Xianzhou Alliance/History

OverviewHistory

A timeline of historical events in the Xianzhou Alliance civilization.

The Xianzhou primarily uses the Star Calendar (Chinese: 星历 Xīng lì) to keep time. It is similar to the Trailblaze Calendar in that it uses the 12 standardized months and 12 standardized months is equal to one year in the Star Calendar. However, if a readable states the month and day, they rarely note down the Star Calendar Year, and the same applies vice versa. The day of departure is deemed as the beginning of the Star Calendar.

Additionally, the Xianzhou uses dual-hours (Chinese: 时 shí) for daily timekeeping. Each dual-hour is 1⁄12 of the time between one midnight and the next, making it roughly double a standard hour, with midnight in the first dual-hour.

As many of the Xianzhou's historical records and readables are recorded in Star Calendar format and there is currently no stated method to correspond the timeline to either the Amber Era or the Trailblaze Calendar, the timeline below will be noted using Star Calendar Years.

Primeval Imperium Era

The Primeval Imperium Era is marked as the time before the Xianzhou ships departed their ancient planet.

• The unnamed sovereign unites the entire planet.

• The unnamed sovereign issues a ban on all forms of weaponry and replacing security institutions with Aurumatons and Ingenia to maintain public order.

• The ancient planet was invaded by the Wingweavers, one of the Denizens of Abundance races from Muldrasil, a planet-sized giant tree that draws energy from the stars.

• The unnamed sovereign becomes fixated on acquiring an elixir of immortality after obtaining miraculous recipes from wingweaver magicians and constructs a fleet of nine ships.

Lone Voyage Era

The Lone Voyage Era is marked as the start of the Xianzhou civilization after the nine ships departed the planet. According to ancient ship logbooks in the Intelligentsia Guild, the dates could be traced back to seven millennia ago if converted to Amber Era calculations.

• Year 0 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Alliance leaves its homeworld with the nine initial ships to seek out the Aeon Yaoshi, referred to as the Sanctus Medicus at the time, for immortality.

• ~Year 500 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Alliance comes into contact with Void Song Whales.

• ~Year 1000 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Alliance witnesses the almighty barrier separating the world from the endless void: the Echidna Skywall, also known as the Celestial Comet Wall, being built by the Aeon Qlipoth. They also made contact with the IPC around this time.

• ~Year 1200 Star Calendar — The Xianzhou Daiyu explodes during the campaign against the Viscorpus, a Denizen of Abundance race, crashing into the ocean world of Thalassa.

• ~Year 1400 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou people wrest control of the ships from the Aurumatons.

• ~Year 1700 Star Calendar ― The unnamed Xianzhou hero who would later become the Reignbow is born.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou first came into contact with the heliobi. The Heliobi penetrated the ships' vaults to appear before the Xianzhou aristocrats, declaring themselves a shapeless and rootless race, beseeching Xianzhou to give them a safe berth. The species were adept at creating mirages and illusions to tempt humans. Thus, the people of Xianzhou became addicted to these wondrous creatures of pure energy and indulged in frolicking with them.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Possession Tragedy. The Heliobi soon exposed their true colors as the they tried to take humans' bodies, drain their emotions, and control their will. The Xianzhou Zhuming suffered the greatest.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Heliobi Wars. The Heliobi form a red micro-star in an attempt to capture the Xianzhou fleet. A suicide squad, led by the Reignbow, disassemble and weaponize the ship's auxiliary engines to fight the Heliobi. The suicide squad sends the weaponized auxiliary engine straight into the red star formed by the Heliobi, causing it to undergo early decay and implode into a black hole. The Xianzhou artisans ultimately bind the heliobi within shapeless prisons and sentence them to provide energy for Xianzhou for all eternity. The defeated Heliobi leader, the Flint Emperor, is imprisoned and sentenced to serve as the power source for the Xianzhou Zhuming for the rest of their eternal life.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Yaoshi plants the Ambrosial Arbor on the Xianzhou Luofu, which later became the flagship of the Alliance.

Theophany Era (~6000 years ago)

Note: It is assumed that the Theophany Era occurred after the manifestation of the Ambrosial Arbor ~6000 years ago.

• Year 2605 Star Calendar ― At the end of the year, the Xianzhou Luofu introduces its Yellowjacket Census and Almanac, advising of all death revitalizations on Xianzhou for this year.

• July, Year 2606 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou fleet sails into the Connant-Farrell star system.

