Court of Seven Names

## Introduction

The Court of Seven Names (七字王庭) are made up of seven unique Surnames, each surname has their own organization. These families have different histories and backgrounds which allowed them to survive to modern day, but unfortunately most of the surnames organizations have deteriorated compared to their peaks in the past. The Court of the Seven Names had been designated as one of the Three Dark Hands of the human domain due to the Court taking over Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum. Their history spans back to before the Fifth Mainland, as it is rumored that each name came from a Progenitor as their origins. The Seven Courts each have their own secret technique, as well as their own distinct Power Vessel and inherited battle technique.

The Seven Surnames were the Xia, Ce, Hui, Ku, Xie, Yōu, and Yu Family.

### Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum

Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum was located in the Neoverse’s southern region. It was a place filled with darkness, and it was where the Seven Courts were found, along with many of the Neoverse’s more restless powerhouses. Burial Garden was also in this region. The Seven Courts were arranged in a circle, and in the middle of that circle was Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, as such, nobody could force their way past the Seven Courts to reach the mausoleum. There would be no Seven Courts in the current era if not for Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum. Each century, Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum would open.

## 夏 Xia Family

**Ancestral Origin- Xia Family, Shenwu's Sky**

The Xia Family of the Fifth Mainland exists from a separate branch of the Xia Family in the Perennial World's Shenwu's Sky. The Xia Family was a family with a Primeval Surname. Progenitor Chen (also known as Xia Shang) was one of the ancestors that had existed in the Fifth Mainland. Although there was no differentiation in strength among the families, the Hall of Honor had always been the most wary of the Xia family. Even the Mavis family, the Cosmic Sect, and other top powers publicly recognized the Xia family as the leader of the Seven Courts, due to the existence of one of the seven Semi-Progenitor, Xia Ji.

* An enormous landmass that was not connected to the Honor Zone, and rather, it remained in its own space, connected to many planets that drifted nearby. If one looked at this from a distance, they would see that this landmass was shaped like a saber. According to the rumors, one of the clones of Progenitor Chen’s Nine Clones Technique wielded a saber as a weapon. The Xia family was the descendants of Progenitor Chen, and they were masters of weapons. However, countless years had passed, and nobody from the Xia family had been able to wield this saber since. It had eventually transformed into a landmass that became the Xia family’s ancestral grounds.
* The Triple Blade Will is the Xia family's inherited battle technique. One blade superimposed over another, and the strength of each consecutive blade would double the former, and the third blade was essentially unrivaled within the same realm. It is one of the strongest battle techniques in the Neoverse. Although it is not completely unrivaled like the Tri-Yang Technique, it was still a top-notch battle technique. The Xia family’s Triple Blade Will was also something that had also not been successfully cultivated in tens of thousands of years.
* The Xia Secret Art: Nullify. Cancels the opponent's secret arts.
* They also possess the Nine Clones Secret Technique, which Xia Jiuyou and Xia Ji had successively learned and cultivated.

## 策 Ce Family

The Ce Family were first introduced on chapter 801 where Zhu San's family who were trying to secretly take over the Millions City, was just a remnants of the Ce Family that were left behind. Revealed that the Ce Family originates from the Third Mainland.

**Ancestral Origin-Progenitor Ce (Ce Wangtian)**

* A strange area, and planets littered this region like pieces strewn across a chessboard. If one observed this place from a bird’s eye view, they would see that a full chess board had been set up here. This was the Starpiece Region, and it was where the Ce family was based.
* The Immovable Chessboard was the Ce Family's Power Vessel, which was left by the Ce Wangtian.
* The Combat Doctrine was the Ce Family's inherited battle technique. It merge various battle techniques together. Combat Doctrine simplified the complicated, and it allowed the user to display a level of battle techniques that far surpassed what their peers could attain. Combat Doctrine incentivizes the members of the Ce family to continuously learn and test out more battle techniques. They’re thought to possess the greatest number of battle techniques out of any of the Seven Courts. On top of that, because they want to comprehend the Ce Secret Art, they constantly try to play chess with everyone. They’re very competitive with the Hui family because the Hui family is regarded as the most intelligent people in all the Seven Courts while the members of the Ce family believe themselves to be the smartest.
* The Ce Secret Art: Astral Chessboard, created by one of their ancestors, Ce Wangtian. It allowed the user to simulate and view the space around an area as a Chessboard with everything within as a chess piece, including attacks, physical objects, and self; then shift the positions of one of the chess piece.

