🏔️ The Mountain — 青茅山
青茅山 — Green Thatch Mountain. Vast, tranquil, nourished by spring rain without cease. Not one peak but a range: Gu Yue Village on southern slope, Bai Village northwest, Xiong Village northeast — three-way balance of power. Spirit spring in underground cavern produces primeval stones, foundation of all three villages. Spear bamboo unique to mountain, straight as spearhead. Mountain wind whips blood-soaked garments like war banner. In 3D: 14 vantage points from Qing Mao Peak to Southern Border panorama.
📖 First seen: Chapter 1 p16 春雨绵绵
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Region: Southern Border 南疆
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3D: x5.5 z-2.8
🏮 Gu Yue Village — 古月山寨
古月 = Ancient Moon — clan surname, also evokes ancient, mysterious. Several thousand stilt houses (not ten thousand, but several thousand nonetheless — approved line), draped as brilliant ribbon of light at night, giving vast mountain range distinct sense of human habitation. Heart: grand pavilion where Aperture Opening Ceremony held. Factions: Mo (莫系) and Chi (赤系) — rival elders Mo Chen and Chi Lian, grandsons Mo Bei and Chi Cheng as heirs. Fang lineage lives under aunt/uncle after parents' death. Through 500-year demon lord eyes: a cage, but sturdy cage is safety. 3D pin: x0.9 z1.1.
📖 Ch1 p18 灯火数千
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Population: Several thousand households
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Clan Leader: Fourth Generation, Rank 4
🌀 The Rebirth — 春秋蝉 · Five Hundred Years
Fang Yuan, demonic overlord of 500 years, refines Spring Autumn Cicada (Rank 7 Mystical, time-path) at cost of ten million lives. Besieged by Righteous Path on summit — "We have long since laid an inescapable dragnet here. This time, you shall be beheaded!" — he self-detonates: 轰的一声自爆. Spring Autumn Cicada carries will back to 15-year-old self on Qing Mao Mountain, 500 years ago. Verse: "As the verse left his lips, memories of past life on Earth surged — He had once been a student of Huaxia on Earth". Huaxia² appears after Spring Autumn Cicada¹ in reading order — smart superscript.
📖 Ch1 p1-p11
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Gu: Spring Autumn Cicada 春秋蝉 Rank 7
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Origin: Huaxia 华夏 Earth
🔮 Aperture & Talent — 开窍 · 真元 · 资质
At 15, youths open aperture — 空窍, empty orifice containing primeval sea 真元, crystal membrane. Talent graded by sea percentage: Gu Zhen Ren writes 两三成 (two-three tenths) = twenty to thirty-nine percent, not %. Forty-four percent Grade C limit (Fang Yuan), sixty+ Grade B (Mo Bei 66%, Chi Cheng announced B), eighty+ Grade A (Fang Zheng). Primeval stones 元石 — condensed essence of heaven and earth, currency + cultivation resource, like gold standard. No % symbol in lore — preserve as words. First to Ninth Revolution system detailed Ch7. Click character → Aperture tab shows sea visualization: copper-green 44%, gold 84%, silver 70%+ for elders.
📖 Ch1 p22 开窍大典, Ch4 aptitude test
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System: Grade C 44% · B 66% · A 84%
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Revolution: First to Ninth 转
👥 Characters Standing in 3D — 11 at Reach of Translation
Every person named in published chapters stands in 3D world above at their canonical location:
- Fang Yuan 方源 (C, R1, 44%) — 500-year demon lord reborn, demonic path, at Gu Yue Village x0.62 z0.72
- Fang Zheng 方正 (A, 84%) — twin brother, Grade A, pride of clan, at village x0.85 z1.15
- Bai Ning Bing 白凝冰 (R3, Northern Dark Ice Soul) — Bai Clan genius, Third Revolution at sixteen winters, at Bai Peak x3.4 z-1.8
- Gu Yue Clan Leader 古月族长 (R4) — Fourth generation, at council hall x-0.35 z2.3
- Academy Elder 学堂家老 (R3) — strict, presiding aperture ceremony, x-0.15 z1.75
- Gu Yue Mo Bei 莫北, Chi Cheng 赤城 — heirs of Mo/Chi factions, Grade B, at manors
- Mo Chen 莫臣, Chi Lian 赤练 — rival elders, at faction manors
- Shen Cui 沈翠 — maidservant, mortal, at Fang residence x0.95 z0.4
- Chen Bo 辰波 — first youth tested, mortal with no aperture, at x0.25 z1.15
Click pill → fly in 3D, see turntable 360° + aperture sea. Updates as translation reaches Ch6-9: more characters unlock, mists recede.
📜 Culture — 叩头 · 祭祀 · 魔道
叩头 — kowtow, forehead meets wood with soft thuds, palms flat, upper body erect, ancestral hall ritual before spirit tablets. Fang Yuan's perfunctory kowtow — irony of demon lord bowing to mortals. 魔道/正道 — Demonic Path: accumulate no good karma, only murder and arson, spurned by heaven, enemies of whole world, still wild following whim. Righteous Path: revered sects, order and law. Not good vs evil — two cultivation philosophies. Author's preface: "This is a book with warped values 三观不正".