• Year 2607 Star Calendar
  • April ― Homeostasis is completely paralyzed in three of the Xianzhou Xuling's delves, delivering catastrophic flooding, mass deaths, and uncountable losses. The Xuling nobles order grain transfer and opened state coffers for the rescue effort. Each Xianzhou ship dispatches reinforcements, and a new lease on life was won.
  • December ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing, the Xianzhou Zhuming, and the Xianzhou Fanghu all introduce their own Yellowjacket Census and Almanacs, advising of all death revitalizations on Xianzhou for this year.

• Year 2609 Star Calendar ― At the end of the year, the Xianzhou Yuque, the Xianzhou Yuanqiao, the Xianzhou Cangcheng, and the Xianzhou Xuling all introduce their own Yellowjacket Census and Almanacs, advising of all death revitalizations on Xianzhou for this year.

• June, Year 2610 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Luofu holds a celebration in search of endless lifespans, granting amnesties and reveling in wine for 30 days. Each Xianzhou dispatches delegations to celebrate together.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou experiments with the Arbor's fruit, "elevating" animals to the point of mimicking human sentience and speech.

Era of Bloodshed (~Year 3000 — 4000 Star Calendar)

• May, Year 3061 Star Calendar ― The coarse riots on the Xianzhou Yuque and is suppressed by nobility.

• Year 3062 Star Calendar
  • April ― The coarse riots on the Xianzhou Yuanqiao, and the nobles suppress them.
  • July ― The Xianzhou Yuque coarse rebels again, and the nobles suppress them.

• Year 3063 Star Calendar
  • August ― A businessman is assassinated aboard the Yaoqing, plunging everyone into turmoil.
  • November ― The coarse rebels again, attacking and killing elites. Troops later quell the riot.

• February, Year 3198 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou fleet is embroiled in chaos. The coarse master messages each ship in denouncement: "The venerable have long feasted on their blessings of the Abundance, holding the balance of power and enjoying exclusive wealth with their long life, high status, hearty meals, and secret ways — and you view us coarse and young as worse than animals. You suffer from mara, and the whole world is riven by chaos and disaster. You righteous ones should not sit there, doing nothing, but instead rise up to effect radical reform, for the good of all peoples." They launch an assault on the Xianzhou Zhuming, holing up in a delve with an expeditionary force to fight against the nobles.

• Year 3287 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Yuanqiao loses control during the Civil War (the "Living Catastrophe" of the Three Sufferings), plunging into a red giant and disappearing completely. With both sides in bereavement, a ceasefire is reached.
  • December ― The remaining aurumatons revolt, slaughtering the coarse and the venerable indiscriminately in volumes never seen again.

• Year 3288 Star Calendar
  • February ― Both sides join forces to defect [sic] the aurumatons, and dispatch envoys to negotiate peace with each other.
  • April ― A peace agreement is reached and military affairs are curtailed. Troops are reorganized to defeat the aurumatons.

• May, Year 3290 Star Calendar ― Zhige, the master primus of the aurumaton, leads a force of brave fighters aboard the Xianzhou Yaoqing. The combined forces team up and launch an offensive operation, smashing them to smithereens.

• July, Year 3292 Star Calendar ― All of the homeless aurumatons are herded into the arsenal and dealt with. This suppression marks the end of the aurumaton rebellion.

• September, Year 3294 Star Calendar ― A century of internecine strife had engulfed the Xianzhou fleet. Families were riven asunder, and lives were laid waste. A plan was thus hatched to curb the military and let the people rest. Since the endowment of the Abundance and the eradication of death, industries could hardly meet the important needs of raising the long-life species.

• August, Year 3300 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou fleet together drafted the Treaty of Harmony, defining laws and punishments, promoting loyalty, and supporting the needy. Order was gradually restored, just as in the legend of the great unification during the Primeval Imperium days. A policy on reproduction and settlements was also drafted, allowing any of the eight ships to settle on fertile planets unpopulated by short-life species to build self-sustaining colonies.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Wisdom Sapientia Academe was formed on the Xianzhou Yuque, providing a constant supply of talented technicians who believe in the Wisdomwalker to various Xianzhou commissions. They eventually became known as the Wisdom Sect.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Firmamend Sect, following the Firmamend Aribiter, established itself as a pillar of the Xianzhou Alliance's beliefs. The names of many places and buildings were influenced by this, such as the Yaoqing's Amber Avenue, the Luofu's Skywall Delve, and the Zhuming's Firmamend Temple. Among the structures, the two most magnificent ones were the Firmamend Temple built by the IPC in the Zhuming and the Amber Palace in Cangcheng. The former eventually became an affiliated academy of the Zhuming Artisanship Commission.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Quite a number of people went against the trend and became faithfuls of Yaoshi. They firmly believed that the behavior of the Denizens of Abundance deviated from Yaoshi's will, and the mara-struck only existed because Yaoshi's will was improperly executed. These people called themselves Disciples of Sanctus Medicus. For a long time in history, the Old Disciples of Sanctus Medicus were not a notorious group. They accepted skepticism with an open mind and built apothecaries to help the poor and needy.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Many intellectuals abandoned their old paths for good and chose to follow the Wisdomwalker on the Path of Erudition. They were called the Wisdom Sect. Most Wisdom Sect members preferred to focus on academic research in their ivory towers than spending time on secular matters. Hence, their presence was not felt much during the Crisis of Belief era.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Other sects formed besides those who believed in Aeons, some also believed in non-Aeon beings, such as the Homeward Sect that believed in the Primeval Imperium Emperor, the Flint Emperor Sect that believed in the Flint Emperor, and the Reignbow Sect that believed in Reignbow (the version of Reignbow who had not become on Aeon at that time).

