Aeternus

## Introduction

Aeternus (永恒族), also known as the Aeternals is organization created by the One True God Wei Yi, and have been battling against humanity. They existed for a long time have been battling against humanity for eons across many parallel universes.

## Information

Aeternus possess coordinate seals that can allow people to sense other parallel universes, and thus travel to them. They are able to freely travel to any new universes that they discover, and due to their aggression, these new universes are eventually transformed into battlefields. Some universes are so weak that sending a single Envoy is enough to seize control of them, but there are others that are incredibly powerful, to the point where not even Aeternus dares to push them too hard. The Origin Universe is the only one that has ever truly intimidated Aeternus, but that was during the Heavens Sect’s peak.

Beyond the Origin Universe, many others are still at war with Aeternus, and the situation has reached an impasse. These parallel universes have varying levels of strength, and the strongest power is known as the Sixverse Association. They aren’t actually a parallel universe, but rather six parallel allied universes that are connected together, forming a massive battlefield against Aeternus.

Aeternus creates and utilities corpse kings as their main form and source of fighting force. Corpse kings are unmatched physically compared to their equivalent human at the same cultivation realm, and while show no emotions or ability to feel pain. The Aeternus recruit those will or unwillingly to become traitors of humanity, through manipulation of the person's dire circumstances or through threats and make those become members to assist Aeternals.

Redbacks are higher level traitors that are hidden within human society assisting the Aeternals and recruiting more traitors. They are given a scarlet eye with a silted pupil which represents Aeternus, and only Redbacks would be given the scarlet eyes. It was proof of their identity, as well as a means to communicate with humanity’s enemy.

Aeternus are more active in trying to attack the Perennial World, with the backside of the Mother Tree being the battlegrounds against endless monsters that had scarlet irises and silted pupils poured through from it. Compared to the Human Domain, Aeternus had more stronger and active spies that penetrate the ranks of the Perennial World.

### History

The Aeternals are not just pervasive in the universe which the six Mainland exists but there are many other parallel universes that exists which were battlefields that Aeternals waged against humanity. The Aeternals have the scarlet eye cosmic door which allowed endless amount of corpse kings to be brought in from other parallel universes. Aeternus possess coordinate seals that can allow people to sense other parallel universes, and thus travel to them. They are able to freely travel to any new universes that they discover, and due to their aggression, these new universes are eventually transformed into battlefields. Some universes are so weak that sending a single Envoy is enough to seize control of them, but there are others that are incredibly powerful, to the point where not even Aeternus dares to push them too hard. The Origin Universe is the only one that has ever truly intimidated Aeternus, but that was during the Heavens Sect’s peak.

Aeternus have existed during the era of the Heavens Sect but were not as powerful as they were now. Even during that time, Aeternals were only considered to be insignificant. Due to the plot of the Aeternals, two generations of top experts of the Heavens Sect had been sealed and locked away. With two generations of top experts that had vanished, it created a large gap between cultivation generations, which gave the Aeternals an opening. If humanity had continued to develop normally, then powerful Progenitors would have continued to appear in large numbers, but with the gap in generations, allowed the Aeternals' plot to succeed.

With plots and schemes over the years and era, they managed to bring down five of the six Mainlands, and brought down the history of humanity and made it so that even the Origin Progenitor had been nothing more than a legend.

## Members

### True God

True God Wei Yi (一真神) was the leader and founder of Aeternus and stood above the Seven Skygods.

### The Seven Skygods

Main Article: Seven Skygods

The core power of the Aeternus contains the Seven Skygods (七神天) who have a deep history and background against humanity. The Seven Skygods hold the highest positions of Aeternus, directly under the True God. No matter how many ages pass, the Seven Skygods had been the ones who directly impacted and caused many troubles to humanity. The Seven Skygods in the Fifth Mainland and the Seven Skygods in the Perennial World are all just bodies of the true Seven Skygods. Their real forms are all Progenitors, and they are all extremely ancient beyond any sort of timeframe.

### The Twelve Marquises

Worshipers of the One True God and a level below the Seven Skygods, the twelve Marquises were Semi-Progenitor realm who had fought against humanity for many years and lived beyond even many of the current older generation Semi-Progenitors of the Perennial World. The twelve Marquises are based in the New World, the battlefield between the Mother Tree in the Tree Realm against Aeternus.

## Divine Energy

Bestowed by True God, comparable to stellular energy, and death energy, divine energy normal-looking eyes grew dark as a new depth emerged in them. It was as though her eyes had replaced the darkness of interstellar space, and the light that filled them was a vortex drawing in everyone's attention.

A stream of dark-red energy surged out from their body and began to spread out with the energy encompassed everyone before continuing to expand past them, filling the entire region of space around them with a dark-red color. It looked like the color of a dying star, and it gave off a feeling of worry, fear, and despair. This was the same power when the droplets had been shot into the Fifth Mainland. If death energy gave off a feeling of oddness and eminence, then this energy gave a feeling of oppression and despair as it tried to completely replace stellular energy.

## Corpse King

Corpse King are zombies created by Aeternus and they have no emotions and can barely talk. Scarlet eyes, with very extremely tough physical body that is almost impossible to breakthrough for those in the same realm, Corpse Kings are the main battle forces which Aeternus deploys to do their tasks. They can consume star crystals with different elements in order to increase they innate abilities. Although there aren't as many Corpse Kings that Neohuman Alliance can utilize, they are extremely strong due to their ability to gain innate abilities and some that can do the Corpse King Transformation.