## 慧 Hui Family

The Hui Family was known as the most intelligent family of the Seven Courts, and were descendants of Progenitor Hui. Lu Yin had first encounteed Hui Kong, a cultivator that surpasses one million power level Envoy realm that was in the Technocracy searching for the answer related to Progenitor Hui's connection to Technocracy, and Lu Yin learning of the Hui Family of the Seven Courts. Since ancient times, many wise people had emerged from the Hui family, and people associated that trend with the Root of Intelligence.

**Ancestral Origin-Progenitor Hui**

* A tall and lofty series of mountains that formed a mountain range that spanned all the way to the Honor Zone. People named this range Nature’s Manifestation, and it was the home of the Hui family.
* Although the Hui Family had been the descendants of Progenitor Hui, they could not successfully produce Root of Intelligence due to their inability to gather the complete resources to make them. The Root of Intelligence they produce can only be considered to be inferior products that only help calm and the user meditate.
* The Hui Family inherited battle technique: Golden Meteors - rains down golden meteors over a single individual or targeted area.
* The Hui Secret Art: Omnibreak was able to break down the enemies’ battle techniques and reveal their fatal flaws.

## 枯 Ku Family

The first introduction of the Ku Family was by the Ghost Monkey on the Seven Courts. Ku Wei was the first member of the Ku Family which Lu Yin interacts with. Their origins are revealed to be from the Perennial World as their ancestor Progenitor Ku who was a master of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas. Although he was the same generation as Progenitor Chen, he was more lowkey.

**Ancestral Origin - Progenitor Ku**

* The Voidsoul Region, and that was where the Ku family resided. The name came from how this land was the transition area between a place filled with life and the void. There was a very high level of star energy in the Voidsoul Region, and it caused everything to grow extravagantly and the entire place to look very beautiful. However, due to constant lightning strikes, dead trees could be seen everywhere. These trees were also not cleared away, but rather left where they stood. The older the tree that was struck by lightning, the more valuable the wood that would be produced. These dead trees were the raw materials used to produce the Ku family’s Withered Bark.
* The Ku Family inherited battle technique: Finger Tap - a technique which congeals the void and makes the opponent almost forget their surrounding.
* The Withered Bark was a power vessel that the Ku Family possesses that has a robust defense and capable of blocking even an attack from an Enlighter with the power level of 400,000.
* The Ku Secret Art: Spring Renewal. A healing technique that quickly heals damage.

## 邪 Xie Family

The Xie Family were enemies of the Specter Clan. The Xie family were known for cultivating with assimilated with bones and enhancing their physical abilities. It is revealed later that the original Xie Family lost to the Specter Clan an was taken over by them secretly and their family home became one of the Specter Clan's hidden bases across the Fifth Mainland.

**Ancestral Origin-Progenitor  ?**

* The Bone Plains was where the Xie family’s dwelling in the universe. The reason why the place was known as the Bone Plains was because there were many human and beast skeletons strewn about in this part of the universe, which had something to do with how the Xie family cultivated. To people who did not know the family, the Xie family embodied eeriness and terror.
* The Xie Secret Art: Universal Appropriation. Allowed a person to borrow another’s battle technique. If the user wished, then they could borrow anyone’s battle technique within a certain range.