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Homeward Sect was formed, with faith and loyalty to the Primeval Imperium Emperor as largely just a facade. Their choice of belief was not a philosophical one, but a political one. Although the Xianzhou people at that time had never been home, their longing to be back never waned. They declared that they should not continue their voyage alone. Instead, they should answer the call of the emperor and find a way back to their homeland.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Flint Emperor Sect were convinced that the Flint Emperor would one day become an Aeon, and the only thing that stood in the way of their ascendancy was their captivity by the Xianzhou people. If they followed the Flint Emperor firmly, liberated the heliobi, and helped the Flint Emperor become an Aeon, then when the Flint Emperor became the ruler of a Path, they would become the closest mortals to the Aeon and benefit from the power of the Path. This belief soon led to criminal activity, and those involved were arrested by the relevant authorities. The extremists who supported the Flint Emperor wholeheartedly eventually receded into oblivion.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Reignbow Sect, a sect that sincerely believed in the Reignbow Arbiter, was not of the public's favor. People preferred to ask for protection from already existing Aeons instead of a non-existing one that could only provide emotional support. Despite being marginalized, the sect did not struggle. They kept praying, anticipating the return of the hero.

Crisis of Belief (Year 3400 — 4000 Star Calendar)

• ~Year 3400 Star Calendar ― The "Flaming Catastrophe," one of the Three Sufferings of the Era of Bloodshed. The Xianzhou Alliance encounters a Dyson tree, also the mortal enemy of the Primeval Imperium — Muldrasil, homeland of the Wingweavers, feeding off nearby stars. A war breaks out as a result.
  • Fatigued from the Civil War (the "Living Catastrophe" of the Three Sufferings), the aurumaton rebellion, and their emigration plan, all the prisoners in cryo-hibernation are released to counter the invasion, including the Reignbow.
  • The Reignbow heads into the prison deep within the Xianzhou Zhuming to persuade the imprisoned Heliobi leader, the Flint Emperor, to help the Xianzhou fight off the Denizens of Abundance.
  • The Reignbow and the the Flint Emperor make a deal, allowing the Flint Emperor to possess their physical body, in exchange for the power of the Heliobi.
  • Inspired by the Reignbow's sacrifice, the Xianzhou residents make the same deal, forming suicide squads and marching alongside the Heliobi. This is the origin of the name "Cloud Knights."
  • The ships of the Xianzhou Alliance enters battle formation in this order, from the nearest to Muldrasil to the furthest: the Yaoqing, the Luofu, the Yuque, the Zhuming, the Fanghu, the Cangcheng, and the Xuling.
  • The Reignbow Arbiter appears as the Aeon of the Hunt and shoots their Sky-Shattering Lux Arrow from the bow of the Yaoqing, using their famed bow "Xuanyuan", causing great casualties among even the furthest ships, the Xuling and Fanghu. The arrow smashes into the Ambrosial Arbor, penetrating Muldrasil, and severing the connection between the Luofu and Muldrasil, turning the tide of the war against the Abundance legions.
  • After the battle, the Reignbow disappears and the seven ships gathered with a Xuling messenger to authenticate, share content, and review the details. This declaration is the final product, hereby creating the Xianzhou Alliance as it exists today.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Following the destruction of the Denizens of Abundance's territory by the divine arrow, the people of Xianzhou came to realize that the Reignbow Arbiter truly existed. The Divination Commission, followed by the IPC, the guild, and the other sects, acknowledged the birth of a new Aeon: The Hunt.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― From a fringe group, the Reignbow Sect transformed into a popular sect that could compete with the Firmamend Sect almost overnight. The subsequent conflict that transpired was not a religious one, but one to determine the future path of Xianzhou. The Firmamend Sect insisted on abiding by the Firmamend Arbiter's will and was strongly against Xianzhou's involvement in the war with the Denizens of Abundance. The Reignbow Sect opined that hiding and defending is not enough to fend off the Denizens of Abundance. For the survival of the Alliance, only by following the path of The Hunt and cleansing the enemy could the future be secured.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Following consecutive victorious expeditions and the numerous appearances of the Reignbow, the Reignbow Sect slowly gained traction among the people.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― After a mass exodus from their homeworld, the Vidyadhara join the Xianzhou Alliance.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Foxians leave their home planet of Verdantia and join the Xianzhou Alliance. After the Foxians joined the Alliance, many of them who wished to rebuild their homeland, the Verdantia Sect, merged with the Homeward Sect.

