Nuwa

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Origin and transformation

Nuwa shared the same roots and origin as her elder brother Fuxi. Before taking form, she remained in a protective formation on Buzhou Mountain and communicated affection and reluctance to part from him 3.

Luohu broke the formation and seized her Source to pressure Fuxi into serving him. Fuxi protected her from Luohu’s attack and later refined the Source Qi of Luohu’s avatar to help her transform. With Fuxi stabilizing her origin, Nuwa formed a human body 27 30 31 32.

Creation of the Human Race

After sensing an opportunity to attain Sagehood, Nuwa followed Fuxi’s guidance and divined that she needed to create a new race. Fuxi supplied the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Innate Gourd Vine. She molded the first humans by hand, then used the vine to scatter soil and create more, eventually producing 100,000 people 68.

Nuwa absorbed approximately nine-tenths of the Merit awarded for the creation and attained the Hunyuan position. She left the newly created humans in Fuxi’s care and established Wa Huang Heaven and Wa Huang Palace in Chaos 69 70.

Human Sect and later conflicts

When Fuxi learned that Hongjun intended Laozi to establish the Human Sect and claim the Human Race’s Fortune, Nuwa wanted to confront Hongjun. Instead, following Fuxi’s suggestion, she founded the sect herself and taught humans a method called Creation 95 96 97.

Nuwa later prepared to defend the Human Race from a Demon Race invasion, but Laozi and Yuanshi intercepted her outside Wa Huang Palace. She attacked them and accused Laozi of plotting the humans’ slaughter 136 140.

After Buzhou Mountain broke and the Heavenly River flooded the world, Nuwa resolved to mend the heavens. She found a Five-Colored Stone for the repair and divined that the North Sea Black Tortoise’s limbs could support the tilting heavens. The tortoise resisted, and Hongjun urged him to sacrifice himself 146.

In later crises, Nuwa helped oppose the Outside-Heaven Demons and assisted with the restoration of the western earth veins. She was also among those who appeared at the Primordial World’s border when Carefree Heaven’s forces arrived 192 217 277.

Appearance

After taking form, Nuwa appeared as a graceful, beautiful woman with a human body 32.

• She initially wore a long, jade-white gown; later, she was seen in a gown embroidered with gold 32 136.
• Her skin had a translucent, precious glow, and her eyes were described as being like water 32.
• Fuxi branded the character for “force” onto her right arm like a tattoo 32.

Personality

Nuwa is affectionate and trusting toward Fuxi, whom she considers her closest person in the Primordial World. She is curious about his cultivation and playful in his company; after becoming a Sage, she mischievously encouraged him to admit the Queen Mother of the West as a guest. She also resolved not to rely on him forever and pressed on with her own cultivation 34 51 68 80.

She shows compassion for living beings, rescuing creatures during the three-clan war and grieving over those endangered by the flood. Her attachment to the Human Race makes her fiercely protective: she reacted angrily to plans to claim its Fortune and attacked Laozi for plotting against its people 39 95 140 146.

Abilities and Skills

Way of Creation

Creation is Nuwa’s innate law and primary Great Dao. Fuxi taught her extensively, and a Dao Pattern of Creation greatly accelerated her understanding 61 67.

• She created the Human Race using Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and the Innate Gourd Vine 68.
• She molded a lifelike clay double of Houtu, which Fuxi used to help Houtu bear the burden of the Six Paths of Reincarnation 114.
• She taught humans Creation, a method applicable to pill refinement, artifact refinement, and formations 97.

Dao Pattern of Force

Fuxi’s Dao Pattern allows Nuwa to use, but not fully master, the Law of Force 32.

• Its pressure initially caused her to collapse because her body was too weak to bear it; the pattern continually forged and strengthened her physique 32.
• By the late-stage Daluo realm, she could use it skillfully. She delayed receiving a second pattern because of the additional physical burden 51.

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water

An auxiliary ability Nuwa developed with Fuxi’s guidance using the cycle of cause and effect within Creation 33.

• It can survey the Primordial World from the Thirty-Three Heavens to the Nine Netherworld Prison and share its images with others 33.
• Her early control was imprecise; a mishap projected an image before numerous beings. She later used it to watch Human Race tribes with practiced ease 34 95.

Mountains and Rivers, and the State Great Array

Nuwa devised this formation after studying the world’s veins through her Landscape treasure, borrowing Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth Book, and studying the Netherworld with Houtu 181.

• The complete array requires both the Earth Book and the Landscape of Mountains and Rivers, and the State as anchors 181.
• Even without the Earth Book, its demonstrated version surpassed an incompletely anchored Zhou Tian Stars Great Array 181.

Merit Golden Wheel

Nuwa used her Merit Golden Wheel to destroy her heart demon. Merit and Merit Spiritual Treasures were also found to suppress Outside-Heaven Demons 192.

Equipment and Items

• Landscape of Mountains and Rivers, and the State — A treasure given by Fuxi when Nuwa took form. They used it to shelter creatures threatened by magma; it also anchors her great array 32 39 181.
• Red Embroidered Ball — Fuxi’s gift to Nuwa, later wielded against Laozi and Yuanshi 32 136.
• Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Innate Gourd Vine — Supplied by Fuxi for Nuwa’s creation of the Human Race 68.
• Five-Colored Stone — Found by Nuwa as material capable of mending the heavens; the Lingming Stone Monkey was later said to be connected to it 146 194.
• Jiu Feng Sky-Patrolling Chariot — Bestowed on Di Xin for his procession to accept the Heavenly Court’s surrender 185.
• Gifts from the Ancestral Witches — Included Dijiang’s Space Stone, Gonggong’s Three Lights Divine Water, and Jumang’s Heaven-Striking Wood 33.

Relationships

• Fuxi — Her elder brother, teacher, and closest confidant. He rescued her Source, helped her take form, and guided her cultivation and creation of humanity 3 30 32 68.
• Human Race — Nuwa created and named the race, whose members call her Holy Mother. She founded the Human Sect to teach and guide them 68 96 97.
• Twelve Ancestral Witches — They welcomed Nuwa as a younger sister and promised to protect her. She later made a clay double to help Houtu 33 114.
• Hongjun — Offered to make Nuwa his disciple, but she refused. They later opposed one another over the Human Race and its Fortune 58 59 95.
• Laozi and Yuanshi — Intercepted Nuwa when she tried to aid the Human Race against the Demon Race; she fought them outside Wa Huang Palace 136 140.
• Queen Mother of the West — Nuwa encouraged Fuxi to receive her and later accompanied her and Fuxi to Hongjun’s Third Sermon 80 82.
• Black Tortoise — Nuwa sought his limbs as supports for the damaged heavens; much later, Fuxi sent her to cultivate with him 146 223.