Hongjun

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Hongjun was one of the Three Thousand Chaos Gods when Pangu split heaven and earth. He shed his Chaos Demon body, entered the Primordial Great World, and recovered his strength there 17.

His ultimate ambition was the Great Dao Fruit Position. He regarded Heavenly Dao Sagehood as a roundabout step toward that goal and planned to gain control of the Heavenly Dao and gather Fortune to advance further 53.

Appearance

Hongjun appears as an elderly Daoist with a kindly face and an immortal air 16.

• He wears purple robes 16 137.
• His hair and beard are white 137.

Personality

Hongjun is proud of his cultivation and ingenuity, particularly his self-created Method of Severing the Three Corpses. He can also be patient and calculating: after recognizing Fuxi’s abilities, he sought his help against Luohu while privately considering him a potential danger 18.

He often conceals anger beneath courtesy. When Fuxi placed his seat beside Hongjun’s at Zixiao Palace, Hongjun accepted the arrangement despite his inward shock and resentment 56. Fuxi’s repeated interference frustrated him, but uncertainty about Fuxi’s strength made him reluctant to confront him openly 98.

Abilities and Skills

Method of Severing the Three Corpses

Hongjun created this method as a path to Sagehood. It calls for severing the thoughts of good, evil, and attachment, using innate objects to house the primordial spirit and manifest the three corpses 17 18.

• Fuxi identified a flaw: practitioners would be heavily constrained by the Heavenly Dao. Hongjun’s own calculations confirmed the danger 18.
• Its associated divine ability, Slaying the Three Corpses, can sever three independently minded avatars. They are slightly weaker than the user and cannot be completely destroyed 208.
• The divine ability ranked twentieth on the Great Dao Divine Ability Ranking 208.

Calculation and Divination

Hongjun uses the Jade Disc of Good Fortune to calculate heavenly secrets and investigate events across the Primordial World 5 17.

• He repeatedly deduced a route through the Witch Clan’s strengthened formation at Buzhou Mountain 16.
• He confirmed the flaw in his cultivation method with the disc 18.
• He could not determine Fuxi’s true cultivation or origins, even with the treasure 17.

Heavenly Dao and Sage Power

As a Heavenly Dao Sage, Hongjun wielded the power of the Heavenly Dao. After merging with it, his cultivation continued to grow, although his control remained incomplete during the Human Race’s battle with the Heavenly Court 53 182.

• His appearance at Chentang Pass filled the battlefield with Dao phenomena and drew soldiers into a state of comprehension 182.
• He stopped Pangu’s phantom and Di Jun’s attacks before they could devastate the Primordial World 107.
• His Purple Firmament Divine Thunder reduced the Great Liberation Heavenly Demon King to his demonic Qi origin 215.

Equipment and Treasures

• Fragment of the Jade Disc of Good Fortune — Also called the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation; Hongjun’s principal treasure for deduction. Though only a fragment, it retained the power of an innate supreme treasure 17.
• Landscape of Mountains and Rivers, and the State — A painting Hongjun gave Fuxi while recruiting him against Luohu 20.
• Red Embroidered Ball — A high-grade offensive Innate Spiritual Treasure chosen by Fuxi from four treasures Hongjun displayed 20.
• Qiankun Fan — A mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure containing space and Qiankun Qi. Fuxi declined it during their negotiations 19.
• Treasures bestowed at Zixiao Palace — Hongjun gave the Taiji Diagram to Laozi, the Pangu Banner to Yuanshi, the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit to Jieyin, the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle to Zhunti, and the Nine Heavens Demon-Swaying Thunder Sword to Tongtian 83.

