Hongjun

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Hongjun cultivated on Jade Capital Mountain and maintained friendly relations with other reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods, whom he privately regarded as expendable allies 2. Guided by the Heavenly Dao and the largest fragment of the Jade of Creation, he entered the formation protecting the unborn Sanqing to seize their companion treasures. Their Merit of World Creation repelled his technique; the ensuing backlash gravely injured him and forced him to flee 4.

His intended distribution of the stolen treasures was to send the Chaos Bell to the Sun Star, place the Taiji Diagram at Daoist Yin Yang’s opportunity site, and retain the Pangu Banner himself. He found only Yuqing and Shangqing’s clear qi within the formation, unaware that Taiqing had already been born. His failed operation also caused the Heavenly Dao to suffer Great Dao Thunder and fall into slumber 4 5.

While the Heavenly Dao remained unresponsive, Hongjun failed to borrow its power to enter another Innate Great Formation associated with Pangu’s legacy. He gave Old Ancestor Wuxing the Purple Lightning Hammer, outwardly settling their dispute while privately intending to create a karmic obligation that would make Wuxing expendable in the coming conflict 13.

After recovering, Hongjun sought allies for his conflict with Luohu. Several prospective allies rejected him or demanded spiritual treasures for their help 29 49 60 77. In the battle, he deployed his Three Corpses against separate gates of Luohu’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. The corpses later self-destructed, and Hongjun survived the conflict with lasting damage to his origin 109 113 137. He subsequently attained Heavenly Dao Sainthood and preached at Purple Heaven Palace 182 189.

Before the decisive battle, the Jade of Creation guided him to collect the fallen Jieyin and Zhunti’s Origin Qi. These origins later produced Mituo and Bodhi, whose births Hongjun forcibly accelerated. His intervention reduced both their cultivation at birth and their natural potential, while the two thanked him for helping them emerge 106 112 185.

Following the Conflict between Dao and Demon, Hongjun tried to take the Sanqing as disciples both to harvest their Destiny and to gain leverage against the Heavenly Dao’s anticipated punishment. After waiting tens of thousands of years at East Kunlun without finding them, he turned toward the Twelve Ancestral Witches. Their Pangu True Body and the Sanqing’s fused Taichu jointly defeated him, forcing him to escape through the Jade of Creation and leaving him with greater Heavenly Dao intrusion into his Primordial Spirit 138 140 141 143 144.

His restored Good Corpse later confronted Taichu and escaped only after losing two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures. Upon attaining Sainthood, Hongjun attempted to kill Taichu to establish his authority, but Ancestor Reincarnation shattered his attacks. Recognizing Reincarnation’s superior realm, Hongjun withdrew and attempted to awaken the Heavenly Dao for support 181 182 183. He delayed his first sermon for thirty thousand years while searching for the Sanqing, sending his Three Corpses into secret realms and the Three Immortal Islands. Some Demon God secret realms were eliminated during this search 189.

Hongjun continued trying to draw the Sanqing into his plans while cultivating influence through disciples and sermons. He distributed Hongmeng Purple Qi and spiritual treasures to chosen beings, including Di Jun and Tai Yi, and used the gifts to establish obligations and strengthen the Heavenly Court 253 258 259. After merging with the Dao, he was restrained within the Heavenly Dao Origin Space. The Heavenly Dao punished him for failing its plans, while Hongjun privately sought a way out of its control 278 279 511.

He formally merged with the Dao after failing once more to locate the Sanqing and Taichu 260. The Heavenly Dao subsequently accused him of failing to eliminate the reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods, failing to destroy the three ancient clans, allowing the Western Continent to remain largely intact, and embezzling three strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi to restore his Three Corpses. Hongjun concealed his resentment and offered explanations while enduring attacks on both his body and Primordial Spirit 279.

Hongjun also manipulated the development of the Heavenly Court. He supplied Saint blood to Di Jun and Tai Yi to accelerate their Quasi-Saint advancement and revealed the South Heaven Gate to interrupt Di Jun’s intended sworn brotherhood with Xuanqing, preventing Ancestor Reincarnation’s lineage from gaining a further claim on the court’s Destiny 211. Later, after the Earthly Dao emerged, he brought Haotian and Yaochi to the Heavenly Court to install them as its lord and the Mistress of the Jade Pool 391 398.

His later confrontations with the Sanqing and their allies brought repeated defeats. They killed him in one clash, though he appears again in subsequent events 576 644 691. After Jidu replaced him as Dao Integrator, Hongjun’s cultivation progress weakened. He dissipated into law fragments when Chi You, Xing Tian, Kuafu, Hou Yi, and Xiang Liu overwhelmed his defenses 867.