• Year 4100 Star Calendar ― The Reignbow Arbiter becomes the undisputed main Aeon of the Xianzhou Alliance.

Year 4800 — 6000 Star Calendar

• Year 4800 Star Calendar ― The five lineages of the Vidyadhara made an alliance on the Yuque, putting their sacred vow into writing. "This oath shall remain unbroken, standing stronger than even earth and steel."

• Year 5320 Star Calendar ― The Yuque Divination Commission witnesses the destruction of Muldrasil, the homeworld of the Wingweavers.

• Year 5700 Star Calendar ― Lord Ravager and Overlord Celenova boards a Xianzhou Ship and requests a ceasefire with the Xianzhou Zhuming, requesting the ship to change course and assist in attacking the homeworld of the wingweavers.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Yueyan, the Foxian Helm Master of the Xianzhou Yaoqing's Sky-Faring Commission and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus' first master primus, left his position after witnessing the Antimatter Legion's destruction of Muldrasil as the Alliance stood by, Yueyan's belief was shaken and he decided to re-think the long-life species' duty and purpose in life, driving a starskiff to roam the stellar seas in search of an answer.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― On the ancient planet of Rahu, Yueyan found an Emanator of the Plagues Author: a living entity called Shuhu. Yueyan witnessed how Shuhu granted life back to Rahu, which had long ago become a dead planet. He followed Shuhu and recorded their healing miracles and various teachings, ultimately composing the Divine Scripture of the Secrets and Miracles of Shuhu's Manifestations.

• Year 5749 Star Calendar ― During the resistance of the alliance against the Abominations of Abundance, the Intelligentsia Guild once dispatched a troop consisting of the Learned to join the 2nd of the Abundance Wars. The troop helped in defeating Shuhu, who had besieged the Xianzhou Yuque.

Year 6300 — 8100 Star Calendar

• Year 6300 Star Calendar ― The Xianzhou Cangcheng is devoured by the activated planet Rahu, Devourer of Worlds. Jingliu is one of the few survivors of the incident.

• Year 6804 Star Calendar ― Lord Ravager and Overlord Zephyro ignites the sun of New Bethlehem, scorching its planetary surface with huge amounts of radiation and instantly turning it into glass.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Liu Hua authored Liu Hua's Medical Compendium in the hopes of re-organizing and better explaining the principles of Xianzhou medical science using more scientific methods of inquiry.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Old Disciples of Sanctus Medicus existed in secret for thousands of years before becoming the Cold Springs Sect, which overhauled the entire Xianzhou healthcare system. The Cold Springs Sect published a statement to clarify that they had abandoned the erroneous belief in the Plagues Author after a terrorist group calling themselves the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus started wreaking havoc.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― 93 years after Li Hua's hatching rebirth, the Cold Springs Sect re-discovered how Liu Hua's Medical Compendium had a vision before its time and offered critical value to the field of medicine, and regarded the book the standard for medicine.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Cold Springs Sect's innovative thoughts were gradually acknowledged by the various groups in the Alliance, and Liu Hua's Medical Compendium also finally gained importance.

• Year 7032 Star Calendar ― 23-year-old Izumitamagawa arrived at the Xianzhou Zhuming as a trade specialist and resided there as a visitor for the rest of her life. She realized that the Galaxy's knowledge of the Xianzhou Alliance at the time was mostly based on incomplete stories or unfounded rumors. Therefore, she resolved to author an epic work that would comprehensively present the Xianzhou civilization to foreigners.

• Year 7072 Star Calendar ― Izumitamagawa authored the Grand Encyclopedia of Xianzhou.

• Year 7142 Star Calendar ― A serious plague erupts on the planet of Yaguoret, which was under the Intelligentsia Guild's rule.

• Year 7143 Star Calendar ― Lord Ravager and Overlord Zephyro stirs up a huge cyclone, smashing the ecosystem on Aedirn into smithereens.

