Great Ruins Boundary

Also known as **Grand Ancient Ruins Boundary**, Great Ruins Boundary is a legendary and Mysterious Secret Boundary that has randomly roamed the Outer Universe since the most ancient of times, stranding even the most powerful of Open Heaven Realm cultivators. Holding countless powerful and mysterious Ancient Beasts and Treasures, Great Ruins Boundary is seen as both a great chance and disaster at the same time.

Great Ruins Boundary is most significantly the domain of the one true **World Tree**.

## Details

### Opening

Great Ruins Boundary appears randomly, is extremely difficult to escape, and keeps the people it captures inside its boundary for an undetermined amount of time.

### Suppression

Great Ruins Boundary has the unique feature of suppressing the Small Universe's World Force. Unable to use the World Force, Open Heaven Realm cultivators, although usually still more powerful overall, can be openly challenged by the far more numerous Emperor Realm cultivators while in Great Ruins Boundary. For this reason, many Open Heaven Realm cultivators dread its appearance.

It is later revealed that the World Tree is responsible for the suppression of World Force and Open Heaven Realm cultivation in Great Ruins Boundary.

### Antiquity Lost Species

Great Ruins Boundary is home to many powerful Monster Beasts, of which many are thought to be extinct in the 3,000 Worlds. These countless beast herds have grown unchecked over millennia. Occasionally, these Beast Tides will stampede through the environment, often wiping out everything and anyone that stands in their way. Though they also cannot usually display strength comparable to Open Heaven Realm, their numbers and powerful physiques make them incredibly hard to deal with.

### Treasures/Chances

Because of all its unique features, Great Ruins Boundary is extremely dangerous, and there have been many casualties there over the countless thousands of years. Due to its ability to consume both living creatures and the environments or cities they come from, Great Ruins Boundary is a massive Treasure land. It is said that the benefits of Great Ruins Boundary are what allowed for the eventual development of three entrants into the 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm Sect Masters of the particularly powerful Xuan Yuan, True Martial, and Primordial Cave Heavens respectively.

### Divine Spirits

Great Ruins Boundary is also home to numerous (over 100) powerful Divine Spirits. Unlike Open Heaven Realm cultivators, the suppression of Great Ruins Boundary does not completely prevent them from displaying some Open Heaven Realm equivalent strength. In addition, due to their naturally more powerful physiques and attributes, it is practically impossible for any Human Race cultivator to be their opponent in this boundary. Therefore, they are the equivalence of cataclysmic natural disasters, as well as the rulers of most of Great Ruins Boundary.

However, the Divine Spirits of Great Ruins Boundary are constantly seeking to break out of its fetter to enter the 3,000 Worlds. For this reason, they collect talented Human Race “Bearers” every time Great Ruins Boundary opens to compete in the Seizing Spirit’s War of Primordial Land. The task of these Bearers is to acquire an “Innate Spirit Fruit” for their respective Divine Spirits from an Innate Spirit Tree, of which only one can be picked per opening of Primordial Land. The Innate Spirit Fruit integrates itself on the Bearers body, and allows for one Divine Spirit to take residence within it in order to leave Great Ruins Boundary during its closing.

When Yang Kai was in Great Ruins Boundary, the following held Lin Feng, Gu Pan, Qu Hua Chang, Ning Dao Ran, Xu Zhen, and Yang Kai himself as their Bearers respectively:

* Kun Sha
* One-Legged Bull
* Fei Yi
* Zhu Jian
* Zhu Yan
* Heavenly Moon Demon Spider - Zhu Jiu Yin

Later, It is revealed that the Ancestors of the Divine Spirits of Great Ruins Boundary were placed there due to having committed harmful acts against the 3,000 Worlds. The World Tree, knowing their descendants are not actually the ones who committed these acts, set up the Seizing Spirits War in Primordial Land so that they would at least have a chance to leave Great Ruins Boundary. However, each of these Divine Spirits still carry a somewhat malevolent and sinister disposition in line with the character of their Ancestors.