The loss of his Dao Integrator status prompted an attempt to attack and replace the wounded Heavenly Dao. Jidu’s return at Saint Sixth Heaven forced Hongjun to abandon his attack and resist the new Dao Integrator’s superior pressure 644. After Jidu drove him out of the Primordial Wilderness, Hongjun noted that his departure also spared him the immediate burden of settling the Causality attached to the companion treasures he had stolen from numerous Innate Deities 664.

Despite this displacement, Hongjun continued participating in wider schemes. The Heavenly Dao selected him as an executor for its plan to evolve an Earth Immortal Realm, judging him knowledgeable about the Primordial Wilderness’s course while preserving Jidu’s strength. Within that realm, Hongjun ordered the false Sanqing to sign the Investiture of the Gods Register and took satisfaction in their obedience, contrasting them with the independent Sanqing of the Primordial Wilderness 713 714.

During a later battle, Heavenly Dao Origin elevated Hongjun to the First Heaven of the Limitless Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin. Nine reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts jointly blocked and dispersed his purple qi Immortal Dao torrent, while the Pangu True Body applied further pressure. The Heavenly Dao then pierced Hongjun’s Primordial Spirit with law chains, directly linking his law structures and Purple Qi Whisk to its own will 795 796 797.

Outside Witch City, the five great witches coordinated their weapons and laws to erode his Purple Qi defenses. Chi You and Xing Tian struck from complementary directions, Kuafu and Hou Yi disrupted his rhythm, and Xiang Liu’s poisonous mist corroded the defenses’ edges. His final circular purple qi shield shattered under the combined attack, and he dissipated with his gaze turned toward Jidu 866 867.

Return and the New Three Realms conflict

Hongjun appears again outside the New Demon Realm alongside Jidu after the Heavenly Dao Will sends its divine sense there. The two take formation beyond the realm’s boundary, facing Luohu’s Buddha-Demon law patterns 921. The Heavenly Dao later orders them to invite Luohu to bring the New Three Realms, the Ten Directions Universe Worlds, and experts discovered in Chaos into an alliance with Chaos Beasts against the Primordial Wilderness 924.

When the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches attack the Heavenly Dao directly, Hongjun channels his Purple Qi Law toward the New Three Realms and agrees that they must urgently support it. He openly states that he and Jidu had originally intended to stall in Chaos, exhaust the Heavenly Dao’s strength, and return to reap the benefits. Their decision changes because the Heavenly Dao’s defeat would leave them exposed to the Sanqing and Ancestral Witches 927.

Hongjun subsequently fights alongside Jidu, Luohu, and the Chaos Beast army against the Witch Race’s seventy-two Earthly Fiend Elders 936. He and Jidu jointly use the Jade of Creation to project the Three Thousand Great Dao laws against the elders’ formation. Tongyou and Qu Shen counter with Taiyin and solar laws, severing the incoming law chains and absorbing their remnants to strengthen their own powers 939.

Appearance

Hongjun is depicted as an old man with an immortal, dignified bearing 36 56.

• After healing the visible injuries from his battle with Luohu, he regained a seemingly immortal and refined appearance, although his lost origin energy remained unrestored 137.
• His severed corpses resembled him closely 109.
• During one punishment, lingering Heavenly Punishment prevented him from repairing his torn Daoist robes or restoring his appearance. He stood before the Heavenly Dao twitching, with smoking, disordered hair 438.
• When Heavenly Dao Origin infused his Purple Qi Whisk, an indifferent gleam resembling the Heavenly Dao’s own appeared deep within his eyes 795.

Personality

Hongjun favors concealed plans, leverage, and control over others’ Destiny. He can be patient—waiting tens of thousands of years for the Sanqing—but becomes angry or humiliated when his schemes fail 29 138 402. Although he serves the Heavenly Dao, he resents its restraints and prepares contingencies to escape them 137 279 511.

He often maintains an outwardly respectful or composed front while privately pursuing contrary aims. He secretly welcomed the failure of the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to replace Fates with Heavenly Numbers and hoped that Di Jun and Tai Yi would seize the Sun God’s authority, since either development would weaken its control over him 300 304. Nevertheless, the humiliation of losing his Dao Integrator status and being suppressed by Jidu caused him to lose his composure 644.

His later cooperation with the Heavenly Dao remains pragmatic rather than wholehearted. He admits to having planned with Jidu to exhaust it before profiting from the aftermath, yet supports an urgent rescue when its destruction would threaten his own survival 927.

Abilities & Skills

Three Corpses path

Hongjun created the Three Corpses path and severed Good, Evil, and Self or Obsession Corpses to act independently 3 4 178.