### Corpse King Transformation

The immense strength of Aeternus was derived from a technique called Corpse King's Transformation. Corpse King depending on their development level, have the ability to Corpse King Transformation, which allows them to have their physical power levels spike to somewhere around ten times as strong than before.

* The first transformation increases the physical power level by ten times, having their scarlet eyes turn into grey eyes, as well as their hair turning gray as well.
* The second transformation increases the physical power level by hundred times, have their grey eyes turn into green eyes.
* The third transformation increases the physical power level by a thousand times, having their green eyes turn into a brilliant scarlet eyes.
* The fourth transformation - Specter Eyes Transformation.

A Corpse King's power cannot be judged by normal conventions due to the corpse king transformation. A Corpse King that was at the Cruiser realm that was able to use second corpse transformation can rival an Enlighter Realm in terms of physical strength.

When it comes to the Corpse King Transformation, it was revealed that it's not just corpse kings being able to use the technique, but humans can too, but very difficult due to the different nature of the species. Zi Rong of the Amethyst Exchange cultivated the technique and it made his speech limited like a corpse king but vastly improved his physical power level in return. Although Zi Rong was able to use the Corpse King Transformation, he still couldn't bare the side-effects of the transformation and his heart had gave out, therefore concluding that the corpse king Transformation is very taxing on the human body if performed by humans instead of Corpse Kings.

A Corpse King that has managed to reach the third stage of Corpse King Transformation, allowed them to even out power a Treeheart Descendant of the Mavis family at the same cultivation level.

## Neohuman Alliance

The Neohuman Alliance (新人类联盟) composes of the more weaker clones of the Seven Skygods, the Aeternus, the Specter Clan and other groups that cooperate together in the Fifth Mainland. The Neohuman Alliance were designated as the Three Dark Hands, and their roots is much more deeper due to the nature of Aeternus being pervasive across the Perennial World. For some reason, the Aeternus don't have much of an active presence in the Fifth Mainland compared to the Perennial World.

The Specter Clan (死冥族) are one of the clans which supports and assists the Neohuman Alliance with their missions. The Specter Clan uses death energy as a source of power as well as star energy. The Specter Clan in the Fifth Mainland were mortal enemies of the Xie Family of the Seven Courts. There is also a separate Specter Clan that also exists in the Perennial World with the Specter Abyss being a strong organization to exist rather than their reliance of the Neohuman Alliance in the Fifth Mainland.
Those within the universe no matter it be the Human Domain, the Astral Beast Domain, or the Technocracy, will all collectively to target and to focus destroy any Neohuman Alliance connections no matter what cost due to how pervasive and underlyingly threatening the Neohuman Alliance are. The Hall of Honor fears and will exterminate any forces that associate with the Neohuman Alliance for two main reasons. First was due to their radical philosophy to turn all humans into zombies while the second part was their underlying strength was pervasive and unpredictable throughout the universe.

## Plans

### Vitality Poison

Another hidden experiment which Aeternus conducts is poison which consumes vitality. It was first introduced and secretly used to poison Ming Zhaoshu of the Shenwu Continent which rapidly depleted his lifespan to less than a month to live (although it was lengthen briefly to less than a year with some vitality medicines). There is no known cure to the poison.

The one used on Ming Zhaoshu was No. 91 while the one used on Ming Yan was No. 88. The lower the number the stronger the potential of the poison is. The Vitality Poison had been developed enough to even affect Semi-Progenitor realm cultivators.

### Murkiness/Time Poison

Murkiness was a secret plan created by the Aeternals which utilized a black crystals droplets that absorb the stellular energy from their location, rendering cultivators unable to cultivate. After a long period of time, the energy is returned which seems as if was just temporary but 'Murkiness' was an insidious plan that tempered with the released energy, which cause all of the energy in everyone’s bodies to flowing in reverse and cause serious injury. This energy reversal may harm people’s bodies in the short term, but once all energy has dissipated from their body, they will no longer suffer any harm at all. Therefore, the length of this process depends on how much power each person needs to dissipate. Most people have absolutely no control whatsoever over their star or stellular energy, so they are slowly leaking energy while also completely unable to use any battle techniques. Time Poison was a tool developed by the Aeternals that incoporates into the universe's ambient energy has been influenced by the power of time, when cultivators absorb this power, they are contaminated by the poison, which can cause the absorbed power to reverse or accelerate its flow.

## Trivia

* Lu Yin actually had two of the eyes scarlet eyes. He had gotten one from Silver back on Earth, while he had picked up the second from Wu Shang, who had tried to kill Ming Yan on Shenwu Continent. Also, Lu Yin had the stone table with the image of the scarlet eye on it. He had plenty for what he needed.
* The One True God was first mentioned on Chapter 1501.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1369
2. ↑ Chapter 2030
3. ↑ Chapter 2048
4. ↑ Chapter 2042
5. ↑ Chapter 1142
6. ↑ Chapter 2004
7. ↑ Chapter 1522
8. ↑ Chapter 2421
9. ↑ Chapter 2423
10. ↑ Chapter 1382