Primordial World

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Primordial World (鸿蒙世界)
Type	Greater Thousand World
Creator	Hongmeng, master of Eternal Mountain 944
Status	Extant; the largest known world and regarded by many as the center of the myriad worlds. It is presently facing a major calamity caused by the Evil Spirit Race's incursion 683 1077
Major Regions	Endless Yao Domain; Primordial Star Sea 684
Notable Landmark	Eternal Mountain, which forms the world's foundation and suppresses the Outer-Domain Evil Spirits 944

Power Progression

Era / Stage	Development	Evidence
Ancient foundation	Hongmeng established the world upon Eternal Mountain and used the mountain to suppress the Outer-Domain Evil Spirits.	944
Mature Greater Thousand World	The world developed complete Three Thousand Great Dao Rules, including the Great Dao of Time, fulfilling the baseline requirement of a Greater Thousand World.	683
Primordial Grotto-Heaven cycle	The recurrent opening of the Primordial Grotto-Heaven supplied opportunities, Primordial Source, and Primordial Source Beasts that could strengthen the world's major powers.	955 961
Path of Transcendence crisis	The opening of the Path of Transcendence and the eruption of Sources of Laws created a major opportunity for its inhabitants while intensifying competition among the world's factions and the Evil Spirit Race.	1002 1055
Great Calamity era	Genesis Qi began emerging from the Peak of Eternity, cleansing Primordial beings, while the Hongmeng Heavenly Ranking and the Evil Spirit Race's invasion compelled the world's powers to mobilize for survival.	1066 1075 1077

Background / History

Hongmeng, who came from the Eternal World and had reached the Eternal Realm, created the Primordial World after falling into the Void during his war against the Outer-Domain Evil Spirits. He used Eternal Mountain—an indestructible object surpassing a Primordial Supreme Treasure—as the world's foundation, ultimately suppressing the evil spirits there 944.

The world's origin predates known records. Even the Jade Plate of Creation cannot identify its creator, and it has seemingly existed since the dawn of time 683. Its status as the only recognized Greater Thousand World led many to believe that all Lesser and Middle Thousand Worlds depended upon it 683.

Some translated accounts also use the name “Primordial World” for the separate world Pangu opened within Chaos. That Chaos-born world was only promoted to a Middle Thousand World, whereas Hongmeng World is the recognized Greater Thousand World; the two creation histories should not be conflated 5 424 649 683.

In its early eras, the native Yao Race ruled the world. Humans and other beings later ascended from lower worlds, gradually establishing sects and territories in the Primordial Star Sea; humanity eventually gained enough power to contend with the Yao Race 656 684 740.

Daoist Shichen's attempt to reverse the world's time nearly caused its collapse. The major powers of the era—including a Destiny-lineage expert, the Pangu Clan ancestor, and a Destruction-lineage demon god—joined forces to kill him 480.

In the current era, the Primordial Grotto-Heaven's secrets exposed the continued existence of the Evil Spirit Race and their imprisoned king. The race subsequently invaded the wider world, while the Path of Transcendence and the Peak of Eternity became focal points for the struggle over transcendence 973 1000 1055.

Geography

Endless Yao Domain

The Endless Yao Domain occupies roughly half of the Primordial World and is the principal territory of the Yao Race and the world's native inhabitants 684.

• Home to ancient Yao clans and Primordial Sacred Beast clans, whose strongest members can rival major human sects 656 684.
• Its deeper regions contain increasingly valuable heavenly materials and earthly treasures 739.
• The Demon God Tower's connection to the Primordial Grotto-Heaven allowed faint Primordial Source aura to nourish the domain over countless years 866.
• The domain is divided into ten regions; during the Evil Spirit Race's invasion, the Dragon Emperor and Feng Jiutian were ordered to gather the demon beasts of the Tenth Domain for defense 739 1077.

Primordial Star Sea

The Primordial Star Sea occupies the other half of the world and serves as the primary sphere of human and ascended-world cultivators 684.

• Composed of countless star systems; powerful sects may control entire star systems rather than individual stars 684.
• Hosts sects such as the Creation Heavenly Sect and Destruction Demon Sect in their respective star regions 684 826.
• Despite its association with humanity, it also contains Yao Beasts and other races from lower worlds 684.
• The region has suffered both internal betrayal and external attack during the Evil Spirit Race's invasion; its human inhabitants were ordered to gather at Eternal Mountain for protection 990 1077.
• The Creation Heavenly Sect began evacuating the Creation Star Domain during the Great Calamity to preserve its disciples 1078.

World Structure

The Primordial World possesses complete Three Thousand Great Dao Rules, the minimum standard for a Greater Thousand World. Its laws and spiritual energy are vastly stronger than those of the Chaos World 683.

• Great Dao Rules — The world's complete laws support the emergence of numerous powerful cultivators; the Great Dao of Time is included, though perfect mastery is exceptionally rare 683.
• Primordial Spiritual Energy — Its spiritual energy is extraordinarily abundant, particularly in major cultivation regions such as the Creation Star Domain 683 866.
• Primordial Source — A mysterious energy more advanced than Great Dao Origin. The world's ordinary spiritual energy is Primordial Source diluted countless times 740.
• Primordial Violet Qi — Though capable of enabling sainthood in other contexts, it is considered worthless within the Primordial World 740.
• Primordial Rules — The world's rules can react to major disturbances and may recognize a new Lord of Laws during the present calamity, making contributions to the world's defense especially significant 739 1077.
• Genesis Qi — The Peak of Eternity emits Genesis Qi, a force born from World Origin when a Greater Thousand World is created. Its appearance cleansed Primordial beings and demonstrated the Peak's connection to the world's highest-order creation power 1066.
• Path of Transcendence — The path requires ten Primordial Supreme Treasures to activate. Its Sources of Laws can help cultivators comprehend the Three Thousand Great Daos, but its opening also incited widespread conflict 1002 1055.