• His three Peak Quasi-Saint corpses helped assault separate gates of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation 109.
• He assigned corpses to obstruct targets and defend his interests while his main body pursued cultivation 178 249.
• Loss or destruction of the corpses was costly; restoring them increased his reliance on the Heavenly Dao 137 279.
• As the path’s creator, Hongjun benefits from the Destiny of later cultivators who follow it. Taiqing identifies this as a central danger of the method, alongside the difficulty of merging the Three Corpses without Heavenly Dao assistance 3.
• Severed corpses possess a distinctive aura rather than functioning as ordinary clones. Taiqing recognized Hongjun’s Good Corpse through the Three Corpses and Immortal Path auras it could not conceal 180.
• The Heavenly Dao sent corpses belonging to Hongjun and other Saints into Chaos to follow Taiqing’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones incarnations 641.
• One of his corpses recognized Luohu’s World-Ending Demon Body and the infection of a Universe World by the Demonic Path through Hongjun’s longstanding familiarity with his rival 654.
• His Three Corpses later fought beside Jidu’s Dao-fused body against the Sanqing and Ancestral Witches’ incarnations near the Eternal Night Realm, using the Purple Qi Whisk to condense seven violet-gold Great Dao treasure wheels 759.

Heavenly Dao power and divination

The Jade of Creation lets Hongjun draw on Heavenly Dao Power and deduce broad currents of Tian Ji 4.

• He used that power to pass through the Sanqing’s protective formation, but contact with their Merit of World Creation caused a severe backlash 4.
• Drawing repeatedly on the Heavenly Dao’s power increased its hold over his Primordial Spirit 144 194.
• The Heavenly Dao and Jade of Creation concealed his aura during his entry into the Heavenly Court, preventing Xuanqing from precisely identifying him through the World-Ending Millstone 398.
• His divination could not locate the Sanqing within Pangu Hall, which lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s interference. Their World-Opening Supreme Treasures also concealed their information 138.
• In the later Chaos conflict, Hongjun and Jidu jointly employed the Jade of Creation to attack with the Three Thousand Great Dao laws. The resulting chains were cut apart and absorbed by Tongyou and Qu Shen’s Taiyin and solar laws 939.

Purple Qi and Immortal Dao laws

Hongjun wields the Immortal Path or Immortal Dao Law and later prominently employs the Purple Qi Law 10 795 924.

• As the original Dao Integrator, he spent countless years stabilizing the passage between the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial Wilderness through the Purple Qi Law 867.
• He channels purple qi through the Purple Qi Whisk to form offensive torrents, defensive structures, and circular shields 796 867.
• Heavenly Dao Origin infused through the whisk enabled his breakthrough to the Limitless Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin realm 795.
• The Heavenly Dao could directly seize control of his law structures by inserting chains into the core of his Primordial Spirit 797.
• He later extended the Purple Qi Law toward the New Three Realms in coordination with Jidu’s Causality Law and Luohu’s Demonic Path laws 927.

Formations and divine techniques

• Hongjun formed the Three Talents Heavenly Secrets Array with Haotian and Yaochi, allowing them to draw on Heavenly Dao Power together 556.
• With Hongjun at Saint Fourth Heaven and Haotian and Yaochi at Saint Second Heaven, the array united their power so that each possessed strength no weaker than Saint Fifth Heaven. Their attendants’ lower realms limited its full potential 556.
• His Tian Gang Thirty-Six Arts include escape techniques that helped him evade Taichu 402.
• He summoned Six Ding and Six Jia divine generals at Saint Second Heaven and arranged them in a Qi Men Dun Jia formation. Taichu collected them into the Primordial Gourd while Hongjun escaped using Submerging Abyss Shrinking Ground, Standing Upright Without Shadow, and Flying Without a Trace 402.
• He used the Myriad Arrays Heavenly Book to vanish from Luohu’s Dark Heavenly Net and Earthly Net Formation 666.

Influence, karma, and Saint blood

• Hongjun used Saintly power to alter Dong Wang Gong’s thoughts, redirecting him from Ancestor Yin Yang’s dojo toward Purple Heaven Palace without openly transporting him 186.
• He used gifts of spiritual treasures to establish karmic bonds and obligations, including his attempted manipulation of Old Ancestor Wuxing through the Purple Lightning Hammer 13 259.
• His Saint blood served as a powerful cultivation resource and accelerated Di Jun and Tai Yi’s advancement. It also concealed methods through which he could manipulate its users 211 576.
• The Sanqing collected his Saint Essence Blood after defeating him, intending to cleanse his and the Heavenly Dao’s hidden methods through the Pangu Blood Pool 576.

