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Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Abyss (深渊) |
| Alias(es) | Abyss World; Abyssal World |
| Occupation/Role | A semi-independent world that absorbs harmful energies, houses Abyssal creatures, and provides reincarnation opportunities for Chaos Gods and Demons 79 118 155 |
| Status | Destroyed after its core Dao Fruit was devoured by the World-Destroying Grinding Mill 181 |
| First Appearance | Proposed beneath the Sea of Blood 32; opened as a world 77 |
Background / History
Creation
Zhou Jun, later identified as Shen Yuan, first conceived of opening an Abyss beneath the Sea of Blood where suppressed Chaos Gods and Demons could be contained 32. He opened it beneath Mount Zhou by borrowing Mount Zhou’s power through the Earth Veins, employing the Stone Tablet, his Creation Dao Charm, and his Earthly Dao comprehension 77.
The Stone Tablet released resentment from Chaos Gods and Demons into newly formed Clear and Turbid Qi. Zhou Jun shattered Di Kun’s Resentment Bead, adding resentment, Ferocious Beast remains, and blood; these materials combined with Gray Qi to form the Abyss’s first continent 77. As the Stone Tablet broke apart under accumulating Calamity Qi, Sha Qi, resentment, and Zhou Jun’s released desires, blood waterfalls descended over the fragmented land 77.
Growth and Settlement
The shattered Stone Tablet contained Di Kun’s record of the Ferocious Beasts’ origin and their ties to Chaos God and Demon resentment, allowing the Abyss to accept the Ferocious Beast race 79. Shen Ni led the Ferocious Beasts and the Beast Nest into the newly opened world, where they became native inhabitants and rapidly adapted to its environment 79.
Chaos God and Demon remains merged into the Abyss to accelerate its development. Great Dao Merit repaired damaged True Spirits, allowing residual spirits to be reborn there, but this expansion steadily reduced Shen Yuan’s direct control; he retained authority chiefly over the original Abyss beneath Mount Zhou 79. The world ultimately stabilized at roughly half the size of the Primordial Wilderness, with the Earth Dao taking charge of its mountains and rivers 79.
Di Kun later inscribed his own Abyssal Great Dao into the Abyss using a fragment of the Creation Jade Disk, recovering some control after verifying that no hidden Chaos God and Demon measures remained within it 91.
Emergence and Calamity
The Abyss developed a spatial passage toward the Primordial Land, enabling the Chaos Gods and Demons reincarnated within it to emerge 105. When the Reincarnation Demon God opened reincarnation in the Abyss with the Great Dao’s approval, Reincarnation Valley and the Reincarnation Disk expanded, rapidly increasing the world’s population 118.
Its connection to the Primordial Land led to the Abyssal Calamity. Abyssal creatures invaded through spatial rifts, while the Chaos Gods and Demons supported unusually intelligent creatures with mana-infused tokens that allowed them to command others 161. The conflict became a prolonged struggle across the Western Continent, with Abyssal factions adapting by studying the Primordial Land’s combat methods and magical treasures 161 173.
Fragmentation and Destruction
After the Chaos Gods and Demons entered the Primordial Land, Divine Abyss accelerated the Abyss’s expansion until continents formed from Chaos God and Demon remains began to fracture. The resulting instability drove Abyssal creatures through the spatial passage, leaving the realm nearly empty 168.
Divine Abyss merged the Abyssal Dao Fruit into the world and severed its connection to the Primordial Land, cutting off the Chaos Gods and Demons’ retreat 168. The world later continued expanding beyond stability; its barrier thinned while the colossal Dao Fruit at its center patched spatial fractures 176.
Following the Calamity, Luohu sent the World-Destroying Black Lotus into the Abyss. It became the World-Destroying Grinding Mill, which crushed the realm’s spatial rifts, fiendish energies, desires, and world origin before devouring and destroying the Abyss’s Dao Fruit 181.
Appearance
The Abyss was a chaotic, violent world shaped from resentment, Sha Qi, Chaos God and Demon remains, and the desires of living beings 77 181.
- Its earliest landmass formed from Gray Qi, Ferocious Beast corpses, bones, blood, and resentment 77.
- Bloodfalls carrying resentment, death qi, and killing intent poured across its shattered continents 77.