• >700 years ago ― The Luofu holds the Luminary Wardance Ceremony, with a young Jing Yuan acting as the ringmaster. Among the participants is Igor Haft, a fighter from Belobog who traveled the cosmos in search of aid for Jarilo-VI against the Antimatter Legion's impending invasion.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Jing Yuan is invited by Jingliu, previous Sword Champion of the Luofu, to her team—comprising of herself, Baiheng, Yingxing, and the Imbibitor Lunae Dan Feng. They thus form the legend of the High-Cloud Quintet.
  • During this time, their feats include:
    • Driving out the borisin invading Thalassa.
    • Destroying the alliance between the Houyhnhnms and the wingweavers in the Abundance Axis.
    • Rescuing the Xianzhou Yuque.
    • Defeating the living planet Ketu Mirage.
    • Capturing Hoolay, the Warhead of the borisin.
  • After less than a hundred years ― The High-Cloud Quintet falls apart.
• Year ? Star Calendar — Shuhu rallies a great army to attack the Xianzhou once again, and Baiheng is killed in the battle. Afterward, Shuhu disappears without a trace.

• Year 7379 Star Calendar ― The Sedition of Imbititor Lunae. The Imbibitor Lunae Dan Feng and Yingxing cause turmoil that threatened the sacred wood by attempting to bring their fallen companion, Baiheng, back to life using the power of the Transmutation Arcanum in Dan Feng's possession and Shuhu's flesh. However, their attempt failed, creating a "draconic abomination" that attacked the Xianzhou and was eventually defeated by Jingliu. Yingxing was also made immortal. The Cloud Knights joined forces with the Vidyadhara Preceptors to assault Dan Feng, eventually locking him in the Shackling Prison. There he was tortured and sentenced to forced molting rebirth.

• Year 7380 Star Calendar ― The sword master of the Xianzhou Luofu, Jingliu, succumbs to mara and goes insane, slaughtering many Xianzhou citizens. She manages to escape Starskiff Haven before being confronted and defeated in battle by her disciple Jing Yuan. Jingliu's name was wiped from the face of the cosmos, and the title of Sword Champion among the Luofu Cloud Knights has remained vacant since.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Master Diviner Jingtian of the Yuque agrees to personally supervise Fu Xuan's tutelage, who becomes his apprentice.

• Year 7658 Star Calendar ― Lord Ravager and Overlord Zephyro drills straight through Moonshield's outer shell, launching an attack on the planet core that crushed the entire world.

• Year 7700 Star Calendar ― Jing Yuan sends a Wardance invitation message to Belobog in the hopes that Igor's descendants will receive it. Despite being informed that Belobog had been destroyed, he sends the message anyway.^{[citation needed]}

• Year 7900 Star Calendar ― The Cloudpeer Telescope detected Reignbow Arbiter's manifestation at three coordinates in the Consternation Starzone: the Yadav variable star, the Cerulean Nightmare, and the Knucklebone. It is predicted to be plagued and the Cloud Knights' Rainbowfall Fleet successfully deals with the borisin Bluefang Pack.

• Year 7954 Star Calendar ― The Cloudpeer Telescope detected traces of Reignbow Arbiter's Lux Arrow nearby Laevateinn-XVI. Upon investigation by the Cloud Knights' Vernalbolt Fleet, the planet was already destroyed.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Unnamed conflict on Thalassa.
  • The Yuque's Echojade Fleet laid out a defense in coordination with the Yaoqing's encirclement and eradication of abominations.
  • The Yuque's Master Diviner Jingtian determined the outcome of the battle and relayed it to the Generals.
  • The Fanghu's Ebonpearl Fleet could be deployed to stop the Devil Tide of Thalassa, which would cause abyssal conditions for the current forces, but the current forces would have to endure multiple counterattacks from the enemy for six months before the Fanghu arrived.
  • The Heroncrest Fleet of the Yaoqing would be deployed instead of the Fanghu. They pressed a strong offense for some time, but lost any hope of success thereafter due to the Devil Tide.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― Master Diviner Jingtian reveals to Fu Xuan that he chose to teach her in spite of divining beforehand that his life would end by her hands one day. Unable to accept this, Fu Xuan ran away from the Xianzhou Yuque despite her family's dissuasion and the hurdles she had to cross, joining the Luofu's Divination Commission with its more unrestricted culture, and devoted herself to calculations. She vowed never to let that prediction come to pass and also wanted to prove with her own hands that her teacher's prediction was nothing but his own ludicrous delusions.

