Astral Combat Academy

## Introduction

The Astral Combat Academy has been warships that was passed from generation to generation since ancient times. They were ten ancient warships that carry the inheritance of human civilization with the flagship is known as Boundless. After it had been decommissioned from being warships, they became the Astral Combat Academy that lead the Human Domain and inheritance.

## History

The warships had existed even before the Daosource Sect era, and the ten warships had been destroyed and rebuilt several times in the past. They had existed for so long and had been no longer allowed to get near any wars, but due to the Fifth Mainland and Sixth Mainland's war, the warships had participated.

The Astral Combat Academies were not fixed academy locations but roamed the universe with the ten Astral Academies were built upon ten warships. These ancient warships were all enormous, and each one was comparable to Millions City.

## Astral Combat Academy

There were a total of ten individual schools, eight in the Innerverse, and two in the Outerverse with Astral-10 being relegated. The Astral Combat Academy's are described as a land of struggle; everything you need, you’ll have to fight for yourself with there will be no allocation, nor are there any standard teachers.

Astral-10 was relegated from the Innerverse to the Outerverse due to the Headmaster destroying most of the Astral-10 facilities and most of the students left. With almost no students remaining, Astral-10 was sent to the Outerverse where Lu Yin entered into the Academy.

To graduate from the Astral Combat Academy, a person must reach the Explorer realm while being a part of the younger generation. Once a which is unable to reach Explorer realm and couldn't graduate, they would be forced out of the Academy. The graduation rate of the Astral Combat Academy is not high, with only less than a third are able to meet the threshold of being an Explorer realm by the time they reach 40 years old. Those that actually graduate are at Elite or Expert level compared to the average roaming cultivators, and most could be a Realmbreakers.

Astral Combat Academy ranks from 1 to 10 based on the performance of their students within a ranked competition. Astral-1 to Astral-8 are located within the Innerverse. One has to strive for themselves if they want to learn, or engage in battle. A price has to be paid for a mentor to instruct; there are tutors in the Astral Combat Academy, but they decide whether they wish to teach. Every Astral Combat Academy held a Stargazing Deck, with the Headmasters being the ones with strength that could reach the Envoy level.

### Astral-1

Astral-1 was known as the strongest of the ten academies. When Lu Yin had entered the Astral Academy, Starsibyl had been the youth which lead Astral-1.

### Astral-3

During the invasion of the Sixth Mainland, the Astral-3 Academy were unfortunately within the path, which got them destroyed. More than half of their students died, although the Headmaster took an Imprinter down with him at the end. After the Sixth Mainland had destroyed Astral-3, they dragged the whole thing back to the Sixth Mainland. When Aeternus invaded they used Astral-3 to fight back but unfortunately when they retreated, they couldn’t bring it back, so it was left in the Sixth Mainland.

### Astral-9

Astral-9 was designated to be located at the Endless Weave in order to facilitate students to have actual combat experience within the war zone between Technocracy. Every year, some students would participate in the border’s defense, and compared to the other academy branches, the number of times that Astral-9’s students participated in border conflicts was obviously much higher. In the past, the students only had to be Melders to qualify to join the border defense. However, during the latest war against the Sixth Mainland, the academy had put a new rule in place requiring the students to be Limiteers before they could join the battlefield.

## **Boundless (Astral-10)**

Boundless was the flagship name of the warship which became Astral-10. Boundless carries the record and inheritance of human civilization, and that refers to more than just cultivation. It also includes human history and spirit. Humans cannot forget their history, there was a library on Boundless that recorded every detail of the ancient human civilizations and people who represented the history of their era had their names recorded on Boundless. Progenitor Smoke, Progenitor Chen, Rune Progenitor, Progenitor Hui, Progenitor Ku, Wang Fan, Bai Wangyuan, and Lu Tianyi were recorded on Boundless, as they carried the weight of humanity. Anyone able to leave their name on Boundless left an indelible mark on their own era.

There were not only Progenitors’ names written on these boards, but also many Semi-Progenitors. There were many Semi-Progenitors, some were from long ago before Progenitor Chen, while others had risen to fame after. The names of Arch-Elder Zen, Qing Ping. Highsage Grandmaster, and Elder Gong had been recorded, as the Semi-Progenitors of the current era qualified to stand at the top of their realm even throughout history. Because the building had been burned by the mad headmaster, the age of these newer boards felt as old as the names that had been left during the Daosource Sect era. After the war against the Sixth Mainland, many of the boards were lost.

### Astral-10

Astral-10 was moved to the Outerverse, the Frostwave Weave, due to being kicked out of the Innerverse for being too weak. It used to have all the important training faculties for students but due to the headmaster's rampage, most of the training grounds had been destroyed. What is left is the Rain Observatory, the Stargazing Deck, and the Sand Ocean.

### **Faculties**

* **Rain Observatory:** a place to train your star energy. There is a Rain List which you have to condense star energy into your name and push it out past the Rain. In order to make it into the list, the individual usually already comprehends Domain. On the Rain List were the names of the top hundred with the deepest understanding of the Rain Observatory’s star energy in the history of Astral-10, with Shao Chen being on top of the Rain List.
* **Sand Ocean:** is a place to temper the body, and train battle force. There were seven levels to the Sand Ocean, the first being thirty meters deep. Between the first two levels was a thousand-meter drop. The second level of the Sand Ocean contains sand gales which heavily batters the person externally and internally against spiritual force.
* **Stargazing Deck:** has a platform of which rumored has the ability to connect to the past or future visions. Other Astral numbers also have a stargazing deck. A student has only one attempt to have access to the Stargazing Deck.

With the rise of Lu Yin, Astral-10 had been able to re-enter the Innerverse and accepted new students. Astral-10 no longer had a small number of students, but rather thousands of them, just like all the other branches of the Astral Combat Academy. The ten branches of the Astral Combat Academy were ranked in order of merit, and technically, Astral-10 should have been known as Astral-1, but they had not changed their academy name.

## Astral Combat Trial Zone

The Astral Combat Trial Zone is a virtual zone where the person is transported spiritually into a realm that contains hints and inheritance towards the past Three Paths, Six Daos for students. The Trial Zone makes an exact replica of the students going into the Trial taking in their spirits, while their bodies are meditating. Dying within the Trial Zone won't kill you in real life but the spirit will be injured making it difficult to re-enter, and insists and re-enters again and dies, their spirit and mind could be severely damaged.

Within the Trial Zone, there are chances for war spirits to be created with the same combat abilities of the students at the time of their creation. The Trial Zone is a relic of the Rune Technology Civilization. There was a saying in the Astral Combat Academy’s trial zones—cross the Dao of Heaven’s Ocean of Death and ascend the Dao of Purgatory’s Sky Platform. In the Three Realms, Six Daos, there were only legends concerning the Ten Arbiters in the Dao of Heaven and the Dao of Purgatory. This made the Sky Platform and Ocean of Death exceed the other training grounds in terms of mystery.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 2143
2. ↑ Chapter 865
3. ↑ Chapter 1754
4. ↑ Chapter 302
5. ↑ Chapter 832
6. ↑ Chapter 303
7. ↑ Chapter 1336