When the Ink Clan forces invade the 3,000 Worlds, Yang Kai eventually comes to Great Ruins Boundary and frees the hundreds of Divine Spirits imprisoned there. Each one takes an oath by their Source to serve Yang Kai for 3,000 years. Due to the difference in the World Principles(Heavenly Way) of Great Ruins Boundary and the 3,000 Worlds, Divine Spirits take some time to attain their full strength upon entering the Outer Universe. For example, the 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm comparable Zhu Jiu Yin could only display the strength of a powerful 7th Rank for some years after leaving Great Ruins Boundary.

### Primordial Land

The most dangerous and treasure-filled area of Great Ruins Boundary, Primordial Land is the sight of the Seizing Spirit’s War held between Divine Spirits with their Human Race Bearers. Its opening is also a sign of the imminent closure of Great Ruins Boundary. Primordial Land has restriction where Open Heaven Realms cannot enter, and they are killed if they attempt to do so. Likewise, the numerous Divine Spirits of Great Ruins Boundary are forced to select among Emperor Realm martial artists for their bearers. The oldest part of Great Ruins Boundary, Primordial Land is the home of the legendary and ancient **World Tree**.

#### Unusual Medicines

Primordial Land is also home to some extraordinary unusual medicines, a few of which have not only gained Spiritual Wisdom, but also have the ability to transform shape into humanoid forms. Below is a list and description of its known unusual medicines:

* Pu Bai Xiong - Pu Bai Xiong is a grape vine capable of taking a humanoid form, with the grapes picked from his body having a natural healing effect. After being acquired by and helping Yang Kai to acquire other unusual medicines during the latter’s time in the Primordial Land, Pu Bai Xiong is later seen keeping one of these medicines, a female Profound Bright Illusionary Mushroom, company in Yang Kai’s Void Land.
* Gourd Vine - The Gourd Vine consists of 7 sentient gourds that each contain the strength of one of the Yin-Yang + 5 Elements, allowing them to collectively generate some World Force. After being acquired by Yang Kai, the Gourd Vine ends up being used by Void Land to allow certain cultivators to condense the strengths of a complete set of 5th Rank Yin-Yang + 5 Element Resources once every month.
* Ah Ku - Appearing as a shriveled melon, Ah Ku has the unique Divine Ability to significantly affect one’s psychological state with his words.
* Purple Bamboo - Acquired by Xiang Ying during his time in the Primordial Land, the Purple Bamboo has the natural Divine Ability to resist all Principles.
* Profound Bright Illusionary Mushroom - As she is capable of producing spores that cause extremely powerful illusions, the Profound Bright Illusionary Mushroom serves as part of the Nine Layers Heaven Array of Void Land after being acquired by Yang Kai in the Primordial Land.
* Thousand Lives Stone Lotus

## World Tree

The World Tree is one of the most ancient and mysterious living creatures of the Outer Universe, along with Ink, Sun's Burning Light, and Moon's Serene Glimmer. Connected to all Universe Worlds within its radius, the World Tree is an extremely powerful existence with its own Spiritual Wisdom, and is directly linked to the vitality, strength, and will of the 3,000 Worlds.

The World Tree is capable of transforming shape into a humanoid old man, through which it can communicate with high amounts of intelligence and wisdom through speech. The World Tree has shown an extremely cautious and skittish personality, preferring to avoid any possible danger despite its vast amount of power. As the World Tree is the cause of suppression in Great Ruins Boundary and the origin of Great Emperor/Open Heaven Realm, it can pick and choose who is capable of using their Open Heaven Realm cultivation in its presence.

### Great Emperor

It is revealed that the **World's Will** (Heavenly Way/Martial Dao) of each sufficiently developed Universe World can actually be said to be a different Wisp of Spirit of the World Tree. Likewise, the acceptance of the Heavenly Way to achieve Great Emperor is actually equivalent to the acceptance of the World Tree.

