Eastern Era

Eastern Era is a martial arts management simulation in which you lead a declining sect. Flee with your disciples into a desolate world, keep them alive and work to restore the sect’s strength and rebuild its headquarters. You can develop on your own or deal with other sects through alliances, conflict and diplomacy.

Survive and explore

Manage your disciples’ hunger, sleep and need for entertainment as they endure changing weather and natural disasters. Keep morale up to prevent breakdowns, and watch over disciples who have not learned martial arts: even one beast can leave them with lifelong scars. They can hunt dangerous beasts, and you can collect plants and trees across forests, snowy plains and deserts to process into resources for survival, crafting and construction.

Travel through the Central Plains to visit other sects and ancient ruins, seeking clues to legendary martial arts manuals and mythical weapons. You can recruit talents from the wilderness or cities, raise your disciples’ spirits and assign them to manage the sect. They can also defend, attack and compete against other sects, return with rare treasures, seize headquarters or help establish branch sects.

Train your disciples

Each disciple must build a foundation and endure the process of opening their dantian before learning internal skills and techniques. Their bodies support their martial training: as they master skills, their health and physical strength improve their fighting ability. Some may even replace arms or organs with parts of mythical beasts in pursuit of greater power.

Training takes more than practice. Provide rooms suited to disciples’ skills, along with the right elixirs and supportive items, to help them advance. Combat also develops their strength. Seek powerful internal skills, pair them with appropriate techniques and equip disciples with mythical weapons.

Build your sect

Gather resources and study construction, manufacturing and art to choose a development path for your sect. Build facilities brick by brick, including grand halls, lofts and pavilions, and connect them with the amenities your disciples need in daily life. Design storage to protect materials from poor conditions and high temperatures, and provide suitable living quarters to support morale.

Defensive structures such as walls and arrow towers help you repel greedy bandits and ill-intentioned martial world rogues. You can gradually rebuild your unique sect headquarters as you restore the sect.

Deal with other sects

Develop independently or seek reliable allies. Your dealings with other factions can shape events across the martial world and give you advantages in offense and defense. You can send disciples to attack sect bases and cities, conquer them through force, use diplomacy to protect your interests or manipulate other sects from the shadows.

Your aim can be to dominate the martial world, become a diplomat or influence events behind the scenes. You can also stir up conflicts, defeat century-old sects and seek to become a new legend of the JiangHu.