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11 Dinghai: The Ocean Pillar is set in the world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, an ancient body of Chinese mythology populated by gods, demons, and strange creatures. The game presents this realm as one torn apart by catastrophic floods and divine conflict.
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44 Gods, Demons, and Forgotten Powers
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66 The world is defined by clashes between ancient gods and demons, with forgotten powers waiting to be uncovered. This mythic backdrop frames the return of the Abyssal Dragon and the events of the story.
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99 Geography
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1111 The landscape spans storm-lashed mountain peaks, hidden immortal isles, and terrain reshaped by conflict among the gods. Justdan describes all of it as presented in an Eastern fantasy art style. The world is framed as one where every stretch of land carries an ancient wound.
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1313 TerrainHow the Game Describes ItStorm-lashed peaksMountain summits battered by torrential rain.Hidden immortal islesSecluded celestial islands, described as lying hidden beyond the sky.Divine battlegroundsSweeping landscapes reshaped by the conflict between the gods.
1414 Four further places appear in screenshots that carry no combat interface, none of them named. One is a clifftop shrine looking out over a sea of clouds, where waterfalls pour from vast hand-shaped rock formations. Another is a blossom garden of stone lanterns and a low arched bridge, framed by hanging landscape scrolls. A third is a terraced water court beneath a great carved ring, with a nest holding a small white creature at its edge. The fourth is a rope bridge crossing a misted valley of tall peaks, with a pavilion on a floating island of roots above it and a golden tree beyond.
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1818 Official descriptions name three parts of the world and present them as points on a single large map spanning the realm of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
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20-LocationName in ChineseHow the Game Describes ItMount Buzhou不周山The mountain where Yi is killed by a plot. Its shattering is treated as a defining event, with the fate of civilization described as hanging between that collapse and the rapids of Longmen.Longmen龍門Named for its rapids, and given as the opposite pole to Mount Buzhou in descriptions of the world.Outlying Isles方外孤島Remote islands beyond the settled world, listed among the regions the map spans.
20+LocationName in ChineseHow the Game Describes ItMount Buzhou不周山The mountain where Yi is killed by a plot. Its shattering is treated as a defining event, with the fate of civilization described as hanging between that collapse and the rapids of Longmen.Longmen龍門Named for its rapids, and given as the opposite pole to Mount Buzhou in descriptions of the world.Outlying Isles方外孤島Remote islands beyond the settled world, listed among the regions the map spans.Huxiu壺岫One of the two map stages opened by the demo. Nothing has been published about it beyond its name and its place in that build.
21-No further regions have been named, and no map has been shown publicly.
21+No further regions have been named as of 27 August 2026, and no map has been shown publicly.
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2525 Four beings are named in official descriptions of the world, and three named opponents have been shown being fought as bosses. Bifang, Dijiang, and Xingtian have not yet been shown in a fight. Only what this game states or shows is recorded here.
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27-BeingName in ChineseHow the Game Describes ItXiangliu相柳Ranges across the mountains and rivers on a hundred-footed body. Shown being fought as a boss, its health bar carrying the title 法天象地.Bifang畢方Carries fire, and smoke rises across the land wherever it descends.Dijiang帝江Beats its wings and flies through the chaos.Xingtian刑天Bears its weapons and fights on without knowing where its head is.Xuangui旋龜A large armoured turtle shown as a boss, its shell built from pale blue plates. Its health bar carries a level number.Jiaochong驕蟲Shown as a paired encounter, with two of them sharing a single linked health bar.
27+BeingName in ChineseHow the Game Describes ItXiangliu相柳Ranges across the mountains and rivers on a hundred-footed body. Shown being fought as a boss, its health bar carrying the title 法天象地.Bifang畢方Carries fire, and smoke rises across the land wherever it descends.Dijiang帝江Beats its wings and flies through the chaos.Xingtian刑天Bears its weapons and fights on without knowing where its head is.Xuangui旋龜A large armoured turtle shown as a boss, its shell built from pale blue plates. Its health bar carries a level number.Jiaochong驕蟲Shown as a paired encounter, with two of them sharing a single linked health bar.Yujia羽嘉An ancient divine bird. What remains of Yi is turned into a fledgling of Yujia and travels with the Abyssal Dragon.Nujiao女嬌Fought as the boss closing the demo's first stage. Described in accounts of that build as Yi's adoptive mother.