• Year 8038 Star Calendar ― Yewliho led the Preta, with 127 men remaining, to the Fanghu, determined to submit and pledge allegiance to the Alliance after the death of her son at the hands of borisin Bloodwind Pack Chief Kobo.

• Year 8040 Star Calendar ― After two long years of careful deliberation, the Alliance decided to pardon these borisin for their crimes and allow them to live inside the Fanghu under strict surveillance. This was on the condition that they comply with all Alliance research on borisin, as well as submitting all beast ship-related technology to them.
  • This was also the time that Zongguang met Yewliho. As a cultural anthropologist, they were ordered to interview the 127 borisin, in order to deepen the Xianzhou's understanding of borisin society. Throughout the course of their research, Yewliho and Zongguang developed a deep friendship.
  • Likely because of her hatred towards Kobo, Yewliho always hoped that she would be able to lead her Preta to fight for the Alliance. However, a request like this was unlikely to receive approval. Yewliho made this request again and again and was rejected every time.

• Year 8070 Star Calendar ― After 30 years, Yewliho could bear this cycle no longer and began to seek Zongguang's assistance. Zongguang suggested that she write a long letter explaining her life and background in detail. This would allow her to explain her hatred of her enemies to the Seven Arbiter-Generals and why she longs to fight for the Alliance.

• Year ? Star Calendar ― The Verdant Knights of the Yaoqing, led by General Yueyu, fight the borisin on Koolur. A foxian war slave named Saran is rescued. Later, the Reignbow's Lux Arrow destroys the surface of the planet, leaving behind only a bottomless ravine.
  • Saran joins the Cloud Knights and takes on a new name, Feixiao. She becomes an elite warrior and harnesses her Moon Rage to kill countless enemies in battle.

• Year 8072 Star Calendar ― The Third Abundance War.
  • Yewliho writes My Return to the Path.
  • The Xianzhou Yaoqing and the Xianzhou Fanghu alerts the Xianzhou Luofu about the assembly of the Denizens of Abundance army once more, as well as the revival of Ketu Mirage, the roaming star — and an attack on the Fanghu.
  • The Luofu dispatches four brigades of Cloud Knights to help them fight: the Rainbowfall Fleet, Vernalbolt Fleet, Pyrocrane Fleet, and Starlance Fleet. Among the Luofu's Alchemy Commission, Yufei is enlisted in the war and sent to a field hospital on the Fanghu.
  • Without receiving permission from the Alliance, Yewliho and the Preta launched their final assault, killing an unknown number of Denizens of Abundance.
  • Diviner Fu Xuan proposes a plan to the Six Charioteers of the Luofu to send out an SOS signal to the last observed location of the Reignbow's Lux Arrow, using the Yuque's Cloudpeer Telescope, which would be shipped to the Fanghu using a Navis Astriger.
  • Just as the Xianzhou faces defeat, the Reignbow Arbiter descends onto the physical plane and annihilates the borisins' fleet using their Lux Arrow, causing collateral damage to the field hospital and killing Yufei.
  • The Yuque's Master Diviner, Jingtian, who was the only person who had the permission to use the Cloudpeer Telescope and could send out a signal in the format of the Reignbow's decree, perishes on the Fanghu. General Yueyu, who was on the battlefield with the Verdant Knights near the Cloudpeer Telescope, is also killed in the blast.
    • Feixiao, who was on the battlefield with them, brings back as many surviving soldiers as she can. She is saved by field medic Jiaoqiu before the impact of the Lux Arrow reaches them.
  • Yewliho and the Preta managed to transport at least 4,000 civilians to safety before the Reignbow's Lux Arrow descended. During this process, all 127 borisin warriors, including Yewliho herself, perished.
  • During the course of this battle, the Xianzhou Luofu loses over 63,000 fighter jets and over 120,000 pilots, and nearly one-fifth of the Xianzhou Fanghu's delves are destroyed by the Lux Arrow's bombardment. As for the overall casualties of the Xianzhou Alliance: among the near-million pilots that participated in the air battle, not more than 100,000 survived. Among these pilot casualties were Caiyi and Guangyuan.
  • Around this time, Lingsha and her master Yunhua, the former Cauldron Master of the Luofu, are exiled from the Luofu to the Zhuming. This sentence is arbitrated and carried out by Jing Yuan.

• Year 8096 Star Calendar ― A young soldier named Yanqing rises to fame from the tournament hosted by the Seat of Divine Foresight, and is conferred the rank of Cloud Knight Lieutenant.

