The cultivation earth is the same size as the normal earth but it only has three countries with 2 of them being occupied by human settlements and the other being a barren land with only monsters.
the 2 countries each have different empires that being the Lu empire, the Algorien empire and the Der empire. The Zen country that Lunar is in has both the Der and Algorien empire due to both empires being on equal footing. The Yui country only has the Lu empire due to the war waged on the Fanle empire 500years ago, despite the fact that this allowed revolutionary factions to build strength during the 500years it ended up creating a stronger Lu empire making both the Algorien and Der empires more eager to find a way to get rid of each other.
The revolutionary forces came into existence 50years after the creation of the first few empires. Although the strength and reach of these forces is unknown they are considered a more dangerous foe than the monsters that plague the world, this is on account of the unpredictability of the people and the strong brainwashing inflicted on their members in order to increase loyalty and obedience. The revolutionists want to unite the people by exterminating the royal families and punishing those who discriminate with torture.
It is said that at first people were not able to cultivate and were only born with innate abilities, to survive against monsters of unknown origins they developed their intelligence finding new found power that could replicate what cultivators could do this is what is assumed as the first civilization. The knowledge and history of back then was mostly lost to time but from what was recovered we know that "spatial cracks" were closed by those with especially good abilities, but in the end it is unknow weather that civilization survived instead the first records of cultivation were found with evidence and research showing that it was only a few hundred years after the first civilization seemingly disappeared. The time between the presumable start of the civilization to the suspected start of cultivation is known as the dark age.
sects and the different paths:
Each empire has 10 powerful sects with a royal family that is either on par or stronger then them. The royal family in Zen is on par with the sects while the royal family in Yui is stronger then all 10 sects making it one of the strongest royal families in history.
10 sects in Algorien: Dragon sect, Human sect, Demon sect, Buddha sect, Fox sect, Gaia sect, Immortal sect, Cat sect, Benevolence sect
10 sects in Yui: Intelligence sect, Dog sect, Martial sect, Weapon sect, Best sect, Scholar sect, Artifact sect, Alchemy sect
.....(to be continued in next update)