Upper District

## Culture and talent

### General Background

The Lower District is connected to the Eastern Continent of the Upper District. People from the Upper District generally exhibits the same behavior as people from the Lower District, they look down on people from the Lower District, since very few geniuses are born from there.

They also have much higher average cultivation base and a greater number of cultivators.

### Four Continents

Other than the Middle Continent, cultivators in the other four continents ranges from the Martial Dominator Realm to the Martial Sacred Realm, and the quantity of these cultivators are much greater than those in the Lower District.

For instance, prior Qin Nan's arrival to the Upper District, the entire Lower District contained only two Martial Sacred Realm Cultivators, whom are the Sacred Area Leaders.

In contrast to the Four Continents, Martial Sacred Realm Cultivators numbers in the twenties, in a single continent.

The reason why there are no cultivators beyond the Martial Sacred Realm seen in these Four Continents, lies within the mysterious force blocking and restricting any cultivators in the Martial Progenitor Realm and above, to fully display their capabilities, while in the Four Continent's territory. This both provides greater stability, for the four continents, and deter chaos since such cultivators, have a much higher cultivation base, and can easily take over the Continents in no time if they were allowed to run amok freely.

### Middle Continent

In the Middle Continent, there exists countless sects of varying strength, and the average cultivators are in the Martial Progenitor Realm.

The bulk of the Middle Continent are resided by the numerous Three-Starred and Two-Starred Factions, while the One-Starred Factions, with only 3 existing powerhouses, resides in the Half-God region.

##### **Factions**

There are many factions of varying strength, divided into three categories, in ascending order of strength:

* Three-Starred Faction
* Two-Starred Faction
* One-Starred Faction

Three-Stars Factions are headed by atleast a Martial Progenitor cultivator, and does not contain any Martial Monarch. They number in the few hundreds.

Two-Stars Factions are headed by a Martial Monarch powerhouse, and does not contain any Martial God. They number below the hundreds and the strongest faction is the non-human Dragon Emperor Clan, headed by the three Monarch beasts; Dragon Emperor, Nine Tailed Monarch Beast, and Diabolic Qilin Monarch Beast.

#### **Half-God Region**

This was the region of the Canglan Continent that contains the most powerful existence and heaven-defying cultivators.

The sole three existing One-Starred Factions, are led by a Martial God powerhouse and countless other Martial Gods within the Faction. They are the greatest existence in the entire Canglan Continent and the strongest of the One-Starred Faction is the South Heaven Sacred Ground, which has ties to the South-Heaven Gate, which was in turn owned by the current Supreme South World in the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm.

In this region, there also exists the 7 forbidden grounds and the ancient tribes, which are all factions that aren't within the list of the Starred Factions system, but are also undoubtedly powerful themselves as they each have numerous Martial Gods in their individual factions.

#### **Monarch Ranking and God Ranking**

The Monarch Ranking and God Ranking are a fraction of the Primordial Source of the Canglan Continent, with the ability to modify the entire structure and rules of the Canglan Continent itself.

They also serve as the "gateway" and the only way for cultivators to achieve the Martial Monarch and Martial God realms, by participating in the Monarch Contest and God Contest, where they can then absorb the Monarch and God Force respectively to ascend to the next realm. However, this is by all means, a manipulation of the natural source itself and restricting the freedom of the primordial source to seek owners that are fit to become martial monarch and gods, and are instead enslaved to heed the commands of the Monarch and God Ranking.

Cultivators are ranked within the Monarch and God Ranking, and earns the right to participate in the Ranking Contest that consists of a series of rounds of varying rules, until the final round where the remaining finalists directly compete with each other to absorb the Monarch/God Force to ascend to the next realm.

The Monarch Ranking Contest takes place every few decades in the Middle Continent and the Half-God Region, while the God Ranking Contest takes place every few decades only in the Half-God Region.

Qin Nan, Jiang Bilian, Tang Qingshan, and Xian Miaomiao are the only exceptions not to adhere by the rules of the Monarch and God Ranking to ascend, and instead ascended to the next realms by their own rules, thus earning the title of "Eternal First" of the respective realms.

However this all changed after Qin Nan kills the Monarch and God Ranking along with the South Heaven Sacred Ground and South Heaven Gate, which cooperated and monopolized all the Monarch and God force of the Canglan Continent. After their desctruction, many people have achieved Martial Monarch and Martial God on their own, and even Human God's have started to appear, in the Canglan Continent.

## Land and Territory Composition

The Upper District is divided into Five Continents, which are named after their supposed geographical location within the Upper District.

They are the:

* Eastern Continent
* Northern Continent
* Southern Continent
* Western Continent
* Middle Continent