The Hundred-Year Rise — Dominion and Judgement
Years 0–5: Foundations of the Final Ascent
Zaxton, already the most powerful cultivator in the Third Realm outside the Moons, receives the ancient challenge: prove himself through deeds and discipline, not declarations. The Ecliptic Accord agrees to recognize him as the Thirteenth Moon if he completes seven epochal trials within a hundred years.
He begins by reforming Mt. Fai's internal structure — codifying the Dominion Sect, appointing a rotating council of Sovereigns, and creating an independent city-state government beneath Don Divine Gate.
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Years 6–10: Task One – Still the Chaos of the Void Sea
Zaxton ventures to the far western fringe, into the Void Sea — a dimensional wound of chaos winds and spiritual maelstroms.
Over five long years, he plants the First Sky Pillar, calms the spiritual turbulence, and stabilizes the Sea, turning it into navigable territory. He survives a devastating tribulation during this task, reaching a level only the Moons have touched.
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Years 11–15: Task Two – End the War of the Glass Suns
In the southern abyss of the realm, three ancient civilizations war through memory ghosts and sentient war machines. Zaxton intervenes with diplomacy, spirit-walking into their fractured timelines and bargaining their extinction into resolution.
He absorbs the Scepter of Ten Refractions, a multiversal tool that stabilizes time around major sect hubs, ensuring future wars don't spill into eternity.
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Years 16–20: Task Three – The Cultivation of a Rival Sect
Zaxton returns to Mt. Fai and begins building the Dominion Sect, selecting disciples from all realms — not based on bloodlines, but conviction. His teachings fuse storm, beast-taming, cosmic body cultivation, and diplomacy.
By year 20, Dominion Sect rivals the core sects of the Moons in strength, talent, and territory. Its elite disciples are called Constellar Blades, known for channeling astral laws through living weapons.
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Years 21–25: Task Four – Judging the Civil Divide
Two rival cities, each backed by a Moon, descend toward war. Zaxton appears not to side with either, but to dismantle both corrupt ruling factions.
He founds Equinox, a neutral capital governed by elected councils of the people, backed by Mt. Fai-trained diplomats. This earns him both ire and admiration from the Moons — but none dare oppose the solution's brilliance.
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Years 26–30: Task Five – Survive the Eclipse Chain
A rare cosmic alignment threatens to tear spiritual currents apart. Zaxton bears the full brunt of the Eclipse Chain, channeling its chaotic force through his body and the Starforge Nexus.
He enters deep stasis at Mt. Fai for four years, held together only by the dragon bonded to his soul and the Realmheart Tree. When he awakens, he achieves a transcendent realm never seen before — Lunar Vortex Ascension.
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Years 31–35: Task Six – The Realmheart Tree
Zaxton discovers the Realmheart Seed, protected by a ghost-tribe of time-stalled cultivators. He earns their trust, survives their trials, and with their help, nurtures the Realmheart Tree on a sacred mountain.
By year 35, it blooms with thirteen petals — each tethered to a domain of the realm. The tree ensures balance in cultivation paths, harmonizing elements and preventing spirit rot for generations to come.
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Years 36–40: Task Seven – The Ten-Year Silence
Zaxton disappears — seemingly vanishing from the realm. In truth, he watches from afar, allowing Jin and Rin to govern, for Mt. Fai, Don Divine Gate, and Dominion Sect to evolve without him.
During this silent decade, Jin's military reforms stabilize borders, and Rin signs seven new inter-moon treaties. The realm experiences its most peaceful and economically prosperous era in 9,000 years.
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Years 41–45: Return and Council of Stormlight
Zaxton returns quietly to the Ecliptic Accord. The Moons watch as he speaks not with ambition, but with vision. He proposes the Council of Stormlight, a gathering every decade between all major domains to prevent future large-scale war.
Though not yet ascended, he now holds more influence than any Moon — by sheer trust.
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Years 46–50: Rise of the Star Scribes
Zaxton founds a new order: the Star Scribes, cultivators trained in diplomacy, cosmic cartography, and truth-recording. These scribes are seeded into major cities across the Third Realm to reduce manipulation and forge open channels of communication.
This transparency changes realm culture. Even Moons begin attending their convocations.
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Years 51–55: The Beast Concord
Zaxton creates a permanent bond between spirit beasts and cultivators, allowing interspecies pacts that birth the True Companion Path. He elevates the beast clans near Mt. Fai to full citizen status, forming a new bestial alliance called The Concord of Fangs and Flame.
This era earns him praise from even the harshest lunar traditionalists.
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Years 56–60: The Great Refusal
Offered early accession to the Moons, Zaxton refuses. He insists he hasn't earned the right yet — not until the Third Realm itself is self-sustaining.
This humbles the Moons and endears him to the people. Worship spreads across the realm — not religious, but reverent. "He remembers the earth while walking among stars."
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Years 61–65: Rin and Jin's Shadow Era
Jin becomes the Supreme Commander of Third Realm defenses. Rin, the Voice of Accord, begins training new diplomats from all realms. Together, they become twin lights — symbols of lineage, balance, and future.
Zaxton rarely appears in public during this time, meditating in the upper floors of Hall Auren IX, preparing his final cultivation step.
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Years 66–70: Tribulation of the Twin Cores
Zaxton endures a century's worth of tribulation in five years. Lightning. Flame. Time Reversal. Madness. Astral Collapse.
His soul splits and reunites — dragon and man. When he emerges, his eyes reflect galaxies. His voice bends clouds.
He is now Twilight Ascendant, a being between mortal and eternal. The skies change when he breathes.
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Years 71–75: Reshaping of the Moonless Wastes
Zaxton leads the first permanent settlement and stabilization of the Moonless Wastes — the only region not claimed by any Moon. With mountain-folk, beast-kin, and rogue sects, he forms a city named Noctara, symbol of unity without hierarchy.
He names no ruler, only twelve stewards. Noctara becomes a model for decentralized cultivation growth.
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Years 76–80: Creation of the Thirteenth Pillar
Zaxton is summoned to the Hall of Endless Pillars. At midnight under a black eclipse, the space beside the 12th Pillar bends.
He places his hand to it.
The Thirteenth Pillar bursts into being — made of stone, star-glass, and living lightning. Carved upon it: Dominion. Judgement. Balance.
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Years 81–85: Acceptance and Silence
For five years, the Moons do not speak publicly. They watch Zaxton. Observe the realm.
Then one by one, they kneel.
He is not just their peer. He is their axis. Not a tyrant — but the weight that keeps them from drifting.
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Years 86–90: The First Lunar Synod
Zaxton leads the first Lunar Synod where the 13 Moons meet with realm leaders, Concord clans, beast sovereigns, and sect elders to set collective goals: reduce realm instability, expand outer research, and create inter-realm portals.
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Years 91–95: The Reversal Accord
Zaxton brokers peace between rival Moons Bone and Flame — a grudge older than ten thousand years. Through shared memory cultivation and forgiveness rituals performed under the Realmheart Tree, they fuse a new path: Phoenix Lich Flame, an eternal life loop.
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Years 96–100: The Eternal Calm
The final years see Zaxton mostly silent — teaching, meditating, smiling.
He walks Mt. Fai as storms part. He visits cities, blessing births and mournings alike. He plants trees with children and shares tea with dying sages.
In year 100, the realm gathers beneath Mt. Fai for one final declaration:
> "We are of the storm, of the flame, of the sky — but we walk in balance. We remember where we come from. I am Dominion and Judgement. I am the Thirteenth Moon. I am Zaxton."