## 幽 Yōu Family

There existed two party/entities of the Yōu Family, the Yōu Clan which still existed within the Court of Seven within the Neoverse, and the separated party known as the Yōu family which left with the true inheritor of the Yōu Secret Arts.Revealed to be survivors of the Second Mainland.

**Ancestral Origin-Progenitor Yōu Ming**

* There was a river in the Neoverse’s southern region that was known as the Great Abyss, and its surging waves could corrode anything. As for the Seven Courts’ Yōu family, they were located right in the middle of the Great Abyss. The Great Abyss was not a normal river by any means, and its waters had a corrosive property.
* The Yōu clan inherited battle technique - the Encompassing Lockdown Array which they lay an array on four sides combined to form a single court that could entrap any cultivator as long as the disparity in strength was not too great.
* The Yōu Secret Art - Age Concealment, only one person can inherit the Yōu family's Secret Art. Those who cultivated the Yōu Secret Art could unintentionally acquire ancient battle techniques, cultivation arts, or even secret techniques.
* The Netherworld River was the Yōu Family's Power Vessel. Ordinary Netherworld Rivers are only able to move one through the visible universe, but this one can actually function even in the true universe, and it can carry you a vast distance. The Netherworld Rivers were birthed from the Great Abyss, and the longer they remained within the Great Abyss, the more powerful the Netherworld River would become.

The Yōu family that had left the Seven Courts, had joined the Sword Sect with an marriage arrangement as a form of protection. The Yōu clan and the Yōu family had arranged it so it seemed like the Yōu family had betrayed the Yōu Court and fled the Neoverse. This arrangement was made to protect the inheritor of the Yōu Secret Art, as this secret had leaked out, and it was impossible to say who knew of this matter. One thing was clear; the Yōu family had long been targeted by people trying to get to the secret of their Yōu Secret Art. A sense of impending crisis had been written into the very blood of every child belonging to the Yōu family. This sensation of being constantly watched had existed for eons, and it could be traced all the way back to the ancient war between the Fifth and Sixth Mainlands.

It was for this reason that, after considering the matter many times, the Yōu family had decided to break away from the Yōu clan and hide the Yōu Secret Art.

## 宇 Yu Family

The Yu Family was first introduced as the Undying Yushan had possible connections to this Yu Family. That was the main reason for which the Mavis Family, the Xia Family, and the Neohuman Alliance, went to investigate the Great Yu Empire see if they contained the inheritance to the Yu Family or any connections.

It was later revealed that the Yu Family had some small conflict with the Seven Courts which they had the intentions of entering the Outerverse and returned but were pursued. The Shaman God of the Neohuman Alliance Seven Skygods chased after the Yu bloodline and caused the patriarch and many of the descendants to be wounded or killed, with only a few people managed to survive the trip to the Outerverse with the inheritance severed. The Yu Family's region had been taken over by the remaining six families as a result.

The Undying Yushan was part of the Yu Family, went against the ancestors' orders and roamed about the Innerverse and as a result, the Yu Family had long sinced struck him out from the family registry, meaning the Great Yu Empire has no ties to the Yu Family. There aren't any members left in the Neoverse, and their spot is empty when it comes to the inheritance of the Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum, which was why Ku Wei tried to investigate them.

**Ancestral Origin-Progenitor Yu(Yu De)**

* The Yu Secret Art: Void Transfer. Enables the caster to redirect attacks or items to a different location. Doesn't require energy to cast, but there was a certain size and strength limit to how much the Void Transfer can shift around.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1156
2. ↑ Chapter 1100
3. ↑ Chapter 1157
4. ↑ Chapter 1129
5. ↑ Chapter 1123
6. ↑ Chapter 1938
7. ↑ Chapter 1014
8. ↑ Chapter 1929
9. ↑ Chapter 301
10. ↑ Chapter 1930
11. ↑ Chapter 1049
12. ↑ Chapter 1105
13. ↑ Chapter 397
14. ↑ Chapter 1938
15. ↑ Chapter 1331