Relationships

• Fuxi — Initially a prospective ally against Luohu, Fuxi became Hongjun’s chief rival in the Primordial World. They later cooperated against threats from other Great Worlds and discussed the world’s defense 18 157 220 275.
• Luohu — Hongjun’s rival during the Dragon-Han Calamity. Hongjun assembled Quasi-Sages to confront him at Mount Sumeru 19 41.
• Nuwa — She twice refused Hongjun’s offer of discipleship. After she became a Sage, he ordered Zhunti to disparage the Human Race she had created 59 70.
• Laozi, Yuanshi and Tongtian — Disciples whom Hongjun intended to help carry his Dao lineage forward. Tongtian later severed ties with him after siding with Fuxi 94 157.
• Jieyin and Zhunti — Hongjun’s nominal disciples and leaders of the Western Teachings. He used Zhunti to criticize the Human Race and later appointed him master of the Lingming Stone Monkey 59 70 194.
• Daoist Yang Mei — A fellow Quasi-Sage who survived the betrayal at Mount Sumeru. He later returned with the Hongmeng God Ranking and warned Hongjun and Fuxi of a new tribulation 41 212.
• Changhe Dao Ancestor — An expert from the Daoyuan Great World who accompanied Hongjun to find Fuxi and discuss merging their worlds 264.

Story Role and Major Arcs

Dragon-Han Calamity

Hongjun found Fuxi in Witch Clan territory and discussed the Dao with him. After Fuxi exposed the flaw in Severing the Three Corpses, Hongjun traded treasures for his promise to help fight Luohu 16 18 20.

At Mount Sumeru, three of Hongjun’s allies betrayed the group, killing three other Quasi-Sages. Hongjun and Yang Mei survived, and Luohu brought out the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation 41. After Luohu’s defeat, Hongjun was too badly injured to compete with Fuxi for Luohu’s most valuable weapons; he absorbed his share of the descending Merit and left to cultivate 47 48.

Zixiao Palace Sermons

After attaining Sagehood, Hongjun announced lectures at Zixiao Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens 51. Fuxi insisted on sitting beside him rather than below him, establishing their public rivalry 55 56.

Hongjun offered Nuwa discipleship, but she refused. He distributed Primordial Violet Qi, appointed heads of the male and female immortals, and unsuccessfully asked Fuxi to help oversee them 59 60. After his third sermon, he announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao and distributed treasures to the gathered cultivators 83.

Witch-Demon Tribulation

Hongjun stopped a clash between Pangu’s phantom and Di Jun, forbade the Witch and Demon races from fighting for ten thousand years, and decreed that the Demon Race would rule heaven while the Witch Clan governed earth. Fuxi challenged the decree as unfair, and Hongjun later said he would no longer intervene 107 108.

Hongjun subsequently told the Five Saints that the Witch and Demon races had to be eliminated as the third immeasurable Tribulation unfolded 118. During the effort to mend the heavens, he urged the North Sea Black Tortoise to sacrifice his limbs, promising Merit and reincarnation. The tortoise instead merged with heaven and earth, obstructing Hongjun’s plan to control the Heavenly Dao 146 148.

Conflict with the Human Race

Hongjun attacked Tongtian for siding with Fuxi, but Fuxi stopped him in an evenly matched clash 157. As the Heavenly Court prepared for war, Hongjun also directed his disciples’ attention toward the Netherworld; Fuxi and Pingxin’s cooperation strengthened the Earthly Dao and Human Path against the Heavenly Dao 159.

Hongjun later appeared during the battle between the Heavenly Court and the Human Race. Neither he nor Fuxi could overwhelm the other without risking destruction of the Primordial World, so they negotiated an end to the fighting and restored the battlefield 182 184.

Hongmeng God Ranking and Taishi Continent

Yang Mei’s return with the Hongmeng God Ranking exposed Hongjun to the wider scale of the Hongmeng Universe and its coming calamities 204 212. The rankings placed Hongjun at the peak of the middle stage of Dao-Union Sage, below Fuxi’s Half-Step Great Dao Sage Realm 209.

When two Great Dao Sages approached from the Origin Great World, Fuxi warned Hongjun and proposed that they defend the Primordial World together 220. Hongjun later entered the Taishi Continent separately, gained opportunities while pursued by other experts, and reached the Half-Step Great Dao Sage Realm 226 264.

After the worlds merged, Hongjun and Fuxi discussed their defenses. Hongjun proposed that the Human Race govern the earth while the Heavenly Court guarded the Thirty-Three Heavens; Fuxi agreed 275. By Chapter 277, Hongjun had reached the Taisu Realm and sought Fuxi when another outside enemy invaded 277.