Primordial Wilderness

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Primordial Wilderness
Alias(es)	Primordial Era; Primordial World
Type	World / primordial realm
Status	Its primordial epoch ends after severe, lasting damage to its lands, spiritual energy, and origin; a new era follows 351 352
First Appearance	Chapter 1: Pangu Bestows Treasure 1

Cosmology and Geography

• The world is opened from Chaos by Pangu, with clear qi rising to form heaven and turbid qi sinking to form earth. Its earliest stability depends on Pangu holding apart the newly opened realm 1.
• The Primordial Wilderness is enclosed by an outer Chaos Barrier; major events can cause that barrier itself to tremble 249.
• Buzhou Mountain is a vast mountain system formed from Pangu's spine, rather than a single peak. It serves as a major spiritual center until its destruction during the Witch-Demon War 7 297.
• Its realm structure is described through the Heavenly Realm, Earthly Realm, and Netherworld. The later human-centered order is associated with the Realm of Sentient Beings/Human Realm 172.
• The Netherworld Sea of Blood receives filth, resentment, and remnant souls. Before the Six Paths are established, these souls suffer amid blood waves, death qi, and chaotic laws 170 175.
• The far West is devastated by the Dao-Demon Conflict and the destruction of its ancestral earth veins, but later begins recovering into a peaceful, verdant prototype of a Western Pure Land 11 153 170.

Innate Resources

• The disintegration of the Chaos Green Lotus, Jade Plate of Creation, and Sky-Opening Divine Axe scatters fragments across the newborn world; these become the Innate Spiritual Treasures sought by later cultivators 1.
• Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots are scarce despite the world's immense population. Their competition drives widespread killing, karma, and conflict 14.
• The world contains thirty-six Blessed Lands and seventy-two Grotto-heavens:
  • Grotto-heavens are independent Great Thousand Worlds with dense spiritual energy, clear laws, luck-suppressing properties, and guaranteed Innate Spiritual Treasures.
  • Blessed Lands are independent Small Thousand Worlds that aid cultivation and stabilize luck 7.
• Prominent spiritual locations include Buzhou Mountain, Kunlun, Mount Sumeru, Wuzhuang Temple, Purple Mansion Continent, Penglai Immortal Island, Yingzhou Island, and the Netherworld 7 45 292.
• The world’s spiritual resources are exhaustible. Qing Huan notes that continuous consumption by the innumerable races will eventually strip the land of Spiritual Roots and precious medicines 30.

World Order

Heavenly Dao, Karma, and Merit

The Heavenly Dao is initially nascent and grows more complete over time. It imposes transformation tribulations on exceptionally powerful Innate Spiritual Roots and eventually settles accounts with beings carrying heavy karmic burdens 1 14.

• Slaughter and reckless extraction of the world's resources create Karma; powerful clans and individuals can face calamity as a consequence 14 61.
• Merit can repair damaged lands, stabilize laws, purify karmic pollution, and support extraordinary undertakings 152 176 180.
• The Great Dao and Pangu's Will can act beyond the ordinary Heavenly Dao order, as demonstrated when Houtu transforms into Reincarnation 263.

Cultivation Environment

• Early in the era, Innate Deities with sufficient roots and Innate Dao Bodies can naturally take form; transformation is primarily determined by origin and timing 3.
• Hongjun's Purple Firmament Palace sermons establish paths toward the Daluo Golden Immortal, Quasi-Sage, and Sage realms 22.
• The world’s later decline in Innate Spiritual Qi makes cultivation increasingly difficult, ushering in an Age of Dharma Decline after the primordial epoch 352.

History

Creation and the Early Calamities

Pangu opens the Primordial Wilderness from Chaos, creating heaven and earth while the remnants of Chaos Supreme Treasures become Innate Spiritual Treasures. Pangu’s actions also draw Zhou Yang’s remnant soul into the newborn world and grant it a Chaos Undying Spiritual Light 1.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans dominate the early world before the Dragon-Han Primordial Calamity. Their surviving bloodlines make vows for their races’ survival, but remain burdened by the calamity’s karma 2 61.

The subsequent Dao-Demon Conflict further devastates the West. Rahula’s destruction of Mount Sumeru shatters Western earth veins and leaves immense regions barren and spiritually depleted 11 153.

Restoration Efforts

The Qilin Clan ultimately sacrifices itself to restore the West: its members dissolve into Five Elements Qi, creating the Qilin Mountain Range and five blessed lands while repairing damaged terrain 106.

Later, the Great Formation of the Stars nourishes the far West and helps transform it from a wasteland into a growing, life-filled region 150 170. Qing Huan also uses Three Lights Divine Water to revitalize the West's damaged spiritual roots and land 88.

Witch-Demon War

The Witch and Demon races become the central powers of the era, competing for authority over heaven and earth. Their conflict damages the Primordial Wilderness at a fundamental level:

• Battles involving the Chaos Four Symbols Universe Great Formation and Pangu phantoms crack the world’s Law Veins 206 208.
• The final battle destroys Buzhou Mountain and the Heavenly River when Di Jun and Tai Yi self-destruct alongside Kunpeng 297.
• The resulting Heavenly River flood devastates the land, scatters the Demon Race, and reduces the Human Race to a fraction of its former population 300.

Reincarnation and the Human Era

Houtu transforms her Ancestral Witch True Body into the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Her sacrifice reshapes the Netherworld and establishes order for the dead 263.

Nuwa creates the Human Race, whose birth is recognized by the Heavenly Dao and changes the world’s future structure 249. Following the Witch-Demon War, the Human Race expands across the central lands and becomes the principal force of the later Human Realm 352.

End of the Primordial Era

Saint-level conflict during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation fractures the Primordial Earth into four main continental bodies and countless islands. Chaos Qi enters through spatial cracks, Innate Spiritual Qi declines sharply, and many spiritual mountains and Blessed Lands are annihilated 351.

The Primordial Era then ends. The Heavenly Court consolidates its authority, the Western Sect becomes Buddhism, and the Zhou Dynasty rises in the Human Realm amid the beginning of the Age of Dharma Decline 352.

Major Factions

• Three Innate Clans — Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans; early rulers whose struggle triggers the Dragon-Han Primordial Calamity 2 61.
• Witch Clan — Pangu-descended physical cultivators led by the Twelve Ancestral Witches; they contest control of the world with the Demon Race 17 142.
• Demon Race / Heavenly Court — Led by Di Jun and Tai Yi; seeks to unite the races and establish hegemony over the Primordial Wilderness 17 150.
• Mystic Gate / Purple Firmament Palace — Hongjun’s Dao lineage, which shapes the cultivation order through its teachings and Saint positions 22 73.
• Western Sect — The western Dao lineage of Jieyin and Zhunti; it later renames itself Buddhism and expands across the west and south 352.
• Human Race — Created by Nuwa and eventually established as the dominant race of the later Human Realm 249 352.

Trivia

• The world is described as so vast that even a Daluo Golden Immortal is “merely a slightly larger ant” within it 29.
• The Primordial Wilderness remains spiritually active after the Witch-Demon War because the Great Formation of the Stars continues operating, though its energy is far weaker than during the primordial age 352.