• Year 8098 Star Calendar
  • April ― The Xianzhou Fanghu is moored at the Lanadi star system in the Tlaltecuhtli star cluster and is expected to remain there for some ten Star Calendar years. The Fanghu assesses it to be a hidden star system with no ecosphere within several light years' range, intending to lay low and evade attacks from the Denizens of Abundance or the Legion more easily.
  • May ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing reports a resounding victory against Fallomom's abominations.
  • June ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing reports a resounding victory against Toste-VIII's abominations.
  • July ― The Xianzhou Yuque reports continuing their explorations along an ancient shipping lane.
  • October ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing reports a resounding victory against Sakin Chadu's abominations. The Yaoqing also reports that the Interastral Peace Corporation swooped in to support.
  • November ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing is moored in the Sakin Chadu star system in Kersarran star cluster and cooperating with the IPC to harness local minerals and recuperate. The Xianzhou Zhuming is moored in the Le Roy Ladurie cluster's Stella Yamazaki star system, inside the territory of the Klimt Republic. The Zhuming remains there for 10 Star Calendar years to conduct scientific exchanges.
  • December ― The Xianzhou Yaoqing reports a resounding victory against Asmodeus' abominations.

Unknown Time Period (8072 — 8100)

• Following Yueyu's death, Feixiao becomes Arbiter-General of the Xianzhou Yaoqing. She appoints Jiaoqiu, who had withdrawn from practicing medicine shortly after the Third Abundance War, to become her healer.
  • Sometime during her rule, the Verdant Knights arrest 117 members of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus. Feixiao finds a young man among their ranks and recruits him to be a Shadow Guard of the Yaoqing.
• Dan Shu becomes one of the leaders of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.
• The Xianzhou Alliance conducts an audit on the IPC's board members to discern if they could pose a threat to them in the future. The audit reveals that most of the IPC's directors and other higher-ups are of little threat to them, barring two: Oswaldo Schneider, deemed a high risk, and former Xianzhou Native Yan Shiluo, deemed a medium risk.

Present

Year 8100≥ Star Calendar

• ~Year 8100 Star Calendar ― After 30 years of dispute and controversy, Yewliho's posthumous autobiography My Return to the Path is finally published.

Luofu Stellaron Crisis

• March 15, Year 8100 Star Calendar ― Bailu escapes the Alchemy Commission with the help of Banxia.
• A currently unknown force smuggles a Stellaron onto the Xianzhou Luofu, planting it in the Ambrosial Arbor's delve. The Stellaron Hunters board the Xianzhou Luofu at some point. The Stellaron then has a burst of energy. Blade is captured by the Cloud Knights and brought to The Shackling Prison in front of Jing Yuan for interrogation. Later, Blade manages to escape captivity.
• Kafka contacts the Astral Express Crew, persuading them to resolve the Stellaron crisis on the Xianzhou Luofu, rescue Blade, and clear the Stellaron Hunters' name. The Astral Express docks on the Luofu and the Trailblazer, March 7th, and Welt disembark. They are escorted by Amicassador Tingyun to meet with Helm-Master Yukong of the Sky-Faring Commission. Although Yukong rejects the Astral Express Crew's aid, suspecting them of working with the Stellaron Hunters, General Jing Yuan soon appears and requests them to locate Kafka's whereabouts.
  • Around the same time, Dan Heng boards the Xianzhou Luofu out of concern for his crewmates' safety. He encounters Sushang and Luocha in Cloudford, and they decide to travel together for the time being.
• Kafka is ultimately captured by Master Diviner Fu Xuan, who interrogates her using the Matrix of Prescience to confirm that the Stellaron Hunters were not the ones who brought the Stellaron on-board. Afterwards, Fu Xuan hands Kafka over to the Astral Express Crew, but Kafka soon escapes after conversing with the Trailblazer, alongside Blade.
• The Ambrosial Arbor is revived by the Stellaron, and the Astral Express Crew heads to the Artisanship Commission to seal it.
  • Around the same time, Dan Heng, Sushang, and Luocha rescue Xueyi from Mara-Struck Soldiers. After helping Xueyi investigate the happenings in the Artisanship Commission, the trio heads to the Alchemy Commission.
• With the guidance of Master Gongshu, the Astral Express Crew destroys part of the Ambrosial Arbor's root system and defeats the Abundant Ebon Deer. Simultaneously, Fu Xuan launches an attack on the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus forces in the Alchemy Commission.
• After the battle, the Astral Express crew regroups with Fu Xuan and the Cloud Knights. Fu Xuan explains to them that the elixir crucibles were infused with medicinal pellets that elicit mara, incapacitating all long-life species that inhale the smoke. Since they are short-life species unaffected by the smoke, the Astral Express Crew goes to turn off elixir crucibles. Tingyun accompanies them, as she was allegedly ordered to do so by Jing Yuan.
• The group encounters Dan Shu, accompanied by the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, at the Aureate Elixir Furnace. Dan Shu is defeated and Tingyun reveals herself to be an imposter possessed by the Lord Ravager Phantylia. After a battle against Antimatter Legion forces, Phantylia disappears, along with Tingyun's body. Fu Xuan and the Astral Express Crew take a starskiff to Scalegorge Waterscape in pursuit of her.
  • Shortly before this, Dan Heng leaves Sushang and Luocha to search for his companions in Scalegorge Waterscape. Dan Heng encounters Kafka and Blade, and Yanqing arrives on the scene to arrest the Stellaron Hunters. Blade suddenly attacks Dan Heng, forcing him to transform into his Imbibitor Lunae form. Yanqing fights both of them, but just as he is about to lose, Kafka uses her Spirit Whisper to make the three of them stop. Jing Yuan arrives and orders Yanqing, Blade, and Kafka to leave, leaving him and Dan Heng alone.
• Fu Xuan and the Astral Express Crew meet with Jing Yuan and Dan Heng at the Dragonvista Rain Hall. Using his powers, Dan Heng parts the waters to open a path to the Ambrosial Arbor. At the Ambrosial Arbor's roots, the Astral Express Crew and Jing Yuan fight Phantylia in her new form. Phantylia's body is destroyed and she flees the Luofu.
• Fu Xuan temporarily takes over Jing Yuan's duties while the latter recovers from his injuries.
• Tingyun is officially assumed deceased, and a soul-soothing ceremony is held in her honor.
• In gratitude for the Astral Express Crew's assistance, Jing Yuan gives them a Jade Abacus of Allying Oath, and revokes Dan Heng's banishment decree.