Inhabitants and Powers

Yao Race

The Yao Race were the original inhabitants and earliest rulers of the Primordial World. Their physical cultivation and powerful beasts once gave them an advantage over humans, though human prodigies later shifted the balance of power 656 740.

• The strongest Yao forces include the Primordial Sacred Beast clans 656.
• Major races include the Primordial Violet Dragons and Divine Fire Phoenixes 927.
• Yao Beasts generally rely more heavily on Primordial Source than humans to comprehend Great Dao Rules 955.
• During the current calamity, the Demon God Hall, the Primordial Violet Dragons, and the Divine Fire Phoenixes have been mobilized to defend the Endless Yao Domain against the Evil Spirit Race 1077.

Human and Ascended Powers

Over countless years, gifted beings from Lesser and Middle Thousand Worlds entered the Primordial World, founded sects, and claimed territory in the Primordial Star Sea 684.

• The world's sects are commonly organized around particular laws 401.
• A single major sect may rival an entire world in scale 428.
• Prominent factions include the Creation Heavenly Sect, Destruction Demon Sect, Five Elements Dao Sect, and Qiankun Sect 356 684.
• The Human Race, Pangu Clan, and Primordial Star Sea sects have been forced to temporarily set aside old grievances in response to the Evil Spirit Race's campaign of slaughter 1077.

Evil Spirit Race

The Evil Spirit Race originated from the Evil Spirit King following his defeat by the Lord of Primordial. Their surviving forces were confined in the hidden space connected to the Primordial Grotto-Heaven, with Primordial Source Beasts serving as part of their containment 1028 1029.

• The Evil Spirit King has awakened an avatar, which later appeared at the top of the Hongmeng Heavenly Ranking 1028 1075.
• The race seeks to conquer the Primordial World and treats its inhabitants as blood food to strengthen itself for the Great Calamity 1054 1077.
• Its invasion has become an existential threat requiring cooperation between the world's human and Yao powers 1055 1077.

Notable Locations

• Eternal Mountain — Hongmeng's artifact and the foundation of the Primordial World; used to suppress the Outer-Domain Evil Spirits. Its summit contains the Peak of Eternity and has become a central battlefield during the Great Calamity 944 1000 1052.
• Peak of Eternity — The summit of Eternal Mountain, where the final opportunity for transcendence emerged and Genesis Qi began to flow 1000 1066.
• Primordial Grotto-Heaven — A resource-rich realm that opens once every hundred eons and contains dense Primordial Source as well as vast numbers of Primordial Source Beasts. Its deepest areas may be shards of a ruined Great World and conceal the Evil Spirit Race's sealed space 955 961 972 973.
• Creation Star Region — Territory of the Creation Heavenly Sect, noted for its dense Primordial Spiritual Energy 826 866.
• Destruction Star Region — Territory of the Destruction Demon Sect 826.
• Core of the Primordial World — A location where clashes involving nearly three thousand Great Dao Rules can shake the entire world 922.
• Path of Transcendence — A perilous route tied to transcendence whose activation requires ten Primordial Supreme Treasures; Sources of Laws erupted throughout it during the Great Calamity 1002 1055.

Threats

• Outer-Domain Evil Spirits — Ancient invaders fought and suppressed by Hongmeng; their continued threat drives major powers to seek the Peak of Eternity 944 997.
• Evil Spirit Race — The sealed Evil Spirit King's descendants have escaped into the wider world, slaughtering inhabitants, gathering blood food, and attempting to occupy the Primordial World 1052 1054 1077.
• Evil Spirit King's Clone — A powerful avatar of the sealed king that has entered the Primordial World and was ranked first on the Hongmeng Heavenly Ranking 1029 1075.
• Daoist Shichen — His prior attempt to reverse time nearly destroyed the world and made the Law of Time taboo 480.
• Primordial Source Beasts — Energy entities within the Primordial Grotto-Heaven that hunt and devour each other; some have reached the Primordial Emperor level 956 961.
• Internal conflict — Major powers have fought over Primordial Supreme Treasures and the Path of Transcendence, even killing fellow Primordial World experts for their treasures 1002.
• Factional betrayal — Traitorous sects in the Primordial Star Sea weakened the world's collective resistance during the Evil Spirit Race's invasion 990.

Trivia

• Many inhabitants consider the Primordial World the center of the universe because no other Greater Thousand World is known 683.
• The Primordial Grotto-Heaven's Source Beasts may eventually produce an existence beyond the Primordial Emperor realm 961.
• The Pangu Clan ancestor's attempt to elevate the Chaos World into another Greater Thousand World was opposed because it could threaten the Primordial World's established order 683.
• The Primordial Source Beasts are closely connected to the Primordial Great World and form part of the long-standing containment system preventing the Evil Spirit Race from freely entering the world 1029.