, a vine appeared in the primordial chaos and with one word, it became a conqueror. From then on, conquerors became a potential realm in the six continents. **Therefore establishing Conquerors as the goal of all cultivators of the Six Heavenly Continents**.

Space Dragon Emperor and Ox-Dragon Ancestor reached the limit of the sacred physique in the Six Heavenly Continents. The disparity between sovereigns and dao lords only grew with time. Therefore, Space Dragon Emperor and Ox-dragon Ancestor teamed up and research a way to improve their cultivation. Finally, after painstaking efforts, they decided to slay their previous dao and obtained a sacred fruit, creating an entirely new realm. From then on, in order to honor their contribution and effort, the new realm was officially known as **Heavenly Sovereign Dragon Lord, the next level of the Heavenly Sovereign realm making it possible to catch up to Dao Lords and Conquerors with dao fruits**.

## Geography

### Eight Desolates

* Western King
* Sword Continent
* Sky Border
* He
* Land of Stars
* Dragon

### Six Heavenly Continents

* Lower Three Continents
	+ Chaos Continent
	+ White Stone Continent
	+ Fragmentation Continent
* Upper Two Continents
	+ Grand Dao Continent
	+ Heavenly Continent
* Ancient Immortal Continent

## Links

- 1 Technique(s) used by Seven Nights Epoch
## References

	1. ↑ Chapter #4876(WuxiaWorld)
	2. ↑ Chapter #5661(WuxiaWorld)
	3. ↑ Chapter #3214(WuxiaWorld)
	4. ↑ Chapter #5479(WuxiaWorld)
	5. ↑ Chapter #3212(WuxiaWorld)
	6. ↑ Chapter #3450(WuxiaWorld)
	7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter #3537(WuxiaWorld)
	8. ↑ Chapter #4762(WuxiaWorld)
	9. ↑ Chapter #4835(WuxiaWorld)
	10. ↑ Chapter #4845(WuxiaWorld)
	11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter #4809(WuxiaWorld)
	12. ↑ Chapter #4817(WuxiaWorld)