Primordial World
Primordial Farming: The First Ray of Light at Creation
- Original Name:
- 洪荒 (hóng huāng)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Place
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 141
- Chapters:
- 37
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 50
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Primordial World (洪荒) |
| Creator | Pangu 9 |
| Type | World |
| Notable inhabitants | Innate Divine Beings, reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods, and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans 11 18 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
Geography
| Location | Description |
|---|---|
| Buzhou Mountain | A pillar holding up the heavens and one of the world’s two great divine mountains. Pangu’s Pressure weighs on the mountain, and innate formations conceal Pangu Hall, the Heart of Pangu 5 9 11. |
| Kunlun Mountain | The other great divine mountain; associated with the Three Pure Ones and the Queen Mother of the West 5. |
| Four Seas | The East, West, South, and North Seas. They are the Dragon Clan’s principal dwelling place during its rise 20. |
| Penglai Immortal Island | An island in the East Sea protected by an innate formation. Its treasures include the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus and a lake of Three Lights Divine Water 20 23. |
| Netherworld Blood Sea | Formed from Pangu’s navel; it nurtured Ancestor Minghe and Mosquito Daoist 18. |
| Southern Continent | The main battlefield of the three-clan war. Afterward, the Phoenix Clan withdrew there to recuperate and nourish its damaged land 34 37. |
| Mount Sumeru | Luohou’s cultivation ground in the western lands, forbidden to living beings outside the Devil Race 32. |
Buzhou Mountain and the East Sea are separated by at least hundreds of millions of miles 18. Beyond the Primordial World lies the boundless chaos, where Yangmei finds that the Heavenly Dao’s suppression no longer applies 30.
World Order
The Heavenly Dao
The Heavenly Dao was initially aware but incomplete and unable to control the world. As its rules developed, it imposed order and cultivation restrictions; Hongjun’s Creation Jade Disc accelerated that development 11 29 30.
- Cultivation: Breakthroughs face Heavenly Dao barriers. Merit or karmic luck can help overcome them, while the path to advancement through mastering Principles is blocked for Chaos Demon Gods within the world 30 50.
- Rewards and punishment: Actions that support the Heavenly Dao’s order can earn merit; excessive killing or destruction can incur Karmic Force 30.
- Sagehood: A Heavenly Dao Sage must use Primordial purple qi and entrust their Primordial Spirit to the Heavenly Dao, gaining immense power while accepting its restraints 30.
- Surveillance: The Heavenly Dao monitors prominent beings, although some, including the Fate and Cause and Effect Demon Gods, remain beyond its ability to locate 49.
Life and cultivation
- Innate and Acquired origins: Even the finest Acquired Spirit Root is described as inferior to a low-grade Innate Spirit Root. Xiang Dong nevertheless spreads Acquired sunflowers because they grow faster and need less demanding conditions 18.
- Time: One primordial cycle is approximately 129,600 years 1.
- Death: During the three-clan conflict, the world has no underworld or Samsara; remnant souls and traces of true spirit left by the dead gradually wear away 33.
History
Creation and the Fierce Beast Calamity
Pangu created the Primordial World. In its early era, Sha Qi filled heaven and earth, and many fierce beasts had lost their intelligence. Xiang Dong, an innate sunflower fused with the first light of creation, fought the Six-Winged Golden Cicada for many primordial cycles before detonating his life source 1 9.
As the Fierce Beast era waned, much of the Sha Qi dissipated and Xiang Dong revived among sunflowers grown from his scattered seeds. Yangmei later told him that a group had defeated Shen Ni, the fierce beast leader, after a battle lasting several yuanhui 1 2.
Pangu’s will and the purification project
Xiang Dong traveled toward Buzhou Mountain to prevent its future collapse. Unable to find Pangu Hall through the mountain’s pressure and formations, he worshipped Pangu and warned him that the future Witch-Demon conflict would devastate the world. Pangu’s lingering will awakened and guided him into the hall 6 8 9.
Inside Pangu Hall, Xiang Dong began purifying the blood pool nurturing the Twelve Ancestral Witches. He later found the World-Cleansing White Lotus on Penglai Island; its purification kept Sha Qi from eroding the Witches’ developing Primordial Spirits 14 23 26 31.
The three-clan war
After the Beast Calamity, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans expanded across the world. Their territorial disputes generated Tribulation Qi, which Luohou intensified with Devil Qi to inflame their conflicts. The resulting war devastated the Southern Continent and harmed countless living beings 18 28 32 34.
Xiang Dong used his world-spanning sunflower network and the World-Cleansing White Lotus to purify the battlefield. A screen of light showed the clan leaders the disastrous fate awaiting them, and they recognized that their clans had been manipulated 34 35 36.
The Heavenly Dao assigned karmic debts for the war, but Xiang Dong’s intervention left the clans enough members and resources to recover. Their leaders withdrew from supremacy and vowed to repair the world 36 37:
- Ancestral Dragon merged with the East Sea to suppress the Four Seas; the Dragon Clan would tend the waterways.
- Primordial Phoenix entered the Immortal Volcano to regulate Yin-Yang; the Phoenix Clan would nourish the southern lands.
- Primordial Qilin merged with the earth to suppress the central Earth Veins and mend the land’s Spirit Veins.
Recovery and the coming Dao–Demon conflict
The world entered a period of recuperation after the war. During this time, many Innate Divine Beings emerged, including Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi from the Sun Star 39.
Pangu’s remnant soul later entrusted the Primordial World, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones to Xiang Dong. Meanwhile, Hongjun sought allies against Luohou, offering Yangmei future passage into the world even if he attained Chaos Great Unity Golden Immortal in the chaos 44 46.