Equipment and Items

• Jade of Creation fragment — his means of receiving Heavenly Dao guidance and using its power; he possessed its largest fragment. In a later battle, he and Jidu jointly used the Jade of Creation to release the Three Thousand Great Dao laws 4 939.
• Seal Immortal Absolute Seal — his accompanying Innate Supreme Treasure, used for suppression and defense; later seized by the Sanqing 400 521 576. It contained matters crucial to his plans for overturning the Heavenly Dao’s control, and his attempt to send it away through the self-destruction of his Three Corpses failed 528 576.
• Purple Heaven Palace — his palace and healing aid 137.
• Purple Qi Whisk — channeled his Purple Qi Law and Heavenly Dao Origin; its glow dissipated during the battle in which he fell to the five great witches 795 867. Its infusion with Heavenly Dao Origin altered its law structure, and the Heavenly Dao later took control of it through its link to Hongjun’s Primordial Spirit 795 797.
• Myriad Arrays Heavenly Book — enabled his escape from Luohu’s formation 666. It was identified as a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and caused both his figure and information to disappear 666.
• Thunder God Pool — a Heavenly Dao treasure with Innate Supreme Treasure-level might, used to release World-Ending Lightning alongside the Seal Immortal Absolute Seal 556. Hongjun regarded its possible loss as less serious than losing his own seal, since weakening the Heavenly Dao could benefit his future schemes 568.
• Purple Lightning Hammer — a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure given to Old Ancestor Wuxing in an attempt to bind him through karma 13.
• Spiritual treasure collection — amassed through Heavenly Dao-backed fortune and the theft of Innate Deities’ companion treasures. His distribution outside Purple Heaven Palace included thousands of Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, lower-grade innate treasures, and powerful Houtian Spiritual Treasures 109 259 664.

Relationships

• Heavenly Dao — patron, source of power, and eventual captor; it punished Hongjun despite depending on him 4 278 279. Hongjun attempted to attack and replace it after losing his Dao Integrator status, but Jidu intervened 644. He later admitted planning to exhaust its strength before profiting from the aftermath, then supported its rescue when its fall would expose him to Pangu’s descendants 927.
• Luohu — long-standing rival in the Conflict between Dao and Demon and in later confrontations 109 664 666. Their familiarity allows Hongjun to recognize Luohu’s Demonic Path methods and World-Ending Demon Body 654. Despite their enmity, they cooperate against Pangu’s descendants and later join forces through the New Three Realms and Chaos Beast army 413 927 936.
• Sanqing / Taichu — targets of repeated attempts to seize their treasures, Destiny, or discipleship; they repeatedly opposed and defeated him 4 138 402 576. Their direct attack on the Heavenly Dao later forced him to abandon his plan to wait in Chaos and instead support an urgent rescue 927.
• Twelve Ancestral Witches — targets of his schemes; their opposition culminated in his defeat by five great witches 36 138 867. Taiqing’s account of Hongjun’s actions helped unite the Sanqing and Ancestral Witches against him 37. After his reappearance, the Witch Race’s Earthly Fiend Elders continued fighting him in Chaos 936 939.
• Chi You, Xing Tian, Kuafu, Hou Yi, and Xiang Liu — the five great witches whose coordinated assault shattered his Purple Qi defenses and caused his dissipation outside Witch City 866 867.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi — disciples to whom he bestowed Hongmeng Purple Qi to strengthen the Heavenly Court 258. He also accelerated their cultivation with Saint blood and sought to retain control over their political alliances 211. The brothers later guarded against their master’s surveillance while pursuing the Sun God’s authority as a route away from Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao 304.
• Mituo and Bodhi — beings born from Jieyin and Zhunti’s Origin Qi whose emergence Hongjun accelerated at the expense of their natural potential; later accepted as registered disciples 185 259.
• Haotian and Yaochi — attendants and later fellow Saints who fought beside him in the Three Talents Heavenly Secrets Array 398 556. Hongjun brought them to the Heavenly Court to succeed as its lord and the Mistress of the Jade Pool 398.
• Jidu — a fellow Heavenly Dao Saint who replaced Hongjun as Dao Integrator 644 867. Jidu suppressed Hongjun’s attempt to attack the Heavenly Dao and later drove him out of the Primordial Wilderness 644 664. They subsequently cooperate outside the New Demon Realm, share a plan to exhaust the Heavenly Dao, and jointly wield the Jade of Creation against the Witch Race’s formation 921 927 939.
• Ancestor Reincarnation — an initially sought ally who demanded treasures for participating in the Conflict between Dao and Demon, then repeatedly opposed Hongjun’s attempts to establish authority and attack Taichu 57 60 61 182 183 206.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing and Ancestor Yin Yang — former Chaos-era associates who refused to help him against Luohu. Hongjun attempted to bind Wuxing through a treasure-created karmic debt 13 61.
• Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, and Styx — opponents who trapped him in the Great Five Elements Sword Formation. Hong Yun’s “Daoist Friend, Please Stay” delayed his attempted self-destruction, allowing the three to attack him while he was unable to resist 514 515.
• Tongyou and Qu Shen — Earthly Fiend Elders who countered his and Jidu’s Jade of Creation law chains with Taiyin and solar laws, then absorbed the remnants 939.

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