Post-Crisis

• Dan Heng and Bailu work together to repair the seal on the Ambrosial Arbor. Along the way, Bailu is ambushed by multiple Vidyadhara assassins, though Dan Heng is able to fend them off. Bailu's maid Huanxi reveals herself to be the perpetrator and attacks them. She is defeated, and dies from her wounds.
• Fu Xuan uses the Matrix of Prescience to determine whether March 7th's memories were suppressed or totally erased. However, the Matrix's simulation is interrupted by a Messenger from the Garden of Recollection, who warns them not to look any further.
• Jingliu returns to the Luofu and willingly turns herself in for arrest. Before her trial is held on the Xuling, she conducts a soul-soothing ceremony for Baiheng. Luocha is also arrested and slated to be put on trial for smuggling a Stellaron onto the Luofu. It is later revealed that the two of them will first be brought to the Yuque for an interrogation from General Yaoguang.
• Many heliobi escape after the Artisanship Commission's Creation Furnace is destroyed. The Trailblazer, judge-in-training Huohuo, street performer Guinaifen, and Cloud Knight Sushang form a "ghost-hunting squad" to assist the Ten-Lords Commission in recapturing the heliobi.
• The Xianzhou's New Year performance is held in the Exalting Sanctum, performed by Sushang and Guinaifen.
• August 2, Year 8100 Star Calendar ― Lingsha is appointed as the Head of the Alchemy Commission aboard the Xianzhou Luofu.
• August 7, Year 8100 SC ― An inspection is held for cargo from a New Londinium transport vessel that had recently been attacked by borisin before being rescued by a diplomatic ship from the Xianzhou Zhuming. The inspection brings to light the existence of Howling Caskets which are later sent to the Artisanship Commission for a more thorough inspection.
• Weeks before the Wardance, Fu Xuan is summoned to the Xianzhou Yuque to assist General Yaoguang's interrogation of Jingliu and Luocha.
• The Luofu holds the Luminary Wardance Ceremony aboard the Skysplitter. During the festivities, Warhead Hoolay escapes the Shackling Prison with the aid of Mok Tok's borisin forces and some dissident Vidyadhara Preceptors. However, he is slain by Lieutenant Yanqing and General Feixiao. To protect the foxian bystanders from falling into Moon Rage, Feixiao consumes Hoolay's heart — the Crimson Moon — and keeps it under control. The Wardance proceeds as normal, with Yanqing acting as the ringmaster.

Notes

• Xianzhou's dual-hour system is based on Traditional Chinese timekeeping.

Lore Discrepancies

• According to a note by Jing Yuan, the story of the hero in the Flaming Catastrophe ascending to become the Aeon Lan is considered a myth by Xianzhou. In Investigation of Ancient Pattern Rubbings from the Luofu, the author states that there is no factual evidence that the hero is Lan and that it is simply a popular theory that has been denied by the Xianzhou.