### Open Heaven

During the Monster Race Era of history, the Heavenly Way of the Outer Universe drew 10 Great Emperors from their Universe Worlds into Great Ruins Boundary. Having condensed Dao Seals, these cultivators, and the rest of the Human Race, had no way to improve their strength past the Peak Emperor Realm, and likewise could not oppose the awesome power of the Monster Race and Divine Spirits. The World Tree in Great Ruins Boundary would give each of these 10 chosen Experts a World Fruit, allowing them to create a Small Universe in their bodies to become the first Open Heaven Realm cultivators. Having found a new Peak of the Martial Dao, these 10 Great Experts would eventually lead Humans to supplant the Monster Race for dominance of the Outer Universe.

### World Fruit

Miraculous for Open Heaven Realm cultivation, Low, Middle, and High Rank World Fruits will allow Open Heaven Realm cultivators of the same respective rank to straight promote one rank without any side effects or impact on future practice. However, World Fruits are extremely difficult to acquire, and this is especially so for the extremely rare High Rank World Fruits. When picking a World Fruit from the World Tree, martial artists must pass the test of the Small Universe within the fruit, and are only allowed to collect one fruit from the tree. It is said that the World Tree generally presents 3,000 fruits when Primordial Land opens, giving it the other name of the **3,000 Worlds Tree**.

Later, it is revealed that each World Fruit of the World Tree represents a real Universe World within the 3,000 Worlds. Low Rank World Fruits correspond to a Universe World with the lowest level Martial Dao, Middle Rank represent a Universe World with decently strong Martial Dao, whereas a High Rank World Fruit holds a Universe World with the highest level of Martial Dao. This is revealed to be one of the major reasons for why World Fruits have such a miraculous effect on Open Heaven Realm promotion. However, it is also revealed that consuming a World Fruit consumes and damages the Heavenly Way of the World it corresponds to.

Because each World Fruit actually corresponds to a real Universe World, the World Fruits are capable of being used to travel to and from their respective World if the World Tree allows it. Therefore, the World Tree itself can be considered the main transit hub of the 3,000 Worlds.

### World Tree Subtree

A Root Hair of the World Tree can give birth to a World Tree Subtree. These can be used to miraculously improve the background of a Universe World, whether it be a cultivator's Small Universe or an external world like Star Boundary. The blessings of the World Tree Subtree initially seem to constantly absorb any World Energy around and return the bounty exponentially to the respective world on which they are planted. In this way, the backgrounds and stability of these worlds may become unmatched by any other. For example, in Star Boundary, a World Tree Subtree turned It from an imminently dying world to a cultivation paradise, and the foremost Open Heaven Realm Cradle of the Outer Universe.

Later, it is revealed that each World Tree Subtree shares the same piece of the World Tree's own immense power. The Subtrees take a non-harmful amount of background from all the Universe Worlds of the Outer Universe, as each stems from the World Tree, and feeds it back to the Universe World or Small Universe in which it is planted. This means that if there are too many Subtrees sharing this same power pool, their miraculous effects will be diminished in proportion. There can only be as many as 200 Universe Worlds per Subtree in order for them to perform their miraculous effects.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 3983
2. ↑ Chapter 3984
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 5499
4. ↑ Chapter 3986
5. ↑ Chapter 4071
6. ↑ Chapter 4124
7. ↑ Chapter 5,500
8. ↑ Chapter 5522
9. ↑ Chapter 5002
10. ↑ Chapter 4076
11. ↑ Chapter 4080
12. ↑ Chapter 4098
13. ↑ Chapter 4083
14. ↑ Chapter 4095
15. ↑ Chapter 4102
16. ↑ Chapter 4093
17. ↑ Chapter 4094
18. ↑ Chapter 4088
19. ↑ Chapter 4090
20. ↑ Chapter 4087
21. ↑ Chapter 4092
22. ↑ Chapter 5426
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Chapter 5496
24. ↑ Chapter 5412
25. ↑ Chapter 4099
26. ↑ Chapter 5497