Primordial Wilderness

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Cosmic Order

• The Primordial Wilderness is protected from the outer Chaos by a world barrier; breaches in that barrier allow foreign armies to approach or invade. 367 373
• Its Heavenly Dao governs the world's laws and may directly enforce order through the Eye of Heavenly Dao. 258
• At the time of Nuwa's ascension, the Heavenly Dao decreed that Saints could not interfere in ordinary affairs of the Primordial Wilderness without suffering backlash. 110
• The world is described by foreign invaders as possessing abundant Origin Essence, vigorous life force, and clear laws. Annihilation Demon Ancestor nonetheless considers its Heavenly Dao incomplete. 373 812
• Its cosmology includes the Thirty-Three Heavens, Nine Netherworlds, the Netherworld Underworld, the Blood Sea, and multiple affiliated Small Worlds. 262 460 797

Cultivation Hierarchy

Heavenly Dao

Manifestation and Enforcement

• The Eye of Heavenly Dao can descend physically into the world, projecting a gaze associated with the rise and fall of the Primordial Wilderness, order, and punishment. 258
• Its appearance at the Netherworld Blood Sea freezes time and space and draws the attention of Great Experts throughout the world. 258
• The Heavenly Dao can impose overwhelming suppression on beings who oppose its authority; during the Human Path crisis, it easily crushes the combined resistance of the Human Race's leading figures. 682

Self-Will

• Hongjun warns that the Heavenly Dao is no longer wholly emotionless or mechanical: it has begun developing independent will and thought. 343
• This development threatens the freedom of living beings, as an independently acting Heavenly Dao could erase change and deny beings the chance to transcend. 343
• Despite its hostility toward Huang Tian's establishment of the Human Path, the conflict ultimately ends with the Human Path and Heavenly Dao existing side by side. 682 686

Major Events

Relationships

• Pangu — The Primordial Wilderness arose from the remnants left after Pangu split Chaos and died; his legacy remains central to the world's Origin and its invaders' ambitions. 814
• Primordial Heavenly Dao — The world's governing will, originally impartial but later revealed to be developing self-awareness. 258 343
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun — Protector and Dao-fused authority of the Primordial Wilderness; he refuses to allow foreign realms to plunder its Origin Essence. 416
• Universe Devouring Realm — A hostile dying world whose Saint Ancestor sought to devour the Primordial Wilderness's Origin; it is ultimately reduced to Chaos. 379 424
• Xuanhuang Realm — A newly identified world comparable in strength to the Primordial Wilderness, prompting Hongjun to mobilize the world's factions. 541
• Highest Demon Realm — An approaching hostile realm whose Demon Ancestors plan to seize the world core, Heavenly Dao Origin, and its inhabitants. 797 812 814
• Niu Ben — A Hunyuan Supreme Ultimate Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal beyond the Heavenly Dao's control, regarded by the Demon Realm as one of the world's greatest threats. 812 814

Threats

• World-Origin plunder — Foreign realms covet the Primordial Wilderness's unusually rich Origin Essence as fuel for their own survival or advancement. 379 797 812
• Heavenly Dao core destruction — The Demon Ancestors promise sixty percent of the Primordial Heavenly Dao Origin to whichever faction destroys its core first. 812
• World-Ending Blood Sacrifice Divine Formation — The Saint Ancestor orders this formation activated alongside the opening of the Nine Abysses, mobilizing three thousand Hunyuan Demon Sovereigns and hundreds of millions of demon troops. 814
• Internal conflict — Rivalry among the Demon Clan, Wu Clan, Heavenly Court, Western Teachings, Human Race, and other factions repeatedly weakens unity within the Primordial Wilderness. 42 610 767