- Its continents were formed from the remains of Chaos Gods and Demons; some became mountains or seas that separated neighboring regions 79.
- During its final instability, continents floated, sank, and shattered amid innumerable spatial rifts 176.
- The empty late-stage Abyss was saturated with absorbed resentment and desires potent enough to entice onlookers from the Primordial Land 181.
Nature and Functions
Absorption of Negative Energies
The Abyss acted as an outlet for harmful spiritual qi in the Primordial Land, reducing the accumulation of forces that could hasten future Kalpas of Calamity 79.
- It absorbed resentment, Sha Qi, Calamity Qi, fiendish energies, and the desires of living beings 77 181.
- Its essence was tied to greed and desire; it used these impulses to nourish Abyssal creatures 181.
- Its existence gave the Primordial Land more time to develop by diverting harmful energies away from it 79.
Rebirth and Reincarnation
Chaos Gods and Demons used their remains and broken Dao Fruits to merge into the Abyss, rebuilding their foundations and seeking another life 79 142.
- Great Dao Merit restored damaged True Spirits that had contributed to the Abyss’s development, enabling rebirth within the realm 79.
- The Reincarnation Demon God opened a formal reincarnation system in the Abyss after receiving the Great Dao’s permission 118.
- Reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons gained influence over parts of the Abyss’s origin authority, though Shen Yuan retained its core authority 142.
Spatial Passages
The Abyss could establish rifts and passages linking it to the Sea of Blood and the Primordial Land 105 157.
- These passages enabled Abyssal creatures and Chaos Gods and Demons to invade the Primordial Land during the Calamity 161 168.
- Divine Abyss eventually severed the main connection, stranding the invading Chaos Gods and Demons outside the realm 168.
- Later rifts allowed Abyssal origin to flow into the Primordial Land, strengthening its Three Daos while causing the Abyss to contract 176.
Suppression of Great Daos
The Abyss could accommodate all Great Daos, but it suppressed those incompatible with its nature 167.
- Chaos Gods and Demons whose paths aligned with slaughter, devouring, battle, or death fared better within it 167.
- Karma, Destiny, and many other reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons experienced suppression and sought to leave despite their karmic ties to the realm 167.
- The Abyss was connected to the Primordial Land but was not directly governed by it, making it comparatively independent 155.
Inhabitants
| Group | Role within the Abyss |
|---|---|
| Ferocious Beasts | Entered with Shen Ni and evolved to reproduce independently rather than relying on the Beast Nest 79. |
| Chaos Gods and Demons | Reincarnated through the Abyss, merged their remains into its continents, and seized portions of its authority 79 142. |
| Abyssal creatures | Violent inhabitants nurtured by the realm’s foul energies, desires, and Chaos God and Demon-derived landscapes 118 167. |
| Devouring Race | Creatures descended from the Devouring Demon God’s influence; they strengthened themselves by consuming battlefield remains 167 173. |
| Abyssal sages | Rare intelligent Abyssal creatures who studied enemy techniques, organized forces, and directed weaker battlefields 161 175. |
Relationships
- Shen Yuan — Creator and Lord of the Abyss; he retained its core authority even after Chaos God and Demon reincarnations seized partial control 77 142 153.
- Divine Abyss — Governing presence associated with the Abyss’s core authority; it manipulated the realm’s expansion, fragmentation, and eventual severance from the Primordial Land 159 168 176.
- Di Kun — Assisted the Abyss’s original design through the Stone Tablet and Resentment Bead, then later inscribed an Abyssal Great Dao to regain a measure of control 77 91.
- Shen Ni — Led the Ferocious Beasts and Beast Nest into the Abyss; he sought to use its nature to locate and reclaim power from his previous Chaos God and Demon body 79.
- Chaos Gods and Demons — Used the Abyss as a means of rebirth and expansion, but their involvement weakened Shen Yuan’s control and eventually turned them into hostile forces 79 84 142.
- Primordial Land — Linked to the Abyss through the Sea of Blood and spatial passages; the relationship was both beneficial, through the removal of harmful energies, and catastrophic, through the Abyssal Calamity 79 118 155.
- Luohu — Destroyed the Abyss with the World-Destroying Black Lotus after the Calamity, converting much of its remains into world origin 180 181.